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The Gay Romp

You know those fuzzy slippers-ratty PJs-limp hair-bar of chocolate-tub of ice cream days when all you want to do is to vegetate on the couch? You are perhaps depressed, lazy, anti-social, nursing a miserable cold, or confined indoors by inclement weather. You may be even celebrating a long awaited off after a particularly hectic stretch at work. What do you do on such occasions? Me—I watch low investment-high entertainment feel good romantic comedies. I do declare that there is nothing like a warm, witty rom-com full of beautiful people, clever banter, and just enough sex to pick one’s spirits and restore one’s hope for humanity. However there is one problem. They threw away the template of intelligent, edgy, and quirky rom-coms after they made When Harry Met Sally. And Woody Allen is definitely does not believe in knowledge sharing. So we are left with a dearth of good movies in this genre, with every new one failing miserably to get its act together. In the straight world that...

I Dig Enthiran Dot

Ladies and gentlemen, please stand up and pay your obeisance, for a new movie genre is born—the Sci-fi Musical. Or the Sci-fi Masala. Or perhaps the Sci-fi Spectacular. I am truly speechless. As was the rest of audience who watched today’s preview show with me. It is saying a lot, because watching a Rajni movie with a Tamil crowd means you hardly get to hear the dialogues and return home with a ruptured eardrum from all the screams, whistles and applause. Shankar’s latest outing is truly a paradigm shift in Sci-fi movies. This ambitious, intelligent, witty an entertaining movie picks up where the Terminators, Star Wars, Iron Men, and X-Men of the world left off and shoots off into the stratosphere. True, the film is homage to all these movies—a lot of you will have a great time spotting all the references, like the R2 robot. But you want CGI? Oh we got CGI baby! 3X size! I haven’t seen anything like that climax in my life—I am still shaking with the adrenaline rush! You want...

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