Black FridayProducer: Arindam MitraDirector: Anurag KashyapMusic: Indian OceanLyrics: Piyush MishraCast: Kay Kay Menon, Aditya Shrivastava, Pawan MalhotraCinematography: N Nataraja SubramaniamEditor: Aarti Bajaj A couple of years back my brother called…Continue Reading →
It might not be the Oscars, but is surely close to a blogadesh Filmfare (given the public polling and the…
Well… not exactly. The title of the post is a bit misleading. In fact it is the best Bollywood (Hindi…
Peugeot’s India story didn’t have a happy ending. Differences between partners, cash crunch, labour unrest and mounting losses led the Italian French automaker take the exit route from India. But…Continue Reading →
Don’t go for megapixels I tell everyone and even had written about it in a tech column that I used…
San has been scribbling on her blog since April 2005 and she had 32 posts in the first month itself…
One of the best comedies to hit Indian idiot boxes of late, Sarabhai vs Sarabhai… …is a sitcom set in a quintessential Malabar Hill family. Sahil, the protagonist, is a…Continue Reading →
Not exactly from the eighteenth century (they too will be here one day) but the early 1900s. A Pears’ Soap…
Since it seems to be a season of kids in ads at Cutting the Chai. Here’s another classic. [Kid at…
Here’s another Rasna ad, albeit from a different era. The previous was 1985 vintage; this is relatively newer (1999). The cute kid this time is a boy (I think so)…Continue Reading →
Ouch! The shoulders are still aching, but the pain is sweet. It was worth it. The sound of leather hitting…
The ad might not win any awards today, but in recall value it can beat many multi award winners. Whether…
