Parallel worlds

Movies (In languages i don't understand!)

2006-11-21T20:42:00.000-08:00

1. The motorcycle diaries (Gael Garcia Bernal, Rodrigo De la Serna, Dir - Walter Salles, Lang - Spanish/Quechua)
2. Good Bye Lenin (Daniel Bruhl, Dir - Wolfang Becker, Lang - German)
3. Life is beautiful (Alberto Benigni, Dir - Alberto Benigni, Lang - Italian)
4. City of God (Alexandre Rodrigues, Leandro Firmino, Phellipe Haagensen, Dir - Fernando Meirelles, Lang - Portuguese)
5. Bang Rajan (Dir - Tanit Jitnukil, Lang - Thai)
6. Mani chithira thaazh (Shobana, Mohanlal, Suresh Gopi, Lang - Malayalam)
7. Akale (Prithviraj, Sheela, Geethu Mohandas, Tom George, Dir - Shyamprasad, Lang - Malayalam)
8. The lives of others (Martina Gedeck, Ulrich Muhe, Sebastian Koch, Dir - Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, Lang - German)

Books - English

2005-08-14T22:37:00.000-07:00

These are books that have had an impact on me - small or big - fleeting or permanent, but significant.

1. The golden gate - Vikram Seth
2. We the living - Ayn Rand
3. God of small things - Arundathi Roy
4. The catcher in the rye - J.D.Salinger
5. Jurassic park - Michael Crichton
6. The fountainhead - Ayn Rand
7. Atlas shrugged - Ayn Rand
8. Franny and Zoe - J.D.Salinger
9. Whate Freud really said - David Stafford Clarke
10. Anil's ghost - Michael Ondatje
11. Nectar in a sieve - Kamala Markandaya
12. Kane and Abel - Jeffrey Archer
13. Doctors - Erich Seagal
14. The little prince - Antoine de Saint Exupéry
15. Autobiography of a spiritually incorrect mystic - Osho
16. The painted veil - Somerset Maugham
17. The unbearable lightness of being - Milan Kundera
18. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
19. The English Patient - Michael Ondatje
20. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
21. The inheritance of loss - Kiran Desai
22. One hundred years of solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
23. Alice in wonderland - Lewis Carroll
24. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
25. English August - Upamanyu Chatterjee (Jun '07)
26. To Kill a Mocking Bird - Harper Lee (Jul '07)
27. Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse (Jul '07)
28. My Name is Red - Orhan Pamuk (Aug '07)
29. Snow - Orhan Pamuk (Sep '07)
30. Haroun and the sea of stories - Salman Rushdie (Oct '07)
31. The curious incident of the dog in the night time - Michael Haddon (Oct '07)
32. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth (Mar '08)
33. One flew over the Cuckoo's nest - Ken Kesey (Apr '08)
34. On the beach - Nevil Shute (May '08)
35. Swami and friends - R. K. Narayan ('08)
36. The Godfather - Maria Puzo (Jan '09)
37. Such a long journey - Rohinton Mistry (Apr '09)
38. Into the wild - John Krauker (May '09)
39. LOTR Trilogy - J.R.R.Tolkien (Staggered...got done in Jul '09)
40. An equal music - Vikram Seth (Aug '09)
41. Breakfast of champions - Kurt Vonnugut
42. Foundation - Isaac Asimov
43. Unaccustomed earth - Jhumpa Lahiri

Movies - Hindi

2005-08-14T22:19:00.000-07:00

1. Party (Rohini Hathangadi, Naseerudin Shah)
2. Maaya memsaab (Deepa Sahi, Shah Rukh)
3. Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa (Shah Rukh, Suchithra Krishnamurthy)
4. Halo
5. Anand (Rajesh Khanna, Amitabh)
6. Golmaal (Amol Palekar)
8. Koshish (Sanjeev Kumar, Jaya Bhaduri)
9. Company (Ajay Devgan, Vivek Oberoi)
10. Sathya (Chakravarthy, Urmila)
11. Ek Haseena thi (Saif, Urmila)
12. Phir milenge (Shilpa shetty, Abhishek Bachan)
13. Lakshya (Hrithik, Preity)
14. Dil chahta hai (Akshay khanna, Dimple, Saif, Aaamir)
15. Mughal-e-azam (Dilip kumar, Madhubala)
16. Masoom (Naseerudin shah, Shabana Azmi, Jugal Hansraj-as a kid, Urmila-as a kid)
17. Dhoop (Om puri, Revathy)
18. Teen Deewarein (Nagesh kukunoor, Naseerudin Shah, Jackie, Juhi)
19. Aavishkaar (Rajesh Khanna, Sharmila Tagore)
20. Zakhm (Pooja Bhatt, Ajay Devgan)
21. Ab thak chappan (Nana Paekar, Revathy)
22. Kagaar (Amitabh Dayal, Om Puri, Nandita Das)
23. Is Raat Ki Subah Nahin (Nirmal Pandey, Tara Deshpande)
24. Page 3 (Konkona Sen, Boman Irani, Atul Kulkarni; Dit - Madhur Bhandarkar)
25. Iqbal (Shreyas Talpade, Shweta Prasad, Naseerudin Shah, Girish Karnad; Dir-Nagesh Kukunoor)
26. Omkaara (Ajay Devgan, Kareena, Saif, Konkona; Dir - Vishal Bharadwaj)
27. Lage raho munna bhai (Sanjay Dutt, Arshad Warsi, Vidya Balan, Dir - Rajkumar Hirani)
28. Dor (Gul Panag, Ayesha Takia, Shreyas Talpade, Dir - Nagesh Kukunoor)
29. Life in a Metro (Konkana, Irfan, Shiney, Shilpa, Kay Kay, Kangana, Nafisa, Sharman, Dir - Anurag Basu)
30. Chak De! India (Shahrukh Khan, Dir - Shimit Amin)
31. Bawandar (Nandita Das, Raghuvir Yadav, Deepti Naval, Dir - Jag Mundhra)
32. Taare Zameen Par (Darsheel Safary, Aamir Khan, Dir - Aamir Khan)
33. Kairee (Yogita Deshmukh, Shilpa Navalkar, Atul Kulkarni, Sonali, Dir - Amol Palekar)
34. Bazaar (Naseeruddin Shah, Smita Patil, Farooq Shaikh, Supriya Pathak, Dir - Sagar Sarhadi)

Movies - Tamil

2005-08-14T13:15:00.000-07:00

1. Kannathil muthamittaal (Madhavan, Simran)
2. Azhagi (Parthiban, Nandita Das)
3. Aayutha Ezhuthu (Surya, Madhavan, Siddarth)
4. Aval appadithaan (Sripriya, Kamal Hasan, Rajnikant)
5. Parasakthi (Sivaji Ganesan, Pandari Bai)
6. Varumayin Niram sikappu (Kamal, Sridevi)
7. Salangai Oli (Kamal, Jayapradha)
8. Azhagiya theeyae (Prasanna)
9. Michael madhana kama rajan (Kamal, Urvasi, Khushboo)
10. Panchathanthiram (Kamal, Simran)
11. Thillumullu (Rajnikanth)
12. Anbe Sivam (Kamal, Madhavan)
13. Alai paayuthae (Madhavan, Shalini)
14. Kaadhal (Bharath, Sandhya)
15. Nayagan (Kamal)
16. Kastoori maan (Meera Jasmine, Prasanna; Dir-Lohit Das)
17. Pudhuppaettai (Dhanush, Sneha, Sonia Agarwal, Dir-Selvaraghavan)
18. Paruthi Veeran (Karthi, Priya Mani, Saravanan, Dir - Ameer)
19. Nanda (Surya, Laila, Dir - Bala)
20. Pithamagan (Surya, Vikram, Sangeetha, Laila, Dir - Bala)
21. Mozhi (Jyothika, Prithviraj, PrakashRaj, Swarnamalya)
22. Dum Dum Dum (Madhavan, Jyothika, Manivannan, Dir - Alagam Perumal)
23. Vaedam Pudidu (Sathyaraj, Vadivukkarasi, Raja, Amala, Dir - Bharathiraja)
24. Panneer pushpangal (Suresh, Prathap Pothan, Dir - K.Vasu)
25. Bombay (Arvind Swamy, Manisha Koirala, Dir - Maniratnam)
26. Nizhalgal (Nizhalgal Ravi, Chandrashekhar, Dir - Bharathiraja)
27. Kaakka Kaakka (Surya, Jyothika, Dir - Gautham Menon)
28. Evano Oruvan (Madhavan, Sangeetha, Seeman, Dir - Nishikanth Kamath)
29. Thendral (Parthiban, Dir - Thangar Bachaan)
30. Kalloori (Tamanna, Akhil, Dir - Balaji Shakthivel)

Movies - English

2005-08-14T12:10:00.000-07:00

1. Scent of a woman (Al Pacino, Chris O Donell)
2. As good as it gets (Jack Nicholson, Helen Hunt)
3. Six degrees of separation (Will Smith)
4. Remains of the day (Anthony Hopkins)
5. Dead poets' society (Robin Williams)
6. Gia (Angelina Jolie)
7. Before sunrise (Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy)
8. Reality bites (Ethan Hawke, Winona Ryder)
9. Girl interrupted (Winona Ryder, Angelina Jolie)
10. Gattacca (Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman)
11.Legends of the fall (Anthony hopkins, Bradd Pitt, Aidan Quinn, Julia Ormand)
12. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind (Jim Carey, Kate Winslet, Kirsten Dunst)
13. The truman show (Jim Carey)
14. Little women (Susan sarandon, Winona ryder)
15. Ghost world.
16. When harry met sally (Meg ryan, Billy crystal)
17. Vanilla sky (Tom Cruise, Penelope Cruz, Camerone diaz, Curt Russel)
18. Chocolat (Johnny Depp)
19. Life is beautiful (Roberto Benigni)
20. Indecent proposal (Demi Moore)
21. At first sight (Val Kilmer)
22. Life of David Gail. (Kevin Spacey, Kate Winslet)
23. Pay it forward. (Kevin Spacey, Helen hunt)
24. The Shawshunk redemption. (Morgan Freeman)
25.. The negotiator. (Kevin Spacey, Samuel Jackson)
26. A few good men. (Tom Cruise, Demi Moore, Kevin Bacon)
27. Top gun. (Tom Cruise, ValKilmer)
28. Enemy at the gates (Jude Law, Ed Harris, Rachel Weisz)
29. The perfect storm. (George Clooney)
30. This boy's Life (Leonardo Decaprio - as a kid).
31. Meet Joe Black (Anthony Hopkins, Brad Pitt).
32. Fools rush in (Mathew Perry, Salma Hayek)
33. Vertical limit. (Chris O Donell) (set in K2, one of the most notorious mountains in the world) 34. Blue crush. (an amazing surf video at the least!)
35. Cocktail (Tom Cruise)
36. Troy (Brad Pitt)
37. The Lion King.
38. Bug's life.
39. One fine day (George clooney, Michelle pfeiffer)
40. Bend it like Beckham.
41. Jerry Mcguire (Tom Cruise, Renee Zelweger, Cuba Gooding Jr)
42. Notting hill (Hu Grant, Julia Roberts)
43. The Last Castle (James Gondolfini, Robert Redford)
44. Sweet home Alabama (Reese Witherspoon).
45. The castaway (Tom Hanks, Helen Hunt).
46. E.T (Drew Barrymore - as kid).
47. Chicago (Richard Gere, Renee Zelwegar, Catherene Zeta Jones)
48. Mystic river (Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Kevin Bacon).
49. Breaking up (Russell Crowe, Salma Hayek)
50. The cider house rules (Toby Mcguire)
51. Joan of Arc
52. Music from another room (Jude Law, Gretchen Mol)
53. Talented Mr.Ripley (Matt Daemon)
54. Philadelphia (Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington)
55. Proof of life (Russel Crowe, Meg Ryan)
56. Anna and the King (Chow Yun Fat, Jodie Foster)
57. Rainman (Tom Cruise, Dustin Hoffman)
58. Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks)
59. Avalon (Aidan Quinn, Elizabeth Perkins)
60. Before Sunset (Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy)
61. Gone with the wind. (Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh)
62. Under the Tuscan Sun (Diane Lane)
63. Life stinks
64. The Terminal (Tom Hanks, Catherine Zeta Jones; Dir - Spielberg)
65. Life is not all ha ha hee hee (Ayesha Dharkar, Meera Sayal, Laila Rouass; Dir - Andy DeEmmony)
66. 15 Park Avenue (Shabana Azmi, Konkona Sen, Rahul Bose; Dir-Aparna Sen)
67. Crash (Sandra Bullock, Matt Dillon and an array of ppl; Dir - Paul Haggis)
68. Walk the line (Joaquin Phoenix, Reese Witherspoon; Dir - James Mangold)
69. Brokeback Mountain (Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal; Dir - Ang Lee)
70. The constant gardener (Ralph Fienes, Rachel Weisz; Dir - Fernando Meirelles)
71. Thank you for smoking (Aaron Eckhart, Dir - Jason Reitman)
72. Babel (Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Gael Garcia Bernal, Dir - Alejandro González Iñárritu)
73. The Prestige (Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale, Dir - Christopher Nolan)
74. 12 Angry Men (Henry Fonda, Dir - Sidney Lumet)
75. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Chow Yun Fat, Michelle Yeoh, Ziyi Zhang, Dir - Ang Lee)
76. Dream for an Insomniac (Ion Skye, Mackenzie Astin, Jennifer Aniston, Dir - Tiffanie DiBartolo)