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Mona Lisa Smile
*ing: Julia Roberts, Kristen Dunst Rating: 2/5 Rewatchability Index: 3/5 Seen at: Prasad’s In a world that told them how to think, she...
Vinay Payyapilly
Jul 19, 20041 min read
Behind Enemy Lines
Starring: Gene Hackman, Owen Wilson Rating: 4/5 Rewatchability Index: 2/5 Seen at: Home (Star Movies) A maverick navy pilot shot down...
Vinay Payyapilly
Jul 12, 20041 min read
Bird on a Wire
Starring: Mel Gibson, Goldie Hawn Rating: 2/5 Rewatchability Index: 0/5 Seen at: Home (Star Movies) Funny how stories pan out. Rick...
Vinay Payyapilly
Jul 12, 20041 min read
Hyderabad Blues 2 – Rearranged Marriage
Starring: Nagesh Kukunoor Rating: 2/5 Rewatchability Index: 2/5 Seen at: Prasad’s Multiplex, Hyderabad 6 years have passed since...
Vinay Payyapilly
Jul 12, 20041 min read
Hum Tum
Starring: Saif Ali Khan, Rani Mukherjee Rating: 4/5 Rewatchability Index: 5/5 Seen on: Screen at Prasads Guy meets gal on plane, they...
Vinay Payyapilly
Jul 8, 20041 min read
Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azbakan
Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson Rating: 2/5 Rewatchability Index: 1/5 Seen on: IMAX at Prasads The movie lives up to the book....
Vinay Payyapilly
Jul 8, 20042 min read
On Rights and Duties
Watching a good idea die is bad enough, but watching it struggle gamely on, against all odds is gut wrenching. Whoever thought of the...
Vinay Payyapilly
Jun 30, 20042 min read
Untitled
Event Horizon Starring: Lawrence Fishbourne, Sam Neill Rating: 1/5 Rewatchability Index: 0/5 Seen On: Star Movies A good premise gone...
Vinay Payyapilly
Jun 24, 20041 min read
Untitled
The Red Dragon Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Ed Norton, Ralph Finnes Score: 4/5 Rewatchability Index: 3/5 Before Clarise there was Agent...
Vinay Payyapilly
Jun 24, 20041 min read
I
This is an essay I wrote at the request of my sister-in-law when she had to submit one on herself for an interview. — Who am I? The...
Vinay Payyapilly
Jun 8, 20043 min read
An Impossible Dream
I have never ever been able to keep a diary, and I dont know what makes me think that I’m going to keep this regularly. But then to quote...
Vinay Payyapilly
Jun 8, 20042 min read
MAX
Awesome! Awe-inspiring! Fills your senses! The adjectives used to describe the mother of all mountains – the Everest – have always tried...
Vinay Payyapilly
Jun 8, 20041 min read
The Race
I run as fast as my legs will carry me. Somewhere in the distance behind me I can hear the rumbling. Is it getting closer? I don’t know....
Vinay Payyapilly
Jun 8, 20041 min read
Sister’s Day
It’s that day of year again when we celebrate sisters. Anybody who has one will vouch, you can love ’em, you can get mad at ’em, you can...
Vinay Payyapilly
Jun 8, 20043 min read


Of Freedom and Security
Freedom (Photo credit: Moyan_Brenn) Thomas Jefferson got it right when he said, “Those who are ready to give up some of their freedom in...
Vinay Payyapilly
Jun 8, 20043 min read
To control or not to control
Control is very much like nirvana, everybody wants it, many try to achieve it and very few actually ever get it. Control also shares one...
Vinay Payyapilly
Jun 8, 20042 min read
Of Leaders – Flawed or Otherwise
The basis of this post started while I was having a debate over MSN Messenger with a friend of mine. The discussion happened to veer...
Vinay Payyapilly
Jun 8, 20042 min read
Who’s responsibility is it?
This essay, like a few before this, was born out of a conversation I had with a friend. The conversation was about the right of an...
Vinay Payyapilly
Jun 8, 20042 min read
A Festival of Lights
Diwali is up on us. For me festivals are a collage of memories. As I near each one, pictures of the previous instances of that festival...
Vinay Payyapilly
Jun 8, 20042 min read
Open Markets
The newswires have been full with articles on how the unions in the UK were up in arms about British companies moving jobs to India and...
Vinay Payyapilly
Jun 8, 20041 min read
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