The cult of the amateur

Andrew Keen discussing his book "The cult of the amateur"

Thevar Magan

Padosan

http://youtube.com/watch?v=NvsCm4NlCks&feature=related

Yahooo....

http://youtube.com/watch?v=piKXrYaHZFg

Pakeezah

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZMzoP3hytl8

Zoom: The Global Race to fuel the car of the future

Vijay Vaitheeswaran speaking @Google about his book Zoom:The Global race to fuel the car of the future.

Paul Krugman

Paul Krugman giving a talk on the sub-prime crisis in Google

Guide

The R K Narayan classic starring apna Dev Anand as Raju The Guide.

Anarkali

Madhubala in Anarkali

Mughal - E - Azam

Guna

The story of the beauty and the beast, in Tamil...

Nayakan

The Indian version of Godfather, Mani Retnam classic

Star Trek

Space, USS Enterprise, Captain Kirk, Spock, Scott, Dr..They were enough to get me out of bed early Sunday morning. It took a lot of sweeping and cleaning before I got my TV time. How things have changed. Now, I need to get the kids to switch off that TV at least for an hour. I convince myself they are time travelling as I did. If Captain James Kirk kinda travel is possible with Tom & Jerry and Mr Bean.

Sandokan

Kabir Bedi, the pirate in Malaysia. A tele-movie I remember fondly.

Mother India

Mother India gave a glimpse of famine, hunger and rural India, with stellar performances by Nargis and Sunil Dutt.

It also reminds me of Shanku uncle who played the 'Mother India' songs ad nauseum in Pune's 'Aras Restaurant.'

Sadma

Kamal Hasan and Sridevi in Sadma left a lasting impression....

Ek Duje Ke Liye

Kamal Hassan was the first childhood hero. It all began with Ek Duje Ke Liye...

Big Boss

Mohan Uncle got his distributorship of BPL-Sanyo and we watched this movie in his showroom on a betamax tape. Betamax technology failed, but Mohan uncle made his first million with colour TVs. Bruce Lee was the ultimate those days, we used to hero worship him. I remember nanchuk was banned those days.

Return of the dragon

When I was so skinny, dreaming of nanchuk, karate and worshipping Bruce Lee

Where Eagles dare

My best friend in school Mandar Phadke, introduced me to the war movies, airplanes...

Mckenna's Gold

Mackenna's gold was about adventure, discovery, Gold, and the Wild West.

Shaolin Temple

This was the first movie when I ventured out to watch on my own from Kurla to Churchgate, Eros Theatre. The star was the famous Jet Li, those days, it was my first exposure to a different culture. I marvelled at the human abilities of discipline, defense and flight.

Airport 77

The first English that I recall. A story of the survivors in a plane crash.

Sholay

When Sholay was released, it made a big impact on me as a child. The neighbourhood where I grew, used to play all the dialogues on every festival, especially Holi and Shivratri. I learned the dialogues by heart and impressed my grand father and my uncles. The journey began...