A little bit of this, that and more

The benefits of an evening shower (I mean rain, nothing personal) are that strange things happen when the setting sun throws in its colour palette. Yesterday evening, an orange glow suffused everything outside, a thick coat mixed with the odd mauve. It was as if someone just turned on one of those commonly known tungsten filament light bulbs, albeit a giant one. Or maybe it was ol' Thomas Alva showing off up there again. Ok, but you also made about 2,344,589 bad ones, so stop blowing your gramophone!

On the other hand, the Splashability Quotient of everything went up by many a power. Those motorbikes with unprotected rears are suddenly spouting their own theories of how a water-fountain operates.

******** Heartbreak Henman did it again, only this time for a change at Roland Garros. Since even Phil Mickelson won a Major last year, we'll still hope for good old Tim. Most of all, I'd like him to win a Slam for the sake of his wife Lucy. She is my most favourite entourage person, you know, the wife|girlfriend|partner (reflecting changing preferences, of course) to whom the camera cuts to on 15-40 needing a second serve to stay in the match. Actually, more often than that. There's something about the Henmans, even his parents. They're ... so British if you know what I mean. ******** Great to see tentative trailers of Raghu Romeo on TV. Means that Rajat Kapoor has found a distributor. The film was a winner of a major award at a Mumbai festival last year and Vijay Raaz as Raghu Romeo would be worth a look. ******** Sun TV has a new series (started about 3 weeks ago) that's quite a departure from their usual programming mix. Each week features a look at a classic film that in some way influenced Tamil Cinema. Andha Naal (That Day) was the choice this time. This was quite a bold experiment as it had no songs, featured upcoming star Sivaji Ganesan in a negative role and inspired by Rashomon, had a screenplay and story of merit. ******** Finally caught a complete episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm that features Seinfeld co-creator Larry David. Directed by veteran Andy Ackerman (Frasier, Seinfeld), the writing as usual is sharp and observational. The camera settings aren't fixed and the dialogues seem ad-libbed (not sure if it is significantly impromptu or cleverly designed that way), all ensuring that it looks ultra-realistic and natural. Larry David is all that I thought he'd be: cynical, individualistic and acerbic, which allied with the plausible situations, comes out to be quite funny (but all this is based on just one episode).