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Tan Through Shoes! Get Fair and Beautiful Feet with Tandals™

Tan Through Footwear?! Super excited for this product!

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South Asian men and women (especially living in India) have to deal with ugly tan lines on their feet from sandals all the time! Its just a plain fact that sandals are a major fashion in our culture; we wear them everywhere! Sandals are great, especially in the summer months, but no matter what we try, tan lines seem to be  inevitable. Tandals are the first company to hear our cries; “get these ugly tan lines off my feet and help me maintain fairer skin!” Their line of tan through sandals and tan through shoes are bound to hit it big and is already making splashes in the twitter-verse and on Facebook.

Fair skin is revered in South Asian Culture and so staying out of the sun altogether would seem the best option to avoiding tan lines, but the truth is, sometimes it just isn’t possible to carry that umbrella wherever you go. It may surprise most to know that an evenly tanned foot is preferable to one donned with tan lines. It’s the basic principal of comparison, if your feet are completely tanned, they appear lighter in general than a foot of the same shade or lighter with a tan line. The reason being, the lighter shade, though it is preferable, right next to the darker one, reminds people that your foot has indeed gotten darker.

Judge for yourself:

Why an even tan looks fairer than a tan line tan:

What looks better?

This? 😕                                                                          Or This? 😀

Well now you can have it without doing this 😆 :

Can’t wait until Tandals are on the market! Hopefully this plug will make the company give me a free pair 😉 , but at 50% off pre-sale, I’m ordering mine today!

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How to Speak Tanglish or Tamglish (English and Tamil) – Is It A Good or Bad Idea?

So it clearly stems from an obsession with the West that runs deep in any culture that’s not from Canada or The United States, but this need to aspire to be “All American” may be hurting the world’s multiculturalism. We all remember when Dhanush sang “Why This Kolaveri Di” and we were all excited here in Canada because we could seemingly understand a Tamil song without English subtitles, but there is an apparent deficit to this so-called “Tanglish” or “Tamglish” which is pretty much a broken form of English/Tamil.

Check out this tidbit from Wikipedia (And yes, I consider it to be a somewhat reliable source ;)):

“In The Hindu in 2010, a student in Chennai told of the widespread use of Tanglish by teenagers in her city. She said Tanglish was “something almost every teenager in Chennai uses”, but noted that her mother said Tanglish was “murdering the [Tamil] language”.[3]

The Tanglish lyrics of the film song “Why This Kolaveri Di“, which went viral on Internet social networking sites in November 2011, have been identified as a factor in the song’s popularity.[4][5]

Use of Tanglish, or code-switching between Tamil and English, has been reported among Tamil-speaking immigrant populations in Malaysia and Canada, particularly by young people.[6][7]“… (Wikipedia Tanglish)

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I mean in a selfish fashion, we would love if Kollywood (Tamil Cinema) just filmed entire movies in this Tamglish, but it may do more harm than good. We in the west tend to be a tad self-centered in these dealings, because in a sense, the same exotic nature that we love about other cultures would be stifled to death if we molded them to cater to us. It is a nice thing, movies like “Bend it Like Beckham” and Bride and Prejudiced, but somewhere in the back of my mind, I know I am not getting the full picture that I do when I am completely submerged in the Eastern culture, Language and all.

I know it is probably a cool thing for youth to use Tamglish in the schoolyard; perhaps as a sign you are going places. I mean growing up in Canada with The States literally next door, all I wanted to be was America. In fact, the first thing I ever brought with my first paycheck when I was 14, was a pair of Levi’s Blue Jeans, so you can just imagine.

Is there a solution to this Tanglish epidemic in Chennai? Or is this just the way the world is heading? Language does evolve does it not? It would be a tragedy to lose Tamil to a murdered form of English, but hey, we’ve already lost English to a decapitated form of writing; the text message.

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Thalaivaa Official Theatrical Movie Trailer (English Review)

OMG! So who is excited?! this looks totally intense and awesome!

Released today; check out the official trailer for Thalaivaa. Looks like another great one! And he’s pairing up with Sathyaraj, his Nanban co-star; what amazing chemistry these two are bound to have!

We will never get tired of Vijay walking in slow motion to a sexy soundtrack while he puts on shades (indoors for some reason); Sweet! Indeed there is an edgier side to Vijay that has been emerging and we can’t wait to see the many facets of his acting that are bound to surface in this one. Paired with a great romance and what promises to be a booming soundtrack, this will no doubt be one of the most anticipated movies of 2013.

“It’s do (dramatic pause) or die”, could this be the new “I’m waiting”? only time will tell.

Now if only the trailer had English subtitles. We will post it as soon as it becomes available.

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Put Your Pants On Bollywood! You’re Making The Rest Of Us Look Bad!

And Kollywood!? If Bollywood Jumped off a bridge, Would you do it too!? I certainly hope not.

Why Bollywood, Why? Did we not give you enough attention when you were young?

So long story short, this weekend, some colleagues and I finally got around to watching Jab Tak Hai Jaan (a Bollywood film) and were shocked, mouths-agape 😯 when we saw Shahrukh Khan kiss Katrina Kaif on the lips. It’s a funny thing, but it still irks me for some reason. I am used to seeing more than kissing in Hollywood films, but I am protective over my world cinema stars. They set the standard for modesty and now I see it crumbling beneath them. This has been going on for a long time, but I wonder if I will ever get used to it.

I know some of you want to see the kiss, so here it is:

😕 Umm, what was I saying again? Oh yes, okay so it’s hot, it’s shocking to some and it gets buts in seats at the theater, but is it worth it? Is it necessary?

For the few Canadians and Americans who know the difference between Kollywood, Bollywood, Tollywood etc… Awesome! But most in the west would just lump all the “-woods” together as “Brown Cinema”, so you can understand why Bollywood’s lack of discretion as of late is making the whole industry look desperate. One might call Kollywood’s lack of raunch old fashioned, but there is something to be said in its defense  I can however, see Kollywood teetering on the edge, with more and more kissing going on, and embraces that are a bit too close for and unmarried couple. I know I sound like someone’s grandmother, but is nothing scared anymore!? If I wanted to see two people going at it in a married fashion, I’d watch a Hollywood film.

The essence of Romanticism (which is the focal point of many-a Indian Film) is longing for, but never attaining the desires of the heart. Its the reason why Mr. Darcy’s stare from across a room at Elizabeth was filled with more sexual tension than even 5 secs of The Dirty Picture.

The Bollywood Ticket made a good point about why there is little to no kissing in Indian Cinema that’s worth a read:

“How come there’s no sex in Bollywood movies?

Two reasons: social and artistic. Onscreen physical intimacy is frowned upon in India—even kissing is fairly rare. But more importantly, Indian filmmakers are masters of the art of seduction. There may not be any sex in Bollywood movies, but they sure are sexy. In fact, it’s precisely because there’s no sex that they’re filled with so much incredible tension, which is missing entirely from Hollywood movies these days. In the words of film critic Roger Ebert, “it is less erotic to snuggle for 60 minutes than spend 60 seconds wondering if you are about to be snuggled.” He was talking about Bollywood.

Sometimes Bollywood musical numbers act as a substitute for sex, depicting it not in any crass, overt way, but implicitly, even metaphorically. The characters are often so carried away with passion that they suddenly appear in exotic locations around the world—the pyramids of Egypt, the canals of Venice, the mountains of Switzerland—places that have nothing to do with the plot but have everything to do with the limitlessness of fantasy.” (Bollywood for Beginners)

We want to know what you think! Should us old conservative fogies just stuff it, and let the chips fall where they may? Or is there a point to maintaining modesty in Kollywood?

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