Recorded Sessions

Where the pod begins at sunnambu kaava, moves on to not-so-fantastic beasts, and ends with some high-tea, with segues into badminton, Nepal incursions, TR's Hindi excursions, biryani-related news items and some touching upon Vikram and GVM. 

Where the pod starts discussing parties attended by politicians, and meanders towards political parties themselves with detours though some movies, international news and myriad other nonsense.

Where the pod meanders from one thing to the other touching diverse topics such as Beast, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, the IPL, one person Marathoning-from-home,  Edharthu Thevaillada,  Mic Mohan's filmography through the lens of his comeback, twitter, other social media, and ends with a discount on Sunny Leone. Well, not exactly but sort of.

Where the pod delves into world-level topics such as the fallout of war, of national-level topics such as some files of Kashmir, and of local-level topics such as Mr. Rangan's next destination. Oh, and there are also some mega monologues by one host, with said host, channeling his inner-SPB, or so he thought.

Where the pod delves into the war in Ukraine but not before flipping the script by providing the Valimai update first. And post-war (in the pod, anyway), moves on to other matters such as movies, randomness, and a goodbye to Warne. 

Where the pod meanders bladely toward Gandhi Mahans, Romanians in Coimbatore, and godmen advising the NSE.

Where there is meandering discussions that envelope everything from Trudeau being a national disgrace to a 19 year old flying the globe with grace. In between, there are pitstops at the Canadian economy, resignation of German navymen, tennis, mythology, a meta-wedding, and wellofcourse #chennaisnow

A new year brings a new season, and, with it, the same old rubbish. This time, however, there is less cinema and more general nonsense including (but not limited to) Netflix, Kazakstan (not Borat), renaming India, the UP elections, Djokovic, and the virus. Oh, and Valimai, well, remains to be the gift that keeps on giving. 

Where the pod gets stuck into a time-loop of the usual self-referential nonsense, get out of it to discuss the time loop of Maanaadu, make some segues into random nonsense, get to the Biryani at the end, and, at the end, provide Valimai controversy and burning Tesla news. 

Where we are joined again by Kumar (or, as one of the hosts calls him, "big gun") to have a "serious" discussion about Jai Bhim that takes detours through such places as Superstarville, RandomNewsTown, and a Coimbatore Navy base.

Where there is discussion about movies that have been watched / not watched / will never(?) be watched amongst some flood talk, some vaccine talk, and a whole lot of completely useless talk. 

Where there is live recorded intermittent commentary of India-Pakistan interspersed with talk about Vinodhaya Sitham, Blue Shirt's Anti-Indian, Friendship, Sardar Udham, the chronological-taxonomical-nomenclature of the Aranmanai-Muni-Kanchana axis, Ted Lasso, and, wellofcourse, sir makes an entry, and so does SRK's family travails.

The episode that is officially worse than that rendering of Thooriga where, despite the best efforts of the host, Darlings are discussed. 

Where there is a clear dip in audio quality (there cannot be a dip in quality itself for there is nowhere more to dip) because of a first-time-ever live recording of the session. There was discussion of Family Man and a couple of other things - most importantly one number of epic fish meals.

Where there is a long long overdue talk of the anthology that is Navarasa. All the usual suspects make an appearance, and a couple of unusual ones do as well. And wellofcourse, the 60 minute barrier has been surpassed. 

Where Kumar from the Idli Vada pod joins us again to discuss another movie - Pa. Ranjith's Sarpatta Parambarai, this time. There is discussion on the film with healthy detours into the realms of this, that and mostly the other.

Where there is a wide-ranging discussion on topics ranging from Good days to bad days, to just days. Films - tamil, malayalam, English are touched upon and even a boy in Himachal gets a mention. Oh, and there is a completely random realization of having done two years of podcasting - if this maybe deemed such. Mostly blade but sprinkling of some fun stuff. Also, it is apt that is episode is 404. H...

Where Kumar from the Idli Vada pod joins us to discuss Jagame Thanthiram amongst other things like MNM, Kamal, GVM, betterment of the pod, so on, and so forth. 

Where there is discussion about the soon-to-come Jagame Thanthiram, the has-already-come Karnan, the never-should-have-come Radhe, some mild political detours, and the whatnot. 

Where there is a change in season number that is, in no way related to a change in government or indeed the change in the actual natural season. There is governmental talk, talkie talk, corona talk, and #wellofcourse random talk. 

Where there is a celebration of Vivek, his acting, his comedy, and him, in general, strewn with a myriad of other usual nonsense that, well, is standard fare, it would seem by now.

Where the art of talking about one movie has been mastered, and other such / not such terrible puns. There is also a brief segue into the world wonder that is Easwaran and other myriad things.

Where there is #RagaUpdate, #ValimaiUpdate, and myriad other updates that may / may not really have a point to them. And #wellofcourse there is an excellent outro that may / may not be a reimagining of #RaGa as Keechan.

Where there is conversations re. politics, cinema, pop culture, and all in between and absolute no conversations re. Simbu or his brother and other non-discussed things. 

Where Kumar from IdliVada (the podcast formerly known as South Talkies) joins us again to discuss another movie (at least, between all the other random deviations and distractions) - Arangetra Velai. There is talk of Fahzil, Prabhu, Revathi, the music, the dance, and of course of VK. Even Major makes a minor appearance, and, wellofcourse, obligatorily, so does one Mr. Menon.