Posted on December 30, 2015
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2015 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 1,900,000 times in 2015. If it were an exhibit at the Louvre Museum, it would take about 82 days for that many people to see it.
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Baradwaj Rangan 
tonks
December 30, 2015
Phew! 🙂
Ok, I suspect MANK’s name is ManuKrishnan (and not Moniker as Punee thought 🙂 )
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MANK
December 30, 2015
Tonks, Bingo! nice guess, even ManuKrishnan is Moniker 🙂 . It should have been Maneesh Alakkad Krishnan. i succumbed to a moment of ‘illusions of Grandiosity’ to coin MANK ala JFK, MGR, NTR,.. and has been carrying that burden ever since 🙂
And i cannot believe i wrote 275 comments this year, as if i have nothing else to do… 🙂
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sravishanker1401gmailcom
December 30, 2015
1.9 million views !! I’ll drink to that. Te Saluto Don Rangan !
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Boo
December 30, 2015
Happy new year Baradwaj! I am sure most of the clicks from Switzerland would be from me! It’s shocking to see ones addiction put out like that! 🙂
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brangan
December 30, 2015
Thank you, Boo. And a very happy 2016 to all readers.
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Prajith
December 30, 2015
Happy new year to you Mr Rangan. And if you are to us of a on your break, don’t forget to watch hateful eight on 70 mm. It looks fanbloodytastic
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Iswarya
December 30, 2015
And wow.. My “deleted” comments must have added up to the total, if I am so close to our formidable Rahini! Always suspected that I was going to figure in the Top 5 someday, but not so soon. 😀
Happy New Year to BR and all the folks who make this blog such a welcome place! 🙂
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sravishanker1401gmailcom
December 31, 2015
Very Happy New Year 2016 BR and fellow BR fans !
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praneshp
December 31, 2015
Seconded Prajith. This was the first time I got a chance to read up about formats, and the difference is mindblowing. Plus the limited release is in a roadshow format, so USA folks should try and catch it before Jan 1 if they can.
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Ram Murali
December 31, 2015
Happy New Year, BR and fellow commenters!
I was quite delighted to find my name in the “annual report” (Thank heavens, wordpress didn’t have a year-end tally of upvotes and downvotes!)
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bartt
December 31, 2015
Happy happy 2016, folks! May this year bring out more crow’s golden eggs, Courts of humanity, lovable Davids (Pikus) and applaudable Goliaths (Bahubalis), kindle our hidden love (Premam) for nostalgias while also shooting us out of stark realities of the beatific Varanasis (Masaan) and turn us into Martians once in a while…. Cheerz!
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Rahini David
December 31, 2015
Ram Murali: I would have been surprised if your name had not been there. In fact, it amuses me that I have commented more than you have. Maybe if they count actual movie related comments, yours would be higher than mine.
Can you believe that people down-vote even this comment? Oh well, but we usually count our own downvotes and not notice the ones of others. I got 10 downvotes for my Thanga Magan review. But if those people did not like the review then let them eat cake. 😀
Iswarya: You have that many deleted comments?
I am a bit sad to notice that venkatesh, Ashutosh and Kay Kay don’t comment so often anymore. Hmm. I guess they all found lives. 😛
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Rahul
December 31, 2015
Happy new year, and thanks and congratulations to BR and the top commenters for playing a major role in the outstanding success of this blog.
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ramitbajaj01
December 31, 2015
Exactly MANK, last year I was in top 5, and I realised perhaps I was spending way too much time on cinema and that perhaps it was one of the reasons for my lacklustre professional performance. I thought of taking a break, along with other de-addiction plans. And 2015 did turn out to be a little better than other years, though, of course, a little boring too. Now I hope, I could find some balance in 2016. I hope we all could.
Happy new year all 🙂
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vengayam
December 31, 2015
Does Louvre have a policy of restricting visitors and pegging the number at 8.5 million visitors ( space restrictions et al) Just asking 🙂
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Iswarya
December 31, 2015
Rahini: New Year Eve is a good time for confessions, I guess. I request BR to delete most of my obsessive proof-reading comments. Come to think of it, maybe my overall tally would have actually gone above the others if those had been counted too. The initial idea behind doing that was to avoid my red-pencil habit from getting any attention, but it’s no big secret any longer, I guess. I’m no longer operating under-cover, so to speak. But then, I still don’t like those appearing in the comments thread because they aren’t a part of the discussion there. So, I still keep asking BR to clean them up.
Ram Murali: I’ve been tempted more than once to come up with big conspiracy theories to explain why your comments get downvoted so much.. I mean, I usually upvote most of your comments since I like the humour there. But it’s totally weird that there may be ‘forces’ to act against even the most innocuous things you say! Was wondering if anyone else had noticed. 🙂
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SUNDAR
December 31, 2015
To BR Sir and fellow blog lovers, Happy New Year 2016
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Ram Murali
December 31, 2015
Rahini David and Iswarya – thank you for your comments.
Rahini David – you wrote, “Oh well, but we usually count our own downvotes and not notice the ones of others. I got 10 downvotes for my Thanga Magan review. But if those people did not like the review then let them eat cake.”
–> Ha ha. You know what, it rarely bothers me when people downvote my comments/opinions on movies because my thought there is that maybe they had a completely different opinion (let’s say, I kinda sorta liked Thanga Magan and someone else hated it) and felt the need to express their disagreement with my opinion through a downvote. Fair game as far as I am concerned. But I sometimes get pretty surprised when I get a stunning number (of course, “stunning” is a purely subjective term!) of downvotes for something that I mean to be mildly amusing or sometimes, even when I pose a tangential view. That’s what kind of…what do I say, bothers me a little, to be honest because I don’t think I have ever said anything offensive or hurtful in this blog.
Iswarya – “I’ve been tempted more than once to come up with big conspiracy theories to explain why your comments get downvoted so much”
–> Have you got me intrigued or what! I don’t know if you said that in total jest but if not, please please please respond with a more detailed comment for I am genuinely curious to see what you have to say. You are welcome to post on my blog if you’d like.
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Anu Warrier
December 31, 2015
I can’t even see the upvotes/downvotes tabs any more, and since I do not have a WordPress account, I can’t even ‘like’ a post. 🙂
So, Happy New Year to BR and this community here, who make all my time wasting efforts worthwhile. 🙂
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Sutheesh Kumar. P. S.
December 31, 2015
Hi Baradwaj Rangan and fellow readers of this blog, Wish you and your family a Happy, Prosperous, Healthy and Peaceful 2016.
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Iswarya
January 1, 2016
Ram Murali: Haha, have I mentioned my proverbial laziness before? 😉 When I said I’ve been tempted, please understand that it ended with just that, the temptation to come up with.. blah! The only things I really diligently, religiously do are the things driven by my compulsive behaviour — all other stuff are just idle speculation and irresponsible jabbering! 😀
Anyway, sorry for putting you on the wrong scent! Happy 2016! 🙂
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Ram Murali
January 2, 2016
Iswarya – No worries! I was just curious, that’s all!
Happy 2016 to you too.
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venkatesh
January 3, 2016
@Rahini: I am a bit sad to notice that venkatesh, Ashutosh and Kay Kay don’t comment so often anymore.
Dont know about the other folks but i do comment and comment often enough.
One of the things that has happened is that my comments get put into BR’s junk queue on WordPress and that is of course annoying and also very irritating. I think i have figured out why that happens , so let’s see.
I realised first time in 4 years i am not in the top-5. Not sure if thats a good or bad thing 🙂
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brangan
January 4, 2016
venkatesh: After that problem you pointed out, I have begun to check my spam folder regularly. But haven’t seen any of your comments there recently. Just admit it, you got yourself a life now 😀
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venkatesh
January 4, 2016
BR : If only 🙂
Actually in this particular case i commented on this post twice and only one showed up. I have a theory of why that happens, i just need some volunteers to try it out as well.
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brangan
January 4, 2016
venkatesh: Oh man, that sucks. Is it an interface thing?
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tonks
January 4, 2016
venkatesh : Thats happened with me too so I do not mind volunteering.
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Rahini David
January 4, 2016
Ram Murali: For conspiracy theories always dial “R”. Here I am. 😀
Theory 1: You dissed a sensitive person five months back and he/she downvotes you in his/her own mobile and the mobiles of all his/her friends.
Theory 2: Someone wants you to quit commenting here and start actually working on deadlines and stuff.
Theory 3: Someone wants you to quit commenting here and start actually working around the house.
Theory 4: Look at the first two comments of this thread. What is there to downvote there? “MANK’s name is ManuKrishnan”? Nothing is wrong there, IMO. Haters will hate.
Theory 5: Someone feels you may get more popular than him/her. Poraamai. This is a theory that you shuld really consider seriously.
Theory 6: Someone does not know that accidental downvoting can be changed to upvote by clicking the upvote repeatedly. Actually not many know this.
venkatesh: This never happens to me. So I can be a part of the control group. 😀
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KayKay
January 4, 2016
It was a no-brainer to see MANK and Rahini in the Top 5, but was surprised at NOT seeing venkatesh there, but the problem he highlighted may have played a part in the omission.
“I am a bit sad to notice that venkatesh, Ashutosh and Kay Kay don’t comment so often anymore. Hmm. I guess they all found lives.”
Au Contraire, dear Rahini, I found life a long time ago, and one of it’s more pleasurable aspects has been visiting and commenting on this blog.
Work commitments did increase last year but I think the main reason for the reduction in my comments were due to some self-imposed restrictions I placed on myself.
One of them was: If I haven’t seen the movie, I won’t comment on it.
I’ve noticed that it’s becoming increasingly easy for me to rip on the latest product off the Vijay/Ajith assembly line without having seen a single frame, or conversely, indulge my Fan Love for Chris Nolan, David Fincher and Quentin Tarantino and declare their latest offering a Certified Masterpiece before they even hit the screens. But that’s lazy, and I’ve resolved to watch the film before penning my thoughts.
And given the fact that the Bolly and Kolly offerings which form the bulk of reviews here are only seen by me a good 6 months to a year after they’ve been released, my thoughts at that stage would have all the freshness of moldy bread.
And lastly, where there’s been interesting discussions I wanted to wade in, by the time my fingers hovered over the keyboards, some of my thoughts had already been superbly articulated by one of you, rendering them redundant.
Which brings me to a point I want to make. It’s been an absolute pleasure to read the comments sections last year. With the absence of the Late Commentator and even a certain Sour Plum making his presence scarce around these parts, last year has seen a refreshing scarcity in Trolls and Scratch Post Kittens , barring a few odd malcontents here and there, which has in turn led to a an increase in well reasoned comments, impressive in their breadth of knowledge and research which rarely descended to the personal and vitriolic.
May this continue in 2016. AM not sure how often I’ll post but I sure as hell will be a regular reader:-)
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Ram Murali
January 4, 2016
Rahini David – that was awesome!
I think I can safely eliminate Theory 2 and Theory 3!
Theory 1 – hmm…did I? Except for raising a “vella kodi” against some truly offensive comments, I wonder if I really dissed anyone else! Oh well…”Nadakka Nadakka Nana Patekar Seyal!” (That’s a Counds line from “Thedinen Vandhadhu!”)
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rajeevsid
January 5, 2016
Hi.. I think one movie which can is worth mentioning and never got the spotlight it deserved is ‘Katyar Kaljat Ghusali’ ; A Marathi movie about the apparent rivalry of Hindustani Gharana music. Fantastically taken and worth an watch!! Personally couldn’t agree to a review which doesn’t cover this particular movie 😭😭😭!!! Bust seriously worth a watch 👍.
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venkatesh
January 5, 2016
Tonks : Rahini : Thanks for volunteering, guys
Here are the steps to take :
Log out of Chrome. Google, Facebook or any other personally identifiable website.
Now browse to this site from a new browser session in an incognito session.
Enter a comment.
Enter email, name as usual and post.
I am betting that the comment doesn’t show.
My theory is that WordPress silently discards any comments when it cannot identify the commenter in “addition” to the email and name details that gets filled.
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Anuj
January 8, 2016
Here is the complete round up of the box office performance of bollywood films released in 2015 :
http://bollywoodboxofficedata.blogspot.in/2015/12/box-office-2015-year-of-under.html
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Rahini David
January 8, 2016
venkatesh: will do. But why do you go incognito?
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venkatesh
January 8, 2016
Rahini: I don’t actually. I simply use a laptop that has no facebook, google details. So its a stand-alone laptop
The reason i mentioned incognito is because most folks have at least some sort of social media login on a computer , so this is just a way to test if “no social media logins are present, will the same issue occur?”
Thats all.
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tonks
January 9, 2016
Venkatesh : Ive logged in incognito for the present comment. Here goes.
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tonks
January 9, 2016
That seems to have worked fine. WordPress only wanted my email, the name I use here and then after that, the password I use here. Nothing else. No google or fb account. Only the wordpress account was needed.
Sorry for the delay in responding but for some reason I did not see your comment till now : I was probably distracted by the fascinating comments in the Bajirao Mastani thread 😉
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tonks
January 9, 2016
The comments have appeared here just fine. So only a WordPress log in (with email, name and password) is required. No other sign-in is needed. We shall have to look elsewhere for the black hole/ spam phenomenon.
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venkatesh
January 9, 2016
@tonks: Thanks for looping back.
I should have mentioned, I don’t login to WordPress either. So basically no logins at all. You can comment with just a name and an email.
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tonks
January 9, 2016
Oh perhaps that is why your comments are getting rejected? I find that I am not able to comment at all, without first logging in to WordPress.
When I logged in incognito via my desk top and posted my comment using just the name I use here and my email id, WordPress took me to a box that said that since that email was already in use, they wanted to confirm I was the same person and so asked me to log in using the password and only then was my comment accepted.
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tonks
January 9, 2016
While we are on the topic, I just happened to notice that there is difference in colour of the name when posting via my desk top (black) vs now (blue) posting via my android phone. Not sure what the significance is.
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apex
January 9, 2016
“Not sure what the significance is.”
— dunno these things but guess it’s to do with the color of clothes ones ones wearing or the mood ones in. Maybe someone more literate can guide us….
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Punee
January 9, 2016
tonks: I saw your comment and just wanted to explain…
moniker:
1 a descriptive or familiar name given instead of or in addition to the one belonging to an individual
2 a word or combination of words by which a person or thing is regularly known <“Cornelius Jedidiah Beauregard” is his rather unwieldy moniker>
So MANK or apex or tonks is a moniker- since I am assuming that none of these are actual names you use out in the real world 🙂
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Rahini David
January 10, 2016
Venki: Attempting to comment through the ipad did not come through. I used the incognito window as advised. I gave my email id. It insisted on my password and everything disappeared.
However, WordPress account comes free of cost and why should you not have one? Is it because it is a work computer?
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tonks
January 10, 2016
I always did say to myself that this blog was good for my vocabulary : I did not know that. Thank you for taking the time to explain, Punee 🙂
Enjoyed reading your comments under Bajirao Mastani btw though I have not seen the movie yet.
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venkatesh
January 10, 2016
@Rahini: Oh, no , its my personal computer.
@tonks and Rahini: Thanks for testing the theory out.
I have just never had a WordPress login, no specific reason. I do think that you don’t need a WordPress login to comment. However you need something other than an email or name. I suspect this is WordPress’s way of attempting to limit spam or something,
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Punee
January 10, 2016
@tonks: Thank you 🙂 I would add that the best thing that happened to my vocabulary was PG Wodehouse novels at age 11- fun plots and amazing language that is almost equivalent to a poetic dictionary- try it!
Thank you for enjoying my comments 🙂
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tonks
January 10, 2016
Oh Im a huge fan.
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An Jo
January 10, 2016
It’s the season, in other words, for what the film critic Manny Farber in 1962 called “white elephant art,” which he partly described as pictures that “blow up every situation and character like an affable inner tube with recognizable details and smarmy compassion.” Some of his targets (“Jules and Jim”!) have become art-house classics. Even so, the white elephant rubric is particularly useful around awards time, when everything seems overinflated from digital grizzly bears to critical rhetoric and the roar of the Oscar Industrial Complex in full swing.
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venkatesh
January 11, 2016
Just for my reference and before i forget, i am going to jot some notes down here on what works when commenting on BR’s blog.
Login to FB, WordPress, Google or some other form of social media which has validation.
Do not use incognito or private mode.
Ensure javascript is turned on.
Have a witty and useful comment (optional).
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KP
January 12, 2016
I always comment with only my email id?
-KP
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sravishanker1401gmailcom
January 17, 2016
Anuj – Thanks for sharing. It only goes to buttress the argument that Indians are great at MIS 🙂 LOL.Even as far as back as 1988, mani ratnam commented – for a disorganized industry we are very organized about our box office figures
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Honest Raj (formerly 'V'enkatesh)
December 31, 2016
And for this year?
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brangan
December 31, 2016
I don’t know. WordPress usually sends a mail by the end of December. Haven’t yet got it…
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brangan
January 1, 2018
I must say I miss this annual feature from WordPress. Was a nice round-up of the blog, and it was fun to see who commented a lot, etc. Bummer.
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