BR blog-reader Zoom&nbsp;meet

When will it happen?

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Need to pretty myself earlier than I thought, what will be the ideal muhurat for this?

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Kay

Popping in to say a big YES! 😀

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Guru Naishadh

Yep. we’re game.

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Macaulay Perapulla

YES

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Count me in, as long as it’s weeknights or weekend evenings.

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Berlin

Yes, yes, yes!

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Deepika

I am in.. 🙂

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You might be celebrating 20 million hits soon

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N Madhusudhan

YES!

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Bharathi

Yes, please.

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Count me in!

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AK

although I’m a silent reader.. would love to join as I’m excited to know the faces of the regulars

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Archana Jeeva

Sounds like fun!

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Vikram s

Yes

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Eswar

Yes 🙂

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Anand Raghavan

Yes, requesting you to plan it on a weekend.

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Rahini David

Certainly, BR

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Yajiv

I want to but might be tough for me with time zones. Have fun, everyone else!

PS. BR looks straight out of a Hari film with that moustache!

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krishikari

Oh my god, you all look lovely in that picture! Very tentative Yes from me!

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KK

Yeah sure.

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Voldemort

In!
Recommend Google meet over Zoom though 😛

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rahultyagi

Am I a “regular”? Have been reading for more than a decade now, I think.. but have only posted maybe 10 replies in that time!

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Karthik

Yes!

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Srinivas R

Preferably a Saturday evening…

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rmahalik

Yes.

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Jayram

Sanjay Shankar (@sanjayshankar)

I’m in, as long as it’s on weekends.

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Count me in.

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lakshmi

YES!

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anonymousviolin20

This sounds fun!

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Karthik

That 2014 meetup photo led me to look for a blog post of that meetup which was here:

Meetup

which then led me to a He-Man BR New Year post here:

Happy 2017

and the comment space there, which turned out to be a, uhm, booby trap.

Is it me, or have we gotten a bit more serious these days…

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Enna koduka sir pera

This would be great! Yes!

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YAML92

Yes!

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Ujjwala Shankar

I’m a silent reader, but I’d love to be a part of it!

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Naren

I’m in on any weekend evening.

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karthikjkr@gmail.com

Yes, Yes, Yes!

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Yajiv

@Karthik: I don’t think it’s just you 🙂 I’ve been lurking in this blog for longer than I can remember and I feel like it’s been through phases. I’ve seen heated discussions (remember a particularly memorable one from ages ago where GVM challenged long-time commenter vijay to a fight) and also A-joke filled ones like the “booby/BRA” thing you mentioned. I’m sure we’ll go through a less-serious phase again soon enough 🙂

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“remember a particularly memorable one from ages ago where GVM challenged long-time commenter vijay to a fight” – woah, woah, when did this happen? Wow, this place really had a Wild West phase that I totally missed out on, huh. Damn!

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Caesium

Count me in. Thanks.

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Anuja Chandramouli

Count me in!!

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Aravindan R

Yes! I am in.

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“Wow, this place really had a Wild West phase that I totally missed out on, huh. Damn!”

Yeah you probably did, but it wasn’t all fun. We had some marvelously unhinged characters who livened up the discussions but frequently took it way too far. The Late Lord High Priest of Shit Stirrers, one who would froth at the mouth if B gave a positive to any Hindi movie which DIDN’T star Hrithik Roshan, another who would fly off the deep end at what he perceived was B’ “Northern Bias”. The latter 2 I believe finally tried even B’s infinite patience and got banned.

Even today you get B periodically getting called out for alleged Kamal/MR/Brahmin biases but I think this lot of commentators do it in a far more civilized manner 🙂

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Thulasi

Yes ! A silent reader and I never comment here but I am very curious to meet all the regulars .

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Yossarian

Yes sir!

@Madan – https://baradwajrangan.wordpress.com/2008/06/05/interview-gautam-vasudev-menon/ – beware of going down the rabbit hole 🙂

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Jallikattu lover

As the camaraderie with all the fellow commenters has been a fruitful and profitable enterprise for everyone involved, a type of “Laabam” if you will, why not all of us watch a show of Laabam together? Or, even better Friendship starring Arjun?

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Yossarian : Thanks! That was, uh, quite something. Not commenting on the views of either vijay or GVM saar himself. But I remember that my cousin and his friends in Chennai were all into NBA big-time back in the 90s while in Mumbai (rather its far flung suburbs where I lived) nobody talked about any basketball player other than Jordan. I would say there was a tinge of Americophilia in Chennai already by then whereas Mumbai was still in a colonial hangover (maybe still is… you can’t unsee Gateway, VT or the BMC HQ, British Raj looks large over my city). I don’t know what the English syllabus of TN State Board or NCERT comprised of in the 90s but here we had so called dead white 19th century authors galore – Lewis Carroll, Jerome K Jerome, Kipling. Regrettably or not, it influenced my English too. I always found this difference very fascinating. In the same country, two major cities were taking their English cultural cues from different places.

Kaykay : I do remember Mr Hrithink fanboy. He was very much active when I started posting here in 2012-13 and it would be much later that he got banned.

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Akhilan

Oh I’m in as well BR!! A bit shy here, but it would insightful and a learning opportunity for me as well. 🙂

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Akhilan

*it would be

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Macaulay Perapulla

@Kay kay “The Late Lord High Priest of Shit Stirrers, one who would froth at the mouth if B gave a positive to any Hindi movie which DIDN’T star Hrithik Roshan” How can we forget Utkal Mohanty? Or Ramesh Ram ( Oldies in this blog might remember)?

Rameshram and Vivek Narain (if my memories serve me right) were banished to the Azkaban by BR and his Ministry of the Keyboarding Magic

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bart

Zoom BaRaBaR Zoom.. Ullen ayya.

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Voldemort

We had some marvelously unhinged characters who livened up the discussions but frequently took it way too far.

I wasn’t here then, but many times while reading old articles from the archives, came across some really interesting commentors, who all got banned in due course.
Particularly, I recall this one person called Rameshram whose comments were truly mindboggling(!). I know he got banned but have always been curious to know what was the last straw that made BR do it.

Also, for a while, it was full on Tinder mode, IIRC, what with some people using the comments thread as a dating site 🙂

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Yajiv

@Jallikattu lover: Sorry boss, I’m not into S&M 😂

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Aravind Ravichandran

YESSSS !

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Deepika

I just noticed BR’s books on the table. I wish some aspects of film making from the books may also be discussed.. Especially the newer films of MR post Kadal. Certainly Navarasa! 🙂

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Nimmi Rangaswamy

@Kay Kay- that was really a funny round-up of shit stirrers! The late Ramesh Ram [ which was sad] and Amrita [ who does not comment anymore] had an awesome one for the Ishaqiya review which strayed and strayed away from the movie review – I would suggest a read https://baradwajrangan.wordpress.com/2010/01/30/review-rann-ishqiya/

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Sandeep Padhi

Yes. Definitely Yes..Yay!!

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krishikari

A zoom movie screening with online commentary would be fun! Preferably a nice masala or mass movie.

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Shankar

I’m in….

@KayKay, such fond memories! 🙂 Yes, couple of folks got banned ultimately…one of them, if you remember just liked to stir things up, and did so eloquently. I’m sure there are trails of all that during the first Endhiran film reviews…for example, he insisted on calling me Roboda, perceiving my camaraderie with BR! 🙂 But, yes, really unhinged characters!

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Anu Warrier

Yes, indeed! 🙂

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Shankar

@KayKay, not to forget certain admirers of BR that wrote pages and pages of comments! 🙂 , the notorious R(s), which I’m sure are the folks you are referring to…I’m telling you, going back and reading some of that stuff did bring a chuckle….

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Yajiv

@Shankar: rameshram, right? That guy was a legend. Absolutely zero filter between brain and keyboard LOL

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Iswarya V

Hi!

Long time lurker here. The archived comment section makes me feel old. I would be glad to pop in at least for a while.

Also, seconding whoever suggested Google Meet.

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Voldemort

I’m sure there are trails of all that during the first Endhiran film reviews…for example, he insisted on calling me Roboda, perceiving my camaraderie with BR! 🙂 But, yes, really unhinged character*

I came across this person while reading older posts. His comments and the other readers’ responses were quite fun to read, and completely mindboggling. 🙂 And I’ve wondered for the longest time what the last straw that made BR ban him was. And also why, like in good ol’ Bolly he didnt make any secret comeback with a different moniker. 🙂

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Voldemort

Also IIRC, the blog also doubled as a dating site for certain people 🙂 Wonder what BR thought when moderating them.

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Jayram

I’m still baffled by this comment: https://baradwajrangan.wordpress.com/2009/08/01/review-love-aaj-kal/#comment-8838

Welcome back, Iswarya!

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Nimmi Rangaswamy

@KK so funny about the shit stirrers! Ramesh Ram [ sadly passed young] and Amrita [ who does not comment anymore] argued rambunctiously!!! here is one of the best https://baradwajrangan.wordpress.com/2010/01/30/review-rann-ishqiya/. BR had to write these generously before he banned RR: Amrita/ramesh: Oh thank heavens. It was fun and all for a while to be at the sidelines and watch two extremely articulate opponents slug it out — but enough’s enough. I was going to ask you both to stand up on the bench and write “I will not fight in class” 50 times,” but I guess that’s not needed now 🙂 Future altercations, if needed, can continue at ramesh’s (per his instructions).

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Yajiv

@Voldemort: Yea he was truly one of a kind. Back in those days I didn’t have the confidence to comment here, and it’s probably for the best that I didn’t as this guy was a Troll mannan. No filter between brain and keyboard, I swear. Made for enjoyable reading in my school/college days though!

(BR I didn’t mention his name in this comment, so hopefully this passes the moderation! 😬)

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“Yes, couple of folks got banned ultimately…one of them, if you remember just liked to stir things up, and did so eloquently. I’m sure there are trails of all that during the first Endhiran film reviews…for example, he insisted on calling me Roboda, perceiving my camaraderie with BR”

That, dear Shankar is who I have dubbed the High Priest Of Shit Stirrers aka rameshram.

“@KayKay, not to forget certain admirers of BR that wrote pages and pages of comments! 🙂 , the notorious R(s), which I’m sure are the folks you are referring to”

Oh God! Lowercase r was especially notorious! 🙂

“I came across this person while reading older posts. His comments and the other readers’ responses were quite fun to read, and completely mindboggling”

Voldermort, to be fair, his earliest comments, in spite of the ever present snark, actually had some interesting things to say and a unique view of films. Later on, they unfortunately got more and more mean-spirited and condescending.

“And I’ve wondered for the longest time what the last straw that made BR ban him was”

That would be this: (Warning, it ain’t pretty! His last few comments clearly show a guy losing it)

Bitty Ruminations 69 – Sattru munbu

“And also why, like in good ol’ Bolly he didnt make any secret comeback with a different moniker”

The reason for that is sadly tragic. He passed away somewhere in 2013 I think.

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“Yes, couple of folks got banned ultimately…one of them, if you remember just liked to stir things up, and did so eloquently. I’m sure there are trails of all that during the first Endhiran film reviews…for example, he insisted on calling me Roboda, perceiving my camaraderie with BR”

That, dear Shankar is who I have dubbed the High Priest Of Shit Stirrers aka rameshram.

“@KayKay, not to forget certain admirers of BR that wrote pages and pages of comments! 🙂 , the notorious R(s), which I’m sure are the folks you are referring to”

Oh God! Lowercase r was especially notorious! 🙂

“I came across this person while reading older posts. His comments and the other readers’ responses were quite fun to read, and completely mindboggling”

Voldermort, to be fair, his earliest comments, in spite of the ever present snark, actually had some interesting things to say and a unique view of films. Later on, they unfortunately got more and more mean-spirited and condescending.

“And I’ve wondered for the longest time what the last straw that made BR ban him was”

That would be this: (Warning, it ain’t pretty! His last few comments clearly show a guy losing it)

Bitty Ruminations 69 – Sattru munbu

“And also why, like in good ol’ Bolly he didnt make any secret comeback with a different moniker”

The reason for that is sadly tragic. He passed away somewhere in 2013 I think.

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Yes, couple of folks got banned ultimately…one of them, if you remember just liked to stir things up, and did so eloquently. I’m sure there are trails of all that during the first Endhiran film reviews…for example, he insisted on calling me Roboda, perceiving my camaraderie with BR”

That, dear Shankar is who I have dubbed the High Priest Of Shit Stirrers aka rameshram.

“@KayKay, not to forget certain admirers of BR that wrote pages and pages of comments! 🙂 , the notorious R(s), which I’m sure are the folks you are referring to”

Oh God! Lowercase r was especially notorious! 🙂

“I came across this person while reading older posts. His comments and the other readers’ responses were quite fun to read, and completely mindboggling”

Voldermort, to be fair, his earliest comments, in spite of the ever present snark, actually had some interesting things to say and a unique view of films. Later on, they unfortunately got more and more mean-spirited and condescending.

“And I’ve wondered for the longest time what the last straw that made BR ban him was”

That would be this: (Warning, it ain’t pretty! His last few comments clearly show a guy losing it)

Bitty Ruminations 69 – Sattru munbu

“And also why, like in good ol’ Bolly he didnt make any secret comeback with a different moniker”

The reason for that is sadly tragic. He passed away somewhere in 2013 I think.

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Kumar Alagappan

+1

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keerthan109

Yes, yes and a YES.

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idlipongal

YES!

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Macaulay Perapulla

@Shankar RameshRam, Utkal Mohanty and Vivek Narain have become those who cannot be named? Rameshram did have some fascinating comments when he wasn’t being his unhinged self.

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AdhithyaKR

Yes

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Macaulay Perapulla

@Madan: “. I always found this difference very fascinating. In the same country, two major cities were taking their English cultural cues from different places.” On that note, you must read Pavan Varma’s Becoming Indian. He explores this beautifully with his upbringing in India and London

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uniquebluerose

Yes.. I am in… I am in I am all the way in
Looking forward to it. Hopefully it’s on weekend.

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Yes, couple of folks got banned ultimately…one of them, if you remember just liked to stir things up, and did so eloquently. I’m sure there are trails of all that during the first Endhiran film reviews…for example, he insisted on calling me Roboda, perceiving my camaraderie with BR”

That, dear Shankar is who I have dubbed the High Priest Of Shit Stirrers aka The Prof.

“@KayKay, not to forget certain admirers of BR that wrote pages and pages of comments! 🙂 , the notorious R(s), which I’m sure are the folks you are referring to”

Oh God! Lowercase r was especially notorious! 🙂

“I came across this person while reading older posts. His comments and the other readers’ responses were quite fun to read, and completely mindboggling”

Voldermort, to be fair, his earliest comments, in spite of the ever present snark, actually had some interesting things to say and a unique view of films. Later on, they unfortunately got more and more mean-spirited and condescending.

“And I’ve wondered for the longest time what the last straw that made BR ban him was”

That would be this: (Warning, it ain’t pretty! His last few comments clearly show a guy losing it)

Bitty Ruminations 69 – Sattru munbu

“And also why, like in good ol’ Bolly he didnt make any secret comeback with a different moniker”

The reason for that is sadly tragic. He passed away somewhere in 2013 I think.

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Macaulay Periapulla: Thanks for the heads up, will do. I enjoy his op-eds for newspapers.

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(Original) venkatesh

:+1

Yes.

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(Original) venkatesh

And for the “newbies” I am the “original” venkatesh ., (The Bharatiaraaja to BR;’s Rati) – ., glad to see some of the “originals” still around and of course its seen real wild days ., i do think we have all mellowed down.

Except KayKay of course ., the man is a legend in these parts 🙂

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Voldemort

Thanks KayKay. That was a really interesting thread!

The reason for that is sadly tragic. He passed away somewhere in 2013 I think.
Damn. Didn’t expect this.

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(original) v! I have mellowed, dude! When’s the last time I dropped an A-Joke so crass you had to wash your hands plus give your screen and keyboard a complete wipe-down?? 🙂

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KaaviyaThalagani

Late to this party, but yes!

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sai16vicky

I am surprised no one has brought up the legendary museum visit and the GVM-Vijay combat threads 🙂 .

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Update with a tentative date…

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H. Prasanna

Yes to SATURDAY EVENING, 02-Oct (7PM).

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Coming Saturday? Done!

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That would be 2nd Oct? Ok with me! Malaysia’s 2.5 hrs ahead of India but have always been a night owl!

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A question of logistics. Usually you send a Zoom link to certain email IDs or whatsapp numbers right? How do we pull this off?

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BR: How about those interested send you an email so that you can simply reply to them with the zoom link? That way, privacy can be maintained and we can also ensure only those really interested get access to the link.

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Voldemort

Since, the link can be copied and posted anywhere, you could probably post it in this thread. Those who want to join can just click on it.

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Karthik

Oct-02 7 PM (IST) is great!

BR: I think Madan’s suggestion for logistics would work, and there are a couple of ways to make this slightly easy on you:
– Everybody who sends an email to you has the same subject, (something unique like OCT02BRZOOM), that way, when you’re ready to send your zoom link you can access the “batch” of emails with a simple search
– If you would like to create a GoogleGroups for readers of your blog first, then you could reply to each email with a link to join the googlegroups, and then it would become quite simple to send the zoom link, updates, changes etc as a single email (and also leave the door open for future communication beyond the one meet)

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Also, I don’t have a business account with Zoom. Does Google Meets allow unlimited time?

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anonymousviolin20

I think Madan’s suggestion makes the most sense. Or we could all comment throwaway email IDs in this comment section, but that seems like more of a hassle.

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Voldemort

Yes, Google Meet allows unlimited time. It’s also a pretty simple interface for those who arent very tech-savvy

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Macaulay Perapulla

@brangan YES. It does. Google meet should suffice.

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Yajiv

Google Meet has a 60min time limit for free accounts. Zoom Free is 40 min now.

Skype (the granddaddy of videocalls) has unlimited time for free accounts. Only kicker is not more than 50 participants allowed.

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Yes Google Meets allows unlimited time. Second Madan and Karthik’s suggestions on the logistics

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Anu Warrier

BR, Google Meets is possibly a better option. Zoom only allows 20 mts of free meetings. On Meets, people with the link can come and go as they please.

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Bala

Yes, I would like to be part of this.

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sai16vicky

7pm is a bit too early for me since I will be in EST. Would it be possible to move it a little later say 9-9:30pm?

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keerthan109

Yes sounds great

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thesaintponders

@BR, We could use a moderated/open jitsi meet. Jitsi is an open source tool (zoom is closed source) and you don’t need to provide any user credentials to login for open meet. Anyone with a URL can login.

moderated: https://moderated.jitsi.net/
open: https://meet.jit.si/

They have apps, but can login from any browser on phone, tablet, computer etc.

PS: Ofcourse, I am in.

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AK

Am good with 7pm IST as it would be 9.30pm in Malaysia 🙂

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rsylviana

I’m in too ! 🙂

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Anand Raghavan

Yes to 7 pm on 2nd Oct

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https://www.instagram.com/baradwaj_rangan_fans_club/

What is this? 🙂 Who did this? 🙂

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Shyamala Harigovind

Sure! I would love to be a part of this!

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Ramya Camasamudram

Long time reader and fan, rare commenter here… I’d love to join.

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Yajiv

@Aman Basha: This seems more like a troll account than a “fan club” account. Perhaps a bit of both 🙂

I still remember an FC South video where BR reacted to “mean comments”. He took the mean-spirited ones way better than the commenters crushing on him 🙂

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Akhilan

More than happy to join on the said date and time BR 🙂 Will ping you an e-mail now. Thanks again.

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I think I likr the idea of an app where whoever with the link can join. Ay volunteer to try it out a bit and see if it is okay….

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Also yes. We can do it at 8pm. Should work for most people.

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Naren

BR, whichever conf. app is being finalised, shud we mail u requesting participation or wud u be sharing a google doc with the conf. link or any other method?!

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“Google Meet has a 60min time limit for free accounts. Zoom Free is 40 min now”

Yajiv, Google Meet is unlimited. We do our monthly Book Club on it that goes on for at least 2 hours with no interruption.

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Yajiv

@KayKay:

Your book club Meet organiser must have a paid Google Workspace account then. If you have just a free Google account and set up a meeting, your meeting automatically terminates after 60 mminutes. Google instituted this rule starting in July this year, I believe. This also happened to me just two weeks ago while setting up a call.

Further proof from Google here: https://apps.google.com/intl/en/meet/#:~:text=Is%20Google%20Meet%20free%3F,minutes%20per%20meeting%20for%20free.

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How come you haven’t put the Zero video here, BR?

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October 1, 2021

LINK ABOVE

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October 1, 2021

Awesome! See you all at 8PM IST tomorrow.

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So see you all around 8ish today? I can even log in a little early, like 7.59…

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Yajiv

Don’t think I can make this today (Saturday) unfortunately. Something pressing came up. Please enjoy in my stead. Hopefully, this becomes a semi-regular thing. Will join in the next one.

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H. Prasanna

@BR would it be too much to record it and make it a YouTube video? (For those who cannot make it, maybe)

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Yes BR and everyone, looking forward.

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Anand Raghavan

Thanks BR and all, it was a very engaging session.

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A great meet and lovely to now put a face to many of the commenters here, thanks for organizing this, B!

A comment on this jit.si: Can’t say I’m overly impressed. Video was lagging most of the time and the audio got steadily worse. For the next meet (and I hope there is), let me see if I can set up a google meet, as my wife sets it up for our book club and it’s also unlimited with better audio/video quality. Yajiv, not sure why but she’s sure she hasn’t paid for any subscription:-) She also does her online tuition on that.

Until the next time, stay healthy and safe!

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Sri Prabhuram

That was a nice meeting. We should do this more often.

(PS: Hope you invite Karthik Srinivasan from milliblog.com to one of them. That would be a wonderful combination.)

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Anu Warrier

I couldn’t join in. 😦 Something came up. Ah well, next time, perhaps.

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Iswarya V

(Not sure how my last comment disappeared. BR, please don’t post this if it’s a duplication)

Thanks Jayram. It was a pleasure catching up with all the familiar names from this beloved corner of the internet.

Thanks everyone, especially for all your kind wishes. It was an evening well spent despite the technical glitches. Hopefully we can do this say, every other month? And with a loosely defined topic or theme, if possible?

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Karthik

Thanks, BR and everyone, for a great meeting— so good to see and hear people! Yes, I hope there’s more of this too…

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Macaulay Perapulla

+1 on downvoting Jitsi. I have a premium Zoom account. Happy to setup the meeting for the next meet, whenever that is scheduled. It was fun yesterday. Thanks guys!

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Jayram

Great meeting all of you! Looking forward to the next meeting whether it’s on Zoom or Google Meets!

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Thanks guys…yes, as KayKay said, wonderful to put a face to the name. Especially THE Name. 😉 I hope next time we will get to hear more from Amitabh Bachchan aka Aman Basha and the other ‘new’ regulars. The discussion on Sarpatta Parambarai was terrific albeit I was clueless about it having not seen the film yet. It was like a microcosm of the blog threads transposed onto the video call format.

Venky: Would be brilliant if you are able to use the premium Zoom account!

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I absolutely hate Jitsi. Most people who joined late I think had a hard time with it and I could only hear snippets about No Time To Die and something about BR forwarding Madan’s music book to Westland. Worst of all, I couldn’t figure who was who in the end. Looking forward to the video.

@Madan: “Amitabh Bachchan”-This is a first. Wonder how though?

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bart

Nice meeting and putting a few faces & voices to texts. Thanks BR

BR, by any chance, have you reviewed “Lift”? I found it pretty decent & well-made. Look forward to your views.

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Eswar

Prasanna, thanks for the suggestion. BR and others, thanks for taking the time to organise and participate. It was good to see you all 🙂.

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Aman Basha: Pretty simple, I just initialed your name and re-expanded it to that of someone else who shares those initials. 😉

I could see mostly everyone whose video was one and by scrolling up to their ‘box’ in the grid, could see their name as well. Didn’t know it was horrible for many others. There were a few patches when the audio went out or the video of the person speaking froze but the rest of it was fine. Am sure a Premium Zoom account will be far better, no question.

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chockool1

Good day, Mr Rangan!

I so, so wanted to be a part of this fans/followers meet, but couldn’t do so owing to my current, punishing schedule – work and otherwise. Feel really dejected that I couldn’t!

Hope the meet-up went on well, and you all had a blast catching up after years together. I shall try my best to be there for the next – as and when you schedule it.

Ever your co-passenger,
Chokkapan S

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AK

I couldnt attend as well due to some last minute thing came up. Could this be like a quarterly or biannual event instead, please? so that it’s not so punishing for those who couldn’t make it

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sanjay2706

Thank you BR for spending your valuable time. Really shows the humility on your part.

A specific topic/theme would be good for future meetups and I am thinking BR can be Solomon pappaih while Raja (KK) and bharathi Bhaskar (Iswarya), along with other members can debate.

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sanjay2706

@BR you mentioned about the screenwriting lab. How do we apply for it?

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Heisenberg

Unfortunately I missed it. Is it going to be a regular meeting once in a while? Would love to be a part of next meeting.

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Kay

I missed it since I was travelling and had patchy network. 😦 Hope to join next time.

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krishikari

I also hope to be there next time. Saturday is a super busy day for me so can we do a Friday or Sunday next time?

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Yajiv

@Madan: Hah I thought you were making some “Angry Young Man” insinuation about Aman 🙂

Nice to know that everyone enjoyed the meetup so much, despite technical issues. I’m bummed I couldn’t make it. Next time for sure!

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H. Prasanna