A very short post I gotta admit: the radio silence from my end was gnawing at me from the inside. I did have a few ideas for posts, but all of them would take some time to write. Hope to make up for the delay with a bunch of upcoming posts. Meanwhile I came across a lovely thought in an old Mani Ratnam interview, and thought of sharing it. Songs in movies – why? Do you sometimes wonder why do all Indian movies have songs? Let’s leave out the song-and-dance, item-number routines, which exist to serve a different purpose. Even ‘sensible’ movies – …