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Check out a song from the new Malayalam movie Subhadram. Beautifully sung by Chitra, music: P Raghu Kumar, lyrics: Srilal Devaraj, the director.
Song link
I saw a shop in Mylapore that had the R-Com and Vodafone boards, and on both the boards the store name was displayed in fonts that looked strikingly similar. Did R-Com copy the Vodafone font? Which are the fonts used? Does anybody care?
Googling revealed that Vodafone’s is an exclusive font based on the InterFace font, created by Dalton Maag, and R-Com’s is Precious Sans. (Bonus: Websites that mauled the ADAG branding – one, two).
Average Joe Test (Thanks Venky)
(Vodafone in Black, Precious Sans in Blue)
The fonts are different, but viewed from a distance of 15 feet, both look pretty close.
Bonus Bonus: Stumbled upon during my investigations in Mylapore.
Update – The Reliance Mobile Blog TVC jingle is inspired by the gospel song ‘He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands’.
Fountainhead, Chennai
www.burrp.com
Restaurant Reviews…
24 January 2008
“On the seventh day, after marching around the city the seventh time, the priests sounded their ram’s horns, and Joshua ordered the people to shout. The walls of the city collapsed, and the Israelites were able to charge straight into the city.” From The Bible
Republic Day 2008. Club House Road, Chennai
Near Shipyard, Cochin
In July, when mallus had just started planning their vaikittathe paripadees around Idea Star Singer, I posed a question on my blog, “Do you have any dope on Meera Nandakumar?”
Soon I realised there were a lot of guys on the Net who were asking the same question, and many started landing on my blog – I guess mine was the only site then that mentioned Meera Nandakumar and Idea Star Singer together.
By the time Meera started accounting for 20% of the traffic to my site, I decided I had to do something. But Google Search yielded zilch. Google Alerts gave me a lot of updates about some Meera Nandakumar in Cisco. Mallu mags were mum; Mallu mums, mad…
Then Idea Star Singer celebrated their 100th episode and YouTube adopted Meera wholesale…but still no d-o-p-e. Then last week Malayala Manorama, Mangalam and Indian Express ran stories on the kid.
Highlights…Meera is a Class XII student of Bhavan’s Vidya Mandir, Elamakkara.
Before ISS – where she started as a contestant – she appeared in Jeevan TV’s Star Chat and Family Fun, and Amrita TV Vanitha Ratnam. She has also acted in Veedu, a telefilm.
Meera’s big screen debut will be in Lal Jose’s Mulla Poovu, with Dileep. Heppy?
The probability of tailgating a car with the same registration number as yours.
Thousand Lights, Chennai
Babu Kuriakose 
