Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Entertainment/2015 December 22

= December 22 =

Clarification about the box office report of Indian Cinema.
Dear Team,

Sub :   Clarification about the box office report of Indian Cinema.

Myself Antony Allwin. Iam from Kerala. I had read your wikipedia of box office collection reports of Indian cinema.

in that wikipedia you categorised film as language wise. it is good. but

i would like to bring your attention to the tamil film box office collection report. in that report you said only 9 films as scored above 100 crores and the list includes the latest film 'Vedalam' also with 117 crores.

My concerns is that where is the movie 'KATHI', with knowledge Kathi is the blockbuster hit of 2014. and the movie was collected more than 130 crores,but it is not mentioned in your report.

if you read the wikipedia of the movie KATHI, you can see the box office collection of 130 crores.

The, how can you say the collection amount of said film is differently in different wikipedia.

kindly let me know the reason for that. If i am wrong, please let me know the actual box office collection of the film KATHI — Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.239.248.130 (talk) 05:50, 22 December 2015 (UTC)

Question about Kim Stanley Robinson's novel Aurora - spoiler warning
It's a great book; I admire it a lot. Some things bothered me though - a few relating to times when I felt the author's hand was too obviously moving things around according to his agenda - but my questions here are:

1 - Why is Freya so tall? It's mentioned often. She's a giant. Is it a reference to something from a previous book? I notice from a brief scan of his book 2315 that there are people called 'smalls'.

2 - It's pretty clear that the starship - 'ship' - is the narrator, and yet when the ship is destroyed in the Sun, the story continues. The voice is unchanged too. Who is writing the story at that point?

Thanks Adambrowne666 (talk) 13:08, 22 December 2015 (UTC)
 * I know nothing about the book, but isn't Freya a female giant in Norse mythology?


 * No. She's a goddess, not a giant, but the author may have been conflating the two types of powerful humanoids.  Robert McClenon (talk) 18:51, 23 December 2015 (UTC)

Is Elvis Presley recorded a song called 'Lonely This Christmas'?
149.78.15.121 (talk) 13:32, 22 December 2015 (UTC)


 * No... though a lot of sites, including YouTube, claim that Presley did sing this song.  "Lonely This Christmas" was recorded by (and in 1974 a UK #1 hit for) the British glam rock band Mud, whose singer Les Gray was well known for his vocal impersonations of Presley.  Ghmyrtle (talk) 13:38, 22 December 2015 (UTC)


 * Elvis did record "Blue Christmas", which is sometimes confused with it. --Nicknack009 (talk) 14:47, 22 December 2015 (UTC)