KurKure

After seeing Ironman, I realized that there is way to go for Tamil movies in technical advancements. Stop rounding around trees and dancing in Australia. Show something new and different in an interesting way, you will get your collections and even more. Oh Yeah! People say it will work out only in urban area where "A"class audiences reside. But Anaconda dubbed in Tamil did run for good time in rural area. Think for a moment!

This particular song though a perfect "Kuthu" number excites me for some reason. Has some thought provoking lyrics too!!

Evolution of Kuruvi

Udhya: I am planning to produce a movie and if you can give me a good script, I am ready. Both my grand father and father are forcing me to spend as we are finding hard for a storing place to preserve the money.

Dharani: Udhya I have a wonderful and speedy script than Ghilli & Dhool. Who will be your choice as the hero?

Udhya: How about Ajith?

Dharani: Boss I don't want to give a flop show here.

Udhya: Ok then next choice would be Vijay.

Dharani: Fine, I was comfortable during Ghilli with him. The storyline is strong and will project Vijay in a different dimension.

Udhya: Dharani, since Vijay is there we don't need a story. So remove the story completely and we will keep the screenplay tight.

Vijay enters the discussion room after Udhya called him.

Vijay: Na Dharani Na, you kept only 1 scene in Ghilli for me where I jump from one terrace to another terrace. But here I want many scenes like that to boost my heroic image.

Dharani: No worries, I will even go to the extent of keeping a scene that you fall in love only when you fly in air.

Vijay: Udhya you were specifying some tight screenplay. We don't need that too as we have Trisha mam in it. So we can remove it as well.

Dharani: OK no story, no screenplay then how about music?

Udhya: Since Vijay is a good dancer if someone could hit some of the musical instruments where he has scope to his dance movements then it should work well.

Dharani: We also have two villains in the movie one is Ashish Vidhyarthi and another is Suman. We can effectively use them.

Vijay: No no, let us make them little ineffective so that they can be viewed as comedians as well as villains.

Dharani: How about Vivek as lead comedian and also accompanying you throughout the movie.

Vijay: He might over take me so better we cut him off in the first half of the movie.

Everyone agrees to the resulted script and Kuruvi emerges flamboyantly. Hurray!!

Observation

I visit Dunkin Donuts for hot lattes most of the time at various places around Chicago. One thing I did observe is most of these stores were served by Indians and specifically North Indians.

So is this a true statement?

"America runs on Dunkin while India runs Dunkin!!!"

Learnt at a cost

The issue got resolved after diagnosing at the high command, Toyota services. It was a simple fix for which I had to pass through various incompetent(s). Anyways my car did teach me a professional lesson.

"Go to right people at right time to get the right solution"

Thanks to my dear car!

Itchy Interviews

Gnayani a known journalist and a famous person for his open talks, has an on-TV interview section in Kumudam.com. He was interviewing Balakumaran who is a famous Tamil writer. In this interview he did ask few compelling questions on the thoughts of Balakumaran as a writer. But were like totally challenging his opinion as it is incorrect or conflicting. Balakumaran did manage his temper level under control but still couldn't answer clearly. He was struggling few times to present what he meant and few times was clean bold. I felt pity for him as every person has their own belief and challenging it on an interview was an uncomfortable situation. Everyone can be challenged that what they believe is incorrect even Gnayani himself can be challenged. But I believe this wasn't the reason for an interview. It is for the person being interviewed to share his ideas, thoughts and so on... But this is Gnayani style may be, which warns me not be interviewed by him in future :)

Selvaraghavan known for his different dimension films was on the TV sets for an interview. He was sheer arrogant in the discussion for his talent and as a successful director. Few items you could accept as it is common nature seen in majority of talented successful people. But few of his thoughts I couldn’t digest which depicts him as a highly self-centered person. I had different opinion about him as a person and after this I was proved wrong. I imagined him through his short stories of his experience in a weekly magazine. It portrayed him as a go-get person with deep belief in hard work. Anyways he is what he is...

Learn to say "Don't Know"

If you don't know say don't know. That’s much better than doing some crap and covering up the issue. Recently my car had an issue of vibrating when the brakes are applied. In fact I haven't driven much in recent times and thought may be its some issue in brakes. As it is an old Toyota Camry, the wear & tear is expected. When I went and gave the vehicle for diagnosis to Midas service in my area they said it is something to do with brake rotors in the front wheel and they have to cut the rotor. Also the back tires have to be replaced to fix the issue permanently. I asked them how the tires are related to the issue, as I don't see anything when I drive and only when the brakes are applied the vibration occurs. They gave me a detail explanation which wasn’t convincing. So I told them to perform the brake rotor fix and not to do the tires replacement. They did the brake fix and when I came to take my car in the evening, I realized the issue wasn’t fixed. So I asked them why it wasn’t fixed. The fantastic customer handling person told me it was because of tires. I told them to explain how that is related to this, and then the chief mechanic came for rescue. He drove for a test drive and confirmed this is not any brake or tire issue, it is something to do in the transmission of the car where the gears are getting stuck when the car comes from high speed to low speed. I was convinced with this fact but was upset with the initial diagnosis. So went back to this super customer handling guy and asked him if you would have said this in the morning I could have saved what I payed you now. He was again again repeatedly saying there was an issue in the brakes too which was fixed. I again said when the problem is somewhere why I have to fix something which was working and pay for it. He never accepted because basically he was trying to cover up for the mistake. I again told him even if you couldn’t diagnosis the right issue, you could have simply said "I don’t know" & there is nothing wrong in it and I could have gone somewhere else. But never was he ready to take what I said and finally with frustration told him Thank you for your excellent service and diagnosis. I am very sure I will not go back there again; eventually they lost a customer which is not correct for business operation. Anyways I am just a pebble for them still I am one among similar customers whom they will continue losing if they are doing this in future. Crap!

Ellai Chaamy - 1

I live here in a suburb of Chicago and move around it for shopping, office and other necessary items. I have built a boundary around this place and moving out of the boundary is rare. I always make fun that Ellai Chaamy of this suburb blocks me to move out far from him and if I go he might feel upset. Ellai Chaamy in southern parts of India is believed as savior of particular region where the people live, it’s kind of god for the village. The reason I am trying to explain here his, somehow I got into this Chicago suburb Ellai Chaamy ka funda and thought why don't I interact with him on the topics which I want to and put my open questions. This is the first post where I am going to start this communication channel with him. Hopefully I get the answers back from him for my questions before I switch over to another Ellai Chaamy :)

Chaamy, This Dejavu movie starred by Denzel Washington and directed by Tony Scott, deals with the concept of travelling back in time. The movie has racy screen play and makes the audience to continue watching without boredom. But in between it is so confusing for me when he goes back to the time before the bomb blast and tries to save the woman with whom he falls in love. He goes back after an incident occurred and trying to alter the events to avoid the bomb blast is fine. But eventually by altering it he dies, then how does he in the current time when watching the crime scene, gets a call that his finger prints are all over the place. Also how does he view the band aid and other medicines used for healing his bullet wound in the future before he actually travels back? Such kind of scenes is really confusing and kept me while guessing how it would be. I couldn't tie the knot how it could happen. Chaamy has to help me clear this as I am totally left in a maze with no exits.

Chammy, my friend gave me a link to read the review on "Om Shanthi Om" written in koonal pakkangal. Here the writer describes that the movie director has passed through the cinematic phases of life and she has tried to put together the bollywood history into a single frame. I have different view on this, just because she [Farah Khan] has seen the ups & downs in her life and closely related to bollywood, the movie shouldn't have a concrete storyline? If she wants to put the bollywood history fit in a frame and we shouldn't ask for logic then at least it should be comical. The movie can neither be classified as comical or serious. It sways back & forth and struggles to get the grip. I truly accept few scenes might be familiar to the person following the bollywood. But that alone can’t be a benchmark for the movie. The story is the hero and this one is a story at 1950 not in 2008. Chaamy you have to clarify if say Rajinikanth who has also suffered in his early years tries to take a movie with this story and arguing that he has suffered and so watch this movie, Will this make Sense??

Chaamy, in Jodi No1 Season 3 nowadays they have this silent judge theory. Meaning that one of the judges’ scores will not be revealed until the end of show where elimination is declared. I have a strong doubt that this is a planned one to decide at the end whom to eliminate. If all 3 declare their scores in the beginning then tie might occur between Jodi's and this way they could avoid by giving 1 point less to one of the Jodi whom they wish to eliminate via this silent judge. Is it all pre-planned act Chaamy?

Seri Chaamy, for now I hold here as I have asked many question on day one. I will get back to you again after sometime :)

Humming Loudly!

A foot tapping number from the movie Anjathey. It is very similar to Chitiram Pesudhadi's "Vaazha Meenukum" song. I enjoy this song thoroughly. thakita thakita...

Sila Padangal Alasal

"Romba Kadhalai Intha bhoomi kandiruku"..."Romba kadhal padangal intha Tamil cinema kandiruku..". In these lines falls the new movie Pidichiruku. The movie story is simple and an old subject, but the screenplay pushes us to wait till the end. Though we can guess what might be the next scene, it was interesting to watch. The director definitely had done good homework for the neat scripting. One of the positives of the movie can be credited to the comedy sequences and “Kanja Karupu”. "Nalla Erakureengapa pothaya" might be a repeat of Vadivelu's dialogue, still makes you to smile. The second half of the movie could have been cut short to make this movie as a more racy play.

Another movie Anjathey was a gripping thriller and arousing to watch. After "Chitram Pesuthadi" the director has bounced back with another hit. Here too the movie length could have been cut short as it runs for 3+ hrs, apart from it doesn’t bore you. A gang to kidnap children for ransom was a known storyline, but the way of storytelling was interesting to see. When I watched the movie Man on Fire with Denzel Washington on the lead, felt it was similar to Anjathey. The class was apart in the two movies and Denzel sways us with his natural acting. Anjathey and Man on fire both deals with the kidnapping of children for ransom but taken in different backdrops. Both were fascinating and Anjathey though being a local version was good with what best it can.

The above two paragraph if written by another blogger will have different perspective and style. If in this same post I publish that from various bloggers is what Vantage point movie about. A murder scene shown from different people’s angle but version of truth is one. Through each ones angle you will get few pieces of the truth and finally can be assembled as right view. When the clock was reset after each person view, you go back to point 1 of the murder scene and restart again. This was similar to the movie “Virumandi” of telling the fact from each person view. You may watch this movie as you go somewhere but not worth spending time exclusively.

Language Gene!

[Courtesy: Forward]

Sujatha.

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What have you done in your life is what speaks after your death. This was clearly seen in the demise of Sujatha alias Rangarajan, a legendry Tamil writer. He has been the author of many novels, short stories and had done dialogue writing and screenplay for handful of films. His voice and thoughts echoed in his writings and will persist as assets for future generations. Through his works he will stay back in our memories and his loss cannot be compensated to the Tamil world. I can't forget the slim body, with neatly ironed shirt tucked into a beltless pant and the single straight hair moving on his forehead. Few people have the grace in their face and definitely this man had with deep long vision ahead. He has achieved for what he existed and reached his peak through his unique accomplishments. His writing style is simulated by many young writers and always been a source of inspiration. His thoughts which were insightful but embedded with current trends were the specialty. A versatile writer, who had the desire to learn continuously, will be missed by us forever.