Narsidude

~Pongal 'O' Pongal 2009~

2009-01-26T11:42:00.003-06:00

When Prabudeva was explaining the way each song of the movie "Villu" was taken in one of the TV shows, I was really awaiting to watch the movie. After watching it felt it is even worse than Kuruvi and confused why Soldier movie which I watched during my initial college days was converted into current trend for presentation. Man!! hopeless story and nonsense screenplay. When you write about a movie if there is something nice you will fill the gaps of other items. Here I see only large gaps everywhere. Vadivelu comedy has lost track and when you see him on-screen you get irritated. May be the movie focus is kids and that’s why it is taken in such a way. Looks like Vijay was thoroughly impressed by the stylish Ajith in Billa and want to record him in similar lines. Only item which I liked is the music by Devi sri prasad though usual masala but catchy numbers. Apart from it I don't see any good in this movie. Vijay I don't have to say anything if you are a true artist you would have realized the backlogs else something wrong in the top.

Another movie Padikadhavan in which Dhanush says this dialogue "Enna madhiri aalu ellam patha pidikathu paaka paaka thaan pidikum". I guess he is saying both for him as well for the movie. From where this trend of playing villains in Andhra started not sure may be influence of Kuruvi. You will get confused watching the movie as it completely loses its balance goes in its own directions. Sun TV has already geared up its marketing force to make the necessary hype for the movie.

I feel lack of quality movies makes all these movies reach 100+ days. I am sure you will see the 100th day, even 150th day celebrations for Villu as well Padikadhavan and some TV will host on an Ammavasai occasion as "Indhiya tholai katchiyil mudhal morai". Things have to change dudes else the standards will be compared with Kannada movies and not with Hollywood.

Finally Woke Up

2008-11-26T13:14:00.003-06:00

When I started typing this India won the 5th ODI against England flamboyantly leading the series as 5-0. I have been sneezing a lot as this blog has dust covered all over it :-) Between the previous updates and today there have been numerous changes around the world. Obama won the US elections, Global economy is having a major heart attack and operation is being done by various economic doctors, Chandrayan was launched by ISRO successfully, the banks & financial institutions are undergoing a bad turmoil, I shifted to Bangalore, this blog completed its fourth anniversary and so on. Nothing is constant except change, a perfect statement.

Gautham finally completed Vaaranam Ayiram. The operation was a success but the patient died. Except Surya and Harris everyone dissolved like salt in water. Now that Harris is gone out of Gautham company, crossing fingers on his next venture. I am waiting for the long long due Kandasamy and Naan Kaduvul as I think the period will change completely before they get released and will look like Subramanyapuram.

BTW my patience level has increased so much and thanks to the most frustrating Bangalore traffic. No comments, no cribbing and enjoying it in a very optimistic way. Why? that’s all I can do about it!

One Night @ the Call Center

2008-09-03T04:39:00.004-05:00

[Courtesy: Amazon]

After years had a chance to visit Landmark at Nungabakkam-Chennai, somehow felt few similarities with Barnes and Noble stores. My intention of going to Landmark was different but got disturbed after seeing the clouds of books. Took few English and Tamil books for my office travel :) One of them was "One Night @ the Call Center" written by Chetan Bhagat and started reading it right next day keeping aside the half completed "Small is the New Big". The story was OK OK type and you will feel at the end why things are bragged. We have seen movies where for a good climax the whole screen play would be dragged to fit in and one such recent example is Kuselan. "One Night @ the Call Center" had a good start then the usual masala/routine additions and ended with puzzled climax confusing us to think whether this book is of true story or fiction or mixture. I can see a pattern in the story line with "Five Point Someone" and "One Night @ the Call Center". I have got "The Three Mistakes of My Life" as well and if the same formula matches then that will be my end to read Chetan Bhagat books. In Tamil if you ask me I will describe his novels like this "Hero oruthan irupane, Avan ethavathu pannanum aana ennanu theriyama irupane, Avan oru ponna love pannuvane, antha ponnu kitta konjam deepa povane, apurum pirinchiruvane, aprum avannuku Rajini padthula vara madhiri sudena heroism varume, aprum ellam subhame, lovera kai pidipane...". There were few titters which you experience in "Five Point Someone" but here I didn't a penny. The speech of "G" is like a self help book notes and nothing much. Mr.Chetta if "The Three Mistakes of My Life" is similar then I will say Tata to you!

Maam Egam Saranam Vraja!

2008-08-23T12:58:00.005-05:00

"This is the song... Naaku Muukka..." when played in the cheapest speaker at 5.00 am, you will get up with wide eyes even though you are in your deepest sleep. I was trying to figure out the scene around me, the bus stand looked at me as if a person had stepped into a place after many years and searching for his flash back. Yeah! Old memories of Kumbakonam. The place where I was a frequent visitor when I was studying my post graduation in a nearby college. Those days and still, there are no frequent flyer points else I would have earned to a level where I could have en-cashed to a flat LCD TV. The place is still with their traditional values and outlook except the added number of vehicles and few changes due to modernization. Kosi.Mani the local MLA and minister stays near Kumbakonam, saw him with his convoy when he was heading to some place for giving the speech "Periyorgale, Thaimargale and Udanpirupugale...." Kumbakonam I will define as the land of network of temples. It is surrounded by all the Navagraha temples and people from all dimensions fleet in for offering their respects and prayers. Old and ancient temples are the jewels of the place. I always stay in a calm mood when I visit such place. Upiliappan stands gigantically in his resort smiling at the assorted prayers for better life, more money, good health, career, prospects and so on....I don't know to explain but when I stay close and see him your mind loosens up. When admiring him, mama's come with the plates expecting optimum dakshanai, not realizing that they are with the world savior.

The Trio

2008-08-06T08:09:00.002-05:00

1. I would name the book "Five point someone" as "The Trio" rather. Due to the meager travel according to US standards I do from my home to office [27 kms] or tedious travel of 27 kms within city limits according to Indian standards, I get some time to read anything and etc which I choose during my commutation. What is this etc? "Dostu bada dostu..." when played in local FM radio, I just close my eyes for sometime speaking with in as "Just relax dude". When the eyes close automatically the relaxation switches over to a small nap. In between my relaxation & nap, I found sometime to finish the book "Five point someone" written by Chetan Bhagat and gifted by my friend. It's about the days at Delhi IIT of 3 guys Hari, Alok and Ryan who were similar to the majority of students studying in any college offending the curriculum structure of the system. The difference is, the majority wouldn't have studied from beginning much and crib the system. These guys have proved successful in the same system till they joined IIT else how could they join there? The story line is simple and had always stayed within the IIT campus. It didn't peep out in each individual's personal life and was aligned to their days at the institute. Else it would have been a great source for the next mega serial in Sun TV. The caption of the book is "What not to do at IIT" and the story upholds it. Few chapters were really funny especially Hari's comments over Alok. Like the one when they plan to sneak into Hari's girl friend house on her birthday. The novel is well written, simple & plain. At many instances the author had left with a loose end, may be to continue with the part-II. Towards the end, he would conclude with their current positions after completing the IIT but with a word saying "A disaster occurred though". If part-II would be released then I will be one among to grab it.

2. At last the Dasavatharam fever was suppressed by Kuselan & Rajini's apology story. I am once again rewinding back to Dasavatharam. Being an ardent fan of Rajini always I have tried to be unfair to Kamal. But at times he wins over me with his sheer efforts & talent. Be it MMKR or Kurudhipunal or Nayagan...and now Dasavatharam. I am not going with the equations of what could have been done better. There are always better things than present and no end to debate. He had rocked with his efforts and the diversified talent he possess. Though not every inch I enjoyed overall it was a nice movie with enormous work put in. Not so easy to coordinate and sync up all the characters by the same person. It was a class treat from the class actor.

3. Parthasarathy temple lane at Triplicane, Chennai hasn't changed an inch for decades. The atmosphere is filled with the ghee & butters of course the tamarind rice smell from each mami's house. Cows and buffalos block the street causing "take diversion" for the drivers & riders. The temple stands high as usual with Messai Sarathy watching the Kali kaalam. The coffee powder aroma around compels you to take a cup of filter coffee as soon as you reach home. Mami's are busy in drawing ma-kolam when "uchavar" comes for visit around the street. Mama's exhibiting their muscular strength & thoondhi move around discussing from psycho manidhan to Kuselan. Bread bajji shops are packed with more people adding more & more cholesterol to their system. Young girls fleet into typing classes with a bunch of unruled sheets in their hand. Yet the place is lively and you would love to stay there. If only Sarathy appears and ask me where you want an apartment in Chennai though a costly offer, I would point right here perumale.

Chennai - the City

2008-07-27T11:27:00.003-05:00

Kangal Irandal un kangal Irandal enai katti ezhuthai podhadhana...the song which impressed me from the day I landed in Chennai. Hmm...Alas I am back here. Am I happy? Am I excited? Am I comfortable? I don't know I don't know because I don't have time to think myself. You see that's the problem here, things are running so fast around you that you have time to run along with it. Chennai the place where lakhs [Not 100 thousands :-)] of people fleet in for work and various other activities haven't changed much in the base values but still you see evident added things on these values. First item I noticed in the government buses is the tickets issuing method. There is no more bunches of tickets carried by the conductor with variety of face values on it. He has this ATM kind of instrument where he punches in the amount and the ticket is printed. That was easy and a nice change. Vijay is scaring me on his Kuruvi movie posters everywhere in Chennai and looks like it was forced to be a hit. You know why... don't you.

I am seeing the best of best cell phone models here whereas still I feel U.S. is 10 years behind. You get a feel that most of the people tend to behave as if something is chasing them. Are they being chased or are they chasing something? Not sure but you will get that feel. Within city limits I don't see a penny change in terms of cleanliness and it has got worse. The thing which I crib continuously is the mad traffic. Every bank is giving out 0% interest loans for these vehicles and every dick & harry had got some vehicle adding more traffic on roads. Apart, the people have the possible negative value traffic sense with them. Yes, pathetic traffic sense and when I start my bike I remind myself whether I have a valid life insurance than my driving license. Not exaggerating but this is the true state.

I think there are at least 50+ T.V. channels newly added and every channel follows the same pattern of show list ignoring minimal level of creativity. Over re-acting casts and same revenge fundas are the most watched mega serials. Still you have to appreciate that they have tied the people and I see many rush back to watch their favorite Kolangalal or Arasi to name a few. The internet connection is neither good nor bad, somewhat you can adjust if you don't have the greediness to open multiple sites or download something big item.

Sathyam Cinemas have taken the movie experience to next level. Yes it is awesome with a heavy price to it but truly amazing. The ambience, seating, effects and all other items have been carved with perfection. But you need 1000 INR to watch a movie with 4 family members. Saravana Bhavan has reduced dosa size to idly size and charging double than before. The sambar or chutney what they give is just for smelling not for eating.

Real estate business is woofing to the sky and 80% due to the NRI software engineers sitting outside the country, coding "dim a as integer". The inflation rate has gone to 12% in the country and everything is at least 50% more price from 3 years back. The politicians haven't changed much and still think people are comedians. They do the same thing what they were doing in 1980's and I think the next change would be hitting there. Fridays at IT companies is like going to a cat walk show. You will get confused where you are for a minute on Fridays.

There are many many items I observed in this continuous changing city but this page would be then glutted all over. Hence resisting with the samples and leave it to you guys to experience yourself.

tata....

2008-06-22T16:09:00.001-05:00

Life changes continuously and traverses through different phases due to its and our own course of action. Once again time has come to pack my bags for the return to homeland. It’s tough to adapt quickly to a whole different world after living quiet sometime in the land of opportunity. This space and time has definitely given the right exposure and knowledge which every software engineer likes to gulp. At the outset the living style and the day-to-day activities are completely different between these two worlds. I am going to miss few things definitely here and with the good memories back in mind traveling back home with hopes and starting things freshly. If again lines cross, I might drop by here. For now Good Bye US Dudes.

A Love Letter

2008-06-14T14:23:00.001-05:00

Dear Lakshmi,

I still remember the day I met you and without any inch of hesitation, I accepted you as is. From there I have enjoyed every single moment with you and always loved to move along together. To my conscious I believe I have taken utmost care of you and whenever you weren't feeling well I have treated you with the best care I can afford. I have always fed you with hygienic food and avoided dirty places. You have shared my moods when I am happy or sad. Whenever I get down mentally, you have enhanced my mood with good music and drive. I haven't troubled you much by using you harshly and always stayed with the gentle touch. You have wonderful shape and nice at inside. I have ensured that no one touches you in crowd and when someone even come close, I took you out of that area. You have been a good friend and we had a nice relationship so far. When I realized that you might depart me soon, I was really upset. True dear! I was restless when someone started to come and snatch you from me. When someone utters minor complains about you I was defending you and never let you down. When it was confirmed that you will leave me, I started feeling the loneliness. Finally when you left me today, I just stood there to see you going far away and disappearing after sometime. I wish I would see you again sometime but not sure when and how. You have left me only one thing for me to remember and you will always stay back deep inside my memories. Oh dear! Love you and going to miss you a lot :-(

ஊரை தெரிஞ்சுகிட்டேன் உலகம் புரிஞ்சிக்கிட்டேன்
கண்மணி என் கண்மணி
ஞானம் பொறாந்திரிச்சு நாலும் புரிஞ்சிருச்சு
கண்மணி என் கண்மணி
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--Narsidude

Web Services and Cloud Computing

2008-06-04T12:59:00.005-05:00

[Courtesy: java.sun.com]

There is much attention given to Web Services and Cloud Computing after the recent launch of Amazon Web Services. The terminologies or the called technical jargons are yet to be exposed in full length and many people aren’t clear about the underlying facts. Still if you go to an Amazon employee and ask for a definition, he might stumble upon to provide a meaningful description. Since these are in their maturity phase and there is long way to go to explore in depth and create awareness.

Let’s go back to roots to understand the Web Service. Initially when the programming language was used, we define functions or procedures to reuse the set commands in our program. This function or procedure when invoked with the required parameters or supply in values they apply the series of commands within them on these supplied values and return the output to the calling code or the parent handler. Let’s say you have written the program in C or C++ language then the function written is also in the C or C++. So the function and the program are in the same language and platform. After a period several programming packages and operating systems started exposing something known as Application programming interfaces [API]. APIs are language dependent set of codes available for usage in the programs. You can invoke these API depending on the functionality and passing the set of necessary arguments.

After these there were several ways in which the reusable code were developed and consumed. Still there was a dependency on the plat form or some sort of conversion required to use these pre-written functions. When the development cycle was getting matured, Service Oriented Architectures [SOA] and Software as a Service [SaaS] concepts evolved leading into the development of Web Services. Web Service as the name implies is a service provided over a network like web. A wiki definition states Web Service as “a software system designed to support interoperable Machine to Machine interaction over a network”. You can simply consider the Web Service as set of APIs exposed over internet or some sort of network. You can invoke these Web Services by passing the required values and get back the results and the biggest break through is these are interoperable. Meaning these functions are independent from the calling platform or language. You can call a Web Service via Java or via .Net or from any programming tool/language which offer you to consume the Web Services. This is possible using the eXtensible Markup Language [XML] formats and Simple Object Access Protocols [SOAP]. Going into the background process of how it works is a whole different subject and detailing here might dilute the basics.

The Web Service expose their signature like what input it takes and what output it gives via Web Service Description Language [WSDL]. Now I know what is a Web Service and its basic operations, I want to know the list of Web Services available on the web and the Universal Description, Discover and Integration [UDDI] pitches right in there. UDDI is like yellow pages of Web Services on the web and it describes the list of Web Services available with a description of the functionality. So when I want to use a Web Service, I go to the UDDI, search for service related to my required functionality and use it in my program.

Let’s now move onto the concept of cloud computing, you can say it as a data center available outside your company or your walls and you consume the power of it for your processes. On the web it is defined as “A pool of abstracted, highly scalable, and managed compute infrastructure capable of hosting end-customer applications and billed by consumption”. It is collection of resources from computation power to applications lying outside and you can use it for your work. Opposed to the SaaS you can call as HaaS – Hardware as a Service. So all you need is a desktop with connectivity to the vendor you have tied up for cloud computing service and you are on the hook for your operations.

Both these are maturing and over a period you will see many players trying to fill in the space. Now Amazon Elastic Compute, Google Apps, Microsoft Mesh are to name from the big players in this area.

All these are the phases of widening of our technical advancements and it is going to be a joyful trip as we leap forward.

Not Sure!

2008-05-17T23:02:00.004-05:00

Steve Antony Ballmer took charge as Microsoft CEO by Jan 2000 and the history of stock price is seen below [Cover Story given by the Business Week].

[Courtesy: Google]

What makes me think is successful leadership is a prodigy then? When Bill Gates could elevate the company in terms of revenue why not Ballmer. I do understand the competition factor is different over the period. May be I am blunt :-(

KurKure

2008-05-17T13:55:00.003-05:00

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

2008-05-11T12:43:00.003-05:00

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

2008-05-10T19:58:00.002-05:00

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

2008-05-10T19:55:00.002-05:00

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

2008-05-04T16:33:00.005-05:00

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"

2008-04-26T13:15:00.003-05:00

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

2008-03-30T13:58:00.004-05:00

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!

2008-03-20T00:49:00.005-05:00

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

2008-03-16T22:51:00.002-05:00

"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!

2008-03-10T18:27:00.002-05:00

[Courtesy: Forward]

Sujatha.

2008-03-01T21:29:00.000-06:00

[Courtesy: indiaglitz]

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.

Pinathalgal

2008-02-22T21:00:00.005-06:00

One thing I understood clearly, never take as is the opinion of others. Every review I read and heard said Bheema movie was bad and not good to watch. To my surprise I liked the movie. I am pretty sure the storyline of the movie was a combination of "Ullaasam" and "Thalabathy" with a different climax. But the short and swift conclusion of each scene was something I liked rather than dragging too much. Vikram has put his effort in shaping his body enormously so that he justifies that he can hit a group of people just like that. Prakash Raj was portrayed as a god father who questions every mistake, but the recap scenes of his early age made me to laugh. Since, he can't fit into someone who can hit many people and heroic. Also when he comments to Thalaivasal Vijay "Ivana paakum pothu enaku en chinna vayasu nayabagam varuthu", I couldn't control my giggles. Raghuvaran was wasted and I want to know who is the guy acted as Raghuvaran Son? couldn't control the irritation feel I get when I see his face. Trisha nalla azhaga irukaanga..."Run" lingusamy is dead. Mudhal Mazhai Enai song was awesome and made me to rewind couple of times.

On a side note when searching some points on wordpress, noticed something called "WYSIWYG" which is an acronym for "What You See Is What You Get". This phrase seems to be close antonym to my blog caption and I didn't keep this blog caption related to anything. This caption or the blog name came when there was nothing to think or know. When I noticed something related exists antonymally got a relishing feel.

On another side note I was going through one of the website of some forum held and came across the profile section of the so called key persons. Gosh, when reading the profiles, few things hit my mind. The profiles were written and given by the person themselves, mostly they were the same which they used to put in other places, silly points were mentioned as interested in, self appraisal was in high degree, used the place to self promote. I was thinking how I used to be fascinated of a profile appearing on web for some meeting as a key person, but now lost the charm knowing its "NO BIG DEAL".

Today's Headlines

2008-02-17T21:01:00.003-06:00

Is recession coming? Yes, No, May be...Financial Analyst in US are running up and down in finding the answer. Any newspaper or a magazine you read one standard column or an interview would host the topic. Most persons seen talk about it at least once among them. After Shivaji the most talked item among Indians recently as whether watched or yet to be watched, recession is the successful successor. Every Indian IT company glares each day on the happenings. Why? It definitely affects them as larger part of their revenue comes from the US clients and projects. Especially IT companies who have larger financial clients are restless to know the end result. I get confused by the news and statements given by the people in the news papers. Few say it started, some say it is yet to come, others say it would be there but might not be severe. Many institutions have started already making adjustments, changes to their current work structure and projects to be defensive of the situation. As a newbie in this economy news, it’s like watching a "Vitalachariya" movie. Recession means a state where the economy is said decline. It is also said as a decline in the GDP. Next question comes what is GDP? which means Gross Domestic Product, the total market value of all final goods and services produced within a country in a given period of time. So GDP is a mathematical equation which comprises of additions and subtractions of sum of components. I get head and tail of it sometimes hmm...

After reading today's news column of some 'X' analyst was thinking on the subject and working out the laundry stuff at home. Suddenly noticed a paper [Purchase Bill] outside the glass door of the building and thought it might have slipped out from my pocket. So went out to verify it. During this course the apartment building door got locked and I was standing keyless in the Chicago beautiful weather. It was the rear side of the apartment, so I was coming back to senses to find out what next. I tried to throw snow balls with bear hands at my balcony door and then tried shouting to call my wife but no luck. Fortuitously today the climate wasn't that bad and saw the building again hoping for someone to come. It stood as a silent rock and no single movement was visible. Cursing my bad luck and recession news, slowly walked in the snow filled paseo to the front side of the apartment hoping there would be someone coming in or going out. Stood at the door for sometime to actually find out that in my apartment most don't come out during Sundays and also found earlier that rear side entrance is used by few people. But was standing still there like Padikathavan Rajinikanth after his brother's car splashes the dirty road water on him. Finally like a hero a China man came from inside and was waiting for this golden opportunity but hesitant as he might think I am some stranger trying to get an access to the building. Due to my face value :) and pity look I gave he didn’t ask me anything and with courtesy let me inside. Deeply thanked him and also decided no more recession news for today?!#$

Ramble

2008-02-03T21:16:00.000-06:00

They could have named the movie Indralogathil Na Aazhagappan as Naragalogthil Padam Parpavargal. There is no story, no big comedy, no screen play, no logic, no pace, and no good songs; simply it’s no good movie to watch. I was dragging in the seat for the movie to finish. I wonder what the director explained during the discussions. I felt it was a sheer waste of time to watch the movie. One good thing about the movie is the massive sets which were impressive but making the producer a big hole. It’s time for Vadivelu to rethink the movies he accepts. The movie didn't even make a giggle out of the audience. Everybody was just hanging there as they have come along. I am not sure why Shreya picked up this cameo role which was insignificant. The movie can be classified as a movie which came in 1970's.

Read about Luigino F. Paulucci on giving jobs to folks with troubles. He employs people who are having criminal records and want a break in their life. It was good to hear such news as someone would like to learn from their mistakes and pursue further for good. Everyone does mistakes but when it’s get overdose they are caught by law. Giving a break to them is a good thing and he would be remembered by those people for life time.

Corporate meetings are planned and occur across the world bringing in great minds together. Also it gives the people to conglomerate with variety of people from various parts of the world. Those meetings are organized in places were infrastructure, nativity and navigation are good. Hongkong was specified as a nice place and one positive point mentioned is about the navigation around the place. It seems the sign boards and information in Hongkong has details in English enabling the foreigners to pass through without hassles. I was wondering about Ramdoss [PMK Leader] for a moment who wants everything in Tamil. I am not against it but see the outside world which is trying to be in one roof. If you don't be part of it then you are the one losing something. Hence being proactive in making the place convenient for everyone and building the infrastructure makes more business in the current trend else you would be out of the race.

Taare Zameen Par - Every child is special

2008-01-28T20:46:00.000-06:00

[Courtesy:buzz18.com]

Taare Zameen Par - A must watch movie for all parents to know how kids are affected by forcing them to equip for so called "Future competitive world". The movie starts with a small boy with bunny teeth catching small fishes for his home fish tank. When I started watching the movie I had no intention to continue if it bores for more than 30 minutes. But the movie didn't and it slowly, steadily spreads into you. There is no nonsense in the screenplay with cinematic scenes. It exactly communicates the message intended strongly and deeply.

Ishaan Awasthi, our hero of the movie would have had maximum a page dialogue but through his refined acting skills converses with you. Wow! He did a perfect job and suited aptly to the character. After a day still I could remember his face though I saw him for the first time. That’s the impact he has made and truly amazing stuff. Aamir Khan on the other hand has shown once again that he is not only a reputed actor but a fine director too. Every bit of the movie is well captured and the music just adds the essence needed. Every one could relate a father like Mr Awasthi, brother like Yohaan and a mother like Maya. Similar characters live among us and we could see through them.

I felt the last few scenes of the boy winning award could have avoided as it gave a normal movie effect. If the movie would have concluded when the father of the boy cries and leaves seeing Ishaan reading the notice board, it would have been more apt making the audience to think and gaze. No matter, this is a splendid movie which I saw recently and stands apart from the routine movies.

Saga of the recent trip

2008-01-26T13:17:00.001-06:00

Few months back I went back home for a short trip. Instead of writing travelogue as paragraphs and boring everyone, I just placed lyrics of Tamil film songs instancing the events I was passing through...Here you go...

hiyyayoa hiyyayo pudichirukku
Unakku yennai
pudichirukku
Yennavoa Yennavoa
pudichirukku
yenakum unnai
pudichirukku

Minnalai pidithu Minnalai
pidithu
Megathai thodaithu
pennendru padathu veethiyil
vittuvittan

Kanmani Anbodu kadhalan naan ezhuthum
kadithame
Ponmani un veetil sowkiyama naan ingu
sowkiyame

Minnale nee vandhadhaenadi -
en
kannilae oru
kaayamennadi
en vaanile nee maraindhupoana maayam
ennadi

Madrasa sutthi paaka
poren
marinavula vidu katta
poren

Sahana Saral
Thoovutho
Sahara pookal poothatho
oooo

Maama un ponna kodu ada aama nee solli
kodu
ithu saami potta mutichu athu thaanda
moonu modichu

maaNgalyam tantunaanaena mama
jeevana haethunaa
kaNttae badhnami shubakae tvam jeeva
sharadam shatam

Kalyana malaai kondatum
pennai
en paatai kelu unmaigal
sonnen

ennavalae adi
ennavalae
endhan idhayaththai tholaiththu
vittaen
endha idam adhu Tholaindha idam

Akkam pakkam yaarum illa, Bhoologam
vendum
Andi pagal unarugey, naan vaazha
vendum

karu karu vizhigalaal oru kan mai
ennai kadathudhae
thadhumbida thadhumbida siru amudham
ennai kudikkudhae

Irava pagala kulira veyila nammai
undrum seyyaththu
kadala puyala idiya mazhaya nammai
undrum seyyaththu
aanal undhan mounam mattum ethu
seyuthadi...

Telephone manipol sirippaval
ivalaa
Melbourne malarpoal melliya
magalaa

New York Nagaram urangum
neram
thanimai adarnthathu
paniyum padarthathu
kappal irangiye kaatrum karayil
nadanthathu

Hey!
Angel VanThaalae
VanThaalae
Oru poovodu
oonjal seyThaalae
seyThaalae
Yen nenjodu

Vasandha mullai polae vandhu aadidum ven
puraa
ullulaayi
ullulaayi..............

Crunch

2007-12-30T21:43:00.000-06:00

The last two movies watched at this year end is "Polladhavan" and "I am Legend". Both the movies were satisfactory though "I am Legend" wasn't up to the mark.

Polladhavan was the best of this year Diwali releases and personally I liked the screenplay. I didn't expect that a Tamil movie was made around a bike. Its Vetrimaaran's smartness and the efforts of the team come up with something interesting and different. Maturity can be seen clearly in Dhanush acting and he is shaping up well. If he continues to choose something similar roles rather than "Thiruda Thirudi" stuff then he will withstand for some years to come. Hope Aishwarya would be a happy wife seeing Dhanush success after quiet some period. Overall the movie was good and two songs were nice to hear numbers. The screenplay's notch has made this movie a well successful one.

I saw "I am Legend" in theatre last weekend after few months of gap. I went to the movie after reading the reviews as good and had the confidence with Will Smith performance. The movie was just OK as it was similar to "28 days later" though it wasn't that horror, but kind of similar pattern. It’s about a virus attacking the whole world and the only survivor on earth is Will Smith. The dark seekers, big wolf dogs, scary faces of the human in animal state were all usual item seen in numerous Hollywood movies. Will smith has done his part well and his face seems to be bit dull throughout the movie. I did enjoy few scenes and usual will smith giggle act. The dog Samantha the only company for will smith was nice to see and would make a smile in your face :)

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Last month so many things were happening and as days passed by realized "narsidude" just finished three years of living in blog space. I never thought that it would long last for this many years and just hanging on with the things happening. I do sincerely try to write something as I don't want to stop something which I enjoy. Hope the blog continues to get the warm reception as before and even more! Earlier anniversary notes here and here :)

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Year 2007 had so many changes and twists around the world as well around me. It has given light as well darkness in many of our lives and the only hope in everybody is to always continue to hope for good. With this note, I wish everyone a bright new year 2008 and sparkling days ahead :)

Cheers guys!

Hmm...:-(

2007-12-03T23:46:00.000-06:00

vizhyil vizhum thusi thannai yeduga nee inggu illai
manathil yezhum kuzhappam thannai thirga nee ingge illai………
naan ingge neeyum angge..intha thanimai nimishangal varusham aanatheno ?
vaan ingge neelam angge intha uvamaiku iruvarum vizhakamanthu yeno ?

Maa Tuje Saalam!!

2007-10-08T00:00:00.000-05:00

After a year and half when you know that it’s just few days away to visit your home, it’s exciting and thousand butterflies fly inside you. Yep, I would be travelling back home next week on vacation and wish to enjoy every moment to the core. Planning to unplug from everything for few weeks and just be as a school boy who passes his time during his summer holidays. When I look back everything seems to be a pleasant experience and want to start right from my kinder garden days till here. Already have planned to visit few spots, which are my all time favorites in Chennai. I am very fond of sitting at home with the family team and just chatting for nothing. Dosas, idly, Bajjis are just waiting for my arrival in Saravana Bhavan and Sangeetha's. Devi paradiselyum, Sathyamlyum Kaal veche aganum moodivoda iruken. Morning walk at Marina beach and evening bike ride to Besant nagar beach are still recapped in my mind. Eppo eppo athu kedaikum, itho ithonu next weeka ethir nooki kathikittu iruken. Amma kaila antha thayir sadham vangi sappidanum, Appa kitta pesi kindal pannanum, Kutti pasanga kitta velayadanum, nanbarguladan irukum antha evening meeting time....ippadi pala aasaigaludan kathirukiren. One side I think appadiye irunthutta, thrirumbi varrama....evalvu nalla irukum....That care, that affection, that unconditional love evalvu "$" koduthalum kedaikathu...The comfort feel you won't get anywhere except at home. Aayirm kanavuguludan adutha vaaram parakiren thaai natiruku...Varatta.....

Is he 40+ ? $#%^@

2007-10-02T19:15:00.000-05:00

[Courtesy: behindwoods & sruthi]

Jodi No1 - Season 2

2007-09-24T00:23:00.000-05:00

[Courtesy:vijay.indya.com]

Last year Jodi No1 was a mega hit in Vijay TV and I have heard the success story of this dance show. This year when the same program was re-launched as Jodi No1 Season 2, I have been following it up from day 1 of the show. Each show is enjoyable apart from the Vijay TV routine hype on the back ground of the show. Sometimes really it irritates when it captures the small incidents in the back of the sets and publishes just as an emotional advertisement.

There are 8 Jodi's competing for the Jodi No1 title. Everyone are good in their own ways but when comes to the stage performance they are evaluated and the list is narrowed down to the final show.

Dev and Aishwarya - These two seems to be good in chemistry as well in the dance flow. One minus for Dev is expressionless face in his dance. But apart from it they seem to be doing good amount of home work before the show and the sequence is fine. Personally I don't see them as the final probable, as my gut feeling says that they might get eliminated in one of the rounds in the coming weeks.

Tinku and Preethi - This jodi seem to be one of the good bet in the final round. Especially Tinku is giving his heart breaking performance. Preethi seems to be out of touch when compared to Tinku. This Jodi will live up to near the final round just because Tinku takes away everyone by his work and steps. Preethi does well but she is over shadowed by Tinku’s performance. I wish they reach to the finals for sure.

Aravind & Lakshmi - Both seem to be out of sync sometimes but somehow came through 3 rounds. This jodi was eliminated in Property round which is 4th round. But they did well to their level best. 1 mistake they did in the song selection and sometimes the chemistry wasn't working that well. But they did what they can and kudos to them.

Prithvee Raj & Uma Riyaaz - I bet strongly on this Jodi as they are one of the best pair in this season 2. Not that they are excellent dancers but the rhythm, hard work, ease performance, flow and chemistry are well in shape. I like Uma Riyaaz for her excellent face expressions and her cute performance. Of course Prithiviraj is outstanding in his gimmicks and body language. Long way to go but a safe bet Jodi.

Yugendran & Malini - They are real life couple but the song selections they made in each round were totally out of sync for a dance show. Also the dance steps were just like moving the legs & body. It wasn't competing enough for a dance show. This Jodi was eliminated in the Retro round.

Irfan & Monisha - Kana Kanum Kalangal Jodi and the youngest pair participating in this event. I said participating and not competing because Irfan seems to be a non-dancer. Monisha is a first-class dancer and she performs her job. But Irfan slips and his dance movements are stiff. Due to which I feel reaching to the final show is tough task for this Jodi. But Monisha is the ray of hope for this Jodi. Personally I like Monisha cute face and if I would have got a chance before to meet her, might have proposed her :) ya, she is beautiful and wish this Jodi reaches the finals at least for her :(

Venkat & Nisha - Venkat is the hero of this Jodi and they are real life couples. Nisha gives him the right support what she can but Venkat takes away the show with is free style dance movements. I just love his body language and the movement comes to him with ease. This jodi is also a good bet for the final show and am sure they will get till the finals.

Sri & Kirthika - This Jodi surprises you suddenly with their performance and suddenly might disappoint. Sri seems to over confidence and Kirthika seems to over reacting. But in 2 rounds they did well and other rounds they were OK mark. But really you can't guess this Jodi and they might get pass the mark by their sudden performance. We have to wait & watch. If they select good tempo songs and put an astonishing performance then there may be a chance.

The three judges of the show are Sundaram, Simbhu, Sangeetha. Sundaram master is experienced and senior dance master. But sometimes you feel that he doesn't know any other words to praise other than Super, Kalakitta,...Simbhu does a good job and as usual dominates the panel. I was surprised that he was appearing as a judge but it was a good move by him. Sangeetha is good but what performance she has given in dance to be in the panel confuses me. Sometimes she reacts and sometimes gives good scores.

Devadarshini & Deepak are the two anchors of the show. Deepak is doing well with his limited speech. Devadarshini shortly called as DD dominates and doesn't allow anyone to talk. She just shouts and keeps on talking. DD mam you are looking good that’s the only reason I am bearing your non-stop talk. Not only me Deepak as well others:)

அப்பாவி முனுசாமி :(

2007-09-17T22:51:00.000-05:00

எனக்கு பார்க்க பயமா இருக்கு, உங்களுக்கு?

[Courtesy: Kumudam]

Enemy of the State

2007-09-09T22:45:00.000-05:00

[Courtesy: www.allposters.com]

The privacy theft by the internet and other sources were shown in a video footage from googleanonymous site. It’s very obvious how deeply it intrudes into a common man life and how it can steal once complete private affairs. When it comes to professional life how it affects the business through phone tapping and other means. If someone who controls this critical information wants to frame you as a fool yep he can. So someone can control someone life if they want to, which is ridiculous. As technology improvises every time, there is always the backside of it to use improperly. If such goes to the hand of wrong person then the result of it becomes adverse. More and more such adverse effects will be seen in coming years due to the technology advancements. If it is used for betterment of a mankind then the purpose of its birth is right.

"Enemy of the state" is one such film where it deals how the NSA using hi-technology tries to devastate a man's personal life. It’s a movie about a murder; NSA does in the event of making to pass the surveillance power bill. The NSA deputy general says "I want every details of this guy from blood samples, urine result and his sex nature". So when they want they can get into any detail of an individual. Another time Brill a main character of the movie says "At least be happy that they don't know what you think inside. There is your privacy". Oh boy... hmmm .The movie has Will Smith, Gene Hackman and Jon Voight in lead roles. The plot was good and the screenplay was tight. The technical aspects shown as part of the movie was a gaze. Will Smith was amazing and performed a subtle act has a how common man would be surprised when his life is exposed. The leaders speak that to protect the nation the people has to give everything they have....then what protection is nation giving to them...irony...It’s a good movie to watch from the aspect to know how the information theft is growing as tech advances...Better watch out guys....

Saroja Sama Nikalo!!

2007-08-20T23:42:00.000-05:00

It was 100th day celebrations for Chennai 600028 movie produced by SPB Saran and directed by Venkat Prabu. Few glimpse of the function which were highlights:

1. Rajini & Kamal were present along with other cine personalities.
2. The whole program was anchored by two guys who were sending laughing gas through the crowd.
3. At one stage the presenters told that they want to do a “Jabam” for people who are suffering and the slogan would relief from the pain. Everyone was requested to close their eyes and few people from the audience section started closing their eyes and these guys started to repeat “Saroja Sama Nikalo… Saroja Sama Nikalo….” You should see the laugh outburst from our superstar...
4. Vijay, Balachander and Bharathiraja spoke on screen as they were unable to attend the function.
5. Dhanush came to speak something but blabbered something for which Aishwarya, daughter of Rajini commented to her father, spontaneously our thalaiver smiled.
6. Kamal seems to be out of mood to mingle completely into the function. Whenever something happened Rajini was sharing something which Kamal was listening as if he told something seriously.
7. SPB spoke a good speech applauding the achievement of these youngsters and praying that they succeed in their future endeavors.
8. Kamal spoke on the achieving more and assured that he & Rajini would be there to give a pat.
9. Rajini spoke a nice peppy talk and gave a dashing introduction as “To honor the function of a film made for friendship by friends, he has come with his close friend Kamal”. In side gap he also informed on the initial talk on starting the Lagaan Tamil version. Nice thing it didn’t happen and I was relieved.
10. Finally the group sung the “Yaaro” song from the movie as conclusion and a group snap was taken. In that Rajini voluntarily took Venkat arms around his neck and you should see the reaction of Venkat.

Saroja Sama Nikalo…
மேல ஏறி வாரோம் - இனி
ஓதுங்கி நில்லு
கீழ எறங்க சொன்னா -
அடஎகிறும் பல்லு
[Courtesy:Kirukkal]

Perplex?

2007-08-12T00:19:00.000-05:00

[Courtesy:visiontv.ca]

It was a movie released in 1988. You can see Tom Cruise in his teen looks when compared to the MI sequels. The movie name is Rain Man, Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise are in the front lead. The movie produces mixed effects to the audience, sympathy, hilarious and sentiments in right percentage. The movie is an award winning movie and you would know why when you experience it. I started late to watch the movie and completed around early morning which in turn put me into sleep till afternoon. It’s a good flick and doesn’t bore you. It deals with the brain disorder “autism” and Dustin lives as such throughout the movie.

Sometimes I get few questions which puzzle me:

1. Why do our people see movies more than their average per month in a foreign soil when compared to their stay at home?
2. Why do we get used cars but doesn’t want to spend on the maintenance in US?
3. Why do people plan to go for a vegetable purchase as some shopping dhamaka here?
4. Why do people worry too much of health & physic when they stay for sometime in US?
5. Why people tend to find out cultural activities when they don’t even think about it at home?
6. Why people at home when calling get confused in good morning & good evening though they have been told ‘n’ times?
7. Why do the bachelors in US speak to their home more than they actually speak when they are at home?
8. Why is the photo sessions conducted more frequently here?
9. Will people die or get psychic if internet is not there in US?
10. What will people do if they don’t have a laptop or computer at their home in US?
11. Why do people show more interest in Tamil\mother tongue when in US and for English when in India?
12. Why when they are here they want to go back home and when they are at home they want to come here?
13. Why people think too much when they go back to home from here as if they have stayed outside the planet?

Neenga nallavara kettavara….therilaye maa……

Ada!

2007-08-09T22:42:00.000-05:00

Dream is not what you see in sleep,
is the thing which does not let you sleep!

--by Abdul Kalam

காலத்தின் கட்டாயம்!

2007-08-05T14:46:00.000-05:00

[நன்றி:Dinamalar]

Tham Tharee kitta

2007-07-29T01:21:00.000-05:00

Kichu maama kichu mama not two persons, 1 friend of my father was there. When he used come to my home, my father used to complain about me saying this guy is playing kite & bambaram and was wasting his time. So Kichu mama told that in his house Miruthangam class is ongoing every weekend and he will make me to join the classes. He called me and said “Parupa, naama aathu payan nee….ethavathu intha carnatga samacharam ellam kathukanum, from coming Saturday onwards morning 7am veetuku vandhiru…”. I was thinking pochuda they have planned to kill my weekend sleep. But at that age I wasn’t able to oppose ippo mattum ennavam….but kuralachum kodupen :) So I was forcibly pushed to miruthanga class and started going to it. Saturday morning 6am used to be waked up for bath and a hot coffee would be served. I used to wear a white dhothi and T-shirt…naane thaaan …and go to the class. As it was my first day, I was given the top priority. My Guruji called me and had to get his blessings with fruits & fees for that month. It was the Guru thakshanai. Pillayar Slogam was the first thalam taught to me. Still remember it “Thoom thoom thaaka thakeeta….” Guruji was sincere in one thing, after teaching he used to write the thalam notes in a notebook for every person and give for practice. I thought ok now this is my route oru periya miruthanga chakrvarthiya ayuda vendiyathuthu thaan. But the interest got down and turned towards Karate…that’s a whole lot of different story.

Though the classes were conducted in Kichu mama house, Guruji was treated as their family member. He used to get time to time hot coffee from Kichu mami and I used think enaku koduka mattalanu. If I start first to play my master used to take long hours and used to scold me for stiff hands. One bad thing was everybody used to be there around and it was kind of embarrassing feel. We Tamil guys are very famous for hitting 1 person if first hit was given in the crowd. So slowly these elder guys and oldies used to comment “Thaambi appadi illapa ippadi methuva methuva”. I live in a colony and was kind of gang lead for a group. So when few of these elder guys who stay near my home used to be there, it was kind of “maana prachanai” for me. So I started thinking how to skip this part and escape. From next week onwards I used to tell my master that I am totally free and would like to watch other’s play and finally show my talent. Master used to think “Agaa...What an interest is there with this fellow” But I know the truth of why I prefer to learn as a last person. So after getting early and going to class I used to sit in the class for 3-4 hrs just for the sake of avoiding those big brothers. They used to play well and the session would be sometimes good as competing with fellow persons. Sometimes I used to enjoy and sometimes I used to crib my soga kathai. Like this it was moving for years and then 1 fine day my master told me to buy own miruthangam. So I got that and shelved it. My father used to scold for buying the instrument and not playing it. I decided that I will make him to repent to scold me like this. He used to go for night shifts to his office so he used so sleep in the morning. So when he starts sleeping I used to practice mirudhagam with dum dum dum sound. Then he stopped commenting and I was relived from the pressure.

Next peer pressure started. All those guys who come to class does something in front of my mother and my mother started asking me when I will do like them. So next I had to think what I should do to cover up this. My school annual function was going on and my Tamil teacher Kalyani was in search of a background score when a ghost enters into the drama. The music was to just give the scary effect and it was only “Daama daama daama” sound. I thought this would be the right opportunity to lock my mother’s peer pressure. So I went voluntarily to my teacher and said I will perform the background music as I am one miruthanga vidwan :) Then went home and exaggerated as I am performing something in the annual function. Finally the peer pressure reduced. Ippadiyaga en miruthanga saga was on going. Then public exams were nearing and I started saying that I have to pay full attention to my academics and would like to take a break of this class. Actually ellam peela thaan but just oru build up. That break from miruthanga class which I took for public exams is still continuing and my parents forgot asking me about it. Aha…

LOL :)

2007-07-16T19:39:00.000-05:00

"Why did my iPhone fail so soon? Apple’s Geniuses couldn’t say on the spot. But I think it had something to do with heat — my iPhone would get incredibly hot to the touch when plugged in and charging while I was on a long phone call. So hot I lived those first three days in constant fear that it would heat to the point of burning up.

So hot that I was tempted to put some raw egg in a foil cup and set it atop the iPhone to see if it would cook — or if not actually cook, turn opaque from the iPhone’s super-heated back surface. Describing this on my blog JOEyGADGET promoted one other iPhone owner to comment:

“Yep, mine seems hot but I don’t know if it’s too hot. Hotness is relative you know.” Agreed when discussing physical attraction, but when talking about physical touch, take my word for it, my original iPhone all but burned the skin on my hand."

Read more here!

Tamil TV - Shows

2007-07-15T01:33:00.000-05:00

[Courtesy: vijay.indya.com]

Vijay TV conducts many competition shows and different kind of programs. Airtel Super singer, Jodi No 1, Kalaka poguthu Yaru and now Super Singers for Junior. It’s not easy to organize such competitions as the initial time for admission procedures and search for the participants with right talent would be enormous. They aren’t doing it for charity but still it’s a mutual beneficial program. Spotting out the talent and helping the individuals to show case their talent and same time earning their collections. I was able to watch only the final rounds of the Super Singers Junior and enjoyed seeing the kid’s performance. Krishnamoorthy, Saisharan, Vignesh, Abarna were the kids competing each other. Each of their parents was having a role in this event of pressing the buzzer and choosing the song for their kids. It was a nice idea to involve them as their kids would feel comfortable. What was not comfortable for me is the points system being announced after each round. They are at their budding stage and they react immediately. I can feel the confidence level dropping down for Abarna when she was given low points. The idea of the show is to bring out the talent and to encourage bringing more. But this seems to be naïve. Krishnamoorthy’s body language, modest behavior and facial expressions were plus apart from his voice. I liked the attitude of Saisharan and Abarna taking up the things when points were given. That too Abarna was too cute and I can see the pressure on her mother face rather on her. Every parent wants their ward to succeed and try to force. It might not work well at all times. Vignesh sings well but seems to be bit over confident. His body language shows too much pride and far beyond his age. But he is a kid and if groomed would come with flying colors. Folk, Melody and semi-carnatic were the rounds in the finals. All 4 did exceptionally well and felt happy seeing these children. Overall it was a satisfying program and grudging missing the early rounds.

Another program I watched in Jaya TV was this Bru Star Ungaludan hosted by Suchitra. The star for that day show was K.S.Ravikumar. It was nice to see him speaking but sometimes his answers were kind of rude. I liked when Kaniga and Kamalhasan spoke as a caller. Kamal when asked so what next after coming to this height? He said a good one saying when you climb the Tirupathi hills after some steps there will be a platform where you can relax or move forward [Moochum vangalam muneravum seyyalam]. I would like to move forward. I totally disliked the way Suchitara spoke or hosted. Konjam illa rombave adhiga prasangi thanama irunthathu. The way she answers the caller, continous interruption while Ravi kumar talks, Silly comments. Someone has to hold her biiiiiig mouth for some time. She might be good as a Radio Jockey but certainly not for this show. If the sponsor of the program happen to see this only request to consider someone else for hosting the show….Ennala mudiyala…

Parthiban Kanavu - a dream for all couples

2007-07-08T16:35:00.000-05:00

I have seen numerous times this movie and love to see again and again. A poem or story if written with full involvement and experience comes out in a fabulous way. I believe Karu Pazhaniappan has done one such. The movie portrays the role model wife whom every guy would dream for his future. Sneha has performed the dual role one is peppy and other as the wife character. She aptly suits in both the roles and I just adored her in wife role. Satya is the wife character name and Janani is the city girl type name. Satya just occupies your mind completely with her body language and pleasant expressions. She is quiet but still converse with you with her expressions. The person to be applauded is Karu Pazhaniappan who just takes away with his simple, elegant script & screenplay. The dialogues are sharp and speak about reality & life. The movie as a whole was taken maturely with good sense of humor. Everybody has performed their roles in appreciable manner. Vidyasagar definitely was an additional plus for the movie. The songs were excellent and sweet to hear. Everybody in the movie was good and that’s the problem in the plot. There are no such bad elements and each one was good at their own ways. Few dialogues which I thoroughly enjoy:

“Kalancha than vedu kalaiyama iruntha museum”
“Kalyanathu munnadi kadhalichen, kalayanthu kprum atha neruthitten”
“Kanavan manayvi kulla sorry solla arambicha, vazhkayila padhi time sorry than sollanum”
“Odambu seri illathavana pathu epplernthu ketta seri, nalla irukravana pathu epplernthunu ketta enna solrathu”

Like this many dialogues were catchy and really pleasurable.

Friday to Saturday!

2007-07-08T04:21:00.000-05:00

In US to recreate they play different kind of games which is new to me. The other day I was watching a group was throwing a thread tied with two balls at its end to a pole kind of structure. If the thread structure hangs on the pole after it’s ejection then a point is credited to the end. This Friday evening watched another type where two boxes with a hole were kept at two ends. A small sack filled with sand was thrown to the box and if it falls inside the hole then it’s a point. Three girls and three boys with can beer in each of their hands were playing. I was fluctuating to see the game and the girls ah... After coming back to den I was bit bored. Whether to sleep early or to watch something or to browse something what should I do was the thought process ongoing. Starring at the DVD boxes for some time and then pulled out the movie “The Butterfly Effect”. Initially when the movie started I wasn’t fully involved into it but in the end turned out to be a good one. The movie was a fantasy movie of travelling back in time [Irony: I want to kill time but watching a movie projecting about travelling back in timeJ]. The movie starts from the childhood days of the hero Evan Treborn by Ashton Kutcher. At important phases there were memory blackouts for him and the screen fades out. At first I wasn’t able to correlate the sequences and was confused. Later in the movie when he travels back in time he was able to visualize the same situation and alter the way it happens. The story plot and screen play was done so well and compels the audience to continue till the end. It was a tightly coupled sequence and anywhere the director slipped then the whole movie would have diluted. The director succeeds in what he wanted to project and it has come out in a good shape. Evan goes back to his memory blackouts by reading his daily journals and knowing what had happened he tries to alter the situation. But the outcome of the modified was totally out of his hands and turns out to be negative some way or other to himself or his close mates. Hence every time he goes back and alters to see everything finishes well. He loves Kayleigh's performed by Amy smart and he wanted her with him after he modifies the past. But it didn’t work some way or other, so at the end he scarifies his love and once for all ends his love in its budding stage, carving a good future for everybody.

Each plot the same characters perform a different role. It was like seeing multiple movies with in a movie and was interesting. Rajinikanth made a statement on an occasion when asked why he wasn’t doing his next movie as “Kadhai illa sir”. After watching such movies which deals with same love story but in a creative outfit, makes to think why new stories aren’t there. It puzzles me how Kamalhasan who likes to perform variety missed to redo this play. Just out of craziness thinking whether this might be the story of Dasavatharam, his next venture :) I have seen “Back to future” and this one but I like the later more. There is no end to creativity and movie world is all about it.

Changes are inevitable and apply to everyone\everything. For past few days was thinking of doing some physical activity rather than sitting in front of the black box. I like playing but forming the group, pulling everybody in the evening time became out of scope and gone are those days. Those days my job was to call everybody from their home sharp at 4 pm for playing. To go to gym feel somewhat lazy and also think if not continued then will blow up again. Might be a myth but comfortable with it. Hence planned to go for a walk for a while. Don’t know whether this will be continued but making an attempt to it. In this effort the biggest supporter is my iPod and Tamil movie songs. Especially songs from Vijay, Rajini movies make you to feel energetic and your pulse rate increases. So for now “Unnoda uyarvuku unnoda vervai, ennoda uyarvuku ennoda vervai…”

Masal Vadai Matters

2007-07-04T23:34:00.000-05:00

When we feel hungry or the taste buds have to be fed, we crawl towards a restaurant. After entering into the restaurant we search for a table where it will be free from disturbances and clean surroundings. Then we reach the table and instead of kerchief to show that the table is reserved we keep some of our personal belongings on the table. Then we head towards the washroom to wash, comb, adjust the dress and feel good our self. After coming back to table if it is a non-AC room then we look up to check whether the fan is spinning, if not ask the water boy or the waiter to switch it on. If we have come with someone then we ask them “Aprum enna sapdirueenga!” Actually we should ask our self?#$. We then browse the menu card and stare at each item as if it was the first time we are seeing it. Then confusion starts, go for north Indian dish or south Indian, Tiffin or meals. After coming to a conclusion we settle down with few items. We wave our hands towards the bearer symbolic showing we are ready to chalk out the items. In this cycle gap, the person whom we have come along would specify an item name and tell that’s the restaurant specialty. Though we have chosen the item, we again ask the bearer “Ennaga sudda…iruku…” He will then re-telecast the menu card in his own pace for which we sharpen our ears. Then we specify the list to him and he will call the water boy to place water jug in the table. Meanwhile we ask the opponent party “Eppadi sir life poitu iruku??”. Then he will specify some recent incident and give us a detail explanation. The placed order would have arrived; we would be puffing the heat and listening to the story. In between we would be specifying some ideas or a quote or “Amamam” and continue gulping the item. After finishing the heavy dose, we would look for a desert or hot beverage. Personally my favorite item would be coffee. After the coffee taste, starts lingering in our tongue, we proceed to check out the restaurant.

Ithukellam inga velaya illa. Whether it’s Chipotle, Subway, Taco bell, all we do is see the item displayed on the board, select, order, pay, eat and come out. Generally when I come out of these fast food chains the satisfying experience as specified in the first paragraph will not be there. We go fill something and come back. The relaxed outfit will not be there, though you can sit and talk for hours in the place. The inner feel compels us to move out as soon as we finish. Yes! Indian restaurants and other posh places can more or less give us the way we want but we can’t reach to them frequently as we go to a Rathna Café in Chennai :)

Currently humming: DJ’Omar Remix version [Awesome man!]

mayil iRagae mayil iRagae
varudugiRaai mella
mazhai nilavae mazhai nilavae
vizhiyil ellaam un ulaa )

uyiraith thodarndhu varum
nee dhaanay mei ezhuThThu
naan pOdum kai ezhuThThu anbe!

Tribute

2007-06-27T21:11:00.000-05:00

A good friend is always a valuable asset you have earned for yourself. There is no substitute for good people being with you. I have limited group of people whom are close and mutually cherish the moments. Today morning I got the news of losing one due to unknown reasons so far. It really broke me down and the day was horrible. All the past instants with him was hitting hard in my mind. It was shocking and shouldn’t have happened. He is a nice, energetic, enthusiastic person whom everybody would like to move along. We have shared our times together happily, quarrelling, discussing and playing…ahh! I am thinking how his family would take this, it’s tough and a total let down. I have no idea what had happened suddenly and still unable to believe myself. Many people die but when the near & dear does, it pinches you to ground. Pray that his soul rest in peace and his family needs to get consoled. We are going to miss you dear friend!

King with NDTV

2007-06-18T19:40:00.000-05:00

[Via: Forward]

Sivaji aka MGR

2007-06-16T04:16:00.000-05:00

For the 1.5 months exaggerations, for the multiple story lines revolving around from the day movie was launched, for the interviews each key person of the movie gave, for all the pre\post reviews in news papers, blogs and all media, for the dashing trailer, for the premier show chats, for the feedback from the known persons who saw the movie, for the question why a bald person is wearing the cooling glass in reverse fashion before entering the theatre, I got the answer finally for all these for’s. The movie Sivaji can be classified as one of the commercial super hits of all-time superstar Rajini, the youth at 50’s.

Rajini strengths are his style, comedy, action and his looks which are being utilized completely. Shankar’s strength in this movie is Rajini and he has played around him. The whole movie can be watched for Rajini, Rajini and Rajini. Yes he has banged the industry that he is the 100% entertainer and evergreen super star. You can admire him from all aspects in the film. You expect to watch him in his action then he fulfills your expectations more than you want. Thegata thegata Rajiniya kamichirukanga and pathu rasikalam. Every frame pixel by pixel he is occupied. I don’t recollect a single scene where his presence is not shown. After a 2 years gap from a movie and 8 year gap from a Rajini type movie this is it. You will enjoy “The Boss” from every angle you watch. At his age he has given more than 100 percent effort which is visible. His performance in order if you arrange in this movie it will be looks, comedy, style, dance, action. Enormous effort can be seen in his dancing, fight sequences pushing back his age factor. The don roars in the second half and you can see 80’s Rajini in the first half. The second half is routine Rajini stuff and I thoroughly enjoyed the first half. Every scene was as pleasure to watch and this man just kalakals. When he walks in songs, dances or in the actions you can observe his aging factor. Mottai Rajini simply takes over you. Eppadi antha vettayan Raja manusula ninaro intha mottai Rajiniyum appdiye ninutaru. In fact many scenes were surprising to me from this super man, antha comedy dialogues imitations, disguising himself into Shivaji, MGR & Kamal…Wow! He rocks. Kandipaga Rajinikaga pakka vendiya padam.

Shankar has done well in coordinating and articulating the play with a team. But sir ethayo neenga tholachitteenga athu kathaya, illa unga logic senseya, illa unga originalitya, illa saraku theenthu pocha…something or everything is lost. Antha Gentlemen, Indian, Mudhalvan Shankara thedi thedi pakuren padathula kanum. When you have such a powerful person casting for your story you should have given a powerful story. Seri Rajini movies always revolve around a small group of persons and theme. Avara poi veena National, international ranguku ellam panna vechu konjam sothapal paniteenga. You have taken utmost care for small things in each frame and tried to improvise it. But main matterana storyum athu ketha screenplayum konjam sarikirukeenga. Rajini superstar thaan but athukaga superman panra fantasy ellam avaru mela thinicha avarudo strengths weeknessa marida abayam iruku. But really appreciate your whole effort in piling up and taking care of the direction. But as a whole you haven’t exploited completely neither Rajini strength or the story. How a software architect can earn 200 crores and how after 20 years of service he is unmarried? Bramandam kamikaruthu unga style aana Rajini mattikitta athe image lock madhiri neengalum matikatheenga, muyuchikoonga. Ellathyum bramandam kamika pona thegatidum. Unga Asst. directors ellam kalakranga, so watch out Shankar.

AR you showed again what you are. The background score as well as music will be the next talk of the town after Rajini till this movie celebrates silver jubilee. But antha music instrument store fight scenela konjam adaki vasichirukalam konjam kathulernthu ratham vanthuduchu. Overall AR has scored distinction in the movie.

Money Laundry, CPR, Voice recognition system and for few dialogues Sujatha sneaks in. But fulla ethyume explore panama ethu 100 pera konna pathee vaithiyan madhiri irunthathu. Shreya the beauty doll walks, talks, dances, and does minor acting. She was a breeze as a heroine. The art direction thotta tharani and camera work by KV Anand in this movie will be their certificates for life time. Shivaji styla sollanumna Chumma adhiradi panirukanga. Intha creative team athu ithunu padam arambikum bothu sonangale avanga enna senchangnu theriyala. Raghuvarana totala waste pannirukanga and the list include Manivanan.

Suman does well but still his dialogue delivery sucks. Ethoo madhiri iruku, antha effect varala. Always Rajini movies the villains will be powerful in their personality take Basha, Padayapa or any commercial movie in the recent past. But ivaru buildup ellam ok than but pesum bothu tamlegu madhiri iruku. Vivek Rajini pinnadiye irukaru, first halfla sirika vekararu, poraru. 30 to 40 percent of his Boy’s performance, ambuttuthaan. Opening scene of a Rajini movie eppadi irukanum!! konjam theatrea adhiranum illa aana inga dialoguela than adhirathu varuthu. Opening scena Karthik padam madhiri arambichutanga. Ithu nalatha illa kedathanu theriyala but satisfyinga illa.

Overall the movie is a thorough entertainer and a feast for Rajini rasigan. Cool endra varthaya thayavu senchu Tamil ilakiyathula sethirunga. Inume adutha padam release agura varaikum Tamil nadula veyil eppadinu kettalum coooolnu than padhil varum. Shivaji effect ache….Coooooool!!

Nammavar

2007-06-14T23:55:00.000-05:00

What am I writing about when “The Boss” is sending havoc across the globe? What you think is not what you get :) I am a buff of thalaiver, but still a person who like to watch any good movie. Kamalhasan to me is a person who loves the Tamil industry and tries to do experimentation in his movies. In his experiments he has burnt his fingers several times but still striving to give different movies and waiting for the audience approval. In Devar Magan there is a dialogue where Shivaji says “Athu ethu restaurant sonniye konduvaa, kathu kodu, aana namma pasanga methuva than varuvanga” perfectly suits for Kamal's thirst to give variety movies to Tamil audience. Nammavar was a blend of commercial items with a light message to society. Nammavar, Devar magan, Anbe Sivam are on my evergreen list from this actor, I do have couple more but just mentioning these as I watched for nth time these recently. Kamal is one of the best artiste whom Tamil industry had bagged but sometimes I don’t like his overacting. Nammavar does have couple of scenes where he does this extra effort which becomes hamming. But still overall it’s a movie where you can enjoy as the plot and screenplay was neat. The first entry of Kamal as vice principal with his lifted coolers, blade fight scene where he says “Venamda ithellam venam thane naan iruken”, clash scenes between him and Karan, the apologize scene, the song sequence that follows after the instruments were broken were few to mention. The movie portrays the bad patches of college youngsters and few scenes hits the society with its raw fact. The scene when one of the student falls from the ceiling and taken to hospital the ward boy says to Kamal “Sir ethachum kavinga sir, kamal then shouts and he continues to say dei sir remba kovama irukaru…”, another scene in a open discussion between college management and parents one of the founder says “Sir nanga ellam saraayam vithhu vantha kasula thaan intha college kattinom” are few hitting the truth in a light manner. Nagesh, this splendid actor has shown several brilliant performances in the past and here too was amazing. The scene where he behaves differently after his daughter suicides was a sample and shows his in-depth experience. Karan’s debut but still showed his maturity and I liked his performance. Sun TV top 10 style if I have to say “Nammavar Vallavar”!

Mogambo Kush Huva!!

2007-06-08T23:25:00.000-05:00

Watching Rajini movie first day show is like watching India vs. Pakistan cricket match and where India batting second hits a sixer in the last ball of the 50th over.

I am eager and charged.

Previous Rajini flick, first day show ticket pooja done at Chennai.

வந்ததில் புடிதவை!

2007-05-29T20:07:00.000-05:00

[Courtesy:Forward,kollywoodtoday.com;Click for a blow up]

Just Here & There :)

2007-05-29T00:34:00.000-05:00

Here : Chicago Metra train
There: Chennai Electric train
Here : Year 2005
There: Year 2007
Here : Hero is an advertising executive
There: Hero is a medical representative
Here : No Songs and just screenplay
There: Unakul naane, Karu Karu vizhi…added up
Here : Hero has a daughter suffering from a disease
There: Hero has a son suffering from another disease.
Here : Anti-Heroin dies and Male villain dies in the final scene
There: Male villain dies and anti-Heroin dies in the final scene
Here : Released in Hollywood as Derailed
There: Released in Kollywood as Pachai Kili Muthu Charam

[Courtesy:teakada.com;Jennifer Aniston & Clive Owen in Derailed; Jyothika & Sarath Kumar in Pachai Kili Muthu Charam]

To aspiring Indian Students

2007-05-25T23:38:00.000-05:00

[Konjam blade potruken keela athaan oru breakku thalai snap:)]

I know adequate details were\are provided for the students in India on the importance of education & career prospects. With the niggling experience and exposure I have, I wanted to emphasis again on the same topic. This is not for the exceptions and intelligent eccentrics. I write this because I was ignorant, arrogant and of course unaware in my early stages. Advice is one of the free items you get in India all over. But we need to evaluate by assessing how it benefits us when implemented. The competition level is increasing day by day and demands for multi-skills are essential for ones steady growth. When we look at the future we should envision a steady career and ground work should be done at very early stage. This might be boring or sounding differently but reality is yeah! effort without which nothing comes out. What goes in is what comes out. How much you involve yourself is important for success. During school\college days, many would have heard people saying study! study! study. But people like me press the mute button until they complete this talk. To school students they need to give immense concentration on Maths, Physics, Geography and of course English. You don’t have to worry about computer programming as if the roots are strong this comes automatically. English is utmost important as I see people struggle present themselves. They have a fabulous idea but without a glamorous presentation how it can be sold. English means not just speaking jargons or writing something. But right grammar, strong vocabulary and stylish way of speaking\writing. People struggle for it as their foundation is weak. If the roots aren’t strong we tend to search for right words to use and repeat same kind of words in our usage. When you have a strong vocabulary you don’t have to really search as it will be instant and your presentation would be influencing.

According to Indian system of education 10th and 12th are the deciding phases and I totally align with it. The percentage of successful students scoring low in 10th\12th is less when compared to the one scoring high. I am not saying that scoring matters and it only shows your IQ. But the system believes so and we have to operate along. People will give 1000 examples of Bill Gates, Edison but we aren’t talking about the exceptions. We want to prove by regular practice and hard work. Scoring high in 10th\12th provide the outside world that you are a proven machine and can work well. It’s kind of measuring equipment to specify how much load you can withstand. Hence show that you can take how much ever given. Then after finishing in good way select a college\course which tops [course depends on interests]. This is very important for your career. An average from IIT is preferred than a brilliant from some Andipatti Engg college. Former gets more opportunities than the later. Top colleges really matters and provides more scope and a broader spectrum of choice. During college days along with the piles of theories intake and vomits one has to do more practical’s on applying what he learns. One has to experiment & validate whether what he learnt is correct. The application of hands-on boosts confidence and true understanding of your learning. When you have made your stamp in the college then you have choices of choosing the companies. Good companies and right work in your early stage also matters and one has to be careful in choosing it. One has to see the mutual growth of company and self. There should be a vision on ones growth and has to work towards it.

Everyone at your workplace your colleagues, boss, friends respect you when you have stuff. Without which if you show off it will be exposed shortly and you need to search a new place soon to stay for survival. I am not saying people with moderate knowledge don’t stay but how many people give the same dignity in their backs as they show in front of them. You forget people around you, just think within yourself how many days we fool ourselves by show off and what is the satisfaction level we get. If we think deeply we can realize the fact. Inclination to do new things and learning should not be stopped at any stage of life to have a successful career. When one feels he is saturated then his expiry is nearing in the industry. My final point is when one has done all these successfully then chances hits the door and we really don’t have to fear much. Many people in the industry have this insecure feeling as they don’t really believe them as their grounds are weak. Run boy run and grab the baton of success!

Theory

2007-05-17T01:02:00.000-05:00

In a recently watched movie “Slither”, a professor teaches student on the phrase “Survival of the fittest” and concludes saying fittest doesn’t mean stronger or intelligent. But how on given circumstances one survives or one who is better at surviving on given conditions. How true!!

AadaaTha aattamellam!!

2007-05-14T01:50:00.000-05:00

[Courtesy: Hindu.com]

Po TTavanga mannukkulla
Pona kathai unakku Theriyumaa?
Nee kondu vanthathenna?
Nee kondu povaThenna?
Unnmai aena, unakku puriyumaa?
.
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Vaalkai ingae yaarukkoe sonThamillaiyae,
Vanthavanum varubavanum nilaipaThillaiyae
Neeyum naanum nooru varusham iruppaThillai, paaru...

New Opera...

2007-05-13T00:03:00.000-05:00

Am using the Opera browser for quite some time. I like the sleek look and the presentation. Recently upgraded it to 9.2 version. It has the feature of speed dial as we have in our phones. You can set 9 most visited sites of yours as speed dials and it will show in one tab as thumb nail view. It’s convenient and good to use. Also I like the widget feature of it which is available in the early versions.

Vijay TV Awards

2007-05-12T23:47:00.001-05:00

[Courtesy:vijaynet.com]

Happen to watch Vijay TV award for film artistes, forming a bridge between TV medium and film industry. I am always a firm supporter of Vijay TV due to sheer fact that it’s much better than all the other Tamil channels available. Especially I support just to oppose Sin sorry Sun TV. The show was nicely packed with right mixtures of planned events. The program was hosted by Yugi Sethu and did have few giggles in his presentation. The show started with a traditional dance combined with Yogi B rap group. Group of young singers from super singer show, group from Jodi no 1 series, Priya Mani, Yanna Gupta, Ragasiya dances and the famous Madai thiranthu song remix fame Yogi group added essence to the show. The awards were presented based on the votes casted by the people of the state conducted by Vijay TV. S.P.Balasubramanian was awarded for the best male singer which is worth and has completed 40 years in the industry last December. WOW! Incredible and his voice is a prodigy. He thanked Janaki another female singer for inspiring him to sing during his early days. I was moved a bit when Janaki was announced for the female singer award. I didn’t expect it to happen, as the whole audience, celebrities gave a standing ovation for this respectable female singer. She is completing her 50 years in her profession by this April and still her voice is in teens. She was modest, childish, humble and adorable when she got the award and gave a pep talk. Man! Getting award is different story but to win the respect from people and still being modest with so much fame, talent, money is something really appreciable. I liked the way the audience gave their salutes to her. Similar treatment was given to Kamalhasan when he got the “Shivaji” award. They couldn’t have reached these heights without scarifying so much from them towards their profession. After the function was over, the making of this function was relayed. It was good to see the amount of effort undergone in preparing this event. But what was annoying me is every celebrity spoke, exactly said these words “It’s good that Vijay TV organized such an event. What is remarkable about this award is it is not chosen by a panel and it’s by the people”. My god I got headache hearing the same lines from different voices. Thaanga mudiyala Saami!

பழநி மலை முருக!

2007-05-11T23:27:00.000-05:00

ரெண்டாயிரம்...நாலாயிரம்...ஆராயிரம்...எட்டாயிரம்...பத்தாயிரம்....

பீம்பீலீக்கீ பீலீபீ...மாமா பீஸ்கோது.......

மாமா பீஸ்கோததா......பைத்தியம்கள்....

Grr...oh lucky chaps

2007-05-10T22:58:00.000-05:00

Mandayila bulb adikuthu, munadiye oyunga padichirukanum....Kathu thaan varuthu...

Many things I know it won't happen but still I dream. One such is working here....Check out this....

Parupoosili

2007-05-05T01:18:00.000-05:00

[The one I cooked :-)]

Scrambling for cooking food is always present after coming to US. Sometimes you feel very upset about the food you just prepared. Now understood the pain of cooking and seriously will owe lot better to my mom. I like parupoosili with vegetables like cabbage and beans. I asked my mom the method for it and then I have tried several times. But always felt that something lacked and I am missing something in it. What it is…. again called up mom and asked for an explanation. Yesterday tucked up my sleeves and entered the kitchen with full josh. I wanted to prepare the same way I eat at home and so patiently did each step with utmost care. Finally it was well payed off…Yes the dish came exactly the way I have it at home without any hassles. Oh man the feeling you get when your cooked food is good, ahh… it’s really something good sense. I have just pushed off my plates when something wasn’t right at home and seriously regret for those actions. But anyways Mom’s cooking has one more ingredient added in it which we all know we won’t be getting it anywhere else.

To bachelors and temporary bachelors here is the recipe:

1. Soak Toor Daal and bit of Channa Daal in water for 30 minutes.
2. Cut Beans\Cabbage into small pieces and cook them in a cooker or open pan in water with salt added to it.
3. Take the soaked daal and add red chilli, salt to it. Then grind it with very little water to form a thick paste.
4. Pour good amount of oil, mustard and fry the grinded daal into dry separate chunks.
5. Then add the boiled vegetables into it and fry nicely till it gets the aroma :-0

Enjoy the curry with sambhar rice and it perfectly matches with curd rice.

aha..ahh !

2007-05-01T23:54:00.000-05:00

kaadhal oru aandhai poalae
nighTU muzhuvadhum muzhikkum
kamban veeTTu naayai poalae
kavidhaiyaa adhu koraikkum
ava Thummal azhagudaa
pimple azhagudaa sombal azhagudaa vasantha mullai

Nothing Lasts Forever!

2007-05-01T01:21:00.000-05:00

[Courtesy:booksamillion.com]

This week I completed yet another thriller series from Sidney Sheldon “Nothing Lasts forever”. The novel was written in 1994 and it is a medical thriller. The story revolves around three young female doctors Paige Taylor, Kat Hunter and Honey Taft. Most of the situations were built around the county hospital where these three doctors join as residents. The novel has a prologue, chapters and an epilogue with a perfect finishing touch. The prologue deals with the court room scenes where the readers are brought into the middle of the story in the introduction. Then each chapter passes like a windy breeze building upon minute details one after the other. Finally the epilogue concludes with the details of the each main characters aftermath. The characterization of each character in the novel is gross and gives the readers with complete dimension of the story. Paige and Kat were the two main characters I liked most in the story.

Sidney Sheldon has done adequate homework for the novel. He would have read many books on medicines, Sex, discussed with dozen of doctors on their routines and observed for several days in a hospital. Without this he couldn’t have written this novel with so much information on each item. The good part is he tempts the reader to move on and doesn’t allow stagnating or feeling bored. Overall it was a fascinating novel with impeccable story line and thorough entertainment.

Identity

2007-04-29T01:26:00.001-05:00

More than “Who am I”, I get choked with the question of “What am I”. I get so much confused with this question and searching for an answer. If I know this answer then I would be one of the rishi’s sitting in one eternal place. I am puzzled in finding what I came for and what I am doing is what I am for. Should I be living a life doing 9-5 job, then going back home with briefcase? Making some money, saving for buying a home, ending up in seeing the children grown up and making the way to graveyard.

I see many varieties of people, one who just see his family and forget all his passions. Neither he learns or has some interests to do something new. Only thing that concerns him is his family & be a bread winner. So he comes to job and goes back that’s all he does. What spark is there in it, I don’t find one. But I think one way oh! Is this what life should be and should I also do like this?

When I do some work I think do I mean in doing this? Am I here for it and is this what I am good at? Everyone will get a turning point where one would know what he is meant for. Did I get already this gyan or am I yet to get the opportunity? Where to find the inside and how to really pursue what am good at? But I believe everybody has this type of insider but nobody reveals or expresses. All just live as the reality pinches and stops them from pursuing their aspirations or the search for what they are. Some just live without even making this attempt as they don’t want to and completely avoid it. With this state of confusion going to bed am I meant for sleeping? :-)

[P.S.:- This post might be confusing as I am confused]

Fanna...

2007-04-22T18:32:00.000-05:00

Weekends and weekdays are routine and same story runs throughout. Either a break is needed or something new is to occur around. Same people, same stuff, same house, same bath, same habits...gosh...Sometimes you look life in a different angle. This is a boring window I am looking at. With a lazy outlook I was browsing through the Youtube for something interesting. Came across Madurai Muthu’s Comedy series in "Kalaka Povathu Yaru" show. Muthu is a person who can interestingly elucidate pocket jokes. He has a database within him where he has tagged the jokes by personality, situation, characters and so on. So when you assign him with a tag say doctors he would be cracking jokes related to doctors in a lucid manner. Sometimes the flow is spontaneous and you will enjoy it. But what annoyed me is the way Sun TV presents the show; it is so artificial and unnatural that you puke on their creativity. Basically Sun TV doesn't have much of any creativity and only can impose its ideas by repeatedly showcasing in its advertisement. If you look at its shows, papers, magazine anything of such will not have any creativeness or analysis. It can just do a copy paste or buy off the creators from other channels. Kalaka puguthu yaru is actually from Vijay TV and the entire crew was bought from Sun TV. The irritating part of the show is, it cannot set real people to watch the show and like in the movie "Speed" sets a clapping audience clipping. This clipping is repeatedly shown whenever required. Also the crappiest idea I have ever seen is the way the chits are selected for assigning a random performance to the performers. How Muthu always gets jokes to perform and similarly other showers will get same chits for which they have practiced. All these shows, that Sun TV thinks the viewers as fools. With this kind of creative thinking if it goes on then the day to close its channel one by one is very near in the future.

The Sky is Falling

2007-04-06T23:56:00.000-05:00

[Courtesy: wikipedia.com]

The recorded news of the BCCI meeting on the recent world cup debacle of Indian cricket was flashing in the laptop. Ravi Shastri, Sharad Pawar, Whatmore and to surprise Viv Richards faces were flashing on the screen. I was eyeing on the sketches of the story on the meeting. But was keen on completing the book I was seldom reading for the past two weeks. I was in the edge of the chapters and wanted to complete. It was really tough to read the binded piles of paper after quiet sometime. But the author compels you to do so due to the journey he takes you through.

The novel I was on was "The sky is falling" by "Sidney Sheldon". The story was about a TV journalist solving a murder mystery of an entire family. Dana Evans was the main character around which the story revolves and the story is about the murder of Winthrop family. The story has a good plot, paced move and makes you to read the next chapter after completing one. The language used is not subtle and makes the reader comfortable. The novel has several twists with right mixture of imagination, suspense and fiction. I was really impressed with the relation and logical reason it has for every point referred. It was really a pleasure to read this thriller and it has the advantage of you getting into the mid of the story. It makes as if you are watching all the happenings undoubtfully. That’s the success of the novel.

I dare not comment on Sheldon as his accolades speak about. He can be referred as a Hi tech Rajesh Kumar who is famous in writing Tamil crime pocket novels. What is interesting about Sheldon is the way he approaches each sequence in the novel and he obligates the reader to finish the novel at a stretch. The language he uses is lucid and lively to the situation. "I try to write my books so the reader can't put them down," he explained in a 1982 interview. "I try to construct them so when the reader gets to the end of a chapter, he or she has to read just one more chapter. It's the technique of the old Saturday afternoon serial: leave the guy hanging on the edge of the cliff at the end of the chapter." Yeah! this carves the key for his booming stories. Luckily read his novel from the place where he was born :-)

Meanwhile SPB is really troubling me a lot and causing me to tap my feat always. SPB introduction songs are the most welcomed and suited for a Rajini movie. The good thing about it is it exactly fits Rajini on screen and most appealing when he sings the introduction song which always holds a message to society. The song "Sooriyanum Santhiranum yaar" from the latest hot flick "Shivaji – The Boss" is the one disturbing and the top in my play list. It’s awesome! Balelaka!!

HILLS HAVE EYES II

2007-04-03T21:56:00.000-05:00

[Courtesy:movies.yahoo.com]

"Get me some tea ya...Empa Tamil naatula iruthutu tea venumnu kekama empa englishla kekara...Dei nee teanu sonnathe english thaanda vennai...hee hee" listening to this song from Englishkaran drove to Regal cinemas to watch "Hills Have Eyes II" last Friday. Came back after the movie unsounded and thrilled. Knowing about the part I of this movie is a different story. When I used to bring DVDs from a near by library somehow picked up the part I, but never intended to watch. My roommate exhausted his DVDs for the week and took the part I for his night show. Next day came to me and said just watch it dude it’s our preferred type of movie. I was impressed by the movie with its sheer arrogance and bloodshed scenes. After a while when watching some other movie saw the trailer of part II and determined to go for it. My calculations didn't go wrong and as expected part II was even more violent and gore. If you are a person looking for thriller with gore then this is one such movie. When dug deep in wikipedia what was released in 2006 is actually a remake of 1977 movie and there were sequels in 1985 and 1995. The 2006 part I introduction starts with a logical reason as the US conducted nuclear tests in a particular region and the effects caused the people with changes in their genes.

BTW apart from Hills Have Eyes terrifying you, Google made a surprise and I was a victim, People talk more about agloco, The Boss exhibits its songs and stills....Lots of excitement waiting...

The WOW Factor!

2007-03-18T00:30:00.000-05:00

It’s a wish to own it for quiet sometime after coming to US. I have seen people going crazy about it and have also seen several promos on it. One day had a chance to browse through its features in Best Buy store. It’s been an awesome experience for me and felt fond of it. The sleekness, sound effects, clarity, compactness... I was resisting my self from buying it for some reason. But today couldn’t stop from being the proud owner of it. Yes! finally bought the Apple iPod 30 GB. What can I comment on it, it just mesmerizes you with its sound effect and the video ah… Uyrin Uyrie video from kakha kakha movie made its debut entry into my iPod and after that non stop music for past 3 hrs. It might be a bit high expenditure for me but feel its worth buying. Few albums already in my play list are from Elton John, Backstreet Boys, Enigma, Spice Girls, Bryan Adams, Aqua, Swades, Michael Jackson, Venga Boys and list goes on…Importing the songs\videos thru iTunes is the main activity for the upcoming days :-) You will definitely feel it as a WOW factor!

Enna Thavam Saithani, Yashodha!!

2007-03-01T20:58:00.000-06:00

[via:Forward]

Foresight?

2007-03-01T01:16:00.000-06:00

Mr.Jimbo what are you looking at? Road ahead in the tech industry?

[via:Wiki]

Malgudi Days

2007-02-19T00:34:00.001-06:00

Living in a single room mansion, eating in a Iyer mess, rushing to the main bus stand, running behind the Nagapattinam meter gauge train, getting a seat to sit for the 45 minutes journey, walking towards the college gate, dreaming inside the class rooms, typing "Hello World" programs, chatting with the class mates, long walk to the Parotta shops or mess for the afternoon lunch, sighting the college girls, tucked out shirt with a slipper and a long size unruled notebook with a Reynolds pen, do not forgetting to take a pocket comb, waiting for the last hour bell, going back to station and having fun at the station, speaking\singing\sleeping while coming back from college, getting down from the running train, requesting for a lift from railway station to main bus stop, walking happily with no worries but with big dreams on the roads towards the mansion, sneaking inside peoples mind each time when someone pass by, having a 2rs tea with butter biscuits, collecting notes and taking Xerox copies of unknown authors just to accumulate in the shelf, eating dinner at a fast food center, calling home from a STD booth for hours, enjoying the night in the terrace with mansion friends, playing carom board with the mansion manager, sleeping with a alarm aside for the routine tasks...Gosh. It was a wonderful life which I miss and feel could never get back. This was my post graduation period at an engineering college near Tanjore.

These Malgudi days of mine came back to me in a flash after several years when I got bunch of emails from my class mates which was a surprise. I never had a single contact with any of my Tangore guys. It’s like everybody rushing to complete what they want and in this race everybody forgot the touch with each other. We were the toughest guys for our lectures and we were given the bad treatment from everybody in the college. But now most of us stood up to a decent level and the cycle changes. The lectures started passing their resumes to us :-) We had good time with each other at the same time bad patches. There were clashes and misunderstandings with each other which now look silly. But that is a phase change and it happens to everybody. Everybody is busy with their professional work and most have got married and might be a having a child. But still a small email made a difference and it brought back the memories. I truly wish that everybody one day have to come together to relish those old Malgudi days!

Amazing Quotes

2007-02-15T20:40:00.000-06:00

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"A person should not be too honest.
Straight trees are cut first
and Honest people are screwed first."
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"Even if a snake is not poisonous,
it should pretend to be venomous."
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"The biggest guru-mantra is: Never share your secrets with anybody.
If you cannot keep secret with you , do not expect that
other will keep it. ! It will destroy you."
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"There is some self-interest behind every friendship.
There is no Friendship without self-interests.
This is a bitter truth."
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"Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions
- Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful.
Only when you think deeply
and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead."
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"As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it."
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"Education is the best friend.
An educated person is respected everywhere.
Education beats the beauty and the youth."
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Chanakya quotes (Indian politician, strategist and writer, 350 BC-275BC)

Saint Valentine's Day ;-)

2007-02-14T20:31:00.000-06:00

[via: Forward]

Glance at Pongal Releases

2007-01-29T01:09:00.000-06:00

Guru - Entering into AMC theatre makes you to feel at bigger Sathyam theatre in Chennai. The theatre has 30 units to screen and spacious enough to withstand full crowd. It was a snowy weekend where I could see 30 people for those 30 theatres:-) There were several speculations on the movie Guru as it’s a biography of Dhirubhai Ambani, Reliance Industries. Finally Mani has showed up the screens his version. There were also the several hypes as Manirathnam movie hit the screen after sometime now which is said to be usual. Can we say Guru as one of his best movie? I am not quiet sure to answer it. But still feel that he has fulfilled the expectations. The movie energizes at its completion and makes you to know about this tycoon of India. What can I comment on Manirathnam, he has done his work and seen that it marks his style. The person who has to be appreciated is Abhishek Bachan and I can see remarkable improvement in his action. When watched Dhoom II, I just thought that he survives due to the goodwill of his father. But here definitely the body language is appreciable and has done his part well. Aishwarya and all others have done their supporting roles to their best they can. The song picturization which one would expect in Mani + Rajiv combination as a grand one was naive in the movie. A.R.Rahman sits top of everyone with a commanding voice.

Thaamirabharani - Yet another movie from the masala factory of Hari. The composition is well mixed and presented in a pleasing manner. Hari once again has done his standardized format of presentation but is successful to cover up the mass. Yup! the movie tops the pongal release of Tamil movies according to me. Comedy, action, sentiments and drama are mixed in right proportions and enjoyable to watch. Vishal, watch him he is climbing the stairs of mass hero silently and steadily. Prabhu is choosing his right roles at his age and not attempting to do the main hero role which is a positive move. He is providing the way to the young stars and sidelining himself in character roles still being the center of movie. Nadhiya, I think still can come one round as heroine. A good family entertainer and will run at rural areas with packed houses.

Pokiri - Control + C pixel by pixel from Telugu version still marks its presence. As I said before here, this will be a 100 days movie for Vijay as this is a movie for himself with mass attractions stuff. Prabhu deva debut movie as director in Tamil doesn't have to think much as he has the original version in hand. He can be evaluated only on his own script and play in future. Vijay, neither improvements nor disappointments to his fans. A full meal for them to enjoy every bit. Asin, her beauty has increased in multiples every movie I watch. From Ullam Ketkume to here, just a long breathe by me. Vadivelu its time to pack your old styles and people get bored from the same stuff you provide in each movie. Except for the Gajini song joke, your presence is just a break for smokers. Prakash Raj has done his role with his usual traits yet to his level pissing in pants was bit awkward. First time watchers would enjoy 100 percent and of course do Vijay's fans.

Alwar – “Yapa thangave mudiala”! This movie if taken in 1980 would have been a massive hit. Ajith is back to his usual looks but yet disappointing in selecting his movies. Taking avatars to kill his enemies would be better suited for Vijayakanth not for Ajith. Rejecting Naan kaduvul by Bala due to various reasons is a blunder made by him. If he still continuous to with these stereotypes and think Vijay as his fellow to beat then his equations might completely go wrong. The movie has Ajith, Vivek, Asin and many others but makes no impact as the story line and play are weak. Sella, debut director from S.J Surya group, no comments to say. An ordinary movie with big casts in its cards.

Seattle Times

2007-01-16T01:15:00.000-06:00

I visited Seattle last week for an official purpose. Seattle was worse than Chicago in terms of climate. Seattle had heavy snow showers and roads were slippery. It seems after many years its facing this change in its nature. Anyways most of the transport wore chains to its tires for more friction and causing sound pollution:-( The public transport is the one which I like in Seattle and miss in Chicago.

I like to travel, visit new places and meet new people. What I don’t like is the preparation to travel and settling down after coming back. It includes booking tickets\accommodation, packing and then washing\ironing after coming back. The most irritating part is two things one is the air travel where you are tied for couple of hours and ironing of the washed clothes after coming back. God save me from these!!

I had lots of fun with new people and enjoyed staying at my friend's place. My friend had got a new projector and it’s like watching a movie at Devi Bala theatre in Chennai. The experience of monster screen at home is different and exciting. After buying such a projector there is no necessity to hit the theatres. A little patience is needed for the movie to be available online and that’s it you would be entertained with more comfort than in theatre. A good item to be bought by each of the frequent cine goers\lovers.

While returning back took a cab from my friend's place to the Seattle airport as snow showers were present. It was hard to drive in those circumstances. Luckily got a cab and was speaking to the cab driver. He asked me are you in IT and when I said yes, he started speaking his good old memories. Actually he was a main frame programmer in his early years and now he wants to get back to this industry. It sounded interesting and gave him some tips [Gosh…don’t laugh]. When I was about to get down, he just thanked me in a very friendly manner. I just realized what all I have been saying in Para II above, seems to be nothing when people struggle for their days bread!!

Yet Another !

2007-01-01T00:55:00.000-06:00

[Courtesy:123greetings.com]

Veyil

2006-12-25T20:37:00.000-06:00

Pasupathy stands apart and has done one of his finest performances. I was able to see Murugasen and Dhool Pasupathy wasn't seen in any shades. That’s the success of the actor and has to be rewarded with applause. The body language and the facial expressions were adorable. His eyes speak more than his dialogues. Pasupathy coming from Koothupattari was introduced in the film Mayan and later came into lights in Dhool. When I saw him Dhool, I thought for a moment that this guy does well but has mixed himself into the masala of Tamil movies. This would be his role in future assignments. As expected he was doing similar kind and was seen as the usual commercial villains. But when watched Maja, I had the ray of hope that this guy would come back. He did finally in a fabulous way. Though not that he has to leave completely his commercial roles but has to do more similar roles to feed his actor in him.

With above said the second person who has to be appreciated is the director "Vasantha Balan". Though the movie might not be an outright commercial success but has marked his entry with a optimistic note. The screenplay and the story telling are aptly done. I wonder how being an assistant director of Shankar who does everything in a big way was able to script such an innate script. The script doesn't have any artificial gimmicks in it nor has costly backdrop. The play just goes on with the way story goes and it’s very natural. He has his tribute to his guru by giving such a good movie.

Shankar as a producer and director is equally successful. He is able to pick up the best and different plays\directors. As a producer he contradicts himself with his direction. Kadhal, Imsai Arasan and now Veyil all are of different genres but natural and fresh. This makes him as an eminent producer and S pictures adding victorious movies to its accolades. One more point to be said is he hasn't let down any of his assistant director with whom he has the confidence. That’s a true leadership to backup his team and see them in heights. He has given them the opportunities and so do his assistants by grabbing & making best of it. Expecting more such different movies from S Pictures and showing a new trend in production.

Bharath is refining his acting skills in every film and emerging out to be a matured actor. But he doesn't have much to do as Pasupathy occupies the entire film. Bhavana has done the usual heroine role and she looks damn pretty. I am not sure of the heroine name; she appears for few scenes pairing with Pasupathy and dies. She has to be pinned up as expected to do some pretty neat roles in future. She is peppy and her expression attracts the audience. Shreya has done her supporting role well and after Thimiru, once again proved her acting skills.

Music and camera work are neatly done. With so much new comers in the backend still the film doesn't lack in any quality. Altogether the movie is an emotional drama with fresh breeze in it.

வாழ்த்த வயதில்லை!

2006-12-11T21:35:00.000-06:00

பிறந்த நாள் வாழ்த்துகள்:-)

Thodargirathu :-)

2006-12-04T00:00:00.000-06:00

This blog has completed its 2 years and entering into its third year of existence. I used to read blogs after its introduction to me from one of my friend. I never intend to blog myself and was just reading to know what they are & what they write. One evening at office when I was about to leave, was called by my above friend and asked what is the name you like for your blog? I said are you kidding, I am trying to know its spelling and you are asking me to write. But due to the fact that I didn’t want to deny abruptly and for a moment thought what if, I just accepted it. I didn’t even know how to post and what to write. But something I wanted to do and thought why not this. After creating the account, my friend in front of him asked me to write something, which was like nightmare. Nothing came to my mind and was thinking is this yet another crap in my life I am going to do like all before I have done. Just wrote a self welcome note to myself which when I read now I start laughing, not that I have grown up in blogging\writing but thinking of my sheer ignorance.

To pen it’s really tough and the stuff in it is more important. It’s like everybody tells a story for a movie but when Manirathnam or Shankar says it has its own dimension. The carving of the script is an art and everybody doesn’t get that easily. I have written many craps here and few here & there good ones according to me. Always in my case it happens like doing something and getting something as an end result. I intend to write but its turns out to be something else in a different shape. I feel I haven’t got still the art of writing. But it doesn’t stop me writing, I wish I continue as long this excitement and enthusiasm lives up.

The moment I post something, it’s like oh yeah! Dude something is done for the day!! This excitement still exists and hasn’t drained away which makes me to write more. I don’t have huge readers but a handful of them and most of them whom I knew. Just because I marketed myself saying to them I have a blog and when find time please do read. After they read the thrill remains till they say “yaPa blog pathen naalla iruku :-0”. I get surprised when I see new readers on the comments and think myself people read your writing also...Hmm.

Many things I learnt from this blog and one fact I understood is I am very bad time manager. Yup! Its sheer fact and you can see it on the below recent posts. I really don’t do time management well and end up in not writing a post at least for a week. I always hang it in to do list of mine and keep postponing it for days. Also prioritization of work is horrible and just goes by what comes for that time. I am pretty sure that this isn’t going to work in long run and has to completely rework from scratch.

Might be it happens for others but it happens for me at times regularly. That is suddenly I think what to write, is it really worth to someone or myself to scribble something, what if I don’t post something, Dude lots of others are really writing well and if you don’t write no one cares, really is this something good for me, am I having any meager skill to write, is it worth spending time??? All these rise within me and falls as time pass by. Suddenly I get tempestuous and start reading other blogs which I read regularly. Then come back and see my archives to see what mistakes are carved carefully by me :-( I have cursed myself many times when not writing a post or not writing it properly. It needs huge amount of effort and perseverance. It’s not a one day job nor comes out of teaching. But something stays on within me and still this one exists for its third year…

Vanthutanya, Vanthuttanya...

2006-12-01T21:19:00.000-06:00

un pani thuli pani thuli pani thuli
ennai soduthu soduthu enno..?
en suriyan suriyan suriyan
athil urukuthu urukuthu enno..?

[Outside Apartments;Click for a blow up]

Hey Hey.....Papappaaa...

2006-11-26T13:32:00.000-06:00

Madai Thiranthu song of Illayaraja from the movie Nizhalgal was remixed by a team and was released. I saw it a couple of weeks before when one of my friends insisted me to watch it. It was really exciting to watch with the hip hop rhythm and easy flow. Later found that it's revolving around the web for quite sometime. Anyways do enjoy the remix video. Here you go…

madai thirandhu... thaavum nadhiyalai naan
manam thirandhu koovum siru kuyil naan
isai kalaingan yen aasaigaL aayiram...
ninaithathu paliththadhu....... hoi
nanananna.....naana nanananna..

hey hey.....papappaaa...

Ugly Faces

2006-11-25T13:52:00.000-06:00

The below one came up in “Arasu Pathilgal” of Kumudam Tamil weekly issue. Really I was taken back by the behavior of these brutal creatures. Everyone speak independence and growing India. These incidents shows that we still are in Stone Age and haven’t matured to what we speak. It’s a shameful and utter nonsense incident which takes long period to heal off.

Entailing Short One!

2006-11-25T13:47:00.000-06:00

Below short story was published in Kumudam Tamil weekly magazine. It’s not a high literature work. But still it showcases the common working people problem which we all tend to have. Especially the working class in IT sector has to distinguish themselves between office and personal life. Mixing up things would essentially mess them with their personal life. Good one to read.

Any Objections?

2006-11-23T23:58:00.000-06:00

[Via Forward; Click snap for a blow up]

Vallavan...Noooooooo...!!

2006-10-30T22:35:00.000-06:00

[Courtesy:www.home.no]

Personally I don't like Silambarasan a.k.a Simbhu, due to the fact that he tries to show off too much. There is a dialogue in the movie Pudupettai where Dhanush tries to show his pride as "ஏய் நான் தான்! நான் தான்!!". I believe that this is perfectly applicable to Simbhu. He might be talented but that doesn't mean that he knows everything. I read in one of his interview or as a gossip that he has said like he was the one who directed the movie Manmadhan but still in title card a different director name was posted. Why the heck!!

Vallavan was the only Tamil movie which I watched in Diwali damakas. The movie was so much hyped by everybody and it was taken for such a long period. Promotions on the movie were like "Simbhu doing the editing every night in his home to fasten the screenplay". Nayanthara in her interview "Simbhu is so talented and every stroke of the movie would be a delight. The movie was taken with utmost diligence by Simbhu". To add more spice one more, tagged around was "Love affair between Nayanthara and Simbhu". My god...Save us!!

The movie was just a repeatu of Padayapa and nothing else. A girl had this strong desire to marry a guy and she takes revenge on him when he goes with another girl. For this ctrl + c story, I feel this hoopla was unnecessary. Adding to this base line, few college scenes + sentiments + two fight sequences + Punch dialogues + few good songs + three colorful heroines and our great Simbhu. "தலை எல்லாம் சுத்துது"

The song "Loosu penne" was really good to hear. I was thinking this would be picturized with good steps. But he has done some "Yoo Yoo" stuff with few glossy females around him. Yuvan, Sandhya and Santhanam have done their roles well. But Nayanthara has also done her role well [Catch my point;-0]. Reema, please no more characters on screen like this. One question to you was the face with makeup or without makeup. The movie can be seen with a free ticket + 10$ for the interval expense :-)

Ultimate Truths

2006-10-30T22:32:00.000-06:00

Recently got as a forward. Really good one :-)

Whenever I find the key to success, someone changes the lock.
The road to success…….. is always under construction.
Alcohol doesn't solve any problems, but if you think again, neither does milk..
In order to get a Loan, you first need to prove that you don't need it.
All the desirable things in life are either illegal, expensive or fattening.
Since Light travels faster than Sound, people appear brighter before you hear them speak.
Everyone has a scheme of getting rich….. which never works.
If at first you don't succeed…. Destroy all evidence that you ever tried.
You can never determine which side of the bread to butter. If it falls down, it will always land on the buttered side.
He who has the gold, makes the rules ---- Murphy's golden rule.
If you come early, the bus is late. If you come late…… the bus is still late.
Once you have bought something, you will find the same item being sold somewhere else at a cheaper rate.
If you have paper, you don't have a pen……. If you have a pen, you don't have paper…… if you have both, no one calls.
If you have bunked the class, the professor has taken attendance.
The Govt buses in opposite direction always go empty.
The door bell or your mobile will always ring when you are in the bathroom.
After a long wait for bus no.20, two 20 number buses will always pull in together and the bus which you get in will be crowded than the other.
If your exam is tomorrow, there will be a power cut tonight.
The last person to be fired or quit is responsible for all the errors until another person is fired or quits.
Irrespective of the direction of the wind, the smoke from the cigarette will always tend to go to the non-smoker.

28 நாட்கள் பின்னர் !!

2006-10-14T21:02:00.000-05:00

[Courtesy: johnmenick.com]

தமிழில் ஒரு பதிவு எழுத வேண்டும் என்று ரொம்ப நாட்களாய் ஆசை, அதான் முயற்சி செய்து இருக்கிறேன். தவறு இருந்தால் மன்னிக்கவும். "28 days later" என்கிற ஆங்கில படம் ஒன்றை DVDயில் எடுத்து பார்த்தேன். இப்படம் ரத்தம் மற்றும் திகில் இந்த ரெண்டு மட்டுமே keyword ஆக கொண்டு உள்ளது. ஒரு virus கிருமீ எப்படி ஒரு நாட்டை காலி பண்ணுகிறது, அதிலிருந்து நம்ம ஹீரோ ஹீரோயின் எப்படி தப்பி ஓடுகிறார்கள் என்பதை சுவாரசியமாக சொல்லி இருக்காங்க. ஒப்பனிங் சீனில் ஒரு ஊரிலே ஒருவர் மட்டும் இருந்தால் எப்படி இருக்கும் என்று நம் கண் முன்னே காட்டும் போது நம்மை யோசிக்க வைக்கிறது. எனக்கு பல தடவை ஒருத்தர் மட்டும் ஒரு ஊரில் இருந்தால் எந்த பிரச்சனையும் வராது என்று தோன்றும். அது மிக மோசமானது என்று இப்போது புரிகிறது. கடைசியில் படம் சுபம் போடும் போது நாம் சீட்டு நுனியில் இருப்பதை மறுக்க முடியவில்லை. ஒரு ஒல்லி ஹீரோ, சுமாரான ஹீரோயின் வைத்து இப்படி ஒரு நல்ல படம் எடுக்க முடியும் என்று நம் தமிழ் இயக்குநர்களை பார்த்து கேள்வி கேட்பதை தவிர்க்க முடியாதது. கதை மற்றும் நல்ல கதை களம் இருததால் அசதலான படைப்பை கொடுக்க முடியும் என்று சொல்லும் படம்.

எந்த இடத்திலும் தோய்வு இல்லாமல் ஸ்க்கிரீன்ப்ளைய் செய்த்திருக்கும், இயக்குநர் Danny Boyle அவர்களுக்கு ஸ்ப்பேசியல் பாராட்டு. நல்ல படம் பார்த்த திருப்தி மனத்தில் நிறைந்திருக்கிறது. நம்முரில் சீடி கிடைத்தால் கண்டிப்பாக பார்க்க வேண்டிய படம்.

She is back :-(

2006-10-12T23:14:00.000-05:00

Really don't know what to do !$%!

I am here in Chicago for quite some time. During the mid of November one day I was just coming back from office. I was bit tired and was just feeble. Suddenly she came in a flash. I saw her for the first time. I couldn't resist myself and was feeling glad. This was my first experience to see her. As days passed by I started seeing her frequently. Slowly my relation started with her and met her day-after-day. More...

அடுத்த வாரிசு :-)

2006-10-12T23:01:00.000-05:00

வாழ்த்துகள் தலைவா!

[Courtesy: rajinifans.com]

CHENNAI: The superstar is now a grandfather.

Rajnikanth's daughter, Aishwarya, married to actor Dhanush, on Tuesday evening delivered a healthy baby boy at a private corporate hospital in the city.

Immediately, Rajnikanth and his wife, Latha, as also Dhanush's parents visited the hospital to see the newborn.

According to industry sources, Rajnikanth, who is engaged in the making of his movie, `Sivaji', had reduced all travel outside the city. The baby was born at 5.10 p.m.

Courtesy:hindu.com

The Departed

2006-10-09T23:08:00.000-05:00

[Courtesy: cinemaemcena.com; Click snap for a blow up]

Every Friday we all get this weekend mood. Similarly I get the night show movie mood on Fridays. This happens almost all the weekends, whether in U.S or India, the urge is same. It doesn’t subside due to the geographical differences. But due to the tour schedules I had couple of weeks before; I did not visit the theatre for a month. The irony is, mostly alternate days I would be watching movies in DVD, still watching in the theatre has a special interest in me.

This week I went for “The Departed”, though the “Guardian” was hitching in the back of the mind. The movie crewed with few top guns like Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, Mark Wahlberg …. The movie was also rated good at rottentomatoes as 95-92%. The story is about two moles swapped into the two opposite gangs. One is the cop gang and another is the underworld gang. What happens to two and when each one has to identify who they are is the main theme, around which the interesting play was built. Decaprio has done excellently his role with his vivid facial reactions on tensed situations and during the scenes where the gang leader questions him for his identity. Damon too has done his role but sometimes we get a feeling in his expressions that he is doing his debut film. The main hero to be said is Jack Nicholson who has nearly taken the complete movie under his flamboyant acting. Overall the movie is good to watch and has good nail biting sequences.

On an unrelated side note watched the original Telugu version of Vijay upcoming movie Pokiri. I assume that it’s going to be a massive hit and the ardent fans of Vijay are going to relish every inch of the movie. Mahesh Babu is the hero and seems to be a Telugu version of Vijay himself .The main question is how our Prabhu Deva who is directing the Tamil version is going to maintain the tempo similar to its original version. The comedy is hopeless in the Telugu version and wish it would rectified in the remake. If it’s going to be scene by scene remake then its one more movie for Vijay which is going to run for 100 miles. Naaku Telungu Telusu Babu...

Yahoo Mail Beta !!

2006-10-02T00:30:00.000-05:00

[Click for a blow up;]

Last week sometime I was prompted to upgrade my Yahoo mail to new beta version. I was pretty sure something would be in the enriched form to keep them in the race with other mega giants especially Google. The faith wasn't disappointed. The web yahoo is replica version of Microsoft Outlook client and done exactly similar fashion with glossy look. It was really awesome to see the features and easy mailing facility. It has almost all the features of Outlook including the Inbox, Archive, Personal folder [Yeah...only on the web] and other simple drag tech.

I wonder such competitions between the big giants makes more and more easy for the web users especially the novice users. Thus, enabling swift reach of technology to unexplored lands. As one among the users group, excited to see such enhancements. Amazing stuff... Keep going monsters.

In New Attire!

2006-10-01T00:22:00.000-05:00

Laughed Out Loud :-)

2006-09-26T23:07:00.000-05:00

Rajiv and Mona are flying to Australia for a two-week vacation to celebrate their 40th anniversary. Suddenly, over the public address system, the Captain announces, "Ladies and Gentlemen, I am afraid I have some very bad news. Our engines have ceased functioning and we will attempt an emergency landing. Luckily, I see an uncharted island below us and we should be able to land on the beach. However, the odds are that we may never be rescued and will have to live on the island for the rest of our lives!"

Thanks to the skill of the flight crew, the plane lands safely on the island.

An hour later Rajiv turns to his wife and asks, "Mona, did we pay our Rs 5lakh deposit cheque yet to ICICI Bank?"
"No, sweetheart," she responds.Rajiv, still shaken from the crash landing, then asks, "Mona, did we pay our ICICI Bank Master card yet?""Oh no! I'm sorry. I forgot to send the cheque," she says. "One last thing, Mona. Did you remember to send cheques for the ICICI auto loan to them too this month?" he asks."Oh, forgive me, Rajiv," begged Mona. "I didn't send that one, either." Rajiv grabs her and gives her the biggest kiss in 40 years. Mona pulls away and asks him, "So, why did you kiss me?"Rajiv answers, "They'll find us!"

[Via Forward]

Road Ahead !!

2006-09-24T22:09:00.000-05:00

[Click for a blow up]

Life is pretty fast. Hardly finding time to react, realize. Just moving on and on… Something or other comes and blocks your calendar. This place is pretty fast at least for me. There is always some pending task to be done and look forward for tomorrow to start. Donno how long this is going to be. Still this is current life and has to move on with it :-)

Just like that!

2006-09-23T22:58:00.000-05:00

Felt like longing for a day off. The dawn was coming to a closure and so is the business hour. The week was coming to an end and so is the business day. It was time to pack up the black box into the black bag. One task was to be completed before shutting the Bill Gates framework. The frame of mood was for the weekend. At a relaxed outfit came out alone to see what’s happening in the outside real world. The scene showed me that always nature wins you. It provides the horizon of happiness at the sight...that’s nature as always.

[Outside office on the friday evening; Click for a blow up]

The Jaunts

2006-09-17T23:28:00.000-05:00

[Courtesy: ens-newswire; Click snap for a blow up]

Last 3 weekends were faster and busy than the weekdays. I toured around Seattle, Detroit and near Chicago a place called Starved Rock Adventure. All the three trips were fabulous and resplendent. In Seattle I had visited my friends place and he took me to Deception Pass, Snoqualmie Falls and the great Downtown. I loved all the three places and it was a rich experience to see the nature’s beauty coupling tightly with mans craft. Seattle Downtown is small when compared to Chicago but the compactness and the elegance adds more value to it. I also had lots of home food to my delight and with beautiful memories landed back to Chicago.

Then last weekend visited Detroit to another friends place and roamed around the city like Kamal rounding in the Guna movie. Especially the Ford Village was the star attractions and was huge to look around. The town is small and moderate. Everywhere Ford has a place and occupied the whole city. It’s a good place to visit and has many interesting spots.

This weekend went to Starved Rock Adventure [SRA] near Chicago. The main reason I went more than for amusement was a self test. I have recently got a car and started driving locally. But I wanted to test myself and the car to see whether in the freeways of US we run well. The test was successful and around 250 miles was crossed without many hassles. Both the car and I passed in the test scoring 80% :-) [Assessed by narsidude]. It was a good experience and had boosted my confidence level in driving. The SRA has good marine attractions like speed boats, jet skis, and pontoon boats. The self drive in the speed boat was really exciting and loved it to zip around. Next weekend planning to take stay home as the human body needs some rest. Hope I make it and sudden plans don’t arise.

Hee Hee Hee :-)

2006-09-14T18:54:00.000-05:00

"Anna Ava En Pondatti Anna....Please Vitudunga"

[via Forward; Click snap for a blow up]

Google Sweetenings

2006-09-14T00:41:00.000-05:00

[Click snap for a blow up]

Today, I noticed the change in my Google Toolbar. I then checked out the new features and it’s really helpful for all the users for getting a rich browsing experience. For long time I used to carry my favorites as a file from system to system. Every time I add\update my favorites, I send a copy as mail to myself. The new toolbar had relived this pain and you can carry your bookmark wherever you go and Google does it for you. The search box has been modified and really amazing to get list of values as you type in as suggestions\history\Did you mean? Apart from these, providing logon options to Google accounts, send to options, translator and much more. Check more features here.

I like the way they create the tools. They are very simple but cover everything they would like to do. No flashy colors, no big banner but it catches your eyes. Capturing the basic user’s needs and making surfing easier & comfortable. Everybody need is right information at right time. This is what Google is capitalizing and working on it. The bookmark is a kind of your information need, the listing of search values as you type in, and so on. I am curious and like to be an audience at their technical meeting when designing such tools. It’s like wanting to see how they hit the nail. BANG!!

Bothersome experience for a mediocre movie :-(

2006-08-27T16:01:00.000-05:00

[Courtesy: newstodaynet.com]

Vettayadu Vilayadu was showed in Chicago at The Lakehurst theatre, Waukegan. One of my friends asked me to book the ticket through Sulekha. Hence, booked the tickets for Friday 10.00 pm show, with zeal to watch the long awaiting movie. I am now confused which one to explain here, about the movie or the way I watched the movie. I want to say both of these, "என்னன அநத விடுங்க!". It was an irritating experience at the theatre. My whole weekend got screwed up due to this night show.

Around 8.00 pm, I got the news that the 7.00 pm show was cancelled. I then called the theatre and asked is the 10.00 pm show still on? He said no problem at all, please do come. I was relaxed and started around 9.10 pm for having the dinner and then to theatre. I reached around 9.40 pm to the theatre. The moment I entered the theatre I can feel the Chennai air. Oh yeah! People were crowded around the ticket issuer with their print outs and photo identities. They completely encircled him and there was complete disorderliness. In between many other movie watchers thought that the line is for them and after getting their ticket still stood in the line. I was really having fun at the scene. As a fellow Chennaite, got into the sandwich crowd to be part of and rushing to the ticket issuer. Everybody were speeding him as if the movie is running. That’s we; I was feeling really at home. Finally got the tickets and went into the theatre. The theatre was average and Pilot theatre at Royapettah was much better.

The slide shows were running and to highest cardinality, quotes by Jennifer Lopez were screened repeatedly. What should I say, just laughing! One more point is, two of my friends who have come doesn't know Tamil. They have just because the others have called them. At that point we really don’t know the subsequent things that were about to happen. I can see many confused Desis particularly sweet girls of course with westernized clothes. Not just dress to mention but the way they behaved and the postures were itching. I was told by my another friend that a old mama sitting besides him with full butler peter and saying "In Toronto there used to be posters but here nothing. Oh! I could have got my iPod, to listen songs." With a full pan inside his mouth, he was revealing his old stories to heights. Yeah truly fun and time pass to see such characters.

Around 10.15 pm with these interesting things happening around, the movie wasn't still started. I was just commenting with the friends "மச்சி! பொட்டி வரலயா?". After sometime went out to checkout what’s happening??? Still there was good amount of crowd around the ticket issuer and thought myself, may be after everybody getting in they would start the movie. So went back and again waited. It was 10.45, 11.00, 11.15...time was just tickling but still Jennifer Lopez was saying quotes. It was irritating and the crowd started to murmurs, children crying all over and the young professional dads were at critical state with this situation where nobody thought of.

[Confusion at its peak;Click snap for a blow up]

When we went out now again a group was speaking with the ticket issuer and he said the movie box hasn't some yet, it’s near the theatre and be here in 10 mins. Oh man! What was said as a joke was happening. "நெஜமவே பொட்டி வரல ஹி!ஹி!" .Every 10 mins you go and ask the organizer, he would say next 5-10 minutes. Time was running and it was 11.30 pm. The crowd became cut loose and started yelling at the organizer. Actually it was bad planning. When I got a chance I asked one of the organizers, why the hell did you posted ad for movie tickets when you haven't got the box. You should have posted after you got it. It’s bad to make people wait for such long hours in night with entire family. Kids were really suffering a lot which was pathetic. At 11.40 pm the box had come but they haven't started the movie. When enquired the movie reels has to be loaded into the projector manually and there are 9 boxes. Each would take around 5 mins and so more 45 mins. Shucks! It’s getting worse. People who did not see 7 pm show which was cancelled were waiting for the 10.00 pm show. Since they have come long way of 100 miles. But things weren't under control of anyone.

Finally the movie started at 12.30 am and by that time few already left. Around 1.45 am interval slide was shown and the movie was continued. After interval the characters in the movie were upside down. I was thinking its something Gautham was technically doing. But no it was the reel loaders work. Alas! The frustration was to the core. The projector guy has loaded in the reverse direction. Again the organizers were held but this time more vigorously. Since after waiting for hours and half way the movie of it’s said no more movie. Nobody accepted. The projector guy had left the place when the movie started and he was called back. Full chaos around the place. He came after 45 mins running and started looking into the issue. Around 3.00 am the issue was fixed. The movie started again and ended at 4.30 am. Came back home with pain and the following days got screwed up. It was one of the irritating and worse experiences that I had for an ordinary movie.

The movie started right away with entry of Kamal with no heroics stunts in 2 minutes of opening. I was thinking Gautham would have done a different approach. Kamal was looking really big on screen. Though he is getting older, I can't assume that he hasn't payed attention at his looks on screen. He was blotting and did not fit in the dresses of a cop. The movie was about a story of cop investigating a case and finding out the culprits. This is the tagline of the story. All the expectations and interest of Gautham were broken. It can be said as an extension of Kakha Kakha or part II of it. If Gautham wouldn't have taken Kakha Khaka and taken this as first, it would have been a sure shot hit. But after that, this has nothing special in it. The story line, casts, song picturization, fight sequences, screenplay, characterizations...everything has strong resemblances of Kakha Kakha. I think the same story with Kamal and with a different climax was taken.

Gautham with yet another cop movie, chasing two cyco serial killers. He could have taken the story here in India but what is the need to go till New York and shoot is not clear. Might be to get a richer look?!?!?! There are many loop holes in the screen play. What’s the reason for the cyco serial killers to be like it, what was the reason that a heroine leaving behind 2 months child back in home and search a job in USA, is it so easy to get a ticket from JFK to India as just boarding a moffusil bus in our town, How can a taxi driver with blood spots all over the short allow the serial killers to drop in the airport...So many questions raise in our mind which are unanswered. He could have made the plot more interesting as the first half which he fails miserably to do in the second part. Also the usage of same person’s everywhere from his earlier movies makes even more bore. As a director, with the big add on Kamal, he could have done a much better script. I doubt that he hasn't got out from his earlier cop flick and still want to pursue with it. But if he continues to head on with these stereo type movies, he is sure to burn his ass.

Kamal has done his job. But we miss the old Aadhi in him. He is lost in this movie. Few more care could have given to his looks as cop which definitely he would have thought about. But what had stopped him in executing is a question. Apart from it, this is like a usual Kamal movie. Actually he doesn’t have much to do for his caliber. His character can be done by another upcoming hero which would have boosted him. But for Kamal...hmm...not for him. Also few dialogues weren't acceptable for Kamal or the cop characters of Gautham. Like "Back home its called Raghavan instinct". "I feel good when I speak with you. Actually everybody says the same when they speak with me." Such self proclaims is neither good signs for Kamal or Gautham’s cop characters. It should be implicit but not explicitly specified. It’s yet another Kamal flick and fans of him would enjoy seeing him on screen.

Jothika has done pretty neat job. She reveals her emotions with the body under control. Its one of the good movie she could add on in her list. But she looks pale in most of the places. As if she hasn’t slept properly and also she has reduced a bit. Another heroine Kamalini Mukherjee, Wow! She looks damn cute:-) She just comes in for couple of scenes. But marks you with her pleasant smile and the romantic compositions with Kamal. She would be a noticeable person in the upcoming movies. Her looks really kill you; with a small portion of teeth coming in front adds more romantic effect to her face. The acting scope is less but with the given chance she has done well.

The camera work was awesome and few places it was really appreciable. Technically as the earlier flick this has good camerawork. But technical things alone don’t make the movie different. Truly, Harris has done a remarkable work in his music. I like all the songs and the way it’s been captured on screen is worth watching. He has done his job well and deserves a loud applaud. Apart from it most of the characters come and move along the movie.

The movie is going to be a sure shot box office hit. But it cannot be tagged as a good piece in Gautham’s diary.

People's Network - Stay Tuned

2006-08-20T23:58:00.000-05:00

"orkut is an Internet social network service run by Google and named after its creator, Google employee Orkut Büyükkökten. It claims to be designed to help users meet new friends and maintain existing relationships. Similar to Friendster and MySpace, orkut goes a step further by permitting "communities" of users. It is also invitation-only: users must be invited to join the community by someone who's already there..." Continue here.

I was introduced to Orkut couple of months back. I like the way it makes you connected to other people. Through a single friend you can be connected to the whole network. That’s the concept. You can mail or write a piece of message to anyone known as scrap. You can add your personal\professional profiles and also photo gallery.

One more thing which I like is the community. As how you have in tech forums, but here it is again message pinups. Any new technology has its own potential threats, so do Orkut has from strangers and hackers. But still if it’s been used properly as a service, then it really helps you to stay well connected.

What’s our base? Is it shaken?

2006-08-14T20:30:00.000-05:00

Look at here, here, here and here. I am really confused on reading these stuffs. What are we up to, just for the rankings like the Top 10 stuff in SUN TV. Nope I don't think so!! I believe we as a part of literate community write blogs on what we think, want to discuss, like to pass on, like to express or just as a pin up for future archive. Everybody within themselves is great minds. Nobody is less nor high without comparisons. Each one has their distinct qualities which other might not be having or lacking.

I was assuming that blogging is just ones passion or a habit or a time slice or an interest. But seeing these it’s no longer the same as assumed. It goes in an incorrect direction. There is always a better person than one in each arena. There is also person below you and you are above for few. It’s is all part of life and it goes on. But tying up with business and personal interests jolts down to weird reactions. Look at the comments at all the above links. It’s worse than words exchanged between slum gangsters during a clash. It is neither a good sign nor beneficial to any one. It just cultivates the poison tree funda read in my old school days.

Does the hit rate so significant or the ranking given by any of them out there have an impact? If you have started the blogging with back in my mind with the hit rates or ranking then you have failed in first place. These tools are measures to motivate you to take serious on the way you write or making you feel good. It’s also like a helper given the readers choice on what they would like to go with. It is a kind of pat given to you on your work done till now and doesn't mean you are the one, at least in the blog arena. Perarasu films are block busters these days when compared to Bharathiraja or Manirathnam movies. Does it mean he is best of all? Again there is always a better one than the other and it continues. It’s all how we take it and how we continue to go with our passions. If you take these it in a right spirits and not getting any horns up there then you are saved and blessed. I get 500 mails for a day from my system when compared to my higher hierarchy. So my mail box has more traffic when compared to him. Does it make any sense to me?

Come on dudes, we as a group should collectively do for cause when needed or continue our interest without these distractions. There is so much potential in this area and never know what would happen in future. This field has gained so much popularity among most of the power\non-power users and the clash for no reason is like spitting above facing upwards.

I have expressed just my thoughts and have no intention to hurt anybody. Felt the way things happened wasn't good. Finally everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die!!

Truly
Narsidude

Professor John Nash

2006-08-13T01:18:00.000-05:00

[Courtesy: imdb.com;Click snap for a blow up]

I was watching the movie Bourne Supremacy for second time in DVD. I was having another DVD on my table. My roomies saw it and told to switch from the current movie and watch the other one. I then got to know about the movie and after couple of days watched it. It was really a fantastic movie which got to my stupid mind. The movie was Beautiful Mind. It was about a Nobel Prize winner for his work on Mathematics John Nash. The whole play was an awesome experience to watch the biography of such a versatile personality. I got to know a real great person and the works done by him. The movie was based on the biography book of John Nash with alterations to make the on screen interesting. Two pieces I got touched. One was the support given by his wife when he was suffering from the mental illness. The final Nobel Prize stage and the speech he delivers, Wow. He states about problems, solution and logics. Finally ending up to point his wife and says she was his logic with love and affection.

The director and virtual Nash on screen have done excellent work. Russell Crowe has done a neat job for the role he has taken. Every piece had come as just its happening\happened in reality. Every body has done a great work. Wish that such movies with interesting screen play can be done in Tamil as we had\have great minds with us. It was truly a wonderful movie to watch. Finally John Nash himself was shown on the screen to pass Russel the information that he has won the prize was a surprise pack which I knew after seeing the making of movie.

The makeup and the background score were perfect. The aging sequence of Nash was shown as natural as it can be. Also the back ground score was ease with the play going upfront. After watching I couldn't resist myself and googled on Nash to know more about him. As a movie it was lovely to watch and it was a thorough enjoyment.

(P.S:- Watched Step Up and World Trade Center. Step Up is good and pretty fast play. A different genre from the usual thriller, dishum movies. World Trade Center hmmmm...When reality is just shown as such without the spices added in it, it draaaaaaaaaaaaaaaags)

Eventually got it !!

2006-08-09T23:56:00.000-05:00

[Courtesy:freewillblog]

One of the necessary components of living in USA is to know driving and a four wheeler. Decided to go for the first part of the component. The first thing to be completed is a computer test to get a Instruction permit. After getting a permit you can drive a car accompanied by a valid driver license holder of that state. You need to get license for each state.Grrrr....Then went of couple of classes to get the road feel and left hand steer. After getting enough confidence, took friends car to drive around my place as practice.

Then the day was decided for the launch of road test. When I went out there, it was crowded and sunny. The examiner was keen in watching each and every movement of mine during the test. Everything was fine except the last piece. When a cross over to left alley came, I did not turn immediately and took extra time giving right of way for the vehicles coming in the other directions. During that moment another test vehicle came behind me and started honking. This made the situation bit tensed and I became the prey of it. I was told to redo the same some other day. Alas it wasn't my day :-( I decided immediately in mind that I have to get the license within a week at any cost. It pricked my ego and did not want to give it up.

Immediately within a couple of days went again for redoing the test. This time decided that at any turn I would not wait too long and take sharp cuts. I was having in mind I will get it, if not never going to apply. Everything went well and parked the car in the slot specified. Got down and the examiner called me for a moment. He said your turns were terrible [Ayiiigaa], apart from it everything is fine. Please try to do slow in turns. That’s it "Say cheese and a click".

One more thing I used to think, on traveling out of your home land. Since you are traveling long and you need to set things right, you would be trying to be focused on what you want and execute it. As well as back home, you would to settle down the things before you start. This makes you hassle free when you return back home. For example I was there at home for so many years never applied for a four wheeler license or thought about. When the necessity comes, under pressure made it out with in a week. Like wise your accounts, documents filing...everything would be set right by you. The same you which you would be always thinking to do, but when the time comes you do everything which could have been done much earlier slowly. But fine never late, my point was when you travel long, back at home you would make it a discipline one and also here which you are forced to do due to the essentials.