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Personal Invitation

2008-11-08T06:21:00.000-08:00

Friends,

Attaching the personal invitation. Please try to make your presence to my marriage.
Contact Gnana, mahadevan, sarathy and coordinate among yourselves for making it.

Consider this as my formal invitation. I will also invite all those personally who are in my coverable area of travel.

நிகழ்ச்சி நிரல்

2008-11-03T00:00:00.000-08:00

பெண் வீட்டார் அழைப்பு

நாள் : சர்வதாரி கார்த்திகை திங்கள் 5 ஆம் நாள்

நேரம் : 6-30 to 9-00, ஆதவன் சாயும் காலம்

இட‌ம்: வன்னிய குல க்ஷ்த்ரியர் மண்டபம், ஷங்கர் நகர், சேலம்‍‍-7

திருமணம்

நாள் : சர்வதாரி கார்த்திகை திங்கள் 6 ஆம் நாள்

முகூர்த்தம்: 6-15 to 7-15 அதிகாலை

இட‌ம்: வன்னிய குல க்ஷ்த்ரியர் மண்டபம், ஷங்கர் நகர், சேலம்‍‍-7

வரவேற்பு

நாள் : சர்வதாரி கார்த்திகை திங்கள் 12 ஆம் நாள்

முகூர்த்தம்: 6-30 to 9-00, ஆதவன் சாயும் காலம்

இட‌ம்: கே.எம். மஹால், குறுக்கு வழி சாலை, மதுரை (ஏர்டெல் அலுவலகம் அருகில்)

Bride groom Reception

Date: 23rd November 2008 , Sunday

Time: 6-30 to 9-00 P.M

Place: Vanniya kula kshatriar Mandapam, Shankar nagar, Salem -7

Wedding

Date: 24 November 2008 , Monday

Muhurtham: 6-15 to 7-15 A.M

Place: Vanniya kula kshatriar Mandapam, Shankar nagar, Salem -7

Bride Reception

Date: 30 November 2008 , Sunday

Time: 6-30 to 9-00 P.M

Place: K.M Mahal, Bye Pass road,(Near Airtel office) Madurai.

பெற்றோர்களின் அழைப்பிதழ்

2008-11-02T22:27:00.000-08:00

As per gnana's request attaching the invitation. Will attach the personal invitation also very soon.

நான் கோகுல் வந்துருக்கேன்

2008-10-28T02:18:00.000-07:00

Hi friends,

Yes. Friends, If you've heard it, it is true. Well, if you have not, sorry but I've to thank myself and my other very,very,very good friends who have kept it a secret.

I'm getting married this november 24th 2008. The bride's name is Rajasuriya. She works in HCL Technologies. (The very same company I'm working in).

The Parents' Invitation is ready. My personal one will be ready within a week, I hope.

Everyone, please do attend the function.

Date : 24th November 2008
Place: Vanniya Kula Kshatriar Kalyana Mandapam.
Time: 6-15 to 7-15 A.M

O.K. the next part is dedicated to my close friends who feel either irritated or sad that I've not shared the news with them long back. (Yes, it is a pretty long back news. Kind of two years old)

If you feel too bad, no excuses can justify my actions. But if you guys allow me to, I have some.

If you have been my college friend, you would have seen me as someone who never takes anything serious in his life. And when it comes to failures, a complete crib baby. Well, I did not want you guys to see me like that in this. It was seriously the first serious thing that I encountered in my life. So, I hope you understand my situation guys.

I have felt a lot bad when some of you have shared your personal life when exactly at the same minutes, i've struggled to keep mine as a secret. Whether it a car trip or marriage dinner, I promise you all that I felt really bad and sad about myself.

So, that is it. The news has been shared. I don't know how many of you visit my blog, but I want to share this FIR to those who care to visit my blog. Keep watching this space. Will come with more details.

Title of the next Colloquial Collage movie released

2008-05-02T02:38:00.000-07:00

The title of the much awaited movie of the year has been released. In an official press conference held at some place at some time surrounded by a hell lot of some press persons, the movie's title was unveiled.

The board members were all sombre looking as it is rumored that the title has been leaked out unofficially.

Regarding the movie, the director was hoping that the movie will do justice to the time it took to get completed. He said the movie will satisfy the hype it has created and he is extremely happy with the new hero's commitment to the movie.

One reporter tried to irk the director by asking if it is not a bit too much to introduce a star with the tag "Puthiya Thalapathy". The director was all smiles and he proved himself to be a cool head by answering "After watching the movie, no one will be complaining."

It should be noted that till this time even the star's PHOTO has not been revealed. Hope the director proves his point or it will be a big bombshell to his banner "Colloquial Collage".

Guru is Aviator

2007-11-18T20:28:00.000-08:00

The latest talk that goes with GURU in Chennai should be Azhagiya Thamizh magan "GURU". (What a majestic parfamanz by thalapathy?) This GURU is Manirathnam's "GURU" and of course you all know AVIATOR. I believe every film maker gets his/her script or the base crux for the movie from either of the following two options.
1) A novel / Short Story or other forms of literature.
2) A sequence or scenes from another movie/ play or other visual media.
( Very rarely do people make a film out of nothing. Again, I believe so..)

So, I have this rather "this scene/sequence/character may be inspired from that film" sort of connecting behavior. Some find them to be rather stupid outwardly.

like this one. "Bommarillu", a Telugu movie which is now remade into Tamil under the name "Santhosh subramaniyam", starring Jeyam Ravi could be possibly inspired by the amazing "Finding Nemo". The reason being, the crux for both the movies is Over parenting. Some do not accept this because of simple logic. How would a south Indian movie maker get inspired to make a story of a happy family from a Animation movie which deals with the lives of fishes? இப்டி தான் மடக்கி புடுராங்கப்பா.

Or try this one. Many think that Avvai shanmughi is inspired by or to be honest acquired from Mrs.Doubt fire. But, the affairs that Shanmughi maami has ( Mudhaliar, Viswanatha Iyer) is very similar to the affiars that Dorothy Michaels has in TOOTSIE.

May be this one is closer. The character Sasi is heavily drafted upon Kay corleone of Godfather II. At least the sequence where Sasi does an abortion of her own child should be the inspiration for that character's birth.

So, in the list, the latest entry is AVIATOR's comparison with Guru. I should say something for sure. Indian cinema is a larva if Hollywood is a Butterfly. It has to cross a long way to be at least compared with Hollywood. The statement said above is very very true, but the reason for that statement is a deadlock of various issues.

O.K. The reason why I say that Mani should be inspired from Aviator to form Guru is as follows.
1) Aviator is directed by Martin Scorsese. This Guy is just awesome. Just Awesome. I don't know where he fits in the league of extra ordinary directors in Hollywood. So, a great like Mani should be inspired by the work of another great.
2) The concept of the movie. Both are almost Biographies of two men., In fact, two Entrepreneurs.
3) Both of them are period films.
4) Both the movies revolve around real life characters.
5) Both of the movies are politically based to some extent.
6) And Your honor, Here comes my main witness. The climax of the movie. In both the movies, the protagonists are interrogated in court in the climax. And to be more clear, both of them are handicapped in some way and they overcome them in this climax sequence which is supposed to show the courage and fierceness of the protagonist.

Having said the connections between the two movies, now I ask myself, which of the two is the better movie? Clearly and very clearly, it is AVIATOR. My God, if somebody say Gilli or Okkadu is known for pacy screen play, they should watch this movie. My God, Di caprio rocks. He is one among the very few white chocolate boy heroes I like. He rules the screen with his presence. Abishek also gave an impressive performance. His emotions when he sits next to his wrist-slain chacha ( I believe so) and his reactions when his brother-in-law reveals to aishwarya-rai (guru's wife) that Guru married her for the sake of dowry are amazing.

Perhaps, it is the characterisation of the protagonists and the other characters that makes the difference between the two films. Howard Hughes is an eccentric guy and despite his father has left his a lots of wealth, he does not seem to enjoy them spending luxuriously. In fact, when he has dinner with the wealthy family of Katherine,her mother, considering herself a socialist, tells him that "we don't care about money," he shoots back, "That's because you've always had it," in effect exposing the Hepburns as snobs and hypocrites. He has an hearing problem and he is affected with OCD which gives Dicaprio an enormous chance to portray the character meticulously and at the same time in a grandeur manner. But the background and the development of GURU's early life is very simple, except for his angry father. It is true that he is a simpleton. There could still be some more care taken on this.

Now, among the reasons which I quote for saying that Guru stands next to aviator is the climax scene. Guru, who is affected by paralytic stroke speaks fluently in the emotional climax scenes and exactly after finishing his verses, his mouth gets the bad shape again. Come on, show the true color of the man in distress. If he is weakened by some illness, he has to be brave enough to accept it first and then overcome it. When one of the antagonists, Mr.Brewster in a public hearing tries to humiliate a hearing impaired Hughes by repeating his words and asks " Does this bother you?", Hughes bravely replies "No problem sir, Everyone knows that I have a hearing problem". Also, when Hughes fights the group of conglomerates single handedly (al though Ava helps him to get into better shape, he faces the hearings himself), Guru is a bit weaker as he is supported by his Wife throughout the hearings. (In fact, she has a bunch of punch dialogues).

Again, Like all other mani films, he wants to force an end. (In Ayudha eZhuthu, he has tried a bit different). He doesn't look to believe in climaxes that doesn't end a story. Like Bombay, Dil se, here again for the sake of showing the protagonist's win, the climax dialogues have a lot of non-sense references. Also, the film has a lot of mani-touches though it is no more unique to show them as mani-touches. Some of them are the Feel-good and Feed-hope concept by showing children singing hope songs, heroine enjoying in rain ( I swear on my mother that out of all the land I have travelled, never I have seen a woman enjoying herself getting wet in rain.), romance between the main pair. ( The saving point was the chemistry between Abishek and Aishwarya).

On the other hand, after his victory in the public hearings at a celebrating party, Hughes feels that the darkness still surrounds him, and he knows that madness due to the OCD is inevitable As the film ends, he keeps muttering "the way of the future...the way of the future", emphasising the link between his business genius and his mental illness. Cool man.

O.K I believe that this ending may not be the best recipe for the Indian audience, but GURU is not the best recipe from MANI. I accept the facts. I have stopped nagging about the songs in Indian movies. O.K.. I believe that Indian movies are known for them being musical and fine, but isn't it time for at least some changes in the characterisation of atleast the main characters.

Guru has it's own positive areas which Aviator lacks. Mani is known for the way of showing both the sides of the argument in a unbiased way. Like in Roja, (Nasser-Madhubala sequence) here also he shows the characters of Guru and Nanaji in an unbiased manner.

Feel good?

2007-06-17T08:25:00.000-07:00

Recently, I had a chance to view my first ever French movie "Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain, Le " (in short, Amelie). There was some high recommendations from some intellectual sources (who else can be my intellectual sources, Gnana தான்) and also from IMDB.It is such a good film that it's quality exceeds the threshold of being reviewed by me. I try to blog this for a different purpose.
Whenever I watch a good foreign movie, I always get a question in my heart - Why can't India produce or accept such movies? Why don't we accept or enjoy such down to earth, yet awesome trends? Well, this movie brought more questions about Indian movies.
To Start with, here is Amelie's story in a short version.
Amélie is a story about a young girl, named Amélie whose childhood was suppressed by her Father's concerns of a heart defect. With these concerns Amélie gets hardly any real life contact with other people. This leads Amélie to resort to her own fantastical world and dreams of love and beauty. She later on becomes a young woman and moves to the central part of Paris as a waitress. After finding a lost treasure belonging to the former occupant of her apartment, she decides to return it to him. After seeing his reaction and his new found perspective - she decides to devote her life to the people around her. Such as, a failed writer, a hypochondriac, a man obsessed with a gnome, a man who stalks his ex girlfriends, the "ghost", a suppressed young soul, the love of her life and a man whose bones are made of glass. But after consuming herself with these escapades - she finds out that she is disregarding her own life and damaging her quest for love. Amélie then discovers she must become more aggressive and take a hold of her life and capture the beauty of love she has always dreamed of.
A good review by a Mr.Spragg_s ( I stole this because as i said earlier this blog is not a review of Amelie.)
It is praised as one of the best feel good movies ever and with my knowledge about feel good movies limited to Vikraman's, Yash chopra's, Karan Johar's movies, i can reassure that a 100 times. This is what is supposed to be a feel good movie. Basically, a feel good movie is just not a movie that ends in a positive, encouraging tone , but it is that starts and goes on with that. The good thing about Amelie is that the fact that she volunteers herself to bring smiles and happiness in her friend's and everyone's lives in her day-today life. And again the beauty is the reason why she chooses it. She finds a lost treasure of a kid who lived some 30 years back in her apartment and she plans to give it back to him only to make a choice of her life- If the treasure brings a change in the man's life she will become a regular do-gooder and if not be more of an introvert. (in which she chooses the first option.)
Well, for a reader who has not witnessed the magic of Amelie ( கொஞ்சம் over தான்), the immediate question will be " Have you not seen Poove Unakkaga (Tamil) or Kal Ho na Ho (Indian) or any of Karan Johar's movies?" Mmm, the difference between the Indian feel good movies to Amelie is simply it is very simple and yet so graceful and characterised to perfection. If not clear, here are my reasons.
1) A do-gooder need not be an extrovert as Shahrukh-khan in Kal-Ho-Na-Ho who is liked by everyone in the neighborhood for his extra-ordinary skills of being cool even in harder times. Amelie on the other hand is an introvert to that extend that even when her lover (whom she has been longing for) asks if she is the one who is behind the lot of things that has happened in his recent past, she says "No" just because she do not have any idea of how to go forward after she says Yes to him. This is in precedence to the Famous "Melting down" of Amelie where in despair of just losing a great chance, Amelie sighs like a furnace and melts down like water.
2) The do-gooder need not have a bad past to start his career as a do-gooder. Like having blood-cancer or chronic heart condition or a love-failure ( which is as worse as the other two). In the case of Amelie, the bad part of her life is her childhood where she is considered to be having a heart disease ( I had a bad craze to learn French just to get the actual,full view of the commentary that goes during these scenes.). Apart from that, her life takes a turn only when she finds the lost treasure of the kid.
3) Doing good is not as complex as saving a bankrupt family business or bridging the gap between two extremes of characters or to act as a non-existing character to fight for a true love (even though the lady love was someone whom you are longing for) (whooh, too difficult to narrate even in words.) Doing good is something that can be done by bringing a change in the blind man' s normal day by describing how the day really is. ( This scene is very short, crisp and yet amazingly long in thoughts and feel-good ness).

Hoping these three points fetch me enough points to prove my original point- There is still no feel-good movie in India still now,I go towards the other reasons why I've fallen in love with Amelie.
1) Audrey Tatou- This cute actress who has also played the Agent Sophie Neveu in Da Vinci code. If only you recognised the face immediately in either of the movies ( after seeing the other movie) in only 5 minutes, you can go ahead and apply for this post. Her face is so cute and the her smiles are so kiddish and cute and she looks no more than 18 to me.
2) Paris - The romance is in the air. The art and the architecture is simply amazing and it has topped my list in my Honey-moon destinations. Though I'm no world-traveler, I truly believe that Europe has a more natural Life-style than the more-artificial American lifestyle.
3) Color treatment- The color treatment of the movie is cool. In most of the movie, the frames will be tinted with green, yet you will not find it to be irritating or monotonous. It is purely because of the shades that they have used through out the movie. For example, in the scene when her father plants the gnome in the garden, the green tint will be very light and in the scene where she finds her love in the tunnel-rail station searching for photos, the shade is a bit darker.
4) Again, Audrey tatou.. Oh my God. She is so cute.

I found some critics found this movie a bit unrealistic for its depiction of a picturesque vision of contemporary French society, a postcard universe of a bygone France with few people from ethnic minorities . If the director was trying to create an idyllic vision of a perfect Paris, the critics argued, he seemed to think that it was necessary to remove nearly all black people from the scene in order to do so. Also, it has been rejected by Cannes as it is "Uninteresting". But I really loved this movie.

A day with prostitute - PART 1

2007-01-03T21:06:00.000-08:00

How does the title sound to you? Disgusting? Erotic? or Romantic? Anyhow this was not an attempt to do things differently. At the end of the post you'll find that the title is not a bad choice.

At last, i've come to america fully. Yes,, fully. Last week, only 50% of me arrived to U.S.A. காதல் லாம் ஒன்னும் இல்லீங்க! Baggage வரல. அத தான் அப்டி poetic ஆ சொன்னேன். If it was heights of frustration whenever i went to airport for any updates,(They never say anything confirmed.Looks like somebody inserted the conveyor belt in the wrong loop and a whole lot of 500 baggages were made orphans) it was heights of intense worry for my parents at each night when i call them.( ஏம்மா! ஏழரை சனிக்கும் இதுக்கும் என்னமா சம்மந்தம்).It was in one of those extremely irritating trips, i saw her.

I have seen her somewhere.முத தடவ பாத்தாலும் ரொம்ப நாள் பாத்த முகம் மாதிரி இருக்...... (டேய், இந்த color ல பொண்ணை யெல்லாம் நீ hostel room ல இருட்டு ல தானே பாத்திருக்கே?) சை! சை! This is one of the main disabilities i have. (Keeping beside my color, physique,சோடா புட்டி). My innnner self. One of the prime reasons why i'm still single. பொண்ணுங்களே பரவால்லனு சொன்னா கூட அரிச்சந்திரன் மாதிரி ... நாய்

I turned my head up and started counting the designs on the ceiling. They are expecting the flight by 6:30 P.M. I may get a positive reply within 9:00 P.M. Then i have to catch a taxi and go to my room. (எனக்கும் சமச்சானுங்களானு வேற தெரியல). I should've frowned to such extent that my moisturer-less lips started to cut.OOhh. I caught my mouth and brought my head down. By the time i could control, my ஜொள்ளு started flowing through my fingers. As usual, my first reaction was to look around if there is anyone looking at me than trying to wipe my ஜொள்ளு. To my worst embarrasement, the same girl was looking at me (not staring). I've improved a lot in handling these bad embarrasments. I picked up a napkin near-by and smiled and gave her good morning wishes.

I forgot that it was nearing 8:30 in the night. She also should have forgot that. She told me that she is also waiting for the baggage.ஏழரை சனியாவது ? மண்ணாவது ? She felt a lot for my situation when i said that this is the first time i've been to a foreign nation. I was asking whether she boarded from London or it was a connection flight. Before she answered, there was this strange word coming from the loud-speaker. பளாஜி சந்துனம் !! பளாஜி சந்துனம் !!. அடப் பாவிகளா ! அது பாலாஜி சந்தானம் டா. After 7-10 minutes..Hurrah.. I got my baggage. I turned to show my cheerful face to .... what was her name? anyway, i could not find it anymore as she was not there. She was moving towards the exit and waved her hands towards me. ஆண்டவன பாக்கனும்..அவனுக்கு ஊத்தனும்..

Some days later....

Mmm. This is the best place to enjoy a book. No disturbances. Not even a human near by. Oh, there is a girl jogging (என்னா Structure டா) and there are some grannies with their small dogs. Well, I cannot believe my uncle has suddenly become a writer. The book's title is "French open". Mm,when i asked him the reason for the title, he said he is planning for a series of novels. Something of this Harry-potter sort (The crazy stuff) and he is planning to name them as U.S. open, Australian open and the final part as Wimbledon Mmm. Nice idea.... Wow!! Price house publication. The cover is designed just brilliantly. A man with a gun and the outlet is misty. The man's face looks like an indian's face. Ooooh ! It's 11:00 A.M already. This always happens. I start at something and do everything except that. O.K Let me start. "Excuse me"-- Who is this pleading for my excuse? Yes..you are right. Whatever i express, it would be a waste of words. Your guess is correct. It is the same girl standing there.

I cannot exactly say what i was trying for. But hey stop.. You cannot call this "Flaunting". and not "Blushing" too. Actually this is a mixture of the both. Yeeeeah.She sat in the same bench. (மனசாட்சி: டேய் ! ஒரே bench தான்டா இருக்கு). She was also having a book and my god! she was also having the same book. இது போதாதா ! Next few minutes,we were talking from Stephen king's "CELL" to Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night". Both came to stage where it became a necessity to talk about ourselves. I explained about me more than required and then asked about her. We laughed at the fact that we were talking for almost 20 minutes without each other names. Her name is Martha.(மனசாட்சி: Huckleberry fin ஓட ஆயா பேர் மாதிரி இருக்கு). She said that she works in a stripclub as a Lap dancer. For பப்பாஸ் like me, check this.

Now, my brain nerves and each of the dendrites completely refused to make a Synapse. I behaved very badly and soon recognised that this may insult her. I immediately tried to switch topics and we mutually answered some stupid questions. It was silence and then i asked the question that initiated an impact in my whole life. "Is it not disgusting to be a lap dancer?". Why the hell did i ask that? I was expecting a slap or her immediate exit. But she was quiet and she was looking at her lace-less shoes. I guessed that she would be planning to falsely trap me to 911. (மனசாட்சி: மாப்ள ! ரெடியா இருடா).I was ready for everything. She looked up my face and she shrugged her shoulders and said

Martha: Hmm, no one has ever asked me this question. Are you from India?
Me: How did you find that out?
Martha: I've read some novels that revolves around the indian culture. Wherein wife is also supposed to kill herself after the husband dies.
Me: No.No. Those practices have been stopped and banned these days.
Martha: I too know that. But still, wives has to give respect to their "Mangal Sutra" and pray for that sacred thread in "Durga devi" temple.
Me: (மனசாட்சி: மாப்ள! N.R.I மாதிரி இருக்கு டா) That is just amazing. Do you have an indian ancestral background.
Martha : No. Don't worry. I will not ask you to marry me. (She smiled, in a ridiculing way at me). I've heard that Taxi drivers rape girls when girls wear dress other than traditional dress.

Now,the indian blood in my body was getting filled with adrenalin.

Me: Hey, wait.. rapes happen in all parts of the world.
Martha: Oh ! calm down. I was just telling you the facts that i've read before.
Me: O.K tell me something about your job. Do you really have a GO for that job?
Martha: Well, I never feel bad about what i'm doing. I'm paid very good and ... and.. it doesn't disturb my normal life any way. Why is that you are interested so much about this job?
Me: Just keen to get facts. (I winked at her). Now tell me this. You specifically read indian base novels or you read all culture-based stuff.
Martha: No.I very specifically read this indian novels. I think it was the book by Vathsayanar that initiated my interest. But i very rarely get those stuff and really after Kamasutra,i've never found any of those stuff and it is equally very weird that except for that book, other writers always shy away from sex.
Me: Haven't you read any of the Kushwant singh or Shoba De stuff?
Martha: No and i've another fact for you. Every indians whom i've lap-danced with have come out terribly fast.
Inner self:Now,,, is this a compliment?
Without knowing how to go forward, I just wanted to retribute.
Me: You've not answered my first question still.
Martha: Oh ! that. As i said before this is the first time i've ever been asked to see the job in this "disgusting" way. To be frank, it has been disgusting some times,but those were only times and.. wait, are you looking at me like a Devdasi?
Me: If that doesn't hurt you, yeah i'm looking at you like a prostitute.
Martha: A what?
Me: I'm sorry. But, I'm an indian and as you should be knowing i've to think that way.
Martha: Now,now, Answer with an Yes or no. Do YOU feel disgusted about the prostitutes?
Me: Yeah! I feel disgusted.
Martha: But... But why?

Inner self: This is going in a correct way.

Me: Because, they are making a job of that which is supposed to be private between the two souls.

I wanted to lecture a lot. But வார்த்தை! வார்த்தை! தான் முட்டிடுச்சு.

Martha: That's just crap like some of those who talk about the culture and shying away from sex.
Me: Let it be. That is how i or in fact we talk.
Martha: Have you ever been to a prostitute?
Me: No. Never will i do that.
Martha: Have you ever talked with a prostitute or have you just behaved to a prostitute the same way you talk with normal strangers ?
Me: No.I mean, i've never stayed closed with a prostitute to answer your question.

It was quiet for sometime as we both knew that the coversation is dead and it is just string of allegations that is happening.

Martha: Can you come for a date with me next sunday?
I couldn't have come out with a more strange reply than what i said.
Me: Why?
Martha: No reasons. You are a boy and i'm calling you for a date.
Inner self : Be a man. Be a man. Say yes. Say yes.
Me: Yes.

That is it and my date with a prostitute is fixed.

கல்யாணமாம் கல்யாணம்

2006-12-11T05:29:00.000-08:00

When i started this blog, i was in one karai, now i'm in another karai. Once one of the greatest philosophers told " Writing blog is like chewing a chewing-gum. It is sweet in the start. But as u proceed, your teeth gets tired of chewing it. (That philosopher is none other than Our sammu boy). Lots of things happened between the time when i initially drafted it to the time i'm posting it. Especially my notions about persons like shyam is entirely changed. Will blog that seperately.

Here's what i started actually.

Well, I have nothing else to start apart from saying “Time is running at an unbelievable pace”. It is speeding at such a pace that the boy who was among a real set of amateurs is really finding it difficult to attend all the marriages for which he is invited to. ஐயையே ! ஒரே கஷ்டமப்பா ! நான் வரலேன்னா தாலியே கட்ட மாட்டேங்கறாங்கப்பா ! I'm attending a lot of marriages these days even if my presence is not really needed there. I'm just adding some photos that some of my regular blog grazers would love to have a look at. (If needed, you can download it. These photos are not copyrighted.)

This is Thiruchenduran. Hope most of you remember him. We (JSK and me) attended his sister's marriage and did our regular duties. I did not take the photos of the couple. Cellphone வச்சு Scene போடறதுக்கு ரொம்ப வெக்கமாவே இருக்கு டா.Now that thiru's sisters are married, there are no legal or family obstacles for thiru to marry.

Though this photo is not of much importance here, just to remind you of our class sallai, I’m posting his ஓரளவுக்கு recent photo here. I need another blog to explain his sallai when we traveled from egmore to his uncle's home. ஐயையோ ! எனக்கு அமெரிக்கா வ பத்தி சும்மா புட்டு புட்டு வச்சான் டா. அட அட அடா ! என்னா ஒரு slang ?, என்னா ஒரு style?. இனிமேல் யாராவது அமெரிக்கா போகணும்னா please contact shyam for geo-understanding.

அடுத்தாக நாம் காணவிருக்கும் கல்யாணம், நமது மூதாதையர் கல்யாணம். ம்ம். நம்ம seniors archana, sanjeeth marriage. We ( Karthik srnivas and me) went and met some interesting friends. It was really a fun-filled occasion.

Marriages are supposed to be a get together for a family and I witnessed a lot of happiness inside the mandapam. An overwhelmed grand-mother ( not sure whether of sanjeeth’s or archana’s) was full of tears when she sprinkled flowers with wishes from her heart. Sanjeeth was as cool as always. I never got a chance to talk with archana. Of course, she was joyous. Her sari color was too good. As a good topping to a tasty icecream, the பந்தி சாப்பாடு was too good.

Next, in our list comes the marriage of Vasudevan Santhanakrishnan. யாருடா அதுனு முழிக்கறீங்களா ? நம்ம gnanu வோட அண்ணா டா. Without an ounce of sarcasm I say this, “It should be really bad for gnanu to miss such an occasion to one of his dear ones. “ I really feel for you da Gnanu, சத்தியமா joke அடிக்கலே டா.” (ச்சை ! நான் ஒரு matter serious ஆ பேசனும்னா எவ்ளோ build-up குடுக்க வேண்டி இருக்கு.)

சாரதி ய தான் photo எடுக்க மறந்துட்டேன். பரவால்ல. Not much difference.

Believe me guys; it is Karthik srinivasan and mahadevan there. It was due to my extremely brilliant photographic sense I brought them into the frame.

Now see here. You have to congratulate goki for his extra-ordinary talent. Just look at this photograph. It captures Vasu’s would-be asking him to wipe the ஜொள்ளு and vasu doing the same. (wiping his ஜொள்ளு). I do accept this is not a commendable work to get lauds from you lords. But look closely. You will find the difficulty goki would have faced in capturing these snaps. So many photographers. Ooooh ! ஏம்பா ! Assistant cameramen. நோட் பண்ணுங்கப்பா !

இது என்னடா ! சும்மா film roll சரியா work பண்ணுதான்னு check பன்றியான்னு கேக்கறவங்களுக்கு ஒரு கேள்வி. உங்களுக்கு Santhosh guru தெரியுமா ? இந்த photo ல அவன் இருக்கான். அதோ ! அந்த மஞ்ச சட்ட போட்ட குழந்தைய மிரட்டரானே !! அவன் தான். போதும் டா! ஒரேடியா பாராட்டாதீங்கடா !

இது நம்ம S.P.B டா. என்னா lighting effect பாத்தியா ! எப்படி ?

Death Sentence

2006-11-15T03:21:00.000-08:00

Well, the topic has no relevance of any sort with Saddam Hussein or Afzal or with dhara Singh. This death sentence that i try to write upon is different. It is the death sentence that many of us may not adjudge by the name that I’ve called it. It is the death sentence that has been justified all through the Indian cinema.(Kollywood, Tollywood, Bollywod). Yes! I’m talking about the capital punishment that personifies anger in the youth in this sensation-driven nation. O.K, O.K, too much build-up for a villain. This is about the way the Indian police end the cases that they cannot end legally. POLICE ENCOUNTER.

The Indian Penal Code gives a special clause to protect a murderer from being punished for protecting himself. In such a case, if the murderer doesn't involve in a conspiracy or if the MENS REA (Pre-planning) could not be proved, the acquitted could even get released. (Of course, this doesn't depend on the circumstances or the various clauses in the IPC, but on the advocacy of the lawyer). I guess Mr.Ambedkar's period wouldn't have had encounters, provided the extra clause in the IPC that doesn't allow the judiciary or the police to even initiate action on the police officials when the police show evidence that the encounter was done to protect themselves.

Yes! Yes. I do not know the difficulties that a true passionate police man faces in his career. I have not faced a ruffian or have faced problems due to them. But still, this action could never have any strong justification in response to the costliest possession in a man's life-LIFE. As per the saying "Necessity is the mother of Invention", this style of finishing a case should be invented by those officials who should have faced extreme difficulties with those evil men who pose an intense threat to the society. While the main question is "Is this a correct option?", there arises many sub-questions with it "Has it really solved the purpose?", "Is it used only for the prime intended purpose?". While the main question is as controversial as "Indian educational Reservation system", "The Burga in Great Britain", the sub questions remain unanswerable by any single individual.

The very sad fact is that this human rights exploitation being seen as an extremely efficient option to curb the social evils is an insult to the thinking process of this country. In fact, it possesses a hidden danger in itself by providing chances for iterating the crimes. However evil the murderer, rapist, terrorist may be, the only chance that lies in front of him to realize his crimes and it's after-effects is to give him time and the proper environment. Well, there lies another hurdle before me. "If the criminal is influential enough to escape his punishments"! This is of course the prime reason that pro-encounterists charge upon. This is not such a minuscule social evil that this blog can give an answer to. But here comes the vision that each individual should opt for. If he opts for a shorter vision, he cleans only the tile where he stands not seeing the whole floor is stained. When he opts for the longer vision, he takes measures to clean the floor, even though he couldn't walk in a cleaner floor.

This act even goes personal for the police men. RETRIBUTION. What is the difference between the thug and the police when both their acts are similar except the fact that the later wears a government uniform? What big difference has Raghavan made to the society when seeks vengeance on the thugs who killed his wife except for a few whistles from the front rows?

As you see the second question's answer shows the point that ENCOUNTER is used as a weapon not just to create a sense of danger among the ruffians but also to create potential criminals. In south tamil nadu, petty criminals are black-mailed that they will be encountered if they do not turn themselves towards wealthy crimes. Also this seems to be an easy option for politicians to solve some of their political issues.

The way encounters are projected in southern films is one of the examples that it hasn't come out of it's shell and it at any one fine part of the film has to compromise for the mass factor and there by increase the 'i' (imagination--Non-reality)value in a COMPLEX film (a+ib). Take for example the reason that Anbuchelvan give to justify encounters, the cost to proceed legal action against a criminal to be payed by the taxpayers. "ஒரே புல்லெட் ! இப்போ வித்யா சந்தோஷ படுவாள்ள ?" . But the liberty that the bollywood audience give to their film makers has made this 'i' value in it's complex value if not zero at least lesser than the former 'i'. In the film 'Ab tak Chappan', when a junior officer after an encounter asks nana patekar "Isn't it a crime ?". Nana patekar questions back "Is killings by the indian army men a crime?” Of course, baffled by such a stupendous response, the Jr.officer replies "But they are enemies". Now, our man gets serious "How do they know?” Not understanding where this conversation is leading, the Jr.officer replies "Their seniors". Now our man with that famous sinister smile in his face replies "You are right. We get our orders from our seniors and we perform it. There are no reasons or justifications here."

கதை கேளு, கதை கேளு

2006-10-12T21:56:00.000-07:00

Always had a doubt on whether Santhana Bharathi, Singeetham seenivasa rao, is as talented as the likes of their contemporary greats like Mani, Bharathi raja. They have taken various classic comedies and some melancholy, extra ordinary classics and those scripts don’t have anything similar except for one man Kamala hasan. So, Is it really true that kamal uses these directors as just ghost directors and just for the fame of their names. If so, as a kamal fan, I’ll strongly object it because I don’t believe the name KAMAL is fewer crowd pulling or less charismatic or less familiar than the other names.

I have heard that Mr.Singeethem is known for the fame of making trick shots like vital acharya. So, is it the reason why kamal should have opted this man? Remember all the kamal movies directed by Singeetham needs trick shots ( Aboorva sagotharargal, Michael madana Kama Rajan, Mumbai Express, Kadhala Kadhala). Also, Singeetham is quite a fame in telugu industry. Kamal also known for his business mind could’ve used it to lure the telugu crowd.It would be quite faulty to add K.S.Ravikumar among the likes of these. I have a slight instinct that he wouldn’t have been used as another ghost director. And what about Santhana bharathi? Mm.. though I want to be centric, (I’m alien to the real cinema world) I cannot avoid shrinking my whole face when I see Santhana bharathi as the director in the title card of “GUNA”. அப்போ , அன்பே சிவம் director ? அய்யோ ! அய்யோ !

In Michael, madana, kama rajan just after the end of the title card song (“Bioscope ல கதை கேளு, கதை கேளு ) , the father of the wealthy madan hangs his son’s portrait (செம smart பாஸ்) in the background and in the foreground the title card flashes “Direction : சிங்கீதம் சீனிவாச ராவ்”.

Any உள் குத்தம் friends ?

காமம்

2006-09-27T22:10:00.000-07:00

Recently, I heard the rarely occurring decent, but still lustful lyrics in Tamil cinema:

தண்ணீர் விடு என்று தோட்டம் சொல்லாதே.புரிஞ்சிக்க நீயாக!

(Courtesy: மச்சக்காரி from சில்லுனு ஒரு காதல்)

The all-time best in this genre will be:

சிந்திய வெண்மணி சிப்பியில் முத்தாச்சு, என் கண்ணம்மா

(Film: பூந்தோட்ட காவல்காரன்)

Any addition guys ??

Okka doubt machis

2006-09-26T00:34:00.000-07:00

Remember the scene in “Thulluvadho ilamai” where dhanush is doubted by his father “Thalai vasal” vijay for his late-coming to home?

Now, whom do you blame here? The father for not believing in the son who comes late just because he spent time with his friend for studying Visual basic, (Computer இல்லாம Visual Basic படிக்க முடியாது. அவங்க வீட்ல தான் computer இருக்கு. Visual Basic தெரியலனா இந்த வருஷம் Fail ஆக வேண்டியது தான்.) or the son?

Rewind the film back. Just a couple of scenes back, when dhanush and shereen converses regarding studying the lessons by following time-tables, dhanush regrets for taking the biology group saying this is too tough for him and only because shereen asked him to do so, he picked this group.
Shereen: Doctor மகேஷ் எப்டி இருக்கு ?
Dhanush: ரொம்ப கேவலமா இருக்கு.

I (did my biology group) never needed any computer course to pass my HSC examinations. Leave me, (past generation) even my cousin (also Biology group) who did his HSC examinations this year did not need any such courses and he has got an engineering seat in PSG.

Is Dhanush guilty? Was this Selva raghavan’s home work mistake? Is selva too brilliant in placing such intrinsic scenes to show that dhanush indeed is guilty? Was this scene taken just to allure the adolescents’ who are in a mindset to blame their parents for all their failures?

In the Mid-july

2006-09-19T00:33:00.000-07:00

It is one of those very few pleasures that I get in this foreign country. How relishing it feels? To clamp your feet clearly on the base and stand in a metro-rail at peak hours. Imbibed to being extremely careful of not dashing any protruding things near by, I was clinging like dungston. Here comes the villain to my short-lived happiness. The next stopping should have a school near by. I really did not guess with the name of the stopping and if I’m asked to do so, I would’ve guessed a Chinese fort/temple.

Quite contrary to my national heroes, I really cannot withstand this sudden invasion by these students. Afraid of relying on my height, I stood in the median between the seats on both sides. It was a matter of extreme risk; given the sudden breaks, jolts produces by this wagon, you are most probably expected to collide with dangerous zones of either this wagon or the near by girls. I turned to fix my hip perfectly in the seat handle and was given a soft jiggle. There they are. Completely unaware of this world and indulged in one of the world’s passionate kisses. Hmm.. How to show myself that I’m not interested in these scenes? I’ve neither brought my iPod nor my much adorable OSHO book. Let me turn the other side. Ooh.. It really meant the other side for me. There lays the cute kid scuffling near his mother’s neck. He should be disturbing her for a new boot or MP3 player or who knows?, may be to arrange for a date with his girlfriend. I can easily figure out the feelings inside the kid’s heart. He should be feeling the doom of earth. My heart was beating to rush to him and hug him and shout “Look here, dude. This happened to me too. This will pass and you are to face still worse life.” Aah., the crowd recedes like the end of a heavy downpour of rain. The drizzle is still on and at the end of the rail, I find an empty seat.

As I reached that empty seat, I was in a still dilemma whether to sit in there. There were two girls and an old lady and when I was about to pacify myself that standing in a moving rail reduces your tummy, the old lady adjusted herself towards the window sill and here I get enough piece of cake. Yummy., after a tiring day at office, I was asking myself for a short nap. No. said my eyes. Why? asked my mind. Are you blind? Look in front of you. Mmm. Ya ! That’s worth than my short nap. Come-on girl, I can’t wait anymore. Lift your face and I’m eager to see something other than your golden hair. She obeyed so instantly that I doubted “Did I shout that out?”. I turned around and found that I haven’t. She smiled at me. If I had been the same guy from that small Indian town, I would’ve started thinking about a poetic love letter. I smiled back and said those few words that I knew in that foreign language. She wished me back that I should also have a good day. With a very bad record on my talks with girls, I was confident that this will stop with just these wishes. Destiny always thinks abnormally.

She gestured something above my head and I turned to check who was behind me. The turn was with such rapid that she gave out a good laugh. She then gestured the orphaned umbrella hanging at the roof. I gestured back that it is not mine. Now she shaked her head and again pointed that umbrella, then pointed to herself. O.K I got it. Is that yours? I gestured back. She nodded. I bought it for her. Now, I was really interested in her. Strange, I haven’t seen her curves yet and when I thought of having peek at, more strangely something stopped me. Confounded by this very strange behavior, I was shrinking my forehead. Only then my synapse from the eyeballs to my brain said that she is looking at me. She was looking me with a “Mr.Bean” sort of expression and raised her eyebrows which has no other meaning other than “Whhaat?”. I bought my once in a while smart smiles to my face and closed my eyes and gave a tiny head shake. In between her question and my answer, this conversation (can we call it so?) brought the memories my Dumb-charades fun at college.

I was exuberated. We continued our gestural conversation. She was asking me where I sleep. After a few milliseconds, I understood that she was asking me where I live. Well, here comes a difficult part. How should I mime Ribaucourt? My index finger pointed towards my diaphragm area and I started counting the ribs there. Then I motioned my hand which was holding an invisible wooden hammer to tap at the imaginary desk. She couldn’t figure it and this time I mimed the gestures slowly and I could sense from her eyes that she is getting it. After a few long seconds, she said “Ribaucourt”. For the first time after landing in this alien land, I found myself laughing with an equally amused companion. I then asked the same question for which she gestured “Schuman”. Quite funny it was. If she were one of my good time friends, we would’ve relished this fun when ever we meet each other. Is she really interested in my friendship? With a few known faces from this place, my mindset about the people from this nation was that they refrain from foreigners’ especially brown or black race. Some say there is a special soft corner for Asians. Am I feeling it now? My forehead was slightly shrinking and I was looking pointlessly at the floor.

This time her face was full of expressions. She was saying “What is the problem with you? You talk with so joy, then suddenly you become quiet?”. She then kept her lips tight; her lower lip bending below the upper and made slowly whipped her head. Then she pointed me and made a circle around her face and pointed towards Young Robert Niro poster at the side. I also wanted to compare her with someone. She was looking like someone I was craze about. Who is that? Yes. She looked like Harry potter’s friend Hermione. Now I made a circle with my imaginary wand and kept my index finger on the cheek and twisted it. She understood immediately. We then conversed about the four Harry potter films. Like all Potter fans, she hated voldemort, loved Hagrid, and felt very sad for Professor Dumbledore.

Oh dear, here comes my stop. I stood up and gestured that I’ve to go. I was expecting a small depressive movement from her eyelids or in the face. Finding nothing, I was wondering “Does this end here? Will I ever meet her?”. As the train halted, her cell phone rang and she was bidding me adieu. She moved her eyes from me and moved towards her handbag. But I couldn’t. As I got down and when the doors were waiting open for no commuters entering, I heard her talking. Did I really hear that? ” ம்! சொல்லும்மா”.

Guna vs Kadhal kondaen

2006-09-14T00:09:00.000-07:00

I always hated myself to be late in thinking or late in putting this out. One of such recent incidents is when i posted this in my other blog before hearing "Kana Kaanum kaalangal".When I finished enjoying GUNA for the first time, (without any channel changes or any friend’s accusations பைத்தியக்கார படம் டா) I found to have invented a lot to brag in my blog. Only after visiting this blog, I found that I’ve only discovered it. Be it the BGM of the chasing scenes which raja has borrowed from his previous masterpieces MMKR and Apoorva sagotharargal or be it the information regarding ananthu, sabjaan or be it the climax full moon day concept, “THE MOVIE LANE” has left me no credits.

Yet, Since I somehow was pushed to blog about GUNA, I found Guna should've been the spark for Selvaraghavan’s “Kadhal Kondaen”. Let me try to analyse why the previous classic was a flop and the later crap was a run-away hit (such a hit that almost brought Tamil cinema a new mass-hero).So, you mean to say Guna is a flawless movie and KK a movie with nothing but flaws?No. Not at all. Nor do I accuse Selva to be a copy-cat director or compare Kamalhasan with dhanush. (A disclamier)

To start with, I’ve nothing left to comment about GUNA after reading this. Many of my friends and bloggers feel that given the new genre of multiplex audience, if re-released Guna will be a hit. When it was asked to Kamal, he said he did not think so. It was released in the early nineties where film-goers never understood the word “Off-beat film". To make things worse, it was released along with “Thalapathi”- an almost commercial movie from Manirathnam.

Most of the readers should be in the standard fourth or fifth while Guna got released. I remember one of my friend’s narrations about the movie in the school bus. Kamal is a powerful man. He cannot be killed even with revolvers or daggers. He loves a girl and she dies. Since he knows that nothing can kill him, he jumps from the mountain and kills himself. Note that the friend who narrated this to me was studying tenth standard. How do you expect some-one to understand such a classic that is so blatant about a madman, his mentality and his love? So, is there no film that is both off-beat and hit? Yes, there are. But, those films will have at least an iota of commercial element to sooth the masses and some compromises to appease the audience and to make them feel comfortable with the storyline. Guna should have had more of those compromises for it to be hit like KK.

Remember the scene where Rohini asks guna when he is eating “நீ சின்ன வயசுல யாரையாவது காதலிச்சியா? அந்த பொண்ணு உன்ன விட்டுட்டு ஓடி போய்டாளா ? யார் இந்த அபிராமி ? “? This is what the viewer should be thinking about the movie and should be expecting a flash-back from kamal. The response from kamal is one of the reasons of why he is regarded as one of the best actors in India. He stares at rohini and says “நீ தான் அபிராமி.”. He then goggles and spits and says “வேற யாராவதாமே.”. After this scene, those who expected a flash-back should’ve wiped their faces.

But in KK, selva has found what was missing in Guna and added it to fit-perfection in KK. The film revolves around Vinodh who though doesn’t have any medical mental terms to define his abnormality, he has his child-hood life to support him. He develops a good-rapport with divya and after a period of time falls in love with her. When he comes to know about that divya loves someone else, his perverted mind cunningly plans to have her.

Here, the anticipations of the audience are met with a perfect flash-back. A poor girl helps another innocent, poor boy who is otherwise very helpless and hapless. There develops a beautiful bonding between those two and vinodh sees a brighter world with the help of his new friend. The girl is brutally murdered and hence he has changed into this case. ( One of my friends shouted like Run-vivek “போ ! போ ! இதெல்லாம் நாங்க "சிவப்பு ரோஜாக்கள்" லயே பாத்தாச்சு.”).

Also, in KK, the viewer gets answer for all the hidden questions. Even when the viewer gets confused about whether it is lust or love? , selva explains with the help of Yuvan in the song “nenjodu kalanthidu".( though i'm still confused about it.) The film has another advantage of bragging it to be a youth film(just because the cast is youth and some portion is taken in an engineering college). The film has another advantage over the masses. It touches some of the dark thoughts hidden in the viewers’ hearts (Like ‘Vaali’.). Such films gets acclaimed and appreciated for its so-called openness.(Though this shouldn’t be confused with the selva’s good control over the speed of the screenplay.) The black-humor also amuses the masses though it couldn’t match the wits in Guna.

The resemblances between the two films lie open. The mountain-top home lighted with candles is an epitome of it. Vinodh had an advantage that the audience are not forced to see him as some rare species. They have already met guna.Also the film got released when the mass-heroes rule in kollywood was it’s height. Every film had hero speak meaningless punch dialogues and in certain films the heroes scolded his rival hero through disastrous punch dialogues. (How stupid the producer should’ve felt? Why waste my money to scold each other while you could call each other through phone?). The audience wanted a fresh face, a down to earth hero. And, then came Dhanush. The situation is so bad that just because KK lacked punch dialogues, it was called an off-beat film.

On the whole, I strongly believe the no. of homes that have got V.C.Ds or D.V.Ds of Guna should be more than those having KK, making the previous one an all-time classic while the later a hit only for a certain period.

I love my nation and i salute those who fought for it's freedom

2006-09-11T02:14:00.000-07:00

Vande Mataram – Being made as a national song almost five decades before, it was not hitting the headlines for good reasons and even this time, things has not changed. I’ve crossed many bad and embarrassing moments where in I’ve started or took part in some argument that will start well, but on the course will disturb one of the participant’s personal, communal or religious feelings/beliefs. Instead of learning lessons from them I yearn to do those more. But this time, let me be mature enough to just collate facts and happenings and the respective feelings for those facts/happenings.

It was a period where the atrocities of the British rulers were reaching its pinnacle and the need for the a national patriotic song was also at it’s height. Influenced by the song 'Jai Bharat, Jai' and its content, writer poet-Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay started thinking on a need of a universal, patriotic message to fellow Bharatiyas. In 1875, when he was quietly meditating in a house on the banks of Ganga, he heard the folklore of Bengal's fishermen. It was saying that "for us, the river Ganga is nothing else but mother Durga. Easily will we sacrifice our lives for her, within her." That was the right tone, the right feeling Bankimchandra was looking for. Durga is the warrior goddess, with the lion as the chariot. Although a mother, a woman she is, destroying the enemy with a weapon in hand. This stance of the mother was what was needed. A powerful song was born.

After it’s birth, it did not acquire the fame and did not spread across even Bengal. Only after the release of the book “Anandmath” by Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay, the song inspired the fellow Bengalis. It was so powerful that it stopped the partition of Bengal which was planned by Lord Curzon to split Bengal based on community, religion and caste. It was in 1905 that the British understood the power of the song and began opposing it and in the very next year, there was bloodshed at the regional youth convention of the Congress for singing the song. From 1906, the song crossed the Bengal borders, spread across the country like a fire, lighting the minds of fellow Indians for the need to struggle for freedom and fuelling the thirst for freedom. Subash Chandra bose chose this song as the anthem for his Indian National Army and it was played in their programs from Singapore radio station.

Now, in the centenary year celebration of the song (Is it or is it not?), it has again hit the news. The muslim community and the sikh community have opposed the resolution passed by the ministry making the song mandatory in school prayers during it’s centenary celebrations. The reason that they give here is simple. It is against their religious beliefs. For muslims, prophet is the only god and they cannot worship anything or anyone apart from him. Also idol worship is not allowed in their religion. They allege that the words “Vande mataram” means to worship the nation. The centenary celebrations have been celebrated with majority of the muslims ignoring it.

Some of the hindu leaders has reacted strongly for these muslim allegations. One of the VHS leaders have said that those do not respect the nation, should leave it. Many other strong words have been exchanged between top-tier leaders of both communities. Now, care should be taken before you read further. If you are a strong follower of any of the communities and if you feel by any chance you’ll be disturbed, please for heaven’s sake QUIT, yes I mean it.

There has been politics running through out the issue. The congress known for it’s incapability of taking bold decisions at the right time and for it’s appeasing tendency towards the minorities have once again tried to cajole the minorities and immediately seeing the allegations they made it out clear that no body will be compelled to sing them. They have recently released a press-release that this year is not the centenary year of the “Vande Mataram” song. I’m not fool enough to read the details further after reading the headline.The BJP, in need of a case to prove itself as one of the major contenders for the nation leadership and to repair its further repaired image (due to the Jharkhand miners issue and the need to prove majority in the assembly) has once again taken in its hand a communal issue.

It is not the first time for congress to go back when a decision is pending on their side. Earlier when the same agitations were raised by the muslims towards singing the national song, one of the congress stalwarts who has grown hearing the song in a period where it’s lines had the magic potion to ignite the freedom in one’s soul, the then Prime minister Mr.Jawaharlal Nehru instead of taking a strong decision, appointed a commission which advised the goverment to have two versions of a national song (How bad it sounds!!) which was later implemented. The new version did not have the last two stanzas. Again it is not the first time for BJP to blow-up a issue for its own benefit. Who can forget the bad communal clashes in Ahmedabad or ayodhya?

Is politics the reason for this and many more issues that disturb the nation’s harmony and peace frequently? Is this “Secular” status for India, a bane? Are we giving out too much for the minorities and totally neglecting the majorities’ feelings? Is the common man westernized to a limit that he is ashamed of asking these questions?
If you expect me to answer which question’s answer poses the real threat or if you expect answers for these questions from this blog, quit at least here.

In one of the scenes from the dungeon of mani ratnam’s classics “Kannathil Mutthamittal” , Madhavan puts in fromt the same question before another lay man Prakash raj. Being a singalese, (having seen in reality the truths and killings in the war)he will put forth the solution: “The entire world’s ammunitions should be dumped in the ocean”. Though it may seem to be a “Super-hero” sort of solution, among these crazy times it looks to be a feasible solution to all. The same Vikramasinghe (Prakash raj) puts forth another solution, in fact a belief to be perfect: “It will all stop in the Amudha’s (Madhavan’s kid) generation”.

I have nothing else to say but to believe the same. Only time and proper education can end this.

The full text of Vande mataram(The newer version) is as follows:

vandE mAtaraM vandE mAtaram
sujalAM suphalAM malayaja shItalAm
shashya shyAmalAM mAtaraM vandE mAtaram.h
subrajyOtsnA pulakita yAminIm
pulla kusumita drumadala shObhinIm
suhAsinIM sumadhura bhAShinIm
sukhadAM varadAM mAtaraM vandE mAtaram.h

Note : All the facts are collected from www.vandemataram.com

Imsai Arasan 23rd Pulikesi (U rating)

2006-08-04T06:21:00.000-07:00

Who said Imsai Arasan is a big budget film? Let me make this clear. When Shankar is producing a film, he’ll make it sure for good returns in the least possible budget. Of course, the risk he takes in sponsoring some films of its own kind is worth adjusting the other facts.

Well, there is no need of a story-telling spoiler here. The story is a simile of the story of “Uthamapputhiran”. (Please note its not a metaphor). And even the first song reminds the legendary tune “Yaaradi nee mogini”. If it is a nonsense king there, it is a stupid king here. But both their brothers are courageous, romantic heroes.

The story is not an important factor when you have vadivelu as the lead actor, that too when he is doing a dual role. The starting ten minutes shows the villain, the hero(es) and the heroine. Separated by birth due to the “Bad MAMA”, the twins grow in different environments. The one kept in the palace is grown as a stupid coward, and the other as a “MAAVEERAN”. Just when the interval bell is about to ring, the brothers some how sense it and they swap each other’s place. Changes are made in the government, the stupid king turn to be a sensible man and after the climax fight, manorama, the mother speaks her usual speech in her usual tone and even the “Bad MAMA” becomes “chanda mama”.

Vadivelu has given one of his best performances. He fits into the pulikesi’s role just after two minutes the film starts. Whatever he does, the kids just love him. Even when he hugs the items in his anthapuram, kids laugh. Heroines are just appendixes to the film and when Tejashri enters the screen, the film gets an appendicitis. Manorama, nagesh, Venniradai moorthy , all have acted to what was paid to them. One of a few Tamil movies where you can take your kids to a movie and not waste time in spilling coins around the floor (Thaavani kanavugal).

The theme music is majestic, but it is sad that vadivelu cannot do even a single movement to match that majesty. Even when the brave brother rides the horse, it evokes only comedy and the bravery is missing completely in his face. The director should be given an award just for the novelties that he has used throughout the movie. For instance, in the door of the palace, there are Old no, New no written and even the future no.

The story revolves around very few characters and hence the director has planned to include all his cartoons and caricatures for his screenplay. You’ll also find sachin as sachidhanandham, pepsi as ghabsi, coca-cola as “Akka-mala”. Almost all of them are enjoyable, but the fact is it is not worth to wait in a queue to buy tickets or to reserve it online. Try to get the original DVD, hang a “I’M BUSY” board at the door, sit with two or three of your friends, fast forward all the songs and the two hours will be a memorable experience.

Trip to MRM's marriage - Miscellaneous

2006-05-03T07:32:00.000-07:00

This blog is entirely dedicated to mahadev and his photo graphs through out the vacation. He was frantically trying to take a different photo graph. He tried almost all modes in the camera (timer, multi shot,). Some times, he will focus the camera in one hand and pose accordingly. When asked for a reason, he simply said "he needs a photo graph for the blog". But what i think is he needs a photo for his "Would be". Enna bittu correct a?

This was taken by himself.
This also was taken by himself
This also was taken by himself
அதே கார் தானேடா ?
ஓ ! கார விட்டுட்டு பைக் ஆ ? என்ன போஸ் டா பிட்டு.

This was taken using the timer.
With some special effects.
Sleeping beauty.

And the last photo graph that i'm going to post about this vacation is the greeting card that we gifted.

That's all folks. அடுத்த கல்யாணம் யாருக்கு ?

Trip to MRM's marriage day 3

2006-05-03T07:12:00.000-07:00

Well, nothing moved fast on day 3. We had nothing to do. So, we woke up late, fighted ferociously and then went to the film "A i B i " . Had our lunch at gnanam and slept and took some videos.

The man not in picture is bittu devan.

Monsieur in mistress
Ei !! Arms kaatraandi.
What a man ?

The man in disguise in karthi.

Photos in Vasabtha bhavan

This was taken exclusively by mahadevan.(Photographer of the year 2006)

Wait for miscellaneous photos in the next blogs which features mahadev in the leading role.

Trip to MRM's marriage - Day 2

2006-05-03T04:53:00.000-07:00

Day 2 started pretty early. Sammu bhai came at 2:30 A.M. எத்தனை தடவ டா சொல்லுவ அத !We made it sure that we'll reach the mandapam ASAP as MRM's dad requested so very personally. As usual, because of that stupid idiot, it got late. (அவன் பேர் என்ன ? ஆங் கோகுல்)But still we reached there by 8:00 A.M and we were among the very few in the first பந்தி. After the marriage, we planned for a movie and went for Thiruttu payale. Amazing movie. Theatre rajarajan.அதுக்கு மேலே. உள்ளே போன உடனே ஒரு சூப்பர் smell. A/C வேணாம் டா. Atleast Fan ஆவது போடலாம்ல. Then we took rest and had our dinner at sathars. நல்லா கட்டிட்டு ... (அப்புறம் என்ன தூக்கம் தான்) .

Before we left to the mandapam, we took some action shots.

Sammu after the bath

Sammu in a rampage mood

Gokul set to destroy the hero and king of the masses. (Look at the fearless look of THE MAN)

The samurai's journey starts

Gokul in a Goorkha attire.

Here are the marriage photos.Well, there were a lot of photos and i'm listing P1 photos.

Ameer and panbu

(Girl 1 : Hey, is this the guy whom director mani rathnam has booked for his next film "REPORTER" ?

Girl 2: No , N0 .. The guy has rejected it. )

Maaplai at some marital rites.

சிங்கம் ஒன்று புறப்பட்டதே

Special effects (Black and white ல) (உபயம் : karthik.V)

Maaplai getting some advice from his well-wisher

An old man (Almost a clone of E.Ve.Ra.Periyar)

Chief guest for the function : L.Ganesan. The man with a red shawl on his shoulder ( I clearly do not know which party he belongs to)

Over talk மச்சி.ஆளாளுக்கு ஒரே talk தான். L.G's talk was height of absurdity.

All the shots were taken in a top angle.

Now, we move into the sets in and around the mandapam. Here are those photos that we took there.

Bittu was amazing frm here. He poured all his photo graphic ideas and implemented them very perfectly.

Night தானே ஒரு full அடிச்சே . இன்னும் வேணுமாடா ?

ஒரு figure க்கு மூணு பேர் அடிச்சிகிறாங்கடா

Boss Boss, அங்கே உங்கள மாதிரியே ஒருத்தன் இருக்கான். என்னது பேரா? மகாதேவன்

A series of solo photographs.

ஆஹா !! மலை ஏறிட்டான்டா

Guess who could be the photographer ?

Yes, gokul .

கோகுல் னா என்ன அனந்த் னா என்ன ?

This was a fountain outside the mandapam.

Mountaineering continues

Gokul's hand

Gokul's hand repeattu

Question : How many elephants are listening ?

Answer : 2 :-)

உன் விழியும் என் வாலும் சந்தித்தால் !!

The ல was misspelt intensionally.

வந்தோம்டா பால்காரன். அடடா Bittu devan அ பத்தி பாட போறோம்.

Walk the talk with the leading entrepreneur.

See mahadev's romantic pose.

நாங்க மட்டும் விடுவோமா ?

Some casual photos.

That's all for the second day. Wait for the third day in the further blogs.

Trip to MRM's marriage - DAY 1

2006-05-03T01:48:00.000-07:00

CAUTION : Well ., for those guys who missed the fun of rendezvous, the photos given below may cause severe indigestion, amnesia, pnemonia.
PRECAUTION: Try to attend your friend's marriages properly.
(That was purely for fun. I know how sad it would've been for those who missed the function.)

The fun started a week before. By fun, i mean the tension in distributing the invitations and teasing the new bride groom. With the grade attitude of our friends, we made the gift possible. A gift voucher worth of Rs.6500 and a large greeting card (ofcourse, with scriblings and autographs) and two CELEBRATIONS chocolate boxes were gifted.

It was a thee days vacation. The first day was quite great. We went to our college(Aamanda, Sastra kku thaanda) and then we went to JSK's house and then to bombay sweet house and then we went to Thanjavur Big temple. Then a quite sound sleep.(for others but not for me . I was waiting for sammu till night 2:30 P.M. என்ன பொறுப்புள்ள பையன் ல்ல)

We missed to capture photos in Jsk's home. I'm listing the other photos.

When we went to buy the card from Landmark, we also bought a lot of arms and sports items (Only stupids call them toys).
Here are the photos with them in the room, before we left for the college.

Hope you don't miss the arms in everyone's hands. Don't miss mahadev's ferocious looks.

With the Kadha and the mask, the person in the photo should be easily identifiable.
Gokul's special effects made ananth a clown

Arms and sports goods exchanged

What a shot and not an equally good catch

Bittu on form (To be better !! Bittu's back)

Sekar in a casual shot

Now, the camera moves to sastra. We went to S.K.T where i was recognised quite easily. Then we went inside the campus with the help of my College I.D card (Ananth, Dev be quiet). We went to the temple and we met Krishna veni of 'b' section who is working in the college. We visited almost all important places (Chith vihar, new digital library, bio tech building, new canteen). We met chitra, justin, C.Ka., Dean of school of computing (Usha devi) and lot others. Here are some of the snaps of our collge.

First floor in the TIFAC -CORE

The eye of the Tifac-core

A casual shot outside Tifac-core

THE CHITH VIHAR

A shot outside Tifac core (With our guide)

Entrance to Chith vihar

The new building for Mechanical (Alone)

This was the place that made us very angry.என்ன பெரிய கேன்டீன் தெரியுமா டா. Juices க்கு தனி section. Chat items க்கு தனி section. Only after gulping some bottles of ENO, our problem stopped. The best part was a poster sticked outside the canteen saying

" Some students are printing tokens of their own which is strictly against the decorum of a shanmugha student. Students are asked to get the tokens only from the canteen only"

ஐயோ !! ஐயோ!!

Central library. DIGITAL. Entry and all transactions just through swipes.

Flowers outside the Bio tech building
Bio tech building

Guess who is that.Yes!! It is bittu there.

From there we left to JSK's house. Unfortunately, we never took any photographs there. We had a good lunch, came back to the room, and then went to the Bombay sweet stall.

இங்கே cut பன்றோம். அடுத்து பெரிய கோயிலில் கால் பதிக்கிறோம்.

மிகுந்த கலை ஆர்வத்துடன் நாங்கள் எடுத்தவை இதோ.

கோயில் வாயிலிலே

அமீர், கோகுல், மகேந்திரன் (சரவணா வின் office friends), அனந்து , சரவணா ,மகாதேவன் ( left to right)

கோயில் கோபுரம்

மேலே உள்ளவர்களே கருப்பாக

சேகர் தனி ஆவர்தனம்

Kopuram in a top-panoramic, vertically perpetual, multi frame shot.

Mahadevan in the same shot

SUPER STAR தியானத்திலே

இருண்ட கோபுரம்

இருண்ட கோபுரத்துக்கு சூரியனே FLASH LIGHT

கோகுல், மகேந்திரன், மகாதேவன்

சிந்தனை சிற்பி என்ன செதுக்குகிறார் ?

ஆயுத எழுத்து (மாதவன், சூர்யா, சித்தார்த் வரிசையே)

ஆயுத எழுத்து Part II

அண்ணன் கிட்டே மோதாதே ! அவர் சூராதி சூரனடா

That's all in the first day. Check out the next day's entertainemnts in further blogs.

Elections 2006

2006-03-28T23:01:00.000-08:00

What is the hottest and much hyped question in tamilnadu ?
Who will be the next CM ? (or) Which party will win the elections ?

For those who couldn't find minimum six differences between these two questions, sorry you are not allowed to read this blog further as you are unaware of the election twists and turns in tamil nadu elections.

Of course the answer for the first question could be only mutiple choice with not more than three options. (A) Jaya (B) Kalignar (C) Vijaykanth . Though the last option by itself seems to be stupid, i still want to add another option (D) Vaiko.

Well, jokes apart (?!), it will be a contest between AIADMK alliance parties or DMK alliance parties.

What are their powers and drawbacks of these two rival camps ?
What are their chances to victory ?

Here's an anlaysis. Well, as usual before that let me disclaim that all illustrations and details given are based on my personal view.

1) Government employees problem

It will be sure this sect of people- Government employees will vote against this present govenment for it's inustice caused towards them.Sun T.V will take care to that they telecast all the mid-night arrests of the employees. How arrogant ? They never gave the allowances, and the promised bonus and when helding protests and strikes for that they got arrested.

Vote for D.M.K

But, if you are a common middle class man who need to come through the various government offices in your daily life then, you should be in a different mood. THE SURELY DESERVE IT. (O**A!! Enna akramam panranga da). SBI, railway station, R.T.O,R.D.O, Voter id . Oh my goodness, how many places have my resolutoins for non-bribery have been shattered.

Vote for A.D.M.K

2) VAIKO

Promising that he will stay in the UPA and then two days later he jumped to the enemy camp. What a treachery ? Now he states that it was not a good decision of Mrs. Sonia gandhi to resign both of her PROFIT psts. Isn't it an act of a chameleon? He depicted the jaya government to be a fascist government and now he ally with her.

Vote for D.M.K

What do you want vaiko to do ? To carry the palnquin with other alliance partners for the karunanidhi family. When a not-so popular national prty gets more than 40 seats , do they not deserve at least the same number if not more than them ? He was also frank on the fact of the main reason for his removal from the alliance: WHEN IT COMES TO THE PARTY'S GROWTH OR PRINCIPLES, THE GROWTH SHOULD BE GIVEN PRIORITY. He has also given past exampls of periyar, anna.It is the D.M.K that wants to create a rift of this normal political move.

Vote for A.D.M.K

3) Sankaracharyar arrest

"Oh god! what am i witnessing ? is it true that those places where i found the true spirituality were actually places where all treachery, lust, bribery took place ? I don't believe it. It is a low level politics which Miss Jaya took for the appeal of the non-brahmin community. She wanted to show that she does not have a real affinity towards them.

Vote for D.M.K

"That's really unbelievable !! She has no real difference veerapan or sankaracharyar. The culprit should be punished besides their status or their image."

Vote for A.D.M.K

4) Tsunami

Well, D.M.K will hit the scndals and the deaths happened due to the carelesness of the officials and A.D.M.K will hit the D.M.K 's behavior of doing politics in people's deaths.

It will be clearly visible from the points that Miss.Jaya has played her part to a good extent. She does not have got herself engaged in any corruption cases as it happened in 1996 elections. It was in her rule that veerapan got killed and she

bought water through the veeram project.
successfuly implemented the rain water harvesting in the drought chennai.
has almost everyone single, simple parties in her alliance.
have abolished lottery in chennai
has got many cine stars to handle the D.M.K's campaign beerangis
appealed kollywood by bringing anti-piracy act.

What the D.M.K has against is the way in which the ban of animal sacrifice and the ban of religion chane was implemented before the parlimentary elections and revoked after it. On all , D.M.K has one of the most important weapon. It is the anti-incumbency wave. If there is no tickets for the noon show, blame it on the goverment.

The ball is still on the court. Let us wait for the match to get over.

Thalapathy - Karnan Connect?

2006-03-28T03:52:00.000-08:00

That may sound odd and some of you may ask this question to be discarded as "OUT OF SYLLABUS". But wait, it really has some in fact, more connections. Another excavation jointly done by me and poli is given here in detail.

1) What does the relation between Surya and Deva potray ?
What does the relation between Karnan and Dhuriyodhanan potray ?

Ans: Friendship (Aalamana natpu)

2) How are Dhuriyodhana and Mamooty (Deva) potrayed ?

Ans: "Goondas" or "Nuisances" to the society.

3) Who is the father of Karnan?
What is the name of Rajini in thalapathy ?

Ans: Surya.

4) By what means are Rajini(in thalapathy) and karnan born ?

Ans: Illegal sex.

5) How does the mothers of karnan and rajini send away their kids ?

Ans: By keeping them in a wooden box and sailing them away.

6) How are the roles of arjuna and arvindsamy (real brother of arjuna) potrayed ?

Ans: Going by the rules of government

Also, in both the epics the mother seeks promise from rajini and karnan that there should be no harm done to arvindsamy and arjun accordingly.

Let us stop the mapping here. I never even thought of this when i saw this film on screen. To be honest, i never knew who is Mani rathnam at that time. All i knew was i'm going to witness "Thalaivar's" film and it was a matter to boast about to see rajini's film in the opening week's shows.

So, i can never correlate whether mani had scripted his own from karnan. But there are really too many to be taken as coincidence. Taking into consideration that he has borrowed the real script, it is not at all a shame, for the way the film was directed. It had all the things for a film to be smashing hit and for a film to be dubbed in many regional languages and yet it was appelaing the 'A' class-section of the audience who needed intelligence and grace in every frame.

You can never have a better collage with P.C.Sriram, Illaiyaraja,Vairamuthu and Mani rathnam.

James bond - The name need not have any relevance with bonding

2006-03-28T03:39:00.000-08:00

Ever seen "James paandu" tamil movie ? Though advertised and projected as a comedy movie, the film never soothed the comic sense of the audience nor did it heaten up the box-offices. Well,this is a new James bond comedy. Hope everyone knew about Mr.Daniel craig., O.K O.K., at least let me hope that you know that he is the latest Bond. If no. then know it.

Everytime there comes a news about Bond, comes with it news for both good and bad reasons. This is a particularly bad news for Mr.craig. Not gifted with the appeal or the beauty, he is now instantly hated and there is a new site for scolding him and to reveal to the world trhat he is not fit for the job.

If you too are ashamed to have him as bond, check here and convey your condolences or condemns to EON.

Funny people (!!)

Even Bharathiyar is fond of Dumb chardes

2006-03-14T00:00:00.000-08:00

Well, When this man bharathiyar wrote "Pudhiya Aathichoodi", he would never been aware of this ever-cool game "Dumb-charades". He has quoted "Seigaiyil porul unar". I don't know what was the context he wrote it. But,it simply means "Understand by the actions".(Though there is no need to explain, i'm bound to disclaim that the "Action" here does not have any reference to Puratchi kalaignar Vijayakanth or Arjun)

Well, what he should've really meant should be "Do not waste words. Talk and understand just by the actions". But it did not stop me from remembering those days when i "moneyed" from Dumb-c in various culturals. I'm not a excellent mimer and to be humble, i'm not even a good guesser(of what the mimer mimes). But when it came to a close circle of my friends to be my Dumb-c partners, it was never so easy. The mind-set was so clear that i can see their thoughts from his actions. Some times, even the mere smile in my or their face got us record-timings.(The only sad part was "Guiness" or "Limca" never accepted as the words were variant and not constant.)

I'm addicted to such level that no other choices comes out of my mouth, when it comes to office trips where there were times to kill. Very recently, we attempted another innovation. When me and my roommates went for swimming on a weekend, we tried Underwater-Dumb-c. Rules should be clear by this time.

Whoever reads this blog, try it when you go underwater (with your friends).

Is this the height of show off? Is there no stopping of these girls ?

2006-03-08T00:33:00.000-08:00

Ennada ithu.. Romba overa irukku. ?
It is at a point when my adrenalin reaches it's new height, i write in tamil. Today is International Women's day. What is the need of this? Yes, women of all standards, all over the world struggle just to live crossing various hurdles throughout their life.

They have world's mother's day. So, this should be for those spinsters and for those who are yet to get pregnant and for those poor widows and "Kaimpens". Is that so? As an engineer, i can't come to any other point. No one in this earth can defy the reason why mother's day is celebrated. They give birth to human life (i'm avoiding the usual 10 months dialogue here) and take care of their kids and family. There may be some characters that differ from that of a true mother. On a whole scenario, that day has a reason to be if not celebrated, at least remember that true mom's love.

So, it is narrowed that this is more specifically for those women other than mother.Hope i do not need any X or Y to explain this logic. Now, as a non-male chauvinist i ask you the remainig women, What are those beautiful reasons for you to celebrate this day? (As i was writing this, some girls tried to bribe me with a cake(with cashew nuts., yummie). But i'm not from the paramparai of Ettapan. Those who didn't understand it, nothing important ,Leave it yaar).O.K coming to the point, Why do you need this IWD?

I'm not going to ask like Veera pandiya katta bomman whether you came to the fields,whether you planted plantains. What i arrive on the whole fuss is that "this is just another type of your species' trait SHOWING OFF ". Some even try to make it justified by doing public awareness programs or feeding the poor or the disabled. Again, i ask the same question. Why do you do it on this IWD ? The question will easily filter to it's parent. "what is it's need?".

Even the father of our nation, never seperated women and i'm sure if he had been alive today, he would never've supported this IWD. Why can't you mix with the men ? You want a seperate full lane of seats in the buses.Not all men are rogues. You are given with a seperate police station. You are not caught when three of your species go together in a two-wheeler. (The driver is not caught even if the two-wheeler goes with a single man and two women.Ennada nyayam ithu.) You are asked to pay a little tax and when you grow older, it becomes littler and don't forget many are fighting for your compulsory 33% attendance in the parliament. You get a special reason throughout the law.(On a divorce,till the kid becomes a major, it has to live with it's mother.However cruel she is or however good it's dad is).Even Lord YAMA gives you special rights.Thank god , there is no specific quota for you in the normal educational system or any other reservations.(This is upto my knowledge. Never knew whether you have all those).

But of course, celebration is it just to elate yourself for an effort or to the maximum an acheivement you've made.Why do you want to show that you are celebrating? That too., all in sarees.. I can't escape from admitting that you look still more beautiful in this new dress.But, are you some sort of cheer girls who dress differently :-) to show that they are cheering ?

As in another blog i've mentioned, I'm sincerely not a male chauvinist. You may take this as either a desclaimer or a plea for girls not to avoid me.

Vaiko: A perfect spoilt poor chap in dirty TN politics

2006-03-06T21:16:00.000-08:00

What Sun T.V showed on the evening news (about Vaiko's departure from D.M.K alliance and joining back with A.I.A.D.M.K) was certainly a good old trick of D.M.K media, exaggeration. Though an amaeturish collage of the way Vaiko made contradicting alliances and statements, it picturised what the elocutionist has been saying throughout the A.I.A.D.M.K tenure of 5 years.

Many of you should've watched Iruvar. It is another masterpiece of Manirathnam which depicts the life of two friends, a politician Prakash raj and an actor-turned politician Mohanlal. The film though starts with the usual disclaimer that all the characters in the film are fictious, everyone knows that it is the tale of M.G.R(Played by mohanlal) and karunanidhi(Prakash raj). In one particular scene, in a public meeting, the audience will be spellbound by prakash raj ( an extraordinary tamil orator)'s speech. When Mohanlal arrives late to the meeting, the whole crowd goes behind Lal. The highlight of this scene is the expression in prakash raj's face and BGM by rehman(I heard that music recently in "Thavamai Thavamirundhu" when the hero looks at the obscene posters in the hostel). From here, prakash raj, jealous of lal's fame inside the party throws him out of the party and lal starts a new party and lands in becoming the C.M.

Wait, Wait, why is this unwanted interlude? The reason is the scene is to narrate you that this was how Vaiko was sent out of D.M.K. Vaiko went out and made a party M.D.M.K, but couldn't do anything better, hence he shifted as a partner in various alliances.I'm not going to give of list of when all vaiko shifted alliance,what led vaiko each time to do that, how many seats he won each time. But looking from an amateur (who watches TN politics closely) point of view, let me try to analyse where has vaiko reached till now.

When vaiko was dismissed from D.M.K (citing reasons that he supported L.T.T.E), seven of his supporters immolated their lives by setting fire to themselves. Vaiko's house had the potraits of those party patriots at all times ., (When he had alliance with A.D.M.K or D.M.K). When he was in the D.M.K alliance and when he was asked whether those seven sacrifices has gone in vain, he gave an answer " There are no permanent enemies or permenant friends in politics". What a majestic answer?

In present Jaya govt,vaiko was arrested in airport ,when he returned from a foreign trip. They again cited the same old reasons "Support for L.T.T.E". When asked by the reporters about the arrest, Vaiko elocuted in his trademark manner "We will fight to decline this fascist Jaya government".Just four days before forming the alliance with Jaya, Vaiko's mother said in an interview that "My son will not join Jaya alliance, even if she offers 100 seats"(The total TN assembly seats in 234). When asked about the contradictions , Vaiko replied " We are talking positively and there is no looking back"? Again, a fitting reply.

The reasons what political geniuses give for vaiko's decision is the disrespect shown to the party from D.M.K side. Just like the Kiran more's statement, why did they wait till the election to make this decision.Vaiko on the whole has earned a better respect from the masses for his
1) extraordinary elocutional skills .Rajni once whistled for his speech in the Illayaraja's
"Thiruvasagam" casette release.
2) Politeness to the media. Never has avoided questions .Leave the stupid replies he gives for
forming alliaces.
3) Political Decency . He never went to stage nasty protests whn he was jailed under POTA.

But all these aspects may not save the political dignity of this man , i guess.

Some hidden truths excavated by GOKUL in ANBE SIVAM

2006-02-28T21:33:00.000-08:00

For those who don't know about Anbe sivam, it may sound something like Harappa or Mohenjodaro. This is a tamil film which stars Kamal hassan,Madhavan,Nasser,Kiran...

Those who haven't relished the film with full thirst or hunger, please do that and then read further. I accept this blog is not worth enough to watch a movie and then to read. But that movie is worth enough to watch than your normal activities.

Now, for a simple recap.In the movie Kamal's full name is "Nalla sivam" and Kiran's name is "Bala saraswathi". The film starts with the current date and at time goes flashback.Kamal loves kiran in the flashback and madhavan is supposed to be married with Kiran in the current time(With her acceptance for the same).Three quater of the movie moves around scenes involving madhavan and kamal.

With so much hype, i come to my findings.Kamal calls kiran as"Bala" while kiran and kamal's communist friends calls him "Nalla".Madhavan calls Kamal as "Sivam" and kiran as "Saras". It may look just names. Inga thaan nikkaran Ammapettai appasamy pannerselvam Gokul.
Now look carefully,Kamal is the one who teaches madhavan about (the film's theme) "Love is god". So, madhavan calls him Sivam. Kiran and other communist friends know about him very personally (Avar romba nallavaru,vallavaru nnu). So, they call kamal "Nalla".
Again, the love between kamal and kiran is pure (or deiveegamanthu in terms of kadhir or murali) . So, kamal calls kiran "Bala". Bala means "baby". The affection that kamal has on kiran is that of a mother having on her child. Meanwhile, Madhavan without knowing anything about kiran marries her in a normal indian tradition whose obvious target is to multiply the generation (Kulam perukkuthal) which is obviously done by sex. Hence Madhavan calls her "Saras". Sarasam, the full form of saras means sex("Koodal","Kaamam").
When i narrated these findings to my close friends, he asked me " How did you find it out ?". I replies like Santhana bharathy in Anbe sivam " Naan atha appdi ye paathukitte irunthena , then i found it out.". But he commented " Even kamal wouldn't have thought about these names so deeply.

Good bye DADA

2006-02-23T22:12:00.000-08:00

Wait, Wait, read the blog fully. It is not a sympathy spreading or Nyayam seeking fight against the exclusion and bad discipline shown towards DADA.When he was selected for the pak tour and srilanka tour , his supporters felt that he will bounce back to earn a place. But the scores that he scored were not enough.
It is time for that man to say good bye cricket, Sona chandi, Tata indicom ( He wouldn't be considered for these anymore). Well, life has not doomed for him anyway. He can still start a cricket academy and develop many bengali cricketers (Pure cricketers , with no hinge of politics).
The support that he gets from his hometown is amazing. He has been selected as the Sera Bangalee (famous bengalee). The others conteders for the same included Nobel laureate Amarthya sen and West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadev Bhattacharjee.(Courtesy:NDTV)
I doubt whether any Indain cricketer has got an equally famous exit.

Are girls really mean or is it just my perception

2006-02-12T21:40:00.000-08:00

Many take resolutions in the so-called OLD year for the forthcoming new year. Well, now that i'm in BP(Bench project), I've already made 5 resolutions. Four of them are useless (Something like Adhering to office timings, to enter the worked hours properly in the time sheet). The main resolution which i was very adamant is the fifth one.(By this order of describing it may be the fifth one. But by my own order it remained,remains,would remain as my first one). That is to maintain an ultimate rapport with girls or atleast to show the outer world that i'm easily adherent towards girls.

If you had seen me personally or my photographs, you would not be in a difficult position to find why i'm so worried, anxious. Like all normal guys, i entered my college compound aspiring to become like Mike murali(An actor whose almost all films has songs where he sings on stages with a mike) or Mike mohan(Another actor of the same cadre). Hey hey hey., stop it. I'm not that sort of guy who aspire for stage mikes. Apart from mikes, these two had something else in common. True, pure,divine Love. Yes, i dreamed about loving atleast some three girls and then continue any one of it throughout my lifetime. (Ooh! What an ambition !!)

Few of my friends know about my ambition. But many don't know that i'm still dreaming that dream. This is the flash-back for my so-called ambition. I spent the four years in my college in search of a good figure and to impress them. Those who are my college mates knew that the first part of the mission is more tedious. Having tasted some ounces of success in the first part of the mission, i tried my best to attain the same in the second part. Adang***a! It was not as easy as i thought.

"Nallaa kasunguna sattaya kooda press pannidalam
Aana mokkai figure a kooda impress panna mudiyathu"

I started doing that from third year. I had a poor friend who sits with me ( "I sit with him" will be appropriate and the adjective POOR came to him exactly after i sat with him). There was a mokkai figure in my class. Ofcourse everyone were the same. I tried to impress one among them(Surely not the best among them). O**a, Enna scene viduva da ? My friends had a slight feeling that i have/had(don't know which one fits here) a good sense of humour. I started trying jokes with that girl.She laughed in front of me. "Mission going good".But later from my girl friend(a friend who turned out to be a girl.Nothing else) told me that she makes a mockery of me to her other friends that i try to impress her. I couldn't tolerate that. I, with some other men formed a grouped which was named as AGC(Anti-Girls Campaign).It was the turning point in my boyish life.It was the twist that you were all expecting in my tale.(Ok.. Ok.. I accept it is a slight over-buildup). That was the real period which i really loved.Teasing someone who show off themselves to be intelligent will give you the ultimate pleasure.I got the same when i teased girls.Apart from that incident, there was nothing that i could correlate my college life with girls.

Later after a many googles, i found a job. Like most of the s/w job aspirers, i again fell in the silly trap of life. I started going behind the girls for the second time in my life. (Believe me, this was only the second time. In primary schools, they were my villains as they were the reasons for my dad's scoldings and i had a tough competition with girls in studies.),Nothing noteable happened here.

Here are my findings and complaints why i don't feel girls are a good species to be friends with.

1) They unneccesarily adjust their pallu or their kameez when a conversation nothing related to those two in going on.Doesn't that sound insulting ? Do i look like a normal road-side loafer. Do we ever adjust our zippers during the conversations?
2) They maintain a distance when we kep quiet and when we become talkative towards them, then a new joker is born whom they think to be waste of a birth in this earth.
3) They crack really stupid jokes that they expect me to laugh. I really couldn't get that how other guys can laugh for those so called jokes.
4) They switch topics unneccesarily to show off themselves.

Why do they talk about their heroics with their bunch of boy-friends when i'm asking them a doubt in ASP ?
Why do they talk about their foreign tours that happened years back when i ask them "How are you "?

5) Why are they so mean that they have nothing else in their life excepting for money and money and money?

6) Why do they all act to be afraid and insecure when they mistake in their project knowing that for sure that their PM or colleague never minds them at all ?

7) Why the hell do they talk always either through their mobile or through the office phones ?

I thought of disclaiming that i'm sorry if i've hurt anybody's feelings and my intentions were not those. But to be true, i've always thought that disclaiming is the best way to show what your claim is. Seeing my complaints and findings, i understand what a stranger should think about me. Let me clarify that i'm not a sort of a guy who goes on a killing spree towards girls or a male chavinist or someone who hates girls just by sight.I do have a good rapport with a good set of girls. Also, this is not just a bunch of complaints on the species i hate and it is a report of findings on the same.

Girls are always girls.

Are the protests by CPI worthful and fruitful ?

2006-02-07T21:05:00.000-08:00

If you are from kolkatta, i know exactly after seeing the blog heading, you will check out my profile and sue me for such an outrageous discussion. Well, i sincerely disclaim that all the material in this whole blog is to see my own thoughts as scriblings through my own naked eye and sincerely not to hurt anyone's feelings.

Today, when i was waiting for my friend to pick me , i saw in a MTC bus some protesting slogans against (Please don't laugh) America. I'm not a kind who use only tommy hilfiger brands and i swear that i don't belong to the category "Who cares for this nation?". The placard on the bus read as " Hey , america ! Stop pestering with india. Stop your monopoly towards Afghan and syria.Pull back all your investments from India and let the poor Indian small scale industrialists live". Forget the truth or sanity in the protesting statements. How do you expect Bush or Rice to view your(A true Indian's) view on their diplomacies towards the world. Why don;t you dare to paste the same placards outside American embassy and protest there?

Ya, i forgot to tell you something. The slogan was not on behalf of CPI or any other leftist party. It was a student's federation(I'm not quite sure about the union's abbrevation or it's fame across the state).I can hear from my dear Marx, then why the hell did you pull CPI inside. Well, it was YOU who brought this protesting culture inside tamilnadu.(Have a look at my disclaimer again).

It was YOU who fought against globalisation and whichever party comes to the rule, whether or not you have an alliance with the party, you are the fiend to the finance minister. What is you problem in the increase of FDI, whether it is telecom or banking ?Do you know how much Indian government spend on a minister's yearly telephone bills ? Though i do not know the exact amount, it is nothing less than 10-15 lakhs. We know that your ministers do not follow that. They are too good for this nation that they spend a part of their salary to the party's fund. Why do you always fight against any investment from U.S and why do you disturb honourable P.M's decision taking capabilities in crunch situations like Iran's fate in IEAE? We are not the same stupids and dependents as those lived in late 1800s to leave another East-India company acquire India.

There are enough problems inside each state and each thaluk for you to fight.First as a matter of fact, do not choose a party that is best among the worst. Stand for an alliance that will fight for corruption and other evils at all levels. If you can not make it this time , wait for the next election. Rememeber yaar,None of the Picasso's painitings were sold when he lived. One day or other, people will come out of the dravidian "Cult screen" (Maaya thirai).Make an impact in the people's mindset that you do not envy on their luxury living but you truly are supporting their fight against social evils.

You were the party that brought the concept of forming an union that fights for the welfare of fellow workers and for fighting against bias or irregularities in the top management. My left hand fingers are enough to count the number of unions headed by YOU in tamilnadu.(almost in whole South India, I beleive). What we witness as irregulaties is harassment of the workers using the tie-up of the local police with the top management of the industry. How many unions are headed by a leader who fasts for to fight against those irregularities? And your recent reasons for protesting are too good. One of them being need for a union in software firms.

Rang de Basanti- No justification nor denial-Just a review

2006-02-06T22:46:00.000-08:00

The hype and electric drama that Aamir khan's films create can never match to even south India Mass heroes. And the beauty in Rand de basanti is he has not played any lead role in the movie. He is just a part of the cast crew that worked for this film.

As it is not a Hitchcock sort of movie, i think i can leak out the story line of the movie. It starts with SUE, an American director (i suppose so., though I do not know exactly those terminologies) who is by fortune the jailer's grand-daughter who witnessed four freedom fighters life in the prison to their hanging. She goes through his grandfather's diary and gets an aspiring idea to direct a documentary on that. But the company rejects the proposal with the golden word BUDGET. She quits her company and head to India. There were claps and whistles when she answers her boss' question “How will you shoot?" with " Tere Maa ki Aakh se". (Good punch dialogue.)

She meets her friend and she introduces Sue to her friends who do their studies in International School of studies. What a hostel room they provide there yaar? Then comes her audition where she couldn't even selected one. Then she decides to make the aamir khan, Siddharth & co (Sorry, i don't know their exact names) to act in her film. Then joins Atul kulkarni who is a worker in a national party.(They could've named it as BJP. How many coincidences? Modi,Saffron color.)With many differences of opinion of true patriotism, they start acting. Then joins the party, Madhavan who is a famed air-force pilot. She married Sue's friend and when Sue’s shooting is about to end, a disaster happens and the story actually starts from here. Like the freedom fighters who fought for mother India’s freedom, A GENERATION AWAKENS and the rest of the film is how they wake up and how they do their natur(e)al calls (from their heart).

There has been N number of patriotic stories in Indian cinemas (Where n-> infinity) and there has been N number of Gen-X films ( Where N -> > 50), but has there been a film that correlates these two. If at all there were some movies, their coefficient would have been very weak. Take for example the recent Mani ratnam's movie-Ayutha ezhuthu(or)Yuva. One dimension shows the Gen-X guy Siddharth. Here in RDB,the full dimension is towards that generation and how they react to the injustice caused by the power that cannot be fought with so easily.

The film actually has all aspects that will pull criticism and condemnation. (A caricature clone of Jaswant singh is the defense minister and he has done some scam in defense deals with Russia and there is another man who can be easily claimed to be Modi's nehew whose party worker shouts at a Muslim, "Pakistani").But that is not the real reason that makes the screenplay powerful. The real reason is the passion when it comes to each of the character and the way it is portrayed. Even when portraying "Do nothing! Enjoy" group, the passion remains the same and Mr.Rehman has given awesome support to the director.

Aamir khan is by no doubt a simile for Mr.kamal hassan(Note here, I’m not wedging any superiority theory here). Be it growing hair and moustache for almost 15 months or be it the way he speaks punjabi, he is occupying the 70 mm with full presence. Siddharth's role as a Gen-X guy shouldn't be new to him as his personality has been sculptured for the same , but the role of Bhagat singh,even with the screwed mouthstache,well., Was bhagat singh so childish? Madhavan has done his best for the cameo role he has been provided. Atul kulkarni remembers me the "Enn uyir tholan" lead role.Om puri, Anupham kher,The foreigner,Aamir's other friends have all fit themselves easily into their roles.

The crew behind the screens has also provided their best. Be it the editor who has made the transitions easy from real life time to the freedom struggle period or be it the camera man on shots which revolves around the cave where the freedom fighters assemble or be it the art director for the train robbery in the freedom struggle period and the light settings inside the jail, everyone has just added their true work though it is not visible to naked eye. Of course, it is always the managers who win the accolades when it comes to a project success.

A.R.rehman has again proved his reasons for acceptance towards specific films are legitimate (except for his acceptance for Ah..Aah). How many of you has listened to a BGM of hard rock guitars when the freedom fighters, patriots are hanged.Pure passion of music throughout the film. The song in the Golden temple,amristar makes you to search for punjabi real folk songs and download them.

Coming to the real story line, i can hear skeptic remarks like "How can they openly say that laying hands on the arms (weapons) is the only way to fight against corruption and other evils?”. At this point of time all we need in media (be it of any size) is openness. Forget the justification or the denial of the facts told in a movie."A writer's duty is to only state the problem, it’s causes and it's after-effects. He has nothing to do with the problem's solution" says Jeyakanthan, the gnanpith winner. Almost in all movies when hero or a lead character take up arms to fight the society evils, the film will portray another character which states “What are Law and Police for ?" This is missing in RDB and that boldness makes the film a real tribute to the bunch of freedom fighters, the film drools upon.

Anyway, never got a chance to mention this tag line of the film. So, I finish this review with that. "No nation is perfect. It is up to it's residents to make it. Don't say you can’t. Become an IAS,IPS or a politician to fight against the society evils."

Am i passionate towards this job?

2006-02-06T22:05:00.000-08:00

After i finished this article from my friends blogsite , and more specifically i read the comment from my friend, my heart shouts at "Are you Nuts ?" volume "Are you passionate towards the job you do here?". I need not answer this. My floor maintainence friend who salaams me daily can give you four options. a) No b) No c) No d) No.
I have been answering and soothing myself that this is due to the work i do(testing & not development) , because i'm not yet considered to be worthful to be sent onsite, because i'm not getting the package my friends get in some other MNCs. Is it true my dear heart? Hey where are you? Ooh! Stop imagining about quitting this, going out and live the life that i want to live.What do i know ?
Can i not survive in this city? Of course, i can. I will fight to win my place or make my mark in the field that i'm really PASSIONATE.But, the tricky question here is " Can i fight my society?". The society that here i mean is my poor mom's family friends who have the authority to change her decisions. They have suceeded in almost everytime they play their game.
I understand that their victories or losses is upto me or atleast to accept it as victory or a loss.
If i win in a few iterations, the society will raise and praise me with loving hugs. But the Else part is not equally good. I know that the number of iterations will be more and my probablity of winning in those will not be zero ( if i can't make it 1.)
Is it not the time to treat my heart and it's feelings that has lead to me in crunch situations ? Hey, where are you ? Oooh, stop dreaming.

Media tycoons- Is there no way to fight back ?

2006-02-02T22:05:00.000-08:00

Almost in two to four of the sheldon novels, there has been characterisitics who are media tycoons. The best part is that the tycoon will form within days or months (just like how Tamil heroes become a big shot within a song - Annamalai,Padaiyappa,Boys...). I surely belong to the group who watch the whole film like NEW and then come out saying it is a sexualy luring,absurd stupid movie. It was in the same way i found out those novels. They were Page turners in my college days and they were the only solutions for me to be awake in some astonishingly interesting classes like AI.
But today here in tamilnadu,i see real media tycoons. They are so powerfull that even literates cannot escape from their blundering findings and illogical conclusions from a happening. If you live in tamilnadu, you should've found what it is in less than 5 seconds and if you are in some other TN cities, you should find it in less than 6 seconds.
Recently, when the elections were translucently visible and when the SS music was doing good in south india songs, SCV was suddenly changed into Sun music and it was filled with stupid tanglish specking comperes and another music channel arose in Malayalam and telugu named Kiran and Adithya respectively which ofcourse relayed the old days serials from the Sun tv. Their authority over the music media was again reinstated.
There was no bad damage here as it affected only the true music lovers who loved SCV just because it relayed only music without any polish or molish.The damage for the tamil media arouse soon by the arrival of a new evening weekly named "Tamil murasu". From the word murasu and tamil you should've found which party this weekly belonged to.They came with astonishing attractions just like it's big brother Kungumam( Which again was launched all of a sudden with Kalaignanr's "Nenjukku needhi" being the main article.) like free toothpaste, washing scrubber, pickles...They made if not a mark atleast a part of it by this.
Just like viruses/worms/Trojan horses , they started showing their real faces once they made their mark.They made sure that nobody talked ill about them and if someone dared so they saw to that their whole family is potrayed as the one responsible for the starting of world-war 1 as well as 2.The worst part was the headlines that were of the font size 12-18 and doubly bolded (So that none of the pedatrians miss that) were always stupid. When i say stupid, i mean it. Here is a list of examples.
Simbhuvikku adi,udhai-T.nagaril paraparppu -- (Simbhu hit badly- Tension in T.nagar)
Adhivaasi pengalai mayaki Blue film -- ( Blue film made by sedating tribe women)
The list can go still further givent that the blog readers are adaptable towards unprintable words.
The above may seem to target specifically a sect popularily known as D.M.K. The counterparts are not at all weak to this sect. Though they do not have any other media other than Jaya T.V , they merry with only that. If you are bored on solving the Infosys puzzles or cracking the Davinci code, watch the Jaya News at 7:30 P.M and the Sun-news at 8 P.M and find the real news that actually happened.I will sponsor your whole trip for the rest of the cricket world cups.
The still bad part is that the decently unbiased tamil news was available in Raj T.V and Vijay T.V which was stopped suddenly for reasons that only Sivaji-THE BOSS will know.

After all these coverage through my best media- my sixth sense, i have a question. Is proper and real education the only full time solution for people to identify the money-makers from the real news channels or just like justice, should media made independent of the government and all the news should be delivered just like DD news in all regional languages?

You know what ?

2005-12-16T01:37:00.000-08:00

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) president Sharad Pawar categorically denied that the sacking of former skipper Sourav Ganguly from the Indian squad for the third Test against Sri Lanka, was influenced by the Board.
"Selection of players is the sole discretion of the selection committee and we have nothing to do with it ," Pawar said.
Ganguly was yesterday dropped from the Test side despite his decent performance in the Delhi match only to be replaced by Mumbai opener Wasim Jaffer, which gave rise to the speculation that the decision was influenced by the BCCI top brass most of whom hail from the West Zone.
Hearing this news in NDTV, there was a sudden rattling noise all around the room. It was something disgusting.I turned to find where that sound ( in fact noise ) came from. I was pretty surprised to see the picture there. It was my bedroom door screeching (which it should've thought as laughing) and giggled " Boss! you humans are just rocking".
Back through three years, I had a passion towards this journalism in India which is more and more challenging with the sort of politicians available here. And I always thought it would be still gleeful if it is related to filmdom. But it is this Indian sports politics that has it's own (to be specific),one of it's own kind climaxes even Hitchcock will dare to attempt in his films.First it was with the Indian hockey.
Differences between India hockey coach Rajinder Singh and captain Dhanraj Pillay came out in the open, when the two got engaged in a heated verbal duel soon after the team landed in Chennai from Kuala Lumpur, where it won the Asia Cup after beating Pakistan 4-2 in the final.The celebrations at the airport were marred by confusion, while the press conference in a city hotel later witnessed the row between the two, as Pillay, who was surrounded by reporters and cameramen, was reprimanded by the coach for talking to the media.Peeved at Rajinder Singh's attempt to stop him from giving interviews, Pillay shouted back at the coach, saying, "I am speaking on behalf of the team. I am not seeking any publicity for myself."
It is clearly visible that dhanraj pillay needs some extraordinary potions from Harry porter to revive the lucks back so as to join the national hockey team.
Again it happened to poor Sania mirza. Being an INDIAN woman,she has achieved something extraordinary in a sport which requires only her to perform and not in a group of 5,7,11 odd people. She is at present at no.34 in the world rankings, if I'm not wrong.It surely requires an effusive character towards her sport.
According to press reports, she walked out of a press conference in Kochi "in a huff" when faced with persistent questions about what she thought of the Kushboo controversy". Sania was in the city to endorse a line of jewellery. Instead, predictably, when the media met her, the questions had nothing to do with jewellery, or even with tennis at which she has excelled, but her views on an issue that has blown so out of proportion that the original context has been forgotten. For once, she made a sound decision to hold back her opinion on this or any other unrelated subject.
During another later discussion, Sania did not make any comments about pre-marital sex, according to Vir Sanghvi who was moderating the discussion. What she did speak on, in her usual forthright manner, was about the length of her skirt on the tennis court. On this she was quoted as saying, "As long as I am winning, people should not care whether my skirt is six inches long or six feet long.(For detailed news on this section visit http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/mag/2005/11/27/index.htm) . She got be applauded for how she behaved in that situation.But unfortunately,it is really sad that Sania backtracked into her usual defense about being a good Muslim.
Now it is again dada's turn. I understand that I'm addressing a mass who hates ganguly for playing for his own scores instead for his country, for making ego clashes with sachin,for being a bully by making his presence in the team even through bad scores, by spatting clashes with the new coach and the list continues.But what even sambhit bal, one of the famous cricket analysts cannot accept, is the way the captain is treated.Here is a list of things what happened to add to whole of the controversy.
After the captain-coach spat that happened in Zimbabwe (here, I do accept that ganguly digged his own grave by starting the controversy), they both were made aware that they should work together for the better future of their team.Then Ganguly could not make himself available for the champion's trophy due to an finger injury and due to this, he was not included in the team and his captaincy was stripped and given to dravid for the two new series (Srilanka,S-Africa).Everything went good as the team won the first two matches most empathetically and hence the winning combination was not disturbed for the next five matches and by this time India has won the series 6-1.
Ganguly wasn't picked for the first three matches of the S-Africa series.The Selector's meeting to select the ODI team for the last two ODIs was to be held on one specific day and for some reasons unknown, it was deferred by a day.The delay had ensured that Sourav Ganguly was compelled to go to Pune to play a Ranji Trophy match for Bengal against Maharashtra and thereby automatically ruling him out of the remaining ODI games against South Africa, including the game at Kolkatta.
To pacify and placate the Eden Gardens and the Kolkotta crowd , the selectors announced the Test team ( curiously enough, only for the first Test ) and included Sourav Ganguly's name on the day before the kolkotta match. To some extent, the Kolkottans , hurt and angry, were mollified. The first match in Chennai was disrupted and the fame goes to Mr..Baaz.Unable to kick him out of the camp,the selectors had ganguly's name in the squad and ganguly performed better not only to his standards but to the standards of any cricket player playing at no.6. In the first innings, he scored 40 and added a valuable 100 odd runs partnership with sachin. Even in the second innings he made 39 and again made 90 odd runs partnership with Yuvraj.Very very unfortunately, he couldn't convert them into statistical scores.
Now, he has been removed and replaced with wasim jaffer. Have you ever heard in hockey when a goalkeeper is replaced with a forward ? Again it happens only in Indian cricket which unluckily has a former CM of a state as the president of it's board.And except for the chairman of the selectors, two of them in the panel hasn't played even a single international match and the remaining two has played 2 and 7 international matches. It can be argued that it doesn't need cricketing experience to select a fit cricketer and to those I can reply fittingly that why isn't zaheer khan,balaji not selected and it will go the COFFEE BITE way.
If selection is based on figures and performances, don't you remember the bad patch sachin had and the baaaaaaad patch dravid had ? For those who hate making this issue sensational , I've got only this to say "Ganguly has surely has got the right to make his own exit."

The impact Yuvan has made

2005-11-30T01:53:00.000-08:00

Yuvan(1999)-The name that was not given a chance even when guys chatted about tamil music
Yuvan(2003)-This name is almost more frequently chanted when it comes to tamil music.

He is just AMAZING. When asked regarding his mentor on his music he said openly that his guru will be ofcourse his father but when came to selecting his mentor, he was not a bit shy to reveal it was Rehman. He also accepted that the pattern of his music resembled rehman and will resemble him in the future too.On his challenges through out his carrier, he gave the gold medal to Finding the perfect team that he will fit in, the silver medal to Raam,7/G rainbow colony as the films had a lot of vaccum which needed music to be filled in and the bronze to Dheena as that was his first film that got a "larger than life" image hero starring in it and shining in a film of that sort with music is always difficult in indian cinema.

Music pundits always find his BGMs and the beats especially are just a case of remodification and he is not very special in it. Well, i'm not one among those and i just can't ignore his mastery over theme tunes that he has brought back as a trend after a long gap previously set by his father (Punnagai mannan,Aboorva sagotharaagal ..). His inner instinct towards western music was secretly exposed when he had those bass guitars,chords and was openly exposed in his fewer films which had almost a fully western song in it.(Baby baby,pushing it hard).

The very fact that his songs can't be hummed as easily was haunting me to find the secrecy. When myself and my cousin discussed regarding this this was due to the Asutham (impurity) added to the original ragas. Impurity wears a different cloak here. The more the impuriy, the more will the song will look different and hard to be hummed.

Ganguly and controversies - Ongoing saga

2005-11-24T05:05:00.000-08:00

The time taken to deliberate on the squad to take on Sri Lanka said much about the different pressures at work on the selection committee. Eventually, the need to move on and forge a new direction for Indian cricket lost out to that great enemy of excellence: sentiment. Having stripped Sourav Ganguly of the Test captaincy and given it to the man best equipped to lead India, the five wise men couldn't find the strength to go the distance.
Ganguly's inclusion suggests that he is certain to play the first Test at Chennai, which means that both Yuvraj Singh and Mohammad Kaif will miss out. With Sachin Tendulkar back in the fray, the top four are locked in, leaving just two middle-order spots up for grabs. Since his breakthrough series against Australia in 2001, VVS Laxman has comfortably outperformed Ganguly - averaging 51.17 to his former captain's 36.23 - leaving the team management to pick one from Ganguly, Yuvraj and Kaif.
Given that he's no Jonty Rhodes in the field, we can safely assume that Ganguly wasn't selected for 12th-man duty. But by saying that he was selected as a batting allrounder, Kiran More has only ensured that his panel will be the butt of most cricketing jokes for some time to come.
Though he has proved to be taking wickets in deomestic sides ( 5 wicket haul against Maharastra Date-23rd),Ganguly has taken 25 wickets in his 84 Tests and prior to taking two in two matches against South Africa last year, his last wicket had been way back in 2001, when he finished with figures of 2 for 69 at Kandy. To tag him an allrounder is almost as farcical as considering Mike Tyson a heavyweight contender.
Those figures reveal nothing of the circumstances though. After scoring a fabulous hundred in a crisis situation at Lahore in April 2004, Yuvraj was shunted up to open the innings against a formidable Australian attack, and his failure used as a convenient excuse to sideline him. Kaif's three Tests included two fighting half-centuries against McGrath, Gillespie and Warne - the finest array of bowlers to visit India. Both men have done little wrong in the one-day matches played this season, and while limited-overs form is no criteria for Test selection, there's no doubt that both are ready for bigger challenges. With a rejuvenated Pakistan and a strong England looming on the horizon, a Sri Lankan attack dependent on Muttiah Muralitharan and Chaminda Vaas would have offered ideal preparation.

RP Singh's steady and incisive displays with the ball have also been rewarded with a Test berth, and those who point to Zaheer Khan's haul in the Duleep Trophy while whispering of vendettas clearly haven't taken the trouble to peruse his Test figures. Since a five-wicket haul in helpful conditions in the first innings at Brisbane in December 2003.If that's the stuff that spearheads are made of, then a pillow is a lethal weapon.
All those issues though will be obscured in the coming days by the Ganguly saga. Just how will he slot back in as one of the boys? And more importantly, how will he get along with Greg Chappell, who appears intent on taking the team in a particular direction in tandem with Rahul Dravid? His selection is clearly recognition of services rendered, but only his bat can answer whether he deserves such consideration. Patience, as the ebullient Michael Clarke discovered this week, is finite.
And there is no probable eleven for chennai test if at all there is any injury setback in the side.

The Sure eleven (Taking the emotional Indian team into consideration)

Sehwag
Sachin
Dravid
Laxman
Ganguly
Dhoni
Harbhajan
Kumble
R.P singh
Agarkar
Pathan

" Way to go "eleven

Gambhir
Sehwag
Sachin
Dravid
Laxman
Dhoni
Harbhajan
Kumble
R.P singh
Agarkar
Pathan

Australia sort eleven

Gambhir
Sehwag
Dravid
Laxman
Dhoni
J.P.Yadav
Harbhajan
Kumble
R.P singh
Agarkar
Pathan

1 of the Stupidest statement ever made

2005-11-22T22:53:00.000-08:00

For a question from a reporter, kiran more the chairman of the indian selection ha sreplied that they were not satisfied with the captaincy of ganguly in the last 3 yrs and that is one of the prime reasons why he is not the captain for the 2006 srilanka series.

Should a selection comittee require 3 years for deciding the performace of a captain.If the captain has not performed good in year 1, why is he given the same for the year 2 & 3.

Lord shani at his very best partnership with ganguly.Amazingly, the BCCI has brilliantly succeded in sidelining this man and now he is in a situation to fight for his position in any form of the match.Interestingly, ganguly is the second run-getter in the year 2004-2005 next only to Mr.dependable.His worst case scenario is the pakistan in india-2005 and that has paid heavily with his captaincy and his position in the team.

Being an extreme fanatic of DADA, i await the test squad for the srilanka series.

Bing adamant

2005-11-22T04:48:00.001-08:00

Starting from the day when i threw my house key to the neighbour's house (ofcourse, accidentally) and when i was was asked regarding that and even though the situation was in favour of me, i kept on replying "i don't know" , just to stick to what i started without knowing that this was what others called as Bing adamant.

Then, it continued through my school ages .When i returned to school after a month's leave due to Chichen pox,i was adamant that i lost the progress in home report even though my teacher said that i wasn't given the same to home at all. As times passed, the adamancy never ever changed.

Though i passed the ages of progress report, there were other decisions which i was adamant as i thought i at first. Though some of them reaped me good harvest, the remaining were all washed away in floods inclucing my decision to take 1st group and the worst being joining an engg course .

Again the choice of my favourites came as my next adamancy providers. For cinema and sports (cricket to be precise as that was the only sport i've got a good knowledge on) i took ajith and ganguly. I've backed them to my fullest, knowing that their weakness were known to the world of those sorts.

Ennatha Panrathu.. Again i looked at them as my favourites as they gave me chances to defend them.The verbal fights i had with my friends supporting my favs gave me enough confidence on my "backing myself" capability and today as i look back towards my adamancy,Ha Ha Enna life da machan. Amazing really.

2005-11-22T04:48:00.000-08:00

Ennama kudhikkaraan ya paiyan

Freedom of speech,voice,expressions,comments in india esp south india esp south india

2005-11-14T00:27:00.000-08:00

Poor kushboo.Life was going too smooth for her.She played an infamous but different role in Power of women and her show "JACKPOT" was top rated. She was also in the spotlight when due to her furiousness towards Thangar Bachaan for his comments on actress' .(Excerpts :Someone who acts just for the sake of money is nothing less than prostituting.)

Suddenly, it is dark clouds all over her skies.Recently for a typical INDIA TODAY interview/survey, she poured her views on unsafe sex in tamilnadu. In the same, she was asked for her modernistic views on premarital sex in tamilnadu.She extravagantly answered it that it is occuring predominantly in T.N and the percentage of a girl being virgin at the time of marriage is very less.

Now, all the tamizhans have woke up and they are extremely angry at her and more than a dozen of cases are filed on her. when i asked my mom "Does your E.Pi.Co(I.P.C) have rulings for these of these sorts ?", she replied yes and she explained that when anyone hurts a mass community verbally, the victim is guarenteed imprisonment for a minimum period of 3 months and if those words pushes the hurted to suicide, then the victim has a rigorus imprisonment of 7 yrs.

My doubt or anxiety is not against this I.P.C 302 (Never wonder .This too comes under 302. Includes a lot rape,theft,..). My anxiety is upon those who make a fuss out of nothing. This regional parties tries to supress the freedom of voice of anyone in their region. They leave only those who are allied with them.

In this modern trend, the IT people have got their freedom of voice preciously safeguarded with so many things like forums,mails,polls etc., But, for the rural people who either they go along the leader who is not the one who leads them but the one who improves his political calibre by showing to be voicing for them or they never turn their heads towards these.Not even a single cadre in D.M.K showed any unhappiness in Mr.M.K Stalin being posted as the next party leader.

By the example, it should be never thought of an issue related to family politics.Whatever be the issue, people who are the core of an republic nation never ever is given a chance to voice their issue.It either gets atteneuated as it travels the various channels where it should have been routed or it is not even heard.

Well, there is a new tamil forum for this help. Of course, it is not the first of it's kind.But the reason for it being started is the freedom to show your opinion in public(may not be true with the last word public alone). It is www.karuthu.com and i'm still looking for a good topic to start pouring my views in it as there are only biased discussions going along still. This karuthu is started by Mr.Karthi Chidambaram, son of Indian F.M Mr.P.C. The best part is the inauguration was attended by Kanimozhi,daughter of D.M.K chief Mr.M.Karunanidhi.

Let us believe in the Gen Next concept.

Starting

2005-11-11T02:21:00.001-08:00

Without having a clear knowledge of blogging, i start this BLOG.