Watched the movie Dreamcatcher yesterday. I am a big fan of Stephen King. I bought Dreamcatcher not because it was written by King but it was available for cheap in HMV.
I havent read the book so I had no expectations for the movie except I had scanned through the story line behind the DVD cover. Except for the movie Alien (first two parts) and Spieces - to certain extent, no other movie on Alien actually interested me. May be Abyss to some extent.
Dreamcatcher has an Alien theme. The story starts of in a typical King style. Few scenes reminds us of the movie IT. Four friends have a good alien!! friend. These four friends were give special powers by that alien.
They grow up and a whole town is invaded by bad aliens how the four of them destroy the bad aliens with the help of good alien forms the story line.
Except for few scenes there is nothing creepy or haunting in the movie.
The only thing I liked about the movie is the location. If you watch this movie in Sahara (i mean the desert) also you will feel cold as all happens in a snowy town.
As all Kings novels I heard the names Maine, Derry mentioned here.
I didnt know what Morgan Freeman was doing in a such insipid role.
Overall the movie doesnt live up to Kings reputation.
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Friday, September 29, 2006
Thursday, September 28, 2006
Good Old Days
Have you played..
Fire in the mountain run run run?
kola kolaya mundhirika nariya nariya?
Colour Colour what colour do you choose?
Ringa Ringa roses?
Seven stones?
Bambaram with Apeat?
Goli - kuzhi raja rani?
Gilli?
Adicha Jaan ?
Police thirudan raja rani mandhiri?
Nondi?
Book cricket?
Odi pidichu?
Othaya retaya?
Dhaaya baas?
Trade?
Pallankuli?
Cards?
Gone are the days..
Fire in the mountain run run run?
kola kolaya mundhirika nariya nariya?
Colour Colour what colour do you choose?
Ringa Ringa roses?
Seven stones?
Bambaram with Apeat?
Goli - kuzhi raja rani?
Gilli?
Adicha Jaan ?
Police thirudan raja rani mandhiri?
Nondi?
Book cricket?
Odi pidichu?
Othaya retaya?
Dhaaya baas?
Trade?
Pallankuli?
Cards?
Gone are the days..
Wednesday, September 27, 2006
Blu-Ray
Will Blu-Ray be the successor of DVD?
Being a ardent DVD collector the concept of this new technology does worry me. What will happen to all the DVDs I have collected?
They do say Blu-Ray players are backward compatible and can play DVDs as well but if you are using a DVD player you should play a DVD in that similarly if you have a BD player you should play Blu-Ray.
Looks like they will also have regions but just 3 regions.
Currently the price of all BD players are very high as always they will come crashing if the technology catches up.
Is Blu-Ray going to be around for sometime or will vanish to give way to another technology? We have to wait and see.
Being a ardent DVD collector the concept of this new technology does worry me. What will happen to all the DVDs I have collected?
They do say Blu-Ray players are backward compatible and can play DVDs as well but if you are using a DVD player you should play a DVD in that similarly if you have a BD player you should play Blu-Ray.
Looks like they will also have regions but just 3 regions.
Currently the price of all BD players are very high as always they will come crashing if the technology catches up.
Is Blu-Ray going to be around for sometime or will vanish to give way to another technology? We have to wait and see.
Tuesday, September 26, 2006
Anaathai Factor
Though a big fan of Rajni I am sometimes not happy if main theme of his movie portrays Rajni as an "Anaathai" or a person who doesnt know his father. Yes If you turn back and do an analysis (puriyuthu i know u r asking me ithu romba mukyama) of his films he will not be knowing his parents in many of them. The repetitiveness sometimes puts me off especially if the movie keeps stressing on that fact or Sujatha is his mother.
Here is a list of movies I can think off
Mr.Bharath
Panakaran
Thalapathi (Yes Maniratnam too)
Arunachalam
Chandramukhi (Yes but the fact is not the main theme)
Muthu
Kodi Parakuthu
Velaikaran
Uzhaipaali
If this is the fact about Rajni movies, the fact about tamil movies are still worse. Many movies have this Anaathai factor as their main theme.
Here is a list of movies I can think off
Mr.Bharath
Panakaran
Thalapathi (Yes Maniratnam too)
Arunachalam
Chandramukhi (Yes but the fact is not the main theme)
Muthu
Kodi Parakuthu
Velaikaran
Uzhaipaali
If this is the fact about Rajni movies, the fact about tamil movies are still worse. Many movies have this Anaathai factor as their main theme.
Monday, September 25, 2006
Face Off
Are you interested in seeing how an innocent face looks like? I am talking about some faces like Paasa malargal Saavithri, Sivaji Kalyana parisu Gemini, Nenjil or aalayam kalyan kumar, Mouna raagam revathys dad. There were many B/W movies in which you can see those paal vadiyum faces. You may not find them in real world but let there are some places where you can find such faces.
Here are some places where you can find them
1) If you are familiar with churches, then go to a church on Sunday. Wait you have not seen the faces yet. When the Pastor calls for communion you can see people go to the altar and then come back. Observe the faces, everybody will look like how GOD intended them to be. You can rank eveyone as the best father, mother, brother, sister. Especially when they come back after taking the communion.
2) On any friday in a typical chennai family watch girls with in the age group of 16 to 23. When they get ready for kovil their face will undergo a change. All fashion elements will disappear. If she is in Jean also the face will have a very different innocent look. Wait you have not seen the peak yet. Follow them (dont get caught) to the temple. When they give the archanai koodai to the poosari and when poosari offers the flame now observe both men and women. You can call them the best people in the whole milky way.
3) There is another type of innocent face you can see, this used to happen few years back dont know if you can see them in this generation. When the head of the house agrees to take the family to a cinema or exhibition observe the faces of the others. Especially when a neighbhour of that family sends their son to go with that family observe that kid. Well combed, extra ponds, tucked in shirt with elastic trousers. You can call him the most well behaved kid in the whole universe.
4) If you have been to onsite observe the parents of software couple who have been invited to stay with the couple for a few weeks and also look at the face of the software couple. You will say this is a vikraman type of family like vaanathai pola
Now the big question.. is that their real faces?
Here are some places where you can find them
1) If you are familiar with churches, then go to a church on Sunday. Wait you have not seen the faces yet. When the Pastor calls for communion you can see people go to the altar and then come back. Observe the faces, everybody will look like how GOD intended them to be. You can rank eveyone as the best father, mother, brother, sister. Especially when they come back after taking the communion.
2) On any friday in a typical chennai family watch girls with in the age group of 16 to 23. When they get ready for kovil their face will undergo a change. All fashion elements will disappear. If she is in Jean also the face will have a very different innocent look. Wait you have not seen the peak yet. Follow them (dont get caught) to the temple. When they give the archanai koodai to the poosari and when poosari offers the flame now observe both men and women. You can call them the best people in the whole milky way.
3) There is another type of innocent face you can see, this used to happen few years back dont know if you can see them in this generation. When the head of the house agrees to take the family to a cinema or exhibition observe the faces of the others. Especially when a neighbhour of that family sends their son to go with that family observe that kid. Well combed, extra ponds, tucked in shirt with elastic trousers. You can call him the most well behaved kid in the whole universe.
4) If you have been to onsite observe the parents of software couple who have been invited to stay with the couple for a few weeks and also look at the face of the software couple. You will say this is a vikraman type of family like vaanathai pola
Now the big question.. is that their real faces?
Sunday, September 24, 2006
Waiting
I came across this beautiful post on "waiting".
Just thought will add some more things to that post as I recently went through an agony of waiting for a specific thing. Firstly Balaji has captured many things beautifuly about this waiting. I agree with almost all his views.
The one thing I want to add more is waiting for an exam is really a pain. In school we keep counting the days when the exam will be over. Especially as Balaji has mentioned History & Geography will be the last exam. With the book in hand we will be dreaming about what to do after the exam. It is an horrible wait.
If you are taking an online exam the wait for the result to appear on the screen after you have clicked the button "Evaluate answers" can be recommended another dreadful wait.
In our school those days after the exams, miss or sir used to bring the corrected exam papers and slowly he will untie the bundle. He will then distribute the papers calling the roll number or name. The moment we wait for our paper checking the reactions of those who are returning after getting the paper is another dreadful wait specially if we dont know if we are going to pass or fail..
Now for the pleasent waits, waiting for the release of a Rajni movie, waiting for a Rajni or Kamal song in Ozhiyum Oliyum (DD days), waiting for dad to come home with whatever we requested him in the morning and he promised to get it in the evening, waiting to see the photographs developed, waiting for call or email from our love, it goes on and on...
If you really want to see the pain of waiting, watch the movie Dead Man Walking especially the last 15 to 20 minutes of the movie shows the most painful wait for a man.
Just thought will add some more things to that post as I recently went through an agony of waiting for a specific thing. Firstly Balaji has captured many things beautifuly about this waiting. I agree with almost all his views.
The one thing I want to add more is waiting for an exam is really a pain. In school we keep counting the days when the exam will be over. Especially as Balaji has mentioned History & Geography will be the last exam. With the book in hand we will be dreaming about what to do after the exam. It is an horrible wait.
If you are taking an online exam the wait for the result to appear on the screen after you have clicked the button "Evaluate answers" can be recommended another dreadful wait.
In our school those days after the exams, miss or sir used to bring the corrected exam papers and slowly he will untie the bundle. He will then distribute the papers calling the roll number or name. The moment we wait for our paper checking the reactions of those who are returning after getting the paper is another dreadful wait specially if we dont know if we are going to pass or fail..
Now for the pleasent waits, waiting for the release of a Rajni movie, waiting for a Rajni or Kamal song in Ozhiyum Oliyum (DD days), waiting for dad to come home with whatever we requested him in the morning and he promised to get it in the evening, waiting to see the photographs developed, waiting for call or email from our love, it goes on and on...
If you really want to see the pain of waiting, watch the movie Dead Man Walking especially the last 15 to 20 minutes of the movie shows the most painful wait for a man.
Thursday, September 21, 2006
Wishing
I wished a person today. He walked away without reciprocating. It is an embrassing situation.
We can calm ourselves by thinking
a) That guy would not have noticed me
b) That guy should be having some severe problem so he was preoccupied with that thought
c) I was not loud enough for him to notice
d) May be i never wished him. I only thought of wishing him. No words came out of my mouth
We dont want to think
a) That guy heard me but wantedly ignored me
b) That guy was afraid of talking to me so he had shut himself away from the environment, he walked quickly past me
Most of us do avoid people. When we notice someone whom we are allegic to coming towards us. We take out mobile phone and immediately start reading old SMS's. We start making panic calls to persons whom we would have never called in first place. We walk back making some action oh i forgot to bring my note book. This goes on and on..
We never realise how the other guy would be feeling at that point.
Whatever this kind of situation sucks.
We can calm ourselves by thinking
a) That guy would not have noticed me
b) That guy should be having some severe problem so he was preoccupied with that thought
c) I was not loud enough for him to notice
d) May be i never wished him. I only thought of wishing him. No words came out of my mouth
We dont want to think
a) That guy heard me but wantedly ignored me
b) That guy was afraid of talking to me so he had shut himself away from the environment, he walked quickly past me
Most of us do avoid people. When we notice someone whom we are allegic to coming towards us. We take out mobile phone and immediately start reading old SMS's. We start making panic calls to persons whom we would have never called in first place. We walk back making some action oh i forgot to bring my note book. This goes on and on..
We never realise how the other guy would be feeling at that point.
Whatever this kind of situation sucks.
Wednesday, September 20, 2006
Chennai Auto
This is in reponse to PK's post in his blog. You can find it here and here
The problem is not just with auto drivers. If it is then making india a better place to live becomes very easy. Sadly the problem is in the way people think. Everybody looks for extra money. Many of them are willing to pay more to get extra benefits. Its a vicious cycle.
An auto driver would be happy to take a clean shaven north indian guy and a beautiful girl accompanying him (IT people) as they wouldnt be questioning him much on the fare rather than taking a common man who bargains for 5 rubees.
Making it corporate wont change a persons mentality. For example let us assume you buy some items from a big company and ask for home delivery. the person who delivers the stuff looks for some extra money. If you dont give he is unhappy.
This is what will happen if you make it corporate also. Individual drivers will look for something extra. How much extra will make them happy?Someone will be happy with whatever you give. Someone will demand more.
Can education solve this problem? I dont know. From I have seen educated people lacking common sense.
With the present auto system also you can see some very good drivers who dont trouble you much.
I have heard of the concept of prepaid taxi system. This was tried out in Airport and Chennai Central. I dont think it was a success. When you are waiting in the queue drivers try to drag you to their taxi without having to go through the agency.
Only in India we have to come up with rules and regulations to do a thing which is common sense.
BTW I like the opening sequence in Reservoir Dogs where they discuss about the concept of Tips
The problem is not just with auto drivers. If it is then making india a better place to live becomes very easy. Sadly the problem is in the way people think. Everybody looks for extra money. Many of them are willing to pay more to get extra benefits. Its a vicious cycle.
An auto driver would be happy to take a clean shaven north indian guy and a beautiful girl accompanying him (IT people) as they wouldnt be questioning him much on the fare rather than taking a common man who bargains for 5 rubees.
Making it corporate wont change a persons mentality. For example let us assume you buy some items from a big company and ask for home delivery. the person who delivers the stuff looks for some extra money. If you dont give he is unhappy.
This is what will happen if you make it corporate also. Individual drivers will look for something extra. How much extra will make them happy?Someone will be happy with whatever you give. Someone will demand more.
Can education solve this problem? I dont know. From I have seen educated people lacking common sense.
With the present auto system also you can see some very good drivers who dont trouble you much.
I have heard of the concept of prepaid taxi system. This was tried out in Airport and Chennai Central. I dont think it was a success. When you are waiting in the queue drivers try to drag you to their taxi without having to go through the agency.
Only in India we have to come up with rules and regulations to do a thing which is common sense.
BTW I like the opening sequence in Reservoir Dogs where they discuss about the concept of Tips
Tuesday, September 19, 2006
Monday, September 18, 2006
Life and Ladder
Life is like a vertical ladder. Imagine a ladder firmly placed on the ground, standing vertically with its other end going beyond the clouds into the sky. People hand onto each step of that ladder. The steps are moving continuously as it moves in an escalator towards the sky. Those who are having enough wealth are like people hanging onto the steps with both hands and the steps are ergonomically designed for them. People with little wealth are like people hanging onto the ladder with only one hand or hanging on to crooked steps and struggling. Wealthy people also can’t hold onto the comforting steps for ever without pain. The difference is the pain is lesser than the pain of a poor person.
People dependent on others don’t hang on the steps but they hang on to the people who are hanging onto the steps.
The more people dependent on you the more difficult it gets for you to keep hanging onto the ladder. People who lose their life due to unnatural reason are like people who fall down unable to hold on to the steps anymore. People who, despite so many things pulling them down, continue to hold onto the steps keep moving towards the sky as the steps keep moving. Once they reach the top most point they enter into a different world. May be they change ladders or there are no more ladders we don’t know.
Children hang on to their parents till they become capable to hanging on to the steps themselves. Parents get pulled down by their children’s weight. They not only should support themselves but they should support their children as well. They bear it and continue to hang on to the steps. Through this pain they also try to find a comfortable step for their child to hang on to. They try to come down to the child's level to help the child out. Once the child gets its own step the gap between the child and the parent increases as nature keeps moving the parents faster than the child. The child just watches its parents moving up and up and disappearing into the vast sky. When that happens you realise you yourself are very near to the sky. Some unfortunate people watch their loved ones falling down before reaching the sky.
The person who just got a job is like a person who just got himself a step to hang on to. Always remember the moment you get a step of your own people will start to hang on to you and you have to bear their weight as well.
Imagine it. People hanging on to the ladder, holding it tightly. The more you have to hang onto it the more it is painful. People who travelled by suburban trains in Chennai hanging on to the doors will know what the pain is. After few minutes your hands will start to ache. It will beg for mercy. Sometimes we will find a stronger person giving us a support. Then our pain reduces. That’s what happens in life. People get tired by hanging on to those steps. Parents get tired. When the children find their own steps and if they start supporting their parents by giving them a lift from below the parents will feel a comfort. The pain reduces.
One thing is for sure. The pain only reduces it never disappears.
People dependent on others don’t hang on the steps but they hang on to the people who are hanging onto the steps.
The more people dependent on you the more difficult it gets for you to keep hanging onto the ladder. People who lose their life due to unnatural reason are like people who fall down unable to hold on to the steps anymore. People who, despite so many things pulling them down, continue to hold onto the steps keep moving towards the sky as the steps keep moving. Once they reach the top most point they enter into a different world. May be they change ladders or there are no more ladders we don’t know.
Children hang on to their parents till they become capable to hanging on to the steps themselves. Parents get pulled down by their children’s weight. They not only should support themselves but they should support their children as well. They bear it and continue to hang on to the steps. Through this pain they also try to find a comfortable step for their child to hang on to. They try to come down to the child's level to help the child out. Once the child gets its own step the gap between the child and the parent increases as nature keeps moving the parents faster than the child. The child just watches its parents moving up and up and disappearing into the vast sky. When that happens you realise you yourself are very near to the sky. Some unfortunate people watch their loved ones falling down before reaching the sky.
The person who just got a job is like a person who just got himself a step to hang on to. Always remember the moment you get a step of your own people will start to hang on to you and you have to bear their weight as well.
Imagine it. People hanging on to the ladder, holding it tightly. The more you have to hang onto it the more it is painful. People who travelled by suburban trains in Chennai hanging on to the doors will know what the pain is. After few minutes your hands will start to ache. It will beg for mercy. Sometimes we will find a stronger person giving us a support. Then our pain reduces. That’s what happens in life. People get tired by hanging on to those steps. Parents get tired. When the children find their own steps and if they start supporting their parents by giving them a lift from below the parents will feel a comfort. The pain reduces.
One thing is for sure. The pain only reduces it never disappears.
Friday, September 15, 2006
Thursday, September 14, 2006
One Two Three
Giving numbers is a lot better I have been to some gatherings where they do something more sinister. Now everyone with same number forms a group. You see in that group two guys know each other and there is one girl. You start thinking how the girl will be feeling to be among a crowd of guys. In your group there will be one guy who looks more mature he will start by saying let us introduce ourselves. He will show a restrained enthusiasm by which he means he wants to win by any means. You rehearse in your mind what to tell about you and what not. You notice carelessly when the girls talks about herself and feel jubiliant that she is a junior to you. When it is your chance you tall all that you didnt practice in you mind.
Now the conductor assigns some interesting !!! group excercises which you have to work it out with pure strangers. People in your team start talking most of which seem to you like "what one earth are they saying?". The mature guy suddenly forms an affinitiy with another guy and suddenly they both become the pilot and copilot of your team.
Finally the conductor wants each team to come and present. Everybody in the team expects the matured guy to go and present but the co pilot actually goes and presents the case. For some reason you feel your team did a good job but not the best job.
you check the time another 7.30 hrs to go ..
Let me stop here.
The point i am trying to make is why do they make people sit with some strangers. When you are in the company of known people you creativity will be high your performance will be high, you can enjoy the session. Contrarily in all the team gatherings they split you to sit with strangers saying you will get to know more people. In truth i will not be meeting the guy who was part of my team.
So why not let the groups be formed as per individual's wish and make everybody comfortable you can sure expect some interesting fireworks with everyong participating enthusiastically.
Now the conductor assigns some interesting !!! group excercises which you have to work it out with pure strangers. People in your team start talking most of which seem to you like "what one earth are they saying?". The mature guy suddenly forms an affinitiy with another guy and suddenly they both become the pilot and copilot of your team.
Finally the conductor wants each team to come and present. Everybody in the team expects the matured guy to go and present but the co pilot actually goes and presents the case. For some reason you feel your team did a good job but not the best job.
you check the time another 7.30 hrs to go ..
Let me stop here.
The point i am trying to make is why do they make people sit with some strangers. When you are in the company of known people you creativity will be high your performance will be high, you can enjoy the session. Contrarily in all the team gatherings they split you to sit with strangers saying you will get to know more people. In truth i will not be meeting the guy who was part of my team.
So why not let the groups be formed as per individual's wish and make everybody comfortable you can sure expect some interesting fireworks with everyong participating enthusiastically.
Tuesday, September 12, 2006
One Two ..
Most of us who would have participated in any Team event would have faced the situation. You walk into the room find lot of strangers. You search for a familiar face among the crowd. Ah Ha There is a familiar face. Under normal circumstances you would have walked into a shop which you are not interested whenever you notice this guy accidentaly in the street but today he looks like a ripe apple. You walk to him and start an useless conversation. You look around the room and find expect you everybody knows each other. The instructor or the conductor of the program walks in and asks us to count number of people in the room. Mind it this normally happens at the very start of the meeting or whatever. You can see atleast 5 or 6 people getting up and couunting each coming up with a different number. There will be a huge laugh and then they will come to conclusion on the right count.
All this while you will be watching what was so funny in that. You will be happy that the person next to you didnt laugh.
The instructor will do some complex Math and ask the first person in the front row to start counting 1. He will say the next person should say 2 and likewise it should go till 5 and then again start at 1.
By this time you would have found out the motive of the instructor. He wants to split the team and group strangers together. The ripe apple will be snatched from your hands now. There will be no time for you to move five seats away. It's too late.
The comedy isnt over yet. The first person will say 1 and it will go on till the fifth person saying 5. Now the sixth person will say 6. One intelligent guy will rise from his chair and say you should say 1. The guy who said 6 will act embrassed as if he stepped onto something very disgusting and say 1 again. The matter doesnt end here the dumbo next to him will say 7 and immediately correct himself to 2 and then give an intelligent smile to the crowd. By this time few dumbos would have become intelligent but still mistakes will happen atleast three more times. When it is your chance you would have already calculated what number you will be and you will utter it correctly and give a big yawn. You will be checking who else is with the same number as you are. You are now afraid if the first 2 minutes of this one day meeting has been like walking on charcoal of fire how the next 7.58 hrs is going to be.
TBC..
Monday, September 11, 2006
Ponniyin Selvan
I watched Shallow Hal for the second time yesterday. I was reminded of Ponniyin Selvan in Tamil. Both the movies tried to look at Physical deformities in a lighter vein. Thought i didnt like the ending of Ponniyin Selvan (Hero's mother dying part) it was a very good movie.
Both movies had enough reason to turn into tearjerkers. Except for occasional senti dialogues both the movies take us through some hilarious moments.
Jack Black was great in Shallow Hal. Gwyneth Paltrow didnt have much to do though the movies runs around her. The one who comes as Jack Black was also great. The movie has a feel good end.
I liked Ravi krishna's style of acting in Ponniyin Selvan. May be for the reason he gets irritated for silly reasons as I do. May Dialogues between Revathy and Ravikrishna were very natural.
In Shallow Hal Jack Black starts loving Gwyneth Paltrow though she is awfully fat. Gopika in Ponniyin Selvan has a crush on Ravi krishna though his face is deformed. True love is this, but is it there in this "Real" world?
Both movies had enough reason to turn into tearjerkers. Except for occasional senti dialogues both the movies take us through some hilarious moments.
Jack Black was great in Shallow Hal. Gwyneth Paltrow didnt have much to do though the movies runs around her. The one who comes as Jack Black was also great. The movie has a feel good end.
I liked Ravi krishna's style of acting in Ponniyin Selvan. May be for the reason he gets irritated for silly reasons as I do. May Dialogues between Revathy and Ravikrishna were very natural.
In Shallow Hal Jack Black starts loving Gwyneth Paltrow though she is awfully fat. Gopika in Ponniyin Selvan has a crush on Ravi krishna though his face is deformed. True love is this, but is it there in this "Real" world?
Thursday, September 07, 2006
Good Old Days
Does any of this remind you of anything?
"Pencille ooku udainju pochu"
"ink gaali aagiduchu"
"rubber tholainju pochu"
"Geometry box thulainju pochu"
"homework note bookaee tholainju pochu"
"Fever" (when we say this the time we enjoyed playing hand cricket will run in our small mind)
"Stomach ache" (this is used more than fever)
"No current" (when we say this the time we enjoyed watching tv will run in our small mind)
"Ooruku poiten"
but the one that beats all the above is
"i forgot" (when we say this we will be reminded of how many times our conscience reminded us and how simply we ignored it)
all the above are some reasons we (atleast me) give for not doing our homework
Note : Some reasons stated above can be used for various other cause also such as taking leave
PS: this post does not encourage you to use these under any circumstances
"Pencille ooku udainju pochu"
"ink gaali aagiduchu"
"rubber tholainju pochu"
"Geometry box thulainju pochu"
"homework note bookaee tholainju pochu"
"Fever" (when we say this the time we enjoyed playing hand cricket will run in our small mind)
"Stomach ache" (this is used more than fever)
"No current" (when we say this the time we enjoyed watching tv will run in our small mind)
"Ooruku poiten"
but the one that beats all the above is
"i forgot" (when we say this we will be reminded of how many times our conscience reminded us and how simply we ignored it)
all the above are some reasons we (atleast me) give for not doing our homework
Note : Some reasons stated above can be used for various other cause also such as taking leave
PS: this post does not encourage you to use these under any circumstances
Monday, September 04, 2006
Crocodile Hunter
Yesterday I was watching him on TV. He was struggling with a giant crocodile with lot of people. Today I read in rediff that he is no more. He has died when filming some underwater stuff.
Everyone who likes watching discovery channel, Animal Planet or NGC, definitly will miss him.
Everyone who likes watching discovery channel, Animal Planet or NGC, definitly will miss him.
More about steve here
Steve Irwin - we will miss you!.
GOD be with his family and friends at this time.
Sunday, September 03, 2006
Vetayadu Vilayadu
First kudos to Kamal and Gautam for coming up with a film which is above normal Tamil film standards. In the past there have been investigative Tamil movies but Vetayadu Vilayadu stands different from those movies.
For those who are familiar with Television shows like CSI and movies Hannibal Series, will be able to notice lot of similarities between VV and those.
For those who expected a different movie from Kamal can be happy as this is a very different movie for him. But for those who expected a different movie from Gautam will be disappointed as the movie resembles KK in many ways such as repetition of Character names, movie plot, song picturisation and placement of songs.
Nowadays a new trend is noticeable in tamil movies where the honest guy kills the bad guy with all vengeance examples Saami, KK, Dhool, We can feel the punches ourselves.
The movie starts of promisingly with one such fighting scene between Kamal and bad guys with the impact as mentioned above. And then Kamal is pulled into a investigation of his mentor daughter.
During this investigation Kamal travels to New York.
The movie is all about how Kamal finds the bad guys who were responsible for the murder of his mentors daughter. There are lot of loop holes in the story which are part and parcel of any investigative movie. The reason given by the bad guys for the murders and the way they commit murders (they travel from US to Keeranur for a murder) is not convincing.
But whatever is the story we can always find these kinds of faults if we can forget this and watch it is entertaining.
The movie is very long. There is no need for Jyothika or Kamilinee in this movie.
Kamal’s performance is brilliant and he has underplayed but we can see he is ageing.
Harris Jeyaraj music is good but reminds of KK at lot of places especially in the song “Partha mudhal nalle” . The intro song for kamal “Karka Karka” is peppy and crisp.
Anthony has showed in lot of places his editing skills especially in the above song.
Gautam has tried to give a western type cop movie with some Indian sentiments thrown around here and there. So the movie neither looks like a full Indian movie or western movie.
On the whole this may appeal to some but not to all.
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