Views on Issues, Cinema and all that is Non Vital

Animalism.....and I am not kidding...

2006-07-06T03:47:00.000-07:00

Well, the break between jobs really proved to be useful to hit on this book :-)) But not a long break though as well the book is also smalll...just aroung 90 pages,but beleive me it is 90 pages packed with humour and wonderful reading experience.If u ask me it is a must read for every person who adores the politics and the scenes behind the governance in any

country.

I remember the caricature comedy in tamil newspapers and magazines on politicians, but this book is a general verbal caricature on the politics of the world.It all starts in an animal farm where the animals are united by the feeling that humans are misusing them. Then they chase the farm owner guy away and start their own governance ( Engeyo ketta Kural:Communism.... ). Then the book proceeds with the animals meeting time and while, pigs take up the leadership and the management of the farm.They call their governing principle as "animalism". there is betrayal, killings and ego clashes,misuse of power(the incident quoted relating to this is the best one).The over all point made by the story is "How power can corrupt??"

I really did not want to give away the complete plot of the book as it would really bring down the reading enthusiasm. The author ends the book with the satirical comparison of pigs and the top management.I am telling you, you will love the way the book talks about the people management.There are instances in the book that actually relates more to the "Communism" in the world. The way it has been presented, the rich use of words and the sattire you will realise you have been tricked to beleive that communism will always fail.....But seriously, worth a read.A great read actually.

PudhuPettai oduthu...ulla varadha....

2006-06-07T04:09:00.000-07:00

( An Average Film viewers Comments..with no appreciation for the technology and focussing only on entertainment)
Finally there is a place in the world where you can take the person u don't like.....Thanks to
Mr.Selva Raghavan and his team for this wonderful way to punish the ppl we hate.
There are expectations in the heart of film viewers for directors like SelvaRaghavan.There are
situations where these ppl also fail to live up to it.Now is the situation with so many movies portraying the dons and the underworld...Movies like kokki,Pattiyal,Thalai Nagaram..actively portray the life of dons...and some movies like pattiyal have done it well too.This probably is a wrong time to have releassed this SelvaRaghava's product.Though an earlier release might not have helped that much for this pettai..:-))).The movie is far from entertainment really far...that u can't even feel entertained at all for the whole...3 hours.If your theatre is far
away..it might be for more time than that.

Story in Brief:
1) Dhanush is "Kokki Kumar" ( Karan u can sue him...for using ur film's name )
2) Kokki Kumar narrates the movie from his cell in the prison( well for those who feel bored already...well there is
more for you to retain the same feeling...) Pavamya Dhanush..."Adhu oru Kana kallam" mudhal..idhe costume.....
3) Kokki kumar has a pathetic childhood...as expected.....(thanks to his dad killing his mom...it adds to it....see you may think.."this guy writes with no mercy"...watch the movie it is a worser show there).
4) KK(remember it is kokki kumar...:-))) runs away from his dad....gets training to be a rowdy..then clears tests becomes the don of Egmore ( actually "nowhere" I should say) ....oops...thats not all..there is sneha and Soniya
Aggarwal parts in between just for Dhanush's relaxation ( if u know wat i mean)...nothing for the viewer anyway.
5)KK enters politics...he can do all his rowdy stuff legally...( "Entering Politics" for any rowdy...gives the rowdy..the same feeling that we get "when we join Google").
6) Learns a lotta lessons..( actually we learn some stuff too..never go to a movie w/o reading a review) and finally kills everybody..including viewers ...and the good part "climax" ( U don't know...how happy I felt when we reached here..)

Comments:
There is nothing much in this section this time....bcos as an average viewer...iam disappointed.there is nothing entertaining..as such..just blood and some wierd jokes....by rowdies...(i must admit...was a little bit appealing in the first half).then there is sneha...in a new dimension...bit entertaining..but she fails in portrayal....the story goes normal...until kk meets sonia aggarwal..( one of his employee's sis) ...and marries her..and in the next scene marries sneha too...(wow...).Some scenes were visually very good like the one where the
camera moves closer to Dhanush and the objects behind him move farther from ur sight.....Kudos to Aravind Krishna..for the visuals....and also the digital camera attempt....vera edhukkachum apply pannirukalaam.....seri vidunga.....

If I remember correctly...all the movies shot with digital camera technology..were not so much entertaining ...correct me If I am wrong in this...be it "Vaanam Vasapadum, Mumbai Express,Mutham and now this pudhupettai"...don know....guys..better choose a gud story first...and later the technology...

Actors:
Dhanusu: It is a film for him actually.....,you will feel bored seeing him throughout ........probably I did....He is not just KK he is a serial killer...he manages to kill u too....with his over acting ...and dialogue delivery...He is a don...of egmore...........and joins politics and becomes MLA..In a few scenes Dhanush really delivers..but fails pathetically in all the stunt sequences.........

Sneha: This is one of the most hyped..things...there is nothing unexpected glamour show from her.....what you see in the trailors..that is all.....u see...in the screens..too....may be a lil more...but her performance when being beaten up...is very good and stays in ur mind...for sometime....

Yuvan - Greak work both with the songs and the BGM..............something that can be appreciated in the film...........but sometime...in a few scenes...BGM did not appeal to the scene though..but great work.

Well, to sum it up...great technical work and spirit but lacks entertainment................But you have to draw your own lines to define " What is entertainment anyway?? "..

Ivann,

Vengudu

Kalaaba Kaadhalan...

2006-04-24T23:57:00.000-07:00

KK(Seems to be one lucky formula in Tamil Cinema...Kaadhal Konden,Kana Kanden,King Kong.,even some songs like Kattipudi Kattipudidaa...see KK :-)) there has always been something with that acronym that always leaves some impression
with the audience.One of the first exceptions in the list would be Kallaaba......Let me tell you something positive...the director is one among the set of directors having rare names like Mysskin of ChithiramPesudhadi.. he is Igore of KK.

Gud One from "kadavul Paadhi Mirugam Paadhi in VijayTV" : If someone's wife loves u then u r kalla kaadhalan..If your wife's sister loves you,you are kalaaba kaadhalan.

Story in Brief: It is the remake of Vaali....except double action Ajith is replaced by Renuka Menon and the villi..(Sorry I don know her name ...but she plays Renuka's sister and the villi in the film). Villi character is the counterpart of deaf and dumb Ajith in Vaali.Also in Vaali, the villian Ajith will fall in love with sim long before his bro marries her,but here in this bold story...villi wants to marry her brother-in-law(what a beautiful story...).Imbuttu thaan kadhai.

Screen play flow..
1) The movie begins with the marriage sequence of Aarya and Renuka...( AlaiPayuthey style song runs to cover the marriage and
the initial kasamusa..but coming to the fact..the song could have been better).
2) The HOT newly married couple scenes of Aarya and Renuka Menon...keeps the film going( with a bit of vayatherichal for the
youth male audience)
3) Story loses pace and so the audience start to fell all the more bored after the villi sister makes an entry.
I was watching the movie in b'lore. suddenly Meera Jasmine joins us in the theatre, she sits adjacent to me...oh! my god.I am frozen and they play the movie from the beginning.I am like stunned totally and also she starts a conversation with me about
the film,Arya,Renuka and then sandakozhi also.I really not that verbal to express my mental feelings at that instant.Then suddenly my friend calls me.."Dei padam mudinchiduchu daa...naaye yendhiri.." It was then I realised I have slept through the last half hour of the film ( Enna Kanavudaa saamy...).
Not seen by me part:
4) aarya brings the villis lover from village and gets her married to him and she commits suicide( so would have I, if I had not slept)

comments in general..
Songs: Music director:Niru (ooh one more new name) The marriage song was quite pleasant. The hot "after marriage song" is acceptable in youth targeted Picturisation
standards.Rest of the songs are cigaratte breaks.So don see the movie in a multiplex where u cant come out.The BGM plays throughout the movie and in most of the places it does not reflect the mood in the scene.But,anyway congrats to the new guy and his good efforts.He also deserves one more appluse for the remix of "kalyana Naal Paarka Sollallaama".

Actors
Arya: The producer can give away rewards to anyone if they are able to trace any emotions from his expressions.But he will make a good actor...it..seems he had a good portrayal in Pattiyal...will watch and tell.But let me tell one thing...Some body ask him to stop doing the dubbing himself and start using some dubbing artists.

Renuka Menon: Nothing to perform...except cooperate with Aarya in the hot sequences in the beginning, but later she manages her role with the innocent smile. She was good in the ad that was showed in the break..Maami sonna saami sonna madhiri..:-))

Villi: Good Performance, but not so much with the dialogue delivery...in fact none in the film have done that part well.I heard from my friend that she performed well in the climax.(U know I slept ...rite..)

Igore: Given a good film on terms of camera,but failed in making the screenplay interesting..may be due to budget restriction...but the film is glossy through out...

The most shocking part is that writer Balakumaran wrote such silly dialogues like "Naan nallava Maama ...Oru nallavanukkaage engura nallava...". Last I know they call him "Ezhuthu sidhar".Beleive me he has never performed well in movies except for Baadsha.Remember the stupid dialogues in citizen...all his work.Maybe he has to change thestyle.

Watching it: At your own risk.....

Oru Vilambaram....

2006-02-12T03:57:00.000-08:00

I am rather not a great speaker with a great selling point... But I do like watching a lotta commercials recently...... Here, I am listing those that caught my attention...

1) The BAJAJ Avenger...( Feel like God)... : -
The ad begins with the guy saying.. "I forgive my dad, my barber the gal..." with all the background pictures portraying the same.. Read the review in here... REVIEW

2) The latest MENTOS Commercial:-
Here a guy enters a class and thinks the mentos way.....,also the second ad where in the saloon guy covers up his mistake in a witty way... Both videos were mind blowing and very creative indeed.

I did not get any pics to put up in this case... Will put up some pics as soon as I get one ...

Ghilli Kaali

2006-02-06T02:41:00.000-08:00

Based on the fotos, below here is my comments....

a) All three wkts were disasters to India..

b)but... the fotos look great....

c) The batsman are shook both physically and mentally, but the uprooted stick just stands....:-))

I will keep posting as soon as I get some more fotos like this.........

Ghilli kaali-3

2006-02-06T02:39:00.000-08:00

Ghilli Kaali-2

2006-02-06T02:38:00.000-08:00

Ghilli kaali-1

2006-02-06T02:35:00.000-08:00

this was sachin's wicket.....

Konjam ...Jollu...

2006-01-21T03:18:00.000-08:00

Again there is a heroine from kerala to take over the tamil movie male audiences by storm ................ She is the heroine for films like ( chittiram pesudhadi &veyyil by shankar) ...I think I am the first one to blog about her.... Well you have to wait till her movies hit the theatres..... I am telling u really worth waiting....

Chenna Pattanam......Ellam Kattanam.....( Means... At chennai u pay for everything)

2006-01-21T02:48:00.000-08:00

I visited the book fair in chennai.Really worth visting once being in chennai.there was a sea of stalls starting from HigginBothams to the Prentice Hall... There were also stalls for Isha Yoga, The Hindu and so on.Beleive me it has a entrance fare of Rs.5 this time ( thats what I meant in the title to mean that is not fair:-)).

There was a very huge crowd ( really surprsingly huge ). I really did not know chennai had such a huge literary crowd buying Vikram Seth's poetry compilation Kudos chennai!!!.Most of the shops did not have any discounts and stuff... So nothing really attractive to a middle class buyer. There was a stock of very rare books also. But overall I feel it din't live the hype that was created.

What I did?
I was looking for some novels.But found that they were the same price even if I buy it other time also, so was just tramping through the stalls looking for nothing..Finally I saw one good book( I had read the review before) " the story of GOOGLE " pricede at RS.595 Oh! My God, the book can be finished in two or three sittings of continual reading. I changed my mind to buy the book, then my friend told me " Machi Y buy books on google...Check he may give it free in Google-Books section". I felt it was a very reasonable comment.
At last after the long walk was over there were some chairs outside we sat there to rest,Little did I know that the chairs were put for some purpose there was a Tamil book release and some subsequent speech.It was good to hear Poets speaking the real language

Finally there were a few shops outside where they sold old books So I just saw the books that were inside being priced at less than half the price inside. I felt I wasted my time inside..
Book Fair:
1) Place for excellent tamil book collection(includes all novels till date and latest books by sujatha)
2) Over priced english books... Sure,Technical books also....
3) old books stalls outside also have a pretty good collection.
4) Also carry cash, no swiping is possible.

Moments : There was one girl(college going, may be) just stepped on my foot and nearly climbed over my legs to buy a book on " Tamil Culture". I thought " M'am where is the culture in your action of climbing on a man:-))"

Book Fair....Fair enough!!!!

It's 2006 BABY...

2006-01-01T05:24:00.000-08:00

Happy New Year to one and all ........

Its new year baby....

Yen Peru Aarudaa... Naan Romba Borudaa....

2006-01-01T05:09:00.000-08:00

Say Hi to the new hero of Mass Movies Mr.Surya... with all the foul language and the body language of a Chennai based Rowdy and all the homicide activities.Well It was one more chill nite here in Chennai me and my frend saw Aaru in Kamala Theatre( Another nite show that made me feel about wasting time).
I was late and thought I missed some story but after sometime I felt I should not have come... Feelings apart. The movie started very fast proceeded faster but really took time to end. The pace of screenplay is one thing that can be applauded in AAru...........

Story In brief : Aaaru alias Arumugam is a rowdy under " Aashish Vidyarthi.." (God I forgot the name of that character) the portrayal is similar to cheena thaana in Thotti Jaya. Aaru gets betrayed by his boss during one of the assignments and he is not able to tolerate it.
There is so much of stories within this story like Surya's childhood in the boss's house and the "ANNI"\nMalavika taking care of him, Trisha's life...,OK I forgot their love ...(The most horrible portryael of them all).Totally it is Hari's version of Thotti jaya except that Trisha is not Villians daughter.

Songs: People who smoke in between the movie i.e. while at songs and all please avoid the movie as mostly all songs are such kinda breaks mite end up getting cancer... DeviSri Prasath and Hari better cud have taken some more time to give proper tunes.Especially the "Droham ..Droham" one it seems to have copied from the title song of the mega serial "Sorgam". The "Paarkathey " number was a tolerable one.

Actors:
Surya: Aaru should have worked out for him like Gemini did for Vikram but instead it creates a feeling that "Surya has got his wanted flop" ( Seriously I heard some one say this). All\nright he has performed well, but cud have avoided the slang at times. Being\nbrutal does\'nt work for him.At times you get the felling he has over acted at places.

Trisha: Trisha is the heroine better keep that in mind when u see the movie or else u mite end up forgetting that. Thanks to the songs they mite remind u of her at times.

Aishwarya D/o Lakshmi: She is very involved with the film and lived as "sarioja akka" with all the filthy words. The scene where she makes a speech on the stage really haunts you\nand makes u want to leave the theatre, but all right she has not been given\na role that drags the story, thanks to Hari for the same.

Vadivelu: With a pathetic introduction that fails to make u smile even, he scores in some parts, especially the "thakkali chutney " and conversation with aishwarya reg his name.

Wasted Actors: Good performers like Delhi Ganesh has been wasted by being cast in this movie. the way he dies leaves some impression to the watchers.

Stunts: It is the major portion of the film.Surya hits and hits and at times uses Aruva...burns people down and so on. At the end the audience gets a feeling that they are being hit and we got up with some pain.

Finally the ultimate torture was that we returned heome and switched on the TV... Charan spoke in one of the channels that "Hari has given me a successful movie" ....Goyyala was my eaction to it.

Aaru.... Cud have been far better.........

Changing India--Really?

2005-12-08T05:26:00.000-08:00

It was early morning yesterday, that I got an sms from my friend employed in Infy ( saying his CEO is on the TV sets tonight...). I could catch up with the programme near its end.

I have presented my views on whatever I saw...

( Photo Courtesy:Hindu BusinessLine)
As far as I could read Gates was not answering to the point of the question. I feel he was in a hurry or something or thought it was a waste of time also could have been tired with yesterday with all that gatherings.Prannoy Roy asked him a question that was to bring the edge that China has over India... Guess what Gates replied " With the goodness of China, good ness of India also with the goodness of America it makes heck a great country" ... Guys tell me Is "Heck" a common usage? It is a word for hell said in a sweet way. What does he really mean?. Then Mr.Murthy immediately said " I am not like Mr.Bill to say bad things openly".
Mr.Murthy , then for a question on what Indians should do to change? remarked " I spoke to one of my friends in Harvard Business School,who is a professor there said I have two difficulties one is to make the Japanese students to speak up and to make the Indian students to shut up". What is he then? (that is a different point). I personally felt he should not have said those lines. Maybe He did'nt mean anything, but they sounded inappropriate and offensive to me.

Then Today Morning I read this article in the Hindu-Business . It seems they had some real good discussion also. I hope they did. If some one had seen the show. Kindly update me!!!

Eye For an Eye issue in Gulf?

2005-12-06T22:03:00.000-08:00

I don't know if anybody heard the news about this poor Kerala guy..Naushad..He was an employee at the gulf. Most keralites go in search of a job abroad and end up in gulf countries.It seems they are everywhere in Gulf.This guy,Naushad was working in an Automobile retail store. It seems three years back ,one guy was asking for a replacement for an automobile battery or something.Naushad and that customer had an argument that went physical and in the meantime to gaurd himself Naushad hit the guy that resulted in partially blinding the customer.
Naushad had spent three terms in jail for the same,but now the Saudi Arabian Court has ordered to blind Naushad too. Come on... This is ridiculous ... In a world where human rights organisatons are fighting to stop hanging criminals accused for murder and stuff.. this judgement by the Saudi court really needs to be questioned.....
Thanks to the Indian Govt to take this initiative ...onthis issue..

I think People who wants to move out of India and settle elsewhere in the world, Remember there is nothing like here.

Noushad's release sought
Special Correspondent
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Chief Minister Oommen Chandy has urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to urgently intervene to secure the release of Puthenveettil Noushad from Anchal in Kollam district who is imprisoned in Saudi Arabia.
In a fax message to the Prime Minister, the Chief Minister said that the matter should be taken up with the Saudi Arabian Government. Noushad was innocent. He had only acted in self-defence when he was attacked. Mr. Chandy said that he would speak to the Prime Minister after Mr. Singh returned from Moscow where he was on an official visit now.
[ News Article Courtesy : The Hindu]

BookReview-Life Of Pi by Yann Martel

2005-12-06T05:37:00.000-08:00

What rules the life of a human being? Is it the religion or God or belief. I don't know, but this book really left this question in mind. It is again a story that involves a lot of India in it, the kind of book that I like to read. The emotions conveyed become stronger as you turn the pages,really strong and unconventional at the end. It merely involves four to five characters,really amazed at the way the author had unfolded a 100 chapter story with such less number of characters(nearly 80 chapters are just with 2 characters in it..) but still it keeps the reader to retain the spirit.

Story line in a glance:-
Piscine Patel, the son of a wealthy zoo owner in Pondicherrry does his primary schooling in Canada (OK rich guy..). The reason for his wierd name is that he is named after a swimming pool in France. It is his name that makes him a laughingstock. People call him Pissing Patel (U know Americans never know or appreciate French), he is saved from being ridiculed for so long.He is bought back to Pondy to continue the schooling. Here he starts a new life as pi patel (Actually becomes a thing ... Some of the guys started to call themselves Omega Philip and so on). It is now that Pi (Now that u know him we can call him Pi rt?) starts getting exposed to religion and its values.Infact he is exposed really lot.He is shown the goodness in all Hindu,Christian and Islam. He uses this chance to compare the gods.

To Be Continued.........

Machan Peru Ghajini...

2005-12-05T05:35:00.000-08:00

(Pic cortesy:India Glitz Ok thats evident)

Very late review... Better be late than never..I say it to myself like Surya does in thisfilm.... Ok It was raining very heavily in Chennai with water logging inside my house...So We went to Ghazini at AVM theatres on saturday....

The film was pretty fast moving ... So it was little difficult to really remember the storyand hence spot the flaws.... Maybe that is the trick by Murugadoss...But the messages all over his house like "Close the Door" near the door really surprised me...Seems Murugadoss has given a lotta thought to make this movie.

Actors:
Surya: Man He really rocks in a few scenes, but I feel he is not that good in the romancepart. He fails to leave an impression in some of the love scenes.May be that is what realism that keeps this movie ahead of the other movies it is not just cinema love...Otherwisee
Surya rulkes the movie with his body language ( both the Rich guy and the killer)...Guys Don be mad at me If I say he rocked as a killer but failed as a lover...

Asin: Bubbly cute and what not... She is the winner and also scores in the film.Her
appearance in the movie was very cleanly etched.It was so clean it made me sad when she died(Oh Man the way the killing is done really far from imagination...) Somehow Asin rocks...

Nayantara: She is really made to run for her money... She runs, runs and runs and there is asong where she is skimpily clad..there was no scope for her performance really.Well Suryahas short term memory loss I really don understand ..how is that he is not attracted to Nayantara!!! Its Ok not big a deal.. It happens with heroes... To sum it up Nayantara has been paid for running and she does that...w/o acting..

Dialogues: Not a different one but the dialogue Asin says to the villian guy ( "*
Madadhipathinga *... ethana perukku bayapadarathu...) that dialogue was good .I wonder how censor really missed this one.

Villian Twins: I still have the doubt why the bad guys be twins always....Also in Majaa (the fight sequence )..In ghazini it is totally un necessary Maybe it helped the screenplay for
one scene and helped Nayatara to claim some role in the film ( It is one of the running sequences).Other than that there is just killing done by this new guy(my friend told me he did great work in Telgu film Sye).I saw him in Thotti Jaya.. He surely has a long face,but needs some acting training.

Music and BGM: They are already hit so nothing to mention...Except for "rangola..." and the nayatara number other songs were good..

Thats all folks... If you havnt seen the film yet .. It is a sure see for every tamil film fan.
Ghazini- Not to miss ..

Transmission- A book by Hari Kunzru

2005-11-10T04:32:00.000-08:00

Well, One more book by an Indian Author...to get you amazed by his skills. A london-born Indian author.. Really seems to carry a lot of his Indian thoughts with him which is very evident in his narration.One of the greates books that I've ever read.
About the story, It revolves around three people in different geographical locations get linked in the hard way. The author excels in bringing the real emotions of an Indian in USA and the bitter life he is made to face. Arjun, the guy from Noida wants to make the best out of his programming skills...(which is more towards creation of new virus programs to hack
networks).He travels to USA Thru a company by name DataBodies...Here is where the creativity of Kunzru gets very evident when he talks about the Person in DataBodies by name "Sunny Srinivasan" ( the comment on his accent was excellent). the novel totally has an Indian touch in it everywhere while talking about movies, girls and culture,family ( the way Arjun
expresses care for his family)..

Finally the company he works is about to downsize so he deploys a virus program in the email ... in a plan to solve it and secure his job... but things don happen the way he plans it distrupts his career and he turns to be a criminal... Here is where the author twines the life of three people Arjun,Guy Swift (business man in Europe ) Leela Zaqhir (an actreess in India) and the way it all ends up in misery due to that virus.

To sum it up Really a wonderful read ... and a great book to write about...

2005-05-10T23:19:00.000-07:00

The first blog was meant to be something special,but ended up in something less than ordinary.
It is fine, because we will soon contribute extra "ordinary" blogs.

It is a common belief in our country to start up anything with some sanctity. So i beleive our first topic to start may be the "Nothing".Nothing is as holy as "Nothing". It is one thing used in all occasions and for all purposes. When you do a mistake and everyone console you saying nothing is perfect and you are happy,this way nothing makes you happy. One day at office when you dont have anything to do for the day you stay happily doing nothing.So Keep in mind having nothing is not always misery,it is a treasury at times.