Monday, November 19, 2007

Polladhavan - Movie Review

  • Dhanush has matured in acting...He carries the movie with him...
  • Santhanam and Karunas contribute to the laughter riot
  • Murali and Bhanupriya - Caring, loving and responsible parents...
  • Ramya - short, stout - skin revealer....
  • Remix of Engeyum - Excellent.....
  • Comedy intertwined with movie...
  • Too much of violence....blood shed...
  • Shows the gross realities of Goonda, their life....
  • Screenplay and Direction - Good...
  • Villains at their reality best....
Verdict :

Blood Fan - Must watch
Comedy Fan - To be seen
Along with family - not recommended but watchable

Karnataka Politics - Power sharing exercise and aftermath

In the mandate given by Karanataka, every political party has formed the government and assigned a Chief Minister. Dharam Singh, Kumaraswamy and Yeddyurappa.

What are the other parties that got atleast one seat in this election ?Every party can form a government and everyone can become the Chief Minister of the state. Beware, dont talk aloud, Deva Gowda is hearing. He does not want Karnataka to be a laboratory of Power sharing exercises. Dont tell anyone, if you have blessing of Deva Gowda, you can also become the Chief Minister.

Governor - Rameshwar Thakur - Had you delayed the government formation of BJP fearing the Deva Gowda desertion of power, then I would think, you are a Pragmatic Governor. Had you played your Power game just to thwart the BJP attempt of ruling the state, then you are also another seperate team in this Power sharing exercise. Already we have JD, BJP and Congress as 3 teams elligible for this exercise.

What leaves Karnataka behind? Ofcourse the people and the state
What moves forward? Only the time.
What increases ? Wealth of Politicians
What decreases ? The time for the next election.

I was wondering what could happen when all polticians come together for swindling money ! Right now they disguise themselves into the so called ethics and principles of political parties, they belong to.

With the exponential rate of degeneration in politics and politicians, the time is so near that all politicians, sans political ethics that are held namesake, will come together to swindle the entire wealth of the state. How different are they from Ghajni Mahmud or Ahmed Shah Abdali or British Raj?

Even when these people unite to swindle, there could still be wealth sharing problems among them. May be they can adapt to ideologies like All politicians are equal but some are more equal than others.

Saturday, November 17, 2007

Vel - a movie review

I do not want to reveal the story line...I wanted to give the indents that caught my attention in the movie...Here are they...You have to make a decision of watching the movie...The onus is yours...I am just the presenter of the movie and ofcourse not the representer....

  • Surya in double role ...
  • Asin looks cute but her makeup reveals her dark complexion
  • Surya - one more to tamil lore of giving PUNCH dialogues
  • Screenplay tight and racy..
  • Vadivelu not at his best - Comedy not connected to the movie...
  • Shankar Mahadevan - title song - Why music directors give him the stereo typed songs for him....He is being wasted or rather he is wasting himself....Who knows
  • One good thing in the movie is when both the Surya interchange their positions, nobody denies or imposters...They admit the truth when cornered...
  • Surya - giving T.Rajender style dialogues - That was interesting
  • Watching Surya again and again reveals the complete semblance with Sivakumar - the veteran...

Verdict - Can be seen

India Pakistan ODI Series

Why this ODI series not interesting ?

Come on, you have state of emergency in Pakistan and you want the players to play a competitive cricket....It is really tough ordeal when you do not know how your family members are....The entire country is paralysed with restrictive information sneaking out of it....

You have to give credit to Pakistani players...You cannot boast about Indian team, Dhoni's leadership or availability of different options of forming playing eleven....

While writting this, I remembered Teddy Roosevelt,

It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly...who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at best, knows the triumph of high achievement; and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

Hence I do not have any other option other than to praise my neighbourhood players....I salute you for the wonderful spirit that you exhibited during this series

Monday, November 12, 2007

Nandigram - Ironies

In Ramayanam, Nandigramam is the place where Bharata gets the paadhuka from Lord Sri Rama and rules Ayodhya for the next 14 years. If spirit of brotherhood and love are best represented in Ramayana days, today this place is in mire of controversies....


Almost Buddhadeb is left isolated in the entire drama...Within CPI(M), there are so many factions who dislike BB. The other CPI led by Bardhan has started raising voices against the civil war torn state. For BJP and TC - what else can you expect and other than opposing an establishment...Congress are using its cards for their nuclear impasse..Already P. DasMunshi has expressed his opinion...On top of this, there is our Gopal Gandhi who has criticised the manner of handling...

Whom you can blame ? Left, Maoists, insurgents, landless farmer, TC...who can be blamed....If you start questioning them, nobody will take any responsibility or ownership....Just pointing fingers at others is the best thing to do...and No doubt politicians are great at it...

Who are the victims...It is only the peasants or the famers who have their lands vested in Nandigram....

Sunday, November 11, 2007

Back again

I am back after a 2 year hiatus...Just to update all of you, I have got married ...Ofcourse typical Tamil arranged marriage.....

What made me come back to writting...What to say..Change of stars, interests....Does that mean, was I doing interesting things in the last 2 years ...No Definitely not...

My friend Vijay Krishna, has always been penning his thoughts...vkpedia.blogspot.com

Another of my close friend, with whom I share lot of common interests, Vijay Ramachandran...cakesnbakes.blogspot.com ...has also been blogging....

VJ Ramchandran, I never knew he blogged...Once I knew he blogged, I made sure I completed all of his blogs....Then it came to me, that I should start writting again.....Then I searched for my old blog and Thankfully Google had saved it for the last 2 years.....

Thanks Google...Thanks....Except that my username and password of my account has changed, my blogspace has not changed....Hence to all of my consistent readers of blogspace, I would not keep you waiting....Let us see whether is it the same as any other new year resolutions?