An Evening TO Remember

Movie halls and Sabha's can keep "NO CELL PHONES" board, like "EXIT" and others                                          

A perfect picture from FujiFilm JZ 300

It was an evening to remember; last Sunday I witnessed my first classical live concert by KJ Yesudas at Kamarajar Arangam. It was mesmerising voice and the 3 hour concert just went like a minute.  I haven’t heard most of the songs, and also he sang few songs written by him, yes Yesudas is a lyricist now.

The sound system in the hall was good, I didn’t expect this kind of quality. The audiences as usual was to their own way, occasional cell phone rings, whispering “hello..”, switching off the cell phone will kill its purpose, but one can keep it in complete silent, not even vibration.  Men have to unlearn something to learn. Let your near and dear ones wait for couple of hours, while you enjoy the music.

Playing With Fear

what is safe? You can sit inside your house and lock the doors, its safe, but can we do it, who is going to suffer, how long can you stay inside.

Recently people are being played in the name of fear; Tamil Nadu is one such state which is battling two fear factor kind of issue on which the TN govt and the people are taking contrasting stand point. You should have guessed its Kodankkulam and Mullai Periyar. In both this situation the fear is “If the earth quake stuck with high magnitude”, Keralities are in the fear of the dam getting burst and TN people fears of a nuclear disaster.

Science is always a boon and a bane to the man kind. The same voices who say Kudankulam is not safe, say Periyar dam is safe. Now what is safe? You can sit inside your house and lock the doors, its safe, but can we do it, who is going to suffer, how long can you stay inside. Stop playing phycosis-fear on the people and approach to a problem technically. A government has to ensure the safety of its people, will it be wise if WB CM Mamtha gives a statement asking her people to not to go to hospital, just because 90 people were killed in a fire accident, rather what she does is to provide and ensure to check the safety measures in all the hospitals and other govt and private establishment. So govt has to provide safe the infrastructure, not fear.

When we can build canals to join two continents, when we can build islands, it’s sure possible for us to use the nuclear energy wisely and so build safe dams. Our politicos has to talk sensibly, doesn’t want to provoke people sentimentally, going into TN-Kerala border and shouting words against keralities doesn’t make sense. TN govt and Kerala govt. shed your egos and start talking directly.

Master.. oru tea…

7Am Arivu (Tamil - 2011)

it’s like after laying a strong basement for a 100 storey building, and they constructed a 4BHK Duplex house on it.

The opening of the film is grandeur, the first 20 minutes walks through the life and death of BhodiDharaman which makes the audience to their edge-of-the-seat, sometimes a standing ovation is needed, because they kindle the Tamil-sense in once heart. Let’s take this as a two-part review.

History and other chapters, in this part 7Am Arivu has achieved of what they intended. The sense and pride it gives when a Tamilian is the father of martial arts which we believe it came from the east, the history it depicts are well made in detail. DNA study, although there were previous films which talked about it, this film has created a much awareness and interest. A new villain from China, Chinese and Indian rivalry now goes to celluloid; reason quoted is a Chinese pharmaceutical MNC want to spread an unknown virus in India, which will make them to enter the market. Overall the film is packed with so much information, which makes one baffled, this is too much for some, but still its interesting and the Tamilian sentiment keeps it together.

7Am Arivu as a Cinema, here is where the team losses its grip. Because of such a huge opening, inside and outside the movie, scenes which come after the initial part miss the punch, it’s like after laying a strong basement for a 100 storey building, and they constructed a 4BHK Duplex house on it. The absolute mayhem in the car crash scene wasn’t necessary and makes one say, ehhhhhhhhhh, similarly the hypnotism by Dong Lee, initially I was good, but the more usage of kills the thrill. Small things the director failed to notice, I am not sure which auto puts meter in Chennai, how can an auto chase a Hummer, is it wise to park a big vehicle in front of a busy hospital then walk-in and walk-out. Music didn’t dent much impact; especially the back ground score was not apt to the screen visuals. We can’t say the director failed to fine tune of the script, it’s because of the great grandeur in the initial stage we compare it to the later and weigh it less.

Johnny as Dong Lee will have some good fan following, Suriya as usual gives a good performance, kudos for his versatility that he shows film-after-film, Shruthi Hassan got a good screen presence, she has to keep her music abilities behind as she will get more options in the lead role in future. With just two films releasing this Deepavali, both will be a box office hit.

Note: Anyone please let me know which foreign company patented for “Manjal”

Chasing the Dragon

Recently I came across this infographics in Economist, to put all in one word, “India is roughly 17 years behind China”. They way in which the Chinese had grown in ten years is mammoth. I am just curious to outline what we have to do to catch them up. Just "FIVE POINTS",

1. Government has to be transparent and corruption free. We can see changes already, with the RTI act in the cards, people started using it to know about how the sarkari-oppice works. Movements like Lokpal will definitely make a corruption-free system. The both won’t happen in China.
2. Businesses have to be more humane, treat their employee with a care, also their customer, irrespective of its small or big, the verse attiti-devo-bhava is apt to use. Entrepreneurship should be encouraged and employer should be dedicated to their work, Japanese-way.
3. Schools should inspire a child, develop skills that would induce innovation and thinking, rather than score-oriented system.
4. Civic-sense should be changed, it’s not only mandatory to keep our home clean, but the entire street\city. People should abide by the traffic laws. Shed their greed. People should shed the individual greed, but should be greedy to say my country is the best.
5. Politicians should shed their ego and greed. We want a vocal-sensible leader. Without good leadership how can we become a super-power. So people entering politics, don’t just follow Mahatma Gandhi, you BE A GANDHI, after all he was just a human too, you can easily replicate him or do more\better than him.

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Referring Article:
http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2011/10/comparing-india-and-china?page=2