Raavanan

It's not the best of Manirathnam’s I’ve watched and it could have been the worst, but it’s not just because of the camera work and few of the spectacular scenes like Aiswarya’s jumb, final fight on bridge, and the last scene AR’s background voice. One of the worst dialogue's I have seen in his movie and it's none other than Suhasini. It was definitely tough subject to show on screen but he could have done it better. I didn’t feel watching Mani’s movie and I was disappointed. Santhosh sivan has done a splendid job and it’s one of the best camera work I have seen in Tamil movie and just for his work you can watch this movie once more.

Back to work - When?

This is the first time I took a long break from my work and literally still it’s continuing. I went for a vacation to my home for three weeks and I had to extend it for one more week since I got typhoid during that time. It helped in one way that I could stay in home with my mom and dad for longer time. But now it’s really driving me crazy since I got a disease which may transfer to others, so I have to get the medical clearance before I go to office. Luckily I got an appointment on a first day and the doctor asked me to take some tests and it’s supposed to be ready in two days but still I am waiting for the result to come.

To find out whether my report is ready I’ve called my doctor this morning and the reply is a big NO. After I had cut the call, immediately my doctor called me and said, “I forgot to say you that you have to take few more tests, so can you go to the Lab and call me back?”. Bad luck, I went to the Lab which is couple of miles away from my home, on a normal day it’s an easy drive but when you have a record high snow it’s really difficult. After a slippery drive I’ve reached the lab only to see a board which says “We are closed due to the weather, Sorry for the inconvenience”. Bad luck becomes Bad luck², now I don’t have an option except waiting till the next day for few more new tests.

I don’t know have an idea when I am going to get the report, until then I can’t go to the office which is really making me lazy and lonely, that too after spending a month with my family.

Movies

Weather has spoiled our X-mas plans and it’s also spoiling our new year plan, we didn’t have much choice than going to bowling and movies. I’ve seen few movies and here they are,

Twilight (The New Moon)

For the sentiment and lack of pace I was thinking that this movie has been copied from some Tamil movie. I could relate few scenes with Kadal Konden, but the sets and other stuffs are great and most of the people are liked. Even though I am not a big fan of vampires I didn’t hate this movie. But I won’t recommend watching this..

Blind Side

I always like the movies which are brought from the real story and this is one among them. Everybody has acted well and it’s a huge hit here. I believe everybody wants to help others like Sandra Bullock did in this movie and that could be one reason all liked it. “Big Mike” and the kid have acted so well and off course Sandra was too good.

Invictus

“I am the captain of my soul” is the famous dialogue of this movie. It’s a real story of Nelson Mandela and his countries Rugbee team winning the cup. As always, Morgan freeman’s acting was too good. He is perfect to play the Nelson Mandela’s role and Matt Damn didn’t have much to do except his South African accent. The movie is so slow but it’s worth watching to get to know the few characteristics of one of the legends of this era.

Sherlock Holmes

Until I was stepping out of our room to go to this movie I didn’t know that, there is a story book called Sherlock Holmes and which was so famous. The movie has started little slow and it was getting interested as it progressed. The science has played major role in all the investigation. The amazing thing was the set to bring back the 18th century in the screen, which was too good except that nobody is alive today to say whether the 18th century is same as the one which is shown in that movie. I wish I want to be intelligent as Sherlock Holmes and as I said it’s just a wish.. :)

And finally the Avatar,

Even in a dream you can’t imagine the visual effects of this movie.. It’s the best graphics that I’ve ever seen and I heard that the director was waited for the technologies to get advanced to take this movie. That could be one reason why it took 10 years to take this movie. Kudos’s to the visual effects team who brought the directors visualization in the screen. Again in this movie I tend to relate to a Tamil movie were love and sentiments and climax fight and only kuthu songs were missing. And also the believe of god in other plant which makes us stupid. In fact the climate has been tried in Tamil long back as “கூடு விட்டு கூடு பாய்றது!”. This movie is a delight to watch in I-MAX with 3D and it’s already breaking the records and it will break all the records sooner.

That’s all I have watched in the last few weeks and wish you happy New Year to all. I am greatly exited about my trip to India next week.

It's not what it's looks like..

From the day I knew about cricket and till today I never stopped to follow cricket when India is playing. This post is related to yesterday’s match, when India was in a position to win the match and everybody was expecting sachin to get hundred and that didn’t happen at the end. It has created some controversies regarding Dinesh Karthick didn’t rotate the strike to sachin instead he was hitting four’s and even one six too.

When I was looking into the below picture I didn’t watch the highlights yet, and I was trying to think what sachin is saying to DK. This what I came up with,

இது ஒரு கற்பனையே, யாருடைய மனதயும் புண்படுத்துவதற்கு அல்ல!!!

ST:ஏன்டா ஏன்????? உன்னைய யாரு போரு, சிக்ஸ்னு அடிக்க சொன்னது....??? அடிக்க சொல்லறப்ப யாரும் அடிக்காதீங்க,

DK:அண்ணன் அது வந்து..

ST:என்னடா வந்து போயி, அதான் அடிசிட்டயே,,,,

ஒருத்தன் மொதல இருந்து குருவி சேக்கரமாதிரி ஒன்னு, ரெண்டுன்னு சேத்து வெச்சா, நீங்க கடைசில வந்து வின்னிங் ரன்

அடிச்சிட்டு போயிடுவிங்க!!!!

DK:அண்ணன் , நான் வந்து சும்மாதான் தொட்டேன், ஆனா அவன் வேகமா போட்டதுனால அது போர் போயிடிச்சு!!!

ST:டேய், ஓடிப்போயிரு இல்லாட்டி என்கிட்ட மிதி வாங்கப்போற!!!!!

The real story is,

DK was not happy that he got the four in the final ball and it was not an intentional shot and he was apologizing to Sachin while walking back to pavilion. As our hero sachin never think about his personal milestone though few people say he plays for himself. After watching the highlights I can say that sachin might have told him, “don’t worry about it, it doesn’t matter”.

So “it’s not what its looks like”.

Memorable November

It’s a special month for me, because it’s my birth month. Because my birthday falls in November I remember more than 20 birthdays of my friends which falls this month. It’s just not only the birthday's it’s also close to 10 marriages which I’ve missed this month. So it’s been busy month for most of the people, who I know, and it’s also a holiday season here, and almost everybody has something to do than their normal routine stuff.

I should have bought many things for this thanks giving day deal, but didn't buy anything except spending money in Indian restaurants all around the east coat during our 4 day trip. I have bought a new D-SLR camera few weeks back and I am trying to find how to use it properly and still I am learning. Since I could remember many people birthday’s this month, one day I tried to remember the names of my classmates from my school days whom I never had touch after I left school.

Below is the list of name that I could remember, in case if I think about this in the future, at least I have a list to verify. I also tried to remember their nick as well but I don’t remember most of their nick names so i tried to remember few things about them, Like Tom Hangs says in "Saving Private Rion" movie. We should think about the content to remember the peoples' face.

Ramesh – Ponni

RuthraMoorthy – Karuvayan

Ramachandran – Thatha

Boopathy

Saravanan

Prakash – I get to know that this guy is in Las Vegas now.

N Yuvaraj – Gundan

T Yuvaraj

T Karthi – He sings the katukuyile manasukulle full song from thalapathy movie during my 5th std.

B Karthi

K D Karthi - KD

Santhosh – Velliyangiri

Kumar

Babu

Sivakkumar

Thiyagarajan

Viji

Chandrasekar

Murugesan

Bhasakar

K R suresh

Jeevanantham – Who brings lot’s of sweet from his store

Jegatheesan

Raja – Brings paroto from his hotel.

Murugesan

Santhosh – Item

Ravikumar

That’s all I could remember now and if I get to know some more I will update this list and who knows, one day I will try to find them.