Friday evening we went to watch Pachamarathanalil at Innovative Multiplex Bangalore. Spend 300 bucks for 2 movie tickets. There was hardly five people as audience in silver class.
The movie has a slow start and gets into a beautiful suspense. But it looses track on the way and ends some where else. I didn't go the movie to watch a crime thriller. But it ends out like one.
Srinivasan (The new super star in mallu movie) has the camera focus most of time. They didn't give any Justice to Padmapriya who plays the role of the mother of the missing child. Ending was more like a detective movie just to explain a complex plot. I didn't go and watch the movie for that.
The movie could have put lot of questions about missing children, victims of the violent struggles, feelings of convicts (or non convicts) for the family. It didn't do anything. You just walk out the theatre and forget it.
The director should see the movie Kannathil Muthamittal and see how beautifully a similar theme is done.
Also this movie is having a super star syndrome for Srinivasan's character. That makes the movie more bad.
It reminded me about the Missing Madline incident was on media when I was in Lisbon couple of months back.
Monday, June 30, 2008
Tingya
I went for the screening of the movie Tingya at Pedestrian Pics which was held at IAT by Pedestrian pictures.
The movie is visualizing the experience of a small family Marathi Village in "Present India". I felt completely disengaged with the movie. I should have been more engaged with the movie many years back. Might be the current experiences of life is giving me a different view to incidents in the movie.
One of my friends at work was talking to me some time back. His distant relative is suffering from cancer and the doctor is suggesting an expensive and a painful treatment. But doctor is not sure the patient will survive even if the treatment is done. This puts the kids in trouble. To go for an expensive and painful treatment for a dying patient(ROI)? I just thought about it while watching the movie.
There is this question of survive or suicide. You might have to leave the valuable stuff to survive. There is no value for anything you possess unless it is providing you return. For surrviing you sell the liabalites to get more asset. Else you will not survive. It is cruel, but it is fact. Or the nature will kill you.
There was a discussion about the farmer suicides after the movie screening. My friend Shibu who came with me for the screening had other commitments and was already late for it. So we didn't wait for the discussion.
Looking for the next screening.
The movie is visualizing the experience of a small family Marathi Village in "Present India". I felt completely disengaged with the movie. I should have been more engaged with the movie many years back. Might be the current experiences of life is giving me a different view to incidents in the movie.
One of my friends at work was talking to me some time back. His distant relative is suffering from cancer and the doctor is suggesting an expensive and a painful treatment. But doctor is not sure the patient will survive even if the treatment is done. This puts the kids in trouble. To go for an expensive and painful treatment for a dying patient(ROI)? I just thought about it while watching the movie.
There is this question of survive or suicide. You might have to leave the valuable stuff to survive. There is no value for anything you possess unless it is providing you return. For surrviing you sell the liabalites to get more asset. Else you will not survive. It is cruel, but it is fact. Or the nature will kill you.
There was a discussion about the farmer suicides after the movie screening. My friend Shibu who came with me for the screening had other commitments and was already late for it. So we didn't wait for the discussion.
Looking for the next screening.
Friday, June 27, 2008
The Paradox of choices.
I joined the new Job around 3 months back and I am very unsatisfied now. The new job I got a good hike and role change and a new domain. But I am unhappy. I had lot of options to choose and I am highly unsatisfied about my decision.
Today I came across this google video. It is best way to explain the problem I am facing.
I am planning to buy a new dinning table. The options I have to make is actually making me to differ buying the dining table.
I always prefer other agents to make choices. While choosing the spouse I left to parents. I always felt bad about the choices I made and I made. Whether it is about the investments decisions, carrear or what ever else.. ..
I was with my cousin last month hunting for a house on rent. We had seen at least 25 plus houses. Is he satisfied with choice he made?
Today I came across this google video. It is best way to explain the problem I am facing.
I am planning to buy a new dinning table. The options I have to make is actually making me to differ buying the dining table.
I always prefer other agents to make choices. While choosing the spouse I left to parents. I always felt bad about the choices I made and I made. Whether it is about the investments decisions, carrear or what ever else.. ..
I was with my cousin last month hunting for a house on rent. We had seen at least 25 plus houses. Is he satisfied with choice he made?
Last week I was attending the iCMG EA conference in IISC Bangalore. The CTO of KPIT cummins was comparing yahoo and google. Google don't have much options in home page and hide the complexity for me. I don't have to make much choice.
Might be Linux/Unix is powerful but the options I have to make is too much. Microsoft makes the decision for me on windows.
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Sarkar Raj and Nina's Heavenly Delights.
I watched both movies over the weekend. Both Sucks
Sarkar Raj. Look like the AAA comes as a package now. Like many Ramgopal Varma's films, you can find similarities in characters and story with famous people, Incidents etc. But it is a movie you just watch and forget about it. Nothing more or Nothing less. A very common plot but on the background of Mumbai's powerful family. Business, Corruption, Cheating, Suspense.
The second was Nina's Heavenly delights. Another NRI movie and has some awards or screenings in some international festivals. It is trying to capture the family vs personal conflict Indian origin youth facing in USA/UK. The same plots we had seen other movies too. We had seen people wanted to play football or want to marry against parents wishes etc. Now it is relationship or love for another girl, want to dance or...... Yes you can see it and forget it.
I also watched Pretty Women and Deja Vu. One is a classic fairy tale remake and another science fiction for crime investigation.
Note: Look like Reliance is investing in Mallu Movies. A good move as most commercially successful Mallu movies are remade to other languages. So it is good lab to test a movie before you invest producing in Hindi or Tamil where the cost of production is very high.
I also watched
Sarkar Raj. Look like the AAA comes as a package now. Like many Ramgopal Varma's films, you can find similarities in characters and story with famous people, Incidents etc. But it is a movie you just watch and forget about it. Nothing more or Nothing less. A very common plot but on the background of Mumbai's powerful family. Business, Corruption, Cheating, Suspense.
The second was Nina's Heavenly delights. Another NRI movie and has some awards or screenings in some international festivals. It is trying to capture the family vs personal conflict Indian origin youth facing in USA/UK. The same plots we had seen other movies too. We had seen people wanted to play football or want to marry against parents wishes etc. Now it is relationship or love for another girl, want to dance or...... Yes you can see it and forget it.
I also watched Pretty Women and Deja Vu. One is a classic fairy tale remake and another science fiction for crime investigation.
Note: Look like Reliance is investing in Mallu Movies. A good move as most commercially successful Mallu movies are remade to other languages. So it is good lab to test a movie before you invest producing in Hindi or Tamil where the cost of production is very high.
I also watched
Freemium
I came across the terminology Freemium.
Giving free alone doesn't bring customers to you. Free doesn't mean that I will only get poor service. Internet is creating a long tail of lot Freemium products and service. It brought down the entry barrier low and low!!!! You have a rush of free services. So you just cannot survive alone by giving free. That is why Google made a real difference.
Giving free alone doesn't bring customers to you. Free doesn't mean that I will only get poor service. Internet is creating a long tail of lot Freemium products and service. It brought down the entry barrier low and low!!!! You have a rush of free services. So you just cannot survive alone by giving free. That is why Google made a real difference.
Monday, June 23, 2008
Cast vs Religion
Yesterday I read the controversial 7th std book in the Kairali TV website. It propagates the current political view of Left parties. ( I am not sure why they didn't publish as PDF so that people can download easily!!!)
Does Cast based politics or Religion based politics is what India needed? BJP, Muslim league are the groups advocating for the Religion based. While BSP, Left, DMK and many others banking on cast groups. Some of these cast group is very state specific as they use language also another criteria to divide. Congress in neither here or nor there. It is a trap that congress is currently in and they need to find a way to get out of it.
In additional Left in Kerala needs to win the Muslim votes. So they want to portray Muslims as backward and bring them to their side of politics from Muslim league umbrella. For this reservations and anti US stands are the left strategies...
The only thing CPIM in Kerala can proudly says is the land reforms bill and the text book proves better living conditions in Kerala like long life expectancy and high education level are just because of the land reforms. Is it true?. The land reforms never helped the real agriculture labours to own the land. In Central Travancore(Pathnamthitta, Aleppey, Kottayam, Ernakulam) the land owners are Syrian Christians(Higher cast Christians in catholics, Orthodox, Protestants) and Nair community. I am not sure how the land reforms changed the equations much. But that is only thing CPIM can say something proudly in their 60 plus year history in Kerala. Buy quoting a speech Gowri Amma they are trying to hide political message. It is as bad as any debates in Kirali TV by John Britas on pretext of using a neutral stand.
As I said before the books advocates a cast based political revolution or segregation. It portrays a cast based exploitation exist in Kerala across religions( not in Muslims). It says one should identify using his cast than the religious one. The text book is very effective in communicating it. I think party which is going affected by it most is BJP rather than Christians. I am not sure why they are silent on this issue.
Also it gives a feeling that India got freedom by just one or two violent fights here and there. It sidelines Gandhi and his non-cooperation movement which made the freedom movement as a mass movement. In between it also put very anti capitalist stand by mentioning Ambani as the richest man in the world.
It is very obvious that the books propagates the political ideology of the Left parties. Whether it is capitalism or socialism, history shows the state sponsored education system always teaches the ideas what the state wanted to here. But we can also see in history that always a few in the the next generation breaks all these boundaries and find new information and challenges this seeded information and they change the world. So some times is it good to be dropped out from school too.
Does Cast based politics or Religion based politics is what India needed? BJP, Muslim league are the groups advocating for the Religion based. While BSP, Left, DMK and many others banking on cast groups. Some of these cast group is very state specific as they use language also another criteria to divide. Congress in neither here or nor there. It is a trap that congress is currently in and they need to find a way to get out of it.
In additional Left in Kerala needs to win the Muslim votes. So they want to portray Muslims as backward and bring them to their side of politics from Muslim league umbrella. For this reservations and anti US stands are the left strategies...
The only thing CPIM in Kerala can proudly says is the land reforms bill and the text book proves better living conditions in Kerala like long life expectancy and high education level are just because of the land reforms. Is it true?. The land reforms never helped the real agriculture labours to own the land. In Central Travancore(Pathnamthitta, Aleppey, Kottayam, Ernakulam) the land owners are Syrian Christians(Higher cast Christians in catholics, Orthodox, Protestants) and Nair community. I am not sure how the land reforms changed the equations much. But that is only thing CPIM can say something proudly in their 60 plus year history in Kerala. Buy quoting a speech Gowri Amma they are trying to hide political message. It is as bad as any debates in Kirali TV by John Britas on pretext of using a neutral stand.
As I said before the books advocates a cast based political revolution or segregation. It portrays a cast based exploitation exist in Kerala across religions( not in Muslims). It says one should identify using his cast than the religious one. The text book is very effective in communicating it. I think party which is going affected by it most is BJP rather than Christians. I am not sure why they are silent on this issue.
Also it gives a feeling that India got freedom by just one or two violent fights here and there. It sidelines Gandhi and his non-cooperation movement which made the freedom movement as a mass movement. In between it also put very anti capitalist stand by mentioning Ambani as the richest man in the world.
It is very obvious that the books propagates the political ideology of the Left parties. Whether it is capitalism or socialism, history shows the state sponsored education system always teaches the ideas what the state wanted to here. But we can also see in history that always a few in the the next generation breaks all these boundaries and find new information and challenges this seeded information and they change the world. So some times is it good to be dropped out from school too.
Monday, June 16, 2008
The Alchemist
I came across this novel when my Friend Shibu told me about it and its influence in his life. It was back in 2004 when he came to Bangalore. I read some other books from Paulo Choello and always kept away from this book. Friday evening I had a copy the book with me when I left to Kottayam by train. I opened the book when the train left Bangalore and next 4-5 hours the book held me completely. I read the last page and I was lot of energey.
It is a very inspiring book and a true Alchemist which can change people's life. I think I am not carried away by it so much but still it left big impact on me. I needs another reading.
It has lot of the christian myths in it like the shepherds are first one to see the King....
The idea of suffering is much more that the suffering itself. I always had more pain when I see the nurse approaching me with a syringe. The actual injuction was never painfull. I think I am a comfortable state and afraid loosing my comforts. This is holding me back pursue my dreams. But do I have a dream?
It is a very inspiring book and a true Alchemist which can change people's life. I think I am not carried away by it so much but still it left big impact on me. I needs another reading.
It has lot of the christian myths in it like the shepherds are first one to see the King....
The idea of suffering is much more that the suffering itself. I always had more pain when I see the nurse approaching me with a syringe. The actual injuction was never painfull. I think I am a comfortable state and afraid loosing my comforts. This is holding me back pursue my dreams. But do I have a dream?
Thursday, June 12, 2008
തുളസിദാസ് - ദിലീപ് മലയാള സിനിമയും
Thulasidas - Dileep drama taken new turns now with unions getting splitted in Mallu movie Industry. Suddenly the swami's are gone inside pages or news with out any visuals and analysis. Look at Santhosh Madhavan. He is no where in news. രണ്ടു നാലു ദിനംകൊണ്ട്...........
It is good that Thulasidas is not getting an opportunity to make another bad movie. He had created enough garbage in last the couple of years. Vinayan has created couple of good movies and most them he created with out the help of any coccus. He put Kalabhavan Mani to the main stream. It was great stuff he hid. I think this time he got in the bad books of a wrong person. Producers union says that he is the next one to eliminated. Does unionism can protect jobs where creativity is the core needed to execute a job?
Favouritism and coccus in mallu movie industry is a very visible one. There was Trivandrum lobby before and now the Cochin one. Thilakan was sidelined from mallu movie now. Is it something to do with his issues in Amma?
It is good that Thulasidas is not getting an opportunity to make another bad movie. He had created enough garbage in last the couple of years. Vinayan has created couple of good movies and most them he created with out the help of any coccus. He put Kalabhavan Mani to the main stream. It was great stuff he hid. I think this time he got in the bad books of a wrong person. Producers union says that he is the next one to eliminated. Does unionism can protect jobs where creativity is the core needed to execute a job?
Favouritism and coccus in mallu movie industry is a very visible one. There was Trivandrum lobby before and now the Cochin one. Thilakan was sidelined from mallu movie now. Is it something to do with his issues in Amma?
Unscriptted Drama Again
The news of Arushi's murder enquiry by the Police and then by the CBI is another unscripted drama in news. It has everything crime, investigation, sex, extramarital sex, cell phones, sms.......
Is there a way to find TRP of a specific news item?
Is there a way to find TRP of a specific news item?
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