Sivaji - Trailer ! Makes your eyes open wide

With news of Sivaji, printed, typed and telecast all over, there's no need for an intro of the flick or the sky-high expectations.
The trailer is out and it triggers the expectations and eagerness to watch the movie....


A few immediate thoughts on seeing the Trailer:

1. Superstar looks smart as ever and his magnetism onscreen is still intact and appealing
2. Lots of scenes will invite ear-deafening whistles and roars in theatres for sure.
3. BGM by Rahman ( or inserted by edited Antony as written in an article some days back) sounds awesome and elevating the feel.
4. Has got Shankar's stamp all through with eyebrow raising graphics and richness
5. A bit disappointing that there are no clippings of songs
6. Looks like there are many comedy sequences






Let's have our fingers crossed and await the treat...

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Shocking Pen - Mad(e) in China

Except for new born children, all other new products in India come with "Made in China" stickers nowadays. From electric appliances to electronic gadgets to cooking utensils to toys, everywhere seems to be China market's Omnipresent invasion and intrusion.

While shopping for a Laser light for "Writing with light", accidentally found a Pen that can write and give an electric shock too.
We would have heard about Visu's "samsaaram adhu minsaaram", but how come Pen can give a shock?
For such an unexpecting, innocent and unarmed person, the pen gave one hell of a shock and it was embarassing to give a MJ dance movement caused by the reflex jerk, in front of some "XX" chromosomes in Jeans.

For 20 bucks, you get a ball point pen that projects out when the base is twisted and one would get the shock of his life, when you press the button on the rear end of pen as if using an ordinary pen.

What else is needed for a prank-loving-creature like me? The whole next day was fun, with the sadist in me enjoying my colleagues ' jerk reflex action while trying to pick-pocket the pen.

I was flaunting the pen proudly in my shirt pocket until one fine morning when I had to bend down to tie my shoe laces...


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Premgi - Talent personified !!!???

.Keyboard player
.Rapper
.Composer
.Singer
.Actor

- definitely a multi-faceted personality he is.

The box office results , positive reviews and responses for Chennai-28 would have been different if not for the background score and comedy by Premgi.

He has come out with effective background score blending with the movie's theme and the bit songs and rap parts are really enjoyable. Especially,listen to the melancholic bit song played in the background when the "Raghu" character cries in the toilet of his new house.

"Enna kodumai sir idhu" comedy is a hit among pedos to geros. The background music played just before he says "Enna kodumai" adds to the effect. (Listen to it here)

Hats off to Venkat Prabhu for not giving extra importance or heroism to his kid brother. Premgi fits to a T for the role of a provision store owner and by his dialogue delivery and body language evokes laughter easily. Being a Jack of all trades, a bright future awaits Premgi for sure and we can expect a lot from him.

Right now, Premgi is composing music for "Nallathor veenai seithe", a project under production and I am sure his music will be good and not let the producer feel like the film's title!!!:-)

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Dog's Life!

This country is definitely going to the dogs.


With the Globalisation and flooding of BPOs, KPOs and by brain drain, we are losing our valuable culture. Unknowingly we are being dragged into a whirlpool of a hell of changes in lifestyle and culture.

Closely looking at the changes in our life style, we can find the similarities with that of dogs.

Dogs say: Are we the only one to have fast food (stand & dine)?

Are we the only one to wear tags?

Are we the only one to work night shifts?

Are we the only one to piss in public?

மொத்தத்தில நாய்ப் பொழப்புங்க!

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TUNES RECYCLED!

CheeniKum music is declared Superhit, with the melodies in mesmerising Shreya's voice being the most requested songs in FM and music sites. Old classics do sound great in the new packaging and Balki has shown his advertising expertise by his extensive marketing. But from the music fan's point of view, Cheeni kum songs are a slight disappointment since we are treated with the songs we had already umpteen number of times.

At least Ram Gopal Varma's 'Shiva' had two new compositions by Raja along with other rehashes of his old tunes. Most of the fans felt that newly composed 'Dheemi Dheemi' of Shiva sounds fresh and contemporary than the reused tunes.

Its not convincing to hear the filmmakers say that the North Indians have missed those Raja's classics and that is the reason, why those songs are re-used in recent films.

Raja is still in form and can come out with hundreds of such songs in no matter of time. Offers to compose new songs for such big projects will be a good challenge for Raja to unleash his hitherto dormant magic.

When it comes to Bollywood, even Rahman is forced to recycle his tunes from tamil and viceversa. Even for his "Vande Mataram",he had re-used "Karuthamma"'s 'Poraale Ponnuthaayee'.We can understand about the time constraints, love for a particular song, director's request etc. But instead of recycling the tunes, we fans would love to lend ears to original and fresh compositions. Will the music directors lend their ears?

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Light & Magic

A spidey was trying to design a web over my camera case and thereby reminding me that it's been a very long time since I meddled with my CyberShot
So gave a try to capturing "writing with light" using long exposure photography(inspired by Keerthivasan's post).

These were the results of Light & Magic...

Drop in ur suggestions, tips and feedbacks in comments section

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Remixes! - Did we ask for them ?

Bollywood is still under the clutches of Remix fever and doesn't seem to get well soon. The remix epidemic has striked tamil film music too and its time to wonder if remixes are really homage or disgrace to the original songs....

Yuvan Shankar Raja , the chip off the old block is the most happening music director with his own unique style. He churns out good variety of music from undiluted folk in Paruthi veeran to Urban kuthu "Saroja" in Chennai-28 to soul stirring melodies in Deepavali.
But for God-only-knows reasons, he has got a craze for remixes and most of his albums have a remixed song. Either it is by the director's compulsion or his own interest, he holds the most number of remix songs to his credit.




Following is the list of his remixes... ( Hope I didn't miss out any)

1. Kurumbu - "Aasai 100 vagai"

2. Arindhum ariyaamalum - "Thee pidikka"

3. Vallavan - "Kaadhal vandhiduchi"

4. Thaamirabarani -"Karupaana kaiyaale"

5. Pattiyal - "Namma kaatula"

6. Dass - "Vaa vaa"

7. Bala - "Theendi theendi"

8. Manmadhan- "En aasai"

Even for his unreleased album "Kannamoochi enada", he has remixed "Andru vandhadhum idhe nila" song from a MGR movie. A talented music director of Yuvan's calibre should avoid such remixes in his future projects. One of the biggest blunders of Yuvan is remixing the L.R.Eswari's famous "Karpoora nayakiye" devotional song as "Karupaana kaiyaale" in Thaamirabarani. The director might have got permission and rights from the original producer, but this remixing does not require a Yuvan. Even a newbie MD can do that.


Rahman, as usual has proven that he is a class apart by his excellent re-tuning of "Thottaal Poo malarum", rather than remixing the same tune and voices with alienated techno music. Hats off to Rahman for that innovative effort.


KarthikRaja who raised his concerns about too much of remixes has recently fallen prey to remix culture and is remixing his dad's songs for a mobile service provider. His recent album also features a remixed song of Ilaiyaraja.

Harris Jeyaraj who is already known for his concealed remixes of Rahman's songs is no exception. He will be remixing "Pani vizhum malarvanam" from Ninaivellaam Nithya for Gautham Menon's "Vaaranamaayiram" starring Surya.


In Bollywood and Kollywood it is the season when the filmmakers are head over heels to remake old classic movies. Here is a humble request from all music lovers to the filmmakers and music directors, to make use of their creativity to the fullest and come out with fresh sounding songs, rather than molesting the original songs.

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Enna Kodumai sir idhu? Series- Part II

Turn On ur Speakers

Driving through deserted roads of chennai during early hours of a day is interesting and enjoyable. After dropping my friend at Guindy railway station,I was on my way back to Velachery.

Except for the newspaper agents, Milk suppliers and a few stray dogs, there was noone to be seen.

MTC buses were lazing around once in a while,with drivers with residual sleepiness or TASMAC hangovers .Going by the unwritten rule that MTC bus should never stop at the bus stop, a D70 came into a screeching halt, some 50 metres away from the stop.

It was then I saw a buxom (euphemism for obese!) lady of around 50s was fighting off breathlessness in her struggle to speed up towards the bus. She was a sweet lady, I mean sweet like lady, soaked in perspiration as a Rasagulla would be in Jeera. As the patience lacking bus driver put the bus on gear , the "Do-gooder" in me woke up and I accelerated the bike.Overtaking the grandma, I halted and offered her lift so that she could catch the bus in the next stop.

She gave me a look I would never forget in my life, as if I am some wriggling worm. With DTS effect, she told those magical four words "Stupid! Don't disturb my walking".

Except for the newspaper agents, Milk suppliers and a few stray dogs, there was noone to be seen.

I thanked God for that!

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Sivaji - Sahara- Inspired from Ilaiyaraja?

One of fellow bloggers pointed out that 'Sahara' from "Sivaji " starts off exactly like Raja's late 70s classic "Ore naal" from "Ilamai oonjalaadugiradhu". Smirking at the irony that both are Super star's movies, I whistled both the tunes.
Bingo! the starting line is an exact ditto and Sahara's tune takes a twist after that.

Check out for yourself and try humming or whistling the beginning lines...


Ore naal

Ore naal.mp3

Sahara

Sahana Sivjai1.mp3

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Who's the Best? Raja or Rahman?

Right from the early 90s, there has been never ending heated discussions on "Who's the best? Raja or Rahman?"

Raja stormed in, when there was a vacuum and not much of innovation in the tamil film music industry and slowly when people began listening to hindi songs. With his style of folk music he grew with and WCM he learnt in later days, he swayed his magical wand and whole of tamil nadu were mesmerised with his musical magic. His songs gained popularity solely through Srilankan radio, AIR and Doordarshan's "Oliyum Oliyum", which according to me is a great feat comparing the number of times each song is played in satellite channels. No music director would have enjoyed the monopoly that Raja had in TFM for more than 12 years. With all his experimentations in all genres, he had undoubtedly proved his calibre.

When Raja was in his peak, continously churning out hits after hits, no one would have even believed that a whizkid would make a thundering entry and steal away millions of hearts. Apart from his soul-stirring tunes, Rahman introduced global sounds in his songs with crystal clear audio quality. Most of his albums received negative reviews on first hear and his songs usually have growing effect and once they grow into the listener, they never wear off. With the advent of satellite televisions and countdown shows telecasting new songs all the time, his songs easily invaded the people's hearts. Rahman never turned back after that and with Rangeela songs being a rage in Bollywood, he gave nightmares to Anu Maliks there. From Bollywood as launch pad he has reached the Global market of music and is now an Universal Celebrity.


We must be proud to have these extraordinary geniuses from our land. It is quite normal for a person who has grown up listening to tunes of Raja, to find it difficult to accept Rahman's innovations. But on the contrary, Rahman's fans who are mostly under the 30+age group, digging on Raja's music and underrating his compositions, is not fair at all. Those people should understand that it would take most of their considerable time to judge Raja after listening to thousands of the songs he has composed for the 800+ films so far, not leaving any styles or genres upturned.

So, let's put away all the arguments and discussions about trying to find answers for "Who's the best, Raja or Rahman?" and let their magical music compositions do the talking. We'll just listen to their music and enjoy.

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காக்க... காக்க...The Police

சம்பவ இடத்தை அடைந்த போது, அந்த அடுக்கு மாடி குடியிருப்பில் அனைத்து வீடுகளிலும் இன்னும் விளக்குகள் எரிந்து கொண்டிருந்தன. முகத்தில் பயம் அப்பியிருந்த ஒரு பெர்முடா பெரியவர், பதட்டத்துடன் ஓடி வந்து, தான் கொலை செய்யப்பட்ட வேதியியல் பேராசிரியரின் நண்பர் என அறிமுகம் செய்து கொண்டு, ஆறாவது மாடிக்கு அழைத்து சென்றார்.

விடுமுறைக்கு சென்ற மனைவியும் குழந்தைகளும் இன்னும் வரவில்லையென்றும், சம்பவம் நடந்த போது பேராசிரியர் தனியாக தான் இருந்தார் என்றார். பீரோ திறந்திருக்க, உள்ளே லாக்கர் சுத்தமாக காலியாயிருந்தது. உடலெங்கும் பல வெட்டுக்காயங்களோடு உறைந்த பார்வையோடு சாக்பீஸ் கோட்டுக்குள் கிடந்தார் பேராசிரியர். உயிருக்கு போராடிய நிலையில் கூட சுட்டு விரலால் தன் ரத்தத்தாலேயே சுவற்றில் Fe என எழுதியிருக்க, அடுத்த வீட்டு Fernandesஐ பிடித்து மிரட்டிக் கொண்டிருந்தார் சப்-இன்ஸ்பெக்டர். என்னைப் பார்த்ததும் துப்பு துலக்கி குற்றவாளியை கண்டுபிடித்த பெருமிதத்தோடு ஒரு instant சல்யூட் அடித்தார்.

நடுங்கிக் கொண்டிருந்த Fernandes என்னைக் கண்டதும் கதறி அழுதார். தானும் IIT பேராசிரியர் என்றும், உடன் பணியாற்றும் பேராசிரியருடன் பகையிருந்தும் கொலை செய்யும் அளவிற்கு தைரியம் இல்லை என்றார் உடைந்த குரலில். திருடு போன நகை, பணத்துக்கும் Fernandesஇன் நிதி நிலைமைக்கும் எந்த சம்பந்தமும் இல்லாத நிலையில், அவரை விடுவிக்குமாறு கூற, S.I. என்னை முறைத்ததை ஓரக்கண்ணில் பார்த்தேன்.

அப்படியே அந்த குடியிருப்பு கட்டிடத்தை பார்வையிட்டு கீழே வந்த போது தான் அவன் கண்ணில் பட்டான். மார்கழி மாத குளிரில் தொப்பலாக நனைந்து, அகால நேரத்தில் துணிகளை இஸ்திரி போட்டு கொண்டிருந்தான். என் கண்களை நேரடியாக பார்ப்பதை தவிர்த்த அவனை ஒரு அறை விட்டதில், பேராசிரியரை கொன்ற உண்மையை கக்கினான்.

Fe என்பது Ironஐ குறிக்கும் என்பது பத்தாவது வகுப்பு மாணவனுக்கு கூட தெரியும். பாவம் எங்கள் S.I.க்கு தான் தெரியவில்லை.

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Unnaale Unnaale Mr.Jeeva

Jeeva, the cinematographer turned director, is back with his third project, "Unnaale unnaale". Backed up by a strong banner(Oscar films) and producer, he has taken a risk of casting a debutant in lead role and shooting the film at Australia. Vinay is strikingly handsome enough for the chicks to drool and imitates Maddy at places. The flashback scenes of Vinay meeting Sadha strongly reminds of Alaipayuthe.

Tanisha, a good pick for the role of a freak-out kinda tom boy character.

In one line, the take home message of this movie is "Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus". Never try to tame a guy and learn to accept his style of living.

Harris Jeyaraj, is the saviour of the movie with the songs already a rage among youngsters. Though he has cleverly Xerox copied the tunes from here and there, the songs are great strength to the movie. Dialogues by Ramakrishnan and Jeeva's Cinematography are excellent. But alas, the way of story telling and the screen play lacks mature handling and the only matured aspect of the movie is Sadha, looking matured and could have played the sister role for hero.

It is as if watching an eye-catching advertisement film that runs on for 2.5 hours and is definitely tiresome that you begin to long for a remote control with skip button.

My choice was a different flick and this one was my better half's choice.All I could do was to point my finger at her "Unnaale unnaale" while exiting the theatre with head ache.

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LIFE CYCLE

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At times, Life sucks, ain't it?

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Hey Ram

It needs a Mahatma to utter "Hey Ram" at the doorstep of death.

I've listed down some of the most commonly (or expected) "Last uttered words" :-)

• Wow! புலிக்குட்டி எவ்வளவு அழகு! இதோட அம்மா எங்க?
• Ready 1..... 2..... 3....
• காவேரியில இப்பல்லாம் முதலை இல்லப்பா
• ரெண்டு bike ஆ இல்லை லாரியா?
• கவலைப்படாத இதில bullet இல்லை
• Jeeeeeeeeees......
• ஹ! இந்த பாம்பு எனக்கு மண்புழு மாதிரி
• அடங்கொக்கமக்கா
• Driver அங்க பாரு Lorry
• Main Off பண்ணியாச்சுல
• எந்த wire? Red or Green?
• நம்ம ஊரு train எந்தக் காலம் correct time க்கு வந்திச்சு?
• வாயுப் பிடிப்புன்னு நினைக்கிறேன்
• ஐயோ ஆஆஆ Acid
• ஏதோ கருகிற வாசனை வருதில்லை
• ஹே! எனக்கு நீச்சல் தெரியாது
• எங்கே என் parachute?

Give in your comments and add more to the list...

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Size doesn't Matter

Never underestimate the power of a microorganism. Though they are invisible, they are definitely invincible for our day to day life. Only 3% of the total microbial population are harmful to the humans, they help us in many fields such as agriculture, food industries, bioremediation etc. Without knowing about the microbes, we are getting their help from the historic days such as souring of milk, Dosai and Idly dough making, Wine production etc.

Here are some of the interesting facts about them,

• Usually we all think bacteria are microscopic and cannot be seen with naked eye. A team of German scientists studying sediment samples collected off the coast of Namibia say they have discovered the largest bacteria cell ever observed. The organism can grow to as large as 3/4 of a millimeter across, which means it is visible to the naked eye as a speck - about the size of the period at the end of this sentence.
• The pressure inside a bacterial cell is about 2 atmospheres, which is roughly the same as the pressure in a car's tyre.
  
• We all know that cheetah is the fastest animal on earth. But when the speed is calculated in terms of 'Body length/second', bacterium is twice as faster as a cheetah.
  
• Remember Spielberg's "Jurassic Park" where the DNA of a dinosaur is taken from a prehistoric mosquito and the dinosaur is re-created? That was fiction, but now a group of scientists have obtained bacterial spores from the gut of an extinct bee trapped in amber of known geological age. This spore is claimed to be 25 to 40 million years old and what is more amazing is that, it has sprouted out and the bacterium is revived.
  
• Microorganisms are eliminated from an environment by various means of physical or chemical treatments. But there are always some exceptions which can withstand any extreme conditions. Deinococcus radiodurans is a bacterium which can survive exposure to upto 3000000 rad of ionizing radiation. A human can be killed by exposure to less than 500 rad radiation.
  
• Botulin' is a toxin produced by Clostridium botulinum. It is highly toxic in nature and a very minute amount is needed to kill a human. If everyone in India has to be killed and assuming that everyone gets a lethal dose, less than 1kg of this toxin will do.

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'Meow'sic Lovers

What if Cats listened to our TFM songs?

Cat listening to Ilaiyaraja's "Mandram vandha thendralakku" /"Cheeni kum"

Cat listening to Rahman's "Oru koodai sunlight" from Sivaji

Cats listening to Yuvan's "Saroja Saamaan nikalo" from Chennai-28

Cat listening??!! to T.Rajendar's "Veerasaamy" movie song!!!!

Got these gif animations through forwarded email, but with North Indian MD's names alone. I adapted these for our tamil songs. :-)

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காணவில்லை

There was a period in Tamil film music industry, when there was monopoly in music, with Ilaiyaraja being the sole and soul proprietor of tamil music.Things changed during the mid 90s, and we saw a huge number of young, new talents flooding in. But how many of them established themselves with a style of their own is a big question mark.

There is a phrase in English called “Soda water effervescence “! When you pop-open a soda bottle, there will be brisk, fizzy effervescence, which will subside after some time.

Following is the list of such music directors...

Dharan - Scored music for K.Bhagyaraj's home production "Paarijaatham" and stole young hearts with "Unnai kandene" song. No news about his current projects

Sundar C Babu - Chithiram pesudhadi's "Vaala meenu" was the ringtone and callertune of most of mobiles in tamil nadu in 2006. But no news of whereabouts of Sundar C. Babu now.


Bharani - "Janaranjagam" is his style. His songs of "Paarvai ondre podhumae " had good reach and were played in tea shops and mini buses all over tamil nadu.

Joshua Sridhar - With super hit songs of "Kaadhal" he shot to stardom overnight. But proved to be an one film wonder in his subsequent projects.

Suresh Peters - He tried his hand in composing with P.Vasu's "Coolie" and went on hibernation. He was back with a bang in "Thenkasi pattinam". But again, no news about him composing for tamil films

The following MDs were in the TFM, even when Raja was in peak. And they are also no where to be seen nowadays

V.S. Narasimman - He has got one hell of a talent in music. Most of them would mistake his songs to be composed by Raja. "Thanneer thanneer","Paasamalargal" are some of the movies he scored music for.

Maragadhamani- Maragadhamani alias Keeravaani alias M.M.Kreem is one music director with lots of capabilities and talent in composing. He is still a famous music director in Tollywood and has given hits in Bollywood too. K.Balachandar brought him to tamil, when Raja refused to work with him. But he is no more seen in tamil movies...

Chandrabose- AVM's favourite music director with good, notable hits including Rajini's film songs to his credit. But he is seen in small roles in teleserials nowadays.

Shankar-Ganesh - Its still a mystery why someone sent a bomb through post to him. He speaks a lot than he composes. He is back with a film "Mazhaithuli mazhaithuli". The CDs were distributed to all the houses in Velachery area last week to promote the songs (or because no one bought them??!!). The CD cover had the following tag line " Ilaingargalukku oru isai tsunami" :-)

Lack of opportunity,lack of originality,lack of commitment and many more would have been the reasons. Wishing them all good luck is what we can do now.

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Cheeni Jaasthi

The famous 'Ad'man Balki tries his hand in film making with "Cheeni kum". With a strong team of Amitabh , Tabu, P.C.Sriram and Ilaiyaraja.

Raja has reused his famous tunes - "Mandram vandha thendralukku", "Kuzhaloodhum kannanukku" and "Vizhiyile mani vizhiyile". The reformatted new versions still sound fresh and contemporary.
In one word - Brilliant

Watch the clip of a beautiful haunting melody from "Cheeni kum" here

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Chennai 600028 - Sixer in first ball

Looking at the stills and promos of Chennai-28, everyone thought it as an yet another "Boyz" and it would ultimately face the fate of Boyz. But Venkatprabu has cleverly avoided all the mistakes of Shankar in Boys and has scored a sixer in his debut directorial venture. Here Cricket is the passion of the boys and they don't just drool, run behind girls and no double meaning dialogues.

Cast with too many characters (that too new faces) and suddenly a love song shot at foreign location springing up from nowhere, it takes some time for the audience to gel with the opening scenes of the movie and its characters. But then, with various unexpected twists, hilarious moments and short duration scenes, the viewer is taken for an ultra-fast ride,that Intermission seems to come very early. The story with the theme of playing cricket with tennis balls and the terminologies such as "Bet-match" brings back flooding nostalgic memories of every man's boyhood.

Though almost all of the main characters are new faces, they have a given a splendid performance, without being camera conscious. With the songs already a hit among youngsters,Yuvan's music is a big strength to the movie. Background score (by Yuvan or Premji?) is brilliant. Cinematography is another pillar that supports the stylish narration. The tone used in "Oh oh ennanamo" song is something innovative and appreciable. Premji has got good sense of humour and scenes he appear are rib-tickling and worth mentioning. His dialogue "Enna kodumai sir" is already famous among the youth.

Some scenes have amateur approach and two songs could have been trimmed off to make the film crispier. Ending the film with a comical note is commendable and unexpected.
Hats off to the new talents and brains behind the movie.

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கண்ணுக்குத் தெரியா கடவுள்- Microorganism

மண்ணுயிர் காக்கும் கடவுள் எனலாம் நுண்ணுயிரை
வெறும் கண்ணுக்கு புலப்படாததாலும்
அங்குமிங்குமெங்கும் நிறைந்திருப்பதாலும்
காத்தல், அழித்தல் இவ்விரண்டையும் கடனே செய்திருப்பதாலும்!

மண்ணுயிருள் மாண்புமிகு மானிடன் எனலாம் நுண்ணுயிரை
விருந்தினன் போல் மெல்ல நுழைந்து பின் அடிமை சாசனம் நீட்டுவதாலும் மற்றொரு உயிரை உறிஞ்சி உடல் வளர்த்து உயிர் வாழ்வதாலும்
தன் இனத்தினை கூண்டோடு அழிக்க தானே விஷம் சுரப்பதாலும்
அப்பாவி, சந்தர்ப்பவாதி, கொடூர ஆட்கொல்லி எனப் பல வேடம் பூணுவதாலும்


நித்தம் ஐந்து முறை கை அலம்பும் சுத்தக்காரன் அறியான்
தன்னுடல் கோடானு கோடி நுண்ணுயிர் சுமக்கும் ஓர் உயிரியல் பூங்கா என்று
முத்தமிட்டு மோகம் கொள்ளும் காதலர்கள் அறியார்
இதயங்களுடன் பாக்டீரியாக்களையும் பரிமாறிக்கொள்கிறோம் என்று


கச்சா எண்ணெய் கழிவு கடலில் கலக்காமல் செரிக்கும்
காகம் கூட தீண்டாத எதனையும் உண்டு மக்கச்செய்யும்
தாவரங்களை பூச்சிகளிடமிருந்து காத்து, நைட்ரஜன் ஊட்டும்
மல்லிகைப்பூ இட்லியும், மதிமயக்கும் மதுவும் அளிக்கும்
மனித இனத்தின் சராசரி ஆயுட்காலத்தை நீட்டித்த பெனிசில்லின் சுரக்கும் கல் தோன்றி மண் தோன்றா காலத்தே தோன்றிய மூத்த உயிராம்நுண்ணுயிரின்றி ஓரணுவும் அசையாது அவனியிலே!

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Dil Maange More

As I'd expected, Rahman fans got obviously offended on reading my previous post. Dinesh, a famous hubber and a hardcore Rahman fan had posted an agreeable comment that made sense. According to him, Rajni fans are in a culture shock and did not expect this kind of techno-songs for their thalaivar. That's what I had told in my different words. I love this album and which I listen to it everyday when I start my day. My ringtone is "Style" and my callertune is "Athiradee". But my question is,"Is Sivaji a Satisfying Rajini-Shankar -ARR album"?

If these songs had been composed for an youthful movie with an young hero in the lead, I wouldn't have complained.

"Sivaji" is definitely a great Rahman's album , but definitely not a great one for a Rajini's film.

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Is "Sivaji" really a satisying album?

In Tamilnadu, whenever a Superstar's movie is announced, the fans start biting their nails and await the music and subsequently the movie release. It really does not matter who composes the tunes for the film. The presence of Rajini is enough to do the magic.Even if you rope in Vijaya T. Rajendar ???!!!! to score music!???!?! for a Rajini movie, the songs will be lapped up by fans and by repeated telecast in sat channels, they would become super hit.

But Rajini is very shrewd in choosing his crew. The most happening and hot technician is always chosen for his projects. Sivaji seems to have brought together all hot shots in respective fields like Rahman, Sujatha, Antony, K.V. Anand, Peter Hein and so on...

Coming to the Music department, the expectations were sky high considering the record of past super hits of Shankar-Rahman combo. Weeks before the official audio release three complete songs did their rounds in internet and God only knows how they found their way out of Shankar's highly secured fort. When people had their own doubts on listening to those leaked out samples, fans convinced them saying that these were from scraps and finished & mixed product will be many fold better than that. But the officially released songs were not different except for the stereophonic effects and slight mixing here and there.


Majority of the IT professionals and those who are regularly hooked to net are less than 30 years old and majoriy of them are Rahman fans. Hence they are the unofficial marketting people of Rahman and have done an excellent job by creating too much of hype and publicity.

But looking at reality, Sivaji songs are not hit in our nearby state AP. Let us analyse the songs in detail...

While "Ballelakka" has all the energy and usual ingredients of a typical Rajini intro song and is already a hit. Doesn't it remind us of a few earlier superstar intro songs and other songs by Vidyasagar? By the way, what does 'Ballelakka' mean? Couldn't they find any tamil word to replace that?

"Style" - We can conduct a contest to the fans to jot down the lyrics of this song without the help of lyric booklet. Guess what the initial "shouting" before the song begins means " Give me one time style yeah, give me two time style yeah and give me three time style yeah". God only knows why they had minced up both Tamil and English altogether. People may call it an experimentation or innovation, but can't visualise Rajini dancing to this over-stylish song.

"Vaa ji vaaji" - Vairamuthu's tamil ,Hariharan's voice and melodious tune saves the song. But don't the beats and flow of tune sound so predictable ? This song doesn't come in league of Shankar -ARR team's previous efforts.

"Sahana" - God save tamil people from Udit Narayan. He singlehandedly have spoiled the otherwise beautiful melody number.

"Athiradi" is an extremely enjoyable dance number with "JAM" beats and magical tune. But here again, we need the help of lyrics book for reading sub-standard lyrics by Vaalee. Do you sincerely think, Rahman's voice will suit Superstar?

Shivaji fight music sounds energetic and electrifying, but for the meaningless, T.Rajendar's styled lyrics.


I know very well that Rahman fans, will tear me apart on reading this. To them all, a kind request - try to be neutral, imagine you are not fanatic of Rahman or Rajini, close your eyes and recollect all these songs and ask your conscience if the songs of "Sivaji", really rock? and you will get the answer.

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Bachelor's house hunt - A Mission Impossible

There are a few category of people, like terrorists, anti-social elements and bachelors for whom house owners never rent their houses. This happened during May 06, when I was a bachelor. I was on the verge of getting fedup with bachelor accomodation, sharing a single room with 3 other roommates, one big lizard, rats and bed bugs. There is no thing called 'individualism' or 'territoriality' in bachelor rooms. Everything is common to all, thankfully leaving aside toothbrushes and underwears.
One thing I can never digest is, my roommate being a T.Rajendar fan, playing his songs in my lovable SONY music system. Just imagine waking up to T.R's tunes everyday. That's when I decided to move to a small house (don't read as 'chinna veedu'!) and get it set for family life in future.

Velachery was already in its initial stage of commercial boom and with TCS around the corner, house owners were turning into greedy evil demons. Why to blame them? IT professionals are ready to pay whatever they charge. Next comes the issue of renting out a house to bachelors.
When our country is in the hands of a "bachelor" President, why can't they give a 500 sq ft house to a poor soul bachelor?

"Free Ads" got a new subscriber and I would be the first one to get a copy and start calling the houseowners around Velachery. Most of them would disconnect the phone, the moment I say that I am a bachelor. Many expected a community certificate and a Vegetarian family guy.
One particular advt. caught my eye because it flaunted a double bed room flat near velachery in a well connected area. I called the house owner immediately. When I said I am a bachelor and a strict non-vegetarian, he didn't cut the phone. Instead he asked me visit the house in person at 7 PM. I had to wait for entire 12 hours with fingers crossed and I was there at the house at sharp 6.59 PM.

There were a few other people lined up to visit the house too. Wooooowwww! What a beautiful apartment with great interiors? I have never seen such an artistically designed doors, stylish tiles, spacious hall etc. I fell in love with the long rectangular hall with a big hook in the ceiling, a perfect place for hanging a swing. I got tensed and lost nearly all my nails. I swore to God that I WILL GET THIS HOUSE AT ANY COST! I waited till the house owner sent off all other prospective tenants. I gave out my 10 lakh rupees smile(Indianised version of million dollars smile) and spoke very softly about my wedding engagement. I lied to him that I would be getting married in 2 months. He never seemed to worry about my marital status and looked like he was willing to rent the house to a bachelor than to a family. He took me to the routine tour, opening the taps, asking me to taste the water and exaggerating all info about the house. It didn't matter since I was already impressed and convinced. The rent and advance was within my budget and only then I smelled something fishy and spooky that they charge very less for such a beautiful double bed room apartment. Is the house owner on a time warp back to past or is he such a good-natured gentleman.? Wait! why did the people in the adjacent houses gave me a "Oh-Poor-Soul" look?

The house owner was uneasy and was sweating profusely. He was trying to tell me something , but was at loss of words. I gave a re-assuring look and he started slowly saying that a North Indian couple lived in the house before and had a guest from Assam who was a 30 years old mental lady who had come here for treatment. In the houseowner's words " There had been an attempt to suicide in this house by that mental lady. She had used the hook in hall's ceiling to hang". Suddenly I felt difficult to swallow. Anyway, I make up my mind that it had been just an attempt to suicide. So I asked him about the lady. He said, she was taken to the hospital and she died on the way. Jesus! this doesn't fall under the category of suicide attempt then. THIS IS A SUICIDE!

Slowly I looked up at the hook. I couldn't imagine a swing there. Instead I could visualise a mental lady hanging with her tongue out.... I felt a chill down my spine as the wind blew hard and the lights went off.... I started running for my dear life....

Back to the bachelor's room, I was happy to be with my roommates, lizard, rat and bedbugs around... rather than being at a stylish apartment with my mind envisaging a hanging mental lady...


P.S: Now that I am married and live with my wife, the idea of living in that haunted house is no more scaring :-)

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Splashing under Scorching Sun

With Mercury constantly on rise like price of real estate in chennai, I decided to beat the heat by splashing in aqua-blue water of swimming pool. I googled up and came up with a few swimming pools in and around Velachery. We know that entire Velachery is one swimming pool during monsoons, but with this acute water shortage problem,maintainig some 5 swimmingpools around the area was something I didn't expect.

So, I dusted off my Airtel landline phone that came along with the "so-called" broadband connection. Only"Broooaaad' minded people will call their service, a broadband.
My first call to a local swimming pool's number was answered by a sleepy voiced 5 years old girl. I must have interrupted her from Jetix or POGO, she snapped saying that their parents are still asleep and of course its a wrong number.
My second try was answered by an old lady who was literally startled, when I asked if the pool is open to public or do I have to become a member. Well, after using all words of apology in my vocabulary, I put the receiver down and started serious wondering how irresponsible these guys are, while giving out phone numbers to yellowpages or is it any typo in their sites.

So, not in a mood to take any risk, I decided to go and enquire in person. Two of the pools listed are in a residential community guarded by Pedigree-fed- German Shepherds. I dropped those from my list, as I have heard that human flesh is yummier than Pedigree.

The last one in my list was very close to where I live. But I never had any idea about it. Multi-storey apartments and some shops were lining the somewhat narrow lane, but there seemed to be no sign for a swimming pool. Hey wait! I see a small board, saying 'some' swimming pool. Atlast I found one swimming pool, sandwitched between two apartments. There were too many spectators than swimmers. I enquired about the timings and charges. They charge Rs.25 per hour. Hats off to the ever-ticking calculative brain of its owner, for converting a vacant plot into a small pool with minimal water treatment facilities and generating decent revenue. The value of that plot would have multiplied many folds since he would have acquired it. So he can sell it off any time he wishes is the best price in the market.

Thanks to Government of India for giving a day off to "uzhaipaali" like me on "Uzhaipaalar dhinam". I decided to test the waters of pool on that particular day. Swimming is fun, when done with company and I gathered a few friends of mine. There were nearly 10 to 12 people in the already medium sized pool. But no one was around to collect money or to monitor the people. We had to pay 25 per head (and also to whole body) at the nearby house.
With great expectations, I stripped off to a shorts and don't imagine doing this in a changing room with many lockers. All you have to do is, change clothes in one corner and there are hooks available where you can hang your shirt and towel.

Ok. Ok. For 25 Rs. this is what you will get these days!
Though always I love to dive into water head first, considering the crowd and unknown depth, I decided to use the rusted ladder.
Wow! the chlorinated water was cooooool enough to soothe the tensed nerves..... But wait! still I am standing in not-even-waist deep water. It is understandable, the pools are designed in a sloping floor and get deeper gradually.
Only after wading all over, it dawned on me that the 80% of pool is 3 feet deep and the last 20% is 6 feet. With most of the people occupying 6 feet area, it was like a kid's bath tub. My friends looked at me as if I am a wriggling worm and as if praying to Jesus, we all had to kneel down so as to get immersed.

I could at least stand the sun's glare and my friends' cursing looks,but not the saracastic grin of a 'peeping-Tom' aunty with toothbrush in her mouth from nearby apartment....

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