If a person renowned for giving his everything, whenever he chooses to give, happens to miss something – though the existing many things are more than enough to prove the worth of what he is known for – people remember only that missed “something” and often fail to appreciate the “many things”. This is absolutely the same thing that is happening to Maniratnam after the release of his much awaited Raavanan.

     I saw the movie on the second day and since then I’m encountering so many forms of mixed reviews. I came out of the movie hall really with a great deal of satisfaction though I felt like the movie had lost its pace in few occasions especially towards the end of first half. Till this morning I was reading some reviews of the movie – few went on to praise that Mani had come up with yet another impeccable masterpiece and few others lambasted it.

     No one who watched the movie couldn’t deny that it’s an impeccable one. No movie is flawless, anyway. Why should we focus just on the flaws when there are umpteen things that would take your breath away? We know that the story is a modern day interpretation of Ramayana and none couldn’t be aware of the story the epic is dealing with. So, what makes us to complain that the movie proceeds without any unexpected twists and turns?

     Yes, the characterization could have been done still better considering the kind of genius that Maniratnam is, in the aspect. Indeed, Mani seems to have missed a point here. And, still, Mani has slightly fallen short in portraying the love blossoming between Aishwarya and Vikram, which would make a key difference in the climax. There is absolutely no reason why we should dwell too much into these minor – yet, critical – flaws when the cinematography, showcasing astounding brilliance, makes us spellbound and the majuscule background music blow our brains away. 

     Songs, for sure, have been wasted except the two songs of celebration. Though, I loved the way “usurae poguthae” has been picturised, I seriously am unable to fathom why in the hell does the song pop out all of the sudden when everyone would be expecting for some other thing to happen. Probably, Mani is trying to depict the love bearing seeds when Vikram happens to see Aish in those gloomy and glamorous circumstances.

     I wonder, if I have got any words to eulogize Vikram’s acting. Probably, I may run out off superlatives if I start to do so. Boy, he fits the bill so very perfectly that even before the first half ended I decided not to watch the Hindi version even once considering the kind of great acting skills that Abhishek has got.

     So, on the whole, if you think that the movie connoisseur in you hasn’t died yet even after watching the mundane Sura’s and Asal’s and you belong to a category that would appreciate every earnest attempt taken though it might not be as impeccable as everyone would wish, then you may prefer to watch this movie! If not, just be glued to your seats reading one reviews after another!!

But, giving-up something is not Doohickey’s attribute, does it? So, now I’m back with a bang with a much more resolute motif to post something every week – at the least – which could range anything from crap to a highest degree of intellect.

Keep watching this space…

This section will have some irrelevant, insane, and sometimes brainy incertitudes which a normal earthling may not find easy to give a one-shot answer! *read again, normal earthling*

a) Few factors which decide the sensex rise and fall…

1. Yawns of Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee!

2. Confabs of Manmohan Singh!

3. And of course, when Obama sneezes! 

b) One, we could blame for this recession?…

The idle brain which coined that word. Would you ask this question if you don’t find this word?

c) A tree which never might face endangerment…

Binary Tree!

d)  What might be the day when people celebrate by bursting crackers and taking Holy bath at rivers, all in a single day?…

Could be Environmental Day somewhere after 50 years!

e) A crazy country which is difficult to understand?

India…. Where people build Temples for actresses and demolish if that was of Gods! 

I’m no alien to secrets and so as  secrets to me! So, an easier tag to start with is always good! Yeah, the tag is “unleash 10 secrets about myself”! Isn’t it an easy one for person like me who can maunder his secrets so fast than a kid recites his/her rhymes! Lemme come to tag! Here, you see the mysteries unravell!

[1] Thievish kid: I did maintain two separate progress reports through out my schoolings at 10th std, one, for the school, issued by the class teacher & signed by me and the other, for my home, issued and maintained by me & signed by my parents! None managed to discover that till the end!

[2] One Love: I’m in an one-sided-love with a girl for the past 15 years though we studied together right from kindergarten! The only love! And I never want to analyze as whether it is a puppy love or infatuation or whatever! *Forget this secret as soon as you encounter the next one *

[3] Movies: Yes, my parents till now are unaware of even a single movie which I went almost  every week-end in my college hostel life! They don’t prefer movies let alone watching in theatres!

[4] Payback-er: I have the habit to write down somewhere (Notebook in school days, Notepad in college days and nowadays cellphone) as what, who and when, to remind myself and prove them wrong, if someone wrongly and pointlessly criticizes me!

[5] A ten minute criminal: When, I along with my three friends stayed in a lodge to undergo in-plant training at Honeywell, police raided my room supposing that we kidnapped a minister’s daughter! Thanks to the Honeywell ID card which saved our torso from beatings!

[6] Entomophobiac: The largest living creature to which I’m not afraid of is the house fly! I had even slept on my house roof top bathroom for a whole night when a grasshopper entered inside the house while I happened to be alone on a rainy night!

[7] Crazy Commentator: One among my funny aspirations is to sit and hold the mike at the cricket commentary box! I practice by commenting myself whenever I play Cricket 07 in my computer which I play 2hrs daily at the least!

[8] Square Lover: I have a natural affinity towards any square-faced person! Even I wonder as why I’m so!

[9] The Author, Next: I have planned to author a book which has even been christened! 8-2-9! *Never mind to ask the reason, please!*

[10] Benignant Supplicant: Right from my childhood I’ve a habit of maintaining a pray-list which includes several hapless people whom I came across! Some people are even staying in the list for more than 10yrs since I never happened to meet them again to ensure if they got fine!

Mission Accomplished!! Now it’s my turn..

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]]> http://drajesh.wordpress.com/2009/07/04/hugger-mugger/feed/ 7 Rajesh tagged-logo http://drajesh.wordpress.com/2009/07/02/ten-tentanna-ten/ http://drajesh.wordpress.com/2009/07/02/ten-tentanna-ten/#comments Thu, 02 Jul 2009 05:48:03 +0000 drajesh http://drajesh.wordpress.com/?p=138 ]]> Mr. Kapil Sibal -  the one name which often hit my ear drum when I tried to overhear the political gossips of my dad while I was still at the schooling even though barely did I know him then that he had obtained Master’s in Law from Harvard School – has been at the receiving end of some relatively modest criticisms from some dammit heads of opposition parties – which they often do whenever a proposal is brought in by the ruling government irrespective of whether it does good or not – ever since he proposed the idea of making the 10th grade exams optional. *oops, let this sentence end here!*

Well, even I’m not an ardent supporter of Mr. Kapil’s above said proposal. Though, the idea is not entirely to scrap the 10th grade exams but to make it optional, the politicians, as always, are making issues as if it has been implemented with immediate effect and without any treatments of educational adepts. If I had read correctly then his one of the lines in the statement was to let the exams not traumatise those students who will be pursuing their higher secondary school studies in the same institution. Does anywhere has he been quoted as saying if to scrap the earlier system to the core as Ms. J (as far as tamilnadu politicians are concerned) has been issuing statements?!? Hardly, could we blame Mr. K for not issuing any tit-for-tat statements as he would be often busy in framing plans to make his great grandson and/or yet-to-born great grandson enter his politically radical group!

Here goes my personal views about Mr. Kapil’s idea….. Firstly, I would wish to consider 10th grade exams as a utile precedent of the 12th grade exams rather than as one which takes both physical and mental toll of students’. But those which take toll are the tutions in the name of extra coaching to keep students’ mind occupied with the thoughts of science and maths all the time even after they head home from school and the added efforts by almost all school managements & some parents to frighten the little hearts as if it is the end of their road if they fail to score ample enough in exams. Also, by the way, one should not forget a section of the community who considers the 10th board exams as just their first experience before they appear for all-the-more important 12th board exams and take it in their own constructive way.

Going by the exact words of Mr. Kapil “The Indian education system which is marks-centered and examination-based is a source of trauma for both parents and children… knowledge, like everything else, should be user-friendly, and the acquisition of knowledge should not be a stressful exercise.” Well, if that’s his case then hasn’t the twelfth board exams been marks-centered !? Marks are just a criteria to rate students’ knowledge which will be tested by exams. If he demands modification then it should be in the pattern over which the examination papers are framed and not on the entire system over which exams are conducted. Can he name at least one exam be conducted without the involvement of the term ‘marks’ !? You should not wonder if one gets surprised if Mr.Kapil names one!

Even now several state run boards are there across this nation which hardly gives practical exposure to students till their 10th grade. With some boards giving practical exposure and others not weren’t the students been partisaned though choosing their board of study is not entirely their fault! None, even I, couldn’t say a person with high calibre like Mr. Kapil wouldn’t be wary of these things but as lieke many others it is the political knot which may keep him from acting in a more fervent way if he really feels the need for the change in our age old education system!

This is my first attempt in framing a 55 fiction. This may not be a proficient one but a testimony of a earnest attempt!

With the amount of 55 fiction stories I managed to find in the internet, I substantiate the following as the reasons for the popularity of 55 fiction stories!

1. Perpetrators who purposefully drag the recession towards vocabulary in the name of creativity for years!

2. Some people who have a graciously will to toil hard to get 55 bucks instead of the myriad of bucks they are offered for free!

3. Numerologists whose genes flawed by the mutating fiftyfivonesis are passing the 55-flu through generations without proper medication!

Tell me to which of the above cases you belong if you are 55-fiction-writer, of course after reviewing my work!

Though my parents had often insisted me to carry some coins while I make my way out, I never listened to them as I barely realized the importance of those words until I met with the situation. Hardly, a week back, I happened to go to the railway station for reserving tickets for my bro and mom. As always I didn’t prefer to take some coins along with me since I simply considered those as some heavy pocket-pulling-weights. I was supposed to pay 82rs for 2 tickets but I had just a hundred rupees note in my purse to get those. I guess, by now, you might have gauged the situation where I was put in! Yes, as like it often happens in government buses the cold-hearted person incharge of the ticket counter demanded me to pay another two rupees to give my balance of 20rs. I pretended to search my pockets for two rupees though my reply after the make-believe search was going to be “Sorry sir, I don’t have the change” hoping he wouldn’t force me further. Soon after my reply I came to realise that the incharge didn’t know tamil but only hindi. So, I started to argue with him in butler english but that too ended not in my favor. He was firm in his stand. Poor me, prayed him to at least give my ten rupees so that I can ask for change somewhere at the platform stalls. He did give and I got that by heartily cursing him by all the words that I’m aware of as bad ones.

Unfortunately, even the platform-stall-keepers and two wheeler parking-keepers lied me as if they didn’t eyed a two rupee coin the whole day. Frustrated me, went to an auto driver to help my cause. Though he was initially reluctant to help me, he at least paid heed for what I need that 2 rupees. Later, he just gave me a two rupee coin for free as he couldn’t find enough change for my 10rs. I was initially unwilling to get from him as I knew I could hardly find him once again at the same place to reimburse my due. Hence, I decided to ‘buy’ that 2 rupee coin for my 10rs which I’m sure would have made the by-standers think as if I had gone crazy. I wouldn’t have bought that 2 rupees for free from him if that gracious man had accepted my deal.

I just wished him some 100 thanks since I didn’t manage to find a way to give something I owed him. My legs started to walk stead fast towards the counter incharge to give those coins before the moron tend to forget me. After I got those two tickets, I raced back towards the auto stand to wish the driver another thanks but the empty space there struck my cerebrum to remind me that auto drivers are one of the busiest creatures in this planet. I started to walk towards the place where I parked my bike with my thoughts running as how I did curse many auto drivers who demanded extra money, earlier. I was wondering how should one identify good-hearted and cold-hearted ones just from their looks. Still, I wonder, how am I going to settle my due.

Rep: Hello, Mr. Captain cool, how do you feel now as ousted champions?

MSD: We don’t really feel sad because we were actually gifted for had come so far. You know, I have already sent “Thank you” messages to the captains of Ireland and Bangladesh.

Rep: oh, really? You are a very gracious captain, indeed! Nice to have you here. By the way, what were the reasons you consider for not able to be as competent as you were 2 years ago?

MSD: Well, firstly, I have to blame myself. I cut my funky long hair after 2007 WC and I suppose that was the luck factor for our T20 win then. Then this new jersey! You see, we were knocked out in 2007 ODI WC also when we recently jersey-switched then! So, I mind you, we were actually doomed and not outplayed.

Rep: Okay. But remember you won matches in league stages. Coming back to the do or die England match, it seems you were the major culprit for the loss, no?

MSD: No, not really. See, England didn’t play with true spirit of cricket. So, I don’t blame myself for this.

Rep: True spirit? What do you mean?

MSD: See, they had Broad in the squad but he never provided us with the width when he bowled to execute our shots freely. Broad means width, right? Secondly, Sidebottom. He bowled only bouncers but his name is side-bottom. And most importantly they had Wright in the squad, that’s why everything went right for them but we don’t have one. It’s up to the selection committee to select Wrights, no?

Rep: Well, you are an amazingly great captain Mr. Dhoni. Now tell us, what went wrong for your team in the encounter with West Indies?

MSD: As I already said a captain should have long funky hair to win matches. Gayle has long dreadlocks but not me. I blame myself for it surely. I wish to clear your mind before you ask as why we lost against RSA. It’s because their vice-captain has relatively long hair than our regular vice captain viru.

Rep: Oh dhoni, now I understand why you are considered as a thinking captain. There are lot of controversies around your decision when you sent Jadeja above Yuvraj. What is your say?

MSD: I’m not only a captain but also a good friend of everyone. By that time yuvraj was seriously flirting with deepika through text messages. How could I disturb my friend’s pleasure? Moreover, jadeja is a small kid and he was crying and threatened to complain to his mom if we didn’t let him to bat at two-down. We tried to persuade him by giving lollypops but it didn’t work out unfortunately. Also, he ran with his bat in anxiety into the ground before my green signal like kids do in street cricket. We were just praying he should not last more than an over. But things went not in our way.

Rep: Oh. But what made your all time favorite Raina to fail at one-down?

MSD: See, you can’t blame him totally. English pace men took care of his minuscule nature and bowled only short balls. As we see, he jumped and tried to at least touch the ball but those were too high for that. So we have ordered a pair of specially made high healed Reabok sports shoes for him to counter such deliveries in future. If those shoes don’t fit him then we have a groovy plan to send our broom stick Ishant to bat there. We are coaching Ishant specially to bat bouncers instead of him bowling those.

Rep: What an idea sir ji! Indian think tank works over time, I suppose. But, yuvi too failed on that particular match against England, no?

MSD: Yeah. He usually likes “kisses for sixes” rationale. That’s why he loves to hit maximums. He hit two huge sixes towards deepika but she didn’t seem to respond with any flying kisses. So our yuvi got frustrated and returned to the dug-out to resume his flirting. Later, he understood that deepika was upset as he went to bat without replying her SMS.

Rep: Then, what happened to you? You looked completely out of touch both behind and in front of the stumps?

MSD: Yes, I have to really work on that. See, I have to wear two types of gloves, one for batting and another for keeping. So, at times, I feel inconvenient for I have to use two different glove types in a single match. It too needs a revolutionary thinking. Hopefully, I can work it out soon.

Rep: About your rift with media and Viru?

MSD: I once again say I have not any rift with any of those two. It was his mistake to have brought his wife to England. I was having a friendly chat with Ms. Viru but Mr. Viru mistook that as something and he created issues out of nothing. And, I had and have no rift with the media, if I have one then I won’t be sitting and talking my heart out despite my busy ad shoot schedules. Understood?

Rep: Okay Mr. Cool, please cool down! You are becoming Mr. Hot sometimes these days. Well, what do think about the upcoming Caribbean tour?

MSD: Yeah, we, as a resurgent team are looking forward to that very much. I assure you that it’s going to be an interesting different ball game. As Windies are also a good fielding side as ours the matches are not going to be a competition of how many runs scored or how many wickets taken but how many catches dropped.

Rep: Well, it’s great to hear this from a captain of a cricket crazy country. I thank you for having spent your valuable time with us. Wish you good luck and see you people back in good form soon.

MSD: Thank you. Wish me some luck for my hair to grow sooner and longer.

Rep: Sure. Wish you once again.

MSD: Welcome. *Innamumma indha ulagam nammala nambuthu?*

Disclaimer: All characters and incidents in this post are truly fictional and any resemblances with the actual incidents or persons are purely coincidental.

Nonetheless, the first frame of my episode – very much like the Indian movies – is a happy and funny kickoff which is the conversation in the name of scrutinizing the efficiency of the Google chat that I had with one of my friends. Since, I never could recollect a moment when I was allowed to chat in my college laboratory then, I assume the conversation must had gone, leastwise me sitting in the browsing cafe. Though, numerous chats which I had before my jan ’08 signified nothing important, the rib-tickling ones were those of the final year project sessions where GMail was purported to converse with even those who are hardly a hand-breadth away!

Later, ugliest part of my life (days after I left my college), was where I couldn’t find even a single chat without the three lettered word D-O-J. I had almost discussed with everyone regarding the joining date. Despite, none is sure about our DOJ, the continued imaginative speculations had driven not only me but also almost all of the friends to stay useless at home, which were horribly reflecting in those chats. It made wonder when I happened to see that I along with my friends network had virtually made all the plans to pack-up-with-resume but nothing ended up in reality. There had been times when we started to look for accommodations as if we had gotten a job, though other than me few of them went in search of job. I still couldn’t recognize what actually conspired me to stay glued at my house – Fate or otiose mind set! Whatever might be the reason, the futile days had gone past without any major betterments except the ever increasing chat counts! All the plans, I contrived, had stayed past with the chat alone.

Waiting was not the only mistake I had ever made in the past one year but it’s was the one which had forced to make several other boo-boos resulting in one ungettable golden period wasted! Being a normal human being, the entire topsy-turvyness went forgotten as soon as I got my joining date confirmed, making me feel as if I had my mistakes justified. These chats made me relive those turmoils once again and realize, whatsoever may be past, wake up, learn from the boo-boos , never let yourself commit those again, try hard to overcome those losses.

After all, there are no mistakes or failures, only lessons!

Really, whenever I logged in to my Gtalk profile I was hating the phrase “What are you doing?” from my friends for the past one year as I was ailing from boredom doing repetitious activities the whole day, till the second when I got my DOJ.. But now, I empathize the meaning of the funny phrase which engage people with others across the globe..

But, yes, one can’t completely delineate twitter as something which eats time as one can also follow The hindu, CNN, Cricinfo, TIME and many others which pings you with their relevant updates time to time. I’m sure you can pass all the time in the world by simply twittering provided you are cell-phone-maniac and jobless! Yes, the time for which I stare at my phone keeps increasing so are my parents’ concerns as if I had gone mad with my phone!

I bet, twitter as a much better easy way to stay in touch than other social networking sites like Orkut, FB etc..

I feel for I had made a late entry in to twitter! So I wish you happy twittering and you can follow me there as well!