ExpertDabbler

இந்த பதிவினைப் படியுங்கள். மேல இருப்பவை எனக்கு மொக்கையாகப் பட்டது. ஆனால் ‘அவதாரங்களின் பின்னால்..’ ஆஸ்கார் ரவிச்சந்திரன் பற்றி பதிவு சுவாரசியம்

நெருடல்:
டைரக்டர் சசி ‘சொல்லாமலே’ வில் தானே அறிமுகம்?

The one and only M R Radha at his best

http://www.tamilvanan.com/content/2008/09/23/mrradha-speech/

Yanni’s version

Vanessa Mae’s version

I’ve heard VM’s before but got Yanni’s version of the same classic today. Brilliant!

And here’s the ‘proper’ version i guess

Now I know why Keerthi commented to my post on digital trash with a reference to Wall-E.

I am not the most sophisticated cinema rasigan in general. I need someone who would lend his two cents on the whys and how of the story besides sharing his Nachos (spicy side item was better) for anything more sophisticated than the formula stories I grew up on. This would also go as my first full length-animation cum science fiction movie in the last ten years. The genre, the idea and the characters were new to me.

Wall-E still works despite my background mentioned above. For starters, there is never a dull moment. Wall-E, the title trash carrying robot is as humane as a robot would ever get. There is a love story, there is a villain, and hey there is even a side-kick. The director does not explain everything but I guess it’s not possible in a film of this sort.

First impression: Good. But I have a strong feeling I am gonna like this film even better after second and third impressions.

Q: Chiranjeevi?

A: Dhairiyasaali!

There are lot of things you can do. But watching Pursuit of Happyness on your father’s anniversary should not be one of them.
I did just now and feel for it.

Back after yet another trip this weekend. It was all the more strenous this time since I traveled to Trichy (Thurayur) and thereon to Madurai and returned, all in two days flat and half the journey was in our govt. buses. Truly blessed are those who never got to travel in that adventurous GST road stretch from Tindivanam to Madurai.

The special train in which I returned was late by a small matter of 7.30 hours. As is always the case with railways, they announced the delay in seven installments of one hour each. Those who are mathematically inclined would be wondering about the balance thirty minutes, that is what we fondly call ‘Gandhi Kanakku’ i.e. that was not declared at all. This delay also reminded me of my maiden and only abroad trip. More on that later.

One unmistakable trend in all these visits is that Ilayaraja still rules the hearts of most of my brethren in tier two towns. Be it Maatuthaavani bus terminus at 2.30 AM, the private town bus in Trichy at 4 PM, the tea stalls in Virudhunagar at 5 AM to quote just a few, its overwhelmingly in favor of IR. I feel there is more to it than sheer coincidence. Not sure if the small town folks are in a time warp or ARR is just too sophisticated in his music. We are not talking about the Sathyam cinema going, Mani- Kamal admiring, Landmark-ing Madrasi but proper interior Tamil Nadu folks after all.

I sincerely hope, pray and wish I need not take travel to south Tamil Nadu for the next six months. And certainly not take the GST road for the next two years.