MOJITO

One of the best trailer i watched in recent time. Looks Tarantino-ish.

IPL-3 is the best of all the IPL's for me. Because, there was not even a single dead rubber match and semis-finalists were undecided till the last league match and more importantly Mumbai Indians were going great guns.

Everything went smooth till the finals and what i thought should never happen happened. Mumbai Indians losing to Dhoni's team. Well, the better team won and yeah the best team lost.. ada pongapaa..

Raina's dropped catch cost MI the match.
Sachin talking to himself ala VTV Simbhu: "Raina catch drop pannuna vodane ellam mudinju pochunnu nenaichen. nenaikaathadaa, nejamaave ellame mundinjuthaa poachunnu adutha ball'e six adichu sonnaaan"

If you cant beat them, Join them.
Congrats CSk. Vaazhga Thamizh, Vazharga Thamizh. I hope Murali Vijay performs well in T20 World Cup and Ashwin gets into ODI squad.

And, here is to the man, who came to the field with the determination to win the match even after having 8 stitches in hand. You deserve the Cup more than anyone else. Dont worry Sachin, IPL ellam sappa matter, bigger things are waiting for you. like, scoring 100 centuries, 20K in ODi, 15K runs in tests, becoming american president.

Downloaded and listened to Goa, Paiyya, Vinnai Thaandi Varuvaaya(VTV) and Aayirathil Oruvan songs. I am hearing these 6 songs in loop ever since.

All the songs in VTV were average except Hossanna which i liked instantly. But, lot of people said VTV songs are very good. I am confused, has the Brand ARR became so big that people started believing that all ARR songs got to be good. Or, are VTV songs too urban for me. Because even in the songs in the playlist i liked the Goa kuthu song and folkish Adada mazhaida song from Paiyya better than others. ennamo po..

PS. after Vinnai Thaandi Varuvaaya releases and i see it, i might like the songs better. But, the matter of the matter is I made a post with no matter at all.

Its year end time and every other sports, movie, politics website has a top 10 list of 2009. Here is my top 10. It has nothing to do with 2009, its my top 10 favorite english movies that i have watched. In alphabetical order,

1. Goodfellas
With due respect to Godfather, this has to be the best gangster movie i have seen.

2. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
The whole movie is chaotic with god knows how many characters, but you will love this movie.

3. Love Actually
I always have a thing for this multiple stories within a single movie. Because, each story will be 'to the point', no unnecessary dragging subplots. And the most important thing is, more the number of stories, more the number of chicks in the movie.

4. Raging Bull
If you read in some website that Rocky is the best boxing movie, believe me that website is fake. If you hear it from your friend, stop talking to him or her. This movie is the one.

5. Se7en
A story of 2 cops tracing a serial killer. Thrilling from start to the end.

6. Stalag 17
A story about a whole gang of 'prisoner of war'. The whole movie is a laugh riot.

7. The Good, The Bad, The Ugly
For some reason, i believe that this is the greatest movie ever made. But, not many would agree. The dialogues and the background music are the best part of this movie.

8. The Man from Earth
If someone is not surprised after seeing this movie, i would be really surprised. Its that kind of movie.

9. The Shining
I was never a fan of horror movies and never will be, but this movie is more than a horror movie. If i am confusing you, stay confused, even i dont know what the second part of the previous sentence is suppose to mean.

10. The Shawshank Redemption
I think everyone would agree with this. This movie is the best.

Disclaimer: The post contains too many superlatives. The author is not suppose to be blamed for this, because he likes to exaggerate things.

Some other movies which are equally good as above listed movies. Rain Man, Back to the future-1, Die Hard-1, Godfather-2, Pulp Fiction, The Departed, Casablanca, Bobby, A Clockworks Orange, God Must be crazy, The Killing.

In the 1st Ind Vs SL ODI, India lost first wicket at 153. Anja Singam Dhoni came to bat at one down. Today, India lost first wicket for 4 runs. What happens, captain cool sends Gambhir at one down. India lost 2nd wicket for 19 runs. Dhoni again hid behind and sends in Kohli at number 4.

Have some guts/balls/whatever Dhoni.

This coming in at number 3 business is happening time and again and it will continue to happen.

I can hear some voices saying dont i have any work. Come on guys, its friday afternoon, weekend has already started.

A and B are friends.
A loves C. B loves C
C hates A. So, C loves B

---Interval---

A marry C due to unavoidable circumstances.
A decides to sacrifice C and marriage because as i told you already A and B are friends.
To know the rest of this mess of a story, watch Arya-2

A - Allu Arjun. Just want to share this indigestible thing i saw in credits. His name was displayed as "Stylish Star" Allu Arjun. There is nothing stylish in him. I might even accept that he doesnt overact but cant accept that he is stylish. No, on a second thought i wont accept that he doesnt overact. He does a hell lot of overacting.
B - Navdeep
C - Kaajal Agarwal - She didn't match to the high standards she set in Magadheera.

"Take Initiative"

I am becoming more and more allergic to these words. I have been harassed and tortured by these 2 words for the past 5 years. All the steps i took to avoid these 2 words were in vain. டேய், என்னதாண்டா வேணும் உங்களுக்கு.

Advices to avoid these 2 words are welcome. You might even be rewarded if your advise works out. If you are also in the same boat as me, you can actually try something like.... ok.. nevermind.

Checking Google Reader has become almost waste these days. None of my friends are posting frequently. I am just thinking aloud about it.

Its been months since Ramak posted. He used to be the most active blogger in my google reader list who posts about anything and everything under the sun. I hope he starts posting again. But, there is always a chance that he will delete all his posts after some days.

Jagan is back to blogging after a long gap. expecting more posts from him in the coming days.

Vishnu is more like me, realizes suddenly that he hasn't posted for a month and posts something about cricket or last seen movie or recent happenings. Moreover, he has done enough heroics for the month and no international cricket match is happening now. So, it will be some days before he posts again.

Rizwan, once a frequent blogger has almost quit blogging now. Right now he is into kalaaichifying bloggers in their comment section.

Ganesh, the only techie blogger in my google reader, probably has run out of algorithms or he has decided not to share the algorithms that he reads or something is really keeping him busy in his workplace(probably a singapore chick in his office).

I wonder why Ajay made a post requesting everyone to change his blog title in their google reader, because he haven't posted anything since that post.

Someone has uploaded a video, mixing audio of Sivaji trailer with video clips from 'Incredibles' movie. Watch it to believe it. Audio and video matches perfectly. Looks like a very old video. But i saw it only today. Awesome piece of editing. worth a watch.



Just now realized, in last post there was a little bit on Thalabathy, now its Sivaji and previously some youtube clips from Rajinikanth movies, no full dedicated post. It would only be fair if i write a full post about Rajinikanth. Its coming soon.

This is not a review.

Nadodigal is yet another movie about friendship. In fact, it goes a level above to say that even a friend's friend is a friend. The story is about 3 friends(Sasikumar, one guy from Ch-28, one guy from Kalloori) and the problems they face after helping the hero's friend to marry his girlfriend. As expected, in many scenes, someone explains what is friendship and what is not friendship blah blah. But, those didn't seem forceful only in some places. The entire sequence before the interval when Sasikumar's friend's girlfriend is kidnapped was very good. Overall, the movie is worth a watch.(I will save you the burden. The word "*friend*" comes 11 times in the paragraph)

Talking about portrayal of friendship in Tamil movies, it is always exaggerated or more cinematic. At the moment i can remember only 2 films which showed friendship in a likable and convincing way for me. One is Chennai-600028. The best part about Ch-28 is, the movie itself is about a gang of friends, but at no point it gets preachy with dialogues like "natpu romba punithamaanathu, friendship'na ennanu theriyuma?? velakkennainaa ennanu theriyuma??, " kind of dialogues. Ch-28 shows friends the way they go about it in real life. For me, Ch-28 is the most realistic movie i have seen for a long time. It is a classic in its own way.

Second movie is Thalabathy. Whatever i listed as unconvincing exists in this movie. Yes, it has exaggerated dialogues about friendship, too cinematic. So, what???? I like everything about this movie. But then, do you really need a reason to like this movie. And, about the lead actors, don't even get there,. the post is already long.

Neela chaayam veluthu pOchu, dum dum dum dum
Dhoni vesham kalanju pOchu, dum dum dum dum

Even though i am sad that India is out of T20 WC, i am happy that Dhoni's stupid strategies and his form is questioned by the media.

11 runs of 23 balls against WI, sending R Jadeja against Yuvraj and more than everything asking England to bat first in the crucial match.

Dei Dhoni, you are not Captain Cool, you are Captain Fool....

The whole yesterday was like what they call in cricketing terms "Few very high-scoring overs, and then a wicket falls" kind. I had a very good lunch, came out of the hotel, and it was raining like hell. Once the rain stopped, my bike wouldn't start. It got wet in the rain. I had to push the bike a few meters with Saran sitting on it to make it start.

I dropped Saran in the house and went to meet a friend. Again, when i started back to home, rain was pouring like anything and my bike didn't start. This time my friend took the honors. She pushed my bike a few meters to make it start.

Time was 9 and any sane person would have headed home straight. But come on, it was Kalyan's farewell treat. I reached the pub all drenched and shivering. For once, there was no fiery discussion like what happens usually whenever me ramak and kalyan meet. Moreover, the music was too loud to have any discussion. After a couple of beers, we went for "tequila tequila"(Read it like Shakira shakira in hips dont lie song). Wow, it was too good that we went for 2 more shots. Kalyan started dancing. Yeah, then what, i too joined him. Couple of other guys also started dancing.

And, you all know that, yes,, my bike didn't start when we decided to leave. This time the bike was adamant, i pushed it, ramak pushed it, but it never started. "piss off guys" was the answer that my bike gave. Kalyan gave this excellent plan, I hold his shoulder and piggyback his bike. It was the worst thing to do at that time of the day, at that road when it is raining. Ramak told he is no way part of this plan. I told him, let us try a few meters, if it doesn't workout, we will drop the plan. But, ramak didn't agree. By that time Kalyan already removed his T-shirt and ready with one end of the T-shirt in this mouth and offered the other end to me. Kalyan, you are the man to look for in crisis time. Ramak would say, the crisis in the first place would be there because of Kalyan.

Finally, we left ramak and the piggyback thing worked out for around 150 meters. We were waiting in front of the hotel and ramak came there walking with a "unnayellam mithikanum da" kind of look in his face. As i said yesterday, "it was worth it machi". The keyword here is kick.

P.S> Ramak, i am waiting for a post from you with your version of the story.

The Man from the Earth
Super movie. The movie had less than 10 characters. The whole movie was shot in a house. Its not about whether you like the movie or not. Its not about whether you believe what is said in the movie or not. Its just the movie watching experience that matters.

கழகக் கண்மணிகள் அனைவரும் இப்படத்தை பார்க்குமாறு கேட்டுக் கொள்கிறேன்.

Die Hard 1
Oyyale.. Action movie should be like this. How was part 2 and 3? Have anyone seen them?

Random.
Today is my most satisfying TT day. We were playing doubles. In the middle of the game the guy from opponent team asked me why am i not hitting shots. I told him that i have back pain. Eventually, we lost the match. I was leaving the TT room and a guy who was waiting for the next game, said that my team lost the match because i did not hit shots. Man.... i feel like God, I forgive them all.

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Follow this blog, especially if you are a Kolkata Knight Rider fan.

All soldiers alert. Billa remake has released in Telugu. This is the first movie that i have watched alone in a theater. Not bad, the movie was good. They have followed the same technique used in tamil. Shoot a movie for 1.5 hours and run most of the scenes in slow motion and make it a 2.5 hours movie. appuram, indha ponnu Anushka, enna superA act pannuthu pa. She took it from where Nayan left in Tamil Billa.

Ramak, here is the scene which we were talking about in KVKD. ( if at all you remember what we spoke that day)

There was a person who was really frustrating me everytime by saying a certain thing which was a mere assumption of that person btw. The person knows that i/we really get irritated when that was said. Me being me, i kept ignoring it. I really got angry once when it was said, but i decided to let it go one last time. "You did a big mistake... you rubbed the wrong side of me... I will make you regret for what you said" and what not, punch dialogues were flying left and right in my mind. But i just gave a dry smile and kept quiet.

My idea was, next time the person says that, i would shut the person's mouth for ever. I know speaking of what would do that. I kept waiting for the person to talk about that particular thing/assumption. But, the person never talked about it. I even tried initiating a conversation on a related note and for a change this time that person ignored it. Maybe, the dry smile gave the person enough indication that i will really get mad the next time. kadaisila enna vadivel mathiri "dei sandaiku vaada, naanum rowdy thaanda"nu polamba vitutaanga...

Now, the person might never repeat. That is what i want. But, had i yelled at the person and then the person stopped saying that particular thing, i would have been much more happy. Some things got to be done the hard way. So, "when you wanna yell, yell. Dont wait"(courtesy: Tuco)

Talk about variety. The album Thalapathy has it all.

And you, Happy birthday again.

When i was a kid, my request to buy something for me was never declined. Ok, 9 out of 10 times it was not declined. The belief was that i would ask for something only if that is extremely necessary. Unfortunately, that was the truth as well. Wait,.. this was the story till i joined college. After i joined college, my mother ran out of reasons to not give me money to buy something.

A one day picnic was arranged in my school when i was studying 7th standard. Me and 2 of my friends decided that each one will bring 100 Rs on the picnic day. The night before the picnic, I asked my mother for 100 Rs and she told that 100 will be too much and 50 will be more than enough. The way it was said suggested that it would be useless to argue.You remember that 9 out of 10 time thing. This request fell under 1/10. I decided that i will manage with 50. But the shy kid I am, i was confused about what to say to my 2 friends. I gave it a long thought that night before sleeping.

Next day early morning i woke up and out of no where i decided not to go to picnic. I lied to everyone in my house that i am having a heavy headache. So, we came to a conclusion that i would continue to sleep and would not go to picnic. Looking back, skipping that picnic would go as one the most stupidest decision i have ever taken considering how silly the reason was.

If you are wondering why i am writing a decade long story about a picnic, I am going on a trip to Thailand tomorrow. Actual post was suppose to have the trip info alone but suddenly the school picnic thingy popped up.

Advance Happy Christmas and Happy New Year guys.

50th post. Congratulate me guys.

Random Quote
Naatula indha thozhiladhibargal tholla thaanga mudilapa.. Punnaku vikkuravan, gundoosi vikkuravan ellam thozhiladhibar.

you know which word to replace with Blogger.


Random Thought
Whether you be a Roman in Rome or not, never be a Hyderabadi in Hyderabad traffic. Someone should inform the guys in Hyderabad that Schumacher has no connection with Hyderabad whatsoever. ella paya pullaikum manasula schumi'nu nenappu..

I am fond of catchy quotes. Today, i was reading some quotes and ended up in this link. http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/info/view_unit/2988
There was one not-so-catchy quote "The dictionary is the only place where divorce comes before marriage." I thought of adding some more to the list. Here is what i could come up with,

Dictionary is the only place where

• delete comes before new and free comes before malloc.
• There is no Hate but Love between India and Pakistan.
• Success, Fame, Promotion, Weekend and whatnot everything is few distance away.
  
• Fuck is never spelled as f**k.
• There is no Manager standing between You and Promotion.
• Man is not behind Money.
• Politician, Terrorist and Bullshit are not synonymous.
• even the most complex things cannot be questioned. eg. existence of God, Life after Death and more importantly the classical 'Chicken-Egg which comes first' problem.There is answer for everything.
  
• Blog is just yet another word.

Ok guys, enough of mokkai. get back to work.

I was on a booze spree last Saturday night. The fun started around 10 pm and ended around 4:30 am next morning. There was this guy,one of rizwan's team-mate who accompanied me. I was arguing with him about different things for the whole night. It was around 3:30 am and there was a discussion going on about Manchester United vs Chelsea. I and Ramak were arguing for Man U. I was arguing just for the sake of arguing. But the Chelsea guy was very seriously arguing. After a while i just wanted to cut the crap discussion and start a normal conversation.

Me: What does Chelsea mean?
Guy: Chelsea means organization,..(pause) co-ordination, discipline,....
Me: No, not that. What is the literal meaning of the word Chelsea.
Guy: That is what, Chelsea means organization, co-ordination,....(he was in no mood to give up)
Me(To myself): Ok boss,.. I surrender. You win.

Now i am wondering how many folks would have surrendered to me in the past unable to bare my repeated ramblings.