Ungalil Yaar Adutha Prabhudeva!!
saw this show "ungalil yaar adutha Prabhu Deva" Finals.
I was able to see alot key things, than it just being a show!!
Firstly, hats off to Vijay TV for bringing up the talent!! I had the least imagination about having wonderful dancers from Tamilnadu!!
VijayTV could have simply blocked all their show slots with TV serials from 12:00 PM to 12:30 AM like SUNTV, if they were concerned only about money. Best part is they aimed at money + Creativity. Its not actually creativity, as such Vijay TV did not come up with any unique show concept so far!! It is just adaptations of the shows, which raised out of the creativity from channels acroos the globe!!
But still considering the fact that we are so conservative(how conservative? Tamil had the first satellite Television(sun tv) in India and still they werent able to come out of the tele-crying-serials) what VijayTv was and is doing is branded as creativity. Ideally they are just a huge risk taking channel!!
Vijay TV looks more like a family to me, than a channel. They are so tightly integrated, that every show relies on their peers and make 100% utilisation of that value added advantage.
Like,
#1 "Kana Kaanum Kaalangal" had episodes of "Jodi No.1" in them.
#2 "Yaaru Manasula Yaaru" had people from "Kana Kaanum Kaalangal" & several other vijay TV stars
#4 "Jodi No1" had participants from "kalakka povathu yaaru", "kana kaanum kaalangal" etc..,
#3 "Ungalil yaar adutha Prabhu Deva" had people from "Airtel Super Singer" entertaining the audience
and the list goes on!!
Am not aware of any other channel, which is so tightly bound like this!! Probably this gives the audience a continuous fan following, and almost every show of them is applauded!!
Based on just one show, I would like to compare SUN TV and VIJAY TV.
The show is "Kalakka Povathu Yaaru"(Vijay) and "Asatha Povathu Yaaru"(SUN).
Well, this is a topic that should hav been discussed a year back, but then am happy atleast I pen it down now!!
Why I hate SUN TV?
#1 The entire team of Kalakka Povathu Yaaru, was bought by SUNTV.
Here you should consider the efforts of Vijay TV, in bringing up the show from Nowhere to being one in top5 shows.
VijayTv actually groomed all the participants of KalakkaPovathuYaaru, gave them enough breathing time with the screen space, and suffered all that initial pains to make that show a success, to bring confidence to all those participants from rural areas. When the show was giving all its fruitful results, there was some uncle KAM(uncle KAM? U knw who he is) who jumped in and bought the entire crew.
IF SUN was impressed with the show, why cant they formulate it and form their own crew?
Somehow, am okay with stealing one person from a corporate, but not like the entire team doing an activity, which is against my ethics atleast!!
Imagine, if I start a new satellite channel, and I hire the complete crew of the Finance team in Sun, offering them a double package, What will be the status of SUN? it will take few months for it to restore it to the original condition, and had to undergo all the pain at those times!!
#2 The "kalakka Povathu Yaaru" team is now "Asatha Povathu Yaaru"(even in naming,probably they are bringing in politics, like DK initially, then DMK, then ADMK, then MDMK). Fine. Are they doing it in a fairly manner?
This is what I see in Asatha Povathu Yaaru show!!
a) The show begins, and there is this lady comes up and tells vanakkam, and then she introduces Judges Madhan Pop and SittiBabu. The lady asks the judges(dnt knw what they are really judging??) "what do people outside think about the show?". Forwhich, we get a real useless answer everytime from MadhanPOP that "the talk of the town is Asatha Povathu Yaaru. Everywhere I go, people talk abt it to me. Yesterday(He tells always "yesterday") one person from AMerica called me and appreciated the show very much."
My Opinion 1: The show is okay and good sometimes, but really not that worthy for all these FAQs that appear in every show.
FYI, even Koun Banega Crorepathi did not have such an FAQ section.
My opinion 2: Un PeePeeya neeyae oothatha!! ( Dont Blow Your own Trumpet)
b) The participants come. And Madhan POP or SittiBabu talks some junk intro about the participants(why do we need an intro when they appear everyweek??) The judges tell like "he is so and so, he is well versed in family comedy, he is a teacher, lawyer etc.., After this, the participant gives a self-intro(wtf?)!!
Then the participant has a formula:
I) Tell any proverb or saying about laughter
II) Tell your thanks to everyone(everyone is not enough, say individually to madhanpop,sitti babu, usha, etc,).
III) Attack Vijay TV indirectly ('antha channelku ponavanga ellam naamam thaan', "suntv mattume kalaingarhalai vaala vaikkinrathu" etc etc)
IV) Thanks to SUNTV
V) then he asks "Nigalchikku POgalama?" (Adappavi, arent we there yet?? the show started 15 mins back!!)
VI) Now eneters the VILLAIN. Madhan Pop asks the participant "Nigalchikku porathukku munnadi...namma showa pathi makkal enna pesikkiraanga?"
(Avane 10 nimisham kalichu ippo thaan manasu thirunthi 'Nigalchikku pogalama'nnu kettan.. Athuvum unakku porukkalaya?
Ippo thaanada, ithe kelviya thoguppalini usha unkitta kettaanga. Unakkum 'Yesterday Americal call'laye bathil therinjirukkume!! )
c) Then MadhanPOP or SittiBabu says "You pick a topic, and we will give you 10 seconds. Then you need to make comedy based on the topic. (Just a minute... Are we talking about SUPER INTELLECTUALS who can make comedies in 10 seconds???)
d) Then he actually does the comedy(aah, finally!!)
e) And again he tells a proverb or a quote about laughter!!
Why I like Vijay TV?
After this act of purchasing the entire crew from Vijay, Vijay did not give up!!
It had the show running, started with square one and went all the way to make it top in the ratings. Thats the spirit!!
Though Vijay participants too follow a formula, they dnt hurt others, and they arent strict on following that formula itself. This gives the audience, a good-feel about the show, rather than a feeling of some politician at the street corner shouting and blaming someone else.
Actually I wanted to write about this particular show "Ungalil Yaar adutha PrabhuDeva".. Bt as I started I got deviated into this comparison thing. My next post will be on this show!!
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Sunday, March 29, 2009
South Vs North - II
Please read South Vs North - Part I @ http://prasadsalatchi.blogspot.com/2009/03/south-vs-north-i.html before reading this.
And from ancient times, I believe North Indians were more confident than south Indians!!Starting with this god funda, they were able to market Lord Ganesh from North to South. I dont think we made them buy any god who originated from south. For people who dont know, or did not cross the Tamilnadu state, Lord Ganesh is not any brother of Lord Muruga as it is in Tamilnadu. Because in North, Lord Muruga doesnt even exist at first place. Ganesh is originally a North Indian god, and we brought him into our already existing stories, gave him few
relations like shiva, parvathy and Muruga(ofcourse Ouvaiyyar, mango etc.,). We should have done this for the sake of 'Unity in Diversity'. And so needless to tell about the festival "Ganesh Chathurthy" which is again a North thing that we celeberate. My concern is not that we are celeberating Northie things, but ,the failure in marketing south things to north!!
They created the story ramayana, and all south indians in this epic are portrayed as either Monkeys or Asuras(rakshasa). The ones that helped Lord Rama in Rameshwaram to build the bridge to srilanka is all south Indian people itseems(and they call us monkeys).The so-called Asuras are nothing but Dravidians(the south indians basically). You must have seen the Ramayana in DoorDarshan Television where the Rakshasas have huge eyebrows, mustache etc, (specific qualities of Dravidians). And am really amazed at their confidence level, their confidence to market this story in south India. They have made dravidians pray Lord Rama, and made all dravidians hate themselves(dravidians) in Ramayana.
Coming to recent times, look at the festivals, that have been marketed across India.In south, people started celeberating Holi, Rakhi etc., I couldnt think of any festival that went from south to north.
And I really love the way North Indians celeberate their festivals. They dance man, they dance!! Ofcourse, its their culture to dance in weddings and southies dnt have that funda. But still you need confidence to dance too!! They dont care a shit about what others think, looking at their dance steps!! They just enjoy dancing!! We try dancing, and within a minute, we realise 'what do people around me think of my pathetic steps' and then stop dancing. We simply miss the enjoyment that we are supposed to have, rather than thinking on how appealing we are dancing to others!!!
On a travel, I met a stranger arnd 45 years. He was telling me, that he was one of the very few people to own a washing machine in Tamilnadu.He bought it from Mumbai when he went on a business trip in late 80's he said. That was some lesser known mumbai company product itseems. After 2 years, when he again went to Mumbai, he saw people using washing machines in Petty shops to stirr Lassi!!!! Which time, not even significant number of homes in South had washing machines!!
And if you still consider small scale businesses, North is always on a higher edge. You can find all the new machinaries, new products exhibition happening at Pragati Maidan Delhi. And it will take atleast 2 years for a same kind of exhibition to happen at any Industry chamber at Chennai or Tamukkam Maidanam at madurai, which time the complete business market for that new product is dominated by some North Indian company.
And at any given time, from a top level, I can see tat North is ahead of south by atleast 3 years!!My aim here is, not to offend Northies, but just my anxiety that southies arent competing with Northies.If they are confident, we should be confident enough too, to compete with them.I wish I dont hear any more jargons like " Vadakku Vaalhirathu, Therku Theyhirathu" (North is living, South is fading)!!
Two things that I see, which can develop confidence in us.
One is from Parents perspective.
It is high time, that they stop telling "You cant do" to their children. Atleast I was brought up like this; Atleast all kids I know were brought up like this!! When I wanted to join a piano class @6th std, my dad told me "Entha chetty payalavathu Harmonium petty thookki paathirukkiya?". This is just another form of "you cant do it". On a majority, parents always unknowingly raise their children with negative seeds "You cant do it", "dont do" etc., These when seeden at early stages of childhood, every child starts restricting their own capability!! And eventually when they see someone who does stuff that they think they cannot do, their confidence dies!! Parents got to stop this way of preaching life, and start the positive approach "You can do it".
Am not stating all North Indian parents are taking this approach; But the ratio of "you cant do it" from a North indian parent is less, when compared with southies.
The Second way to improve confidence is from The Education board's perspective.
Books at 4th std or 5th std or atleast at 10th std, they should have a subject on self-confidence!!They can have theory and practicals for it too!!They should be taught about the amazing power within us, and how we can use that to be successful. They should be taught about all real-world examples, success stories of extraordinary people etc., Make them realize what confidence can do to their lives, even if they dont have a 'A' grade.
And can have practicals too, like take a boy who fears of doing something, give him enough confidence to do that, train him and break his barrier!!This practical should give the boy, as well all the fellows around him enough confidence that any thing is possible in this world with this power of confidence.
We dont need any English-non-detail books at 10th std, when you dont teach us the most important concept(confidence) in life!! I dont prefer schools just looking at temporary goals, like to score 100% pass result in the district, when they miss on the long-term goal!! Their long-term goal should be to make the children realise the power they have within them, that can guide them for the rest of their life. Afterall, Marks speak only when we are till Higher secondary!!
This approach is not in North too, but they would also need this!! Cos, whatever I compared from south Vs North, similarly the North Indians are as weak when compared to western country folks in confidence!!
And from ancient times, I believe North Indians were more confident than south Indians!!Starting with this god funda, they were able to market Lord Ganesh from North to South. I dont think we made them buy any god who originated from south. For people who dont know, or did not cross the Tamilnadu state, Lord Ganesh is not any brother of Lord Muruga as it is in Tamilnadu. Because in North, Lord Muruga doesnt even exist at first place. Ganesh is originally a North Indian god, and we brought him into our already existing stories, gave him few
relations like shiva, parvathy and Muruga(ofcourse Ouvaiyyar, mango etc.,). We should have done this for the sake of 'Unity in Diversity'. And so needless to tell about the festival "Ganesh Chathurthy" which is again a North thing that we celeberate. My concern is not that we are celeberating Northie things, but ,the failure in marketing south things to north!!
They created the story ramayana, and all south indians in this epic are portrayed as either Monkeys or Asuras(rakshasa). The ones that helped Lord Rama in Rameshwaram to build the bridge to srilanka is all south Indian people itseems(and they call us monkeys).The so-called Asuras are nothing but Dravidians(the south indians basically). You must have seen the Ramayana in DoorDarshan Television where the Rakshasas have huge eyebrows, mustache etc, (specific qualities of Dravidians). And am really amazed at their confidence level, their confidence to market this story in south India. They have made dravidians pray Lord Rama, and made all dravidians hate themselves(dravidians) in Ramayana.
Coming to recent times, look at the festivals, that have been marketed across India.In south, people started celeberating Holi, Rakhi etc., I couldnt think of any festival that went from south to north.
And I really love the way North Indians celeberate their festivals. They dance man, they dance!! Ofcourse, its their culture to dance in weddings and southies dnt have that funda. But still you need confidence to dance too!! They dont care a shit about what others think, looking at their dance steps!! They just enjoy dancing!! We try dancing, and within a minute, we realise 'what do people around me think of my pathetic steps' and then stop dancing. We simply miss the enjoyment that we are supposed to have, rather than thinking on how appealing we are dancing to others!!!
On a travel, I met a stranger arnd 45 years. He was telling me, that he was one of the very few people to own a washing machine in Tamilnadu.He bought it from Mumbai when he went on a business trip in late 80's he said. That was some lesser known mumbai company product itseems. After 2 years, when he again went to Mumbai, he saw people using washing machines in Petty shops to stirr Lassi!!!! Which time, not even significant number of homes in South had washing machines!!
And if you still consider small scale businesses, North is always on a higher edge. You can find all the new machinaries, new products exhibition happening at Pragati Maidan Delhi. And it will take atleast 2 years for a same kind of exhibition to happen at any Industry chamber at Chennai or Tamukkam Maidanam at madurai, which time the complete business market for that new product is dominated by some North Indian company.
And at any given time, from a top level, I can see tat North is ahead of south by atleast 3 years!!My aim here is, not to offend Northies, but just my anxiety that southies arent competing with Northies.If they are confident, we should be confident enough too, to compete with them.I wish I dont hear any more jargons like " Vadakku Vaalhirathu, Therku Theyhirathu" (North is living, South is fading)!!
Two things that I see, which can develop confidence in us.
One is from Parents perspective.
It is high time, that they stop telling "You cant do" to their children. Atleast I was brought up like this; Atleast all kids I know were brought up like this!! When I wanted to join a piano class @6th std, my dad told me "Entha chetty payalavathu Harmonium petty thookki paathirukkiya?". This is just another form of "you cant do it". On a majority, parents always unknowingly raise their children with negative seeds "You cant do it", "dont do" etc., These when seeden at early stages of childhood, every child starts restricting their own capability!! And eventually when they see someone who does stuff that they think they cannot do, their confidence dies!! Parents got to stop this way of preaching life, and start the positive approach "You can do it".
Am not stating all North Indian parents are taking this approach; But the ratio of "you cant do it" from a North indian parent is less, when compared with southies.
The Second way to improve confidence is from The Education board's perspective.
Books at 4th std or 5th std or atleast at 10th std, they should have a subject on self-confidence!!They can have theory and practicals for it too!!They should be taught about the amazing power within us, and how we can use that to be successful. They should be taught about all real-world examples, success stories of extraordinary people etc., Make them realize what confidence can do to their lives, even if they dont have a 'A' grade.
And can have practicals too, like take a boy who fears of doing something, give him enough confidence to do that, train him and break his barrier!!This practical should give the boy, as well all the fellows around him enough confidence that any thing is possible in this world with this power of confidence.
We dont need any English-non-detail books at 10th std, when you dont teach us the most important concept(confidence) in life!! I dont prefer schools just looking at temporary goals, like to score 100% pass result in the district, when they miss on the long-term goal!! Their long-term goal should be to make the children realise the power they have within them, that can guide them for the rest of their life. Afterall, Marks speak only when we are till Higher secondary!!
This approach is not in North too, but they would also need this!! Cos, whatever I compared from south Vs North, similarly the North Indians are as weak when compared to western country folks in confidence!!
Saturday, March 28, 2009
South Vs North - I
The difference between a north indian and a south indian?
Confidence.
And you know who has it less!!
In Bombay, most of the managers in my company were telling me 'South Indians are brilliant'. That was a pat on my back, as well for other few southies.
Didnt take more than a minute to realise that "why there arent any top line South Indian managers". I realised "Dude, you need confidence to excel at the top and not just mere talent".
Compare all 'A' executives in India, the majority is North Indians.
South Indians basically do blue collar jobs for them!!
When I say software engineering is a blue collar job, I have a justification for it.
Any place where money comes in, is an office, and thats a white collar job.
Any place where product comes, is a factory(a software development centre in this context), and thats a blue collar job.
Just because we are able to buy and wear a Satin White shirt from Van Heusen, doesnt mean we are doing a white collar job, as most think!! We are on a, just highly paid blue collar job!!
My friend's dad was telling his story once to me.During his young ages, when he had a trip to North with his friend, he saw a Northie guy boarding into his compartment sitting front of him.The guy was like fair, handsome, tall, well dressed and smart.He and his friend were observing him closely. And slowly they initiated a talk with that guy.
And they asked him usual questions like "where you from"," what you do" etc.., for which the guy promptly answered their questions and started reading his book.
My friends dad, asked him like, "dont you want to know where we are from?", the guy without taking his look from the book replied " Ya I know you guys are from Madras".
Shocked by his answer he asked him how he figured it out. The guy replied him an answer too, and my friends dad did not remember the exact answer. But he told me that the guy replied in such a polished way, that looking at their behaviour he was sure they were from Madras itseems.
During our ragging sessions(we call it INTRO sessions) at my masters @ REC Trichy, when seniors asked us about our virginity status, I remember three guys out of 51 told that they are not virgins. And they werent south Indians.It takes guts and confidence too(morality is not the topic we discussing here) to lose virginity. I accept that even if some south Indian was not a virgin, he wouldnt reveal it. Still the point here is, the confidence,between a south Indian and a North Indian, to stand for what he is.
There was this good female friend of mine, telling me that she doesnt like to talk with Tamil guys and shes okay with Northie guys. When I asked why she told me "They dont look at my face and talk. you know what I mean". I told "it is true, probably that is the maximum that they can do!! And I added "they just look, n dont dare more than that, that they are harmless". And with Northie guys, am sure they have the guts(as per democracy)!!
And from ancient times, I believe North Indians were ..... (Continued @ http://prasadsalatchi.blogspot.com/2009/03/south-vs-north-ii.html )
Confidence.
And you know who has it less!!
In Bombay, most of the managers in my company were telling me 'South Indians are brilliant'. That was a pat on my back, as well for other few southies.
Didnt take more than a minute to realise that "why there arent any top line South Indian managers". I realised "Dude, you need confidence to excel at the top and not just mere talent".
Compare all 'A' executives in India, the majority is North Indians.
South Indians basically do blue collar jobs for them!!
When I say software engineering is a blue collar job, I have a justification for it.
Any place where money comes in, is an office, and thats a white collar job.
Any place where product comes, is a factory(a software development centre in this context), and thats a blue collar job.
Just because we are able to buy and wear a Satin White shirt from Van Heusen, doesnt mean we are doing a white collar job, as most think!! We are on a, just highly paid blue collar job!!
My friend's dad was telling his story once to me.During his young ages, when he had a trip to North with his friend, he saw a Northie guy boarding into his compartment sitting front of him.The guy was like fair, handsome, tall, well dressed and smart.He and his friend were observing him closely. And slowly they initiated a talk with that guy.
And they asked him usual questions like "where you from"," what you do" etc.., for which the guy promptly answered their questions and started reading his book.
My friends dad, asked him like, "dont you want to know where we are from?", the guy without taking his look from the book replied " Ya I know you guys are from Madras".
Shocked by his answer he asked him how he figured it out. The guy replied him an answer too, and my friends dad did not remember the exact answer. But he told me that the guy replied in such a polished way, that looking at their behaviour he was sure they were from Madras itseems.
During our ragging sessions(we call it INTRO sessions) at my masters @ REC Trichy, when seniors asked us about our virginity status, I remember three guys out of 51 told that they are not virgins. And they werent south Indians.It takes guts and confidence too(morality is not the topic we discussing here) to lose virginity. I accept that even if some south Indian was not a virgin, he wouldnt reveal it. Still the point here is, the confidence,between a south Indian and a North Indian, to stand for what he is.
There was this good female friend of mine, telling me that she doesnt like to talk with Tamil guys and shes okay with Northie guys. When I asked why she told me "They dont look at my face and talk. you know what I mean". I told "it is true, probably that is the maximum that they can do!! And I added "they just look, n dont dare more than that, that they are harmless". And with Northie guys, am sure they have the guts(as per democracy)!!
And from ancient times, I believe North Indians were ..... (Continued @ http://prasadsalatchi.blogspot.com/2009/03/south-vs-north-ii.html )
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Antha mathiri
Life gives you the road, to get whatever you want in this world. It is we, who most of the times choose the wrong road.
As you know, NIT's have 50% in-state quota and 50% other state quota.And so we had guys and girls from Tamilnadu, and from states all of India, speaking different languages!
BE Architecture(might be B.Tech too, nt sure)..Nothing special about this course in NIT Trichy. Heard only about 50% of candidates get placements.But all dept guys had a craze for this Archi.. sorry, for the Archi girls. They were supposed to be the best breed in the campus.They were posh, stylish , confident and beautiful.I dont know if some relation exists between beautiful girls and the Architecture course.They were proving that year after year!!`
Most of us would have had crushes! I had only one('only' is a lie!!)!!The best or worst part about the crush is, its a fading thing.. You start moving with someone whom you have a crush, chances are it would fade away when you get to know them more better.Sometimes they evolve to be a love.
There was this girl from BE Archi, who was beautiful(but her friends were very beautiful). And she had some charisma in her, something attracted me, and made me look at her whenever she passes by.. in cafeteria,snacketeria,juicy etc..,Was even a bit upset when I saw her with another guy :)
But I never thought of talking to her even when I wanted to. Cos, her looks clearly told me that she is a North Indian, and all her conversations that I over-heard were in hi-fi english. I didnt have enough confidence to move with a girl conversing in any language other than my mother tongue. So she was always a crush to me.
And I didnt even bother initiating a 'Hi' when I had few opportunities to talk to, in 2.5 years!!And I dont even know her name until now!The way she smiles, has a beautiful start and a awesome finish, that you would want her to smile for some more time.She looked like a girl with no head-weight. She was modern but simple. Her looks told me always that she is a good person.Had a curly hair, which should tell other women that hairs should curl not less than this and not more than this.From far off, i was able to see her living every minute in her life. I saw a 'humble touch' in things she was doing. She was very lively. And above all, she didnt have a boyfriend!!
I always stayed far-off from her, cos I liked looking at her!And I guess, she knows that am looking at her(sometimes self-assumptions help console better)!!And the fact that I cant get closer to her and still have a careful look, which will make her notice me, stopped me doing that!
It was our Farewell week. And almost every department guys where leaving the campus. And I am about to leave the campus on the following day.I was with couple friends of mine, having a Banana Juice(thats the cheapest, @4 INR).. And here is this gal who came with two other friends.I changed my chair, and now sitting very close to her, facing her. The reason is obvious. You get the guts when you are about to leave the place.She did notice me, and she was more into talking with her friends. I just ordered another orange juice (@7 INR, and you know why it is orange juice now), to make my stay there justifiable. I was there, staring at this girl, observing every action of hers, with my hands on my cheeks. I was able to clearly follow the conversation. The more closer to her I was, I was lamenting on with "why is this girl not a tamilian", which made me just stare at her for past 2.5 years then.
And when I had this thought, this girl and her friends were talking about some books and authors whom they like. Now, I heard this girl whom i had crush uttering these words to her friend" Ohhh.. you are talking like.. antha mathiri authors eh?"
I took off my hands from my cheeks, to realise that I had a mild attack in me. Walked towards my hostel with a heavy-heart(?!), trying to stop any any further thinking!!
(Note 1: 'Anthamathiri'(meaning:that kind) is a tamil word.And its not possible for some non-tamilian to use the word fluently, like here)
(Note 2: Now,Read the first two lines of this post again)Thursday, March 12, 2009
Chalo Chalo !!!
Had few questions in my prev post.. One is related to the life and purpose of life(http://prasadsalatchi.blogspot.com/2009/03/teen-thoughts.html)..
On a different note, some thoughts on how we live,minute-to-minute, day-to -day, ...
Few must have seen, and rest must have heard about the local trains in Mumbai!!
On average, 5000 people are killed by the electric trains and stampedes every year. It is not that the trains are blood-hunting the people, but its the people who put themselves in risk.
They cross the tracks directly from one platform to other, rather than spending couple minutes taking up the bridge.Have seen a man crushed by the train in front of my eyes, while he is trying to climb to the platform from the track, just 3 feet away from me while I was in
the platform.Needless to say, how horribble the sight would have been!!
Getting into the train is altogether a different story, that am coming to that topic later on..
If you are a first-timer commuting to a particular station, you gotto ask which side does that station's platform come. Say if Ghatkopar station's platform comes on left side, minutes before the stop comes, you gotto assemble facing the left exit.If you were not aware of the sides, and you are on the right exit --- Sorry buddy, you missed your stop. You will have to get down at the next station, catch a train in the opposite direction and get down at Ghatkopar
station. This is what I did, one time when I was not aware, and the other time when I was over-confident that I can manage getting out.
Problem here is, the train would stop only for less than a minute in every station.And hundreds of people would want to get down, and get into the train. So there is a mutual agreement between the people who enter into and who exit out of the train.People who wantto enter would wait not more than a second, after the last man who comes out of the train. If you are on the wrong side for the platform, then before you could join the batch of people exitting the train bunch of people trying to enter the train would just fall on you, saying 'chalo chalo' and they will turn you in opposite direction pushing you into the train!!
Your friend is leaving, and you wannu give him a send-off.Dont ever try being close by 10 feet to him.Otherwise, people would just say 'chalo chalo' and get you into the train! If you are optimistic, you can take this as a joke.. But this is true with Bombay Locals.
If you are a regular commuter, you will need a liquid shoe polish at your office drawer. You dont like your shoes to have traces of thousand people stamping on it when you are at office, do you?
Coming back to the train that crushed a man infront of my eyes.. After that incident, the train stopped(well, that was supposed to be a stop!).. People came out of the train,trying to look at the traces of blood. Hardly a minute, and people started telling 'chalo chalo' and got into the train, which left the spot immediately!!
You wannu get into the train from Dadar station to wherever on the central line. It is above 7PM.You stand very close to the place where you think, the trains door would stop by.You are among a bunch of people waiting for the train, some 20 infront of you, and 30 at the back of you!! Now when the train arrives, you need to maintain your speed with the 20 people infront of you, to enter into the train...be it running or pushing!! If you lack the speed, then
you will be knocked down by the 30 atback of you, who are as well trying to enter into the train. If you are unfit into any game, you would usually be seperated, or someone would push you outof the game!! Dont expect the same with the 30 at back of you, if you are not equally fighting to enter into the train; they would keep telling 'chalo chalo' and they are capable of simply knocking you down, stamp on you and get into the train(Comeon guys, its just a train)!!
For all these 'chalo chalos' , not in terms of these trains, but in EVERY WALKS OF LIFE... major problem is 'People dont have a minute to think'.If you are gonna think, its a 'chalo chalo'. They dont want you to think either..
They assumed, They made, They accepted "LIFE IS A RACE"!!
Sometimes I couldnt help avoiding the thought, that am put up in a INFINITE metres running race, where everyone is running around you! The only chance I have is, I GOT TO RUN now!!
If you stop for a moment, thinking 'why are we running?', you are OUT!!
You are either stamped by the men behind you or you are out of the race by yourself!!
No one is thinking, and sad part is am not thinking too.. just questioning!!!
I wannu be in the race too, for which I dont know what is the time it takes, what is the effort, what is it worth!!
And as like everyone, keep dreaming of winning it too, when I dont know what the prize is!!
On a different note, some thoughts on how we live,minute-to-minute, day-to -day, ...
Few must have seen, and rest must have heard about the local trains in Mumbai!!
On average, 5000 people are killed by the electric trains and stampedes every year. It is not that the trains are blood-hunting the people, but its the people who put themselves in risk.
They cross the tracks directly from one platform to other, rather than spending couple minutes taking up the bridge.Have seen a man crushed by the train in front of my eyes, while he is trying to climb to the platform from the track, just 3 feet away from me while I was in
the platform.Needless to say, how horribble the sight would have been!!
Getting into the train is altogether a different story, that am coming to that topic later on..
If you are a first-timer commuting to a particular station, you gotto ask which side does that station's platform come. Say if Ghatkopar station's platform comes on left side, minutes before the stop comes, you gotto assemble facing the left exit.If you were not aware of the sides, and you are on the right exit --- Sorry buddy, you missed your stop. You will have to get down at the next station, catch a train in the opposite direction and get down at Ghatkopar
station. This is what I did, one time when I was not aware, and the other time when I was over-confident that I can manage getting out.
Problem here is, the train would stop only for less than a minute in every station.And hundreds of people would want to get down, and get into the train. So there is a mutual agreement between the people who enter into and who exit out of the train.People who wantto enter would wait not more than a second, after the last man who comes out of the train. If you are on the wrong side for the platform, then before you could join the batch of people exitting the train bunch of people trying to enter the train would just fall on you, saying 'chalo chalo' and they will turn you in opposite direction pushing you into the train!!
Your friend is leaving, and you wannu give him a send-off.Dont ever try being close by 10 feet to him.Otherwise, people would just say 'chalo chalo' and get you into the train! If you are optimistic, you can take this as a joke.. But this is true with Bombay Locals.
If you are a regular commuter, you will need a liquid shoe polish at your office drawer. You dont like your shoes to have traces of thousand people stamping on it when you are at office, do you?
Coming back to the train that crushed a man infront of my eyes.. After that incident, the train stopped(well, that was supposed to be a stop!).. People came out of the train,trying to look at the traces of blood. Hardly a minute, and people started telling 'chalo chalo' and got into the train, which left the spot immediately!!
You wannu get into the train from Dadar station to wherever on the central line. It is above 7PM.You stand very close to the place where you think, the trains door would stop by.You are among a bunch of people waiting for the train, some 20 infront of you, and 30 at the back of you!! Now when the train arrives, you need to maintain your speed with the 20 people infront of you, to enter into the train...be it running or pushing!! If you lack the speed, then
you will be knocked down by the 30 atback of you, who are as well trying to enter into the train. If you are unfit into any game, you would usually be seperated, or someone would push you outof the game!! Dont expect the same with the 30 at back of you, if you are not equally fighting to enter into the train; they would keep telling 'chalo chalo' and they are capable of simply knocking you down, stamp on you and get into the train(Comeon guys, its just a train)!!
For all these 'chalo chalos' , not in terms of these trains, but in EVERY WALKS OF LIFE... major problem is 'People dont have a minute to think'.If you are gonna think, its a 'chalo chalo'. They dont want you to think either..
They assumed, They made, They accepted "LIFE IS A RACE"!!
Sometimes I couldnt help avoiding the thought, that am put up in a INFINITE metres running race, where everyone is running around you! The only chance I have is, I GOT TO RUN now!!
If you stop for a moment, thinking 'why are we running?', you are OUT!!
You are either stamped by the men behind you or you are out of the race by yourself!!
No one is thinking, and sad part is am not thinking too.. just questioning!!!
I wannu be in the race too, for which I dont know what is the time it takes, what is the effort, what is it worth!!
And as like everyone, keep dreaming of winning it too, when I dont know what the prize is!!
Sunday, March 8, 2009
'Kandahar' - Movie
KANDAHAR(2001)
Kandahaar...The story starts with a beautiful Afghan lady named Nafas(settled in Canada) on her way to Kandahaar,after receiving a letter from her sister(living in Kandahar, Afghanistan, who was left behind when the family escaped from Afghanistan to Canada), that she plans on committing suicide at the 4th day from then. Importantly, the story ends at the 3rd day itself, while Nafas is still on her way to Kandahar!!
Between the start and end, every second in the movie is an interesting piece of information to you. Yes, I just knew no woman is allowed to speak or show her face to a man other than her husband in Taliban's rule after watching this scene:
Its a hospital where, the patient(woman) gets herself behind one side of a curtain and the doctor is on the other side, and the lady's kid in between the curtain.
The doctor asks the kid "From when, is the stomache paining".
The kid asks the mother "from when, is the stomach paining".
The mother tells the kid "since yday noon".
and the kid in turn tells the doctor "since yday noon" .
This kinda conversation goes on to form 4-5 dialogues.. and then the doctor asks the kid to ask her mother to come near the curtain. There is a round hole in the curtain, and the woman brings her stomach near the curtain. The doctor examines her stomach thru the hole in the curtain and prescribes her...
There are
#Children robbing corpses to survive,
#Women buy lipsticks, take the mirror inside their barka and then put it on their lips(just to show it to none!!)
#People(who have both legs) fighting for artificial limbs provided in the US camp which they might need in case they lose while walking the minefield,
#a boy aged 8 dismissed from the school as he did not remember the 'Kuraan' wordings and failed to assemble an AK47 in the given time limits
Hell lot of scenes like this, that throws light on how continous years of war had destroyed the Afghan community.
You wanna story, and you dont want to search and read 30 Pages of news about Afghanistan to understand whats goin on there; Well, This crafted piece is for you then!!!
Is a 2001 movie by Iranian director Mohsen Makhmalbaf. No wonder why Iranian movies top the WORLD CINEMA..
I saw it in Iranian Film Festival in Chennai. The DVD is available in Chennai Paris DVD market too, and broadbanders can use Torrentz to get it!!
Kandahaar...The story starts with a beautiful Afghan lady named Nafas(settled in Canada) on her way to Kandahaar,after receiving a letter from her sister(living in Kandahar, Afghanistan, who was left behind when the family escaped from Afghanistan to Canada), that she plans on committing suicide at the 4th day from then. Importantly, the story ends at the 3rd day itself, while Nafas is still on her way to Kandahar!!
Between the start and end, every second in the movie is an interesting piece of information to you. Yes, I just knew no woman is allowed to speak or show her face to a man other than her husband in Taliban's rule after watching this scene:
Its a hospital where, the patient(woman) gets herself behind one side of a curtain and the doctor is on the other side, and the lady's kid in between the curtain.
The doctor asks the kid "From when, is the stomache paining".
The kid asks the mother "from when, is the stomach paining".
The mother tells the kid "since yday noon".
and the kid in turn tells the doctor "since yday noon" .
This kinda conversation goes on to form 4-5 dialogues.. and then the doctor asks the kid to ask her mother to come near the curtain. There is a round hole in the curtain, and the woman brings her stomach near the curtain. The doctor examines her stomach thru the hole in the curtain and prescribes her...
There are
#Children robbing corpses to survive,
#Women buy lipsticks, take the mirror inside their barka and then put it on their lips(just to show it to none!!)
#People(who have both legs) fighting for artificial limbs provided in the US camp which they might need in case they lose while walking the minefield,
#a boy aged 8 dismissed from the school as he did not remember the 'Kuraan' wordings and failed to assemble an AK47 in the given time limits
Hell lot of scenes like this, that throws light on how continous years of war had destroyed the Afghan community.
You wanna story, and you dont want to search and read 30 Pages of news about Afghanistan to understand whats goin on there; Well, This crafted piece is for you then!!!
Is a 2001 movie by Iranian director Mohsen Makhmalbaf. No wonder why Iranian movies top the WORLD CINEMA..
I saw it in Iranian Film Festival in Chennai. The DVD is available in Chennai Paris DVD market too, and broadbanders can use Torrentz to get it!!
Teen Thoughts!!
I did get these thoughts when I was around my teen ages.May be you did get this too.
Why should we be born and be dead?
What is the purpose of this inbetween period where we are born and are dead! Do we got to do something here?
Few say,
we should make this a better place for others, and thats the purpose of life!! Thats so stupid(in this context)!!What is the point in making this a better place for others, who also dont know the purpose of their lives!!
Some say,
we should make this place better for Mother Earth.Thats crap too!! Human beings have drained everything in this world. Their first and foremost thing in life is to utilize all the natural resources around them. Needless to say about t!!
Some say,
just to live and go!! okay.... but still, why cant I be an audience when "All the world's a stage"!!
What if everyone gets to know their death date?
I remember Prof.Gyanasambandan telling that like we know our birth dates, none would be happy if we know our death dates.And then, no one would call names; they would probably call by dates, 'Hey Dec10, come here' kindof talks.And there wud be chances of people feeling happy even under these circumstances, " Mine is atleast Nov18; poor guy, he goes by June itself".And there might be people coming to your home on March1 if your death date was March1. Chances are they might even casually ask you "are you not leaving now?", if we are still alive after office hours!!!
Why does sex have to be this way?
Was during my ninth at school. While walking to a busstop, raj(he is no more, n name changed) told me how it works.He told he saw it in StarTV(initially they werent censored in India), when everyone at his home are asleep. Until he told me, I was thinking like if I hug someone, she might get pregnant! I actually even thought that men and women if they touch for a long time, that is sex!!
And It would be a great humour if I tell you the story of a 3hr bus journey where I was alone(I was at 8th std), and there is a young woman(20 to 25) who literally slept on me. I was praying god, she shouldnt get pregnant cos of me!!!
I couldnt accept the whole fact of sex when raj told me. I couldnt digest that it is nothing but action of the private parts of both the gender!!And I couldnt take the fact that the whole world is made up of this!! Me, he, she, they.. did everyone who came into this world came because of this ugly action is what I thought by then..
Later on I had to accept the truth!!
But still, felt it would be great if human beings could have had different parts for waste excretion and different parts for sex!!
Probably the so called Gods were parts-cutting(they are costs for them) and wanted to use the already existing openings in our body..
If my understanding is right, this is the reason why people are crazy about boobs through out this world. Cos, thats the only other sexually involved part and no waste is excreted out from it. This must be giving all guys(n these days, for girls too) the 'feel-good' thinking I guess.
What if I fall down from this place?
I got this thought, whenever I reached any tallest point. Be it a temple tower, be it the roof of a tall building, be it some dangerous points in Kodaikanal.
My first horrible thought would be is, hw would it feel like if I fall down from here. In 'suicide point' in kodaikanal, I had this thought. Would I be shouting 'aaaaa' if I fall.Would my family get my remains of me? How difficult wud be to get thru the post-mortem, police process .Crazy Crazy!!
Does Kamalhassan or Ambani sleep n eat like me?
Amazed my their achievements, when I get to bed trying to sleep, I get this one.Do these VIPs too sleep like I do. Do they try to sleep or sleep? I tried to feel like them, how does it feel to be a VVVIP and rolling on the bed, trying to catch up with sleep.
How does it feel when you breathe, and you are Ambani?
Why should seperation come?
This is something that haunts me, Seperation.
I am kind of emotional person, though I dnt seem to be in my outward looks.Just because I talk all crap, there are few people who think that am playing around, and dnt really value the relation.And those would be surprised seeing me crying when am about to part them. The problem here is, I do really value the relation, but fail in communicating to the other end. I know am missing something, to make others understand that I really value their relation.I dont know what it is though!! Friends who are long time with me realise this part.
And all seperations were tougher for me. I found myself in tears on my last day at school, UG, PG and when my close roomates left the room to fly to a different place etc,
I still keep thinking why should this seperation happen....
Man is a veg or non-veg?
Sounds a stupid question, but has an interesting answer.
If am rite, it is my best pal Manikandan, who told me this.
All beings which suck and drink water are vegetarians. [ deer, elephant, horse etc]
All beings which lick and drink water are non-vegetarians(or carnivorous)[lion, tiger, dog].
By this theory man is a Vegetarian by design, but evolved to be a non vegetarian.If we can find answer for what made this change happen, we can also find the answer for "why are cows eating papers(posters on wall) these days?". This happens in India atleast; Cant comment on US, cos, at first place I havent seen a cow or a poster on the wall in US!!
[IMPORTANT: LET ME KNOW IF YOU KNOW ANY BEING WHICH IS AN EXCEPTION TO THE ABOVE THEORY]
Hw many people in this world are having sex, in this minute ?
This was during my teen ages!! When I knew what sex is, n when I knew people telling it is pleasure n when I knew how deprived we were to feel it, I got this thought.
How many people would be having it rite now, this minute, in my town, in my state, in my country, in my planet??!!
Later on I understood the fact that sex means nothing without love!! If I had got this clarity during my teen ages, probably I would have been thinking how many lovers are there this minute, in this world!!
What if I have his face?
Teen age ones.. I didnt even have any friends from the female gender through out my school life.And I didnt think there is a possibility for friendship between the opposite genders(though actually not, as per segmund freud's observations).
The only form of a girl in my mind was, she could only be a lover to me.
And why didnt I have a girl friend? Most of us(actually, all) at that age we believed you can get
a girl, only if you have a handsome face!! By that time, I didnt think am handsome!! And that is when I got this thought, What if I have his face?(usually some friend of mine who has a handsome face). But even at that thought I was afraid what if I get his brain too when I get his face. I actually loved my brain, and didnt want it to be replaced. I did think about brain transplantation too!!
Do you think, how wrong I was about 'girls need only handsome guys'?
I was right.. I was immature at those ages, thinking only a handsome face could win a girl!!Similar fashion, girls were also immature at those ages, thinking all they needed in this world is a handsome guy!!
What if My dad is like his dad?
There were lot many instances where I felt this. Why cant my dad be friendly like his.There was an incident during my school days. A guy in my class was accused for tasting 'Kanja'. I dont think it is true. For some reason the disciplinary commitee picked up this case, cos they werent happy with the boy's attitude and called his father.
The teacher told his father, "Unga paiyan Kanja saapuduraan sir".
His father replied very cool, "athu enna, sora saapidurathukku?".
He had so much confidence that his son would not have done that!! And he came out of the hall, we were some 15 guys waiting out to see the after-effects of the meeting.We were expecting a 'hard face' from his father. He looked very cool, smiling and talking to his son.. and he saw all of us, n he asked him "Are these your friends?".. When he said yes, his father waved hands at us happily..There werent many fathers from all people I have seen, who were friendly with their son and with his friends.There was this friend of mine, ArunPrakash, and his father was my friend too!
I know these are crazy crazy thoughts(well, thoughts are supposed to be crazy. And thats the reason nature has given us thoughts, and the talks; and the option to censor your thoughts and talk!!)
FYI, these were my thoughts during my teen and immediate years following teen ages. This is my disclaimer!!
Why should we be born and be dead?
What is the purpose of this inbetween period where we are born and are dead! Do we got to do something here?
Few say,
we should make this a better place for others, and thats the purpose of life!! Thats so stupid(in this context)!!What is the point in making this a better place for others, who also dont know the purpose of their lives!!
Some say,
we should make this place better for Mother Earth.Thats crap too!! Human beings have drained everything in this world. Their first and foremost thing in life is to utilize all the natural resources around them. Needless to say about t!!
Some say,
just to live and go!! okay.... but still, why cant I be an audience when "All the world's a stage"!!
What if everyone gets to know their death date?
I remember Prof.Gyanasambandan telling that like we know our birth dates, none would be happy if we know our death dates.And then, no one would call names; they would probably call by dates, 'Hey Dec10, come here' kindof talks.And there wud be chances of people feeling happy even under these circumstances, " Mine is atleast Nov18; poor guy, he goes by June itself".And there might be people coming to your home on March1 if your death date was March1. Chances are they might even casually ask you "are you not leaving now?", if we are still alive after office hours!!!
Why does sex have to be this way?
Was during my ninth at school. While walking to a busstop, raj(he is no more, n name changed) told me how it works.He told he saw it in StarTV(initially they werent censored in India), when everyone at his home are asleep. Until he told me, I was thinking like if I hug someone, she might get pregnant! I actually even thought that men and women if they touch for a long time, that is sex!!
And It would be a great humour if I tell you the story of a 3hr bus journey where I was alone(I was at 8th std), and there is a young woman(20 to 25) who literally slept on me. I was praying god, she shouldnt get pregnant cos of me!!!
I couldnt accept the whole fact of sex when raj told me. I couldnt digest that it is nothing but action of the private parts of both the gender!!And I couldnt take the fact that the whole world is made up of this!! Me, he, she, they.. did everyone who came into this world came because of this ugly action is what I thought by then..
Later on I had to accept the truth!!
But still, felt it would be great if human beings could have had different parts for waste excretion and different parts for sex!!
Probably the so called Gods were parts-cutting(they are costs for them) and wanted to use the already existing openings in our body..
If my understanding is right, this is the reason why people are crazy about boobs through out this world. Cos, thats the only other sexually involved part and no waste is excreted out from it. This must be giving all guys(n these days, for girls too) the 'feel-good' thinking I guess.
What if I fall down from this place?
I got this thought, whenever I reached any tallest point. Be it a temple tower, be it the roof of a tall building, be it some dangerous points in Kodaikanal.
My first horrible thought would be is, hw would it feel like if I fall down from here. In 'suicide point' in kodaikanal, I had this thought. Would I be shouting 'aaaaa' if I fall.Would my family get my remains of me? How difficult wud be to get thru the post-mortem, police process .Crazy Crazy!!
Does Kamalhassan or Ambani sleep n eat like me?
Amazed my their achievements, when I get to bed trying to sleep, I get this one.Do these VIPs too sleep like I do. Do they try to sleep or sleep? I tried to feel like them, how does it feel to be a VVVIP and rolling on the bed, trying to catch up with sleep.
How does it feel when you breathe, and you are Ambani?
Why should seperation come?
This is something that haunts me, Seperation.
I am kind of emotional person, though I dnt seem to be in my outward looks.Just because I talk all crap, there are few people who think that am playing around, and dnt really value the relation.And those would be surprised seeing me crying when am about to part them. The problem here is, I do really value the relation, but fail in communicating to the other end. I know am missing something, to make others understand that I really value their relation.I dont know what it is though!! Friends who are long time with me realise this part.
And all seperations were tougher for me. I found myself in tears on my last day at school, UG, PG and when my close roomates left the room to fly to a different place etc,
I still keep thinking why should this seperation happen....
Man is a veg or non-veg?
Sounds a stupid question, but has an interesting answer.
If am rite, it is my best pal Manikandan, who told me this.
All beings which suck and drink water are vegetarians. [ deer, elephant, horse etc]
All beings which lick and drink water are non-vegetarians(or carnivorous)[lion, tiger, dog].
By this theory man is a Vegetarian by design, but evolved to be a non vegetarian.If we can find answer for what made this change happen, we can also find the answer for "why are cows eating papers(posters on wall) these days?". This happens in India atleast; Cant comment on US, cos, at first place I havent seen a cow or a poster on the wall in US!!
[IMPORTANT: LET ME KNOW IF YOU KNOW ANY BEING WHICH IS AN EXCEPTION TO THE ABOVE THEORY]
Hw many people in this world are having sex, in this minute ?
This was during my teen ages!! When I knew what sex is, n when I knew people telling it is pleasure n when I knew how deprived we were to feel it, I got this thought.
How many people would be having it rite now, this minute, in my town, in my state, in my country, in my planet??!!
Later on I understood the fact that sex means nothing without love!! If I had got this clarity during my teen ages, probably I would have been thinking how many lovers are there this minute, in this world!!
What if I have his face?
Teen age ones.. I didnt even have any friends from the female gender through out my school life.And I didnt think there is a possibility for friendship between the opposite genders(though actually not, as per segmund freud's observations).
The only form of a girl in my mind was, she could only be a lover to me.
And why didnt I have a girl friend? Most of us(actually, all) at that age we believed you can get
a girl, only if you have a handsome face!! By that time, I didnt think am handsome!! And that is when I got this thought, What if I have his face?(usually some friend of mine who has a handsome face). But even at that thought I was afraid what if I get his brain too when I get his face. I actually loved my brain, and didnt want it to be replaced. I did think about brain transplantation too!!
Do you think, how wrong I was about 'girls need only handsome guys'?
I was right.. I was immature at those ages, thinking only a handsome face could win a girl!!Similar fashion, girls were also immature at those ages, thinking all they needed in this world is a handsome guy!!
What if My dad is like his dad?
There were lot many instances where I felt this. Why cant my dad be friendly like his.There was an incident during my school days. A guy in my class was accused for tasting 'Kanja'. I dont think it is true. For some reason the disciplinary commitee picked up this case, cos they werent happy with the boy's attitude and called his father.
The teacher told his father, "Unga paiyan Kanja saapuduraan sir".
His father replied very cool, "athu enna, sora saapidurathukku?".
He had so much confidence that his son would not have done that!! And he came out of the hall, we were some 15 guys waiting out to see the after-effects of the meeting.We were expecting a 'hard face' from his father. He looked very cool, smiling and talking to his son.. and he saw all of us, n he asked him "Are these your friends?".. When he said yes, his father waved hands at us happily..There werent many fathers from all people I have seen, who were friendly with their son and with his friends.There was this friend of mine, ArunPrakash, and his father was my friend too!
I know these are crazy crazy thoughts(well, thoughts are supposed to be crazy. And thats the reason nature has given us thoughts, and the talks; and the option to censor your thoughts and talk!!)
FYI, these were my thoughts during my teen and immediate years following teen ages. This is my disclaimer!!
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