Breaking silence after nearly 50 days!! All these days the scribbler in me had to be rested for different reasons. Now with the hand to hand deal with You Telecom, I will be connected to internet, giving some time for Scribbler in me to wake up frequently.
Let me see how frequent can this scribbler wake up!!
Today could be called "Yet Another" Diwali for Tamilnadu. The most expected "Sivaji, the boss" , starring Rajnikanth (Oops! did I miss something??) "SuperStar" Rajnikanth, directed by the Shankar, music composed by A.R.Rahman has been screened today for public. No wonder the hype is beyond horizons. CNN IBN has this on the major note today. Nearly 12 minutes of their news session spoke about the Boss. Movie has been screened across 600 theatres and an estimated load back of nearly 80 crores. Though there was a restriction in Karnataka stating that atmost only 4 theatres can screen a same movie across Karnatake, Bangalore itself had screened this movie in 3 theatres. All major ones INOX, PVR Cinemas, (scratching my head for the third). Rumours about the story line has already been on papers and they would be justified in few hours from now. Have all these stats aside, what is that which created such an interest for this movie??
1. A movie by Rajnikanth after nearly 2 years?
2. Media hype?? - Flash news talking about Sivaji's trailer being shown in CNN IBN in the advertisement break at XX::YY hours.
3. Shankar's movie?? When Rajnikanth shakes his hand with Shankar??
4. A high budget movie, costlier than any other movie in India?
5. Name of movie, as it holds the original name of Rajnikanth?
Having big legends like Big B and SRK, can they be compared with Rajni? I never have seen such hype for any of theirs. What makes the difference between them? Definitely anyday, Big B is a performer. He concentrates more on his role, but the Big Boss has a blend of performance, comedy, STYLE. Is this the one which makes the difference or the hype created in the Kollywood??
Oops this is a delayed post. This should have got its position on May 4th as the day was the birthday of the mighty "Argumentative Indian"/"Scribbler". Somehow or other I had completed 25 (Title of the post). Not sure how to call it, a long walk or a quick stroke!! What makes Birthdays interesting? Definitely wishes from our dear friends plays a mojor role. There would be friends who talk to us after a long time wishing us on our day. The moment their name rings on the mobile, the expression of joy in our face goes matchless. Those finest moments really make the meaning of our birthday. Friends who remember your day and make sure that they are a part of the joy and wish you the best in your life.
For me, no different from many other, the day was full of fun. It started with Pradeep, Sekar, Sudharshan, Kumaresan, Narayanan bringing cake for me at 12. Sekar holding my legs, Pradeep holding my hands. Both lifted me to make me wave for every hit from Kumaresan and Suchu (Waiting for their B'days). Had calls for my friends Mom, sis, Padma, Suresh and Amritha. Enough number of topics of discussion went on to keep me awake until 2:30 AM.
As usual a delayed start to office. Meeting at 9. Had to rush to the conference room. Being a new joinee not much knew about my b'day. Slowly the information started spreading and had a good number of wishes from people who had never spoke to me. Had a cake cut at office. The day ended with huge number of wishes, cake cuts, bouquets, official meetings and a treat to Pradeep, Kumaresan, Narayanan, Sudharshanan and BalajiReddy at Samarkand, a restaurant in Bangalore. After the treat, I got an opportunity to drive Sudharshan's car (Not more than 20 meters.. :()
Logging into orkut, great to see scraps pouring down. Nearly 50+ on a single day. But the pick of the day was a call from a girl who denied to reveal her identity when she called me for the first time. Just few hints I could get from her words and tone. An english fluent lady, a first level relationship (not a friend of friend), knew me for 7 years (Ofcourse I knew her too). She said she will revel her identity before the end of the day. After a long thought and with some help from Narayanan, I found who she was. She was a class-mate (probably friend?? ;)) of mine in the first year of my graduation study. Identified as "Surya" she studied with me in the first year of graduation and now working with India's leading service provided. I was taken by surprise. She still REMEMBERs me. Exactly the kind of notion what I had about birthday. You get wishes from your old friends and help you maintain the IN-VALUABLE relationship.
Thanks to every single mind which thought about me on my birthday and every single heart which wanted me to enjoy the best in my life.
"If I were" is one of the most greatest excuses used by most. But this always goes only in positive sense. What is this goes with a negative sense? At a wildest of dreams, if you were not to utter a word from this moment to the end of your life!!! Considering languages spoken by more than thousands of people, there are nearly 6500 languages in this world. A normal human speaks nearly 2500 words per day (Obviously women more than men, any debates??) Mandrian, English, Hindi, Spanish, Arabic and Russian are the most used languages, Mandrian being used by the most. Each of these languages being used by a certain community/region of people. But there is a language which go beyond regions, beyond communities, beyond borders, beyond galaxies, the SIGN Langauge. WHAT IF we were to use only the SIGN language?? This language is not taught to us by anyone. This language comes with the so called "Human" package. Everyone understands this language and no-one needs coaching on this langauge.
I had a chance to watch a movie named "Mozhi" (In tamil means Language), may be inspired from he movie "BLACK". Keeping the story aside, all I was thinking about is how would a person live in this world having no power to speak nor hear. We call them "Physically Challenged", I call them "Mentally Challenged". It is all about how they accept their physical inability and how they grow in such a mocking world. They need to be mentally very strong. The most difficult part of their life is how do they express their feeling. Woman, well-known for their emotions. Can you expect a person who does not miss anyone, infact do not want to miss anyone? All she could depend on is her calm world around which never hears anything nor demands uttering a word. It is like a meditation. A real "Mental Challenge".
If we had to understand what it is, live a day without anyone without speaking or hearing. It is real tough one!! You would never be able to express how you miss the innumberable number of things in this world!!
If not watched, please watch the movie at least once. I bet the movie is beyond language barriers.
One of the unique identifiers which makes us call it the sixth SENSE is our ability to speak. But there are moments in our life where our minds speak and JUST only our minds speak and NO words uttered.
How would a person feel when the girl he loves is being loved by his best friend? Would the person be able to share his love or thoughts to either his friend or the girl? I would call this as one of the toughest moment in ones life. Here is when one would be forced to weigh his love and friendship. Obviously both cannot be compromised for each other!! Can they ever be? What could the guy do? To whom should he walk to? His friend or his love? Can he exercise his identifiers of sixth SENSE? What should he compromise?
The interesting part of love is that it is tough to express ones love to the person he loves. There are hardly any words which could express the love one has. I still wonder why creator though created such an interesting SIXTH SENSE, but has allowed us to go through such tough moments where the SIXTH SENSE goes un-noticed!! May be a SEVENTH SENSE makes sense?
Yes, hard but true!! India lost the opportunity to get into Super 8s. They have shattered the hopes of too many Indian fans, infact crazy Indian fans. I believe many prayers for the Indian cricket team have gone for nothing. All the wishes sent from the billion populated nation has gone worthless. The Indian cricket "role models" have not performed their "role". All the above stated statements are tautologies.
As an Indian cricket fan, I would still hope for India to get the world cup, if not this time, atleast in the years to come. It really doesn't make sense when people fume our cricketers house when they have not performed in the world cup matches. As cricket fans, we need to back them up and encourage them to perform better, or atleast never criticize them. Everyday atleast 15% of the internet bandwidth goes for criticizing the Indian cricket team. Forwards which mock Indian cricket team, an April Fool mail stating Indian team has reached Super 8s, finding sarcastic reasons for Indian team losing against Srilanka and many others are going to belittle our Indian players confidence and in no way is going to boost them up or pat them up for the next world cup.
When a kid fails, it is the responsibility of the parents to cheer up the kid and get the kid up and growing rather than just beating the kid asking for why the kid shattered the parents dreams. After-all cricket is another sport and it has to be treated as a sport. After all it is a matter of 100 overs and nothing remains after that. Sports are always meant to be as a part of entertainment and never meant to demolish things. Please stop criticizing our Indian (wounded) cricketers!!
World Cup 2007, the "War of the Cricketing Nations". After having lost to Bangladesh and enjoying an emphatic victory over the minnows Bermuda, Can India continue on going forward to win the world cup 2007? Here are some interesting coincidences!!
1. Captain of India in 1983 was Kapil Dev and now in 2007 is Rahul Dravid - Both the captains have their second name starting with the same character 'D'
2. The captain of India before 1983 was Sunil Gavaskar and the captain of India before 2007 world cup was Sourav Ganguly - Both the x-Captains have their first characters of their names the same 'SG'
3. Both the players Sunil Gavaskar and Sourav Ganguly open the Indian innings when they played for the world cup in 1983 and 2007 respectively
4. After world cup 1983, the next world cup was played in India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka and similarly World cup 2011 would be played at India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh
5. Prince Charles got married in 1981, exactly 2 years before India won the world cup. Now again he got married in 2005, exactly 2 years before 2007 world cup.
6. Australia lost the Ashes cup before 1983 world cup. Similarly Australia lost the ashes cup before 2007 world cup.
So will India win? In 1983 India stopped West Indies becoming a hat-trick world cup champions. Will India stop Australia from becoming a hat-trick world cup champions in 2007?
The Blue Bees have flew to W'indies to play the most expected World Cup 2007. India, a strong team (?) as the Blue Billions call it, have the most exciting and a capable lineup. The most experienced/exciting batsman of the century S R Tendulkar, one of the best orthodox batsman Rahul Dravid, The Bengal Tiger Sourav, the most dangerous opener Sehwag and an over-match Hero Dhoni and the list goes on. Having such a beautiful line up, it still keeps everyone wondering why really did India lose against the upcoming cricketers of Bangladesh. Is that because of their sluggishness or over-confidence or their defensive stance. Infact this is a mixture of all of them. But more than this, I would attribute the loss to the most expecting Indian cricket craziers. In India, cricket is not just a sport, instead cricket is a religion. More the amount of craziness, more is the pressure on the Indian Legends. Having so much pressure it is always an expected outcome to lose the simplest of matches.
India has never had the greatest of starts in the recent world cups. They are always expected to lose in their first match and following it, it is customery that the Indian Crickets Fans, blow up our Indian Cricketers residents. Expectations becomes Demands for the Indian cricket team and there is where they perform the best, LULL before STORM, a perfect example India Vs Bermuda. All the players stormed in to pile up such a record score of 413/5. Now having reached the STORM part of it, will it go back to LULL soon. We need to have our eyes open on the 23rd of March 2007 when India meets the SriLankans.
Hopefully the Lull to Storm doesn't go back to Lull soon.
