Murder 2 - The chaser

Based on trailer of Murder 2 it looks like a rip off the Korean movie The Chaser. A good movie though the original.

Half baked Cook

What's the crap about playing for records over country from the English team? Stupid Cook by the same token why did Kieswetter had to consult you before hitting the winning runs?

Everyone knows if the situation was lesser balls more runs or it was a world cup where run rate matters they would have handled it differently. By denying himself a century Cook's just being naive.

UDRS and stupid BCCI

All BCCI chamcha's like Ravi Shastri are parroting BCCI's line on UDRS.
As per these fools it is not 100% fool proof. Why do we need this system in the first place, because the current system throws up some dubious decisions. This means the current system is also not 100% fool proof. UDRS is not a stand alone system but a subset. We have treat UDRS as such. Does it improve the overall game's standard and fairness - certainly. Is it mature enough- with snickometer and hotspot yes.

Just because it bring's in money BCCI should not be allowed to run the game. They already killed the game please don't let them bury it.
BCCI with all it's money power has done nothing to the game.

Mani's Ponniyin Selvan

If I were an actor I would not sign for any Maniratnam movie unless I am cast as the primary three characters in the movie. Other then that all other characters are caricatures in his movies. The astonishing thing would be these thukada roles would be done by big heroes under the illusion that Mani is going to change their career. Let's see which actor is going to get the raw deal this time around.

Tamil Thollaikatchi

No more slots for Radan if Radhika acts. Is any one left in TN who has not sung or danced yet on these channels?

Let's just ban all Tamil television channels and start fresh.

Puli Vaal

If you do not need the money for 5 or 6 years you can make money out of any stock.

All you need is patience and someone will manipulate the stock you hold and you can make a profit.

That is the only funda for stock market. Rest all is fundamentally crap.

Dasavatharam - My Thoughts

I went in with low expectations after reading many reviews that trashed the movie, I guess it helped to an extent. I really do hope Kamal either learns by himself or his coterie tells him that less is sometimes good if not learn from the audience the best liked roles were of Nambi and Balram(Not much make up no gimmicks, plain vintage Kamal). On top of doing 10 roles, writing and scripting the movie, one ‘Thuthi’ for himself and two songs in his own voice. The movie was long and we have to endure Kamal for almost 99% of the movie.

For people who talk about atheist feel to the movie, the movie is equally loaded with theism starting from the first frame to the last. I would say all sides have been given equal representation with Kamal ending it with what side he is on. They do show Govind as an American scientist so his view points are just an extension of the character. I would like to think of Nambi as a reincarnation of Govind thereby explaining the flip flops of both Asin and Kamal’s character arcs(Nambi standing strong for his faith while his wife ask him to forego it).

For a movie that took 2 years to make it’s disappointing in all technical aspects like special effects and make up. The special effects were tacky to say the least and make up of some of the characters were down right stupid. The grandma’s make up reminded me more of Orcs than a grandma. Time wastefully spent, looks like Kamal just went with a one line idea of doing ten roles and a suitable title of Dasavatharam more then anything else.

Even in the real avatharams not all are given equal footing so to expect Kamal to do the same is asking for too much. I did read the match ups of Kamal’s roles and their equivalent avatharams and it did make sense as far as the characterization goes. A tighter script and a better director would have made wonders for this film. To sum it all up, a romance scene with a back drop of human disaster was out of place and so was the movie in most parts.

Management lesson 1, Delegate the roles and responsibilities, for me this is the primary failure of the movie. One cook trying too many dishes also spoils the meal:).

Community Cleaning

Indians have always been good at personal hygiene but the buck seems to stop at the gates of their homes. How things are beyond that is for the government to take care is the policy adopted by most Indians. Not only waste management almost everything related to civic sense is considered the responsibilities of the government entities.

Indians who travel abroad always admire the cleanliness and shower praise on the countries standing from their rooftops when they return home, and there ends the story. In almost all countries the taxes collected are more or less the same; the functional bodies that oversee the work are the same, what differs is the community participation by the people in these countries and Indians.

If you travel across India in trains the most common scene that you will see is people throwing the cups outside after drinking their chai or coffee. The most common argument is that there are no dustbins inside the trains, a point I hope the Indian Railways will rectify. My point is what is stopping you from keeping the cups under your train seat? Railways is cleaning the trains at the end of the journey, they can dispose it for you?

The corporation authorities in many cities have been taking some good steps in the last few years like garbage collection at a particular hour. They have been educating the people about garbage segregation at the source. The amount of participation from the general public has been poor. You can still see many dumping grounds at street corners. Similarly the people who collect and dispose the garbage must also be educated about the importance of their job, many a times I have seen the garbage guy just dumping everything togther rendering the efforts of segregation useless.

The prosperity Indians have seen in the last decade has made some them aware of the importance of this, but a lot still needs to be done. In a country of billion the amount of waste generated is humongous and we really need to put our minds together to tackle this problem. There are many by products that can give us good benefits, like pest control, containment of diseases like Malaria, we even can generate power from garbage these days.

I welcome the steps being taken by Chennai Corporation and I hope they sustain it. Hopefully the money being collected will be used to improve the infrastructure of the City. More then anything else I hope the people of Chennai take it to their heart and make it a practice for a cleaner Chennai and set an example for rest of India to follow.


Without self discipline we cannot raise above mediocrity.