Harish Palaniappan's

Jai Ho has done India so much good, that Indians will realize this only a few more months down the line. I did hear of some femalish band buying into JaiHo, remixing it up, and making the music more reachable to the west.. especially the hindi lyrics that needed translation.

But I never knew it came out so interesting... as Jai Ho (You are my destiny)

The interesting part of the music is.. I could see the album as a celebration by the world, of India's vibrance... and the celebration of India's interest to grow and work and celebrate with the world as a mature country with globalized indians.

Ofcourse, India is poor.. and all this can be seen as falsification of the country's image.. but take it straight, probably working with other nations is what is going to teach how to eradicate poor, keep clean, make less babies and all that.. like all those foreign banks and supermarkets came over and made our own business people do their kind of service, eventually raising the bar now in banking and retail sector to an unbelievable amount in just a span of less than 10 years.

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This is a nice family movie. Explains the importance of understanding growing up kids.. at various stages of their lives.. especially in an indian terrain.

Best, it is watched with family, especially the oldie-types/ mid-age mom-dads in your family who might not have seen the world or many people of the world, to understand the goods and bads of inheriting different cultures.. especially when it comes to allowing kids to become adults, make their own decisions in life.

I happened to go with my mom to the theatre complex(yes very very occassionally I take her out) expecting to see 'Padikathavan' a masala(read no-story) movie .. but because we were late and that movie had already started, I landed up taking my mom to this wonderful movie.. wonderful for my mom..it was though boring for me except that I was enjoying prakashRaj(lead actor) at his best of expressions

I actually don't enjoy much of philosophical movies or motivating movies at the theatres, I like to be entertained if I watch one in a theatre, like cartoons ;) Bond 007's,

My mom loved the movie and was within it so much, that I could see her hands folded(in prayer) when trisha(actress) was getting married at the marriage registrar's office (in the movie).

Enjoyable.. Moving.. for a family audience.

Actors Trisha - PrakashRaj - Aishwarya (play the very composed daughter - dad - mom in the movie)

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Ofcourse you are expected to have seen Madagascar 1 to enjoy this movie in full.. A very good mild, comedy, with brilliant voice-overs.. actually both madagascar movies are low on graphics or animation compared to movies that pixar(Makers of 'finding nemo','incredibles') makes.. but the voice-overs take the stage and make you ignore your expectation of high standards of animations.

I actually don't like the idea of movie people taking a series.. like part 1, part 2... except if the different parts have isolated stories, jokes, and don't require the audience to have followed all movies in the series to understand the next one.. like they do with Harry potter movies.

Most of the comedy's(or entire movie's) context in Madagascar 2 goes back to you having seen the earlier movie, or at least having a friend next to you explaining you the context of the jokes. I went with a friend who hadn't seen the earlier part and was not enjoying the movie as much as me.

Children will love it I think, I found many children in the hall laughing out or screaming understanding the sequences in the movie..

And here actually I have an observation.. Children seem to like or relate to, or identify animals and characters in animation movies that are low on graphics.. just like they see in comic books.. more than understanding movies like 'Incredibles'/'Finding nemo' which I would say requires you to be an adult to enjoy it fully. Just like how Ice Age series are also popular with children.

So, maybe the crew of madagascar were indeed doing a stripped down comic book like graphics for animation rather than the other way like I was wondering in the first part of this post.

Posted by Harish at 9:43 PM | Permalink

I have been seeing a lot of movies..over the past 3 months.. but two of them 'Freedom Writers' and 'Great Debaters' have taught me how to teach Toughness... especially the kind of toughness you have to teach an young team when it requires to get into a place where everybody would think they are kids...they are wrong.. they can't do it.. , and you have to keep them from running away or panicking, and make them stand to failures, expectations and deliver.

In a different perception, those movies can make you tougher if you relate yourself in to the characters of the students rather than the teacher characters I related myself to in both the films.

Both the movies are real-life based stories.. and as far as I have read, they have not exaggerated the story to make it good for the movies.. but may have in-turn been unable to bring everything that happened in real lives of the people involved into the movie format.

I cried when Hilary swank cried..
I smiled when Denzel washington smiled.
..

When the movies got over.. I was amazed at the presentation of them, and what changes such great movies could bring if they were shown to children and teachers all around the globe...

and then..
google tells me that the movies have already inspired people all around, and you could spend a day or two reading so much of the good changes the movies had already created.. organizations, funds for education, better teachers.. etc., all in america of-course.. and since both films talk about racism, black-white problems, you would see how they have helped the american culture. Like the 'Freedom Writers Foundation', something that has become immensely popular after the movie on Freedom Writers.

If you like teaching/mentoring, and you haven't watched either of the movies, I bet you should.
Because these are not just movies, they are powerful movies.

Posted by Harish at 12:40 PM | Permalink

I had a sister in benaras and had to go to bambai(as pronounced in hindi) to solve the family's financial crisis... and something and all happened and i was rohan and proposing suddenly to rani mukherjee.

I was just inside the hall enjoying being part of this well presented film 'Laaga chunari mein daag'.. sometimes as rani's character.. sometimes as abhishek's.

I have a question about the title, but I will keep that for the end of this post.

Ok. How was the movie..

Please don't see it if you like rani mukherjee so much that you will cry when she cries on screen.. The usual sacrificial elder sister story that we have seen in many hindi and tamil and actually all language films.. but presented so well you wouldn't complain. The story's bottomline is easily understood from the title of the movie...Laaga chunari mein daag.. which means my veil got stained.. or something similar.

About a girl who forces herself into a becoming an escort for settling the family's financial committments and allowing her family to live better while she lives every moment with a doubt as to when she should stop doing it. And once her young sister comes to live with her in bambai and gets to know what is happening with her sibling, things try to unfold emotionally. Seen this in many movies with the same storyline before, and you would watch this one only to know whether it has a happy ending or a sad one.. and also if you love rani mukherjee on screen like me.

For expressions and speaking many sentences with just facial expressions and some tear-filled eyes, our own rani, abhishek, and mrs.iyer(konkona sen) pull it off much much better than their hollywood collegues with multiple oscars.

Abhishek was the cold breeze for me... for whenever he was there he gave me a relief from the emotions 'vibha'(rani mukherjee) was going through in the movie.. and the tears collected in my eye pockets go back without falling off embarrasingly. :o)

Abhishek's unclean dhadiwala charm works for him.. when I try it, atleast one friend will ask me questions as if trying to know whether I hadn't taken a bath in days.. or worser the friend will offer to pay the bills at the restaurant talking it over in a manner like I am financially broke enough to even not get a shave. :o) Works for abhishek though. hmm.

Even off screen, until last year, I always thought, abhishek and rani are such friends that they will get married. But that bathameez bunti gave up bubli for some umrao jaan. How can I forgive him for that.. May be I will if he does bunti-babli II like the rumours are saying. For now, he is excused because he is making it up with rani in this movie atleast.

The cast of the movie, its colors, locations, and importantly the poetically descriptive movie title.. were all carefully chosen and it showed through.

Though at places I didn't like the movie because rani had to look sacrificial.. but the package didn't stress anything too much. There were no blood thirsty villains, nor total family crying over some stopped marriage like mishap.. neither was father/mother dying though they showed occassions where they have severe heart attacks or emotional attacks which are usually pre-cursors in indian cinema to kill a character.

So, overall the movie was a happy-ending, easy, colorful one.. for a normal person who would like a simple emotional movie.

At the end of the movie.. you get a song free for remembering on all occassions. Be it you are very happy and someone asks you why.. or be it you are very sad and someone asks you why, or may be you did a mistake.. or whatever somebody asks, you can just sing... "hum... tho.. aise hai bhayya.. arre.. hum..tho.. aise hai bhayyaaa"

For the question I had on the title
I didn't understand what "Laaga" meant.. or why they chose that.. I stupidly even thought it was a spelling mistake until I saw that the hindi name of the movie is also 'laaga'.. for me, it should have been Lagaa chunari meing daag... if you understand the difference of why it is laaga.. let me know.

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Prithviraj has become my favorite actor after mozhi and this one. Padmapriya and Nitin Satya prove to be actors to look out for.

Nitin Satya does the mildly psychiatric villain role much good, without getting tempted to over do it like all those other tamil actors who generally get too very excited when put in a psycho character.

This is about the tamil film 'Satham podathey'.

Actor prithiviraj is also the comedian in the film and his typical malayalee way of talking to people and expressions add a lot of happiness to the film.. (this film without him would have been a blockbusterly sad TV serial).

I remembered a lot of my malayalee friends (guys) past or present, whose way of wittiness and talk i could relate to in prithviraj's.

And all actors made me feel the film at heart, and I was eagerly waiting for a action climax where the villian gets a good beating.. but that disappointingly never happened. arghh.. probably the director prefered to excuse the character. anyways.

I think I became particularly jealous watching Prithviraj in his character.. made me feel like I should be as nice as him with people someday.. including the wittiness and nuttiness.

But except for his dancing skills ofcourse... whenever prithviraj is doing his steps, you can see his uncomfortability flat on his face.. and would actually love the stupid moves he makes if you can see it as your friend trying to show off.

The film has a complex story...complex because it has to be delivered to a conservative audience. It is about impotency and problems with a marriage gone wrong.. very carefully handled without sensitizing the story at any point, without allowing any kind of unpleasant discussion or interpretation of the story.. Everything that happens within the story of the girl's married life shown, could be considered too sensitive but with the mildness, the jokes, and breaks director has inserted into the telling of the story, the sensitive discussion goes like a breeze without the audience feeling uncomfortable at any point.

While the first 90 minutes was handled extraordinarily nice (in my opinion even deserving an oscar.. uf.. who wants that stupid hollywood accredition.. lets say 'national award'), the later part was too too dragging.. or, probably i felt it that way, because i was watching the night show in the theatre, and it was getting too late beyond midnight.

Whether the director has become my favorite too.. never.. i will only like one director the most i think.. that is "myself" .. though my padams don't run much as yet.

'satham podathey' .. satham potu sollalam.. nalla padam...oru thadava paaklam.
(if you didnt understand the above.. it is tamil written in english.. .. yea, as if my english is already understandable. :o)

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"ha ha.. they raised the level with this one.. T4 is again going to be postponed for long", the first thing I told my friend after watching this movie the 'Transformers'. T4 is short for Terminator 4.. a movie they are planning/already making. Terminator series movies are the front-runner in anybody's mind on movies talking stories on robots of the future. Given the level and quality of movies being made with astonishing special effects or animation, much more than any other robot movie is expected generally of Terminator series movies whenever they are released.

Animation, and special effects.. are at new highs since 2005, be it 'Incredibles' or spiderman, or X-men III, or king kong... I can see a lot of adults more interested in these movies though their storylines are kid stuff.

People making them spend a lot to each and every detail in animations in these blockbusters.. Expressions importantly. Cartoon characters we used to call them.. because they are very obviously different in their expressions, and emotions. And watching Transformers, I was loving the way they show robots expressing pain, sacrifice, emotions.. and in quite a realistic way.

They also research some stuff and visionize where and what the technology of the future would allow robots of the features do... and even how they will reproduce.

People who love Electronic gadgets, even mobile phones.. will love Transformers I think.. you only would love more if you are the techy person.

And the tip on the movie's website is... "You haven't seen it all.. until you have seen it on IMAX". Also, there's a flash game on the movie @ transformersgame.com

In India:
Hrithik roshan jumping biiiig steps in Krish was promoted like the best animation sequence ever from India..a nothing at all sequence compared to what we see in English movies even from the 90's... Either we are still only having our own so called '3-D' movies which have characters looking like wooden dolls trying to make expressions.. or as recently read.. trying to make a simpler 2D animation movie with Tendulkar as the saviour of the world..

Long way to go for Indian animation.

I wonder sometimes, are we so lagging behind in creation or is it only that we are only now, slowly trying technology in movies away from the 6-song, 4-fight masala movie process. At least immediately, I believe we are weaker(compared to Hollywood) in our creative thoughts itself.. not just about technology or the money.

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Life at times shows how beautiful it is.. when you have your kids birthday, when you marry your girlfriend, when you see small kids playing in the green of a park having fun, and all that. .. oh wait.. life is beautiful always even if it is not your kids birthday, even if you don't marry your girlfriend, because all these don't make it ugly.. but why do we always say "life is beautiful" ONLY sometimes..

It is because we see the beauty only sometimes...only when we are happy.. only when we are satisfied. and other times we just see only what we want to see.

We have expectations of life, we have expectations of people, we have expectations on everything.. and so we most times don't like what IS there, and only sometimes see and like what IS there.

Yes, I can write that much of confusing lines.. but you should probably read them after watching this film "At First Sight". I loved it.. just like how much I loved "BLACK" as a movie.

The movie has an interesting story line..

A person who is blind gets to see the world after he is operated on, and loses his sight again after some time.

And it is based on a real life story.. narrated by a Doctor. So, imagine. I don't think there can be any better story on what is blindness, and how good it is to be able to see. If you were never blind before, you will start feeling the importance of your vision... or at least understand why blind people are not suffering but actually living just in a different manner.

Val Kilmer was great. You know what, I never knew this guy is the person they call val kilmer.. Yes, I liked the actor always, but always didn't know what his name was.. probably because he doesn't act in movies these days, and I am limited to watching his films on TV. I have always liked all his movies, he never feels like he is a stranger who is acting the role. He thoroughly lives the character.. or am I saying this about every actor I like (may be then, I like only actors who live the character)

And the new face Mira Sorvino (new for me), was excellent in her act. You would love Mira as much as val kilmer loves her in the film.. that engaging it is.

...And the director "Irwin Winkler"(new for me again..think i will like his other movies too).. shows such an engaging drama with so much thought and direction to the story that it feels like you know this couple who are in the film.

...And they end it like all those beautiful english movies, not showing val and mira get married... the end note when the movie is over, rescues your curiosity when it says this was based on a real life story and the actual couple got married and live in Atlanta, Georgia.

At First Sight, is not just about love, it is about trust, it is about vision, it is about how to see and accept things, and it is about seeing.. in the real "sense" of seeing.

While that could be another set of confusing words, I suggest, Watch the movie and read this post, you will see what I mean.. you will really "see".

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Firstly, I shouldn't be tagging this under movies, because it didn't feel anything like a movie, but watching real life happening up front.

Milla Jovovich, I think, has become my inspiration for kind of act in these two films that I believe no one else could have helped make.. Joan of Arc, and, Resident Evil.

Joan of Arc
The film(i have to call it though) was so much of real life. Having read about Joan of Arc's bravery and having known nothing else about why she fought and how she lived and all that, milla was every bit joan of arc for me and I was looking at what joanne(as she is called in the movie) was going to do next or what people are going to do to her next.

Milla was just marvelously living the life rather than acting the life of joanne. Yes.. I don't mind saying good about milla's act one more time because this credit is nothing for what she as joanne deserves.

The other interestingly shown character in the movie was none other than God... yes, "God himself" as if we all have seen God to be male... this is also another movie where god is male and has a very cracking, slow, loud, and thick low frequency voice. (Don't imagine what.. its the usual god voice you would know)

The God part of depiction is very free flowing, I can't believe a human director and a cast and crew of humans visualized how will God do this if he were to do it. The disappearance, the appearance, the questions, the small but on-target sentences, alongwith milla's expressions while listening to god, were all.. .. .should be felt, can't be expressed. (The only other movie where I liked God's depiction before is 'Bruce Almighty')

After the movie, I realized that Joan of Arc had died .. (not that I am expecting her to live even today)... my school history books never spoke about where she was born, what she fought for, that she claimed herself god's messenger, that she, at an age between 17 and 19 had become the heroine of France, and that the english (the villians always) executed her after successfully trying her for heresy(act of going against officials and teaching people to go against them too)...

A diplomatic eye-wash trial that is (as always with the english)..

And how did they execute her.. by burning her alive, to death, in front of people, while she cries the name of jesus loud, and with agony.

After this, I started loving wikipedia even more than before.. because I went there and read here about Joan of Arc.. wikipedia is obviously doing a favour to the world, allowing people to savour and share all this history.. sometimes with an eyewitness account of things. Happy we have it today, unhappy I only got to read my history book's lesson on joan of arc at school.

Joan of Arc the movie

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What a name for a movie of this genre I thought at the opening scenes of the movie.

Where do causalities of war end up.. in war cemeteries.
What do you find in war cemeteries.. stones arranged in a file like soldiers standing equidistances to long lengths.

And so the concept of looking at it as a garden of stones. Wonderful naming. (I later found out from Google that 'Gardens of Stone' seem to be used sometimes like a phrase in the west to refer to war cemeteries.)

So, i continued watching the movie..

After the hour and 50 minutes...

Ok. the film had a very light story about the soldier spirit of things without the action part. So, none of the cast fired any guns much.. except notably 3 shots fired saluting soldiers who die in action...so much they avoid the action part.. Like in old Indian movies, they show black-and-white real war footage in bits here and there to compensate for the action part.

I liked two things about the movie.. one, as already mentioned the name 'Gardens of stone', the second, was a character sgt.genrl.Goody...who does a supporting role to the main character of the film.

If you got a sleepy 2 hrs to spend, and you want to watch a light movie but still war based, then this might fit the bill.

The movie is an old one, probably released sometime during the ending days of the Vietnam war (which the Americans still debate whether they lost or won). This movie probably tried to make for lost motivation with soldiers then... or so i seem to believe.

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Always been thrilled about warrior stories from the past, and future advanced worlds, in movies... I am sometimes dulled to a frozen being when I realize that neither do we have alexander the great with us like our hero, nor do we have one single flying taxi or train to beat the traffic of today like in sci-fi movies.

But then, thinking about it.. we, the present, are living great, because not only we have books to imagine how our past had lived or the future would live... but we also have great story teller directors making great movies these days. Think of 'Lord of the rings', 'Pirates of the carribean', and now 300 ..all executing some part of life that used to exist in the past. Of course, movies do show things little exxagerrated to make it interesting, but isn't that the best part.

We could today afford to imagine how Alexander the Great felt, his emotions, his king of the world feeling, etc., when at the age of 30 he had won almost all of land in what we call todays Asia. The movie Alexander does help, if you couldn't feel it while reading about him in your school History books. I only wish, if we had movies like that in my school days, I would have not felt so hard to answer a question in my exams, on Alexander's achievements.. and would have answered that to the date and year.

We can imagine how the future world would probably feel like, with flying taxis, bikes, trains, buses, and centrally controlled database of citizens in your country and where and what they are up to.

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But, thinking about it, people in the past, never would have known much other than their present life and the recent past, since they didn't have any stuff much like technology today.. people in the past travelled vast distances to communicate messages, not like the enemy team sending an email that they want to fight a war.

And whenever there comes a great movie that showcases some people of the past who did great, I only imagine what if the dead who are represented in the movie.. were watching it. :o) pretty cold .. but not a ghosty feeling. Imagine the real Alexander the great watching the movie Alexander or being told about his own biography... what would he feel like or say.

What if dead spartans saw the new movie 300.. and wonder "who on earth gave you guys that number.."

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If you have a flair for science fiction, be it book or movies, or if you like Einstein, or time travel concepts, then Deja Vu is a movie you will totally relish.

Technically sound, fiction, of a complex imagery concept, with which a team unravels a crime scene and even gets to change the way it happened.

Well, what that means is .. go, watch the movie and you will like what you understand and how the director has brought in the pieces of the story so well towards the end of it... so well really, no matter it still ends with the lead stars surviving though 5 mins before the end it looks like an entirely great story with the lead stars unable to change what happened except that they change the route of how it happened.

The line I liked in this movie... "you cannot change the future .. but may be [by travelling back in time] you can change the route of events to the future".

For the sake of it,As per a dictionary:

Déjà vu is French for "already seen." Déjà vu is an uncanny feeling or illusion of having already seen or experienced something that is being experienced for the first time.

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This time inside the hall, I was not burt munroe the story's character, but i really enjoyed watching antony hopkins in those shoes. He should be doctor of expressions.. or probably the movie's character was big enough to easily influence hopkins to assume that character.

Though the film has exxagerrated the real story a bit (a wee-bit) here and there to give some anxious moments and emotional moments to viewers, "The world's fastest Indian" was a life well pictured. Antony hopkins should be getting an oscar for once again marvelously depicting a character to the roots.

After coming out of the hall, and controlling myself in not driving fast home in the effect of the movie, I tried to imagine the movie without antony hopkin's level of expressions and acting. The movie would have been nothing without him.

There are these once in a while, where the perfect cast, match the perfect story, matching the perfect crew members in the making of a movie, and the cast act exactly as much required( nothing much and nothing more)..... "world's fastest indian" was one such in all ways.

Don't miss this one if you hadn't seen it yet... and you should see it on a big screen hall (rather than a dvd), to see antony hopkin's service to playing the burt monroe, and taking us an era back to burt's period of achievement.

More news, wallpapers, .. and even links to history of real burt monroe here.

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I cried laughing and feeling another film inside out.. Lage raho munnai bhai. Quite late, because it was released in october (if I am right).

To just make a tempting rating for the movie, "highly recommended" to anyone who can understand even a little bit of Hindi. In my opinion its by far the best presentation of gandhian values and ideals to an urban society of today.

It changed my views of Mr. Gandhi and his ideals. You could very easily tempt me to lose my temper in arguing against Mr.Gandhi and his values. Yes, against.. i don't believe that gandhian values helps solve any issue. That was till the film started.

Seeing the film I was convinced that I had a wrong understanding of values and philosophies that Mr.Gandhi preached.

> "Stay put and do a silent protest against people's wrong doings.. and things will change",
> "If someone slaps you on one cheek, show the other",
etc.,

I always thought all those statements meant that we should stand idle and silently protest with flags for whatever wrong people do. Or good people should cleanup every dirt others do.. and that cleaning to be done with a smiling face.. what nonsense i used to think.

Though I still hold the belief that non-voilence or protests are not solutions for everything, the movie broke my ignorance of these methods as valuable options. Especially very valuable methods to people who otherwise are suppressed against other methods, due to fear or force.

Also, some widespread issues like spitting/ smoking in public places, corruption in politics or corporates, etc., seem to have no other options to solve them. These issues have been of major concern for years in India. Current methods to eradicate such problems through rules, penalties, publicity, etc., don't seem to create much impact...and only address educated urban youth, a very few of them who misuse their freedom. So we are wasting time and money on other methods. And probably Gandhian methods are solutions.

The one
Why are they called Gandhian values? Is Mr.Gandhi to be credited for directing these new methods and values to us?

Mr.Gandhi had never called these methods as his own, he only preached them sincerely. Mr.Gandhi himself has said that he didn't introduce non-voilence or patience to people as they are methods as old as the largest mountains in the world.

He was one of very few leaders of the world who could get all scrambled people into a collective fold and inspire them across religion, belief and economic barries.

One who could preach complex subjects like non-voilence by being an example himself.

And for that thing he could make a nation-wide impact with his words even in the days when there was hardly two or three newspapers in India, and letters through postal mail was the only form of communication over distances.

Learning about Mr.Gandhi, Sir Albert Einstein once said "The future generation won't believe that such a man ever lived"..

Posted by Harish at 8:48 PM | Permalink

The other day I was taking a shot at my private golf course and one of my men came and said that police had foiled our attempt to transport some drugs. I had to only smile and tell him that I always knew somebody was an informer within our men...and he brushed away saying every one of us is loyal and why would they do it. Making a strong stroke I said I know who it was, and just shot the ball into the head of one of the men. He.. fell.. down.. dead.

And life went on like this, with all the responsibility of taking care of every problem in the business and having an eye on everybody and everything around me. Then the police in India seemed to know that I was in kaula lumpur and came searching for me. Now,.. I have the additional pressure of dealing with them also. And that's not all. A girl, a sister of another man on my team I had to kill sometime because he wanted to quit working with me,... was here to take revenge of me. She posed everyway like she wanted to work with me, and I knew something was different. but what I didnt know was she was that guy's sister. beautiful sister he had he never told me.. otherwise i could have spared him.

All this, and there was the interval. I stopped being DON for a while and came and caught up with the Q to get something to eat.

Once back again,
I was back to taking all the responsibility of handling the tough life of being the DON .. but of course from the comfort of a leathered cushion seat, in a well air-conditioned hall.

Coming out of the hall, I realized (you might have already) that I imagined myself as DON enjoying the movie. not a 'too good' movie, but it did catch my senses enough for me to get the feeling of being inside the movie, not just inside the [movie] hall. Shah rukh khan fan, if you are, you would also probably imagine the same.

Coming out of such movies, I have always wondered how advanced and exciting the world is from inside the movie hall.. and when you come out... it is the usual Chennai, India.. and everyone looks and feels ...the 'same old people' of chennai.

I have felt like being in London, new york, vietnam.. you name it. I have lived the life, many great actors only get to act. Sometimes even lived the life of roles portrayed by actresses ..like i was in 'million dollar baby'. 'Crash' was one movie where i lived many lifes within one hour and 50 mins.. And I enjoyed killing all those wrong doers while watching tamil movie 'Anniyan', and I was elected chief minister in 'Muthalvan'.

Many times I have felt that what we see on some movies.. 'some movies' .. become reality after 10 years or like they say in the next decade/generation. I could easily relate to life I saw in movies, local tamil movies that came between 1995- 2000... as existing in chennai today. This includes 'Muthalvan', where people today, the younger cream of people of ages 20-40 are clearly thinking in terms of what was communicated in the movie long back... todays cream of people understand that a political evolution is required to move the quality of life here..to move forward.

So, while I hope to get into another life this weekend... lets hope there are more good movies talking realisitic ways of improving quality of life, reducing corruption, etc.,... so that switching to live them in the next decade is a possibility which will improve life then.

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