Short Stories

Inspired by Viswa's short stories skill, I am planning to write short stories too... 

These may be the stupidest stories you ever read... or even might be ok for you to grasp it... 

whatever ... I have decided to throw away my thoughts into a story... 

So BEWARE ;)

DASAVATHARAM does not live upto its Hype...

Its an ordinary movie with Kamal in 10 different getups. The story is not an extraordinary story for the HYPE given. The main concentration of the movie is Kamal's performance and the make ups. One has not disappointed even a single sec, but the makeups are not that impressive. That stops from giving the full thumps up. Indian and Avai Shanmugi makeups were better than some of the other makeups. The makeups for the Villan, Japanese character doesn't suite at all. Its clearly evident that its a made up character. Doesn't look natural. Kamal has lived as that character, but the make does not support him at all. They needed some final touch, they looked as a half boiled food. So Kamal's effort is not totally appreciated by the naked eye.

The movie also lack in screen play. 3 of the 10 character seems to be inserted for the sake of making records... the story could have lived without them. Asin character is so stupid. She shouting and claiming "perumal" is important than the people who are dieing in an accident seems to be more annoying and totally unnecessary. She running away with the Perumal idol in the climax when some one is short dead, makes us feel "WHY? WAT A CRAP?".

The Graphics part are not that realistic. Its seems like some one superimposed animated movie and real movie together. Its not bad, its awesome compared to any other movie in Indian film industry. But, the Hype spoils it again. For the hype given as the best technically sound movie ever made in the world, tends to expect all these perfections. And the rope stunts. if you cannot do it well you shouldnt do it. It spoils the effort you put in it. Also the dialog's, the scene when the villan kamal asks the Japanese guy do you remember Heroshima, and the Japaneses responds saying remember Pearl Harbour.. makes us feel... "CHai....." .. These could have avoided...

If you expect the movie to me an ordinary Tamil movie, you will have a visual treat. But if you go with the expectation from the Hype given by the movie makers, you will be disappointed like me. Kamal's performance is extraordinary. The movie is made in a decent manner. No fooling people. No One man army stuffs. Everything and anything has reasons in the story. No masala effects. No unnecessary songs and duet. Just a normal movie. they did not think the audience is a fool. Kamal wanted to take a movie like that and he did it.

The comedy in the first half by the Andra CBI officer, Balram Naidu...is hilarious. Sad that he just comes for 30 min of the whole movie. The way he acted as president Bush, man thats hilarious too. He dint stop pulling Bush's leg. Heard that kamal wanted to screen the movie to President Bush, would have been interesting how he would have taken that. The Villan, Flitcher character... kamal has done is so well... the fights and stunts are awesome. He has acted like a real trained hitman. My best role was the 12th century Kamal, Rangarajan Nambi. Man the scene was really awesome, but it had no relevance with the story. I have no clue why was this added to the story. The Japanese character had relevance with the story, but he was part of the story only for the climax fight, Which was truly and really nice. The Vincent character again has no relevance with the story, but Kamals dialog delivery is awesome. The old grandma character, man that old lady had one big hand ;). The 8 foot tall man character.. i have no clue Y he always talks as his tongue been cut... The Punjabi character was really good again, he did well as a Punjabi, but Y did he come in the movie, No clue. In the climax, his cancer been cured by a bullet short by the villan kamal, seems to be too lame.

As such if you see the movie without expectation, it will be good. The Hype spoiled the effort put in the movie. All together, DASAVATHARAM is not a total disappointment, Yet disappointed.

Google Videos stoped buffering from middle...

Google videos was so fun and people take the hard work to rip up latest Indian movies and uploaded it for others to watch them.... the best thing i like abt google was... with the simplest way possible they would provide all the features they could... Most of the online streaming sites would not allow scrolling the track bar... but google video allowed it... we could click anywhere in the track bar and it will take 1 min or so to start buffering from that point and then they start playing...

But now... if their player does not have that point buffered (grayed) u cannot play it.. it wouldn't buffer from the middle... this kind of sucks... more than that... the video would start from the first... esp when u r trying for full screen in the middle of the video.... it starts playing again from the beginning of the video.. this kind of sucks big time and very annoying too.

I don't know if Google had really changed it like this or its some setting in my computer that does that.... I tried from my office computer as well as my home computer.... it has the same result...

I would really vote for google to roll it back....

Computer Game Addictions...

It was 1996 my dad brought me my first computer. Right from then I have this gaming addiction and most of them were just cricket games... It all started with Ashes 95 and NFS.

Then came the big one and long lasting one.. Brian lara cricket… in 1998… I played it till 2002… mean while there was Quake, Half-life and Solitaier … I have seen couple of my friends been to fantasized by age of empires and prince of Persia… but I was more into sport games and war games… Am still so…

Then came the trend of online gaming… Yahoo Pool game, Yahoo chess, Yahoo this, Yahoo That, then Cricket 2004 … I am playing it for the past 4 to 5 yrs now… Then Party Poker, Then NBA 2005…. Then Xbox fever… again went for all sport games… NBA, NFL, Poker, FIFA, Call of duty, max pain, …….

Now after got so bored of playing them again and again …guess wat is my next addiction… Stick sport… There is a online flash game site… StickCricket and StickBaseball… I just keep playing that in my every free time…I know it’s the worst form of computer games… but u never know people... wat u would get addicted too…

Indian Matrix

Indian cinema are becoming worst day by day... while these tamil and telugu movies are switching to these meaning less one man super hero Mass movies, Bollywood have become the biggest copycat of Hollywood movies... The movie patner was a copy of the movie Hitch (dialog by dialog.... )... they take ideas from 2 different movie ... mix then along with romance and 4 songs + 1 item number... there it is --- there come a bollywood movie... These guys would stop only if some one sue them big time....

Here is and example of how bollywood movies are big copy cats....

http://www.mojoflix.com/Video/The-indian-matrix.html

Crumble Tofu Tasty Pasta

Recently, I made pasta sauce … and it turned out to be good too… it took just 15 min …I named it as Crumble Tofu Tasty pasta… ;)... Thought I would let every one enjoy the recipe…

Stuffs needed…

2 Tea spoon of Olive oil, hand full of Basil Leafs, Frozen Mix Vegi (if u r comfortable, you can go with fresh vegi’s too…) mini chopped bell peppers… u can have all colors of them like green, yellow, red mixed together… Chopped red onions, 1 can of diced tomatoes, green chilies, salt, pepper, some spices( I used Indian spices like Garam masala) , nice Cal white Wine (if u have it) , big slice of Tofu (the amount is your wish), Half Lime, and finally the rotini or the spaghetti style pasta.

First boil pasta in hot water….

Chop couple of basil leaf, green chilies and fry it with the red onions and olive oil… till the onion turn into golden sizzle color. Now put the peppers fry again. Now Crumble the tofu and fry it along with the onions and peppers. Now squeeze the half lime and pour some water… (you can use your wine instead of water if you like them)…when this boiling and trying to absorb all the liquid… pour the diced tomato can in the pan… mix them nicely… now add your spices and salt to it… (You can also add chili power if you like it to be spicy). Let it cook for some time…

Mean while filter the pasta and keep it separately. Now mix the pasta with the sauce which is cooking in the pan…. That’s it your crumble tofu tasty pasta is ready…

You can cook the mixed vegi’s with pepper and salt separately and serve the pasta with them or if you have crunchy Italian bread… you can serve with that… Now lit a candle in the middle of the table eat it with your girl friend with a glass of the left over white wine on the side…

Taare Zhameen Par

Nice movie..... it was good drama.... i really liked it... Aamir's first attempt in direction has turned out to be good... he has really done good job... It has more sentiments and I have no shame in telling I had tears watching them.

But its not a movie for college students to go an enjoy .... All together my one word abt the movie is "AWESOME"...

Dumil Dumil Dumil = = = = = = = = =>

Last week I went to gun range shooting... man it was fun to hold the latest gun and use them. we had goggles and head phones kind of thing to avoid the outside noise... just like movies. We first started with 2 mm meg and then went to 9 mm... the 2 mm was ok but 9 mm was WOW...... It was heavy, even loading the meg was very tiering.... then the shooting... it just moves up after shooting and push u back if u not steady... controlling that is and aiming the target needs real talent... Out of 100 shots (50 with 2 mm and 50 with 9 mm) i finally found 14 middle wholes..... infact there was just 92 wholes all together.... ;) 8 missed the target.... but it was fun....

If u have a girl or a date ... the date gets the shooting free on Friday evening... so people who want to try it double up.... Hey unlucky ones don't worry its just $45.... we will save it in the future... ;)

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