The BatPod

 

And they call it a BATPOD !! 😀

After Christopher Nolan infused some life into the big screen adaptations of the Batman series with his Batman Begins, he is back. He is gonna direct the next Batman Movie called The Dark Knight.  The pix above are that of  the redesigned Batcycle (or Batpod as they are gonna call it in the movie) to be used by the The Dark Knight in the movie.

Uber Cool !!! 😎

Aathaa..naan ‘sivaji’ paathuten !

As of today, I am 23 years and 1 day old. Celebrated my birthday yesterday. And what a way to celebrate it:

12 AM: Call from parents and friends.

9 AM: Call from chitthi. My8 year old cousin played “happy bday” on his keyboard and let me know that the next Rahman is on the way 😉

5 30 PM: Thalaivar Padam 😀 😀 😀

After standing for around 2 hours in the queue, got tickets for Sivaji :D. Thalaivar padam, first day first show 🙂 .Missed the opening scene 😦  (Dammit…!) The movie seriously rocks if you forgive the director’s “Anniyan” hangover and Peter Hein’s stunts (especially the KingKong fight…wtf was that about x-( ).

The movie is an out and out entertainer and masala mix. Yes it is preachy but not Ambi’s “Flush the toilet after use or else I will kill you” preachy. Shankar let us watch happily by directing his ire at the politicians and bureaucrats (thank God for that). Yes it has scenes that remind you of Gilli, Saami and a whole lot of other movies. But I strongly believe it was all included with a motive. Lots of one movie wonders and other bufoons have cropped up in Rajni’s absence and claim to be the next superstar. This movie puts them in their place. For instance, the scene where Vivek stops Rajni from mouthing a punch dialogue and sighs that almost every hero mouths one in their movie and asks “six kapparom seven da. Sivaji kapparom yevan da?“.

As usual, Sankar has paid attention to every detail.As usual, the songs have been picturised beautifully. As usual, Rahman’s music rocks . Rahman reminds us yet again that script alone was not the reason for Anniyan’s failure. Shriya ( or Shreya) looks great throughout the movie. Surprisingly, she acts well. And dances amazingly. Suman does full justice to his role. A good comeback.

However, Shankar’s magic touch has began to wane. If Anniyan despite Vikram was bad, this one minus Rajni would have been a disaster. The story is a huge letdown to all Sankar’s fans. For sometime, I did wonder, whatever happened to the guy who gave us Indian and Mudhalvan? But the image of Rajni (esp the mottai BOSS!) with  all those designer clothes and the Ray Ban takes care of everything. Substance gives way to Style. Who cares! Its the BOSS after all. 😉

Flashes of visions

A flash.

Life goes out.

A flash.

Life comes back again.

In between lay years of silence;

Awaiting redemption from the pain.

Dedicated to the Polish Railway worker, Jan Grzebski, who fell into a coma after he was hit by a train in 1988 and woke up a week ago ( ie 19 years later!)

A few days back, a friend of mine had messaged me that I was prone to meet with an accident. My initial reaction was to laugh at it and then I became serious and for sometime, I tried to be careful and acted all paranoid ( U never know whats gonna hit you and where!) And then, I wondered what would happen if I do get hit by something and lie in coma for 19 years ie till 2026?(“Abishtoo.Nallathey nenake maatiyaa..Abachaaram..Abachaaram”)

What would happen to the world in those years? Change? And in what way and form. Would the world in 2026 be like the Utopian ones potrayed in Shankar’s movies? Or more like the dystopian potrayal of the world in Alfonso Cuaron’s Children of Men? My bet is status quo. I do not see the world changing much in those years. Yes, the glaciers would melt away and every country would still try and evade responsibility. A bunch of clowns would realise Indian brains are far more precious than oil and more dangerous and hence start invading all the countries where we have a strong immigrant presence amidst calls and protests of “NO to war” and intelligence reports and counter reports that Indian brains are not so valuable, Indians do not have any brains and so forth. Every party in our country would be wraggling as to who should be the next president (the fight would be between a moviestar, ex cricketer amongst others). Bollywood would still be lifting movie plots from all around the world and then call it inspired versions( inspid though would be more appropriate). Our 20th cricket team coach since 2007 would have resigned by then and a very wise mind would recommend my name (“the greatest player never ever to played cricket…”,one would quip) The “men in blue” of course, would readily agree.

So as Hegel quoted once, history would keep repeating itself. After all, He only wrote one script. Its upto us folks to improvise.

So it starts….

Hurray! I have moved to WordPress…quite comfortably in fact.. there were no hiccups whatsoever…rite from moving my posts from my old blogger page to this one till importing my blogroll..all done in an instant..

hoping that I write more stuff here..been quiet for sometime..

And so it goes …:)