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Cast :

Raavanan (Veeraiya) – Vikram
Ram (Dev) – Prithviraj
Sita (Ragini) – Aishwarya Rai Bachan
Lakshman (Singarasu) – Prabu
Hanuman (Forest Officer) – Kathick
Surpanagai (Vennila) – Priyamani

This movie should be named as raavanayanam. Although the disclaimer clearly mentions “All the characters and events in this film are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely incidental” I cant resist myself to relate the characters with real ramayana.

-Veera was portrayed as some sort of terrorist who fights for his tribes.

-Dev(Police) comes to veera’s place to destroy veera and his cult.

-Veera was shot on neck by dev at her sisters marriage function. He was taken out of the scene by his own persons for first aid. But her sister was captured and taken to police custody instead.

-Her sister was ill treated by many police officers. I hope everyone understand what ill-treatment means at this situation. She kills herself.

-Veera erupts and his anger is directed to dev and other police officers. His group kills every policeman before their sights and kidnaps sita – oops ragini to get revenge for her sister’s death. Eventually falls in love (kind of) with her.

-Ragini held by Veera in forest for exactly 14 days. Initially she hates veera. After knowing the truth and why all these things are happening, her heart softens.

-Meantime, dev comes to forest to rescue ragini and determined to kill veera this time.

-The forest officer who helps dev does all kind of “kurangu settai”
and also goes to find sita alone and negotiates truce.

- Veera’s other brother (prabhu is his first brother) also insists on truce and travels alone to met Dev for truce negotiations. But Dev kills Veera’s brother.

- Again Veera erupts, destroys the army camp nearby where Dev stays, fights with him on a small rope bridge which I thought as climax. Veera saves Dev instead of killing him even-though he had his chance. Why? yes you guessed it. For ragini. He releases Ragini and evades from the scene.

- Dev doubts ragini after she was rescued from veera while they were on the way to somewhere by train. “What makes you doubt me?” she asks. “Because veera said you are not pure like before” he replies. Ragini gets angry. Stops the train by pulling the brakes chain. And directly goes to Veera to confirm it.

- Veera was happy seeing her again. She finds out that Veera never said the statements  which Dev said he said. But Veera understands the plan behind the drama and calls out Dev who followed ragini to find him.

- Dev comes out of the fog along with hundred’s of army mans. Ragini tries to protect Veera but he shoves her aside. At the same time many bullets hits him and Veera dies with smile in his face, joyfull, she came back to him.

What a good story. sorry if you are irritated by  my narration.  First, the story is not new to us. second, it was pictured in confusing way what they call it as manirathinam’s style. Dialogue is not quite understandable, another agmark seal of manirathinam. Details in every single frame is above than perfect. Music is good.

We can expect some reactions from Hindu activists because Raavanan here is portrayed as a hero at last. Anyway, the movie is total disappointment for me.

On reading the synopsis on the backside of this book at the bookshop, I gave up the idea of buying “Winner Stands Alone” by paulo coelho which I choose already and choose this book instead. I like to repeat the synopsis here so that i don’t have to explain the story myself.

“A perfect murder

A faceless witness

A lone courtroom champion knows the whole truth . . . and he’s only thirteen years old

Meet Theodore Boone

In the small city of Strattenburg, there are many lawyers, and though he’s only thirteen years old, Theo Boone thinks he’s one of them. Theo knows every judge, policeman, court clerk—and a lot about the law. He dreams of being a great trial lawyer, of a life in the courtroom.

But Theo finds himself in court much sooner than expected. Because he knows so much—maybe too much—he is suddenly dragged into the middle of a sensational murder trial. A cold-blooded killer is about to go free, and only Theo knows the truth.

Now I feel the synopsis created too much expectation. I expected some dramatic intriguing sharp turns in the plot but couldn’t find it anyhow. “HALF THE MAN, TWICE THE LAWYER” is the caption, I expected theo — the hero boy — to argue in the court like a lawyer twice intelligent than normal lawyers. But he was not even summoned to stand in the witness dias — which is dissapointing.

I’d say author wrote it realistically more than dramatically.  The plot is logically convincing. Author snaps with the answer — “What else do you expect a 13 year old boy can do with law?” — for our expectations. You won’t feel the time pass while reading.

My rating : 7 out of 10

Great tool. How come I not heard of this software this long time? I have spent, actually wasted, many hours of my precious time over phone helping peoples to solve software problems.

Team Viewer is remote desktop connectivity software with no hassles involved. Important advantage is you don’t have to install it in the system. We can carry the app in the thumb drive and use it from anywhere to control the PC at home/office. In softwares like this, doubt may arise regarding security. No need to worry, it comes with 256 bits AES encoding.

There are other softwares available for this purpose but most of that requires installation or configuration which is difficult when the partner/user on other side is less skilled.  In case of Team Viewer inform the other person to download the app, run the app, get the temporary session ID and password generated for the system, done. you’ll have the control for other system next moment. As simple as that.

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Here is a story that you may have heard it many times before. But hearing it at right time and right context is something different. This is a mail forwarded by my friend “Srinivasa Raghavan”. Thanks to him. He may sent it to me causally like many other forward mails, but it affected me. So I thought it is worth publishing it here.

A man found a cocoon of a butterfly. One day a small opening appeared. He sat and watched the butterfly for several hours as it struggled to force its body through that little hole. Then it seemed to stop making any progress. It appeared as if it had gotten as far as it could, and it could go no further.

So the man decided to help the butterfly. He took a pair of scissors and snipped off the remaining bit of the cocoon.
The butterfly then emerged easily. But it had a swollen body and small, shriveled wings.

The man continued to watch the butterfly because he expected that, at any moment, the wings would enlarge and expand to be able to support the body, which would contract in time.

Neither happened! In fact, the butterfly spent the rest of its life crawling around with a swollen body and shriveled wings. It never was able to fly.

What the man, in his kindness and haste, did not understand was that the restricting cocoon and the struggle required for the butterfly to get through the tiny opening were God’s way of forcing fluid from the body of the butterfly into its wings so that it would be ready for flight once it achieved its freedom from the cocoon.

Moral: Sometimes struggles are exactly what we need in our lives. If God allowed us to go through our lives without any obstacles, it would cripple us. We would not be as strong as what we could have been. We could never fly!

Sure we must save our tigers. but how? Hats off to Aircel for this initiative. Will this message reach the poachers effectively. Are these poachers not aware of this dwindling numbers?. Of Course they do and they just don’t care.

In two ways tiger’s life is endangered,

1. Poaching
2. Killing for safety

For first case, we can fight only with law. Laws should be stringent to fight against tiger poaching. Forest department officials should take the necessary steps. But “What to do if safety fencing itself eats the plants”

For second case, surely awareness is necessary but not for people sitting before computers, living at cities and apartments where no tiger is living and think they saved the tiger species by just enrolling in the website. Awareness should be given to village peoples living nearby forest areas about procedures to follow if encountered a tiger.

what wild animals do when we keep on occupying their living space?

Yesterday I went to see this movie. Came out awestruck. Though we have seen movies like this and such effects in many hollywood movies, this is different. Plot is very close to us. Good try by Selvaraghavan. He got 80% success in it. Maybe remaining 20% was left because of financial crisis they experienced while finishing the movie. Before seeing this movie I too thought this is going to be a pure copy of multiple hollywood movies, influenced by some people.

Indians has special mentality, they will appreciate the work done by outsiders, turn down our own people’s. This is kind of movie which we have to embrace and encourage. This is real entertainment.

Big comedy was in last week’s SUN TV Top 10 movies, Aayirathil Oruvan was in 3rd place and Vettaikaran was in 1st people. Can’t digest such ratings. How the hell, on what basis they are rating the movies.

Must watch movie, on theatre.

Today my blog completes one year of its existence. I am very happy coming this far. Still there is lot left out to improve and lot to write. But I can see the improvement. Initially to write a post even with one paragraph it takes more than 1 hour. Now the time became very less.

I planned to write a lot at start but on course of time the damn writer’s block and busy schedule kept me out of it . I remember one piece of writing from the book “Alchemist” by paulo coelho and i want to mention it here.

“At a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what’s happening to us and our lives become controlled by fate. That’s the world’s greatest lie”

I know the above reasons are just justifications for my incapability . Now I decided to write whatever comes to my mind and not to afraid of making mistakes. Oh Yeah. I can do it.

Today I got Reliance Netconnect Broadband+ CDMA2000 1x HSD USB Modem from Reliance World, Mount Road. Chose Broadband+ 3GB day, 10GB Night plan.

Really the speed is amazing. I watched a TED Video without pausing for buffering. But one thing, tariff is quite high. Huawei EC1260 model modem comes with Micro-SD slot in it. Can use the modem as pen drive too.

United We Stand Divided We Fall is what we have been taught from childhood. Now here peoples are trying to create a new and opposite trend.

Nine new state formation requests and protests after telangana issue is really a bad sign. If DMK is not in coalition with Congress, they may have raised and started separate country protest. Wondering what advantages people get because of the separation. All advantage I can think of is for politicians.

Author : Alice Calaprice, Trevor Lipscombe
Year Published : 2008
Publisher : Jaico
Genre : Biography
ISBN : “978-81-7992-751-9″

What we know about Einstein? His hairstyle, Nobel price, E=m*c^2 (Theory of Relativity). I wanted to learn more about him. After all to follow one’s footsteps, first step is to know about them completely. We all know only scientific side of his life. This book explains everything from his childhood to his old age with time-line. But it is very confusing for me to follow this time-line format, at some places  it was written in confusing way.

Beyond scientific life, he was very humorous, helping minded, non-religious person. And one Rumour is still there that einstein was not a bright student. He is actually very bright student but  against the education system at that time. He was not at all interested in attending boring lectures and writing exams. so he remained a average student. Most of the knowledge he gained was through self study. It seems he was a person who really followed his instincts.

He struggled very hard to find a job at early stage of his professional life. After his success, job opportunities were plenty, more than what a person wants. It is very difficult to understand how a man achieved this magnificent success with such troubled marriage life. It is evident from the book that he is a play-boy and he had no concerns for his sons and first wife at their old age.

Even though he was not directly involved in politics, he actively raised his voice against dictatorship. He was also a victim of anti-Jews policy of Hitler. His assets were taken from him by German government commanded by Hitler. Its quite interesting to know that Einstein many times quoted Gandhi’s policies at public appearances.

It was really inspiring to read this book. Authors must have researched extraordinarily to complete this book. Bibliography is its evidence. Both the authors are from scientific background. To write about the scientific part of book, I have to go again to my college days. Lots of reference needs to be done. Authors tried very hard to keep this book less scientific.