GHAJINI - The film

Tamil version :

The film was a super hit in Tamil. It was directed by A.R. Muruga Dhas, the third film for him as a director. The other two films were Dheena and Ramana, both the films were a great hit in the industry. Ghajini was his third film and the film was starred by Surya and Asin. The screen play was excellent so is the story of the film.

Story:

Actually Surya is a business magnet and Asin gets some contact with him accidentally. The interesting thing is that she doesn’t know him as a business magnet but as an ordinary man. Surya fells in love and expresses it to her as an ordinary man. He wanted to make her knew the truth only if she accepts his love. Before he tells the truth there comes a situation for both of them to travel to different places. On Asin’s journey she saves some girls who were under the custody of villain group. After finishing her travel she returns home and Surya comes there to meet her. At the same time the villain group waits there to kill Asin. And both Surya and Asin will be attacked by that group and Asin is killed and Surya severely injured. The scenes where both were attacked is the best they could have imagined. It was excellently filmed and no words to express. Hats off to everyone who worked for that. The whole part described above comes in flash back.

The film starts with surya suffering from a disease. The disease is that he forgets every thing in every five minutes. That is his memory gets cleared for every five minutes. So he has a camera, some digital calendar/diary and photo always with him so that he could remember what to do and who their friends are. He will have some mobile number and some persons name written in his body so that he could make him remember such things. He plans and kills persons and he misses one for the first time. Police will be searching for the person. The second heroine comes here who is a medical student. She just wanted to know about the diseased Surya and she collects more details. She comes to know that it’s Surya who tried to kill that person and informs it to the one who escaped from him. First the second heroine acts against Surya; later on reading the diaries which she had collected it from Surya’s room she helps him to kill that person. Actully that person was the one who killed Asin. The whole flash back comes when the second heroine reads the diary.

Hindi( dubbed ) version :

Directed by the same director A.R.Muruga Dhas on Amir Khan’s request. The role of Surya is performed by Amir Khan and Asin holds her place in Hindi too. Hope the director would have corrected the small mistakes that he had made in Tamil. There is no doubt that the film is going to be a super hit as everyone ranks the story at the top.

Survey results : Sachin is India's role model

Master blaster Sachin Tendulkar has been voted as India's role model of health and happiness in a countrywide survey initiated by a magazine.

According to the survey done by global research firm Synovate for 'Complete Wellbeing' magazine for its December issue, out of 320 nominations, Tendulkar emerged as the best, a media release said.

Alongside Tendulkar, Bollywood icon Amitabh Bachchan and former President A P J Abdul Kalam emerged in the top three bracket.

Tendulkar, who only on Monday guided India to a sensational Test victory in Chennai against England, expressed pleasant surprise at being crowned as the top role model of health and happiness.

"Is it true? My countrymen think I am the healthiest and happiest person in the country? What a compliment! I am truly overwhelmed. I will cherish this compliment forever," Tendulkar was said to have reacted to the survey results, the release added.

Donate to the died soldiers

Hello people! Can you donate only Rs. 3 to the died soldiers family of Mumbai incident by sending a text as SALAAM to 56388. Its an NDTV initiative . Hope you will do.

Realize the fact: Past and future are not there

Our mind finds it hard to accept the fact that the two tenses other than the present are not there. But the reality is that both past and future are virtual or imaginary. Coming to the point, consider a point of time so that it could be treated as present. Then the previous time period is said to be the past and the coming period to be the future. If you plot a graph with the above statements you could find that the past pushes the present where as the future gets destructed giving way to the present. In such a case where could we plot the present? Is it there no present?
Take an example...
A guy is standing under a coconut tree and another one is at the top of the tree. The one at the top has to pluck the coconuts and put it down. So he asks the one who is beneath him to see if any vehicle comes so that the work shall be stopped for a moment and let the vehicle go making sure that the vehicle does not have any damage while putting the coconuts down. And a vehicle comes and the one underneath informs to stop the work. So, the guy who is at the top stops his work and watches the vehicle to go past from there. After a moment the one underneath asks the person above to restart his work as the vehicle has passed away. The one above looks for the vehicle and he could still find it moving. Actually as he is at a greater height he could find the car moving but it’s not visible to the one underneath. Both men are true to their knowledge. For the one underneath, now the scene (car scene) is past and to the one at the top it’s present. The same thing is viewed differently from the same place at different heights.
When you raise your attitude and vision to greater altitudes you could realize past and future to be virtual/imaginary and it’s only the present that rules/holds everything

Chennai rains - NOV 2008

One of the worst rains Chennai has ever come accross. Lots of people suffered as they even couldn't step out to shops to get things and sure the daily life got disturbed. People got struck into their houses for almost a week . Just now the climate has changed a bit and now its fine.

Wanna know how much it rained in chennai.. Just view the pictures below.

Warne doubts Ganguly's Leadership/Batting

Shane Warne has good things to say for almost all the top-100 cricketers of his choice in his book but could not camouflage his dislike for former India captain Sourav Ganguly in whom he found neither the hallmarks of a great batsman nor an extraordinary leader."Sourav Ganguly might not be my cup of tea as a bloke, but what he did for Indian cricket has to be respected," he said justifying the Indian's inclusion in his book 'Shane Warne's Century'."He is a feisty sort of character, not short of self-confidence or unaware of his standing in Indian life. He is regarded over there, especially around his teeming home city of Calcutta, as one of the greatest ever Indian captains. They won more games under him than anybody else, so I guess the statistics back that up. Personally, I am not so sure," he said."I think he had some outstanding players and solid characters in the team. Do you need to be a great leader to win games with Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid and Anil Kumble in the ranks. Tactically, he was not among the best leaders I came up against, and his management skills left a bit to be desired."Warne felt Ganguly was not outstanding as a batsman and said even minnows Bangladesh tried to encash on his vulnerability to short-pitched bowling."I think that every bowling attack in the world, even Bangladesh, has tried to get him with the short ball or has placed a couple of gullies for those left-handed slashes that he likes." "Maybe his strength is in one-day cricket, where there are strict rules on the use of bouncers... He can also play some glorious looking drives with perfect timing, like most of the Indian batmen," Warne said."...But he did have the knack of rubbing up opponents (and even teammates when he went to Lancashire) the wrong way without seeming to try very hard."When we arrived in India in 2000, in the middle of our really good run, he said that we had only beaten weak teams in the past. Funny, that, as India were one of them."Warne also does not seem to have pardoned Ganguly for making then Australia captain Steve Waugh wait for the toss in the 2000 Kolkata Test."He would also be late for the toss and then walk off on his own without waiting for Steve Waugh, our captain. To be a minute or so behind because an issue crops up is one thing, but more than that is just taking the mickey."He will say that the results are in the book and, yes, India did beat us in that series -- thanks, I would say, to a great stand between Laxman and Dravid at Calcutta and Harbhajan's bowling rather than any tactical genius on Ganguly's part."Warne also took a dig at Ganguly, saying "Supporters know him as the Prince of Calcutta'. The story is that he gave himself the nickname and it stuck."Ditto were his feelings for former Sri Lanka skipper Arjuna Ranatunga, whom, Warne has confessed, he did "not like" and found "irritating". "Through gritted teeth, I have put Arjuna Ranatunga in my 100... because everybody knows I don't like Ranatunga... if there was any way I could knock him down to number 101 for the purposes of this book, I'd be delighted to do so," Warne wrote."The basic problem I had with Ranatunga was his attitude towards the game. He didn't play cricket in the right spirit and tried to manipulate the laws and regulations without actually breaking them," he said."I can remember occasions when he led his team off the field because he was unhappy with an umpiring decision, ordered an umpire where to stand behind the wicket, called for a runner by faking injury to disguise his own fitness - he looked as though he'd swallowed a sheep - and told his teammates not to shake our hands after a match..."Warne felt Ranatunga enjoyed being known for his autocratic ways and the Sri Lankan was clear that he was not out there "to win popularity contest"."He was described as a little Napoleon early in his captaincy career and I think he took it as a praise... he was so irritating... I have not heard a good word for him from a single international player outside Sri Lanka."The spin wizard found it funny that Ranatunga idolised former Australia skipper Allan Border."It was funny to see him puffing and panting after a chase. He once said that he based his game and attitude on Allan Border. Border would be horrified to know that," he said but added "Putting all the baggage aside, he was quite a talented batsman, especially against spin."