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I just now watched this documentary movie “HOME”
by Director Yann
Arthus-Bertrand (a french photographer and world renowned environmentalist). The
full movie is available in HD
Quality free in Youtube from yesterday till 14th June 2009. Don’t miss this opportunity
to watch this must see movie.
I came to my office on a Saturday today so I can watch the movie in High Definition
(HD) with the high-bandwidth that is available in the office – the privileges of being
the CEO :-). The quality was amazing, unbelievable it was playing over the Internet.
Like I mentioned last year when I watched “Casino
Royale (1967)” in HD from Hulu.com, the availability of these high quality content
over the Internet is now becoming more and more wide stream than ever. These compel
me to predict that in next 10 years we will see the end of distribution of entertainment
content (movies and songs) in any physical form – it will happen much faster than
the best of Internet evangelists have dreamed of and it will happen even in developing
countries like India at nearly the same pace.
Coming back to the movie “HOME”, the documentary chronicles how life on earth came
into existence 4 Billions years back, how we humans came into existence 200,000 years
back and how we started farming 10,000 years back. This background helps you to understand
and appreciate the destruction we are making on our planet, after the discovery of
OIL and our dependence on it. The movie emphasizes the fact of how all organisms and
the Earth are linked in a "delicate but crucial" balance with each other,
and how no organism can be self-sufficient. I really liked the fact, the movie didn’t
end with a pessimistic note of all being lost on climate change, but on a positive
note that worldwide change is happening (though in pockets) and we can reverse the
trends.
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Yes, Prime Minister,
is a British TV Serial by BBC which ran in late 80's and was a sequel to Yes Minister.
This was shown in Doordharshan during my school days and I have heard great comments
about them. Though I watched few of the episodes I couldn't appreciate it then.
Few weeks back, while shopping in Landmark I saw the VCD version of Yes, Prime Minister
Series 1 and 2 at Rs.350 per series. Over this weekend I watched the 8 episodes of
Series 1. I had 4 hours of non-stop laugher and I had to marvel at the brilliance
of the writers who have portrayed what life could be inside 10, Downing street in
the most humorous way. This is a must see for anyone remotely interested with politics
in general.
Yes, Prime Minister is now second in my list of favourite political satires
of all time, First in the list is Cho's Muhammad Bin Thuglak.
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This sunday I watched this movie - Click by Adam Sandler . Many of the English movies are now available in India at affordable rates - this one (VCD) distributed by Sony Music India costs me Rs.299 (USD 7). The story is a powerful one, something that...
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குசேலன் - பசுபதி,
மீனா, நயன்தாரா மற்றும் பலர் நடித்துல்ல ரஜினியின் புதியப் படம். கடந்த 14ம் தேதி அபிராமி
அரங்கில் பார்த்தேன் - என் போனேன் என்றாகிவிட்டது. பி.வாசு போன்றோரு சிறந்த இயக்குனர்
இப்படி ஒரு சுமாரான படத்தை அதுவும் மலையாலத்தில் வந்த ”கதபறயும் போல்” என்ற
நல்ல கதையை இப்படி எடுத்துள்ளார் என்பது மிகுந்த ஏமாற்றம்.
படம் ஏமாற்றம் என்பதை காட்டும் விதமாக அபிராமியில் கீழ்த்தளத்தில் ஒருவர் கூடயில்லை.
வெளிவந்த சில நாட்களேயான ரஜினியின் புதியப் படம் என்பதை நம்பவே முடியவேயில்லை.
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படத்தில் ஒருவர்க்கூடக் தங்களின் கதாபத்திரங்களோடு ஒட்டவேயில்லை
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பசுபதி படம் முழுவதும் எதையோ யோசனைச் செய்துக் கொண்டேயிருக்கிறார், அவர் பேசும் காட்சியில்
கூட அப்படித் தான். என் இதில் நடிக்க சம்மதிதோம் என்றோ?
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இசை பிரகாஷ் - ஒரு பாடல்க் கூட நினைவிலில்லை. பேரின்ப
பேச்சுக்காரன்பாடல்க்கூட வெயில் படத்தின்வாடைத் தான் அடிக்கிறது
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ரஜினி நடித்திருக்கும் அசோக் குமார் கதாபத்திரத்திற்கு கடைசிக் காட்சித் தவிர
வேறு ஒருக் காட்சிக்கூடயில்லை. பாடல் காட்சிகள் கூட முந்தியப் படங்களின் தழுவல் - வேட்கம்.
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முழுப் படமும் ரஜினியின் சுய விளம்பரம். இதைப் பார்க்க ஒரு தொலைக்காட்சியில் ரஜினியின்
முழுநீள பேட்டியே போதும்.
நானும் என் சிறு வயதில் ரஜினியின் ரசிகன் தான், ஆனால் குசேலன் திகட்டுகிறது. 
படம் இப்படி என்றால் அபிராமி அரங்கம் இதைவிட மோசம். வெளியில் நன்றாகயிருந்தாலும்
உள்ளே சென்றவுடம் ஒரு பத்து வருடத்திற்கு முன்பிருந்த திரையரங்களை சந்தேகமில்லாமல்
நினைவுபடுத்துகிறது - அவ்வளவு பழசு.
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While returning from the USA in my flight I saw this movie "The
Bank Job". The
Bank Job is supposed to be a true life story of a bank robbery that took place
in London in 1971. The robbery was allegedly plotted by UK's secret police to cover
up a prominent member of British Royal Family. It involved thieves digging a tunnel
below a shop into a near-by bank, get into its vault and rob it. After finding millions
of pounds in the vault they also discover lot of dirty secrets - and realize why the
secret police plotted them into this. They use the mud uncovered to negotiate for
getting their safe passage. In the true life it is claimed none of the robbers were
arrested due to their safe passage given by the government.
A good movie that is enjoyable and also well taken. A must see if you like this "Genre"
of movies.
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 After
spending few hours in San Jose Tech Museum I took the local
VTA bus 180 to travel to the Great way mall. I was not sure on the direction of
the bus to take, their call centre was unhelpful answering my query, then I asked
one of the bus driver who guided me to take the bus going in the"Fremont BART"
direction. After Seattle Bay Area seems to have a decent public transport system,
which made me like this US city a bit. There is nothing exceptional about the mall
other than it is big and you get all designer stuffs here.
To kill time I went to Century Cinemas there to watch "Hellboy
II" - why Hellboy, because there was no other movie I would have liked. The
movie's story is completely fictitious and unbelievable, but the graphics and effects
are superb.
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I was in San Jose area and had the whole day to spend before my return flight (Jet
Airways from SFO to BOM) in the evening. So I started the day with my friend dropping
me in San Jose Tech Museum.
First I went to see the IMAX movie "The
Alps" which had breath taking views and an emotional story - an expert climber
had been wanting to climb the "Eiger" mountain in the Alps which had killed
his father
40 years back.
Then I went to see the exhibits, which included a Silicon IC (Chip) manufacturing,
Gene therapy, inventions, solar energy and many more. It is a must see museum for
today's students. I wish we had something like this in India - may be in Bangalore
Indian IT giants can take a clue from their Silicon Valley counterparts to fund one.
What impressed me was the web page creation kit they have - in every exhibit you can
insert your bar coded ticket to get a photograph of yourself and at the end you can
post all of them into your own custom
web page, cool!
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I was in our US office today and at the end of the day I had few hours to kill and
a few Mbps of Internet pipe. So I made the best use - watch some videos in Hulu.com.
For those of you who are outside USA, Hulu is promoted by NBC and News Corp media
houses, that has only legal videos and tons of it - including popular TV shows like
"The Simpsons" & "The Office". These are supported by naturally
advertisements.
While browsing I came across this movie "Casino
Royale (1967)" which was said to be a spoof on the original James Bond movie.
I didn't know this was a real movie, I assumed it to be a short fun clip but it turned
out to be a 2 hour full movie. This is an all-star 1967 spoof of Ian Fleming's 007.
David Niven comes as the aging Sir James Bond, called out of retirement to take on
the organized threat of SMERSH. After watching the movie which was fun I
learned about its creation - which involved 5 Directors, 6 James Bonds and
one of the James Bonds' Peter Sellers leaving in between.
Note: Hulu I guess is accessible only in North America due to geographical limits
of its copyright reach.
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The next movie I watched on flight was Vikram's
Bheema. This movie got delayed for over 3 years & in the period Vikram didn't
act in any other movie. The story was usual and very ordinary. It is about a gangster
and gang wars - we have seen enough of this in Tamil movies. The only difference is
that everyone gets killed in the climax - Hero, Heroine, both the Gang Leaders (Prakash
Raj, Raghuvaran) and Thailavasal Vijay. If you can please skip watching this movie,
a low-point in Vikram and Director N.
Linguswamy's careers.
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On my Jet Airways flight from Mumbai to SFO I saw this movie 10,000
BC. It is a fictitious story of how a Hero from a small tribe fights against a
large civilization (resembling Egypt Pyramid days). After a sustained chase he wins
over them, get his people and his love released.
 
The settings, costume, fighting's have been taken well. At times in the movie you
feel a little bored and the story is overall unbelievable.
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I purchased this DVD a year ago (at a steep price @ Rs.499) I didn't get the
time to watch it till now. Today being a Sunday and free from any work luckily I had
the time to watch the movie "An
Inconvenient Truth" made by Former Vice President Al Gore. I didn't know
Al Gore was such a powerful speaker, he was amazing on stage - I have noted down few presentation
tips from his speech. He seems to have come out as a more powerful person after
his dramatic hair-splitting loss of the US
Presidency to George W Bush in 2000.
The movie is brief and runs only for about 90 minutes and it is completely on a presentation
given by Al Gore with clippings in between. Since enough has been said about this
movie and global warming, all I will say - this is a very compelling movie for
the cause of reducing our effects on environment. I pledge to start doing my
small baby steps on this from today.
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The hugely anticipated release of Kamal Hasan's mega budget movie - Dasavathaaram got
released yesterday after many delays. Apart from the inherent delays due to the complexity
of producing the movie, there were many court cases against the movie and the producer
V.Ravichandran had to even change his film production company's name from OSCAR to
AASCAR due to a legal notice from Hollywood (Economic Times news yesterday) in the
last few days.
Kamal stars in 10 roles in the movie. The movie(details
here) is released in almost all theatres in the city (and in the state) and in
all the shows. Adding to this Government has also allowed few extra shows at 9AM,
etc. , even then when I checked with few theatres I was told the movie is full for
next 15 days. Luckily my wife got two tickets for today (second day of the movie)
11:25AM show at INOX City Centre. Show started 10-15 late as the earlier show got
delayed as the movie is a long one nearly 3 hours with only a brief 5 minutes intermission.
There was a huge queue to even get into the theatres :-)
The story line of the movie is very simple and nothing exceptional - just a routine
action chase film. The first half of the movie was boring and very long, the intermission
came only after 2 hours. Kamal has done the story, screenplay and dialogue, so in
his signature style he has inserted few atheist touches - the 13th Century "Nambi"
story possibly hurting a bit of religious sentiments. The second half was more interesting,
especially where he brings along all the characters into the single climax moment.
Lot of hard work seems to have gone into making of the movie - in the direction, acting,
makeup, stunts, planning, etc. which has to appreciated greatly. Tamil movie industry
has been elevated few steps with this movie - no doubts on that. The story and music
could have been better.
The ten roles he dons are:
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Rangaraja Nambi - 13th Century Vaishnavaite
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Govind Ramasamy -the "Hero", a scientist
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Christian Fletcher - Villain (Ex-CIA Agent)
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Balaram Naidu - The funny CBI officer with nice Telugu Accent
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George Bush - American President
(surprising why Kamal wanted to do this role, compared to other roles not very impressive)
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Avtar Singh - A Punjabi singer
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Shinghen Narahasi - Japan Marshal arts master (Impressive fighting scenes)
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Krishnaveni - Iyengar Great grandmother (Excellent in the makeup)
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Vincent Poovaraagan - Social Activist (nice black skin makeup)
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Kalifullah Khan - The 7 Feet Tall Role (An antitode to the Aboorva Sagatharagal shorter
Kamal)
Movie is all about Kamal, with only two other characters having some role - Asin and
Baskar. Kamal has roped in Jayaprada for a role in a Tamil Movie that too a song after
a long time.
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Yesterday I took my son and his cousins to this movie - "Ghatothkach".
As Sathyam Cinemas website was down I used their door delivery facility for getting
the tickets which was very convenient and you had to pay only Rs.75 extra for the
service.
In Mahabharat epic Ghatothkach is the son of Bheema (Pandavas). Ghatothkach inherits
immense strength from his father and wonderful magic powers which he uses for good.
With this one line story from the epic and inspired by the 1957 live action film Mayabazar,
Ghatothkach movie gives a clean entertainment for kids. The movie is directed by legendary
director Mr.Singeetam Srinivasa Rao.
My kid loved the scenes where Ghatothkach and his pet elephant utters the magic words
"Ambilica Bambulica". Having seen the Tamil Mayabaazar movie and the
song "Kalyana Samayel Saatham" (Same
video clip in Telugu here) I expected the scene in the movie to be more grand
and entertaining, but it was very brief here. The movie ends kind of suddenly before
you expect the end. There is nothing for grown-ups in the movie other than the superb
animation and music. My wife slept through the 90 minutes film. Good time pass for
kids in the summer.
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I had a good laugh now by watching this video clip of a recent CSI episode that carried
a dialog "create a GUI Interface in Visual Basic to track the IP
address". I love "Visual Basic" and it was good to hear it getting prime time media
attention!
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நேற்று விடுமுறை, எங்கே போவது என்று யோசனை செய்ததில் சுட்டெரிகக்கும் கோடை வெயில்
பயமுறுத்தியது. குளிர்ந்த திரையரங்கம் தான் சரி என்று முடிவு செய்து, இணைத்தில் தேடியதில்
”சத்தியம்” சினிமாவில் ”சந்தோஷ் சுப்ரமண்யம்” படத்திர்க்கு
சிட்டு கிடைத்தது. எவ்வளவு தேடியும் “அறை எண் 305” மற்றும் “யாரடி
நீ மோகினி”க்கு இடம் கிடைக்கவில்லை. இது ஒரு வகையில் சந்தோஷமாக இருந்தது, ஒரு சில
வருடங்கள் முன்பு வரை தியேட்டர் தொழிலே அழிந்துவிடும் என்ற நிலையிலிருந்து இது ஒரு நல்ல
வளாச்சி. எதனால் என்று எனக்கு சரியாக சொல்ல தெரியவில்லை - அரசாங்க வரி சலுகையாகயிருக்காலம்,
திருட்டு விசிடிக்கு எதிரான போலிஸ் வேட்டையாகயிருக்காலம். எனக்கு தொன்றுவது என்னவோ மக்களிடம்
இப்பொழுதிருக்கும் பணப்புழக்கம் (Disposable income) மற்றும் ஒரே இடத்திலுள்ள பல சிறு
திரையரங்குகள் (Multiplexes) வளர்ச்சி தான் முக்கிய காரணங்களாக.
எது எப்படியோ ஜெயம் ரவியின் ”சந்தோஷ்
சுப்ரமண்யம்” படத்திற்கு வருவோம். படத்தைப் பற்றி எதுவுமே தொரியாமல்,
எந்த எதிர்ப்பார்பும் இல்லாமல் போனதால் எமாற்றமில்லை. அடிதடியில்லை, அசிங்கமான
மொழிகள் இல்லை, அபாசம் இல்லை அதனால் குடும்பத்தொடு செல்லலாம். பாடல்கள் மோசமில்லை ஆனால்
சுமார், தனியாக நகைச்சுவையென்று எதுவுமில்லை. அப்பா மகன் இடையே நடக்கும் நல்ல உணர்ச்சிவசமான
கதை என்றாலும் அதிகப்படியான சினிமாதனமில்லாமல் எடுத்திருக்கிறார் இயக்குனர், வசனங்களும்
குறைவான எதார்தமானவையாக இருந்த்து. குறிப்பாக ரவி-பிரகாஷ்ராஜ் பேசும் கடைசிக்காட்சி
அழகு.
இந்திய கிரிக்கேட் விரர் ”சடகோபன் ரமேஷ்” இதில் ரவிக்கு அண்ணவாக வருகிறார்
- அவரின் முதல் படவாய்ப்பு என்று நினைக்கிரேன்.
படம் பார்த்துவிட்டு இணைத்தில் தேடியதில் தெரிய வந்த்து;
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ஆந்திராவில்
சக்கைப் போடு போட்ட தெலுங்குப் படம் பொம்மரிலு. சித்தார்த், ஜெனிலியா, பிரகாஷ்ராஜ்
தெலுங்கில் நடித்திருக்கிறார்கள். அந்தப் படத்தின் தமிழ் ரீமேக் தான் சந்தோஷ் சுப்ரமணியம்
என்று. தெலுங்கில் சித்தார்த் நடித்த இடத்தில் ஜெயம்ரவி என்பது மட்டுமே மாற்றம்.
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படத்தின் இயக்குனர்
ராஜா மற்றும் நடித்துல்ல ஜெயம் ரவி இருவரும் தமிழில் பிரபலமான எடிட்டர் மோகன் அவர்களின்
மகன்கள்
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