VinnaiThandi Varuvaaya still at Sathyam Cinemas

VinnaiThandi Vaaruvaaya

A creative warning which I saw in ConneXions

ConneXions Warning ... Very creative

Me, My Life and The People I Love...

When I became aware that when I didn't get that good marks in 12th nor in the TN Entrance Examinations, I never really did get how that would affect my life. To say frankly, I was immature, I knew little about the competitive world out there. Later when I realized the fact, I felt too bad and it didn't help that much with my inferiority complex. Then one day, my mom being a doctor herself, and seeing that i got good grades in Biology than in Mathematics in my board exams, asked me weather I would like to pursue a career in Medicine. But I disagreed, cause of the thought of myself failing as a Doctor sacred me like hell. Other than that I was very interested in computers and want to choose Computer Science Engineering as my career choice. That, I realize now, the best decision I've made in my entire life. Then, my dad, wanting to get me into a better college, somehow pushed me into Guindy College Of Engineering in Chennai. In the counseling ranking system, I was ranked 11th. On the day of counseling, we(me and my dad) reached early and we were asked to wait in a big hall for course selection and documents verification.

In the 10 people ahead of me, till today, i was aware of only 3 people(who eventually became my closest friends and one in particular more more than a close friend). Then after 10 days, we were asked to report for allocating hostel rooms for students. As it turns out, when my turn came all the available rooms were filled out, and we were asked to get our rooms allocated on the day of joining college. But, since I joined as an NRI student, I had a choice for opting International hostel, which my father insisted me to join. But I refused at the last moment, and little did I knew then that it would change my life forever, for the better...

As the day of college opening got nearer and nearer, I had no clue of how this new place is going to be like. Will it be like my school, in which I have spent by then, the past 14 years of my life. Will I feel lonely, just like the time when we moved out of the house I've lived in since the day I was born, will I like this strange place in which I have to spend the next 4 years of my life. I was scared, terrified and mortified. It was the first time I am leaving my home town, my family, my friends for a significant period of time. But when I think of it now, the kind of friends I made during college, the kind of guy I turned out, I kind of closeness I enjoyed, boy that 4 short years of my life, was the best time of my life.

Still to come... my view of the best days of my life...

And needless to say since I studied in an All Boys School, from LKG right up to 12th Std. I was not really sure weather I would like to sit in a class with 35 girls, and yes, I counted the no. of girls there were in my class, the first day of college. But now I regret why did engineering courses have a duration of just 4 years. As      like everything in life, we only truly understand and appreciate the beauty of the things we truly love, when we move apart from it. The further you move, the closer you become.

Love, Life and Marriage...

Today we(myself and group of 10 of my good friends/colleagues), had a chat after lunch at the office premises. The topic of choice was an ever-green and interesting one "How each of us expect our marriage to be...". It started of just as any other conversation, guys complaining about girls, making fun of each other, and in other words "Really enjoying our after-lunch break".

  Actually we were trying to figure out, how a guy should approach a girl(he really likes) in the first place? Should he just go out to her and just chat? What if you don't know the girl at all? Or you haven't spoke to the girl since high school and you are seeing her everyday on the bus whilst coming to office? There were a lot of what if's in our conversation. And I seriously don't know how to express to someone that you really like her/him.

As our conversation grew, I was surprised to find out that everyone in our "little" gang belonged to a different category. Let me put it down as a list...

1. One who is already committed.
2. One who is madly in love, and thinks he's pretty romantic in his actions.
3. One who befriends a lot of girls and hasn't fallen for any of them(the latter part may not be correct).
4. One who thinks of himself as "Mounam Pesiyathae" Surya, and thinks he'll never fall in love.
5. One who is acts as if he doesn't know about women at all.
6. One who is adamant not to fall in love until marriage.
7. One who has kind of a "Take it easy" character, and never worries about anything at all.
8. One who is very friendly with everyone.
9. One who gives a kind of a sarcastic comment for every word.
10. One who i am not sure about.

I am surprised to find out people can say that they can live without falling in love with anyone, then marry a girl  who their parents choose and try and love that girl and hope she loves you back as much as you expect.

Personally, I believe that every one in this world should fall in love, just for the heck of it. Only then you'll find out the "real" you, the part of yourself you never knew existed. You will do things that you never thought you could do. Things like... Talking to her over the phone at night, even after spending the entire morning with her. Talking to her for hours together even thought you had nothing to talk to. Talking to her, longer than your combined talk time with every one else, on a single call.  Ignoring every one around you when she is near. Feeling frustrated when she talks with someone you don't know.

Finding someone you can fall in love with madly, is the best thing that can happen t you. The more interesting and challenging part is the one in which you try to make her see you the same way, you see her.

Even though love can make you feel as light as a feather, enabling you to fly, it can also make you feel as heavy as an broken anchor  at the bottom of the deepest ocean without the chain.

And finally, I believe that if you really like someone you shouldn't care about what others might think. Just follow the path your heart chooses. Don't waste time  thinking about the consequences your actions might cause. Just do it. Cause everyone deserves to tell the person they like, how mush they like em.

I know this post might be a little too quirky and might even make you feel uncomfortable, the reason I decided to write this in the first place is because of that "after-lunch chat". But the main reason was cause im sitting at my home, its 2 in the morning, and I cant sleep. More to follow...

We Dancing for Hosanna Song from VTV... Colruyt Team Outing

My First Dance Performance.... on Colruyt Team Outing... Oora Vittu

Trisha on Nayyaandi Darbar - Rare Video

You are one awesome woman....

Of course i'm talking about Miss Trisha Krishnan, the most sizzling actress of Kollywood. Watch the film VinnaiThandi Varuvaaya if you don't believe me.

I love this dialogue that Kartick(Simbu) says in the movie.Its true. I couldn't agree more. My friend said that Trisha's voice was done by Chinmayi. And wow, Chinmayi has done an amazing work in this movie. It matches Jesse's character perfectly. Thanks a million, Chinmayi for making my most favorite actress sound smooth and sexy with a bit of confusion on screen. You could see what Chinmayi has to said about herself on her blog.

This is the 3rd Sunday since the film's release and having seen on the movie on all the 3 Sunday's, i cant still believe that i am now asking my friends to come see the film with me this Sunday too.

If you see any TV show or interview or any stage show that Simbu says to promote VTV, you could hear him say "I have watched Minnalae 25 times in my life in theater's alone". I wish I would be able to say that some 25 weeks from now(If I see the movie every Sunday). So as of now 3 down, 22 more to go.


A.R. Rahman's music for this movie is so amazing with very good lyrics. He literally stopped me from buying any new movie's music cd's, cause, even after listening to the album like 100 times, when i open my music player in my laptop, VTV is the only music I ever listen.

My friend Pradeep posted a comment on Facebook after watching this movie with me. I dont remember the exact words, but it goes a lot like this...

"After watching VnnanThandi Varuvaaya, if you come out of the movie theater without a girl's face revolving above your head, you have wasted 20+ year's of your life".

 Seriously, you have indeed wasted 20+ years of your life.

Trisha Krishnan on South Spice Magazine... Too Good

Magazine Cover....

 

  

  

Vinnai Thandi Varuvaaya still at Sathyam Cinemas

Amazing....

The Blind Side 2009 (English)

Every once a while there comes along a movie which makes you look back at your life and feel how selfish we were and how selfish we continue to be.

Well this movie is one of a kind.

Sandra Bullock who starts along with Quinton Aaron and Tim McGraw in this family drama directed by John Lee Hancock is one damm good movie that should not be missed by people who like the genre "family drama" like American Beauty.

Its about how the life African-American homeless student Michael Oher(Quinton Aaron) changes when he meets the Touhy's(Sandra Bullock and Tim McGraw) and well-to-do white family who help realize his potential. The Touhy's meets Oher on the street on a cold night and make him stay the night at their couch. Thus begins a relationship so beautifully described that mesmerizes you right to the core. Well a black boy living in a well to do white family is sure to make others comfortable, but he way in which how The Touhy's manage this, that is shown on-screen is beautiful.

The presence of Oher changes the lives of the Touhy's for the better. Meanwhile Oher studies hard and becomes a part of Touhy family, and being a "freakishly large man" tries as an offensive tackle for college (american) football team. The rest is how with the support from his family, Oher becomes an All-American football star.

The sequence where Sandra Bullock tells Quinton Aaron what to do during practice where she tells "This team is your family Michael, protect them" is amazing, so too the scene during the football match when Sandra yells "Yo, deliverance. You see Number74. Well thats my son". 

Finally Sandra Bullock performance is superb in this movie. Right in the performance race is Quinton Aaron. Tim McGraw is good. The two kids are amazing.

Overall a very good family story.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0878804/

Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening by Robert Frost

This is one of the best poems ive ever read.... and the one that i loved the most...

Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village, though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.

My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.

He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound’s the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.

The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.

The most Beautiful actress in the world ...

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The Charge Of The Light Brigade by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Half a league half a league,
Half a league onward,
All in the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred:
'Forward, the Light Brigade!
Charge for the guns' he said:
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.

'Forward, the Light Brigade!'
Was there a man dismay'd ?
Not tho' the soldier knew
Some one had blunder'd:
Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do & die,
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.

Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon in front of them
Volley'd & thunder'd;
Storm'd at with shot and shell,
Boldly they rode and well,
Into the jaws of Death,
Into the mouth of Hell
Rode the six hundred.

Flash'd all their sabres bare,
Flash'd as they turn'd in air
Sabring the gunners there,
Charging an army while
All the world wonder'd:
Plunged in the battery-smoke
Right thro' the line they broke;
Cossack & Russian
Reel'd from the sabre-stroke,
Shatter'd & sunder'd.
Then they rode back, but not
Not the six hundred.

Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon behind them
Volley'd and thunder'd;
Storm'd at with shot and shell,
While horse & hero fell,
They that had fought so well
Came thro' the jaws of Death,
Back from the mouth of Hell,
All that was left of them,
Left of six hundred.

When can their glory fade?
O the wild charge they made!
All the world wonder'd.
Honour the charge they made!
Honour the Light Brigade,
Noble six hundred!

Vinnaithandi Varuvaaya 2009 (Tamil)

Ok. Here it goes. I have always had great expectations for this particular movie cause, first of all, the movie had Trisha Krishnan as the lead(And I am a crazy fan of her's), second it had Silambarasan, a.k.a Simbu, who btw changed his name from "Little Super Star" to "Young Super Star" (its good to see him maturing), and most important of all is that this movie is directed by the "greatest story teller" of the current generation Mr.Gautham Vasudev Menon, and boy, he's proved like always that he is the better part of all the film-makers out there.

The movie is aptly tittled as a romantic entertainer, and you could see romance fill the air for the most part of it. Its all about how a guy falls in love with the women of his dreams on their first sight and how that love grows and as usual even-though everyone opposes, how they come out at the other end of the tunnel. But even though story seems bit like the usual, it the way the director imagined and shot each frame that makes him the best. 

The movie goes like this. Kartick(Simbu) a 22 year old Hindu tamil guy, who even though studied Mechanical Engineering tires to become a Movie-Director, falls in love with Jesse(Trisha) a 23 year old Christian malayali (beautiful) girl on their first-sight. And from then on till deep in the first half he tries to get the attention of Jesse and tries to make her love him, or in plain words, somehow tries to make his one-side love, you know, both-sided(successful). To make matters worse their is a rude brother to Jesse, and her 6' 3" tall father. Then they fall in love. Jesse's father fixes her marriage. She refuses at the last moment. She falls in love with Kartick. Then she dumps him for no peculiar reason at all(i think the director saw "500 Days of Summer" and got inspired). She disappears. Kartick becomes director. A bit of twist at the climax. And the end credits. 

As I already said even though its a simple script its the way the movie goes that mesmerizes the audience. There are some very catchy dialogues and  they way the director portrays kartick's love for Jesse in the screen that makes the people go "aaaaaaaaawe". 

As for the performance goes all actors seemed hand-made for the roles in this movie. Trisha as this amazing beautiful sexy malayali girl is simply superb. Simbu was very suttle and seems like the most eligible bachelor in Kollywood. Gautham has once again proven his versitality. And most important of all A.R. Rahman's music has given absolute charm to this wonderful story.

Its a complete fell-good movie and a sure to be big-hit not only in the metros, also in the rest of the state as well. 

Saying that what u think is gonna happen if you throw in the most eligible bachelor in town with the the most beautiful girl of kollywood together with some amazing background scores and some of the best songs, and most of all one of the better director. Well sparks are sure to fly.

Finally thanks to cinematographer and director for showing Trisha so beautiful on-screen. 

And also thanks to Trisha just being beautiful.