http://ashchimp.rediffiland.com/Diary of ramuK hsemaRen-usI have been away from iLand for a long time. Hence I have decided to go about this one in a random fashion. Life is going great and I'm damnest busy for the past few months, first with my summer project then came the placement season, next came GRE and finally after all, the mother of all exams CAT. I couldn't juggle with all these and so screwed up my summer project which got hanged up in between. I felt bad for a day or two. After all it"s not the end of the world. I have to get going with other important things in my life. Never in the past 4yrs of my engineering life I was this busy and working under stress. Even the classes I never used to care about them and my attendance percentage is as low as 60 %. My brother used to tell me, " No matter how hard you work or how screwed up you might be in the freshman and sophomore years of your graduation, you just cannot neglect your final year ". That"s absolutely true. I could have totally relaxed immediately after I got placed just like so many of my other friends. I totally envy them. But my ambitions are different. I never felt satisfied in my engineering life. I am not satisfied with the kind of education I received. I am not satisfied with my job as well. Am I looking pessimistic? Well, I dont really want to blame the system and may be even the fault is with me. OK, past is past. I always had higher ambitions in my life ( who will not have ? ) and optimistically enough I am in the pursuit of that life which gives me the utmost satisfaction and in the process I"m forsaking those uncalled for things. Getting late for my class, more in the next post.



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The movie which was shot for over 2 years and was made a on a high budget of about 90 crores, costliest film in the history of South India and directed by Shankar,one of the best technicians of our country and acted by none other than our super star RajniKanth. By this time you would have guessed it right. Yes, I am a big time fan of Shankar and Rajnikanth.

By the time I tried for tickets, all the multiplex screens and other major theaters were houseful not only for the weekend but for the entire first week!! So I booked tickets in a theater which is in outskirts of the city, 2 days prior to the release of the film , to watch after 2 days after release of the film ! When the movie is going to be released in another 2 days, I was totally glued to my pc googling about the movie for any latest news. All the major TV Channels gave a lot of publicity for the film and it pumped up my adrenaline more and more.

Finally the movie is released on this friday and I was tensely refreshing the homepage of some of the leading movie websites for the review of the film. I was very disappointed with the reviews which stated the movie as average. Even one of the Shankar's previous film Aparichitudu a.k.a Anniyan had a similar average review by the movie websites but the film went on to become a blockbuster and highest grosser film in South India.I watched it 3 times. So even this time I hoped that the average is not the movie but are the reviews.

So today morning, the 3rd day of the film, I went for the morning show. Though the movie was to be started at 12.15pm which was told at the time of booking, it started at 11.45am. Because of the length of the movie which was over 3 hours, they started it early. Then itself I've decided to watch the movie for the second time as I had sadly missed out the first 10 mins and the superstar's entrance.

Coming to the movie,to be truthful, the movie disappointed me. I expected the shankar's punch with a social message and the logic behind every scene which usually will be present in his films. But this film lacks everything. It has the social message about the black money but not clearly told and there is no logic in most of the scenes in the second half in which hero tries to get all the black money from the richer people and in some way(?) convert it to white and spend it for the benefit of poor people . But it's a treat to the RajniKanth fans who excels in his mannerisms, style, dialogues and crazy antics. There's no shankar's touch to the movie. The hero bashes up the goons many a times and each fight is dragged for about 10 mins. Other things which impressed me is the heroine Shriya, believe me...she is very hot and beautiful and a good performance by vivek(comedian) and suman(one and only villain) and some very fine art work in the songs. AR Rehman's music is not upto the expectations except a couple of songs.

Dont mistake me as a expert reviewer or something of that kind :P I'm just an engineering student wanted to blog something and hence sharing my movie experience of the GREAT movie which I've seen today.That's it.And I think this one is not a piece which I mentioned in my last post.So cutting it long(???) I take leave. Thanks for reading.

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P.S> I am promising myself to come back tomorrow and write some interesting stuff.Let's see what happens...]]>Fri, 15 Jun 2007 22:53:47 +0530http://ashchimp.rediffiland.com/blogs/2007/06/15/first.html