Don't know what to name this.

     I was not able blog for a long time now, i had my exams(doesn't necessarily mean that i utilized all that time to study) and then my bro's exams and then a few relatives at home kept me out of blogging for some time, in two days i have to leave for my native too, so for another ten days no other post most probably, i wanted to write a lot about how proud and happy i was to see CSK lift the IPL trophy, got a few ideas on Atheism and many other things too but was able to write, to top that all i use BSNL internet connection which like went off 3-4 times while i was typing this so whenever i get time and loneliness to write a post the internet connection is down(i don't like people peeping over my shoulders when i am writing a post), but i had enough time to watch a lot of movies, of the movies i saw recently i liked gran torino, the prestige, breach, world's fastest indian, insomnia, eastern promises, iron man, luck by chance, JHONNY GADDAR,parugu and etc were good, i don't remember i would add 3 or 4 more but i don't remember all the movies i saw, then there was enough cricket tamasha happening around eyepeeyell on twitter was really cool, then the wc ouster, the way dhoni commented on pulling was all funny, good entertainment though, FB is a thing which made blog a little less,kinda getting addicted to fb, so that's it from me for now bye.

Periyar E-book Links

I have found a link for the Tamil version of Periyar's work, who is also atheist, social activist, many might think a person who does not believe in god can never do a good thing in his life, now a slap on their face is Periyar. I still don't read tamil but this link might help those who read tamil.
http://rapidshare.com/files/373941277/Periyar.rar
or
http://rapidshare.com/files/373944094/Periyar.rar

Both links have the same content use the other one if one does not work.

Atheism for our culture and more

This is not my original work at all, check this link, http://rapidshare.com/files/374701592/AGAINST_GOD__ENGLISH_.rar,

 I found this link recently, it consists of 13 pdf format e-books on atheism, here is the index of that link,

1. 4447669-Riddles-in-Hinduism-by-B-R-Ambedkar
2. 4931804-Concept-of-God-in-Major-World-Religions-Dr-Zakir-Naik
3. 6964575-The-Ramans-BooksGeneral-Knowledge
4. 7165768-Annihilation-of-Caste
5. 7250832-Manu-1
6. 8244370-Caste-in-India-by-DRBRAmbedkar
7. 10322629-In-Defense-of-Atheism
8. 14371687-Manu-Smriti-English-with-extracts-from-8-commentaries-
9. 16634512-Buddha-and-His-Dhamma-by-B-R-Ambedkar-Full
10. Christopher Hitchens - God is not Great
11. Harris, Sam - The End of Faith
12. Richard.Dawkins.-.The.God.Delusion
13. Selected_Works_of_Dr_Ambedkar.

Vinnai thaandi varuvaya

     I made an effort to go to Royapuram from Ponnamali to watch this movie at Idream cinemas, and indeed also made an effort to watch the movie, a few days ago an sms was floating around which said that only a person who does not know one bit about love would say " Enna miru padam da idhu?"(what a stupid movie is this?), this movie was clearly advertised more than it required, i don't mean the movie is very bad, no not that, but it ain't Gautham Menon's best movie either.

     

     This movie is a love failure story, some random fool said it was a copy of the english movie "500 Days of Summer" but it is not, in this movie, Simbu acts as Kartick an engineering grad who wants to become a movie director and Trisha is a M.C.A grad working in a software company, he is one year younger than she, he is hindu she is malayali christian, nothing seems to favour love between the both, but then fall in love, but her dad wants her to marry only a christian and a person with a "proper" job, at one point when she asks him to take her somewhere and marry her he refuses as he is in goa shooting for a movie as crew member, then love breaks and story goes on, no more spoilers.

     Gautham Menon stereotypes his characters and that was the major reason for my irritation, his style was clearly evident in the movie,hero's parents are always building a new house, heroine has either studied math in college or computers, in this movie both math and computers, heroine mostly appears in formal saree's, they are tall and slow-talkers, let me put it in one small line, Trisha make-up looked strikingly similar to Jo's in Khakke-Khakke and Asin's in Gharshana (telugu version on KK), and there were many other similarities(which don't come to my mind as i type this) which made the movie look a little bit not-new.

      Music is always a plus for Gautham's movies, but this movie's music got mixed reviews, a few liked it very much, to the extent that they sang that "Hosanna" song literally a million times by now and a few did not like it that much and i was the extreme kind who hated the music, for me only hossana was a bit bearably others were terrible, i am no one to comment on ARR's music, he is the maestro but i am not a fan of slow melodies, for me music must be loud and fast, but the bgm themes were excellent i felt, one theme starts like the sound which comes from the snake charmers instrument, or i don't know what it is and then it goes on with a lot of drumming i liked that very much but unfortunately the themes for the movie were not released with the audio.

     Performances in the movie were good, Trisha particularly acted superbly i felt, always when she was walking i felt her walk was funny, which was later used in the movie when simbu says to her that her walk was funny, that line really surprised me, Simbu did not do his normal over-acting, sappa scene putting, mockai dancing role, but he acted properly and most importantly no reference to TR, this is Gautham's movie everything else was perfect except for the story, dialog "it's like a way ticket to the heart break city" was innovative and that's it i remember of that movie, after all it's not a "Prison Break" to remember till death.

CSk for life

Dear Red. If you're reading this, 
  you've gotten out. And if you've 
  come this far, maybe you're willing 
  to come a little further. You 
  remember the name of the town, 
  don't you? I could use a good man 
  to help me get my project on 
  wheels. I'll keep an eye out for 
  you and the chessboard ready. 
   (beat) 
  Remember, Red. Hope is a good 
  thing, maybe the best of things, 
  and no good thing ever dies. I will 
  be hoping that this letter finds 
  you, and finds you well. Your 
  friend. Andy.

Now why did i post this dialog from "The Shawshank Redemption"?, let me explain it, might sound silly, but it is something to me, last week or so i was reeling in pain, not able to think anything, do my things properly, get angry on small things, i was in extreme frustration, CSK has lost 4 matches in a row and looking in very bad shape to qualify for the semi's, people started ridiculing the team, sms's were passed over to add salt to already salty soup, i knew that my team would rise up from the defeat and show to the world what csk is made of, i held my hope, i always had a lot of hope on csk, and maybe that was a good thing and it never died, never even fainted for a second, and now the result speaks, many of those wagging mouths have already shut up, i don't know what a csk fan is or a sports fan is when he can't stand-by his team through thin's of the team's carrier, i was never like that, hope is the best of things, and i'll remain with hope always.

CSK for life......

Dev D

    
     I have seen a few movies this week, which include two oscar nominee movies "Precious","The Blind Side" and the "The Departed","Dev D", among which those last two stood out, while the departed was a crime and thriller genre movie, Dev D was one of it's kind drug and other real life incidents based movie.
      The Departed was good but Dev D was excellent, people might wonder how people watch these kinda movies, but i like them, i have seen movies on drug abuse, prostitution etc etc before in the likes of "The Basketball diaries", "Requiem For a Dream", "Fight Club" etc there are a lot more which i don't remember presently, all of them were excellent movies and DD is surely one of the best, it was very original when compared to other Indian movies which easily copy the screenplay, story and music, this movie stands out in that aspect and even better than a hollywood movie. The style maybe slightly inspired but not like a straight copy at all.
     This movie mainly is about three characters Dev, Paro ,Chanda/Leni. Dev is spoiled young man, who returns from London for his bro's wedding and wants to marry his childhood lover Paro, but he hears rumors of she having an sexual affair with someone and Dev insults her, Paro loves him but after the insult she moves on and marries another person, later Dev realizes that the rumors are false, but it's too late, Paro settles in Delhi with her husband, Dev has a hotel in Delhi, he starts getting addicted to drugs and drinking, here Chanda comes in she is a teen who gets caught in a mms scandal, then her dad commits suicide, mom leaves her, she then comes to delhi and works as a prostitute by night and goes to college in the day and then the story goes on, i can't write it completely.
     This movie has every thing, excellent direction, screenplay, cinematography, music , very good performances especially Kalki (Leni/Chanda) but the movie lacks a little bit of logic, like paro having good internet access, there is a lot of sex involved and in the first half they always seem to be doing it without getting caught, good english spoken like a lot of slum dwellers, people wearing hats,glasses etc inside an Indian slum,elvis presly styled wedding singers. But this movie is not that bad either, in fact other than those little  logical errors it's an exceptional movie, with the music fitted the way it was fitted it's just excellent, and this movie was not even selected for oscars list from India, if it was it might have stood a great chance cos it's like one of their movies with a good Indian touch. It deals a lot with female sexual desires and how they are suppressed in our culture, Music was really really excellent i think i mentioned music twice earlier in this post but it needs that mention cos it was so good and the actress Kalki was again really good, she is an indo-french from pondy so she knows french, tamil, english fluently and she speaks too in all those languages in the movie!, she apparently learned Hindi for this movie(ha ha, truely south indian).
BOTTOMLESS: Must watch, few might never understand it but a really good movie some even call it a devdas satire.     

CSK