Varumaiyin Niram Sigappu - If it is made in 2005!

Varumaiyin Niram Sigappu - K.Balachander's movie starring Kamalhassan and Sridevi in lead, S.Ve.Sekar and Dilip being introductions, had been made in sometime in 1980. The movie has a situational theme which is very much beaten in those days novels and movies. How an educated youth finds hard to live with unemployment rate being very high.

The movie is etched with all scenes which draw sympathy from the viewers. The lead artistes is seen in just couple of clothes throughout the movie. I had to pull this off my CD library to beat the boredom on a weekday. As I watched the movie, my mom uttered :"Where is unemployment now? Ppl say BPO, MNC everywhere and all gals & guys are employed @ 20 yrs!!"..

The movie had very strong dialogues/scenes which condemn the society, Indian Government, The way Democracy was made. I wondered what if the movie is made in 2005. What scenes could be censored !!!

1) Kamal - Dilip - S.Ve.Sekar trio,after discussing their poverty, ends the scene shouting - Congress(I) zindabad ! Congress (J) Zindabad !! Congress(K) Zindabad!!! Congress (H) Zindabad !! Democracy Zindabad !!

2) Kamal mistakenly beats the dumb artist and asks if he is Hindi, Tamil since he didnt reply him for long. The artists nods yes when asked if he is Indian. Then ends the scene saying :"Oomaiyaaa ? Adhaan endha mozhiyaiyum sondhamnu sollikkama Indian'nnu sonniya ?"
This could be condemned claiming "Kamal is acting against Tamil and conveying he is Indian"

3) Kamal asks S.Ve.Sekar in the first scene :"unakku cigarette pidikkara pazhakkam irukka?". "Illae!" tells later. Kamal laughs and says "appadinna pazhagikkoo.. yaenna, ingae naanga pala naal adhathaan sappiduvoom !!" - This scene would be condemned to be removed because its misleading youngsters that cigarette is eatable and would spoil them.

4) A Contractor "sub-contracts" his wife to government official for a tenure to get hold of a 10-lakh contract. Many women association would ban the movie because it mars the female community.

Finally, the movie would be a box office disaster coz the songs are Bharathiyar's and no kuthu song and half the dialogues are from Bharathiyar kavidhaigal.

Microsoft... .hehehe..too funny

Microsoft tells contractors to take 7 days off

SEATTLE: Microsoft Corp has told about 1,000 technology contract workers in the US, India and elsewhere to take seven days off the job, without Microsoft pay, in a cost-saving move that came as the company unveiled a series of new perks for its internal staff. Microsoft spokesman Lou Gellos said yesterday that Microsoft told vendors who supply the contractors that about 1,000 workers globally would not be needed this week. The vendors, whose workers do software development for Microsoft, also were told to schedule two other days off, Gellos said. Gellos said this was one of the first times that Microsoft has scheduled a short period of time off for its contractors. He said the company made the decision because it was running over budget in some areas as it headed toward the end of its fiscal year on June 30. He stressed that the contractors' work was being delayed, not cancelled. "We want to be fiscally responsible here," Gellos said. The vendors were informed of the decision at the beginning of the month. It affects workers in Redmond, Washington state, India and elsewhere, he said. Gellos also said the decision was unrelated to a move, announced late last week, to offer new perks to its Redmond employees such as enhanced child-care benefits, access to dry cleaning and grocery delivery services, and better cafeteria food. "I can understand why people might think that there is a connection, but there is not," Gellos said.

Azhagai Irukkirai....

Azhagai Irukkirai. Bayamai Irukkiradhu - The title is impressive (As I felt) even at the first time I heard it Shyam utter so close to Jyo in 12B. As the name, as the movie. AIBI is sweet and decent presentation of a love story which targets youth crowd this summer.

Couldn't resist the chennai summer heat & more importantly the stupid political heat on TV channels I decided to take the Noon show. Movies in south india draw big crowd whatever weather is ! After a lot of consideration between AIBI and Pattiyal, I decided to get in for AIBI. Both had Bharath and Yuvan - for which I decided to watch the movie.

This film mainly revolves around four character Bharath, Arun kumar and couple of lead-females. A love story involving two couples is penned interestingly and most importanly innovatively youth. The animations and sarcasm in scenes are interesting and raised my expectation two-fold. Second half had unpredicted twist in the story and unavoidably the last few minutes turns to be an usual film.

There are two heroes in this movie. No.. not Bharath and Arunkumar. Its Yuvan and Bharath in same order. I am already becoming a die-hard Yuvan fan that I loved the songs already. The songs are presented and choreographed youthfully that I loved them more after watching.
There are few minuses in the movie like considerably long flash-back and too silly comedies with Bharath's mom characterization, first half all shot on the beach restaurant and so on.

But, there are few points which made me like this flick. The movie is so youthful and had two lead pairs - But, know what ??? There is not a single Duet song !! And, especially no masala / folk songs.. Nobody speaks punch dialogue.. These are great reliefs from recent movie trend. The heroine (though looks like an alien to films of south india) has done very good job especially with expressions. Director had seen to these-days issues like ego as key in love break-up, thats onething appreciable.

Yuvan's music had all in it ! Nice fusion with "ooram poo naina", story-oriented "Tuzkhan", and his typical Pathos "Kanave kalaigiradhae" (my favourite in the movie). Bharath's movement and Director's own Cinematography are great plusses to both songs and movies !

Iam sorry I can't avoid blogging biased review, in case readers need an unbiased reviews, give it a shot on web (http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/tamil/review/7689.html)

Azhagai Irukkirai Bayamai Irukkiradhu - (Padam) Azhagai Irukkirai (but, ooduma?) Bayamai Irukkiradhu!!! (Just to sound like Sun TV Review) hehe

Vote - Dont neglect it!

Biggest strength of Indian Democracy is Voting. We have the choice of opting who should rule us, who should spend our taxes, who has the vison of Future India, who has the qualities that make our state/country pround in its economy and infrastructure.

It is very common thought of normal Indian Citizen is that politicians are corrupt and nobody could do better. May be this is truth and I accept it but, neglecting to vote is no good when we claim for benefits when we dont exercise our basic rights. This is just a process of selecting good one among the whole lot of bad ones. We should atleast consider voting for the reason these people come forward to take on politics when we all stay back at home living the way we used to.

Sitting in home, watching TV and avoiding this summer sun is not the way we should live this date May 8. Lets realise our rights and spend sometime for our nation & its development on this one day that comes once in 5 years.

Please refer to the link for the list of parties /candidates contesting.

http://www.indian-elections.com/assembly-elections/tamil-nadu/candidate-list-tamil-nadu-election.html

Hope we have safe elections and avoid any riots. happy voting