Listen to Lucky

Unanswered Questions: 1. Why do rock stars have a funky hair style? 2. How can actors meet with accidents in bus stops and start their careers in cinema ? 3. Why should be a villain always call his right-hand guy/lieutant with christian names (namely david/peter etc) ? 4. Why do the state government officials (if you see somebody in educational dept / revenue / sales tax) always wear none other than a safari ? 5. who could be the first person to introduce a word from foul language (say a four letter word /any other vernacular)...cha (enna brainla ??) 6. Do the soldiers who die in wars, will talk for fifteen minutes like our bollywood/kollywood heroes after getting hit by 15 bullets ? 7. If parents are interviewed for their children's admission, what will happen to a child whose parents are illiterate ? 8. why should heroes are always poor and heroines are rich in screen ? 9. If you have educational qualifications from conductor to collector, then why my beloved MLA is uneducated ? ...

This post is written after watching the much awaited film of the year "Guru" by Maniratnam. I always love mani ratnam for his marketing style, casting, managerial skills, sensational stories. But still mani is worth few credits for giving sensible cinema for the last 20+ years. Hats of Mani Bhai for depicting Dhirubhai's story in his typical "shtyle". But I loved the story which has greater resemblance of Shri Dhirubhai Ambani (to whom i have a greater respect, even though there are questions of ethics were always posted against his style of doing the business). The movie starts with Guru who has failed in exams pursues to do work in turkey (dhirubhai went to Aden (Yemen), and works for Shell (burma shell company). Once he earns sufficient money guru has the passion to do business on his own. Marries Sujata (aishwarya) for dowry which he uses it as captial and proceeds on his way to start his venture "Shakti Corporation". During this time he befriends ...

I had listened to you a beautiful tamil song and i have translated the lyrics in english as this could be appreciated by other friends. This is one of the songs which has haunted me a lot in the recent past. Note: This piece of translation may not follow the strict rules of english poetry and i am an amateur and this is my maiden attempt. Oh! my nomadic friend who walks on the forestside, Reach your destination before the sun sets, It is not as sunny as the mid-day, Focus on your foot and keep walking, You will learn a lot during this walk, Stay focussed on your journey, Mind is the only friend who accompanies you. Life is a perennial river, Hope being the banks on her sides, Never stop her and allow her to have a free run. If she stands still, make her to run She keeps moving as the days pass by You can never reach her roots, Realise this and keep walking. Lakshman Have a great day ahead.

I had a wonderful night session on music where i was picking up the best tunes which i had heard and came to best of the songs which were plaigraised / ultaa-ed in indian parlance to our desi audience. This song "chittuku nalla chittukku (from the movie nallavanukku nallavan) of illayaraja was one of my favourites as tempo of the song was very slow and this has been inspired from 18th century russian composer ( http://www.emusic.com/album/10872/10872285.html ) The best of the inspiration which i heard was a tamil song flicked from antonin dvorak symphony 9 ( http://w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de/cmp/dvorak_sym9.html - listen to scherzo). The song was flicked by none other than maestro Illayaraja for a song called "chittu kuruvi vetkapaduthu" for the movie chinna veedu..(beautiful piece...) One of the interesting flicks made in hindi was by "Yeh dil na hota bechara" http://www.raaga.com/channels/hindi/movie/H000691.html from jewel thief (composed by S D Burman) was flick...

I have been thinking the other day reminiscing the days of my past and thought of sharing the few rollicking/rocking moments of "DoorDarshan" which i enjoyed in the past. The earliest things which i remember are the progrmames which came in doordarshan which was so much informative. All the kids in my neighbourhood use it assemble at sanju's place in '82 to watch the "oliyum oliyum (tamil version of "chitrahaar") / at my place to see one new song which would have come for diwali / new year. Whenever there is Christmas / Good friday, Sivaji used to sneek into my house with " thevane ennai parungal " / another song from vellai roja. Even on the new year, there used to be songs like " happy indru muthal happy " (which means i am happy from today) / a song from kamal movie guru. I even remembered prepared a skit based on the schedule of doordarshan with their schedule. for those who has forgotten the classic schedule, here it is ( i hope...