My blog is one year old !!

Celebration time !! My blog is one year old !! I think it is quite an achievement of sorts. I had planned at the beginning of the year that I would not a miss a month while blogging & at the end of the year I look back & see that I have blogged on all the months that too with an average of two posts per month.



The weakest of all weak things is a virtue that has not been tested in the fire - Mark Twain. Yup, this was my Toast Masters table topics session. It was a good experience.

My friend from MIT days, Senthil is currently in Berlin, Germany. Senthil in fact was my roommate in MIT. He is doing his Doctoral Programme there. I am linking his blog here. His first post is very impressive. He writes about his experiences in Germany. Do not miss it !!

Bye for now !!

Movies !!

Feb 4th was a very memorable day at Great Lakes. The day of campus placements & I got through in a good company. Details in later posts……..

I have identified four areas around which I am going to write in future. Movies, Music, Books & Great Lakes. Expect tagged posts.

Movies

I saw two Hindi movies & a Tamil movie yesterday. Guru, Dhoom 2 & JOK.

Guru

Abhishek Bachhan stands out as a great actor. I never thought he could act this way. The way he was portrayed in the screen was very natural. I am saying this because in Dhoom 2, I didn’t find him attractive / handsome. In that way Mani Ratnam is doubtless a perfect caster & knows how to get the best out of his cast. The songs were good & cinematography was very good too.

On the negative side I felt the movie itself did not have a captivating charm. The story was more or less known & hence there was no interest that was built from frame to frame. Also Ash’s initial scenes gave a feel of Madhubala of Roja. Overall I would rate it as OK types.

Dhoom 2

Next, got to see 3/4th of Dhoom 2. 3/4th , because my friend did not give me the final part of the film. The producer & director have slogged to make a Hollywood action film out of Bollywood. I must comment that they have succeeded to a large extent. The Namibia train sequence or the AB, Uday Chopra fight in the water shed have been shot spectacularly. Ash looks stunning in her costumes. AB unfortunately is not cast well & doesn’t look smart. Overall the movie is OK types.

JOK

Third movie was “Jillendru Oru Kadal” . The songs stand out. Bhoomika & Jyothika both look really beautiful. Surya does his part of acting. The reason why it did not click is the fact that Tamil audience are conservative & the fact that the heroine “donates” her husband to his ex-girlfriend for a day is bit of far stretch. It is kind of a radical thought. Overall I would rate the movie worth watching once.

Bye for now.