Last night me and the missus finished watching VTV - Vinnai thandi Varuvaya. My wife as a rule makes me read the review of the movie and confirm her the storyline and the ending. Anything other than a happy ending means I have to watch it alone (Which come to think of it,is not a bad thing at all). My mom is also the same. She calls me up from India to check with me some random movie in KTV to find out the ending before watching it. I assure her that the heroine will die due to cancer and the hero will commit suicide out of happiness. Oh the joys of riling your mom.
They both belong to the category of people who think that any movie with a sad movie is not a movie at all. And as this comprises films from Bala, Ameer, Sasikumar, Balaji Sakthivel I have to watch those movies in isolation. For Kaka kaka my mom made me buy the DVD with the alternative ending.
Well we were watching the movie and reached the point where Simbu and Trisha part and the director shows One year and another one year. My wife ever suspicious of Gowatham Menon looked at me coldly and said that Trisha would have died at this point of time and thus the movies title "Vinnai Thandi Varuvaya". Thankfully that did not happen and though the twist at the end was not to her liking I found the ending to be the perfect fit for the movie. The unanswered questions at the end transform a OK movie to a great one. Good show
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Sunday, February 21, 2010
Going Home
Confirmed at last. April end I am returning to Chennai. Back to family friends choirs. Makes the heart warm all over to return back. I would be landing in chennai at peak summer. Would be curious to see how my son reacts.
I would be missing some of the things here. The daily outings, shopping. Especially shopping at Walmart and Costco. I was never good at shopping and my customary visits to buy clothes would be over in 15 mins. Here on any given sunday we would go to Costco, snack on the samples there browse through all the aisles without buying anything. We would spend at lease a hour and a half. The big carts also means that I can park my son in the cart. Whenever I come back from ofice if the mood was not good we would go to walmart spend an hour there aimlessly, pick up one or two baby food boxes and come. That is one thing which I would miss in Chennai.
However home is where my heart is and right now its set at chennai. Reminds me of one of mark lowrys funny songs about heaven. It can be found here. The lyrics can be found here.
Anyhow Chennai beware. The great one is returning
I would be missing some of the things here. The daily outings, shopping. Especially shopping at Walmart and Costco. I was never good at shopping and my customary visits to buy clothes would be over in 15 mins. Here on any given sunday we would go to Costco, snack on the samples there browse through all the aisles without buying anything. We would spend at lease a hour and a half. The big carts also means that I can park my son in the cart. Whenever I come back from ofice if the mood was not good we would go to walmart spend an hour there aimlessly, pick up one or two baby food boxes and come. That is one thing which I would miss in Chennai.
However home is where my heart is and right now its set at chennai. Reminds me of one of mark lowrys funny songs about heaven. It can be found here. The lyrics can be found here.
Anyhow Chennai beware. The great one is returning
Sunday, February 7, 2010
The "Completely" lost Symbol
Last week I completed reading of Dan Browns recent masterpiece "The lost symbol". I had a great expectation from the novel having read almost all his previous books.Of course his work is fiction and it should be treated as such. You should not read too much into an author who names his best selling work as "The of Vinci Code" (Italian da =of). And regarding his grammar , well we read the story for time pass right. However the telegraph did a good article on the most humorous phrases in his book. It can be found here.
Dan brown faithfully follows his time tested formula. Take any organization or religion and add a lot of controversies to the same. Put the novel in a location that has got a lot off odd ball architecture and you have a bestseller. The curiosity factor itself will sell the book. But the problem with the Lost symbol is the Pace and lack of a coherent plot. The Da vinci code was at least fast paced and it had a lot of things that were new. Symbology, lot of controversial myths about the church added to the storyline in Da vinci code.
However the Lost symbol has none of the above. The whole story revolves around the lost word which infact turns out to be bible. And according to Dan brown its not the work of god but man and you have to intrepret the truth in the bible. And to top it we are all god like the great one says. He does not even try to pull up some dirt about the free masonry an organization that is rife with more conspiracies than the Vatican. One wonders why when you compare it with the Da vinci code which does not have any reservations about the vatican.
Lost Symbol gets repetitive after some time. You have the same cast of characters similar to Da Vinci code Robert Langdons Mentor, an exotic villain, A beautiful and intelligent Heroine and instead of a dead body in the Lourve museum you have a hand. No big surprises in the end too.
Seems like he is sticking to the same format. But it becomes a tedium to the users after some time. And as is his custom he does not waste any time in indulging in some intellectual potshot at religious rituals and this time he even brings in Hinduism too.
A very good blog on his latest novel can be found at Krish Ashoks Blog here
If you have a lot of time in your hand you can go for it. Otherwise a strict no no
Dan brown faithfully follows his time tested formula. Take any organization or religion and add a lot of controversies to the same. Put the novel in a location that has got a lot off odd ball architecture and you have a bestseller. The curiosity factor itself will sell the book. But the problem with the Lost symbol is the Pace and lack of a coherent plot. The Da vinci code was at least fast paced and it had a lot of things that were new. Symbology, lot of controversial myths about the church added to the storyline in Da vinci code.
However the Lost symbol has none of the above. The whole story revolves around the lost word which infact turns out to be bible. And according to Dan brown its not the work of god but man and you have to intrepret the truth in the bible. And to top it we are all god like the great one says. He does not even try to pull up some dirt about the free masonry an organization that is rife with more conspiracies than the Vatican. One wonders why when you compare it with the Da vinci code which does not have any reservations about the vatican.
Lost Symbol gets repetitive after some time. You have the same cast of characters similar to Da Vinci code Robert Langdons Mentor, an exotic villain, A beautiful and intelligent Heroine and instead of a dead body in the Lourve museum you have a hand. No big surprises in the end too.
Seems like he is sticking to the same format. But it becomes a tedium to the users after some time. And as is his custom he does not waste any time in indulging in some intellectual potshot at religious rituals and this time he even brings in Hinduism too.
A very good blog on his latest novel can be found at Krish Ashoks Blog here
If you have a lot of time in your hand you can go for it. Otherwise a strict no no
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