Hats off to the Yavarum Nalam Movie director

It was long time back, I enjoyed a tamil movie like this. Brilliant screen play, awesome camera work from Shriram, that too opening scene camera. He used some kind of white lens or black and white frame for the scenes which took place at Madhavan house . After climax once Madhavan succeed his attempt to rescue his family, the frame or lens changes its color and viewed as normal color movie in the Madhavan's house.(Sorry I am not technical person to explain the camera work) BG music increases our blood pressure, I watched entire movie from the tip of the seat. Entire screen play with logic is very good.

But the two songs is negative aspect of the movie and there is one logic issue, an English Paper listing the T.V programs in Tamil Font. It is the only area where there is a hole in the logic.

Thanks to Mani, for showing me this.

At last, Madhavan acting in the movie is simply supereb

Inside Limosines

I was brushing my eyes again and again and pinched my hand after seeing this pictures

My Home snap shot from Google earth

Thank you google.

IPL shifted to South Africa

South Africa wins the race and IPL shifted to South Africa, there are lots of reason, why South Africa preferred over England. Sky Sports don't want to mess up the IPL with other big events in England. Police were not sure about the security and tickets fair generally higher than South Africa.

I don't understand why IPL event is tried to conducted on the election time in India. Around 600 cores estimated has loss for BCCI.

TATA launched Nano

I don't believe TATA can launch Nano so quickly within the span of time, after facing lots of problem in West Bengal, I thought it would take longer time than expected. Ratan TATA yesterday launched Nano. Company expecting a collection 7000 cores from the advance payment alone. It has 21 % more space than the other small cars.

Launching in the great recession period can be positive or negative, I am not sure, lets wait and see how the market turns up.

Stupid Directors

Wow! In those days,... Adidas? Hmmm.... Branded Pirate!


Bows, arrows, ... And cellphones in the olden days?



Hmmm.... Aero planes in the Trojan War?



You need to hold the trigger to shoot someone or...?


Old movie. New watch? Watch it out!

Computers in early days

First portable computer


Computer from Apple.

India beat New Zealand by 84 runs Margin

India clinch the series by winning the fourth ODI through D/L method. Sehwag blasted every bowler around the Park. He reached his 100 in 60 balls, and set a new record for India, fastest century by Indian batsman, beating Azhar's 100 runs 0f 62 balls.

Earlier New Zealand elected to bat and put up a fighting total 281. In reply India chased the revised target of 281 in 47 overs and reached 201 in 23.3 overs by that time rain god opened up and halted the match. India were far ahead with runs and wickets and declared as Winning side.

Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir gave the desired start to the Indian innings. India smoothly crossed initial overs without any loss of wickets.

Gambhir was on 28 while Sehwag was batting confidently on 51 to give nightmares to the Kiwis before rain halted the match for the third time in the day.

With two swift half-centuries by McCullum (77) and McGlashan (56), New Zealand managed to score 270/5. But the target for India was revised to 281 by the Duckworth-Lewis method.

Electing to bat first, New Zealand's Brendon McCullum and Jesse Ryder looked careful when they initiated their innings while India pacers struggled to get the breakthrough, early in the morning.

Both the openers managed to hit well and save their wickets till the time Ryder became part-timer Yuvraj Singh's victim when he was on 46 runs.

Ross Taylor joined Brendon McCullum, who smashed 15th ODI half-century of his career to take Kiwis past 100-run mark. Another India part-timer Yusuf Pathan came handy when he was quick enough to send back the new batsman - Taylor for just 5 runs.

Martin Guptill came in next and got an early scare of a run-out when he was on 12 runs. Just when the hosts looked a bit stronger, McCullum (77) was caught plumb by pace spearhead Zaheer Khan and he missed another well-deserving century.

Jacob Oram joined Martin Guptill at the crease but his arrival was of no benefit to the batting side as he gave away his wicket to lanky pacer Ishant Sharma off Dhoni. He added just one run to the board.

Ishant Sharma took another wicket in the form of Guptill (25) whose catch was closely taken by the third man and substitute Karthik. Grant Eliott entered next.

When Eliott (12) and McGlashan (28) were at the crease, play was stopped due to rain. New Zealand's score was 209 at the loss of 5 wickets then.

Play resumed but was again halted after two overs as rain played spoilsport for the second time. The game was reduced to 47-over per side.

Play began and McGlashan hit a quick fifty. He remained unbeated on 56. While, Eliott (35*) added some crucial runs in the end to raise the score to 270/5.

Earlier, Ian O'Brien and Ewen Thompson joined New Zealand's playing XI. Vettori, who missed the third ODI, came back to lead the side.

For India, Rohit Sharma replaced injured Sachin Tendulkar and Ishant Sharma made an entry. Munaf Patel warmed the bench.

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Yavarum Nalam Movie Review

It has been a while since Tamil cinema came up with a nice offering of horror flick, which has your heart racing and blood pressure soaring at just the right moment, before scaling down, like a well orchestrated symphony. But it has been worth the wait for movie buffs, with this pre-summer special of horror, centred around a television set.

The film (Yavarum Nalam) takes off from an ordinary, everyday event—the afternoon serial hour, which is the holy of holies in many homes today. And plays havoc with the happy urbanite joint family. Director Vikram Kumar makes a neat beginning showcasing Manohar (Madhavan), his wife Priya (Neetu Chandra), mother (Saranya), brother and his wife, and Mano’s younger sister happily moving into a swank, 13th floor apartment that the brothers jointly invest in. And offers tiny morsels of mystery, like the lift which refuses to budge for Manohar, the mysterious neighbor, the supra-powerful power outages, the first drop of blood shed in the pooja room, even as he shows the family happy doing the 100 ordinary things.

As the 13th hour (1 pm) serial airs in Mano’s house, avidly watched by the family, Mano alone begins to realize that the story is an eerie parallel of his own family’s. When events in his family turn gory, it is a race against time for Manohar to unravel a gory past, save his own family, and secure their future .

Madhavan carries the film on his shoulders neatly with a neat performance, and Saranya delivers, as always, with her natural style. Neetu Chandra fits the role snugly. P C Sreeram’s natural lighting is a major plus, especially in portraying the 1970s, and the grainy tone that he alone can bring to cinema is another plus. Of course, there are a few iffy points. Like the TV showing the climax while there is a power cut. And did our Chennai police (law and order) wear those red and blue topis even in the 1970s? That apart, dialogues are a major plus (Neelu Ayappan). It is a neat entertainer without amateurish spook props. This is one goose bumps date you would want to kee

World in grip of 'Great Recession': IMF chief

The global economy will shrink this year as the world enters "a Great Recession," IMF chief Strauss-Kahn has said. Kahn expects global growth to slow below zero this year.

Speaking in a taped interview with French television channel France 24, Dominique Strauss-Kahn said economic data has worsened since January, when the IMF forecast global growth in gross domestic product of 0.5 per cent this year.

"Since then the news hasn't been good," Strauss-Kahn said. "I think that we can now say that we've entered a Great Recession."

Strauss-Kahn didn't make a precise forecast for global economic decline this year.

"This recession can last a long time," Strauss-Kahn added, "unless the policies we're expecting are put in place, in which case 2010 can be a year of return to growth."

The World Bank said on Sunday that the global economy will shrink this year for the first time since World War II and that the global financial crisis will make it tougher for poor and developing nations to access needed financing.

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India beat New Zealand by 58 runs

Yesterday, India scored their second highest total in the ODI and the highest total ever in
New Zealand. India reached 392 in their alloted 50 overs. Sachin scored 163 runs and Yuvaraj scored 87, Dhoni in turn scored 68 runs. At the end some nasty hits by Raina who scored 38 from 18 balls make sure India well placed.

I thought it would be easy victory, but McCullum and Ryder had 164 runs partership in 21.2 overs. And once they departed India made a strong come back, but again 83 runs partership from Mills and Southee made a last minute threat. But finally India managed to win the Game. History made again , the most number of sixes hit in a match is 38.

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Young girl turning out to be 50

On March 7, a young girl turning out to be 50. Yes she is one and only Barbie. Barbie is a fashion doll manufactured by Mattel, Inc. and launched in March 1959. American businesswoman Ruth Handler (1916-2002) is credited with the creation of the doll using a German doll called Bild Lilli as her inspiration. Click here to know more

The most enjoyed and enjoyable moments

Whenever I return to my home, I really enjoy myself. The one hour from the moment, I step in, it will be a great excitement for me. Even though each and every hour would be wonderful, but I don't know why the first one hour is very excited for me and another situation I really enjoyed myself is the returning moments from the MBA exam hall to my home . This happens only to MBA exams not for the every exam. The reason


I don't know why?

Gandhi items owner agrees to cancel auction

The US owner of Mahatma Gandhi's iconic round glasses and other items on Thursday said he has agreed in principle to cancel a controversial auction and donate the belongings to India.

James Otis said he had agreed in talks at India's New York consulate to donate the glasses, sandals and other belongings in exchange for India boosting health spending for the poor and using the memorabilia in an international exhibition.

"The last I heard is the Indian government agreed to the terms I proposed," said Otis, a California-based peace activist. "They sent it to Delhi for approval."

There was no immediate confirmation of the deal or public response from the authorities in India.

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Bapu belonging and Bapu rare Photos

I passed ISTQB Exam

After some suspense and thriller, I found my name in the ISTQB Certified result.
Right from now onwards, I am ISTQB certified Tester.

India beat New Zealand by 53 runs

On the same day of attack on Lankan team by an unidentified group at Lahore. Indian beat New Zealand by 53 runs. The match reduced to 38 overs due to shower at Naiper. Sachin and Sehwag went into bat as India won the toss. They shared 69 runs partnership before Sachin departs.
India made 273 runs out of 38 overs.

Solid fifties by Sehwag (77), Dhoni (84) and Raina (66) powered India to 273/4.Sehwag led from the front and smashed his 34th ODI fifty. But soon the opener too gave away his wicket to Daniel Vettori when he was negating the Kiwi attack at 77 and missed on his deserving 11th ODI century. Ross Taylor took a brilliant catch to send the opener back. Yuvraj joined Dhoni when India was on 121 at the loss of two wickets.

Yuvaraj went for 2 runs. After him, Raina joined the party who scored 66 runs from 49 with strike rate of 169.

Bowlers done their jobs well. Praveen Kumar bagged two wickets, Ace spinner Harbhajan Singh's arrival at the pitch ruined the left over hopes of the hosts as he swept away three batsmen - Guptil (64), Broom (2) and Mills (0) in an over to take India closer to victory. Finally India beat by 53 runs.

SL Cricket team attacked at Lahore

Five Sri Lankan Cricket players have been injured in a terror attack in area around Liberty Market near Gaddafi stadium in Lahore, Pakistan. Those who have been injured are Ajantha Mendis, Tharanga Paranavitana, Thilan Samaraweera, Kumar Sangakkara and Mahela Jayawardene and team coach Paul Farbrace.

The injured players are back in their hotel. Earlier, they were taken to hospital in the city.

The 4th umpire Ahsan Raza has also been injured and has been reported to be critical.

According to the team manager, the incident took place when the team was heading for the third day's play in the second Test against Pakistan.

Meanwhile, Sri Lanka's tour of Pakistan has been cancelled and the team has been called back.

Five policemen in Pakistan have been killed in the attack. The entire area around Liberty market has been cordoned off.

According to the Pakistan police, 12 terrorists were involved in the attack on Lankan team. The terrorists were armed with rockets, grenades and AK-47s.

Police has arrested four suspects in the Model Town area of Pakistan.

Pakistan sports minister has apologised to Lanka government for the gruesome attack.

"We are assessing the situation," Pakistan cricket board chief Ejaz Butt said.

According to the reports, army helicopter airlifted the Lankan players to Lahore airport. The team will fly back to Colombo via Abu Dhabi. Three doctors are accompanying the Sri Lankan team till Colombo.

Sri Lanka has sent foreign minister Rohitha Bogollegama to Pakistan. Meanwhile, Pakistan army chief has met Pakistan president Asif Ali Zardari.

Source NDTV