Junk

This is மொக்கை time yet again. VK has unleashed two in a row over the weekend.

Spicing up everything is Gabtun's gimmicks in Kollywood. VK calls this the funniest link ever. KG researches alternate sources of battery power for laptops.

Agency sources in Seattle say that s/w companies are vying to hire Gabtun for integrating spreadsheet and data processing cababilities (yeah, spelling is correct) into Windows Media Player

Closing note on Gabtun's inspiration: Abdul Kalam என்ன சொன்னாரு? India will become a superpower in 2020. ஆயிட்டோம்ல??

Put a sock!

I chanced to read this article in IBNlive. Come on, put a sock in it! When are we going to stop finding faults in everything?

• If Shahrukh watched the game in Jo'burg, its his own business.


• Even if he promoted the movie, its his movie, he has to publicize it and he can do whatever he wants to do about it. Why should it bother others?


• Why should movies/persons be linked to cricket just for the sake of it? Already the word "Chak de" is in my word hate list simply because too much is being made out of it for no big reason.

As an aside, no cricket fan in India or Pakistan will care about any other damn thing when an India-Pak match is going on, leave alone a Hindi movie!

So, stop crap. Enjoy your cricket!

The Perfect Script

The Twenty 20 World Cup that concluded in South Africa yesterday was perhaps the most popular and successful cricketing event since Ashes 2005, the 2007 World Cup in the Carribbean being an obvious mismanaged flop.

This tournament had everything packaged such a way that it culminated in a terrific success with a marquee final

• Brilliant management
• Great organization
• Cheaper ticket prices
• Zero torture in the name of security
• Cheering dancers lined up in the stadia for the games and several other intangibles.

Adding to this were various happenings on-field that spiced up the proceedings the most notable ones being the following

• 'Ga(y)le' storm kicked off the tournament with such brutality that it woke up people to make note of some sensational action that was about to follow.


• Australian attitude - Its so typical. If they win, its because of practice and the training camps. If they lose, its because they just had fun. Lackadaisical attitude cost them dearly in the initial stages while youthful exuberance knocked them out of the championship


• Minnow Bashing - Courtesy Sri Lanka


• All tied up - The spectacular tie at Durban followed by the un-spectacular bowl-out to decide the result


• English Special - The inventors of the newest format of the game were the vanquished yet again. Deja vu


• Violence - India rubbed salt on England's already sore wounds as Yuvraj and Co. went berserk at the Kingsmead. Off the field, Durban - 600028 made waves over the internet


• "Choke" de South Africa - The number games proved elusive yet again as the hosts digged themselves into an ignominious exit


• Stop 'em - Australia sent tumbling out of the contest in the semi-finals by India


• The showpiece of 'em all - a nerve wracking "India - Pakistan" final, India taking home the first ever T20 championship. No one can ask for a better script to a final

Everybody opined that the tournament was going to be a bowler's graveyard but its the bowlers who won the games for the teams barring the opener. This factor has contributed to the terrific success of the tournament.

Now, T20 is being talked about (yeah its just the media, no one else really) as the future of the game. But yes, this format of the game will spread like fire in Cricket's biggest market. Take out the cliched terms - purists, classic etc. If you think from a public perspective. what do they love - belligerent hitting, delirious fun all inside 3 1/2 hours, half the duration of a 50-over game. Right? But what happens to the game?!?

The ICC for once has been prudent enough here allowing just 7 T20 games per year for a team sandwiched between Tests and ODIs - yeah yeah, the classical form and the instant form of the game. That number is a bit high but a definite stranglehold on traditional swindlers like the BCCI. Pat Pat Pat.

Too much of anything is bad. So toast the success of T20. Enjoy Test Cricket.

Oh yeah!

Got this as a forward. Brilliant creativity yet again. வாழ்க தமி்ழ் சினிமா

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If you drink Ethanol, you will dance
If you drink Methanol, others will dance for you

-- With inputs from ரூம் போட்டு யோசிப்பவர்கள் சங்கம்.

Exploring Vettiness

Selva has posted about the infamous jelly-bean incident during the Trent Bridge test.

இத வெச்சு நம்ம ஆளுங்க புது level-ல பெட்டிங் பண்ணுவானுங்களே! Opponents would be paid to throw jelly beans when Indian tail is batting - நம்ம ஊர் கிருக்கு மாய்க்கானுங்க செஞ்சாலும் செய்வானுங்கோ!

BCCI's own Cricket League?!?

Oh boy! ICL has apparently scared the bejeezus out of BCCI that they have announced the start of Professional Cricket League. BCCI has asked Sunny Gavaskar to format the new league.

They say "Haste makes waste", don't they? Let's wait and watch...

And by the way, this will come as a bolt out of the blues for BCCI. Mr. Pawar & co, its India - think twice before you do anything. The politicians are available 24x7 to screw things up. In hindsight, is it Dalmiya who is giving Pawar a taste of his own medicine?

Bheema - Music Review

Sublime lyrics, undecipherable syllables, zestfully rendered songs with some brilliant score and a "deja vu" feel make up "Bheema" - Harris Jayaraj is back again. 6 cool songs in the album with varying amount of "Harris Gibberish" (yeah, the unreadable, undecipherable syllables that he is so fond of and starts his songs with).

We can probably have Gibberish Quotient (GQ) for all Harris' albums :-)

Oru Mugamo - Terrific lyrics suggest a potential Vikram intro song. It may be picturized on the lines of "Karka Karka". Krish and Naresh Iyer on song here - My pick of the album!

Harris Gibberish - 2%.

Mudhal Mazhai - Beautifully sung. Sweet Lyrics. Hariharan-Mahathi combo after Saamy take you to a different level altogether. A slight feel of "deja vu".

Harris Gibberish - slightly pronounced.

Rangu Rangamma - Anybody who claim to have passed the Test of Tamil Movies as Ph.D material (TOTMP) should find out w/o even hearing the song that this is an item number. It sounds good, a deja vu feel... yet, a must have for long drives!

Siru Parvaiyaale - Karthik/Harini special. An overdose of Harris' fond syllables makes this song sound a bit irritable at times. Thamarai's lyrics deserve special mention.

Harris Gibberish - 4%

Ragasiya KanavugaL - Sweet melody from Hariharan and Madhushree. I do not understand why do music directors go for North Indian singers who cannot pronounce Tamil syllables ('zh' et. al) properly? There are a few exceptions - Shreya Ghosal is one. Madhushree emulates Udit Narayanan - Tamil Roadkill!

Enadhuyire - A very very different number rendered by Chinmayi and Nikhil Mathew.

Overall, this album may not please the music purists but its certain to go down really well with the masses. Expect it to be a chartbuster already!

P.S: GQ - 2.5 on 5 [On the lines of Figure of Merit ;-)]

தத்துவம்...

தத்துவம் after a long time. Here we go...

"பரோட்டா மாஸ்டர் மைதா மாவ போட்டு அந்த அடி அடிக்கரான். ஏன்டா அடிக்கர-னு கேட்டா வாய்க்கு ருசியா பரோட்டா கெடைக்குமா?"

:-)

நண்டு புடிக்க North Carolina

I was a little surprised to hear that several people in the US have "crab catching" as a hobby. A very different one indeed. And at the same time, they are passionate and patient enough to find out a nice spot to do this and do not mind travelling a whole lot.

My friend and I had a chat on Friday and he was enquiring about a manager whom we worked for. Pat came the reply "அவர் நண்டு புடிக்க North Carolina போயிருக்காரு"

He shot back "நண்டு கூட அதே area-ல கெடைக்காதா? அத அவ்ளோ தூரம் போய் புடிக்கணுமா?" Such a valid question. But என்ன பண்றது? இந்த ஊர் காரனுங்க இப்ப்டிதான்.

இதே நம்ம ஊரா இருந்திருந்தா, ஒரு பாலார் வாட்டர் தொட்டி கட்டி வெச்சா அழகா நண்டு வரும். இத உட்டுட்டு... அய்யோ அய்யோ!

What next?

After Shilpa Shetty, its now the turn of Bipasha Basu to get smoochy... So what's next in store from idiots wrapped in morons back home?
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1. First of all, a call for a ban on all MANU and Portugal's games on Indian Television courtesy Shivsena and PMK (in the south).
2. Writ petitions and "பைத்தியக்கார" interest litigations from you-know-who of you-know-which party to take legal action and trial the player in India (இவணுங்க செஞ்சாலும் செய்வாணுங்க!)

Ronaldo ji, வெளயாட்றதோட நிருத்திக்கப்டாதா?? எங்க ஊர் கிருக்கு மாய்க்காணுங்கள பத்தி பேப்பர்-ல எல்லாம் படிச்சதில்லையா?

Bommari - பொம்மரி

Ever since the telugu movie "Bommarilu" became a hit, I used to think about the possibility of it being remade, who would do it and also the names it could have.

The answer to who would remake it is fairly straight forward. It will either be Vijay or Jayam Ravi and his brother. Now that Bommarilu was intended for the A,B centers, Vijay is an automatic ejection. So here they come... Jayam Ravi and his brother with "Santosh Subramaniam" - yeah thats the movie's name.

I was thinking "Bommari" as the only possible name if it was ever remade in Tamil... but you never really know :-)

P.S: Dr. Rajesekar of இது தாண்டா போலீஸ் fame is coming to Tamil - obviously a dub and its called "உடம்பு எப்புடி இருக்கு"

Over to the next level of insanity.

Only we can do it...

Its always mighty funny watching bloopers and its additional comedy if its about cops. So how about official records in the Government valuing a bicycle at 90K, a bike at over a lakh, a boeing at Rs.1,600 and guitars classified under agriculture? Thats what the Tamil Nadu police have in their records.

Well, the best is yet to come - 15000 buffalos reported stolen in a single case and close to 100 FIRs getting filed before the crime was even committed!

இதெல்லாம் நம்மளால மட்டுமே முடியும்... என்ன சொல்றீங்க?

Think about this in another direction... We've just got the story for Vijaykanth's next movie :-)

I am just wondering what the case will be if we move up North. Bloopers volume 1,2,3... nu release பண்ணிட்டே இருக்கலாம்

Options...

Aleem Dar handed out the worst umpiring decision in cricket for a 5 year span 2005-2009 in the 3rd ODI of the recently concluded Future cup series between India and South Africa ruling a catch taken at first slip a feet and a half above ground as "not out".

There were uproars from a few fanatics asking him to be suspended/banned etc., So thinking a bit out of track, lets assume the ICC does remove from the elite panel. Here are two definite things that he can do.

• Take a cue from Anuradha Sengupta and banish movies of other languages that you do not know
  
• Take a cue from the jokers in Congress party and file dumbest of law suits against movies

Any takers?

P.S: The fact that ICC is "//SYSIN DD DUMMY" can be well understood from the fact that Asoka de Silva is still an umpire.

Time Pass

Anuradha Sengupta of CNNIBN has written a blog in their website about Sivaji and boy, it received close to 1000 "bashing" comments within a day. The comments made terrific reading and great timepass.

This is her counter to all those comments.