Monday, August 25, 2008

Ramgopal varma ki phooooooooooooooooooooooooon



Its not Phoonk its a phoooooooooooooooooooooooooooonnnnnnnnnnn.You should watch it to undersatnd the pain of a common man ,when he looses 100 rs in satyam wtaching a bad film

Wednesday, August 20, 2008

cold calls and hot talks, how to tackle a cold call

I have no idea how these credit card companies find the right time when your in the middle of something which is very important in your life or something like that of a situation.
The follwing is a true story .

Till few months back:
I use to get cold calls from lot of credit card comapnies asking to get credit cards.
They call me when ever im in the middle of some meeting or your expecting some calls.Since its a unknown no sometimes i don pick up call if im busy ,then i call back and find that its a cold call for credit card.
You get pissed of badly for wasting a call &^%$$#@##@!
Then on top of that ,since u have called back they store ur no and call you again and again ,then u again get pissed off , you tell them politely that u don need a card (if its a girl) ,some times in a harsh manner ( if its a guy ), then u get pissed off again when they ask the reason for not taking thier card.
This use to happen once or twice in month atleast , sometimes 4 ,5 times.
I was really pissed off, but i had to find some way to convert this cold call situations to some useful stuff , Eurekaaa and Eurekaaaa forbesss ! i came out with a wonderfull, colourfull way of tacklikng this and also making use of it.

From the day i found the solution this is wat happens:

Cold call guy(cc) :sir we are calling from some bank and we would like to offer u a credit card.
Me:wow thats cool , thats really great , i would love to have the card.
cold call guy :Thank you sir , we would like to know some details to allot the type of card .
Me: sure go on
CC:sir do u have any other card
Me:I have a ration card and a visiting card.
CC:sir no , im asking about any credit card u have.
Me:Ohh sorry , i don have one right now, i had it earlier but since i din pay the back the money, they took it back,wil that be a problem.
CC:ohh no sir , i can any way get u .do u have a bank account.
Me:nope ,i used to have a account, since i don maintain a minimum balance for teh past 9 years ,they cancelled my account.
CC:sir what do u do sir, you profession, do u have a pan card and incometax returns filed.
Me: i catch Frogs from the gutter and sell it to the restaurants in alanthur , so im not a tax accesse, so tell me wen can i collect my credit card.
CC:sir , im really sorry sir , ur not eligeble for our card.sorry sir

And keeps the phone down before i say something.

I call back to the no and start talking to him and beg him to get me a card , some time they get pissed and cut the call.....they delete my no from their cold call database........:) they day is saved

Monday, August 18, 2008

Message Of The Film Is

Yesterday i was talking to someone about a film and asked him how is it.The answer was "There was no message in the film,other than that the film was good"
Then i tried exploring what this message these people are talking about,because i have heared this word a lot of times from lot of film goers "message"
The thing is people want the film to deliver some or the other message to the society blankly ,its something like the moral of the story is types.
But i wonder is our society gone so backward that you have to learn Morals only from films.Its correct if something bad is delivered and some one speaks against it (that by itself i don agree, because what is good for some one is bad for some or the others ).Only if u start expecting messages, the film makers will give their own messages in the film , which is called preaching ,which inturn is also bad (who decides which preaching is good or bad) so don push the film makers to preach thier philosophies.
If you have not learnt that stealing is wrong,drinking is bad for your health,killing is sin and illegal in these past so many years from your parents ,teachers and from the society think how bad is ur up bringing when u search for a message in a film so that you can learn from it.
Im sorry if it hurts some people, but its how it is.Its because of this reason were u always expect messages and forwarded messages from films ,our demi gods of this society have flourised from the film industry.
Each film is given a certificate by sensor board , but still there are no strict rules in theatres and even parents don mind taking kids to watch violent films,and they expect messages from films.
A film is a film thats all ,its nothing more or less than what it is.
I told the above guy, to give me his cell no so that i can send him all the useless forwarded messages that i get on my cell no.

Skykap production ,new site

The new SKYKAP site has been uploaded :)


www.skykapproduction.com

Exhibition


Yesterday was suppose to be the last day of ice exhibition in chennai, it was in the island ground.Its basically a consumer exhibition for home needs, since im moving into a new house i thought i would visit and get some stuff on a lower price .The last time i ever went for some exhibition was some 10 years back thats what i could remember.From then a lot has changed ,i could remember the exhibition on island ground which we had visited during my class 5 vacation.Now its all hifi shops were you can even buy a lop top to hi def tv.In those days u could max find some toys which will stop working by the time you reach home.
Some of the things which ahve not changed are.
1.The Molaga bajji(the long green chilli bujji) and appalam shop.This one shop which had more customers who were really buying .I have no idea on the history about how this shops came into exhibitions,these shops have a long history.
2.The Simple-HiFi vegetable slicers shop.I still remember, when ever we use to go for some exhibition my every one would stop to see how these guys slice down vegetables in different shapes so easily ,peel off skin so simply and would buy also.But i have also seen that wen u come home and try u would always fail to achive what u had seen , its funny ,its something like majic.
3.The soap bubble water in bottles for kids to blow up bubbles, one development in this product is that , now u get bigger ,better ,stronger bubbles which stays for longer( they were using some synthetic tech for thenew generation bubbles).
4.Useless-stuff-shop, this a kind of shop which is always found in all exhibition were there will be a lot stuff lying and would be something like 4 stuff for 100 rupees(the price depends on the inflation ) .The stufss will look as if they are very useful(this is a mental cheat , this happens wen u find things on a cheaper price,cheap doesnt mean its cheaper than outside price but u some how feel its cheaper, or sometimes its like u want to buy something or the other since u have come) but on a second thought u will realise its useless , example the 23rd nail cutter that ur buying,the 45th screw driver set,56th key chain with ur name on it,99th useless plate which u will never use.
5.Buying behaviour - No one was buying anyting from shops otherthan from above mentioned shops.Siply checking out prices.

Some how i could luckily find the 89th nailcutter and bought it :)

Saturday, August 16, 2008

Kuselan ,the worst version of Katha parayumbol




It was very disappointing.
It's a very good example of how a good script can possibly be handeled bad when its given in the hands of a medioker dir like P.Vasu.
It can never match Katha parayumbol(The Malayalam original)

Friday, August 15, 2008

Night life at rec trichy, party everday

Most of the times when u think of the best times in rec - trichy (NIT-Trichy) its the life we have in the night.I have no idea weather its the same now , or weather the other colleges in our time had a similar life.But rect night life was so cool.Iam talking about 97-2001.Most of the day time goes in by bunking and attending classes to manage the attendence so that you don get a fine or a yearback in the end of the sem.But all that it starts is the fun after 5pm.
July first week is wen the placement starts ,so from the day of placement you will have some or the other party going on in some or the other hostels every day.Its like got placed party,going to get placed party,kela milgaya written mein party,kela milgaya interview mein party. .Apart from this from freshie to farewell, senti to elections,girl freind patgayi to break up,hostel fights to criecket match,sem paper to cycle test..all i could remember is parties.So if u know the right people you can attend some or the other parties every day:).some times in thiruvarumbur,some times on the terrace some times in SAMFY(i don know weather it still exists ,or the name is changed,it was also called SAMFOX,REASON WAS THAT SOME YEARS AGO SOME SENIOR NOTICED THAT IT HAD A SAMANTHA FOX POSTER ,HE NAMED IT SAMFOX).I still remember wen we use to go to central busstand in the mid night at 2.30 to just to have a tea(a tedeious process of stopping the Tanjavur bus and travelling).43 times to gate ,7 times to bell nagar tea shop,3 times to thuvakudi malai and thuvax ,once to central that was the time table guys use to follow.One good thing is we never had any restriction on going in and out and i don remember any such incidents wen our guys misused it ever,it was all safe all night , thanks to those security annas ....that was freedom,wen in think of freedom today :)

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

iphone


My new obsession

NairSan , a japenese film

One of our business partners from Skykap Production,Mr.Arun Pillai has joined the project,assisting the Director Mr.Albert.
This international exposure will bring in a flavour of experience into our team.All the best Arun.
Personally, i have been looking forward for this film on three reasons,
1.There are few good films made on heroes, who fought for our nation's indipendence, this is one such film which will throw light on such a hero.
2.This film will open up unseen market avenues for historical-crossover film.
3.Myself a great fan of Lal Yetan and Jackie Ji :)
All the very best to Nairsan team........


site :www.nairsan.com

Monday, August 11, 2008

Aamir - i just loved it, the film review


Film :Aamir
Language :Hindi
One of the best films i have seen the past 5 years,this is one film which real had the smell of Mumbai in its Cinematography after Black Friday and Salam Bombay.Both Salam bombay and Black friday are my favourite films on Mumbai life , the next comes Aamir.The cinematogarphy is handeled so well especially the outdoor shots were real cool ones,its may be because Alphose has a good Docu experience on handeling the unorganised crowd shots which are candid, which is most difficult.The scene were he organises the traffic to the shot were he runs in the main road high way is real cool hots,hats off to Alphonse Roy.
The next thing is the actors in the film , real sexy acting ,especially the lead role, when he breathes hard on the road , u really feel insufecient oxygen in ur lung,he has done extremely well .
The next is art direction has really flavoured the film which gave the smell of mumbai,real real cool and natural.
The next one is the whole plot point of the film , its really amazing when the whole story turns around.This treatment is one of the best inters of so called twist ,when u show a sequence which gives a story which is believeable at the same time very normal and commercial and then the whole thing turns to a different new setup is a good treatment.
I have a very bad habit of projecting the story and trying to find out what will happen next and try to find out weather what ever i think will happen next or not(it happens with all screenwriters while watching the film ,i suppose) even in this film i had luckily cracked the end , but was waiting to see how the director will handel the bobm blast shot , it was a really good the way he had shown the blast shot without blood and violence , hats off to direction and screenplay.
The most of all the issues that were discused in the film.In one single film the drector had discussed ,addressed and taken up so many issues in such a little time ,its socially a relevant film, when u come out of the theatre, still there so many things,questions and the story runs inside u.
Best part in the whole treatment of the film i liked was about the family of the lead role, what happeend to them.According to the visual the leadrole thinks what will happen to his family then comes a scene where his family is being killed by the villian , so did they really kill the family or not , because the hero has never seen the villan ,so it cant be imagination ,because they show the villan ,and he has not seen the villan.But the same time it was shown as if he thinks on what will happen to his family , and in the end its shown that the villan had set him up on the theft of the suitcase.So peopele can either take it as his family is dead or still believe that they are alive, this mentally makes u to carry the story and the issue home after leaving the theatre, that was real good way of handiling a film based on issues.
On the whole its one film i would love to watch one more time just to see the out door shots of mumbai.
On the whole its one of the best films of this year, please do watch it .

Wednesday, August 6, 2008

don u have freedom on your own cell phone

We are one generation which has lived both in the world were there were no cell phones and in a world were every one carries like a external organ in their body.
last week i was out of station and forgot to carry my cell phone charger as usual.My phone was switch off for 48 hours.When i switched on my mobile there were 22 sms and some missed calls delieverd as mesage fro vodafone.
All the sms was about.
why din u pick up my call
what happened
cant u pick my call
why have u switched off ur phone.
When i called back to the nos from where i had got missed calls , they were very angry...
People get offended when someone's phone is switched off or if he/she doent pick the call.
My question is that ,don i have right to switch off my phone or don i have a choice to pick the call which i want to.
Its my bloody phone and i have damn good right to choose on the action i want to proceed for.
Don get offened by this , but most of the calls are useless call centre, sales and hai hello and missed calls(that has to be called back)

Tuesday, August 5, 2008

religious people have caused more harm to this society than the atheist

In the past two weeks what ever has happened proves one thing very clearly that people who believe in GOD can cause more damage to human beings and this society than atheist who don believe in God.
In the whole of human history i have never heared that any atheist who killed people in the name of atheism or pressurised people to follow his way.But each page of the world history bears the blood of people who were killed by the so called GOD believers.They claim to be the believers of GOD ,and claim on the top that GOD created this world and claim on the top most that they do this killing for GOD.how funny ,stupid,idiotic and asaholic explanation is this , don you feel stupid to give such a shit answer.How the hell can u kill some one who is created by ur own god, so either it means that God is so stupid to create these people who u claim are bad and killed , or god is super stupid to create some one like u who kills the people who were created by God,whome u pray.
So are u stupid or u claim that God is stupid.....both ways its a paradox.

Either ways what ever arguments these people have ,killing any human can never be forgiven, its the extreme act of sadism.Who the fuck gives u the right on a human life.Every one in this world has a right to live and who the hell are u to judge the lives of innocent people ,is'nt it a cowrdly act to take the lives of innocent soft targets.This not only proves that these people are not just stupids by contridicting their own words,but also bollsless impotents.

its a disgrace to pressurise or plead or even to beg some one to convert from one religion to an other

We all would have heared stories of people getting converted to get married to some one from an other religion.When ever we hear such stories we fell good and think that, how much that person would have loved her/him that he gave up his religion and got converted, but have we ever thought of such thing as how much she/he who got converted would have suffered to do this.
1.Do people really come forwared to get converted volunteerly ? i don think so.
Most of the time its out of pressure they do it.Mostly women are the victims, women get converted to guys religion ,because in this scoiety they are the weakest and would said fall victim if the guys parenst don agree.
If the guy loves her so much will he ask her to get convert is a big question i always have in my mind.
2.One fine day ,Is it possible to pray a different god,go into a new religious practise ,forget what u leart all these days and read out new rules from some new book.
3.what kind of suffering will the persons family goes through.
4.No religion in this whole world permits or supports a pressurised convertion,if it supports then it can not be a religion which is for the betterment of human kind.
5.forget about love for each other ,do people respect eachothers right as a citizen of this country , do they respect our constitutional law, were u have right to practise the religion u want.
6.do people really love each other.

Something,somehow,somewere,someone

Something ,somehow and somewerehe are the three most possible dirty words in the dictonary of art.
Example :

Editor : "sir what ever footage u have given is not enogh and the shots u have taken will not suit this scene, its difficult to bring out the kind of emotion u want"
Director: Put something somewere and bring out the emotion somehow
Editor :Sir How sir.
Director:The guy is talking something here right,u cut shot somehow it suits and put something in the middle and get the thing done some how.

The above is a very normal discussion that goes on.

I have found similar situations not just in the world of art but everywere from softwar to steel industry.

In normal life we see people talking

Manager : "were are you ,how many clients have you met today,ok listen i will give you this list which i was suppose to give you last month, since tomoro is the dead line we have to meet all these clients today itself, some of the clients are in Parrys ,some in perambur,some in adayar some in tamabaram ,but listen tamabaram guys we cannot meet now because i already told him that u will meet him in the evening"
Sales Rep:Sir im in tambaram now and it will take me minimum 20 mins to reach there to the next client ,even if i come in slim traffic.And i think i can meet the tambaram guy now.
Manager : why don u guys realise the pressure yarr.Do some thing , i don want listen anything.somehow meet these people ,wait i have kept the list somewere i will search it and tell u the names.....
NOTHER PHONE RINGS
Cut the call , i will call u back some one is calling.
Sales guy : Abusing the managers whole family from his great great great grand father to the next 456999 generations to come in his mind and says " OK Sir"

For the next 4 hours the sales rep wont receive a call from the manager and will be waiting for him to call, and when he calls the manager either the no will be busy or he will tell that he will call back in 3 seconds.

After 5 hours
Manager : what happened , did you meet someone.
Sales rep: sir u said u will call up and give me the list
Manager:dont u know to call me, how irresponsible u guys are, u have no idea about the pressure im getting from the top management.
Sales guy ; but i called u sir
Manager : now don give me reasons of ur incapabilities
ANOTHER PHONE RINGS
OK someone is calling , i will call u in some time and cuts the phone.

This goes on till the afternoon, then comes the lunch and comes the evening tea and comes the real working time of after 7.

Manager: were are u , did u meet someone.
Sales rep:sir the list.

Managere somehow searches and picks up the list and tells the names.

Sales rep : sir this is last months list , i already have it sir, we have met everyone.
Manager: u should have told me already that u hav ethis list , how irresponsible u are ,u have no idea what kind of pressure im under.

By now the time would have been 9.

Manager :i work till 9 in the night and bare all the pressure and u guys cooly roame around the city and have fun.
Sales rep again starts the list from the BC generation of the managers family and ends it in 4009 and abuses.

This happenes every day in all our lifes and still we are all happy somewere ,somehow doing something with someone

real sad stuff,so called media

Film making though has been there forr a long time even before software industry was started , still its not been accepted as a respectable profession among the some people.
The main reason being that its exposed to media so much , the whole media world plus the audiance live on it.If some thing looks like moving the media says that its crawling,the news paper will say that its swimming,the websites will say that flying and the tv will say that its flying without wings,Thats what happenes usually.
When a common man or his personal issues get exposed to media , they say that there is no ethics and media has no bloody rights to talk about it ,but when some one from the film industry get exposed , they call it entertainment.Even their personl life is consider to be a entertainment and people make money out of it and the people who desperately watch this have fun out it.Its real sad.
When some one makes a movie about a real incident , every one raises voice on different platform on different grounds of religion,personal life and region ,but when papers and tvs come out with supid news on the personal life of a actor or a actress media calls it as its right ,how sad.
Now this has come into the lifes common man like the Arushi's case to the women who wanted to abort her kid .The whole world has seen their faces and when they walk on the road tomoro every one will talk about them and this breach into the personal lives of people is real sad.

Sunday, August 3, 2008

skykap paoduction site revamped , on a trial run

www.skykapproduction.com

Our company site is been revamped and we have uploaded it on a trial run to see check the compatibility , if any one visits the site please do let us know weather there is any problem in logging the site .still some changes in the content and the style has to be made.

regards
dawood