Sunday, November 30, 2008

Tropic Thunder



This film is one great treat to your sense of laugh.
Thats what i call make up, Tom can never get such a role ever.
This movie will stand in any country, all over the world actors' psyche is the same that's what i understood.
I enjoyed the film

Friday, November 28, 2008

it was quite sad, mad and pathetic

For the past three nights the only thing that is appearing in any news channel is mumbai siege.it took three nights to come to an end, as a common man i see that there is a major intelligence failure.Every news channel has been talking about how smart the terrorist were and how well trained they are , but as far as it is seen, they don seem to be smart, instead i see a flaw in the national security.How fragile is our security that the terrorist commuted the sea way.
For the past few years all the human rights gangs have been crying loud against ATS and other police teams for taking rigerous action when it comes to terrorism but this time ATS,police,army,NSG,Marine and what not ,every agency has lost lives in the operation, now no human rights group is crying against any of the terrost organisations or any thing.Does people have to die and give lives to prove their credibility.Atleast from now people should start trusting our agencies and cooperate with them, otherwise there is no point.Hats off to the agencies which acted so well and solved it.We lost some of the best police men like the ATS chief in this operation, we should be learning a hell lot from this whole three nights.
Unless people cooperate with police even they can do nothing.
This is the country were even the freedom movement had a non violence as their way to get freedom but today we are in a state of fear and hatred.It all starts from how parents grow their children, it starts from home.So much of hatred, violence and abuse every were instead of love.Starting from schools to colleges.Even when a teacher hits a kid to parents using beautyful absusive words in english at home can contribute to the growth of violence.
We should start acting and thinking interms of a long term agenda to solve such a crisis of violence.
so much is seen on news channel ,so much read on sites,blogs and papers i feel devestated and tired to talk or write about such a thing.
I really appriciate Mr.L.K.Advani and other party leaders, when they took the whole thing in the interest of nation and never made this politics till now ,when there is elections on the edge.For the first time i feel proud of the politicians in INDIA ,in the whole mess.

learning acrobatics to copeup with chennai rain

One good thing that happened out of rain is that i have learned the skills of high jump, long jump and swimming (especially in dirt water).
I have been living in chennai since 2001 and i have seen two governments ruling but nothing much has been done to tackle the issues during rain.Water logging in nungambakkam,kodambakkam,sterling road, the subways like duraiswami and many other places.Every year it rains and every year govt comes to help people by giving 3000 to 5000 ruppes after rain for those who got effected.
It looks as if no govt wants to solve the issue, they just want to show how helpful they are as saviours after rain by providing little amount of money and get good name after rain.Its quite sad.
You should either learn surfing or sit at home when it rains

Thursday, November 20, 2008

It's been a long time

It's been a long time since i went home, it's been a long time since i saw a good heart felt film, it's been a long time i beared a masala movie.
The above came to an end last week when i left to my home town, sorry city, Tiruupur.I usually watch films in theatres only when im home in tiruppur.Its a great experience to watch films with the tiruppur crowd.
I saw three films when i was in tiruppur last week
1.Vaaranam Aayiram
2.Seval
3.Quantum Of Solace (Tamil dubbed version)
I don believe in comparing films, because u can never compare an Elephant with Einstein.


Vaaranam Aayiram is very much of a personal film for the director Mr.Gautham, It looks as if he has written what he really has felt, experienced, seen and wanted to be. Personally i felt great watching the film for lot of personal reasons.
But when comes to the commercial and technical angle, the film has really failed in lot of ways.
This usually happenes when the story and film is closer to the heart of a film maker, the same has happened in this case.There are a lot of leanthy scenes, so much could have been comoressed into those beautyful songs, but he placed separate scenes ........ i loved the songs , surya is done a excellent job, no actor will get such a chance to do such a beautiful transition....i really felt that the film should have been little bit shorter.

Seval is actually a good film, but if the same film would got released some twenty years back ,it would have been a very big hit, the director is stuck with time.a lot of violence , not just blood , all that shaving the woman's head and stuff is violent.Hari in the past two films have developed a attitude that "this stupid Tamil crowd will see what ever we make, and this is enough for this stupid crowd"
Its time for the tamil crowd to prove that we are not stupid, but patient.Im sure that if the same attitude is maintained then Hari will never get a chance to make another film in Tamil.

Quantam of solace ....ummmmmmm very very very very less of JAMES BOND 007 ,its not at all a 007 ....I WAS DISAPPOINTED.

Sunday, November 9, 2008

reducing cycle time, cutting cost - basically saving time and money by killing vendors

The follwoing is a case study based on a company 'XXX' which has a work 'A' given to a Vendor 'V'

In the past few years the buzzzz word in any industry is 'cost cutting' how do they do it, it gave birth to an other word 'saving time'.
Most of the so called new generation Indain companies which provides services to companies in US or Europe and get paid in dollars and pounds found a new way to cut cost and save time ---- by sucking out blood and killing their vendor.

Mostly the following is what happenes with any so called new generation companies.

They have a work let's say A, is the work which cannot be done by a new generation company XXX.
Lets say the work A takes 10 days to finish if its done by the most effecient company in the world.
The company XXX where these so called energitic Managers start eating, talking,sleeping and fooling around the CEOs and CFOs and MDs and when there is only 12 days left they start searching for a company ( the norm is that they have to find atleast 3 vendors and get quote and give work to the lowest priced but most effecient vendor) they will end up finding a vendor V whos is as usual desperate to get work.The Manager gives a big talk using words like 'long term relationship,professional approach, quality and what not' The vendor gets convinced and takes the work for Rs.100 ( but in the market the same work is done for Rs.250)out of desperation.
The manager tells the vendor to make two more dummy quotations and give him so that the managers ass is saved.The vendor does it.
The whole process takes 5 days time and the vendor starts the work on the 6th day with a advance of 25 percent which is Rs.25.Now he has only 4 days to complete the work.
He has to complete the work in 2 days because the CEO of the company XXX has to see and approve it so that he can deliver the final product.
He completes the work in a hurry and spends Rs.200 for a Rs.100 work thinking that he will get more work from the same company once this is over.
The MANAGER first makes some changes ,then the Finance head makes some changes,then the tea boy ,then the guy who goes in the road, some beggers and in the end it goes to CEO,he tells that he din like the whole work.By now the 10th day is reached.
The manager tells V- the vendor that he has done a bad work, because the CEO din like it so he tells him that he can not pay him untill other changes are made.But Manager takes the what ever is done till now and delivers to US or Europe and gets paid $250.
The vendor runs up and down between his place and the company XXX for another 6 months with the same work.
After six months he gets tired and pissed off and starts shouting at the XXX manager(The XXX manager has been waiting for this moment), The manager says that V is not professional and has not finished the work in time and on top he is behaving like a Gunda and throws him out of the Vendor list and does not pay a single rupeee.

If the V-vendor is still patience and asks for money finishing all the changes , The Manager say 'there is a small miss communication boss, the project you were working on has been dropped by our client, so i can not pay you now ,you come back after a month'
The manager will never use the word 'i will not pay you' instead he uses the word 'i will pay later' so that he can keep on postponing till V gets tired and dies.

This is not Mis-Fucking-Communication
This is Mis-mother-Fucking-Management

These managers don undersatnd the meaning of reducing the cycle time.
If you have to reduce the cycle time of a process ,you have to plan as early as possible and keep it and when time comes implement it.But our Managers while away time then come on the last day and start palning and waste time and eat even the cycle time (they call that reducing cycle time) and give a little time for the process and fuck it up.