Dawood Sait

Elam Arivu (7th sense)

2011-10-27T13:52:00.000-07:00

I just saw the film at IMAX paying 250 bucks, so i felt i had the right to write a review of this film, that's the only reason iam writing it.

1. Bodhidharma story was good, but who ever was involved in the research of him from the direction department was just lazy that he/she went through four or five websites and wrote his story.
Why did he go to China from the south end of India, that's a long journey ?...............
2. The modern time Surya, Circus guy, the character was good. How come he understood about DNA and other scientific things in just one conversation and got convinced ?
3. China pavam (so pity), they spoiled their Government's name, they even gave permission to shoot in their country, without knowing that this film is going to spoil their Govt's name.
4. Amazing science that a DNA can be changed or manipulated by putting some one in a water tank with some wires. And Genetic engineers with no help from a doctor can do it, that's amazing. How did he become Bodhidharma, how did his DNA change.
5. The most amazing mistake they did was that they din know that DNA can not store peoples skill which is got out of training like Karate, kungfu or even the knowledge on medicine.
DNA AIYOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO how could you change some's DNA by dropping them in a water tank with blue light.
6. That chinese guy Hypnotises people, ok, but he also tranfers his knowledge of his fighting skills to people and the common man who has no knowledge and skill fights, amazing.
7. They spent atleast 30 min explaining some scientific terms, most of them were wrong.
8. Patriotism, that was a cheap stunt to save the film.
9. The last speech, or so called message, if that was the purpose, they could have sent the message through SMS, THEY DIN HAVE TO WAST 80 crores.
10. Last but the waste, IIT spoiled its own name by giving permission for a DNA research that can change some one DNA from 80% of Bodhidharma to 100%, woooow they have such facilities, a blue water tank.

On top of all this, the pace of the film din match in most of the sequences, may be they should have atleast tinkered by having the Bodhidharma's story in the middle, narrated by Shruthi to Surya, instead of it in the begining, that would have raised the pace and matched the rest. And songs were killing the pace altogather.

sorry to say this, i was disappointed paying 250 rupees.......

1. Who ever was in-charge of the research for the film 7th Sense had no sense.
2. Screenplay department had some poor writers.

Time management in Hyderabad

2011-10-23T11:28:00.000-07:00

1.The following is what happened in my life today at 3 PM.
Location : My house in First Lancer Road. I was talking over the phone to my dear friend.

2.My dear friend was in Srinagar Colony when the following conversation happened.
Note : It takes minimum 30 min of travel time from my place to Srinagar colony, with the presence of normal traffic in Hyderabad.

3.Our office is in Madhapur.
Note: its takes another 30 mins to reach our office, from Srinagar Colony.

Now the conversation. Note: Me =Dawood, Mr.X = My dear friend

Me: Hello Mr.X, so what time should we be there in office.
Mr.X: We should be in office by 4 PM, at any cost, so come to Srinagar Colony, we will go from here in my bike, we will not travel in two mikes, lets not pollute the world.
Me: Ok , cool idea, so when should I come to Srinagar Colony.
Mr.X: Dawooooood, you start by 4PM, from you house, that's enough.
Me: but how willllll IIIIIII ...
Mr.X: Dawood, why don you understand, only if you reach here, (Srinagar Colony) by at least 4 PM we can be on time, in office.....

BIG SILENCE.........

First Lancer to Srinagar colony ----30 min
Srinagar Colony to Madhapur -----30 min

I had to start at 4 PM, reach Srinagar Colony by 4 PM and be in office by 4 PM.
That was a adventure................................
I love Hyderabad timing

iOS 5, cool update from Apple

2011-10-15T22:33:00.000-07:00

This is the third update i got for my iPad 2, but the best one. Earlier updates were just fixing up some bugs sort, this one is real change in the UI, but some what looks similar to android......but faster than the earlier version

Three men, the third one, you did it, thank you.

2011-10-06T00:33:00.000-07:00

One was responsible for all the insult it had in the past two millennium, since the Bible (Adam). The other, got his respect because, he observed it falling (Newton). The third kind, brought back the respect that Apple deserves today. Thank you Steve Jobs. Rest In Peace.
You did, what Newton din do, Newton should have named his theory as Apple, but he din.
You did what the writers of Bible din do. If bible is the truth, then we are here like this because of Apple, then Bible should have been named as Apple, but they din do it.
But you did it. Today Apple is Apple because of you.

iphone 5, what are your expectations

2011-10-04T15:04:00.000-07:00

As far as i see, there nothing much further can be done with phones, whether its apps or speed and even usability. So what do we expect from Iphone 5, other than speed and design (thinner and sleeker), i don know. I use to download minimum 5 apps a day when i first started using a android phone and ipad, now its been months i downloaded any app from store.
and most of the apps i downloaded, i don use them now. some of the apps i use regularly other than angry birds(though its a game) is google maps and gmail.
with the kind of the 3g services provided by our service providers and the price at which its given there is no point in having a phone which has a 1.5Ghz processor and can access net very fast.
i have a 8 mp cam on my mobile, i use it only once in two three months.
more over, what ever features and enhancement ipone 5 is going to have is already there in htc sensation, still iphone is iphone, is that the answer....i don knowi am confused in the middle of the night at 3AM

iphone 5 release in few days :)

2011-09-25T12:06:00.000-07:00

Iphone 5, the one which iam waiting for, is to be released next month. i have become a fan of apple after using Ipad for the past 6 months. the credit goes to the designers. i tried almost all the tablets starting from play book to hp touch pad, to the latest samsung tab nothing is as closer as ipad......i has changed my life so much. i have two laptops, one i use it as a desktop and the other, i thought il use it for meetings, now iam stuck to ipad, other two laptops have become junk at home. people like me who have got nothing to do with programining or some high end graphic application, but just to read, write and to play games, ipad is the best........now after this, iam planning to convert everything else into apple product, starting from my phone next month.

u get addicted to ipad so much that, iam sure if i loose my ipad, i would some how buy one in a week, thats how it is......

Apple vs rest of the fruit (palam)

2011-08-25T13:52:00.001-07:00

Iphone(a single model) vs five big names like HTC, Samsung, Motorola (when it was alive), LG and nokia with more than 20 different models of phone plus all those Chinese fake stuff.
IPad(a single model) vs hundreds of tablets. Mac book vs the whole of the laptop market.
Salute to the strong R&D and design team made by Steve, you did Ur job dude. Thanks for the ipod again a single model vs the still struggling market to come up with some thing 2% close to it. He brought the present close the future, as shown in some sci-fi films, otherwise, it would have been just a dream to touch and feel technology, in the form of things that we use.
Hats off Steve. All the best apple. Times change, hope people at samsung and HTC are happy, saving their jobs since one guy lost his job.

Bus un reliable

2011-08-22T07:31:00.001-07:00

I have been travelling to Hyderabad all the time almost by bus. The reason is its faster than train, two to three hours. But after travelling almost 10 to 15 times I have realised that its the same. The travel time by bus is less but it's very un reliable. Today the 8.00 pm bus is shifted to 9 and last time the 7.00pm to 9.00.
I have almost travelled all the bus companies from kpn to kesaneini all the same.
I think I should think of train again. It's cheaper half the the price than bus too.

HTC sensation, hands on review

2011-08-18T08:13:00.001-07:00

After going through almost twenty models starting from iPhone 4 to the local micromax android, searching for the ultimate phone of the year, I found HTC sensation. It's faster than ipone with 1.2 giga hertz processor, its better looking that galaxy s2 and has sexy user friendly UI better than Motorola atrix and reliable than LG optimus x2 . If you are looking for monster phone that be the everything of everything then go for HTC sensation . The best buy would be rupees 28000, if you bargain you can get for 28000 at reliance digital or any other authorised stores. Be careful with the grey pieces, u won't get the warranty. When Ur spending so much don see for a difference of thousand rupee, the grey piece comes for 27k in Burma bazar che and road no 1 shops in Hyderabad . I loved HTC sensation, this is my first post though sensation

Thank you Chickenpox :) (VZV)

2011-07-23T06:25:00.000-07:00

for da past three months, i had no time for anything. I am being truthful, i had no time for anything, work, work, work, eat, sleep for 3 hours. I was very proud of my self telling every one that Iam very very busy, full busy, full work. Because, i don know it gives some kind of a kick when you tell people that you are busy. It makes you feel special for your self. so i was on that kick.
suddenly in between i would get some rashes in the night, evening or in mornings, i thought its some kind of food allergy. Since i had no time to meet the doctor, i became a doc my self and took avil all the time, when i get these allergies. busy man, this made me a doctor too :)
in between i use to get head aches, and use to feel low in terms of energy, some times will feel like shit. since i din had time to speak to people or meet a psychiatrist or some shit like that, i became a psychiatrist my self :)
i became this , i became that, i became everything...........in the end..........God came to me.....
on 11th i had itching all over my body, especially on my face, there were some bubbles filled with water sort, i busted them.
on 12th some one in my unit told me that i have been blessed by God to have Ammai (tamil, chickenpox). i was scared, paranoid, because i will not be a doing work and will not be a busy man for another 15 days. i was scared that i will get scars all over my face, i might not be able to pose for any calenders in the future.. i just took the bus and came to chennai.
On 13th, a doctor at Best hospital, kodambakkam confirmed that its chickenpox and gave me medicine for 5 days. i started taking them. i went into quarantine, in a separate room, i din allow anyone to come inside and stuff. some people were scared to come to my house.
on 14th and 15th, it was painfull and irritating,. i was cursing the disease.i was scared to see my face on the mirror.
on 16th a old lady came to my house, she actaually came close to me to check, she was not scared, i showed her the bubbles, i touched me and prayed, she said its a blessing and told my mom to place some neem leaves around me and some more procedures.
we followed it on 20th, there were no spots on my body.
all these 11 days i spoke to every one possible through phone, i read a lot, never saw TV. I was happy..........especially i spoke to five of friends, to whom i spoke long time back. with one of them, last i spoke was in 2002............
i made me feel like shit.............. Busy is nothing, there is no shit called busy shit, if we don find time to do certain things, those will find time on us...............
some lessons i learned:
1. indian culture and medicine is super cool, only thing is we should know the right people who know the stuff.
2. never be proud that you are busy.
3. shit happens, for good....
there are certain personal things happened which during these days, i couldn share here, but thanks to every one for the help during this period, especially, my mom and my family, who were there with me, the love they showered, and John sir and Chechi (who use to bring neem leaves every day) thank you sir.
i got so much of love during these days........
thank you chickenpox, love you

I miss the white Rainbow

2011-05-16T21:23:00.000-07:00

day before yesterday night, i kept my laptop for charging and slept off. I had kept it on a table open. I woke up in the morning and switched on the laptop. There was a rainbow on my screen, it was white in colour and it was there all the time. first i thought its some image, then i thought some scratch, then i realised its inside the screen. i din know what to do. since i had warranty covered, i was searching for the service centre in hyderabad. i found one, but they asked me to bring the laptop with the bill, usually i don carry the laptop bill all the time (i hope others too). i was frustrated, pissed and sad, because i had to finish some work and i was scared, the screen will get conked off any time. i realised that there is some thing like this air pockets under screen guards surfacing on my screen, i don have a screen guard on my screen, but i got air bubbles, i realised its inside the screen. still the laptop was on the same table. i was still working on the laptop praying the Goddess of electronics. suddenly i could feel a water droplet on my finger. i was wondering where it came from, is it raining inside the room ?, nooooooooooooooooooo.......................... it was water from the split AC over the table. Now i realised that the whole night the AC has been sprinkling water on my laptop. shitttttt shit shitttttttttttt. I was scared now to take it to the service centre, because they would know, by their experience that this is a physical damage and will not get replaced by a new laptop, as i was wishing to.
I don know, but some how out of the common sense of a rat, i switched off AC and took the laptop away from the table and kept it open till today morning. now there is no rainbow on my screen but still the bubbles are there. I miss the white Rainbow .

Some times it just takes few seconds realise what life is

2011-05-12T12:53:00.000-07:00

It was last sunday. I was driving a red dio, early in the morning. It was a usual day, and the speed was about 30 to 40 km, there was no one on the road, a small stone was lying on the road. I saw it, brake,back brake not working, front brake, a big sound,a skid, there was sand. Here iam with four wounds on my left foot, some scratches above the foot, some on da hand. Today its all ok. But for the past one week the fear of falling down had made me a handicap when it comes to driving. I din drive at all. I drove da bike after four five days. All i could see on da road is the possibility of accidents. I am not even able to travel in da auto. I am slowly recovering from fear as my wounds heal. Hope i get back on da road with no fear. I totally forgot to tell a incident that happened in between. Wen i went to da doc immediately after da accident, there was only one doc available in the emergency unit at best hospital. He din bother, he just gave me a injection, the nurse cleaned da wound thats it. I was angry with them and shouting at him to give me some oinment and antibiotic. The doc was cool and ignored me and said its just a scratch. I was furious. By then a tip top dressed sw engineer, you can make out he has been to us twice from the way he speaks. Comes in and says, doc i was standing in da parking lot and some thing bit my leg and i found its a snake, can you treat me. He showed his swollen leg. The doc got up and advices him to go to GH. Because only govnt hospitals have anti venom. He cooky said yes and was about to leave. The doc asked him about, how he came. He said he came by bike, alone. The doc insisted him to take a auto or the ambulance. But he just left in his bike. By seeing this all my pain turned into wonder and laughter. But i hope he is fine now. Later i came to know that panic can increase the spread of venom. The moral of the story.
When you have a snake bite, take some one with you in a auto or something and go to government hospital immediately and don panic, otherwise a guy with a normal wound might laugh at you.

19 years in Tiruppur, 4 years in Trichy, a year in Nashik, 8 years in Chennai, I'am still a software guy

2011-04-26T14:14:00.000-07:00

It's been 8 years, since I came to Chennai. I suddenly remembered this now that, it was in the month of April, I came to Chennai 8 years back. I don exactly remember the date, I could remember the month because I was making everyone April fool even after the 1st of April, in fact the whole month. It was that small house on the fourth floor in Mylapore. Sidin had taken the house, I came to Chennai thinking, I will stay for couple of days and move to Mumbai. I had just left my job at ACS, like a brave man, following Sidin, to do, what I wanted to do.

What do I wanted to do ? I was not sure. But I was very sure about, what I din want to do. This is when Prem use to visit Chennai for his business meets. By the by I never wanted to be software engineer that was leading the list, It's not because its bad, but I couldn't solve SAKUNTALA DEVI'S PUZZLE BOOK in the college or couldn't digest the Java codes(i realized it when I tried doing a project at Octa with Shakarasubbu in Java). I, some were had this thing that, sitting in front of computer and working on a software is a insane thing to do.

Four cities, three schools, two colleges, 9 jobs, I still use software. For the past one week, I was in front of my Laptop, continuously for min 10 to 15 hours, working, using softwares, to write, to read, to design, to edit and to browse. I am exactly doing, what I never wanted to do, but I realize till today, because I have been happy doing this.

Sorry software guys, my friends, me and some of my friends use to abuse you guys badly in college, today I realize how wrong I was. Thanks to all those who spent their lives developing such beautiful things called Photoshop, Avid, MS Office, DOS,Windows, Final Draft, Combustion, FCP, Smoke, chrome, FB, Orkut, Gmail, Android and the list goes on and on. I just mentioned few that I have used and few that helped me.
Thank you guys. Thanks a lot.

19 years in Tiruppur, 4 years in Trichy, a year in Nashik, 8 years in Chennai, I'am still a software guy

2011-04-26T14:10:00.000-07:00

Lol

2011-04-22T13:19:00.001-07:00

It was in the third or final year i don, but i remember it was Lapis hostel TV room. The northi and some NRI gang was watching star movies. I can remember only Saiz, pana mudhala balls, ma.pu.thi and sankar subbu, but there were few more with us. We, Tamil gang went in and protested to change it to SUN TV because some vijayakanth movie was going on(by the by we were hardcore fans of vijayakanth in those days, and even today) As usual we won the fight and they changed the channel, but the northi gang was sitting there very curiously to see, what made us go mad to fight with them.
Thats wen saiz came close to me and whispered, 'dawood, please don tell them that this fat dark guy is the hero of the film, if they ask u, just tell that hero has not yet be shown. Because if these guys come to know that we faught with them to see a movie, in which this fat old dark guy is the hero, iam sure they will kill us'. Our time was so bad that, one of the guys asked about, 'who da hero is'. I told them, he is yet to come, this dark guy in the film is a comedian. Moral of the story: even if you have a small dark mole with a diameter of 22 micron, you don stand a chance to be the hero in a hindi film, that's the only reason i could find, why thlaivar vijayakanth not entering into hindi cinema. By the by we got beaten up the next day, but only kasam was sacrifised.

South Languages and Tamil.

2011-04-20T01:25:00.000-07:00

Its amazing how our languages are connected with each other, my theory.

தமிழ் + மெல்லினம் = மலையாளம்

தமிழ் + இடையினம் = கன்னட

தமிழ் + வல்லினம் = தெலுகு

For people who doesn't know to read Tamil, by the by you should know Tamil to understand this.

Tamil + Mellinam = malayalam

Tamil + Edaienam = Kannada

Tamil + Vallinam = Telugu
Browse through wiki on Tamil alphabets

I don know, why we should be proud ?, IPL teams

2011-04-18T20:52:00.000-07:00

It's not because i'am a non cricket for, its because the kind of fights and bets i see on IPL i have this doubts. How many players are from Tamil Nadu in Chennai Super Kings, or how many players are from Maharashtra in Mumbai Indians. Forget about players from the same state, how many of them are even from India. Are'nt we fooling around our self convincing that its a sport and its all about sport. Is it really about sport, i find more brands and names trying to win over in the market than the sport. Its a complete surrogate advertisement of booze, airline and other stuff. All i can see, IPL as one lengthy TV commercial for hours of brands that have money.

Take in case of Vijay malya, he is smart that way, he named a airlines after a beer, a IPL team after a Whisky. Thank god he din become a CM otherwise, Karnataka would have been, UB Karnataka and Bangluru would have been Mc Dowell's Bangaluru.

should politicians have retirement age ?

2011-04-14T12:52:00.000-07:00

That was a question posted by one of my dear friend on facebook and some people inclusind me answered to it.
Gandhi, Periyar, Anna, Anna hazare and Kamarajar and many more old guys fought and done things for us. What ever today we are is because of those old guys. Iam very proud of them. Whether its politics or any other area age does not matter, instead we should see whether they are stupid are not and it so simple to measure the stupidity of a person, because the young guys are good at it.
Next big question is whether education is necessary to be a politician or a leader, by asking such stupid question, she/he is making a fool by himself. The answer is why don you fucking get inside politics. You don get inside because your educated and you want a secure life, then why the fuck are you asking this. Get inside anything and ask this question.
After this machine called Computer was invented, the only guys who got spoiled out of it is our Indians. Get a safe job at some software company, open a fb account and just write anything about anything.
We have forgotten that Indian population is mostly based on agriculture than anything else, but we have forgotten that. Today what ever issue discussed is all about the urban educated safe livers. We have forgotten people who live in non-Metros and non-city or uneducated. It was capitalism VS daily waged labor. But now its educated urbans VS poor villagers. Its not between corrupt and uncorrupted guys.

Rajinikanth's innocence and Media's ignorance

2011-04-13T23:05:00.000-07:00

Rajinikanth proves again that he listens, speaks and does things from heart. I'am not talking about, whom he voted for, but how he never bothered about the presence of media while he was voting. This is the innocence that makes people like Super star Rajinikanth.
On the other side, the people who were in-charge of the Stella Maris and Media where so ridiculously stupid and ignorant (about law) allowed to capture the footage of, to whom he voted and telecast-ed. Its not just about getting into someones personal things, its also a punishable criminal offence.

Some channels which also have newspapers broad-casted the event and then written about it in their papers shamelessly the next day saying, it's an offence.
Media has more responsibility than any other estate, because it reaches people every day. Lets be at least responsible.

The max right price for a mobile.

2011-04-13T11:02:00.000-07:00

Some new phones are going to jump into the market this quarter like Motorola Atrix and HTC sensation S, Sony experia and arc.
I always wonder whats the right price for a mobile, when ever i buy one, but i could never judge. But recently since the high end phone had come, i had been carrying out a kind of market research on what's the max someone in India would pay for a phone. The answer is currently its 30,000 Indian rupees. Take iPhone 4 or 3GS it din do well in India, because of wrong pricing. I had spent the past few months talking to people who buy almost a phone in two to three months and all i could get was a max of 30k.

If its below 25k you will have real good no of people buying. And if its below 20, then thats what is happening to Defy, and if its less than 10k, then you will know the reason why Corby is selling hot cakes, even today.

30k max, mobile companies should realise.

some Android apps, hands on review

2011-04-12T21:18:00.000-07:00

1.The first thing i downloaded on my Motorola Defy is Angry birds, then Angry birds seasons, in two days i cleared all the levels. Its real addictive game. Then came Rio, i loved it. These birds are real crazy guys. I loved the last level in Rio, where there is this blue colour bird which flies fast and straight when pressed. Angry birds is a must have one on any android device.

Facebook and Twitter are the usual apps which are there so I don want to talk about it.

I tried some 50 to 60 apps but i was completely disappointed, most of them are real useless things which just eat ur memory and CPU speed.

Some of them which impressed me and i still have them on my phone are.

1. Adobe Reader
2. Advance Task Killer (a must have one, this will save ur data consumed and CPU speed)
3. Dolphin browser and book mark (its faster than the browser which is already there on android)
4. AppsBrain (a must have, these will help u update ur apps and keep u posted on some real cool apps from market, this where i got almost all my apps)
5. Color note (this is one app which i use almost every day, taking notes and stuff)
6. File Expert (this will help you transfer files from comp to phone, and phone to comp using Wifi)
7. History eraser ( must have, this will help you erase all the read sms, calls and browsing history in one go, it saves a hell lot of time, doing things in one go)
8. My Tapu (its a amazing app which is something similar to Flipboard for iPhone, you get all the updates on one app from facbook, twitter and other site feeds and news, i love it)
9. Photoshop Express ( its a lighter and a amazingly simpler version of photoshop from Adobe, its reall cool and easy to edit image files, real helpful)
10. Google family apps like Gtalk, gmail, Google Maps, navigation, latitude and Places is something which is been very useful, i use these max than any other apps.
11. Quickoffice is one such app which helped me a lot reading all the documents, thanks to them.
12. xPiano, Urban Dictonary, Unblock Me Free, The Periodic Table, Traffic Lite, Hj lite, IMDB, Cubes Free, Countries of the World are few apps i downloaded, but i don use them much.
13. Save my Attach is one very useful stuff which will help you save attached documents from your mail to SD so that you can use them later.
14. NDTV and TOI are the only two news apps i have and this has helped me skip TV and news paper .
15. NewsHunt will be one cool app for news, it has all the indian news papers including all the regional ones, i have to download it today, i had used it on my LG Cookie pep earlier.

Ponnar shankar

2011-04-09T09:58:00.001-07:00

One of the decent CG works in the recent time. Hats off EFX team at Prasad.

Motorola defy, hands on review

2011-04-09T09:20:00.001-07:00

Though i have been blogging on all the android devices, this the first time i am using one. Defy, it changed the way i live. I check my mails to db stiff on it. More than that i have been updating all news stuff, play games and even take notes surfing on it. Finding the right data plan was my issue i did 98 data plan from airtel. It's prutty cool. I have been using some appa like imdb and my taptu its real cool. I dropped my phone twice and once in the water. It still works. I love it . In fact i am posting this using blogger app

I still believe he could'n board the train

2011-03-30T06:37:00.003-07:00

It all happened in three to four minutes, but gave me a life time experience. It was in the Chennai Central station. I was in the Charminar express, I was checking my mails on my laptop with the MTS data card connection inside the train. A man in his mid-40’s well dressed, obese and Tamil looking crossed me. He came back and said “excuse me in Telugu” (I found the meaning to the sentence later), since I din understand, I said “I din understand” (in Tamil). He said “can you do me a favour” (in Tamil with tears). I was taken aback and asked with concern “yes, tell me what’s it”(Tamil). He said “I lost my purse while I was coming from Coimbatore to Chennai on the inter city express, I need to reach Nellur, its 140 rupees for a ticket, so can you borrow me 140, I have asked my manager to come to the station, he will bring the money, as soon as the station comes I will get you the money” (Tamil). I was confused, doubtful and feeling pity. He din give me time. It was very quick and fast, seeing my doubtful face he moved forward and approached the next guy saying “ I feel ashamed to do this, but I don even mind to give you my watch till you get back your money”. I was in a pretty good mood that day, and on the top of it my philosophy that “ what if this guy is not lying, I would miss a chance to help someone in need”. I took out the my wallet, I could find two 100 rupee notes. I gave them, with a pride. He took the money and said “I just need 140, I will take the ticket and return back the 60 in ten minutes, please wait” (Tamil, with a happy and shame full face). I said, “ its ok give me 200 when you reach ur place”( Tamil, with a generous attitude). Its been two days ever since this incident happened. He never came back to return back the money. I was so fucking stupid, but still, I still wanted to believe that he was telling the truth and he got caught in the crowd while he was buying the ticket and could’nt board the train.
But if he has lied, I still liked the way he asked, and his effort to dress so well suiting the situation, and his acting. It was quick, fact and good dialogue delivery. I loved his acting.

LePad Vs IPad

2011-03-29T07:13:00.000-07:00

LePad, a much better IPad with high speed but a higher price.

LePad Vs IPad

2011-03-29T07:10:00.000-07:00

LePad, a much better IPad with high speed but a higher price.

Real 'Incredible' S

2011-03-20T02:36:00.000-07:00

Check out the new HTC Incredible S, i'am sure it's going to a big hit. HTC has taken care of every design issues they had. It's slim, sturdy and comes with 1 GHz CPU.It looks some where closer to a well designed Ipod touch.

The Internet Movie Script Database

2011-03-20T01:48:00.000-07:00

One of my friend had sent me the link of a site, IMSDB it's really good. It's a data base of screenplays. Cool site

Wannabe Creative

2011-03-16T02:41:00.000-07:00

Most often, taking up longer time to finish a work, spending money on the least important of the most useless thing, growing long beard and hair, looking constantly at the empty roof and doing things which are understood only by aliens, self intoxication of unknown substances like sewage remains etc...... are considered as the inspiration for creativity or the proof of being creative.

Something, somewhere, somehow, somewhat are the most common words that will come out of a creative person.
It will look as if, he is really not sure about what he/she wants, but he/she knows exactly what he/she wants.

Dictionary of a creative person, some words with meaning.

common man - ass hole who does not understand us.

copying - inspiration
good - bad
bad - taking bath
taking bath - what's that
what's that - i have never heard of such thing

Tips to piss off a seriously creative person.

1. Give him/her a time frame
2. Give him/her a budget constraint.
3. Give him/her some healthy food to eat.
4. Ask him/her about their inspiration.
5. Tell him/her that you completely understood his/her work.
6. Put some beautiful painting on the roof.
7. Take him to a barber shop (only for men,) because most of the creative women have very short hair.

Questioning a creative person is the most interesting thing to do. Creative guys hate questions, because they consider themselves as the sole owner of questioning the world. If you want a creative person to turn into a murderer, ask him 7 question continuously one after the other, with a interval of 1 minutes between each question. Highly creative guys will turn into murderers before you go into the 4th question, thats the sign of extreme creative mind. But in some very rare cases, you will feel like killing your self thrice by drowning in the drop of tears that pour out of your eyes, on the second answer for the 3rd question you asked, these are the deadliest of the deadly creative minds.I LOVE THEM

Aliens and Antarctica

2011-03-13T12:47:00.000-07:00

I don know how, but i was and is obsessed but two things my whole life Aliens and Antarctica.The one person or a group of people i wanted meet is Aliens and one place i want to visit before i die is Antarctica. Antarctica is possible i suppose, but aliens I am really not sure. All those movies made in the 70s 80s and 90s about how the world will look in 2000 looks very funny now, because 2011 looks no different from 1997. In those movies where they had shown that we will have transport systems which can fly and the clean cities with complex shining fly overs have still not appeared. Movies and novels which have stories about future have always been overplayed with imaginations or may be the writers wish, but nothing changed. I wish the same to happen and not like 2012 and the new movie world invasion, so that i can visit at-least Antarctica,may be meeting aliens is a risky business. If you aliens are listening to this by some sort of capturing transmissions from earth, my message is 'please don invade us, we are nice people, may be we can teach you on how to cook tasty Biryani and Pizza and you can teach us on how to convert water to fuel, lets be friends, that will help to fulfill my wish to meet you guys'

Living with Chronic Illness, a guest article by Eric Stevenson

2011-03-03T07:39:00.000-08:00

From one perspective, chronic illnesses are actually indicative of advances in modern medicine – conditions which used to be fatal can now be effectively managed for many years. However, this thought may be of limited comfort to people who must go through life facing a chronic disease. Preconceptions and misconceptions about the nature of living with illness abound, especially among those who have never suffered or had to watch a loved one suffer through a lengthy illness. The “think positive” rhetoric endorsed by survivors and support groups alike may be helpful, but it is useless to attempt to simplify the experience of living with a disease down to “if you think you’ll feel better, you will.”

Elizabeth Holtzman at the University of Massachusetts writes, “There is a spectrum between the two choices of perfectly healthy to hopelessly ill.” Many people see only the extremes of the person entirely resigned to illness or the positive face many sufferers put on in public, not the struggle inherent in everyday life. Some chronic illnesses are highly visible, necessitating the use of wheelchairs or other apparatuses which many people immediately associate with impaired functioning. However, many illnesses are not, and there may not a simple lab test to determine who is suffering from these diseases. Fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) are two such conditions. Because they must be diagnosed from clusters of symptoms rather than testing for a specific antibody or genetic marker, they have historically been misunderstood either through confusion with other disorders or dismissal that “it’s all in your head.”

This phrase is especially painful to those trying to live with the symptoms of fibromyalgia or CFS. These symptoms may be manageable, but they also may be actively debilitating, and sometimes the sufferer is put in the unfortunate position of having to defend the reality of her symptoms, or even the existence of the condition itself. Both CFS and fibromyalgia affect far more women than men; though the cause for this is not currently known, the gender imbalance has made it easier in the past (and, occasionally, in the present) for a male-dominated health profession to dismiss these illnesses.

Even when a disease is commonly recognized and overrepresented in the male population, it may go undiagnosed and therefore untreated for long periods of time. For example, symptoms of mesothelioma – a rare cancer which is found in disproportionately large numbers in construction and factory workers and navy men – are nonspecific and similar to those of other, less serious lung conditions, meaning the cancer often goes undiagnosed until the later stages. Obviously, a fatal disease such as this is significantly different from living with a chronic disease for many years, but some of the effects on emotional health can be the same: depression, uncertainty about the future, and feelings of isolation.

In rare cases, a usually fatal disease can become a chronic disease. While the median survival rate for this type of cancer is 9-12 months, some people have lived with it for much longer. Scientist and author Stephen Jay Gould lived with Mesothelioma Symptoms for 20 years before eventually succumbing to a different type of cancer altogether. Australian author Paul Kraus has a similar story; he was diagnosed with mesothelioma in 1997 and is still alive and healthy. Though it is important to maintain a realistic perspective on one’s health, it is also helpful to know that some – though very few – people have beaten the odds.

There is no single best or “healthiest” way to deal with a chronic or fatal disease. Managing the emotional consequences can be every bit as difficult as managing the physical symptoms, sometimes even more so. The American Psychological Association offers general suggestions, such as remaining connected to friends and family, keeping a daily routine, and paying attention to other aspects of one’s health. For those with a friend or family member dealing with illness, it is important to remember that some of the most difficult consequences of the disease may initially seem invisible. Every individual with a chronic illness is just that – an individual – and needs to be treated as such.

About the author:

Eric Stevenson is a health and safety advocate who resides in the Southeastern US.
For questions or comments about this article please feel free to contact him directly at epicsurvivor@gmail.com

iPad2 on Techradar, will it reach India this year

2011-03-03T07:26:00.000-08:00

Check out the iPad2 review on techradar.

But it's quite sad that it will reach India in 2012 when iPad3 will hit the market, till then buy the stuff from grey market.

Mesothelioma and the hope on humanity

2011-03-03T06:40:00.000-08:00

On 1st march someone mailed me asking if they can write a guest article on my blog on Mesothelioma. I thought it's those usual spams of posting links which will lead to some google ad. Still i mailed them back asking them to send the article so that i can post it. To my surprise he sent the article. The article is quite informative on the unknown disease. I was surprised that he din mention his contact link, though he sent he mentioned his mail id. I have written back to him to send his profile link to post the article. I will post the article once he sends the links to his profile. I think, its still rains even after so much of hush hush on global warming, because of some good souls like him living on this planet. I got back my hope on humanity.

Seedan, an other mistake.

2011-02-26T11:44:00.000-08:00

Iam sure that we are addressing one of the most important part of Tamil cinema. Seedan is a beautiful example. Directors or simply not able to connect to people and their issues. Not just the story, its also the setup. A maid who wears pattu pavadai ( i think the director wanted to show her beauty), a Dhanush film where he comes in the second half. A outdated issue. Subject about aliens. For me it was really a subject about aliens, as an audience.
I have no more words to talk about the film. It's high time the film makers realize the importance and the meaning of entertainment.
Such a subject should have kindled and stirred the notion of faith and devotion in people, if it would have handled well. Now you cannot even release this film as a devotional subject during Sabarimala or Palanimalai season.
The best part is yet to come, when Suhasini her reviews the film :)

As audience, is there anything wrong with us ?

2011-02-24T04:31:00.000-08:00

When i wrote my earlier article, on my frustration about Tamil Cinema in the past three months, some of my film maker friends were furious saying, that it's noting wrong with the directors but with audience.

But as i see it, i don find anything wrong with the audience. Because of one single bloody reason.

Reason:

I remember, till 5 years back i could see that there would be few good films which would not run properly in theater. They wouldn't run because, they din have proper publicity or they din release at the right time or its some sort of a arti parallel cinema. But for the past five years, if you look back i couldn't think of a single good film which din run properly in theater. Patience level of audience has actually improved, they have forgiven so my bad films and made them run. One very important thing to notice is that, all the films that did well in the past few years are low budget films with content which is very different, just to remind you 'Subramaniyapuram' to 'Angadi Theru'.

I still believe that if people come out with films which have stories that are not just different, but also some really interesting 'unnoticed' stuff in the society, that would be enough to come up with a entertaining film.

Audience taste changes with time its quite natural, otherwise we will all be stuck in the times when film was invented, we have moved so far because taste has changed, it for good.Its a process of evolution, rather than development.We have to accept it, its natural.The solution is simple, make people's film. Make films about people not about heroes, a very good example is 'Boss yengara Bhaskaran'. Though it was treated as a comedy film, if you look deep into the roots, its all about us, what we aspire to do, what we are and what we can never be.

We have crossed the classical road skipping the modern cinema into a post modern world, i fell proud of our audience for being patient to watch some of the ridiculous content. Thanks to them, otherwise the industry would have closed by now.

Disappointed as an audience, Tamil cinema, the last three months

2011-02-22T09:27:00.000-08:00

I have been watching almost all Tamil films for the past three months for reason, especially on the first day in Udhayam. By now every employee of Udhayam theater knows me, the reason is that i have been walking out in the middle of almost every film i have seen in this past three months, along with the other frustrated audience. As an audience i have some expectations and the most important thing that stands out in the list of expectations is entertainment, next comes everything else.

I didn't even expect a good cinema with quality of screenplay and stuff, at-least entertainment, ummhummmmm.

Some of the films staring from Kanimozhi to Nadunisai naigal, every thing looked like a spoof. One film stood out, that is Siruthai, i really appreciate the team for coming out with at-least such a entertaining film. I loved the film for just one reason, entertainment. Our taste has boiled down to that, not because we as a audience have evolved out or something, but there is no good content of any another sort . More than good content its all about the confused directors on, what is a good cinema ?, rather than that, what entertainment is ?.

Entertainment is not sex or semi-porn stuff of showing hips and breasts, its all about connecting people by striking the right notes of emotions, whether its comedy or tragedy. Entertainment as a word is very being abused and misused. One amazing thing i had seen in this past three months is that, the directors wanted to just keep away from the word entertainment and gone into to the opposite, to show them out distinct, saying that they are trying out experiments on cinema. But what i found was that, they were not experimenting, but rather they were trying to be a 'WANABE NO ENTERTAINING DIRECTORS'.

Not having a BGM in a film, is not an experiment, but coming out with a good film which will not require a BGM is an experiment.
Confusing the audience is not a good screenplay, but coming up with a confused character is a good screenplay.
Having a story set in village is not a contribution to the rural India, having relevance to it is a contribution.

I'am frustrated to say that i have seen some the worst films in Tamil cinema in this three months.I din want to take out the names of the films, for just one bloody reason that they are too many and i really get pissed thinking of them. Its my frustration of spending 70 rs for ticket, 100 rd for water and popcorn, and 30 rs for petrol for every movie, to avoid pirated DVD's and what do i get, fucking shit.
But thanks to all those directors who have wasted crores of rupees to learn the worst ways to make films, i at least 'how not, to make films'

It's been long time

2011-02-05T21:21:00.000-08:00

It's been long time ever since i wrote something sensible, not that i'am going to write sensible now but still.
I'am writing this in continuation of one of my posts where i had written something about reducing my weight. I'am quite happy this week for a quiet a lot of reasons, one among which is the weight loss, i was successful in reducing 10 kgs, in the past two months, now the big question would be how much do i weigh, right now iam 94, so i leave it to you to calculate how much i was two months ago, i was 94 when i was in first year college :), so this brings back my old memories. Iam quite happy because my organs are in right condition, other wise this would have not been possible.
This post is just to remind my self that i have to get back to my 75kg status like old time :).
The ultimate goal now is 75 kgs by April first week. I know its sounds too ambitious, but for me i know how it works, so lets see if i can.

Motorola DEFY, my favourite this year

2011-02-05T10:21:00.000-08:00

one of the best phones this year is going to be DEFY from MOTOROLA, they are back.
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cats in my apartment

2010-12-25T22:49:00.000-08:00

Few months back a pregnant cat was roaming in our apartment, all the kids our apartment were excited, they use to give her milk and food. She stayed back permanently, she gave birth to four kittens, they were cute, kids started serving them milk too, i did twice (though i was not much of a cat guy), they were so cute, you cannot escape from their cuteness. In three days we found out that a dog took away all the three kids one night and the mother became very aggressive.

Everyone in the apartment was sad, including me. A month back the same cat gave birth to another 4 kids, we dropped them in the first floor in a safe place and they grew up very fast in a month's time. Now they have grown so big.

Another cat took refuge in our apartment now and gave birth to another four kids, our apartment is filled with cats, when i see them sleeping peacefully on my Dio seat in the morning, i forget every thing else, kids are kids, whether its a kitten or humans, they make you forget everything.

Flipkart, hats off, you guys kept your word

2010-12-18T22:38:00.000-08:00

In the recent times www.flipkart.com has been doing great. I have never bought anything from the site, so i don have any idea about their service. But i was stunned to see HTC's HD7,Windows 7 phone available on their site, they kept the word, i went to their site last month and they had put that they will start delivering the phone from 15th Dec, and they really did it.What is so great about this ? HD7 is currently not available with any dealers in India, its available only in the black market and the price is some where around Rs.35000, but on flipkart its Rs.29999. I have no idea how they did this, by convincing HTC to launch their HD7 model on their site, hats off, real strategy.
And this is not the first time they did this, when Samsung Galaxy Tab was released, they are the only guys who had a discount on it.

LG Launches Optimus 2X, World’s First Dual-Core Smartphone, will this change the image of LG ?

2010-12-16T19:54:00.000-08:00

The world’s first smartphone with a dual-core proccesor – a 1 GHz Nvidia Tegra 2 – also features a 4-inch WVGA screen, 8 GB of memory (expandable up to 32 GB via microSD memory cards), a 1,500 mAh battery, a 8-megapixel rear camera with 1080p recording capabilities and a 1.3-megapixel front camera for video calls.

It also has an accelerometer, a gyro sensor, and a micro-USB port. It supports HDMI mirroring, which lets you expand content on external displays to full HD quality. The phone can connect wirelessly to DLNA-compatible devices, such as home network devices and HD TV sets.

LG Optimus 2X will initially ship with AndroidAndroid 2.2, later next year will be updated to gingerbread 2.3.

Will reach India in the month of April next year. Price is estimated to be some where around Rs. 35000 to 40000

Nexus s

2010-12-07T12:09:00.000-08:00

At last Nexus S in the market, the only phone with Android 2.3 (Gingerbread)

Dell Inspiron Duo

2010-11-22T12:31:00.000-08:00

At last Dell Inspiron Duo landed in a well con-justed touch screen market.

Android 2.3 could replace credit card, says Google CEO

2010-11-22T12:24:00.000-08:00

Android 2.3 Gingerbread to come alive in a few days. This will change everything for ever, thats what google says. But lets see whether we get android 2.2 update for at least Galaxy S.

Samsung Galaxy Tab, India launch

2010-10-30T01:56:00.000-07:00

Samsung Galaxy Tab launched :) will be available in the market from 10th November 2010.
Check out the Rs 38000 Android tablet thats going to make people hang on to it.

Casio, mobile G'ZOne Ravine

2010-10-28T18:55:00.000-07:00

Check this new Casio mobile, its water resistant, shock res and tougher than a woodland shoe.

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2010-10-28T18:48:00.001-07:00

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HTC Desire HD, India

2010-10-19T03:06:00.000-07:00

HTC Desire HD, released in Europe and US, will be in India in a months time:)

Google TV sets unveiled by Sony

2010-10-13T10:38:00.000-07:00

According to me Google TV, the next big thing has started happening in the field of entertainment. Sony stepped first, there will be row of companies now.

HTC planning to gain the ground with Windows

2010-10-13T01:56:00.000-07:00

Suddenly HTC is buddy buddy with MS Windows 7, Suddenly HTC has shifted its business plans and getting closer with MS, this is evident with the release of three Windows 7 phones in one go, while the two android phones, though announced, but delayed.

HTC 7 Mozart For music lovers and HTC 7 Trophy For gamers both with 1Ghz Processors, this adds up with the release of HD7.

HTC HD7, I love it

2010-10-11T23:17:00.000-07:00

No words :) its real cool check HTC HD7

Brewmp, the new mobile OS

2010-10-10T14:34:00.000-07:00

Qualcomm, the company which developed the snapdragon processor has come up with a cool OS for mobiles, brewmp, check out.

The Touch pad tablet war begins

2010-10-09T00:19:00.000-07:00

Why is touch screen so exciting to use, because its the only technology which literally allows you to touch the technology. We thought we touched it, but now I am sure, its going to stick to us for rest of our lives. HTC was the first company to introduce touch screen technology to consumer level products at a lower price. First it was phones now its the next level, tablets.

Every company has come out a multi touch tablet, especially when a OS is free, Android.

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2010-10-04T10:29:00.001-07:00

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Nook

2010-10-02T07:06:00.000-07:00

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Blackberry Playbook

2010-10-01T05:42:00.000-07:00

First it was Apple, then lot Chinese companies with android, then Dell,Toshiba, Linova and every one else, none of the above is officially available in the Indian market, which gave way to Blackberry Playbook, cool stuff coming to India soon with its own OS, they call it a professional tablet, i call it full with Blackberry.

Dell streak

2010-09-30T02:34:00.000-07:00

Is this a mobile with a tablet or a tablet with a mobile, all is well Dell is dell, look at the cool Dell streak

Nokia Booklet 3G, a cool companion

2010-09-27T11:07:00.000-07:00

If you think Nokia has been sleeping while every one else has been diversifying then it's wrong. see this wonderful stuff, its completely cool.
Its a net book which is also a Nokia phone, you can just insert your 3G sim and start surfing, they have everything on this net book including the phone. So fundamentally like how Ipod touch evolved as a bigger Ipad its a bigger nokia phone which also your laptop.

TATA PHOTON, pocket Wifi router

2010-09-26T10:24:00.000-07:00

check this out. Tata photo has come out with a cool stuff. A data card with a wifi router which can be carried in your pocket, because its small in size.

HTC Desire HD VS Galaxy S

2010-09-24T10:39:00.000-07:00

HTC has been stunning the market for the past few months, first with the HTC TOUCH HD2 now, both with 1 GHz processor, the earlier one with Windows, the other one with android. With the rumour that HTC has come off and away from Android OS, since there was news earlier about the HD7 with Windows 7, sudden launch of Desire has stunned every one and has given a big blow to Samsung Galaxy S, which has been delaying the android 2.2 Froyo update, because the cool desire has been launched with 2.2 Froyo. The best thing about HTC Desire HD is it's capacity to boot back in less than 5 sec. In the coming weeks lets hope we get more news from HTC on HD7 for which i have been waiting.

Android and India

2010-09-23T09:52:00.000-07:00

Android has been the talk of the town. But as far as India is concerned i don se much of development, i was wondering why. They reason in Chinese phones and Nokia, the basic Indian market is right now relying on the cheap Chinese phones and Nokia. We are used to the inter-phase of Nokia or the cheap price of Chinese phone. Once the Chinese phones start using the Android OS and Nokia comes with its first android phone then you will see the market for android. Since android is free like Linux the Chinese phone makers are going to exploit ( they are already) the OS like hell, you will find the cheap 2000 rupees phone with touch screen with android in a years time in India.
Already the top phones makers like Sony Ericsson, HTC and Samsung has started using android, once the Adam Pad, the much talked about 3000 rupees Ipad is released, every Indian will have one. Comparing the population and usage it also holds a big market.
What if schools start giving one Adams Pad to each students and make it compulsory. Then Ipad will loose its foot in Indian market, even in black with cheap price. Before that if these guys realise it and reduce the price then they are saved.

Film Trailer, why ? and what ?

2010-09-17T10:47:00.001-07:00

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Trailer, why is it made.

Trailers are made not just to inform people about the film,but also to prepare the audience for a experience. It is also a tool which will help the audience to identify their choice to select the kind of film which they want to see, and should also create a curiosity with in the range of its subject, beyond the expected. This is how it can help in marketing the film.
But nowadays film trailers are made with a bunch of 'so called' best shots, the director or the trailer editor think is the best. Some time it is made with such stupidity that its makes you fell Yuk and bluck and creates a aversion from the film. Hollywood has devised a method to produce trailers but still we are learning how to cut film after a century of experience, amazing.

Quarter cutting and Aaranya Kaandam are the two best trailers, I have seen in this year. Hats off to people who are behind this.

There is no point in making a film, spending 50 or 60 Cr, how it is marketed to identify the audience is something which we have to learn from the west.

Aaranya Kaandam Trailer, the latest

2010-09-10T09:39:00.000-07:00

Baana kathadi, review

2010-08-12T10:39:00.000-07:00

One of the worst films of the year. Total blunder in terms of screenplay, direction and casting. Only two guys can be appreciated when it comes to this film one is the producer and other is the cameraman, because even for such a mediocre film the producer spent a lot of money to promote and for such a scrip and direction the cameraman gave his best.
There is not much to review about the film. The first time actor Adharva has tried his best, which is the worst of acting even according to the South African low budget film.

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Film schools in US

2010-07-19T14:38:00.001-07:00

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Kansas

The Art Institutes International - Digital Filmmaking & Video Production | Lenexa
University of Kansas, Department of Theatre and Film | Lawrence
Louisiana
University of New Orleans, Drama & Communications | New Orleans
California
The Art Institute of California - Los Angeles, Digital Filmmaking & Video Production | Los Angeles
The Los Angeles Film School - Associate of Science Degree in Film | Hollywood
The Art Institute of California - Sacramento, Digital Filmmaking & Video Production | Sacramento
Brooks Institute - School of Film | Santa Barbara
The Art Institute of California - San Francisco, Digital Filmmaking & Video Production | San Francisco
Columbia College Hollywood - Film Production | Tarzana
The Art Institute of California - Sunnyvale, Digital Filmmaking & Video Production | Sunnyvale
Video Symphony - The Hollywood Institute - Film & Video Editing | Hollywood
Academy of Art University - Motion Pictures & Television | San Francisco
Platt College San Diego - Digital Video Production | San Diego
Arizona
The Art Institute of Phoenix - Video Production Program | Phoenix
Collins College - Film & Video Production | Tempe
The Art Institute of Tucson - Digital Filmmaking & Video Production | Tucson
District of Columbia
The Center For Digital Imaging Arts at Boston University - Digital Filmmaking, Audio Production
Howard University, John H. Johnson School of Communications

Florida
Full Sail University - School of Film | Winter Park
The Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale - Digital Filmmaking & Video Production | Fort Lauderdale
The Art Institute of Jacksonville - Digital Filmmaking & Video Production Program | Jacksonville
The Art Institute of Tampa - Digital Filmmaking & Video Production | Tampa
Miami International University of Art & Design - Digital Filmmaking & Video Production | Miami
Georgia
The Art Institute of Atlanta - Digital Filmmaking & Video Production | Atlanta
Illinois
The Illinois Institute of Art - Chicago, Digital Filmmaking & Video Production | Chicago
The Illinois Institute of Art - Schaumburg, Digital Filmmaking & Video Production | Schaumburg
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Indiana
Notre Dame Department of Film, Television, and Theatre | Notre Dame
Colorado
The Art Institute of Colorado - Digital Filmmaking & Video Production | Denver
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The New England Institute of Art - Digital Filmmaking & Video Production | Boston
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School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston - Film and Animation | Boston
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New England Institute of Technology - Video & Audio Production | Warwick
Nevada
The Art Institute of Las Vegas - Digital Filmmaking & Video Production | Las Vegas
University of Nevada - Las Vegas, Fine Arts Departments, Department of Film | Las Vegas
New York
The Art Institute of New York - Digital Filmmaking | New York City
School of Visual Arts MFA Social Documentary Film | New York City
Brooklyn College, Film Department | Brooklyn
City College of New York, CUNY, Media & Communication Arts Department | New York
Missouri
Kansas City Art Institute - Photography/New Media | Kansas City
Nebraska
University of Nebraska - Lincoln, Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts | Lincoln
Washington
The Art Institute of Seattle - Digital Filmmaking & Video Production | Seattle
Seattle Film Institute | Seattle
Oregon
The Art Institute of Portland - Digital Film & Video | Portland
Pennsylvania
The Art Institute of Pittsburgh - Digital Filmmaking & Video Production | Pittsburgh
The Art Institute of Philadelphia - Digital Filmmaking & Video Production | Philadelphia
Filmtech - Philadelphia's Independent Film School | Philadelphia
North Carolina
The Art Institute of Charlotte - Digital Filmmaking & Video Production | Charlotte
Living Arts College @ School of Communication Arts - Digital Filmmaking & more | Raleigh
Ohio
The Art Institute of Ohio - Cincinnati, Digital Filmmaking & Video Production | Cincinnati
Ohio University, School of Film | Athens
University of Toledo, Department of Theatre and Film | Toledo
Oklahoma
University of Tulsa, Film Studies | Tulsa
Tennessee
The Art Institute of Tennessee - Nashville - Digital Filmmaking & Video Production | Nashville
SAE Institute of Technology> | Nashville
Texas
The Art Institute of Dallas - Digital Filmmaking & Video Production | Dallas
The Art Institute of Houston - Digital Filmmaking & Video Production | Houston
Utah
The Art Institute of Salt Lake City - Digital Filmmaking & Video Production | Salt Lake City
Sundance Institute | Salt Lake City
University of Utah - College of Fine Arts, Film Studies | Salt Lake City
Virginia
The Art Institute of Washington - Digital Filmmaking & Video Production | Arlington
The Center For Digital Imaging Arts at Boston University - Digital Filmmaking, Audio Production
Hollins University, Film & Photography Department | Roanoke
Hollins University, Coed Graduate Program in Screenwriting & Film Studies | Roanoke
Regent University, Department of Cinema Arts, Television Arts and Theatre Arts | Virginia Beach
Online Programs/Multiple Locations
The Art Institutes - Film Programs
Academy of Art University - Motion Pictures & Television
Arizona State University - Film

The past, present and future IPad

2010-07-16T15:48:00.000-07:00

Wow amazing, the size keeps increasing :) from IPhone to IPad whats going to be next Steeve.

Top site to get free fonts

2010-07-14T06:00:00.001-07:00

Funny phone,Cigarette Lighter Dual SIM Touchscreen Phone FM Mp3 Mp4

2010-07-03T14:53:00.000-07:00

What all companies do to sell phones, this is the max tool they can add look at the phone which has a cigarette lighter in it hahahhahaaha, its on ebay funny world.

The funny phone on ebay

Font Designers

2010-07-03T13:26:00.001-07:00

RoboFog [Mac]

Scriptable type hacking tool with many features, for professional type design.

ScanFont [Mac, Win]

Font editor and high end autotracer. Supports TrueType, Type 1, and AI-EPS. Demo version available for download.

TransType [Mac, Win]

Convert cross-platform TrueType and Type 1 fonts, do batch conversions, generate bitmap fonts when converting PC fonts to Mac. Download a demo.

TypeTool [Win, Mac]

Basic Font Editor has lets you add ligatures, special characters, em and en dashes, etc. to your fonts. Make new fonts. Hinting and kerning. More. Demo available. From Pyrus. Previously only available for Windows, there is now a Mac version as well.

TrueType to LaserJet Bitmap Converter [Win]

Want to use the latest TrueType fonts with older DOS-based programs? Alexander Walter has this lowcost shareware utility available. (scroll down the page a bit)

Type Tools

Free downloads for TrueType developers including programs to check font hinting, create TrueType Open Tables, and other developer tools, from Microsoft.

Your Handwriting 2.0 [Win]

This inexpensive font creation program from Data Becker does an admirable job of turning your handwriting into a TrueType font.

Font Creator [Win]

Download High-Logic's shareware TrueType font creator and editor for Windows.

FontEdit [DOS]

This is a LaserJet Bitmap Font Editor. Download a shareware edition here.

FontLab [Mac, Win]

High end font editor for designing or modifying fonts. From Pyrus.

Fontographer [Mac, Win]

Professional, commercial tool from Macromedia is now part of the Fontlab Ltd. family of font editors. For creating new fonts or modifying existing ones, Fontographer is the granddaddy of font creation software.

SigMaker [Win]

Integrate signatures or symbols into TrueType fonts. Add your signature or other characters seamlessly into existing fonts. From Pyrus.

Refont/Wrefont

Convert Mac fonts to PC format (TT & Type 1). From Acute Systems.

Commentary/News: Fontographer is Back

While it never really left the scene entirely, Fontographer has been languishing unsupported and with no updates for a number of years - an eternity compared to most other design and typography software tools. But the program is now in the hands of Fontlab Ltd.

CompoCompiler [Win]

Create composite fonts from existing ones. Requires add'l Pyrus programs.

FONmaker [Win]

Create Windows screen fonts, Windows font resources, HP Soft Fonts, and BDF font files. Convert TTF & Type 1 fonts to bitmaps with this font design software.

UNICODE

2010-07-03T13:17:00.001-07:00

Unicode, what is it ?

Unicode is increasing being accepted as a standard for Information Interchange worldwide as most of the major IT Companies have declared their support for it. Unicode for Indian Languages use ISCII-88 and not ISCII-91 which is the latest official standard. It was felt necessary that Indian Government should represent UNICODE Consortium for necessary modification in the code pertaining to Indian languages script and hence Department of Information Technology became full member of Unicode Consortium with voting right.

Fundamentally, computers just deal with numbers. They store letters and other characters by assigning a number for each one. Before Unicode was invented, there were hundreds of different encoding systems for assigning these numbers. No single encoding could contain enough characters: for example, the European Union alone requires several different encodings to cover all its languages. Even for a single language like English no single encoding was adequate for all the letters, punctuation, and technical symbols in common use.

These encoding systems also conflict with one another. That is, two encodings can use the same number for two different characters, or use different numbers for the same character. Any given computer (especially servers) needs to support many different encodings; yet whenever data is passed between different encodings or platforms, that data always runs the risk of corruption.

Unicode provides a unique number for every character, no matter what the platform, no matter what the program, no matter what the language. The Unicode Standard has been adopted by such industry leaders as Apple, HP, IBM, JustSystems, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, Sun, Sybase, Unisys and many others. Unicode is required by modern standards such as XML, Java, ECMAScript (JavaScript), LDAP, CORBA 3.0, WML, etc., and is the official way to implement ISO/IEC 10646. It is supported in many operating systems, all modern browsers, and many other products. The emergence of the Unicode Standard, and the availability of tools supporting it, are among the most significant recent global software technology trends.

Incorporating Unicode into client-server or multi-tiered applications and websites offers significant cost savings over the use of legacy character sets. Unicode enables a single software product or a single website to be targeted across multiple platforms, languages and countries without re-engineering. It allows data to be transported through many different systems without corruption

16 Bit (2 Byte) UNICODE
Unicode standard is the Universal character encoding standard, used for representation of text for Computer Processing. Unicode standard provides the capacity to encode all of the characters used for the written languages of the world. The Unicode standards provide information about the character and their use. Unicode Standards are very useful for Computer users who deal with multilingual text, Business people, Linguists, Researchers, Scientists, Mathematicians and Technicians. Unicode uses a 16 bit encoding that provides code point for more than 65000 characters (65536). Unicode Standards assigns each character a unique numeric value and name. The Unicode standard and ISO10646 Standard provide an extension mechanism called UTF-16 that allows for encoding as many as a million. Presently Unicode Standard provide codes for 49194 characters.

Character planes and blocks

Main article: Mapping of Unicode character planes

The Unicode codespace is divided into seventeen planes, each comprising 65,536 code points or 256 rows of 256 code points:

Plane	Range	Description	Abbreviation
0	0000–FFFF	Basic Multilingual Plane	BMP
1	10000–1FFFF	Supplementary Multilingual Plane	SMP
2	20000–2FFFF	Supplementary Ideographic Plane	SIP
3	30000-3FFFF	Tentatively designated as the Tertiary Ideographic Plane (TIP), but no characters have been assigned to it yet.^[4]	TIP
4 to 13	40000–DFFFF	currently unassigned
14	E0000–EFFFF	Supplementary Special-purpose Plane	SSP
15	F0000–FFFFF	Supplementary Private Use Area-A
16	100000–10FFFF	Supplementary Private Use Area-B

Unicode, policy for encoding character

Unicode consortium has laid down certain policy regarding character encoding stability by which no character deletion or change in character name is possible only annotation update is possible
1. Once a character is encoded, it will not be moved or removed.
2. Once a character is encoded, its character name will not be changed.
3. Once a character is encoded, its canonical combining class and decomposition (either canonical or compatibility) will not be changed in a way that would affect normalization.
4. Once a character is encoded, its properties may still be changed, but not in such a way as to change the fundamental identity of the character.
5. The structure of certain property values in the Unicode character database will not be changed.

Some of the unicodes

Devanagari (Newsletter Jan 2002 pdf) (For Devanagari & Devanagari based languages)

Gujarati, Malayalam (Newsletter April 2002 pdf) (For Gujarati & Malayalam)

Oriya, Gurmukhi & Telugu (Newsletter April 2002 pdf) (For Oriya, Gurmukhi & Telugu)

Bangla (Newsletter July 2002 pdf) (For Bangla & Bangla based languages)

Tamil, Kannada (Newsletter Oct 2002 pdf) (For Tamil & Kannada)

Arabic-Urdu, Sindhi, Kashmere (Newsletter Oct 2002 pdf) (For Arabic-Urdu, Sindhi, Kashmere)

Vedic (Newsletter Oct 2002 pdf) (For Vedic Sanskrit)

You must have the latest version of Acrobat Reader to read these PDFs

Mobiles I used

2010-07-03T10:28:00.000-07:00

The first mobile i remember using was a Nokia, i don remember the model. It was in 2001 when i joined my first job in Nasik. I was gifted by my brother-inlaw. It was a very simple mobile, other than calling and messaging there where only two tools on the mobile, Snake and calculator. But i never used it to call or message people. I would see the number when some one calls me and then call from land line, the out going and the incoming was priced very high, some were around Rs.8/min.
Just before the mobile got popular appeared this little device called pager, it was a fancy stuff of Motorola, but not used much.
When i had my first mobile, i never took it to office because i thought if some one sees me with the mobile, their ego will get hurt, because apart from me there was only one guy using a mobile phone in my office, that was my GM, i was just a trainee in those times.
The mobile was so big and heavy that you can really feel that you are having one, not like one of those thin ones nowadays. I actually liked having it, because i had to carry in my hand, because of it size and this way i can flaunt that i possess the mobile.
The next one was a Ericsson one (not sony ericsson), again gifted by my brother-inlaw, it was smaller than the Nokia but it still weighed the same. But it had few tolls added to it like WAP, but WAP never worked in our network.It use to hang a lot and that was terrible.
Then i bought the latest 3310, the most popular model of all times. Its still my favourite model. Its simple, small and sturdy. By this time incoming was not charged.
Then i bought a flip model Nokia which had WAP but it was costly, i still used WAP for the heck of using. Then a Motorola which had better sound and it was the slimmest mobile of those days. Then came the Vodafone mobile and then Nokia again, then it was Samsung and the Nokia, then the worst happened, LG now iam back with Samsung Metro 3310 :) which is a simple sturdy mobile with simple tools to make a call and message people. Iam happy with this one. I hope i don change mobiles any more, and i don want to

Tamil Fonts, Rapidshare Links

2010-06-26T14:39:00.000-07:00

http://www.filestube.com/t/tamil+fonts
http://rapidqueen.com/?q=kalaham+tamil+fonts
http://www.rapidsharegfx.com/download/Elango+Tamil+Font.html
http://filespump.com/3d-tamil-font.html
http://www.downeu.com/d/tamil+font.html
http://www.google.co.in/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=tamil+fonts+rapidshare
http://rapidpedia.com/?q=suntommy+tamil+font
http://www.freshwap.net/42f/dl/anu+tamil+fonts
http://www.pccomputerease.com/kushpoo-tamil-fonts-rapidshare.html
http://www.getvn.com/eb1/link/Elango+Tamil+Font.html

use LG Cookie pep and save phone bill

2010-06-23T12:53:00.000-07:00

I am still not able to believe that I bought a LG mobile. I have no idea how i bought it, zaaaaaaaaaaaaaap next minute LG Cookie Pep was in my hand. I was praying god that nothing should go wrong with it, God heard my prayers, in 20 days the lower right side of the touch screen display was not sensing. That's the area where the Dial icon is there, so i could'n dial any number. The shift key PQRS and the GHI region was not sensing. If i touch those region then it clicks the region next to it so the word Passport would be spelled as 'Latt' and it would suggest 'latter' as the word. I had extreme difficulty in typing and calling so i stopped calling or messaging people, my phone bill came down to 22 rupees that month :) good thing right :)

T Rajendran

2010-04-27T02:27:00.000-07:00

Aaranya Kaandam

2010-04-27T02:26:00.000-07:00

Screenwrite.in

2010-04-26T20:37:00.000-07:00

I am extremely happy after day before yesterday, the reason is Screenwrite.in was officially announced to the world.
Screenwrite.in a place which is specially designed by Mr.John to bring in screenwriters from all over the world under one umbrella. Screenwrite.in also provides specialised courses on screen writing. They have started with a summer camp on screen writing starting from May first this year. All the very best Mr.John. Screenwrite.in also has a specialised service on a mentor program for screenwriters, and for the first time in India they have started the initiative of script doctoring services. Screenwrite.in has formed a community where screenwriters from all over the world can discuss, consult and communicate, the initiative is called Screenwriters Alliance

how to crack any password

2010-04-21T16:57:00.000-07:00

The procedure i'am giving will apply on certain conditions. Iam not going to give the most difficult way like using the Java code or HTML it's the most simplest and the fastest way.
1.You invite the guy to your office or home ( if you have a desktop) whose password has to be cracked to your place or take him to a cafe, if you are using a laptop.
2.You login to, lets say gmail is what you want to crack, then gmail.
3.You check your mails and send a mail to his id, the mail would be the most important thing, mail this content which i have posted down.mail a pic of Bipash basu along with that (or some other hot celeb).
4.Now close the account immediately and tell him to check his mail, tell him that you have sent a hot gal's pic.
5.Now when he types the password act as if you are turning back and move your eye balls 49.76 degrees and see what he is typing, you will exactly know what his password is.

Of course moving your eye balls 49.76 degree needs some practise, otherwise it's the easiest way to crack the pass word

Ravan Trailer

2010-04-21T12:28:00.000-07:00

The first page from The Fountainhead

Modi, IPL, Controversy - fuck it

2010-04-21T10:49:00.000-07:00

It's amazing how the whole IPL shit is turning out to be, the most talked brand, the most covered in media, but now it sucks.

Truly amazing.

Tharoor resigned and when is Modi going to that's the question.
I am fucking damn sure no one is going to get caught or no one is going to be punished by the hands of law. It's going to settle in the dark amongst the big wigs and will fade out of media like how Sunantha and Tharoor's name disappeared from media in a week.

AYESHA SHOAIB & MODI THAROOR

2010-04-16T07:13:00.000-07:00

I see a great similarity in both cases.
In both cases both had given allegation against each other and made things dirty and went into lot of trouble.
In both cases it looks as if both are lying and both are speaking the truth.
In the first case both parties spoke behind the doors and settled stuff, but i don think that is going to happen in the latter one.
It is big masala continuing on the Indian news, especially on TV with minute to seconds updates.

LOA - Laught Out of your Ass

2010-04-13T04:57:00.000-07:00

, Sania, Modi, Ayesh and Sunanda Pushkar

2010-04-13T04:01:00.000-07:00

Wow it was wonderful watching the news channels than the Saans Bahu serials, it has been amazing to watch the live news of people and their lives, their inside and the hidden lives. Thats what has been happening in the past one week.
What turning points, what a thrill, what stories, its interesting than a Hitchcock film.
What I am amazed is that we all have a voyeur inside us and we are really interested in other peoples lives. What they do whom they married, how they deceived, how he was caught in a dope case and how he escaped.
I am really not saying its good or bad but i am just asking is it more important than the Javans getting killed by Naxals or the Prime Minister meeting Obama. I don know, as far as this voyeuristic attitude exists its good for the success of the serials on TV.
Thank you Saahi Tharoor, Sania, Modi, Ayesh and Sunanda Pushkar

Tamil Word Processor

2010-04-09T16:36:00.000-07:00

I found a site which gives reliable links to find Tamil Word Processors Download.

http://tamilwordprocessing.blogspot.com/

What is a commercial film ?

2010-04-09T16:09:00.000-07:00

I don't understand what a commercial film is.
When some one pays money to watch that specific film, then it becomes a commercial film because it involves commerce or business where the transaction of money takes place. If that's the case all films are commercial films.
Some people say no! ,only when a film becomes a hit it's a commercial film, i ask you a question, what's hot film, they say it runs well and earns profit, i again ask who earns profit. As far as i know only 2 percent of the whole Indan cinema becomes hit, as per the data given by producer council, so do we make only 2% commercial films, rest is all Non-commercial or art film or what do you call it. Then Tanga Manasukaran is a art film.
Some people say it should have all commercial elements like sex, violence and hot songs, then what do you call Salam bombay because i, as far as i have seen al most all so called art films have either sex or violence in a greater content than normal films.
What is a commercial film.

screenplay, a science chapter 2

2010-03-09T00:03:00.000-08:00

Before going into screenplay writing, I just want to throw some light on what writing by it self and how screenplay writing is different from other forms of writing.

Why do we write ? the fundamental reason is to express oneself.

It can be in any form from a essay of 200 words to a novel of 2000 pages.

The reason might be all same but the purpose of writing might differ. Like, some one writes a novel, the purpose is to read it, similarly some one might a poem so on.
When some one writes a novel or poem, a third person reads it, there is a lot of room to imagine things. The challenge might be, how close is the writer thought and the readers understanding, or some times the writer might want the reader to take things in his own way. In this case when a writer writes some thing as a novel or a poem and a reader reads, the purpose is complete.

But in case of screenplay it's not so, It's the first step in the production, or the first step towards the purpose. Then every one involved understands it and produce a film. So here in case of screenplay the gap between the writers thought and the readers understanding should be as minimal as possible, that's the biggest challenge.

screenplay, a science chapter 1

2010-03-08T12:28:00.000-08:00

what is a screenplay ?

There is a lot of confusion among the new film makers and the so called established film makers on what a screenplay is.

It is nothing but a paper work for the film which you want to make.

Will it have all details about the scene ?
will it contain even the camera angels ?
will it have this ? and will it contain that ?

Answer is, a screenplay is the paper work which contains the details and content which can be read and under stood by any one.
Its a film made on paper work.

Example case study 1:

A screen writer writes a screenplay, the production starts and money is invested, exactly on the third day of the shoot the screen writer dies in a car accident.
What happens to the project if he has the screenplay in a format which, only he understands, or in a language only which he knows, the production unit should know what he has written in order to produce the film. In this case the production will stop if the screenplay is in a form which no one other than him understands.

Screenplay is not some sort of a secret code.

So how can every one understand a screenplay, we all from different background and different departments ?

a shoes flower is called kuchi bu in africa,senbaruthi in Tamil Nadu (India), bacjuka in antartica and it has many other names in many other places but its botanical name is Hibiscus rosa-sinensis (its a scientific name which is common all over the world, so that every one can understand).

Similarly over the years people all over the world developed different formats to write a screenplay, but there is a standard format which prescribed all over the world which is followed as the standard format for screenplay.

Next chapter will be on what the format is

Journal, how iam going to slim down

2010-03-03T06:33:00.000-08:00

One of my freind Mr. karthik told me that he has grown fat, he is 56 KGs, i told him i was 56 when i was in class 6 in school.

That was a joke two years back because back then i was thin ( not axactly thin as you tink, being 75 kg is thin for me). But now i have grown real fat, really fat. I will blow and blast in 456 hrs if i grow fat in this rate, so i have decided to thin down like i was. Ever one asked me if its possible to do so, i say yes. Guys, girls and aunties and uncles and patties(grand mothers). Here comes the challeging 90 days :)

This is just to keep a record of my thining down schedule......... the day of the jackal is June 3rd .

I will update you guys don worry

vinnai thandi varuvaya or veetai thandi varuvaya

2010-02-23T10:14:00.000-08:00

sheikh dawood, sheik dawood, dawood sheik or dawood sheikh

2010-01-26T10:09:00.000-08:00

I still have been getting confusions with my name spelled by people. Last week i had to fill a application for a bank, since it had several pages to be filled the bank guy was generous enough to fill the application. With out listening to what i was saying he directly wore my name as 'dawood sheikh jee', first he changed the order of my name second he made a spelling mistake (because the exact spelling i use is 'G.Sheik Dawood' )i tried explaining him and corrected but he was very casual in his course and wrote my name with one more mistake which i don want to discuss.

I was pissedm then i thought of what happened to prem in college and laughed at the whole thing and forgot about about it, Prem's exact name is P.K.Premlal, but every time they use to write his name as P.K.Perumal.

I realised my mistake of having such a complex name

Aayirathil Oruvan, review

2010-01-26T09:40:00.000-08:00

I was a great fan of this film until i saw it.
There is a lot of discussion on, how good a attempt it is to make such a subject, but question is, how many times will you attempt and make the same mistake of not planning, example his earlier film Pudhupettai, which was a similar disaster in terms of planning the film.

I really din want to encourage the attitude of, 'this is enough for the stupid audiance' to hide your mistakes and put the producer in trouble.

Everyone in the industry knows how bad the director was in planning the film, still if you appreciate his efforts then, no producer will come forward henceforth to make such films.

One big lesson from the film is, please plan, if you don have a plan better don make that film and put every one in trouble to hide your mistakes, or make that film with your own money and watch it at home in your home theatre.

Dosa, Idly and Appam

2009-11-27T19:24:00.000-08:00

One of my friends had a guest from Mumbai.The guest wanted to try Mallu food, so decided to go to a Mallu restaurant, Kairali. As we were ordering food, my friend was explaining the guest about each food iteam, about how it’s made, how it looks and the taste.
While he was ordering Appam the guest asked him what Appam is. It was bit difficult for him to explain the difference between Dosa and Appam, as he was struggling to answer the questions shot by the guest, the Appam arrived.
My friend said “this is Appam”.
The guest gave a beautiful discription of Appam.
He said “Wow, it’s a Dosa with a idly in the centre”

26/11 a tribute

2009-11-26T08:50:00.001-08:00

Mumbai is still a plastic city where every one gives big words on how it has sole and stuff, they just love giving big words like 'enough is enough'. Example 44.21% of voter turn out in 2009 elections after 26/11 what a tribute by Mumbaikars.

SUICIDE KINGS

2009-08-26T07:49:00.000-07:00

Nowadays whenever I turn the news paper pages there are two three things which i sure come across, one is some murder another is some suicide.

When ever i think of the concept of suicide, i feel it's a cowardly act, because that's what i have been taught, but recently i have changed my stand. My new stand is that you need real good and hell lot of courage to commit suicide( to kill your self). I have been giving a thought on how a person will decide to kill him/her self, i must be real painful, extremely difficult and shit load of emotional stuff.

I came to this conclusion after talking to couple of people who have really tried committing suicide.

YOU REALLY NEED A HELL LOT OF COURAGE TO COMMIT SUICIDE, BUT IF YOU HAVE 0.000001% OF THAT COURAGE, YOU CAN LIVE THE REST OF YOUR LIFE HAPPILY EVER AFTER. SO THINK ABOUT IT .SO I THINK IT'S MORE OF A STUPENDOUS ACT THAN COURAGEOUS ONE.

KANDASAMI, A SUPER ZERO

2009-08-21T08:24:00.000-07:00

Kalaipuli S Dhanu is the most generous and the niceist producer in the world, because he has beard Kandasami.
Kandasami = mixture of Ramana + all Shankar's films like gentleman and Anniyan sort.
It's a super spoof of super heroes.Please watch the film, if you like spoof films or if you want to know how money can be wasted or if you want to know how Vadivelu can be wasted or IF YOU WANT TO KNOW HOW KANDASAMI CAN BE WASTED.

A TRUE STORY

2009-08-19T21:54:00.000-07:00

Last week one of my friends had gone to have a meeting with a producer and a director for a project to work as a Cinematographer.

The following is what he narrated to me about the incident.

One of the assistant directors who is working in that project, whom I know (he was assisting production coordination in my earlier project) called me up at 2 AM .He said that, he met a director who has screenplay which is going to be made as a film, the shooting starts next week, they are looking for a Cinematographer, and he recommended my name, this film will change the History and Geography of Tamil Cinema forever.

I was not so excited about Changing Tamil Cinema forever, because twice every week I have been hearing such statements from people in the industry, but I was excited that I’m getting a new project to work, but i had a small doubt about why they are looking for a Cinematographer, just one week before the shoot, its very short period.Then i convinced myself saying 'who cares'. Next day I went to meet them. I found the address easily. As I went there I saw a dark man in White dhotis wearing some 13 sovereigns of gold in his neck and hands sitting in the front office, I somehow understood he is the producer. I used the ‘S’ (Sir) word which is very familiar in the industry. He directed me to a room, it was dark and cloudy inside, as they saw the producer everyone got up dropping their cigarettes.

The assistant who had called me introduced me to the director and producer. He gave a very big build up about me, I was happy  . The Directed asked everyone to go out, as he is going to narrate the screenplay to me. I was alone with the director in that dark room with a 0 Watt bulb. I asked him, if I can have the Tube light on, he said ‘no, it’s a very dark story, so we need that feel’ .First bell rang in my mind to leave the place, but still I had some hopes and I din want to argue with him on this.

The director spoke for some 20 minutes about the story. Please note ‘about the story’ not the story. He gave the usual speech of how well this film will run and how they are planning to get the national award for the film and stuff.
In the last sentence he said ‘ I wrote this story in 2001’ , and I have been pitching to a lot of producers, only now someone has agreed to produce the film, because he understands the value of the story’, the second bell rang. But still I had some hopes.

I cut short the conversation and asked him to give a copy of the screenplay so that I can read it at home and may be come back tomorrow. He said ‘no’. I thought, he didn’t want the story to go out, maybe he doesn’t trust me, so I said ‘ you can trust me, I know one of your assistants very well and nothing will go out’. He said ‘no boss, it’s not like that, the reason is that, we don’t have a written screenplay.’

I was shocked, not because he doesn’t have a written screenplay(because most of the films are made in the 'yellam mindla irruku sir' method), I was shocked because he had noting in written as a document, and they had decided to go for a shoot in a week’s time and there is a producer sitting to support them by funding.
But I still had some hope, the reason being, sometimes they use Hollywood film DVD as their script book. So I immediately thought that he is going to make some Hollywood film in Tamil, and some where I was appreciating him thinking that, lot of directors when they copy a Hollywood film, they write a script separately again, I was thinking that he is so smart that he must have made a lot of DVD copies of the Hollywood film and distributed to all technicians and artists.

Now I have to select proper words to frame my question ‘Which Hollywood film is this’. I selected the most commonly used safe word, the ‘I’ (Inspiration) word. My question was ‘What was your inspiration‘. He was offended suddenly, he said ‘I don’t get inspired or influenced by others films; people should get inspired by seeing my film’. I somehow managed to convince him that I din mean ‘Which Hollywood film is this’. The conversation continued.

THE SCREENPLAY OR THE SCENES HE TOLD ME CANNOT BE WRITTEN HERE, BECSUE IT’S NOT PROFESSIONALISM. HE NARRATED ME A STORY.

Then he said ‘do you know any new- face girl to do the lead role in this film. I’m a decent guy, but she should be adjustable to the producer and the financier. By the by you never said anything about the story, or the project as such all the while’

I said ‘ALL THE WHILE I WAS LAUGHING THROUGH MY ASS’

Aftermath: I never picked that assistant directors call, ever.I deleted him from my friends list on Orkut to Facebook and told Dawood to write about this incident on his blog, without even bothering that he will laugh at it through his ASS

the top 'actors' , i know - tribute

2009-08-10T09:51:00.000-07:00

M.R. Radha, Rajini, Kamal and Sathyaraj are the only four actors who have done their jobs very well as hero, villan and comedian. If you know some other actor who has really done all the three characters as convincing as these guys and as many films as these guys then they get add in this list........
A salute to all the four...

skykap production entering film production

2009-08-07T11:10:00.000-07:00

Skykap entering into film production.We are happy to announce that we will be entring into film production from this month. With the experience in the field of line production, screen writing and direction, we are entering into film production from this september. The name of the film, the director & crew is a surprise..............
We will anounce it all soon.