Kalvanin Kadhali

If you liked ‘New’ and were starting to become a fan of Surya in ‘Anbe Aruirae’, then you might enjoy this film. But for everyone else the film is a  disappointment. Surya looks like he is straight from the sets of Anbe-Aruirae. Nothing has changed for him, not even his costumes and he eventually does his baby talk throughout the film. Nayantara looks much better, in fact far better than what I saw in Gajni. Surya is a spoilt-brat and looks to enjoy girls. He acts as if he is in love with them, but once he has them, moves …

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Dishoom

After the success of kadhal for Sandhya and Ram for Jeeva, the two have rocked another hit in Dishoom. Jeeva is a stunt man and an orphan. Sandhya accidentally comes in his life. She becomes a good friend and understands his profession, even recommends that he get married. Jeeva likes the care Sandhya takes and wishes to marry her, eventually falling in love. Sandhya refuses it but does give him hope that someday she might love him. Jeeva is full of hope and whether he suceeds or not is the story. The story might look feeble, but the screenplay is …

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Sidhu flays Moin Khan

I started laughing aloud in my cubicle as I read this from Rediff. This man Sidhu has some sense of humour Former India batsman Navjot Singh Sidhu says former Pakistan wicketkeeper Moin Khan should be sent to a mental asylum in Amritsar so that he can go and meet him there. Speaking to rediff.com on Monday after Sachin Tendulkar hit his 39th one-day hundred as India posted 328 in the first One-Day International against Pakistan in Peshawar, the cricketer-turned-Member of Parliament from Amritsar said, “Mad dogs keep barking at the elephant, but the king elephant does not bother about them …

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Just cannot understand

I don’t know why a match of cricket should affect me so much as it does. I have wowed a lot of times not to be disturbed by it but neverthless feel extremely dissapointed whenever our Team India loses and they did so often a few months back. Things were really good after Dravid took over, but till this happened. The 3rd test match between India and Pakistan and the first day I turned on the T.V to see Pakistan reeling at 13/4 and I told my wife “See these pakistanis were playing it safe for the first 2 tests …

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Aaru

From the director of ‘Samy’ Starring any-role-suits-him ‘Surya’ Aaru is a local-gansters-of-chennai film. But with the crisp touch of the director and excellent dialogues it becomes a good entertainer. In fact it keeps you on it grips from the start till end. No sloppy works done to slow the pace down. Surya is a ‘adiyal’ of a famous Nathan & Co goonda group. He has been there even as a child. As you would expect he doesn’t kill anyone and reasons outs on his own. Nathan & Co, though a bit pissed off with him have to keep him as …

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Kasthoori Maan

What happens when a group of talented actors meet. We get a great performance. Meera Jasmine is a lively and great actress and she has proven it in ‘Run’ and ‘Ayutha Ezhuthu’. She confirms it in ‘Kasthoori Maan’. Presanna, the lovable and realistic boy, stamps his authority and once more proves he is the master in his own way.Presanna and Meera study in the same college. Meera jasmine is a chubby and lively girl, lighting the place wherever she goes, while Presanna is a quiet boy who is trying to keep the family’s pride up after his producer father gets …

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Kanda Naal Muthal

The story is fairy simple. Presanna and Laila are enemies from their childhood (You do have a scene depicting why so). Presanna is taken care of by Lakshmi and his son, Arvind who is also presanna’s friend is engaged with Laila. After a meet with Laila Arvind decides she is not suitable for him and flies back to US giving a 6 month delay to the marriage, and informs laila too about it. Laila suspects Presanna to be the culprit for Arvind’s decision. Laila’s sister meanwhile elops with her boy-friend which puts her mother in a heart-attack. Presanna comes to …

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Stocks – Lesson 4

Stop the Losses (When to Sell – Part 1) In lesson 3 we just learnt that the most important thing to do in investing in Stock Market is to take care of the losses. Make sure your losses are minimum and how do we do that. One technique that we learned was not to make big bets. The rule that you are going to learn is the most important and should be adhered with a lot of discipline. Let us take the same example of the previous lesson. You got 1 lakh to invest in stocks and 5% of that …

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Sivakasi

Yet another Vijay film. But there is one thing surprising about him. He manages to create an interest in his films even though there is nothing much that changes between films except the heroines. Asin replaces Trisha for the ‘Kuthu’ dances and comedy. She has done very well., especially in the latter. There is quite some ‘Mother & Sister’ Sentiments, more so in the second half of the film. But the film has many positives. For one thing there is a lot of comedy and it is like a happy-go-watch film. But you will have to bear with some sentimental …

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Diwali Gift by Indians

While the people were busy celebrating this year’s diwali, the Indian cricket team was busy celebrating another diwali – the death of the complacent and lazy attitude. They too burst crackers at Nagpur, Mohali, Jaipur and Pune. In fact Dhoni sent a lot of rockets (10 of them) in Jaipur and gave the perfect Diwali gift on the eve of the grand day. Soon after Diwali the team came up with a home series win, first time in about 20 months. One thing is for sure, Ganguly is going to have one hell of a time trying to get into …

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