Kundakka Mandakka

The last few posts have been only film reviews – and understandably so, for this is Diwali season. Kundakka Mankakka is a film that aims to entertain people the most. We all know that Parthiban and Vadivelu are such a grand combination when it comes to comedy and what they have been doing in bits and pieces in other films, they have managed to do it for the entire movie here. And to maintain the film running for 2.5 hrs they needed some story line. So they added a sister to Parthiban and her marriage to a Crorepathi as Parthiban’s …

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Oru Naal Oru Kanavu

Another Fazil film. The good thing about the film is that it is very decent. You can sit with you family and enjoy an evening show of this film. The bad thing is that it is quite slow like other Fazil films, but fortunately Srikanth and Sonia Agarwal have done well. The film starts with the usual theme of a good active hero and a playful heroine. The heroine challenges the hero at one stage that she will make him love her. Hero accepts it wanting to teach her a lesson but ends up in love with her. For some …

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Oru Kallooriyin Kathai

A very different story. If you had been expecting some College rowdies, useless songs and ragging, students threatening  lecturers in this ‘College Movie’ you will be in for a surprise. The film is very different from that.It is quite serious and worth watching. Arya has done quite well in this movie and so has Sonia agarwal. All old classmates plan to meet after a few years at a single place. Arya one of them comes there buy is mentally challenged due to some incident. His friends try to revive him and on the advice of the doctor, they try to …

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Gajini

It was one of the most anticipated movie by experts of the film industry and it did not fail to impress. The movie is a must see and you will not regret having seen it. The movie starts off at full speed and you start to long that the tempo should be maintained till the end of the film. The first half goes with the same tempo and you are now hoping and even praying that the second half does not slow down. It doesn’t but at the middle of the second half the film slows down, rather it becomes …

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Got a Digicam

Finally, I got a digicam. I will not be able to forget the date and manner in which I got it. I have been wishing to lay my hands on one for 2 years now. It started with some some information I got for Canon Powershot S1 while I was browsing. Then I landed on dcresource.com and dpreview.com both excellent sites for camera review. I read a lot about the S1 and I was willing to buy it. But it was selling for 25k (if got in US) and a staggering 40k here. I was not prepared for it mentally …

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Anbe Aruyirae

Surya sets again on a unique venture. If you did know that he directed ‘Kushi’, ‘Vaali’ and ‘New’, you must be well aware that he does things a bit different from others and that is what happens in ‘Anbe Aruyirae’ – referred as AA here after. The first unique thing is that the name was chosen by public. Then the fact that Surya tells the story up front even before the film begins. And that this is a unique story – not even heard about before. Throughout the film, you are reminded of the ‘Surya Style Dialogue Delivery’ that was …

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Stocks – Lesson 3

Please go through Lesson 1 and Lesson 2 before reading this. Why would you want to know all about the Stock market? Why the hell are people desperate to understand its functioning. There is just one answer “To make money”. You and I are here to get some profit from it. If anyone wants to know the market, because he thinks it is fun, Goodbye to him. You are better served at the Casino. Stock market and trading are serious business. They are not joke or fun or something like riding a roller coaster. We are putting our hard earned …

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Stocks – Lesson 2

As we saw in Lesson No. 1, shares that are initially launched as IPOs eventually find their way to the secondary market (the BSE or the NSE). It is like an auction place for the shares, those who have the shares tell an ‘ask’ price at which they will sell the share and those who want it will have a ‘bid’ price at which they would like to buy the share. If you had happened to see some news clips, you can find the BSE something like a local fish market with everyone yelling and running around. Why can’t they …

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Check Mate

After a looooooong gap, I had the chance to participate in a Chess tournament conducted as part of the annual day celebrations at Broadcom. I participated only in Chess as it would be conducted only in weekdays and not in weekends when I would be in Pondicherry. 16 players had given their names including me. In the first round, I was up against Ramki. We tossed and he got white. He is a senior manager and was also playing really well. The game was getting ready for a nail-biting finish when he received calls for a meeting. That did have …

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Stocks – Lesson 1

hat better time to talk of shares than now with the Sensex hitting all time high and the bulls are having fun at the Dalal Street.This is how most of the articles begin when they want to educate people on stocks and shares and eventually those who came to read will feel that it is not for them and flee from the place. So I thought I would do it a bit different and see if that helps. If you are one who had always wanted to know what stock market is and what they sell there or if you …

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