05/05/05

Last week was not just about humour. There was melodrama too. While I am very much against all these melodrama in soap operas, I, surprisingly, enjoyed this one.

It is about the movie Kannadi Pookkal. One of the heartening fact in this movie is that we got to see a kid who just behaved like a kid, in the truest sense of the word. He was humourous, lively, playful, mischievous, insecure, fearful, loving and what not. Kudos to the director for having created a child character sans the adult-like smartness.

Parthiban and Kaveri performed just enough for their subdued role. But the clear winner in this movie is Master Ashwin. What a find! The entire movie revolved around him and he carried it with elan on his slender shoulders. He deserves appreciation and award, if only the awards were to go to the deserving ones.

Special mention has to be made about the scene where he does something out of his insecurity and it backfires. The way he displayed fear in his eyes is a testimony to his histrionic skills. Another interesting scene was where he pleads guilty for his folly and explains the reason behind his action. His dialogue delivery was exceptional, mallu accent notwithstanding. I was personally moved with this particular scene and had I been in Parthiban's position, I would have rushed to carry him on my shoulders to comfort him.

The movie comes with its own downsides. It was surprising to see nil-reaction from Parthiban when his son is being ill-treated by his father-in-law in front of his eyes. The second half looked like a bit stretching. Maybe, we could hardly wait to know the ending. A romantic song between Parthiban and Kaveri looked like a dampener, when the director had his audience enthralled with the plot. Thank God, he did not try to cater to the masses by bringing in Mumtaz or the likes for a song.

Final verdict: An interesting movie, especially for those who wish to sire more than one child.

May 04 '05

I happened to get the drama tickets of S.Ve Shekar's drama, "Vaal payyan" at Narada Gana sabha. This is the second time, I am attending such stage plays. Though, I have seen the recorded version of this drama and listened it umpteen times on the tape, still seeing it live had only added to the enjoyment.

One of the things that is to be noted, is the turn out of audience. It was not sparse but at the same time, it cannot be graded as a better one too. When people pay more attention to all soaps, which uses the maximum amount of glycerin, it is really disheartening to note the poor turn out for the dramas. Infact, S.Ve Shekar thanked the audience to have spared some time for such stage plays, inspite of the dominance of such monotonous melancholic daily soaps.

This blog is not to review the play but rather delve into something else viz. the repeated mention of lack of women artistes in such stage plays. I know it is a harsh truth that women don’t pursue their interests inspite of the talent. Infact, when Srini asked me jovially, if I would be interested in it, it made me think why did I not pursue it or rather why my sis who has ensured that she is on the stage for all the school plays, did not make it big… I don’t know why I curtailed all my extra curricular activities in college inspite of the avenues available to vent out the talent. I am sure it is absolutely not stage fear. I don’t know if the cliched – “a male dominated society” holds good here or is it the mind set to pursue success in the “road most traveled by the middle class”???

May 03 '05

No specific reasons to start this blog, I was trying to control my midday siesta at office and was browsing thru' the blogs of my friends. This led to the idea of me starting my own blogs and put all my thoughts (however silly it is) at one place.

Usually the first of any thing in life is very interesting.....be it the first day to school or the first day at office, we usually have lot to say or rather share with our parents,siblings and friends. I dont know if I shall be sharing the first blog also in a similar fashion.

As per the norms of blog, one should not think too much on what to write but rather blog whatever that comes to the mind. The idea that is currently racing in my mind is.....why dont they abolish the idea of writing documents in software industry. One of the worst things....I have faced is to write a document on what I have done. But, worse than it, is to write the appraisal form in which we need to think on the tasks, which we had done some six months ago. I find it difficult to remember on what I have done 6 days or even 6 hours back :-((

Coming back to the subject of documentation, One of the jobs I always wish to delegate is documentation especially those related to processes.....what a silly way to spend our time when we have the other golden opportunity of keeping our eyes closed and claiming that we are ruminating on the nuances of the fix for the recently discovered bug.......

Well, writing this blog also robs me the pleasure of meditating the intricacies of the bug ;-).....let me stop my blog here and enjoy the other pleasure......