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TENDULKAR ka DASAVATHAR

2009-12-03T05:03:00.005+05:30

The thought of writing an article was creping my mind. I don’t find a better way other than the savior Sachin Tendulkar, who has healed the country on several occasions. The breath taking 20 yrs career has given many points to share. What is the relationship between Dasavatharam and Sachin?? Is KamalHassan going to produce and direct a movie molding (as usual) himself as Sachin? Ha ha ha! Wild imagination... It’s just a short recap of the living Legend, the Little Master, The cricketing god “SACHIN (6+4) DULKAR”. Please don’t swap the page. I hope this will be very different and interesting.

Moonram Pirai:

When I was a kid (still I amJ) I couldn’t understand the meaning of the word “Moonram Pirai”. Though the moon is always full, Moonram Pirai is a very young moon. Despite being small it lightens the earth with its brightness. Likewise Young Sachin showed his geniusness in primary school itself that made the traditional rules to be broken at cricket club of India where the minors are not allowed, had to relax its rules so that a young 15years boy entered for the first time to make a long lasting impression.

Alavandhan
Right from his schooling this 5ft 5inches (162.5cms) boy ruled the 24 yards. Everyone knows about the famous knock of 664 runs partnership with his friend Kambli. The very next year1989, the little master made his debut in Pakistan.

Sachin not even old enough to get a driving license Sachin Tendulkar was facing the best bowlers in the business. As the Pakistani crows jeered and mocked Sachin holding out the placards saying "Dudh Pita Bhachcha ..ghar jaake dhoodh pee", (hey kid, go home and drink milk), Sachin sent the then young leg spinner Mustaq Ahmed hiding for cover (he had hit two sixes in one over. The frustaded mentor of Mustaq Ahmed the legendary Abdul Qadir challenges Sachin saying " Bachchon ko kyon mar rahe ho? Hamein bhi maar dikhao` (`Why are you hitting kids? Come Hit me?”).

Sachin was silent, since then we all have come to know that he lets his bat do the talking. Abdul Quadir had made a simple request and Sachin obliged, and how. Sachin hit 4 sixes in the over, making the spinner look the kid in the contest. The over read 6, 0, 4, 6 6 6, David had felled Goliath ... and a legend was born.

The very next tour to NZ and the little weed hammering each and every bowler, missing his first test hundred by just 17 runs. The Former Indian coach and captain of NZ at that time John Wright said “India has someone special for the future”.

Mumbai Express:

Mumbai, formerly known as Bombay, is the capital of the state of Maharashtra, and the most populous city of India. The commercial and the entertainment hub turn to be a desert, every time the Master Blaster gets on the field. Every living thing gets into their nests, binds to their TV sets; Remote doesn’t work, at the edge of the seat, chanting only one name “SACHIN”. Even the fastest Rawalpindi express loses to the Mumbai Express.

Natchatram:

The 17years 112 days old hits his first test century. In the very next tour against Australia he became the youngest to score a test hundred in Australia. He also became the first Indian to play for the Yorkshire county and the first winner of the Indian Cricketer of the year award.

The Cricketing Don Sir Donald Bradman, once while watching cricket on the TV, suddenly called out to his wife in excitement saying, "Look! There! The batsman on the television. Don't you think he reminds you of me?" No points for guessing, the batsman was Sachin Tendlukar. Much like Bradman was, Sachin is five feet six inches tall and dominates every kind of bowling attack with a similar ease. He has rated Sachin as the best batsman and given him a place in his all time team.

Tendulkar became the most prominent feature in our solar system. ‘Sun’ for a change raised in India. (Sun is a Star).

Sagalakala Vallavan:

Sachin’s all-round performance always helped India to march towards the victory. The bowler was born out of Sachin in 1993-94 at SA, when they merely required 6 runs in the final over. Every Indian bowler reluctant to bowl and Sachin took the ball and made a miracle to happen, riding India to victory. He has lent his body and taken some of the finest catches to make the opposition work hard to earn their runs.

PesumPadam:

Silence has more Power. It’s very easy to gain attention by commenting the BIG STARS and many utilized this to become famous. Many raised questions (still raises) about Sachin’s longevity and batsmanship, even much harder criticism when he was injured by Dennis elbow. The humble man embraces all the criticism and he lets his bat answer to prove them wrong.

"You have to watch India in India truly to appreciate the pressure that Sachin Tendulkar is under every time he bats. Outside grounds, people wait until he goes in before paying to enter. They seem to want a wicket to fall even though it is their own side that will suffer.

"This is cricket as Sachin has known it since the age of 16. He grew up under incredible weight of expectation and never buckled once not under poor umpiring decisions or anything else," Warne said.

Vettaiyadu Vilaiyadu:

Sachin is cyanide for every bowler in the cricketing nations. Technically he stands out as the best that there is no way a bowler can arrest him easily. So whenever he walks out to bat, it’s running on the edge of knife for the bowlers.

Dennis Lillee: "If I've to bowl to Sachin, I'll bowl with my helmet on. He hits the ball so hard."

Kasprowicz: "Don't bowl him bad balls, he hits the good ones for fours."

Shane Warne: "I'll be going to bed having nightmares of Sachin just running down the wicket and belting me back over the head for six. He was unstoppable. I don't think anyone, apart from Don Bradman, is in the same class as Sachin Tendulkar. He is just an amazing player."

Mohinder Amarnath: "A complete batsman- he's the best in the business."

Anil Kumble: “I am very lucky that I have bowled to him only in nets.”

Glenn McGrath: I always enjoy bowling to Sachin. He’s a class player. The true indication of how good a bowler you are is the way you bowl to the guys who are class players. Sachin is definitely that, I always enjoy it.

Nayagan:

There is a foolish thought that “Whenever Sachin scores a century India loses”

But the most interesting fact is Sachin has scored 45 hundreds, and out of these tons, 32 hundreds came as match winning hundreds...

14 came while batting second... 18 while batting first.

Highest no of man of the match awards.61

Is it the award for the worst player in a match?!!

It’s very few times in the history the man of the match goes to the losing side and as far as I know Sachin has done it twice. Firstly, in the famous Chennai test against Pakistan and secondly, the recent 141 ball 175 runs knock against Australia.

Unnai pol Oruvan:

Sachin Tendulkar and ten others. This was the unkind manner of the Indian team of the mid nineties. The one man army - to battle out of the trouble most of the times.

Paul Strang: "What we (

Zimbabwe

) need is 10 Tendulkar’s."

Every cricketing nation is in search of Sachin for their team.

Indian:

The Mumbai Indian recently said, “I am a Maharashtrian and I am extremely proud of that. But I am an Indian first. And Mumbai belongs to all Indians.”

Bal Thackeray, the leader of the Hindu nationalist Shiv Sena, has criticised cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar over his remarks that Mumbai belonged to all Indians. The right wing party champions the rights of local people, the Maharashtrians, often with violence and intimidation. Sena offshoot the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS), run by Thackeray’s nephew Raj Thackeray, has also taken up the “Maharashtra for Maharashtrians” cause.

Sachin is a quintessential team man and a true Indian. His helmet carries the national flag impregnated on it. Its not very often we see a man coming out to hit a century on nation’s call (The Famous 1999 world cup match) from the burial ground after donning the last rituals of his Father.

Though we have the greatest batsman for two decades, the one thing that eats our as well as Sachin’s mind is that we haven’t won a world cup in these glorious years. We should make our minds to accept the fact that we are very near to the end of the stunning career (irukapporadhillanu sollala, irundha nallarukum nu solren) and before that bring the world cup back home and possibly with the best knock from Sachin forever with the support of the team which he haven’t got through out his career. As Kamal said “If there is as Oscar for the cricketing excellence, probably India should had 20 by now.!!”

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Kanden Kadhalai - A feel Good Remake.

2009-11-02T12:34:00.001+05:30

Cast :Bharath,Tamanna Bhatia,Santhanam,Munna, Sapan Saran

Genre :Drama

Director :Kannan

Music :Vidyasagar

Writer :Imtiaz Ali

Remakes are never an easy task. It has to retain the flavour of the original.Cheers to Director Kannan for the Tamil version of the successful feel-good Hindi entertainer 'Jab We Met' and passing out in flying colours.

Kannan has done his best to match the magic of Bollywood director Imitiaz Ali. Tamannah plays the role enacted by Kareena Kapoor, while Bharath dons the role performed by Shahid Kapoor.

Sakthivel is the son of a rich entrepreneur who is dejected at life and decides to go nowhere. A man with few words, he boards a train only to meet Anjali, who is straight opposite to him. A girl, who loves herself the most, talks a lot without inhibitions and daring.

Anjali misses the train while trying to help sakthi to board the train. The responsibility is now on Sakthivel to escort her to home town Theni. They come across different experiences and both become thick pals.

Interestingly Sakthi wins the heart of Anjali's family including her grandfather (Ravichandran), her father (Nizhalgal Ravi) and her uncles. But the bubbly Anjali decides to elope from her house to marry her boy friend Gautham (Munna).

She takes the help of Sakthivel. The whole family misunderstands that Anjali ran away to marry Sakthivel. Sakthivel comes to know that Anjali has not married Gautham and she has gone missing.

Now their roles reverse. Sakthivel turns charming and tracks Anjali, whom he finds in a school and she is vexed after tasting failure in her love life.

Sakthivel convinces Anjali meanwhile Gautham enters and asks sorry to Anjali. Sakthivel takes them to Theni, where her parents believe that Anjali and Sakthivel are made for eachother and arranges marriage..

The rest is all but efforts by Sakthivel to convince the whole family about the Anjali - Gautham love. But Anjali falls in love with Sakthivel and proposes is the climax.

Tamannah is the backbone of the movie. She has tried her best to replicate Kareena but in vain.

Not far behind is Bharath. He impresses in the first half as a soft-spoken dejected youth and in the second half tries to remain Shahid Kapoor but efforts are futile.

Santhanam as Mokkai Rasu, brings a laughter riot, who is desperate to marry Anjali. Timing and oneliners with Mano Bala are stomach full.

Vidyasagar's music is an added plus to the movie. Suthudhu Suthudhu Kaatru Pudhidhai song are pleasent and melonchaly strings. P G Muthiah's cinematography captures Ooty at its pristine glory and most of the locations could be easily identified as sets.

On the whole, the movie is a decent Remake of the original and worth for the ticket. Feel good family entertainer.

Peranmai - Review -A Different Genre of film in Tamil

2009-10-18T15:36:00.002+05:30

Cast: Jayam Ravi, Ponvannan, Vadivelu, Oorvasi; Director: Jananathan; Music: VidyaSagar

My View:

A complete offbeat film from the director S.P.Jananathan appending to his previous films Eyarkai and E. Jeyam Ravi has undergone strenuous training in fencing, archery and other martial arts. He plays a forest officer who defeats the nefarious designs of terrorists with able help from five young women. Vadivelu adds to the fun quotient for the film.

The Film starts with a eleventh hour work of a satellite launch especially designed for the benefit of farmers in INDIA. Lots of technical words involved and sounds great to hear them in a Tamil Movie.

Ravi, a forest officer from a tribal community from the dense forests and he is the only man who knows the mm details of the virgin forest lands. Ponvannan plays as the chief officer to Ravi.

Rosa women's college NCC troop lands for training under the supervision of Oorvasi. Ravi becomes the Trainer. The 5 leading ladies doesnt cooperate and does a lot of mischievous things to chuck Ravi out. They write a letter to the chief Ponvannan that Ravi is cruel in training and teaching unrelated stuffs. Ponvannan scolds and threatens Ravi that he would be dismissed if the same happens again.

One of the 5 falls in love with Ravi and takes his pistol as a symbol of love. This becomes a issue as Ravi lost a fully loaded pistol and the Chief again threatens that he will be sacked if he didn't bring it in 2 days. Though the girl tries to convey, the other 4 plans for the cheap trick to sack him Ravi out(A girl walks nude in the corridor and says it was Ravi who compelled to do so). Ravi is cornered and gets a blow from everyone. At last the girl hands over the gun to Ravi and Ravi plays the good guy role.(as in every other Tamil film).

At the end of the training Ravi selects the 5girls to take them into the forest for a special training. The Exploration starts and the 5girls are mischievous and gives lots of trouble to Ravi though he manages them.

The tips Ravi gives/teaches are cool. Like breaking the little branches of trees and hoisting light clothes as a flag for refering the way on return, making a common sound to assemble at a common point if anyone lost their way are cool.

As it becomes dark in the evening, they put a tent and stay there. One of the girl notices 2 foreigners and tells Ravi about it. Ravi checks and finds that they are a troop of 16 with Roland Kickinger as their lead. "Its a National issue" and they have come to dislodge the Satellite launch.

Ravi sends back one of the girls to report to the chief and bring in commandos. Then Ravi with other 4 girls plans to watch their activities and stop them. On the verge of this he starts killing one by one and using the Gorilla attack technique.He also teaches the girls each and every move of his style of attack which is very intersting.

At the same time the girl who returned dies as she gets herself struck in wet sand. As Jeyam Ravi and girls didn't return chief gets questioned by the media and he starts searching for Ravi, finds the dead girl and posts a shoot at sight order for Ravi.

Ravi plans to steal a box that the enemies have brought and achieves it with the co-operation from the girls. But its useless and contains only weapons. So with those weapons Ravi and the girls take off the enemy and kills everyone except 3 and loses one among them.

Ravi motivates them and sends them to break their plan and turn away the propeller, while he takes the opposition leader Roland Kickinger and kills him. Indian Rocket launch gets success.

Ponvannan gets award from the Indian govt and Parents of the girls becomes proud. Ravi starts his work again training for the next troop.There ends the story.

Though its a combination of Rambo, Predator and Apocalypto its a brave attempt for the first time in Tamil.So hats off to director S.P.Jananathan and we expect more of these kind of films in the future.Hats off the Jeyam Ravi for choosing the script which is entirely different from the usual commercial films.

On the whole PERANMAI is a complete out of the shell offbeat film and film lovers who need a different experience and genere in Tamil please check out this.

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