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Monday, September 29, 2008

Wrooooooooooooooom......


Yesterday i saw Singapore Formula 1 night race. It was just amazing especially the sound and the speed. Ferrari in scarlet red was a beauty and the safety car in the night was just spectacular. Helicopters were roaming over the track and the whole place looked like a festival. Eventhough i didnt get tickets, i was able to see from the road as it was a street race. I hope i will make it to the stands next year.

Sunday, September 28, 2008

Pulau Ubin

It is an Island and its around 30 minutes away from Singapore. It maintains the traditional Singapore culture. The main places to visit here is Chek Jawa Wetlands. It is simply amazing with mangrove trees, on the shore of Indian Ocean and near to Changi airport. One can see a flight take off and landing every 5 minutes. All these are simply superb. Apart from this, one can go for a cycling on the slopes and it is very adventurous.

How to go:

From Tampinies take bus number 29 to Changi Village and take a ferry from there to Ubin.
Ferry costs around SGD 2.50 per person per trip. Food will not available in the island.

Nearest Airport: Changi, Singapore.

Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Lets celebrate..... :)


Dont get angry on seeing yet another post on cricket. I am just mad about it.

This day last year, emerged a new set of cricketers who made India proud. Yes, i am talking about the Indian T20 team. Lets celebrate the completion of first year as world T20 champions.

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

The future of Indian Cricket...

Guys!!! Back to cricket after a long time. I just want to analyse the current situation of Indian cricket team especially its future in test cricket.
The current Indian team is certainly very energetic and youthful. For the first time in Indian crcicket history, the bench strength looks solid, be it in batting, bowling or wicket keeping. However two things that makes me skeptial about this team are
  1. Can this team win a test series comfortably?
  2. Can this team play test match without the fantastic four?

Let me come to question number 1. Over tha past few years India has been winning test matches abroad consistently. With wins in England, West Indies, Pakistan, South Africa and Australia we have proved the world that we are no more a minnow when it comes to playing at their den.

However if analysed properly:

In the series win against England, luck played a major role. The last man was not given out LBW and later rain god helped us. I am not taking th credit away from Dhoni, who played a brilliant knock. If this had not happened the series would have been 1-1. Also England were playing without Flintoff, but that cannot be a reason for their loss.

The series against South Africa was a disaster especially in One dayers, losing all the 5 matches. However, it was a memorable series for us as we won our first test match in SA, thanks to Sreeshant who bowled brilliantly throughout the series.

The series against Australia was a memorable one for all the wrong reasons. We played brilliantly except for Melbourne test.

The series against West Indies was again a memorable one as we had registers first series win outside India in more than 20 years.

However in all these series one among the big four played a major role. Sachin played brilliantly in Australia, Dravid in West Indies, Laxman in England and Ganguly in South Africa.

Now lets come to tests match series at home. Touring India for a test match series is one of the difficult task for any team in the world. India has been the toughest opponent for any team at home. However if followed properly, one man has been instrumental in India's series win at home consistently. It is none other than Anil Kumble.

So the big question is, Is Indian think-tank doing enough to replace these five players?

Currenlt crop of players like Gambhir, Raina, Dhoni, Ishant, Piyush, Rohit, Yuvraj have been doing exceedingly well at the international level, but when it comes to consistency no one apart from Dhoni is consistent enough to play for India. Yuvraj was once called as the future of Indian cricket team. But off late he was disappointing. Can any of these players replace Sachin, Saurav, Dravid, Laxman and Kumble? Even though it is very difficult or virtually impossible to produce another Sachin, Kumble or Dravid, there should be some one who should take the team from where these five have left.

It is time for the Indian selectors to groom these youngster by giving them more opportunities at the test level so that Indian team can achieve what Australia has achieved over the past few years. I wish the team all the very best and am sure future for Indian team is bright if groomed properly.

Sunday, September 07, 2008

Saroja....

After the stupendous success of "Chennai 600028", the youthful team led by Venkat Prabhu and S.P.B. Charan is back with "Saroja". Unlike their previous film, Saroja is a suspense/thriller which has S.P.B.Charan, Premji Amaran, Shiva and Vaibhav in the lead with very good support from Prakash Raj and Jeyaram. Sampath of Chennai 600028 fame is donning the villain role. Music by Yuvan Shankar Raja, produced by Amma Creations, the film is written and directed by Venkat Prabhu.
The movie starts off very lightly with a song and moves very briskly with good comedy from Premji Amaran. Slowly it takes the audience to the edge of the seat when S.P.B.Charan, Premji Amaran, Shiva and Vaibhav goes to Hyderabad to watch a cricket match but loses their way to an abandoned place. They finally land up into villain's place and how they escapes from the villain, what happens there forms the rest of the story.

The screenplay is perfect making audience to sit throughout the movie unmoving. It is very fast and doesnt gets slow anywhere. Background score by Yuvan is a big plus for the movie and songs are well picturised. It certainly adds flavour to the movie. All the four have performed well and kudos to Premji Amaran for his brilliant humour. The best part of the movie is even though its suspense/thriller, its humorous as well throughtout the movie. Everything is good about the movie and its very well narrated.

On the whole, the movie is yet another masterpiece from Venkat Prabhu and Co.

Rating: 4/5

Tuesday, September 02, 2008

Dham Dhoom...

On Saturday i got to watch Jeeva's most anticipated movie "Dham Dhoom". Unfortunately it was Jeeva's last film. The industry has lost a promising director and a great cinematographer. All of his films were so clean and different in narration be it 12B, which according to me is one of the well narrated movie in Tamil cinema or Ullam Kaetkumae which amid troubles ran very well at the box office. Let me come to his last movie Dham Dhoom. Unlike his other films this is a suspense/thriller about how the hero proves himself innocent for the charges against him for a murder.

Story of the movie is no different from other movies of this genre like Snegithiyae. However the movie scores over other movies released in recent past in Cinematography. The blueish colour throughout the film is a plus. Apar from that, the picturisation of "Anbe Anbe...", "Yaro Manathilae..." and "Azhiyilae.." is simply mind blowing. I guess after "Pachai Nirame..." from Alaipayuthey these are the best picturised songs.

Background music sounds familiar all through the film. It sounds like a remix of Vetayadu Vilayadu and Dasavatharam. However it strengthens the movie.

The place where the movie loses is its Screenplay. It was very ordinary and some scenes of Kangana Raunat reduces the pace of the movie. Also editing was not that great. However given the fact that Jeeva died midway, we should appreciate the efforts of people who finished the work.

On the whole the movie is average but had Jeeva been alive i am sure that movie would have been totally different.

Rating : 3/5