Sunday, November 23, 2008

Love crosses mammalian boundaries

and so does Prozac!!!

Read this story about prozac being given to a parrot which has been depressed after its owners' death.

Friday, November 21, 2008

Salangai Oli dialgoue

This scene (at the beginning there is a small clip from another movie) is from the movie "Salangai Oli" and the final dialogue of kamalhasan could probably be appropriate to a lot of us :).



Yatho hastha tatho drishti
Yatho drishti tatho manah
Yatho mana tatho bhavah
Yatho bhavah tatho rasah



(Where the hand goes the eyes follow

Where the eyes go, the mind follows
Where the mind goes, emotion follows
Where the emotion goes, resonance with environs follows)


He quotes the above and tells the dancer that eyes, heart and emotion has to mix with the art one practices in order to perfect it. He adds that the dancer's eyes are on the audience, heart is in their appluase and desire on the titles she will get.

How true!! :)

Monday, November 17, 2008

Matrix runs on Windows

Enjoy!!

Friday, November 14, 2008

சட்டக்கல்லூரி காட்டுமிராண்டித்தனம்

தமிழனென்று சொல்லடா,
தலை குனிந்து நில்லடா
.
-- மிகுந்த வேதனையுடன்

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Inspired by - 1

Ill start with the proceedings with this celebrity with whom I have spent a lot of virtual time in recent times. He is none else than our own ulaga nayagan, padmashree Dr. Kamal haasan.

The most important characteristic of him that attracts me is his passion. His passion for cinema and the extents to which he goes to attain perfection in his chosen field simply amazes me. In order to get a hoarse voice in a scene in some movie, he apparently went and shouted into a plastic bag for about 3-4 minutes before the scene. What passion!!!! When I am bored and dull, I do a few things to cheer mysely. One of them is to pick up a video that features him from youtube and listen to him :). I am completely enamored by Mr. Ulaga Naayagan.

As a child, I had at least 100 different ambitions. I used to imagine myself in each of those roles. When it came to movies, I once tried to list down the top 25 tamil movies that I would love to direct (aaah!! what would we do without imaingation). Guess what, 12 of them were ones that featured kamal hassan.

Yes, he is a tremendous actor with great skills but its the passion that stands out (even if you don't understand tamil, a cursory glance at these videos will be sufficient to know about this masterful craftsman). Though passion is no subsitute for skills, I believe skills will come with passion but the converse is NOT true. Cut to real life and I find him to be on of the most level headed celebrities. When tamil movie stars got together to protest against Karnataka first for water sharing issues, and similarly recently on the issue of the tamil struggle in Sri Lanka, Kamal's speech was one of the most mature and well thought out. It was so much unlike the many other dumb heads who were spitting venom with their careless words.

Three cheers to ulaga naayagan!!


PS: The order in which I am presenting people who have inspired me is not important.

Tuesday, November 04, 2008

Inspired by

I am thinking of starting a new series of posts called "Inspired by". There are a lot of people who have inspired me in life. They bring pure happiness upon me every time I converse with them (in case of personally known people) or when I see them on TV or read about them (mostly public figures - living and dead). I am hoping to start this series soon. I will not be mentioning them in any particular order. Lets see how it goes.