Living dance legend !

               Moving back a decade ago people were used to a very common visual where a group of men and women with same designed costume pathetically follow some of the craziest move made by a puppet called hero in the name of DANCE. A period when people arouse even when hero weaves his hair or walks with a rapid pace. Few acclaimed fame for their drill movements.With exceptions in the list, dance was totally gloomy state to have heroes who termed their own style as dance. A time line where an hero is just an hero and not a dancer prevailed. Technically two forms of dance existed a typical dabanguthu/folk or total classical. 

               A star with core dancing skill, created a revolution which turned everything upside down and set a new trend in the world of dance. A Legend to me personally, "Prabhu Deva". Till his point of arrival, there was no clear differentiation between dance and choreography. His entry differentiated things. Quite amazing to think how the term 'dance' changed in the line of history.

             Songs like "Urvasi - Kadhalan" and "Chiku buku - Gentleman" out poured western dance, while "lolaku - suriyan" and "china rasave - walter vetrivel" outnumbered the local trends. Things looked very easy and elegant when he performs, but not when others try.

             His maniac performance in "no problem - love birds", "Romeo atampotaal - Mr Romeo" and "Mukala - kadhalan" became new trend for dance. While "petarap - kadhalan", "Metro channel - Indu" and "mastana mastana - rasaiya" are mere galloping performances.

            More than his dance, his choreography speaks a lot, for instance in "kathadikuthu Kathadikuthu - ninaivirukum varai" song, I am not sure how many have noticed a 30 seconds sequence where he portrays Ramayana story apart from non stop dance and in "thirupathi ezumallai" (same movie) heard all corners and where he used a simple fun filled choreography using his fellow co-artists. 

          With songs like "Strawberry penney - Minsara kannavu" and "Vennilavae vennilavae - Minsara kannavu" he gave different shades to choreo. Dance lover can write essays for his choreography in "Vennilavae vennilavae" alone, he proved his legacy at that point. Mere class, a slow melody duet cannot be made more better and he was rightly awarded.  

        When he does a duo with any other hero, it will be a blockbuster let it be "Kasu mela - Kadhala Kadhala" or "naan salt kotai - penin manadai thotu". Believe, he created the term 'Signature step' through songs "Vaadi vaadi natukatae - alli thantha vanam" and "Kanalae miya miya - Alli thantha vanam".

       To me his master piece is "All day jolly day - manadai thirudi vittai". I bet, once after watching the song, you wont feel to hear it without the visuals and other best was "kasu kasu - alli thantha vanam", where you can even mute and still cope up with the lyrics, so easily managed to explain.What shall I say about "Main aisa kyun - Laksyaa", he made his presence behind the screen, a prabhu deva's follower can see him in Hrithik in that song and which made him to get second national award.

Surely, his dance would challenge any music director to compose any kind of tune. A true  legend who derived a path and no wonder his fellow juniors following the same and they are the front runners at present.Prabhu Deva is Michael Jackson to our generation ! 






               

            

Google a day off

'Day without Google'  - blog contest @ office .. My day .......

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April 11, 2012
7:00 am

A peaceful morning, felt bit of more freshness in the air even. Took my Iphone to check my mails, one of my daily routine these days ever since my development went out to the hunting testing team .As a practice opened safari and found  'Page cannot be displayed' message for the default home page. Just straight away restarted my WAN router and tried accessing ‘webmail.wipro.com’ and logged in. Noticed a mail from Kein around 3 am today morning, started feeling the warmth though room temperature was 23 degree .

Kein testing team lead client location, we guys call him as 'Malinga'. Yeah you get yorker after yorker when you face him . When he finds a loop in your code he get through and sweep you out .People even say that he is not wearing normal spectacle but uses magnifying glass as his spectacle that’s the way he check things . After reading through the mail got the feeling that it’s going to be hard fighting Friday

8:00 am

The day’s freshness was totally swept of my mind after reading the mail. Told my mom I might return late today. She gazed at me thinking to be a night hang out, but i knew how the day is going to be .Kicked my bike to start the day

9:15 am

Reached office, it was very strange sight most of team mates did not reach office  yet. Priya who used to be in office through 8:15 shuttle was even missing .Went to my seat, "Subu" heard a most familiar voice, and it was Rajesh my offshore delivery manager . "Hey Subu, good you came to office . Priya came in and called me to say she is not feeling good and leaving the office . Ragu and Jagan said their friend met with an accident and both not coming today. So you need to take care of things today, hope you saw the mail from Kein. So finish it up before EOD" .

I felt my heart galloping, with no interest checked the mail from Kein again and started to prepare checklist with the corrections to be done, a total of 8 out of which 3 are some minor stuffs and 5 are some major stuff which will take time .

Took the first major issue, and opened my Google chrome. Saw a 'Page cannot be displayed error' in my home page . Thought the issue with proxy yet again, this happens always, need to change the proxy when I connect to client n/w through VPN. But on checking, proxy looks fine. Now tried giving 'google.com' again same 'Page cannot be displayed' error . Got puzzled, tried 'mywipro.wipro.com' and page got opened . Finally tried 'ndtv.com' and page got opened immediately . For a moment I did not realize the fact and then it stuck my head 'What the hell Google webpage is down ???'

This was more shocking, started trying everything 'google.co.uk', 'google.co.us' but of no use .I don't want this to happen and definitely not today. Suddenly an idea stuck me up, 'Okay might be in India some problem' felt relieved for a moment and connected to my client VPN network and tried with 'google.com', shocking !! The same error message . Took my iphone and tried opening in that, no use .

Then noticed a message from Priya by 8:30 am ' Dei today Google website will be down to show their protest against some US law enforcement, I am leaving home. I informed Ragu and Jagan as well. So you too be safe :)' .. OMG am I trapped ???

Realized minutes later that even today morning I noticed 'Google' page was down in my mobile and thought it was router issue . . Looser, I told to myself .More sympathizing part is no one came to office to get help, spent half an hour thinking not on how to correct the issues, but on how to make a move from here.Those 3 minor issues looked to me like life jacket, corrected them in an hour and dropped the mail just before lunch and managed to made it to look as a complicated issue, at least to Rajesh.

2:00 pm

Second half of the day begun, it looked to me as if India lost 9 wickets in a test match and came out after lunch to save the test match on the 5th day. Just to defend, not even looking to win. In the bizarre even opened Sun Java J2EE book, but not sure what to search and where to search in that . The word 'search' totally became void without Google, mind got exhausted and post lunch treatment started, quietly went into sleep !!

3:00 pm

Suddenly woke up felt some shake in and around, Rajesh came running out of his cabin. Before I completed the statement 'It’s almost done Rajesh', he screamed "earthquake move out, run!!".. Word 'Run' gave me immense energy, left everything as it is and we left the building. The whole Wipro was out there, I got a hunch that most of them were excited rather being shocked.

4:00 pm

It was clear by now  that we won’t get back to work again today. " I was almost there, could have completed the tasks, this earthquake spoiled everything" , Rajesh smiled at me and told "Not a problem, will call onsite manager and will explain the scenario" . Wow, that moment made me to feel light !!

PS : If Google can't save you, only GOD can !! 

Day without a penny !!

The time had arrived atlast, yes my date of return to India was officially anounced and I almost was over joyed for my return ... The first hard task placed in front of me was to vacate my house and get back the advance .. It was a very big challenge, quite easy for one to imagine how messy a house occupied by 3 lazy bachelors would look like .. It almost looked as if some tycoon has struck in the living room leaving our clothes all around .. Kitchen looked as if an abandoned hotel was suddenly re-opened ..
So entire focus was on cleaning the house and nothing else was running around ..

Took two days off officially and shredded my calories by painiting, washing, vaccuming the house .. It was almost done the day before the inspection,just was making sure that nothing remains in the house .. So was vigorously packing all my stuffs and was moving it all to my temporary new house ..I believed nothing should be left out and wanted it to be a totally empty house

So was making a final check list on what all still needed for the preceding day  ...  So prepared a list which included Milk,Coffee powder,some frozen food for dinner ... I was very much concerned about the coffee factor, traditionally built in that way to sip coffee when my day starts .. Apart donated rest of all consumable stuff to my friend

End of that day only the garbage dumps, food for that night and clothes for the next morning remained in the house .. So thought next morning would not trouble me much and everything would go at ease ...

In a day when everything is going wrong against you, then you have no other choice left out apart from smiling at yourself ..Such a kind of day it was ...The fresh morning began with Call out for a Priority issue, two of the production systems went down and to make it more worse the internet connection was pulled off on the previous day itself by my respectable service provider .. So had no other option left out, called my lead and told my situation and as a final touch told him that I need leave again today to clean the house..He granted it too (After all he had visited my house plenty of time) ...

So when all set ,just thought of starting the day  with a fresh note .. Have a cup of fresh coffee ... Just started my preparation and then noticed Mr  'Sugar' vacated my house already, the day before I packed sugar with other things .. So another annoying factor added to the column .... Just was making check list with the day's work .. Generously asked my room mate to proceed to office, thinking it is going to be an easy one man show ..

Well there begun my final session in the house with a mission to earn back 600£ (advance amount) .. My toughness in approaching it was going down each hour .. I was all alone, no internet , no laptop, no music player, no friends too which altogether made me tired not even the garbage work .. Mid day arrived, accidently saw me over the mirror and for a moment thought as if my profession changed to plumber or painter .. I looked exactly the same, my dress with patch of paint all over gave me such a graceful look ..

The final hard think came, I need to clear the garbage bags that was collected for the past 2 days .. If it was India,surely an easiest among the task, but the case was different here .. There is a bin room, in which only the specified garbage can be thrown (bottles,plastics,papers) for everything else we need to go to place some 4 miles away and dump them there ... Thought of asking my regular cab driver(some ten big bags)  to come and help me for this .. Just before I made the call, I realized that Mr Wallet was even moved to the new house ..

That moment only I realized that I didn't even have a single penny with me !!! It was almost 2pm and in another 2 hours, I have the inspection ... Just thought of other options left out to get some money, but unfortunately I had no way out .. All my colleagues nearby were at office and no one else I knew was there .. I felt the same way how 'Nayagan Kamal' felt when asked 'Thatha neengae nalavara ketavara' .... Same touch , though laughter was more ...

India owed Pakistan and made an agreement of settlement at later point ... Yes my  regular cab driver is from Pakistan, explained him about my situation ... The poor form of the day continued further, he told that he was held up somewhere else and told me that he would send someone else for this .. Then came my saviour !! an unknown cab driver ...

After dumping all the garbage into the car, I got into the cab .. .Immediately asked the man, whether the other driver told him about my situation .. He said 'Yes' .. Uff one hurdle crossed I thought .. On the way to the dump yard, suddenly a big doubt aroused in me... Do we need to pay anything in there to dump these things and immediately checked with the Cab driver, to which he answered in detail that too in HINDI .... I stopped him and told him 'Hindi Nahi maalum' and then he laughed, but that point I did not realize the meaning of it ..
Again I asked the same question and again he started answering in hindi and now I understood the meaning of his smile, yes he don't know English

'GOD valikuthu ...azhuthuduvaen...' vadivel's dialogue stuck my head .... So I was left with no option apart from facing the situation .. I was lucky for the first time on that day, I was able to dump things there for free of cost... Bit relieved and returned home in the same cab ...

Almost all done and refreshed myself and changed to formal to give them an impression that I just returned back from office .. I was rehearsing myself with what all I need to hide in the house and how to deviate if asked about some patch and what if they ask about the paint patches which I made .. It was more or else preparing the same way like how I used to do for my viva session ..

The climax of the day reached, when the guy from letting agent arrived .. He exactly took just 10 minutes to check the entire house and noticed very very minimal stuffs of the huge recovery made ... He said 'All done' .. I got shocked, I just spent more than a week to plan and entire 2 days to clean, but this stupid guy took just ten minutes Ulathai allitha dialogue'Tempo laam vechu kadathirukoom da'  ran through my mind.. I knew how much faulty things were there around the house and what all he missed .. But still the goal was achieved for that moment and had a big relief ......End of the day, again I was thinking how I survived the whole day without a penny !! and took the picks of my own house have it as proof to myself as how it was

Solitude ...

Should be more than a year before when I started getting a hunch how will I manage or learn to live alone  without friends, relations and my city, country ... That was the time when I was totally filled with excitement and anxiety on taking up the onsite opportunity which hence forth made me blind by not thinking about the life of mine at that time . Though my world was smaller one still had so many cherishable moments ..Always subdued with loved ones, to mean exactly I love being surrounded by mere humans..

Originating from a family, where always  encircled with relations, it is tough to imagine an odd circumstance alone ..Scenes such  that when I wake up in the morning get to see.. my cousins getting ready to school, my chiti helping my sister to comb her hair ... My mother preparing breakfast for my dad and coffee for my chitapa and my paati who sits in the corner doing her morning bajans always happens in routine...My school days and even my college days had similar kind of scenes and never made me to feel alone ...

First instance when I stepped out of that little bunch was right after my college days .. Exactly by 2008, considering it I was lucky even here ...managed to get tied with the same guys, with whom I used to roam right from my school days.... My room mates and even my colleagues were the same old guys...To state, chap with whom I did my 1st standard wandered with me as a room mate. Hence the people within the bunch changed ,but the crowd remained as always ... So if you had asked me the definition of Solitude by that time, I never even would have searched for it ...I had no necessity to search for torch, since I did not find it dark till then..  The word 'Alone' was always missing in my life

Never even was interested to know whether I will enjoy loneliness or would be able to live with it. All the pieces of my Life puzzle was shuffled and handed over to me in terms of  'Onsite' opportunity..Could not conclude even now whether it is an opportunity or curse ... Yeah in a matter of 12 to 15 months all the chapters of my 24 years journey was overwritten and made upside down... It took quite a time to feel the pinch of 'Loneliness' .. It was altogether a different journey for me, every one and everything was new to me ..The country, people and between these myself .. The transition was incredulous ..

First being lonely was a pain, a challenge and later undeniable fact and now I almost mastered it .. Never imagined such a transition was possible within me...just when I look back and see its just quite amazing ...
Emptiness around me made to search for things and knowledge deep inside me ...Some sort clarity I perceived through it ..

For instance whenever I am down with my thoughts and not left alone , it was made easy for me to come out of that..It was quite easy to just get it diverted ...But I am all alone when I am down with my thought, I had to handle it in on my own... Being lonely made me to think and focus on things which I had never ever dare to touch ...I was forced to face the fact and handle it .. Started thinking deep into the fact , few among many attempts even fetched me with solution

Its very true that this dark shade of loneliness made me to realize the current phase of my life . The truth of simple life and even gave me ' no more a college guy' attitude ...This lonely phase gave me 'What next' attitude .. The hunt of solitude gave a chance to search about my self  recursively .. I saw my world a step back keeping it bit far away from me .. I was able to see my problems lighter and was able to handle it

Lighter moments with the closed ones was missing all the while and even missed most precious occasions .. Almost this journey about to end, but lot of experience to carry forward .. Now just thinking how well  I can adapt to my world of crowd which I was very much used to ...

10 reasons why I hate Sachin Tendulkar

Not my creation,but loved it !!

1. He always plays a brilliant innings before my exam and hence doesn’t let me study.
2. Every time that I think of becoming an atheist, he gets into the nineties and I have no choice but to pray.
3. Every time I take a resolution not to bite my nails, he gets into the nineties and I am left with no choice but to chew on my nails.
4. He keeps all the records to himself.
5. He makes a lot more money than me.

6. He costs way too much on ‘super selector’ but since I have to pick him, the rest of my team gets weakened.
7. During a match, invariably when I want to go to the bathroom, he hits a boundary and hence I have no choice but to sit and watch the replay.
8. As soon as I convince myself that God does not exist, he plays a straight drive and proves me wrong.
9. He brings the whole country to a standstill whenever he bats
10. And the last and the biggest reason why I hate Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar …


He is going to retire sometime in the futu

Dheena -RIP

Death - One of the worst penalty of Life and hardest truth to take forward .. Fate has played its cruel role last night, yes it has taken one my closest friend away from this world .. Dheena dhayalan !!!! Finding it hard to digest still when I heard the news last night. He is no more after a road accident..I am Experiencing death at a very close distance for first time in my life...

Machan why did that happen to you..Machan the words 'love and miss' will just not  be enough to express my pain.. I dont know how to shed my emotions off da .. If your are able to feel me from anywhere, please forgive me for not taking part in your demise ... Will not be able to forget your voice calling 'Supini' and ur laughter sound ...

Just can't accept this fact of life da, Is this the life .. Do I need to cross these things in my life ??? Will be missing your presence through out my life da ...

Wherever your soul is, I sincerely pray your soul to rest in piece. Please GOD give some ray of hope to his parents and take care of my dear friend wherever he is now

With Love and Tears,
Subu

Deivathirumagal !!

I witnessed the emotional bond between Krishna and Nila, yes watched the movie 'Deivathirumagal'.. I was already in a wait to watch this movie, but after seeing the overwhelming comments from my friends in FB and Twitter  I just decided to put an end to the wait.. It got released in very few theatres here, so me along with my friend travelled 60 miles to watch the movie ... 


                    Films displayed the love between an insane father and daughter in an untouched way. Krishna was brilliant, I did not see a single bit of Vikram's resemblance in him. He is a Legend, no need to argue any more. Vikram described the word 'perfection' beautifully, right from the beginning to the dot the same body language..More than that the same tongue language. He can make you to cry, no matter how strong you are ...In a scene When Krishna was asked 'Ena panre Krishna, kuzhantha azhuthu inge' his reply with 'Ena pananum??'  simply defines his character ...Effortlessly he steals the show... 


                  Vikram had a tough competitor Nila, her character was created as cute as she is !! with a 'Viputhi' and 'kumkum' the small angel looked too beautiful ..I would object if some one calls her as Baby  Sarah, definitely a kid cannot act in such a splendid way !! The scene where one of her class mate informs her teacher that her father is mad, her tone reacts 'illai', with a powerful expression is just an example,I was just thinking how did they manage even to show her angry in few scenes, unbelievable 


                  The film between these two, also involved few more characters, who did their best part to make the movie to move .. Especially Santhanam and Anushka, gave their best ...Nasar, believe everyone is tired in praising him .Another feather to his crown 


                 Above all, the full Accolade goes to Vijay !! What a creator..Film might been inspired by 'I am Sam' movie, let there be some bits and pieces..But still I believe this is his best creation.. He just managed to deliver an emotional bonding between father and daughter in beautiful and enjoyable way . His presence behind the screen was noticeable in many scenes like hiding image of 'Banu' (mother of Nila) through out the movie, when teacher says 'There are plenty for adults to learn from them'. Parallel track of father and daughter love between Ygee and Anushka was also described neatly without much explanation.The way how final court scene was taken is itself a proof, when judge himself watching Krishna and Nila, without listening the argument ...


               The technical team also showed their hunger and their presence in this movie, the cinematography of 'Vizhigalil oru vanavil' itself will speak about Nirav shah.. 'Kadha sola poren' song was creative.. GV, was mind blasting and sensible through out.. Antony's with scissors had meadows touch.. Dialogue writer stunned audience in many occasion, notably when Amala Paul ask Nila 'En apa venum, naagae ilayaa ??' her reply ' Nee matum unga apa kooda irukae, naan irukae koodathaa' Goosebumps ..


              Plenty of scenes in the movie will be very close to the heart, but the final court scene was mind blowing and the climax was acceptable, I swear none among us would have listened what Nasar was arguing/speaking about, when Krishna and Nila was speaking with each other in their language ... No words to describe Silence !! 


              I got immersed in emotion and was really blown away by this movie, believe we need not ask the question 'Did you cry watching the movie' instead we can ask 'How many times you cried ?' ..


PS : Heard a conversation between a guy to his friend 'Enda intha padathuku kutitu vandae, azuthuten da !!' ...