Firstly, Before giving some credits to the director to have tried a different genre for Tamil Cinema, One must appreciate my guts to have gone to watch this movie with my family. When I say My family, that includes my wife and MY PARENTS.
Well, I have been hearing all negative reviews about the movie Aayirathil Oruvan. I have no idea why people expect something clean from Selva. Probably the promotions / teasers misled the audience to believe that the movie is a fiction, fantasy or all other genres that I hate to watch in a Hollywood movie. Probably people expected it to be like Harry Potter series or a time travelling story. Yes, Whatever the genre could be, but the movie is hand written by Selva. You just cannot get rid of his own glamorously-appealing-style. Be it a whatever-genre-movie it is.
Things one must appreciate:
1. To have thought about such a perplexed story & present it with this genre.
2. To have granted this story to our Tamil Audience.
3. Music, especially the BGM, by GVP.
4. Cinematography.
5. Parthiban's acting. I guess all these days he has been wasting his efficience.
6. For not casting his brother Dhanush. lol. Trust me, I am not kidding. Trust me again, I liked Pudhupettai. I still would rate Pudhupettai as #1 of all Selva's movies.
7. Few comedy scenes.
Things that were really bizarre:
1. Stunts were not at all professional. I dont know which decade Selva is in now. Cos, even for a 100% commercial movie, people hire professional stunt crew.
2. Could have avoided few Selva kinda scenes.
3. Could have explained the 7 dangers at least in the end.
Though the hostile comments from me are very less in numbers, few blunders were too obvious and easily noticeable. During the audio launch speech, he was irritatingly saying not to match tamizh movies with hollywoods'. Rather, he wants hollywood to match with thamizh. Dude, you must not make those blunders in stunt sequences, if you want to match with someone or someone else want to match with you. I would not say those blunders were unintentional, rather I call them careless errors.
People say he has given the pieces of many English movies. Come on, even few scenes were like Avtar. But the movie was done long before Avtar was released. Have some heart and try to appreciate movies of this genre.
People whom I know very well, would know that I would have not even cared to watch this movie if it was an English movie. Only reason I watched this movie was cos this was for Tamil Audience in tamil from Tamizh people.
Final word is, it is definitely not a bad movie. It comes under the category, can watch it once.
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Whats in an anonymous post?
I seriously dont understand why there is a way to post comments anonymously?
It is really suprisingly stupid to allow anonymous posts or have an option to allow anonymous posts in blogs or in any online forums.
And people who makes use of anonymous posts are the real cowards. I hate to write this here. But at least seeing this, someone would try revealing the identity when there is something sensible at all to convey.
I always hated anonymous calls, texts and letters. These online forums are no exceptions. Phew. I never thought I would write something here about this.
It is really suprisingly stupid to allow anonymous posts or have an option to allow anonymous posts in blogs or in any online forums.
And people who makes use of anonymous posts are the real cowards. I hate to write this here. But at least seeing this, someone would try revealing the identity when there is something sensible at all to convey.
I always hated anonymous calls, texts and letters. These online forums are no exceptions. Phew. I never thought I would write something here about this.
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Kandasamy - Purely an Entertainer ( If you dont expect anything else)
Ahem...
On Sunday morning, I started getting SMSs saying Kandasamy is not up to the mark or a total waste of time. Then I thought I should watch it on the same day, cos people start saying a lot about the movie and things that they did not like. That makes me to learn more about the story. I did not want that to happen. Luckily I did get tickets to watch that movie.
You all know what? It is not an easy task to write about a movie for which a lot of people have already criticized against it. Probably I may not even know whether I liked this movie. There are many reasons that I liked this movie:
1. A lot of bad comments about the movie. This made me to watch the movie with the least expectations.
2. I like all kinds of movies. I mean all genres. Let it be drama, comedy, horror, action, entertainer (we can call it pure masala). etc etc.
3. Concept of the story was really good.
4. I always have this faith in few good directors. Susi Ganesan is one of them.
5. There were not lengthy lectures (particularly in the climax) by the lead role justifying all his mistakes since the story began.
6. Justification of flying stunts.
The last 2 reasons would be accepted only if you guys watch the movie.
I am not marketing, This movie can definitely be watched once.
I would definitely not say this movie is a must watch or flawless or has best screen play.
Following could be the flaws from the movie:
1. Unwanted Vadivelu scenes.
2. If vadivelu's were not good, Charlie's was even worse.
3. Few erotic scenes of Vikram and Shreya.
4. Extra songs like Meow Meow, that pizza selling song ( These extra songs makes us to feel that the current directors are still coward or they still think that the present audience likes those masala stuffs. This goes for having an idea of including Vadivelu scenes)
5. Screen play could have been little better than this. I wont say it is totally bad.
These mistakes are quite common in this Genre of movies. Yeah, When it is said entertainer, there are possibilities of having such negative points.
The director reveals a lot of secrets at the first half of the movie itself. This shows his confidence in carrying the screen play forward. However, I was disappointed with his confidence level by having few extra songs and including a separate comedy track. Extra songs are somewhat understandable. Yeah, these songs are included for business purpose. The music album should be equally profitable. But having a comedy track that do not gel with the movie is totally weird. After all, I did not expect from the standards of Susi Ganesan.
My final one line comment would be, If Anniyan was too good, Kandasamy deserves at least a GOOD.
On Sunday morning, I started getting SMSs saying Kandasamy is not up to the mark or a total waste of time. Then I thought I should watch it on the same day, cos people start saying a lot about the movie and things that they did not like. That makes me to learn more about the story. I did not want that to happen. Luckily I did get tickets to watch that movie.
You all know what? It is not an easy task to write about a movie for which a lot of people have already criticized against it. Probably I may not even know whether I liked this movie. There are many reasons that I liked this movie:
1. A lot of bad comments about the movie. This made me to watch the movie with the least expectations.
2. I like all kinds of movies. I mean all genres. Let it be drama, comedy, horror, action, entertainer (we can call it pure masala). etc etc.
3. Concept of the story was really good.
4. I always have this faith in few good directors. Susi Ganesan is one of them.
5. There were not lengthy lectures (particularly in the climax) by the lead role justifying all his mistakes since the story began.
6. Justification of flying stunts.
The last 2 reasons would be accepted only if you guys watch the movie.
I am not marketing, This movie can definitely be watched once.
I would definitely not say this movie is a must watch or flawless or has best screen play.
Following could be the flaws from the movie:
1. Unwanted Vadivelu scenes.
2. If vadivelu's were not good, Charlie's was even worse.
3. Few erotic scenes of Vikram and Shreya.
4. Extra songs like Meow Meow, that pizza selling song ( These extra songs makes us to feel that the current directors are still coward or they still think that the present audience likes those masala stuffs. This goes for having an idea of including Vadivelu scenes)
5. Screen play could have been little better than this. I wont say it is totally bad.
These mistakes are quite common in this Genre of movies. Yeah, When it is said entertainer, there are possibilities of having such negative points.
The director reveals a lot of secrets at the first half of the movie itself. This shows his confidence in carrying the screen play forward. However, I was disappointed with his confidence level by having few extra songs and including a separate comedy track. Extra songs are somewhat understandable. Yeah, these songs are included for business purpose. The music album should be equally profitable. But having a comedy track that do not gel with the movie is totally weird. After all, I did not expect from the standards of Susi Ganesan.
My final one line comment would be, If Anniyan was too good, Kandasamy deserves at least a GOOD.
Sunday, August 9, 2009
BREAK TIME COMMERCIALS.
I have been reading few blogs in the past two weeks. I do read random blogs just to get inspired. Yeah inspirations to write :). I read few blogs for which I had to reply immediately. For few of them I did not. I kept those points in my mind and thought I would write a blog in my own space. Yeah, one such thing is about Commercials.
All of us feel bored whenever we get that break thing during our favourite shows, movies etc. Thanks to many creative minds who keep entertaining during breaks as well. I read many blogs where the bloggers have always complained about commercials. Commenting on the content. Of course, few commercials are too sick and makes me to scream. I dont know what my wife would think whenever I crib about such sick commercials. Probably she might think what I would have done if had given a chance to create one. Yes, if she had thought like that, it is a wise thought.
There are many good ones which simply takes us away from our fav show or a cricket match. I would love to list the recent commercials that made me to say WOW.
All Airtel Ads
All Vodafone Ads
I guess Airtel started following Vodafone style recently, where the small gal makes a paper boat and it starts raining and her friends helps the boat from drowning.
Forget if they are following their competitor's style or not. The videos are good.
Amaze health drink powder has impressed me in a different way. The mother asks her son about INTERNET. The kid starts explaining her and not even more than a line has come out from him, the mother starts worrying about the stress of the son's brain. She thinks that the technology world needs better and active brain. She stops listening to her son and starts thinking about the health drink which might help his son to be active and smart.
I like this ad very much. I thought what a typical mother. Isnt it true?
Ads are really a good break nowadays. Few years back, may be a decade back they were truly a nuisance. Though the number of commercials are more, they are made interesting and a lot of hidden talents are brought out to public eyes.
Models, Photography, choreography, Musicians and a lot of behind the camera talents are made visible.
I may not have made a point out of this blog. However, I thought I shared whatever I have had in my mind.
All of us feel bored whenever we get that break thing during our favourite shows, movies etc. Thanks to many creative minds who keep entertaining during breaks as well. I read many blogs where the bloggers have always complained about commercials. Commenting on the content. Of course, few commercials are too sick and makes me to scream. I dont know what my wife would think whenever I crib about such sick commercials. Probably she might think what I would have done if had given a chance to create one. Yes, if she had thought like that, it is a wise thought.
There are many good ones which simply takes us away from our fav show or a cricket match. I would love to list the recent commercials that made me to say WOW.
All Airtel Ads
All Vodafone Ads
I guess Airtel started following Vodafone style recently, where the small gal makes a paper boat and it starts raining and her friends helps the boat from drowning.
Forget if they are following their competitor's style or not. The videos are good.
Amaze health drink powder has impressed me in a different way. The mother asks her son about INTERNET. The kid starts explaining her and not even more than a line has come out from him, the mother starts worrying about the stress of the son's brain. She thinks that the technology world needs better and active brain. She stops listening to her son and starts thinking about the health drink which might help his son to be active and smart.
I like this ad very much. I thought what a typical mother. Isnt it true?
Ads are really a good break nowadays. Few years back, may be a decade back they were truly a nuisance. Though the number of commercials are more, they are made interesting and a lot of hidden talents are brought out to public eyes.
Models, Photography, choreography, Musicians and a lot of behind the camera talents are made visible.
I may not have made a point out of this blog. However, I thought I shared whatever I have had in my mind.
Yes I did it.
I know I have not been writing here for long long time. But now, I DID IT.
I have been making and breaking many promises particularly to scribble something here in my space. Yeah I have been promising myself a lot of times.
The most convincing of the promises is "Once I move upstairs in my new room, once the construction is done"
The reason for this promise is that I was thinking I did not have privacy to write my own thoughts.
I did not keep up my own words. I am writing this almost after 3 or 4 months since I started living in this new room. I had promised to write on many things. Now everything looks too old to write. One such example is IPL. Know what? It was during the first season I decided to write about the IPL. I feel very guilty whenever I realise that IPL season 2 is over as well.
There are very few people who had been following my blogs. And those few people keep asking me about it now and then... I cant say now and then. Now and then when we meet. Probably I can blame on this. Yeah, probably if I had met those few people quite often and had they asked about it every time we meet, I could have given a better attendance than this. Alright, now that I have started, I would keep writing. I hope I don't break this promise too. Thanks to all those FEW FOLLOWERS, I don't even know if I can announce everyone of you that I have updated my blog. I really don't know how many of those few followers would accept this as a blog.
I simply cant believe that even my marital status changed twice since I wrote my last blog. Yeah, I got committed and got married as well. Yeah, happily married for more than a month and still going... :)
I have been making and breaking many promises particularly to scribble something here in my space. Yeah I have been promising myself a lot of times.
The most convincing of the promises is "Once I move upstairs in my new room, once the construction is done"
The reason for this promise is that I was thinking I did not have privacy to write my own thoughts.
I did not keep up my own words. I am writing this almost after 3 or 4 months since I started living in this new room. I had promised to write on many things. Now everything looks too old to write. One such example is IPL. Know what? It was during the first season I decided to write about the IPL. I feel very guilty whenever I realise that IPL season 2 is over as well.
There are very few people who had been following my blogs. And those few people keep asking me about it now and then... I cant say now and then. Now and then when we meet. Probably I can blame on this. Yeah, probably if I had met those few people quite often and had they asked about it every time we meet, I could have given a better attendance than this. Alright, now that I have started, I would keep writing. I hope I don't break this promise too. Thanks to all those FEW FOLLOWERS, I don't even know if I can announce everyone of you that I have updated my blog. I really don't know how many of those few followers would accept this as a blog.
I simply cant believe that even my marital status changed twice since I wrote my last blog. Yeah, I got committed and got married as well. Yeah, happily married for more than a month and still going... :)
Thursday, July 3, 2008
Shattered Dreams
This story was written for a SHORT STORY CONTEST in one of the ORKUT COMMUNITIES.
The Contest rules had said that every story should have the following words:
"Banwara mann dekhne chala ek sapna"...crooned one of the radio stations. "Can we ever stop dreaming?"
And yeah the theme of the story should be DREAMS. And here goes my story.
Shattered Dreams
Scene 1
13 June 2008 2100 hrs, Chennai.
Kabilan came out of the pub, dancing to the last beat of the song that was hitting hard in his ears a few seconds ago. Yes, he wasnt stable. Even after 8 large pegs of whiskey, his thirst was not over. His so unstable mind did not forget to pick his beer bottle packed with brown paper. By the time he reached the car park, he opened the bottle and swallowed the first half of the bottle greedily. He was not sure about his destination. His hands were so busy driving. His mind wasnt. He enjoyed every day like this. Drinking hard all night and sleeping until his hands reached for next sip of alcohol. Now, He was driving happily singing (Read it Yelling) along whatever songs his hands tuned in to. "Banwara mann dekhne chala ek sapna"...crooned one of the radio stations. "Can we ever stop dreaming?" was the RJ's voice. He tuned into the other station." I wanna be ur underwear ..." was the other song in another station. He laughed out loud and started to shout along with Bryan Adams. And never thought about stop driving nor beer sipping.
Scene 2
13 June 2008 2100 hrs, Chennai.
Mercy was waiting for her to-be-ex husband in one of the beautiful restaurants in the city. Yeah, They did not live together after 3 months of their marriage. They both thought they were not for each other. However, their relatives and friends thought 3 months is too short a period to come to such a decision. They were meeting after a month since they got seperated. She was looking at her watch for 10th time while she was sitting near by the glass window of the restaurant. The restaurant first floor had a beautiful view of the city roads and the near by mini fly over that divides itself to either side of the restaurant. She did not hesitate to enjoy the view as she ever would. Like any other day she was happily enjoying the vehicles head lights flashing in different colurs. She always thought her city was so beautiful unlike her life. Their marriage was arranged by parents and had involved all formalities of the church. She thought somehow the god did not bless her with the right partner. When she was exactly thinking about that, Jose came rushing to the table and said "SORRY" for the first time in their married life for being late. She could not believe her own ears. She thought he wanted to keep her happy in their last few days of married life. After living 3 months with her he thought she was mentally too weak. He thought she was not strong enough to be in any relationship. He also did not want a wife who is so caring and so depending on him.
Mercy did not want to keep this long, She raised her chin and asked him
" Why are we meeting today? " He did not want to answer for this question. He thought she would ask him " When are we getting back to married life? "
She cleared her throat to repeat her question. He simply replied " Just to finalise everything "
She expected him to reply " To get into the habit of dating every evening " But he had replied the other way already.
" So Whats there to finalise? " She asked.
" Its up to you Mercy. As you wish. um. U know, I thought I should give you some space to take decision on this. Just as you wished, Lets live apart for next 1 year for the sake of law. Then, probably we should get the papers signed. "
She controlled that tiny tear from her eyes and managed to smile. Her eyes had to fight a lot with her own heart to show such an instant smile. She did not want to show her weakness. He always liked women who were strong. He always said he would not cry for anyone. So she was doing a HE this time. She acted like him. Acted bold, brave and beautiful.
" Does that beautiful smile means AGREED? " He assumed that she is happy to get away from him. He thought deep inside him and begged his god why should not he get a negative answer from her.
" You had brilliantly put up the question Jose... " trying to imitate his tone and voice, she continued "AS YOU WISHED, Lets live apart.. blah blah... So, As I wished, I would say a big YES " Again fighting hard with her heart, to be like him, she smiled and said another "YES". He kept staring at her beautiful eyes, expecting her to cry. Those beautiful eyes did not. Rest of her body cried except her eyes, which went unnoticed. Should blame those beautiful eyes for that.
When he wanted to say the next word, tears rushed out of those eyes. Yes, It was Jose who cried and said " I think love you and would be so incomplete without you in my life" She stood up and tried to stop him crying. She was not happy that she made him to cry. Rather, she was happy that he had the same feeling as she had. He went on kneels, grabbed the plastic flowers on the table and proposed her for the first time. " Can I take you home? "
She was having a mixed reactions on her face. Laughing and crying happily for what had just happened.
Scene 3
13 June 2008 2200 hrs, Chennai.
As Jose was on his kneels, there rushed a car from the mini fly over which failed to take either of those divertion, crashed the glass window and hit her forehead, took her along with it and landed on the other side of the restaurant's first floor. Jose went near by and could only see both Kabilan and Mercy dead. Very few of Mercy's body was visble. Beautiful eyes were never there. Jose cried forever in his life.
End of the story.
Kabilan had nothing to lose, he killed Mercy. When she died, she was happy and so happy that Jose loved him very much.
Jose was never smiling and was never himself. Careless Drunk and Drive of Kabilan caused Jose' life. A happy marriage came to an end as soon as it was found.
Both their Dreams were shattered.
The Contest rules had said that every story should have the following words:
"Banwara mann dekhne chala ek sapna"...crooned one of the radio stations. "Can we ever stop dreaming?"
And yeah the theme of the story should be DREAMS. And here goes my story.
Shattered Dreams
Scene 1
13 June 2008 2100 hrs, Chennai.
Kabilan came out of the pub, dancing to the last beat of the song that was hitting hard in his ears a few seconds ago. Yes, he wasnt stable. Even after 8 large pegs of whiskey, his thirst was not over. His so unstable mind did not forget to pick his beer bottle packed with brown paper. By the time he reached the car park, he opened the bottle and swallowed the first half of the bottle greedily. He was not sure about his destination. His hands were so busy driving. His mind wasnt. He enjoyed every day like this. Drinking hard all night and sleeping until his hands reached for next sip of alcohol. Now, He was driving happily singing (Read it Yelling) along whatever songs his hands tuned in to. "Banwara mann dekhne chala ek sapna"...crooned one of the radio stations. "Can we ever stop dreaming?" was the RJ's voice. He tuned into the other station." I wanna be ur underwear ..." was the other song in another station. He laughed out loud and started to shout along with Bryan Adams. And never thought about stop driving nor beer sipping.
Scene 2
13 June 2008 2100 hrs, Chennai.
Mercy was waiting for her to-be-ex husband in one of the beautiful restaurants in the city. Yeah, They did not live together after 3 months of their marriage. They both thought they were not for each other. However, their relatives and friends thought 3 months is too short a period to come to such a decision. They were meeting after a month since they got seperated. She was looking at her watch for 10th time while she was sitting near by the glass window of the restaurant. The restaurant first floor had a beautiful view of the city roads and the near by mini fly over that divides itself to either side of the restaurant. She did not hesitate to enjoy the view as she ever would. Like any other day she was happily enjoying the vehicles head lights flashing in different colurs. She always thought her city was so beautiful unlike her life. Their marriage was arranged by parents and had involved all formalities of the church. She thought somehow the god did not bless her with the right partner. When she was exactly thinking about that, Jose came rushing to the table and said "SORRY" for the first time in their married life for being late. She could not believe her own ears. She thought he wanted to keep her happy in their last few days of married life. After living 3 months with her he thought she was mentally too weak. He thought she was not strong enough to be in any relationship. He also did not want a wife who is so caring and so depending on him.
Mercy did not want to keep this long, She raised her chin and asked him
" Why are we meeting today? " He did not want to answer for this question. He thought she would ask him " When are we getting back to married life? "
She cleared her throat to repeat her question. He simply replied " Just to finalise everything "
She expected him to reply " To get into the habit of dating every evening " But he had replied the other way already.
" So Whats there to finalise? " She asked.
" Its up to you Mercy. As you wish. um. U know, I thought I should give you some space to take decision on this. Just as you wished, Lets live apart for next 1 year for the sake of law. Then, probably we should get the papers signed. "
She controlled that tiny tear from her eyes and managed to smile. Her eyes had to fight a lot with her own heart to show such an instant smile. She did not want to show her weakness. He always liked women who were strong. He always said he would not cry for anyone. So she was doing a HE this time. She acted like him. Acted bold, brave and beautiful.
" Does that beautiful smile means AGREED? " He assumed that she is happy to get away from him. He thought deep inside him and begged his god why should not he get a negative answer from her.
" You had brilliantly put up the question Jose... " trying to imitate his tone and voice, she continued "AS YOU WISHED, Lets live apart.. blah blah... So, As I wished, I would say a big YES " Again fighting hard with her heart, to be like him, she smiled and said another "YES". He kept staring at her beautiful eyes, expecting her to cry. Those beautiful eyes did not. Rest of her body cried except her eyes, which went unnoticed. Should blame those beautiful eyes for that.
When he wanted to say the next word, tears rushed out of those eyes. Yes, It was Jose who cried and said " I think love you and would be so incomplete without you in my life" She stood up and tried to stop him crying. She was not happy that she made him to cry. Rather, she was happy that he had the same feeling as she had. He went on kneels, grabbed the plastic flowers on the table and proposed her for the first time. " Can I take you home? "
She was having a mixed reactions on her face. Laughing and crying happily for what had just happened.
Scene 3
13 June 2008 2200 hrs, Chennai.
As Jose was on his kneels, there rushed a car from the mini fly over which failed to take either of those divertion, crashed the glass window and hit her forehead, took her along with it and landed on the other side of the restaurant's first floor. Jose went near by and could only see both Kabilan and Mercy dead. Very few of Mercy's body was visble. Beautiful eyes were never there. Jose cried forever in his life.
End of the story.
Kabilan had nothing to lose, he killed Mercy. When she died, she was happy and so happy that Jose loved him very much.
Jose was never smiling and was never himself. Careless Drunk and Drive of Kabilan caused Jose' life. A happy marriage came to an end as soon as it was found.
Both their Dreams were shattered.
Friday, May 30, 2008
ART - A Short Story...
30 Dec 2007 Sunday, 0600 hrs
The alarm sound from Vikram's watch broke the silence of the room and stops his long thought which was going on in his mind for the past 1 1/2 hrs. He realised that its 6 in the morning. He got up from his bed, had a look at Ramya's face. He made sure that he would not change his mind. He started brushing with the same thought in his mind. By the time he finished brushing, Ramya kept his juice on the dining table. He finished it within a second and started wearing his jogging kit. Ramya asked him to come back soon and not to keep thinking about it. He replied " Sure dear, I would mind my steps "
Though he took his iPod with him, he did not want to listen to any music that morning. He kept jogging and did exactly what Ramya asked not to. He thought,
he should make a decision before he returns home. He was much slower than his usual speed. He thought he should sit and think about it. Also, he did not want to sit in his usual place. He did not want any of his jogging friends to be with him. He saw the right place to be alone and to make a decision. He knew, he had decided already. He just wants to think about the consequences of his decision. He thought his popularity might get affect cos of his decision both ways. Either, his fans would go wild or just praise him for a great piece of work. He also had Ramya in his mind. Ramya had always been with his decision so far. This was the first time she actually hesitated to say yes. She in fact, convinced him not to go for it. But he kept explaining his thoughts. He remembered that She finally agreed by saying " As you wish ".Those 3 words gave him the confidence. He started jogging back. He reached home in less than half the time he took to reach that point. Ramya was happy that
he came back fast. One of the things that she loved in him. He always wanted to be fit and healthy. However, she thought he was not going to make a healthy
decision in his life. She started the conversation again. "Looks like some one has taken a decision". He did not hesitate to reply "YES".
He said that two more times. With such a response, Ramya could understand that he has taken the decision in his favour. She had to go with him. She has never been against him all these years. She simply wanted to support him in whatever he does. Photography has given him all the fame. But he has never tried anything like this one before. He has a good name and has his own fan following. There are lots of people who respects him as a human being. Ramya is afraid that he would lose all of them once he gives such a bad show. However, She knew the reason behind it. She was little proud of it as well.
While in showers, he revised all other alternatives that were helpless. By the time, there was a reminder knock from Ramya at the door. He remembered that he got to be out soon. While having break fast he really confirmed his decision and went on to implement all his plans. He called up to book the usual hall where he launches all his gallery. This time its special, its controversial. He called up his own printing studio and told them he would be coming with the CDs. Then he told himself " First time, I am spending no money on film rolls and only on printing them "
He had some animation work to be done on all the photos that he downloaded from the web site last night. He did not want to show the faces of those people.
Yes, last night he downloaded all the nude pics that he found from that popular social networking website. All he had to do in the studio was to morph the faces of those nude models. He did not want to reveal them. He did not take any foreigners pics. He wanted to show people that all stuffs are done in India and by Indian models as well. He felt bad that none of the pictures were of his style, technically. All the morphing were done in less than a hour.
Now its his time to print them. As he did that, he also printed some hundreds of entry forms and feed back forms. He knew that the feed back form would really be annoying for the visitors. But he made sure that there should be one and did not mind about any kind of feed back. He picked all the pieces and drove all the way to the usual community hall. At the entrance, he got the usual salute from the security guard. Everyone reminded him that how much of respect he has earned in the society. At least in photography circle. He was gonna try something weird now. He had to explain a lot and all his ideas to the chief secratary. He looked little convinced and more confused. He did not want to take risk. He said "I suggest you not to do this as well. Not anywhere. I'm scared that you would lose all the goodwill you had earned all these days. There are lots to achieve. You have got the skill, do not wash away that by doing this."
He simply got up and said "thanks for the suggestion, and yeah, thanks for those caring words" He left with a smile on his face. He decided that he would do this in his own studio. He drove back to his studio. He had to clear a lot of things to give space to all pieces. In the end, he had to reject few odd pieces from the list, so that there would be enough space for the people to roam around. He wondered whether people would be roaming around on seeing all these nonsense pieces. He had to finish off all these things before 1500 hours. So that he would start spreading the message. One of his employees went around places to start spreading the news about his upcoming New year special Gallery. In fact, this time it was much hyped than any other of his shows. Usually his show never required any such hype. However, people did not bother about the hype. They were simply scheduling themselves for his show as they did for his any other show.
31 Dec 2007 Monday, 0600 hrs
Again the alarm broke the silence in the room. This time, He was sleeping without worries. He woke up and left for his morning jog. As soon as he came back,he called up and made sure everything was set at his studios. He was so busy with this, that he did not spend much time with Ramya. He thought he would go for a long trip once everything goes well. He knew that the trip would please her. He needs one break as well. While he was thinking about it, He got the first WISHES through an SMS. One of his friends had seen the ad in a web site and responded immediately. His fans are excited and are completely surprised as this was an unexpected show. There were no talk about his gallery as he had put up one just few months ago. He started receiving calls in his studios, close fans were unhappy that he did not tell them about this surprise. He could not answer them. He simply said sorry.
1st Jan 2008 Tuesday , 0900 hrs
People were very curious about two things. One, Why he did not put up in his usual Hall, and the next, why no sample pieces are put up outside his studio also in none of his Ads. There were many other professional photographers who had arrived as usual. They were surprised to see the feed back form this time. He had never done that. Except for his first public gallery show.
Once the hall was open, people started getting in. And they were shocked to see each and everything they had seen. Some wise fans could understand that he has a point this time. Still they were disappointed that they had this kind of show at the beginning of a new year. There were lots of elder fans for him. They were all totally ashamed. In fact, he had many aged people as fans. They thought they had been following a bad guy's art so far. He was not in the hall till now. He started getting calls in his office already. Some people had called up press, to witness such a nonsense. They were so eager to fill the feed back form. One 78 yrs old lady had filled it saying "I had travelled 250 Kms just to see all this. I have nothing else to say. I will never come out to any such show." She was supposed to be the best fan he has ever had. He always said that. Because, she had travelled every time he had put up his show.
Press people wants all the model to be called and to be sued along with Vikram. Finally he came out of the office and told the press people to have a
conference along with his fans in his own studio.
There were lots of obvious questions from all sorts of people. He did not answer any Of them.
Then he started explaining everyone one ...
" I would like to apologize everyone for such a beginning of this new year. I know many people must be angry and I would like to tell you all that none of the photographs were taken by me. I was really terrified like you all, when I saw these things in my own PC. Yeah, I could see these things in one of the famous social network website.
I saw one of the feed back forms, I have always respected her. She is the eldest fan. She said she had to travel around 250 Kms to see these nonsense things. I will tell you one thing respected madam, You grandson and granddaughter need not travel all the way to see all these things. They are just one click away from this nonsense. I tried a lot of way to protest against this in the same website. This website is one of the best of its kind in bringing old friends in touch and bringing lots of alumni meets in schools and colleges. One of the successful network websites of its kind. So I thought of bringing many people to my side by sending lots of messages. I did not get any response at all. I emailed many of my friends, they were all too busy for this. They were not bothered about this at all. I could understand their busy schedule. But I was unable to leave it like this. So I decided to bring people to my own studio. I know none of my fans will leave this easily. I know no followers of any art would take this easily. That's when I decided and had taken a high risk. I am very sorry
once again. Now, I know, whom all of you would target at. I hope everyone would show the same anger to the other powerful i Media. You all can definitely make some difference. I request you all to forgive me once again for using all of you and your valuable time. Thanks for being kind to me so far. I expected a lot of violence than a formal press conference. I love you all. Thanks and don't let your anger go away so easily. "
After his speech, there was absolute silence. Then it broke when that old respected woman fan applauded with her soft and old hands.
20Th Jan 2008 Sunday , 0600 hrs
This morning, there was no alarm sound to break the silence. Vikrams were getting ready for a trip to Goa. :)
The alarm sound from Vikram's watch broke the silence of the room and stops his long thought which was going on in his mind for the past 1 1/2 hrs. He realised that its 6 in the morning. He got up from his bed, had a look at Ramya's face. He made sure that he would not change his mind. He started brushing with the same thought in his mind. By the time he finished brushing, Ramya kept his juice on the dining table. He finished it within a second and started wearing his jogging kit. Ramya asked him to come back soon and not to keep thinking about it. He replied " Sure dear, I would mind my steps "
Though he took his iPod with him, he did not want to listen to any music that morning. He kept jogging and did exactly what Ramya asked not to. He thought,
he should make a decision before he returns home. He was much slower than his usual speed. He thought he should sit and think about it. Also, he did not want to sit in his usual place. He did not want any of his jogging friends to be with him. He saw the right place to be alone and to make a decision. He knew, he had decided already. He just wants to think about the consequences of his decision. He thought his popularity might get affect cos of his decision both ways. Either, his fans would go wild or just praise him for a great piece of work. He also had Ramya in his mind. Ramya had always been with his decision so far. This was the first time she actually hesitated to say yes. She in fact, convinced him not to go for it. But he kept explaining his thoughts. He remembered that She finally agreed by saying " As you wish ".Those 3 words gave him the confidence. He started jogging back. He reached home in less than half the time he took to reach that point. Ramya was happy that
he came back fast. One of the things that she loved in him. He always wanted to be fit and healthy. However, she thought he was not going to make a healthy
decision in his life. She started the conversation again. "Looks like some one has taken a decision". He did not hesitate to reply "YES".
He said that two more times. With such a response, Ramya could understand that he has taken the decision in his favour. She had to go with him. She has never been against him all these years. She simply wanted to support him in whatever he does. Photography has given him all the fame. But he has never tried anything like this one before. He has a good name and has his own fan following. There are lots of people who respects him as a human being. Ramya is afraid that he would lose all of them once he gives such a bad show. However, She knew the reason behind it. She was little proud of it as well.
While in showers, he revised all other alternatives that were helpless. By the time, there was a reminder knock from Ramya at the door. He remembered that he got to be out soon. While having break fast he really confirmed his decision and went on to implement all his plans. He called up to book the usual hall where he launches all his gallery. This time its special, its controversial. He called up his own printing studio and told them he would be coming with the CDs. Then he told himself " First time, I am spending no money on film rolls and only on printing them "
He had some animation work to be done on all the photos that he downloaded from the web site last night. He did not want to show the faces of those people.
Yes, last night he downloaded all the nude pics that he found from that popular social networking website. All he had to do in the studio was to morph the faces of those nude models. He did not want to reveal them. He did not take any foreigners pics. He wanted to show people that all stuffs are done in India and by Indian models as well. He felt bad that none of the pictures were of his style, technically. All the morphing were done in less than a hour.
Now its his time to print them. As he did that, he also printed some hundreds of entry forms and feed back forms. He knew that the feed back form would really be annoying for the visitors. But he made sure that there should be one and did not mind about any kind of feed back. He picked all the pieces and drove all the way to the usual community hall. At the entrance, he got the usual salute from the security guard. Everyone reminded him that how much of respect he has earned in the society. At least in photography circle. He was gonna try something weird now. He had to explain a lot and all his ideas to the chief secratary. He looked little convinced and more confused. He did not want to take risk. He said "I suggest you not to do this as well. Not anywhere. I'm scared that you would lose all the goodwill you had earned all these days. There are lots to achieve. You have got the skill, do not wash away that by doing this."
He simply got up and said "thanks for the suggestion, and yeah, thanks for those caring words" He left with a smile on his face. He decided that he would do this in his own studio. He drove back to his studio. He had to clear a lot of things to give space to all pieces. In the end, he had to reject few odd pieces from the list, so that there would be enough space for the people to roam around. He wondered whether people would be roaming around on seeing all these nonsense pieces. He had to finish off all these things before 1500 hours. So that he would start spreading the message. One of his employees went around places to start spreading the news about his upcoming New year special Gallery. In fact, this time it was much hyped than any other of his shows. Usually his show never required any such hype. However, people did not bother about the hype. They were simply scheduling themselves for his show as they did for his any other show.
31 Dec 2007 Monday, 0600 hrs
Again the alarm broke the silence in the room. This time, He was sleeping without worries. He woke up and left for his morning jog. As soon as he came back,he called up and made sure everything was set at his studios. He was so busy with this, that he did not spend much time with Ramya. He thought he would go for a long trip once everything goes well. He knew that the trip would please her. He needs one break as well. While he was thinking about it, He got the first WISHES through an SMS. One of his friends had seen the ad in a web site and responded immediately. His fans are excited and are completely surprised as this was an unexpected show. There were no talk about his gallery as he had put up one just few months ago. He started receiving calls in his studios, close fans were unhappy that he did not tell them about this surprise. He could not answer them. He simply said sorry.
1st Jan 2008 Tuesday , 0900 hrs
People were very curious about two things. One, Why he did not put up in his usual Hall, and the next, why no sample pieces are put up outside his studio also in none of his Ads. There were many other professional photographers who had arrived as usual. They were surprised to see the feed back form this time. He had never done that. Except for his first public gallery show.
Once the hall was open, people started getting in. And they were shocked to see each and everything they had seen. Some wise fans could understand that he has a point this time. Still they were disappointed that they had this kind of show at the beginning of a new year. There were lots of elder fans for him. They were all totally ashamed. In fact, he had many aged people as fans. They thought they had been following a bad guy's art so far. He was not in the hall till now. He started getting calls in his office already. Some people had called up press, to witness such a nonsense. They were so eager to fill the feed back form. One 78 yrs old lady had filled it saying "I had travelled 250 Kms just to see all this. I have nothing else to say. I will never come out to any such show." She was supposed to be the best fan he has ever had. He always said that. Because, she had travelled every time he had put up his show.
Press people wants all the model to be called and to be sued along with Vikram. Finally he came out of the office and told the press people to have a
conference along with his fans in his own studio.
There were lots of obvious questions from all sorts of people. He did not answer any Of them.
Then he started explaining everyone one ...
" I would like to apologize everyone for such a beginning of this new year. I know many people must be angry and I would like to tell you all that none of the photographs were taken by me. I was really terrified like you all, when I saw these things in my own PC. Yeah, I could see these things in one of the famous social network website.
I saw one of the feed back forms, I have always respected her. She is the eldest fan. She said she had to travel around 250 Kms to see these nonsense things. I will tell you one thing respected madam, You grandson and granddaughter need not travel all the way to see all these things. They are just one click away from this nonsense. I tried a lot of way to protest against this in the same website. This website is one of the best of its kind in bringing old friends in touch and bringing lots of alumni meets in schools and colleges. One of the successful network websites of its kind. So I thought of bringing many people to my side by sending lots of messages. I did not get any response at all. I emailed many of my friends, they were all too busy for this. They were not bothered about this at all. I could understand their busy schedule. But I was unable to leave it like this. So I decided to bring people to my own studio. I know none of my fans will leave this easily. I know no followers of any art would take this easily. That's when I decided and had taken a high risk. I am very sorry
once again. Now, I know, whom all of you would target at. I hope everyone would show the same anger to the other powerful i Media. You all can definitely make some difference. I request you all to forgive me once again for using all of you and your valuable time. Thanks for being kind to me so far. I expected a lot of violence than a formal press conference. I love you all. Thanks and don't let your anger go away so easily. "
After his speech, there was absolute silence. Then it broke when that old respected woman fan applauded with her soft and old hands.
20Th Jan 2008 Sunday , 0600 hrs
This morning, there was no alarm sound to break the silence. Vikrams were getting ready for a trip to Goa. :)
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