Makin' the Story

-THOUGHTS OF BEYOND-

March 20, 2009

Pussycat’s Jai Ho

February 21, 2009

Rahman Rock..

Jai Ho with a little western spice added…

February 10, 2009

Mathangi Arulpragasam swaggered with T.I, Jay Z, Weezy n Kanye

It was a surprise show up at the Grammys by Mathangi Maya Arulpragasam aka M.I.A yesterday (Paper Planes fame…). She must’ve been a little crazy and had the guts to be on the stage with due for her baby yesterday. And, she did rocked with the big shots of music industry, though she had a weird outfit on her. Maybe, it could’ve been a lot better, if she showed up with her flamboyant dress she wore for the red carpet the same day earlier. It was a little disturbing to watch an expecting mother bouncing around on the stage with a bunch of hip hopers.

As a matter of fact, one among the bunch has a jail sentence for a year a few weeks more starting next month. But, it was nice that Weezy showed up with his suit on.

Finally, she made it to swagger like one of those….!!!

February 06, 2009

Privacy for $$$$…

What one would do, there is a possibility to get all the cyber trace of his/her friend left on internet, especially in the social networks. Does that sounds a little bit scary to know? Yes, that is real with www.spokeo.com. All you need are your friend’s email id and a few dollars that you ready to spend on. Type in the email id, not more than a moment later, you got all the photos, blog entries, social networks presence and more. Probably, it digs out  everything you ever wanted to know about your friend. In the initial days of the social networking websites and the blogosphere emerging, the privacy of an individual had to confront the same issue. Whatever that case maybe, we have to travel in the route where the technology takes us.

January 25, 2009

Gran Torino

Simple and Elegant, that’s how I would describe this movie. This is too good that the storywriter hasn’t had to work too hard to find a story line. If one wants to make a movie a good story and a screenplay with an actor, this is how he/she would make a movie. There is no typical formula or trend been followed. It’s not much of a movie which follows certain Hollywood stuffs. It’s a movie about a Vietnam War veteran who lost his wife recently and how he confronts the Korean immigrant family in his neighborhood as he is being a bit racist. At the end of the movie, I came up with an idea. Maybe, we should lock some of the actors and directors in a room alone form the Tamil Cinema industry  to watch these type of movie. Probably, it would be helpful for them not to waste more time of making some crappy with a typical love and action formula.
Gran Torino
This man, the hero of this movie, Clint Eastwood really made this as a masterpiece. It was actually suggested by a Catholic Priest to watch this movie. Last Sunday, I went to meet a Tamil Catholic Priest whom I met a couple of weeks back in a Church I usually attend Sunday Mass. That was a funny story, I met him at a Diwali special mass at  a Catholic church located in near Southside of Chicago. It sounds a little weird that a catholic church celebrates Diwali. Yes, It was a shock to me initially too. They have been celebrating Diwali at the Church since 2003 in the name of Fest of Light. This custom has been started by a bunch of Tamil Catholic people live in and around of Chicago. Every year they used to invite a Tamil priest from someplace around here. So I came to know this priest from the Diwali Mass. He invited me to his place for a dinner last week. I was there last week where I met this American Cool Headed Parish Priest. Yes, he was kind of cool enough to talk about a variety of stuffs where most of the 30 year old virgin priests from India don’t want to talk about. Actually, he was the one asked me to watch this movie. We were talking about the eulogy, Clint used in this movie on the priest who asked by his wife to take care of Clint after her death. Clint used this eulogy on the priest which goes like this. ‘ How could a 27 old virgin priest, just came out of a seminary possibly know about life and death’ whenever the priest tries to console Clint. The cool headed priest asked me what do you think about this stance of Clint, with a glass of costly Italian wine in his hand. The next moment, I bring out my opinions on the Indian Catholic priests who are certainly those 27 old virgins (hope so..) just off of the seminary confounding with the lust on flesh and the God n Spirit stuff. The conversation went on with different topics explaining how he jumped into this Religious person from being fooled around with his alcoholic brother for some years after his Army work. The conversation lasted till the wine bottle bottomed up. As the conversation was quite interesting, I wanted to watch this movie by this weekend and I did it too. It was kind of interesting that the priest was so candid on his past and the dirty stuffs he were into during his adolescent age. It actually made me think, why should we follow a tradition of starting a religious life right after their 12th grade when most of the people of those age were vulnerable to the hormone inharmonious events. Anyways, a little conversation which is obviously not useful to me made me watch a good worthy movie. That's how most of the solution less conversations ends with...