Rules of Salt Lake - Sector V

Yes people, I have moved to Kolkata - City of joy! I have been writing a post on that... lying in my draft. We will see that later because there is some thing I thought I should tell the world first. That's the rules of Sector V of Salt lake city - the house of strange looking people who are always tagged for some reason.

Learning road rules in Sector V can be an overwhelming task. So, let me try to make it easier for you

Driving lane - You drive on
1. left if you are a supporter of CPM
2. right if you are a supporter of Trinamool Congress
3. on top of another vehicle/human/animal/anything if you are driving share auto

Usage of horn is something very important. Otherwise you run the risk of having your license cancelled.
You honk if
1. you do not like the weather
2. there is a heavy traffic for over 2 kms (which happens often)
3. your GF left you
4. you are hungry
5. you drive an auto
and other unfathomable reasons. If some is blocking your way, you do not honk. You run over them.

Speed limit:
Defined in the speedometer on the dashboard of the vehicle that you are driving.

If you are bored, you can derive fun by
1. splashing the water logged on roads on the pedestrians
2. stopping your vehicle perpendicular to the traffic and blame it on Michael Schumacher
3. announcing strike

The rest of Kolkata ain't like this I am told! So..Peace!

Surrrr.....

At 2:38 AM Eastern Time...with excruciating tooth pain one can completely understand and relate with the song line

"En unchi mandaila surrrrungudhu".... Vijay is genius!

Do we even deserve good movies?

I, personally, think that we (tamil movie watchers) do not want us to elevate to a level where creators can treat us with some intelligent movie...

Aayirathil Oruvan, for all its flaws, still deserves a standing ovation. I used to not like Selva... but in this movie...he has tried to stand out from formula movies...

I have read lots of reviews of the movie... there are intelligent chaps quick to point out flaws and going out of way to find any small resemblance to Hollywood flick. But guys, hold on... is this not the first time a genre like this has been touched upon in tamil movie industry? For that, we should applaud...for it would pave way for other creators to walk that lane... Is it not ironic that in a culture that has 1000 years of history before the actual recorded historical period does not have any movies in the genre of "Brave Heart" or "Kingdom of Heaven" etc? How many of us really even know our history and appreciate it? We need more such movies to tell us our history...

We are so used to hero bashing up "N" number of goons... where "N" is exponential component of no. of movies the hero has acted...For ex. Vishal can now handle up to 100 goons, I believe. I also think the professional critics of the websites that we have are not professional. I mean, what research do they do before writing a movie for a historical fantasy movie like AO? Do they know what kind of enmity was there between Cholas and Pandyas? Do they what variation of Tamil language Cholas spoke? What script did they use? Nothing... yet they magnanimously award one star to such an effort?

AO is released in a world where Vettaikaran manages 3 stars! God save thy!