UFO @ India

UFO @ India

Un-identified flying objects is one of the conspiracy revolving in this world. Few countries had reported that they had witnessed UFO but the lack of strong evidences leads to UFO as a conspiracy theory. Now it is witnessed in India too; 70 kms away from Bangalore.

UFO was identified on 9th of September 2010. The below picture shows the flying saucer, travelling at hypersonic speed (five times the speed of sound). It is evident from the picture that the flying saucer shape is spherical which is a typical design for our atmospheric re-entry as like as Vostok.

Flying saucer is in-flight

The below picture shows the alien. Its complete body structure consists of only a face as like in sci-fi movies, and has ability to glow its face on and off.

Alien

Suddenly it glows off its face and disappeared. Paramilitary forces made an exhaustive search for it but in vain.

Paramilitary forces is in exhaustive search

Now India too joined the elite community of debating UFO conspiracy theory and the man behind this is Anbuselvan because all the snapshots are captured by him.

PS: This post is fictious :). Photos are taken by me during the Skanda giri hills trekking at night time. The alien is none other than my German friend Tino. Hey Tino, thanks for the pose, and guys sorry for the poor joke :).

Madharasapattinam

After deciding to watch the movie "Madharasapattinam" alone at PVR cinemas on Thursday (5.08.2010) evening since all my friends already watched the movie, luckily one of my friend who came to Bangalore from Jamshedpur to attend some conference accompanied me though he already watched it and he claimed that this is the costliest movie that he had ever seen because one ticket costs Rs.170.

The movie is basically a love story between an English girl and a Tamilian, loosely based on the background of Indian Independence era. Guess the director was greatly inspired by Titanic and Lagaan to make this movie; but well made to suit the Tamil audiences. The highlight of the movie is that the director gives the audience a glimpse of Chennai pattinam how it looked like during the Independence era. Until I watched this movie, I didn’t know that Chennai had trams and the famous gigantic Spencer mall was actually constructed after destroying the British building. After watching this movie, now my perspective of looking at Chennai city is different. At the end of the movie, I felt we missed one Italian city in India which I meant the Buckingham canal (Chennai’s Thames river) famously called as Koovam, used for transportation in those days. Music, Background score and artists performances are really good in the movie. Worth watching it in theatre. The English girl who acts as a grand-child to the protagonist’s lady love looks like a Shruthi Hassan to me. After “Aayirathil Oruvan”, Madharasapattinam is one Tamil movie which speaks about historic events, if I am not wrong.

TAGLINE: Think out of box; Love the girl out of your country :-).

Angels disappeared

I and my friend were waiting in a New Delhi railway station to board the Karnataka Express train to Bangalore. As soon as the train came to the platform, we searched for S4 coach. We cross checked our names with the passenger list and my friend led the way to find out the 49 and 51 seat numbers. He stopped in the way and didn’t proceed further after he found the seat numbers. I asked him to move inside but he didn’t. Then I peeped above him and found nearly some 15 girls were sitting on 6+2 berth seats. I really went crazy. I felt "OH GOD – AGAIN :-)".
Then I asked my friend to move and asked a girl "Is this S4 coach?".
She said "Yes" with some hesitation and my heart went high as she spoke in her girly voice.
Then I asked "What are your seat numbers?".
She said "Our seats are not confirmed. We are waiting for TC".
"Alright our seat numbers are 49 and 51" I said.
Immediately, two girls gave a seat to us. In a second we were surrounded by girls as like how angels dance around the protagonist in a duet song. Their outfit looked like they are Punjabis. “Pretty” word is not enough to use, they are A-N-G-E-L-S. I don’t know at whom to stare because everyone is beautiful. I and my friend just looked and smiled at each other.
Then a guy came and said "These girls are going to Bhopal to write an exam. All our seats are not confirmed. Could you two share at your upper berth for a night"? The climate is hot and I felt very sticky. Immediately I responded "We can’t. We are coming from a tiring 10 days camp and we are really tired. We need to get some good sleep. I am really sorry boss".
He said "Can’t u feel pity on these pretty girls?".
Yes they are pretty but I and my friend responded coherently "No". Really he is pissed off and went. Then a newly married couple came and argued with the guy who requested us to share us in the upper berth. After a long argument all the girls moved to the next 6+2 seats. I thought in a minute 15 angels were replaced by one (I meant the newly married girl. She too looks beautiful). But that’s not the end of it. The couple went somewhere and came with 3 grannies who sat in front of us. Later I realised their seats were shuffled and the couple sat somewhere in next coach. I and my friend shared a dirty look and we lay on the bed :(.

My name is Anbuselvan

Anbuselvan K K N is my name. I reiterate, it is A-n-b-u-s-e-l-v-a-n. There are reasons why I reiterated it and you will realise that at the end of this post. I don’t know what made my parents to keep such a name to me. I didn’t really felt anything good or bad about my name till I entered 11th standard after which I felt very much proud of my name when my Tamil sir said in a class after taking attendance that only 2 names are purely in Tamil out of 60 students here. Everyone glanced at me and I felt that I got some fame.

A year after that, during my 2nd year Engineering, my name "Anbuselvan" reverberated in the whole of Tamilnadu. Of course it is not because of me but just because of one Tamil movie Khakha khakha in which the protagonist had my name and the movie was a blockbuster at that time. The protagonist who is an IPS officer in that movie says the name “Anbuselvan” with lot of energy and lucidly such that it made everyone to imitate the protagonist. During that period, I too tried to imitate the protagonist and sometimes I was belted by my friends due to improper imitation. Even I remembered I tried dressing (half sleeves white shirt tucked into blue jeans as shown in the picture) like the protagonist few days to the college and holding my drafter as a gun. Whenever I say my name to some strangers, they immediately say the one or all of the following things:
"oh, Anbuselvan IPS" ( I wanted to say I am not Anbuselvan IPS but Anbuselvan KKN)
"Where are the other three guys"
"Where is maya" (I will say "I am still searching")
The majestic and fame on my name is not lost till now though the movie was released 7 years before. Still few people ask me same questions when I say my name, and I feel good.

But that’s not the complete story. My name was torn into bits & pieces by the people because of their mispronunciation of my name when I started to travel outside Tamilnadu. The first encounter was in Bhubaneswar where I stayed for two months for some training. One guy from Mumbai, who attended the training with me pronounced my name as ambuselvan. “Excuse me! it’s not ambuselvan. Its anbuselvan, a-n-b-u” I said. I took some pain to ask him to pronounce as anbuselvan. Then two other guys also pronounced it as ambuselvan. So I lost my patience and left it, and let it be my name as ambuselvan. Most of my Profs & friends in Mumbai during my M.Tech pronounced me ambuselvan, ambuselvam or ambu and I let it go. I thought the North-Indians can’t pronounce “n”. So whenever a non-Tamilian asks my name I say it as “anbuselvan” at first instance, then immediately I will say to him “probably you can call me as selvan - that will be more comfortable to you”. I also used to think “Yenda anbula ambu vidureega” (which means why these guys wants to darts an arrow (ambu) in my love (anbu)).

One day a professor called me as “Abusalim” in the class.
I wanted to say “oh man!! I am anbuselvan not abusalim. Just in a minute you converted me into a Muslim (oru nimushathula enna muslim akeeteegale)”.

The above various forms of my names were revolving for nearly 2 years and I thought I won’t get any other new forms but it really didn’t stop. I got two more new forms of my names out of one really pissed me off.

Recently I went for a trip where I met few new faces and started interacting. I said my name “Anbuselvan. Probably you can call me selvan that will be comfortable to you”. But they said “instead of selvan, cellone (i.e., BSNL cellone) will be more comfortable to us” and started making fun of me.
In fact one day a guy called me urgently. I went near to him and asked “What?”.
He said “Nothing man. I want to make a call. My network is not proper. You are BSNL cellone right, so thought if you are near to me, I might get network” he laughed (dai ennala mudiyala da).

I digested all these but the most embarrassing is the next: I was having a conversation with one girl who is from UP and I asked her name.
She said “******* (her name)”. Then she asked my name.
I said “anbuselvan. May be selvan will be comfortable to you”.
She said “It’s ok. anna is comfortable to me”. Initially I thought she is kidding me.
I hastily said “Yeah you can call me by that name too but I don’t prefer you calling me anna” (because she was a good-looking girl too :) ).
She said “ok. Then I will call you by selvam”. Then we were having dinner silently. But I was breaking with my head inside “why this gal wants me to call me as anna. Did she really know the meaning of it? Is she trying to make a fun of me?”.
I asked her straight-way “why did you call me anna”.
She said “everyone call you by annaselvam right”.
“Oh god it’s not annaselvam, its anbuselvan. By the way, do u know what anna means”.
She said “no”. I kept mum.
She asked me “what it means”. I can’t mislead the meaning of the word because already one Tamilian was sitting nearby me.
I stammered “anna means brother - elder brother”. She just smiled and started having food. I am totally pissed off.

I am not sure still how many forms of my name, I am going to hear. I remembered this "madhesh and mahesh" comedy scene from the Jeans movie. Whatever, I enjoyed all these various forms of my names and I expect more in my life ----- to enjoy :).

Raavanan

I didn’t have any anticipation to watch Raavanan movie till I watched its trailer at Satyam cinemas, Chennai, a month before. But unfortunately I left Bangalore city just a day before the movie was released in the theatres, to a place where no movie theatres/halls are found. Immediately after my return to city on 5th July, I just enquired the review of the movie with two of my friends who said the followings:

· Movie is not good.

· Tamil version is better than Hindi version.

· There is no story.

· Manirathnam failed to reach his standards.

· Etc.

Whatever the review may be, I decided to watch the movie because it is Manirathnam's film. The next day (i.e., on Tuesday) I just asked one of my friends to go for night show and in fact my first night show in Bangalore city. He immediately agreed and we headed towards Inox, Magrath road. Since it is a working day, getting tickets is not a big deal. As soon as the movie screening started after few advertisements, sms and calls distracted me and somehow I completed the call as soon as possible.

I don’t know what made my friends to pass negative review of this movie. But to me, it is really worth watching it in multiplex. Raavanan is loosely based on Hindu-epic Ramayana and not exactly the replica of the Ramayana as how he directed Thalapathi which is loosely based on Hindu-epic Mahabharata some 20 years before. More or less it is a mice-cat chase story. But I too agree that Manirathnam didn’t meet his standards. I felt that Aishwariya rai didn’t stick to the role much – not sure what went wrong – may be her dubbing or she became too old I guess, and few mannerisms of Vikram were intolerable. All fall-off from mountain scenes are not captured well. Other than the above, the movie is good. The locations are awesome, particularly when Rai prays to a god of which the statue is huge & broken and placed amidst of valley, and the climax fight over the bridge. Veteran actors Karthick and Prabhu perfectly fit for their roles. Prithivraj stands for his macho as a police officer but hope Vikram fits better than him in hindi. The two immediate songs which comes after the intermission - really rocks and the background score too. I wanted to see once again and I will, may be in Hindi!!!!!

Tag line: Good Movie but perfection is lost.