Sunday, June 15, 2008

I had a principle for my blog. That, I would never write about any movie on my blog. But Dasavatharam made me break my principle. Technically, it is the best Tamil movie ever (possibly best Indian movie ever).

[Spoiler ~~~~ Contains the plot of the story. Those who have not watched the movie or intend to do so, don’t read further]

Kamal has performed ten roles in the movie.
The roles are as follows:
1. Govind Ramasamy(a scientist in USA)

2. Rangarajan Nambi (a 12th Century Vaishnavite Youngster)

3. George Bush (American President)

4. Christian Fletcher (ex CIA Agent)

5. Balram Naidu (Telugu speaking RAW officer)

6.Avtar Singh (Punjabi Pop Singer)

7. Shingen Narahasi (Japanese Karate Master)

8. Krishnaveni (a 95 year old mentally retarded lady in a Vaishnavite Math)

9. Khalifulla Khan(an eight feet tall Muslim youngster)

10. Vincent Poovaraghan (A Dalit youngster who fights against Sand Mafia)

I have given the order of roles as they appear in the film(with importance).

The film starts with Govind (played by Kamal) narrating us the story of Rangarajan Nambi in a meeting attended by George Bush, Kalaignar Karunanidhi and Dr.Manmohan Singh. The main plot of the story starts on 20th December 2004 and ends on 26th December 2004.

Kulothunga Kulasekara Chozha-II (played by Napolean) was a Shiva Devotee. He orders the removal of statue of Lord Govindaraja Permuaal from the temple and throw it into the sea. Rangarajan Nambi tries to save the statue but only in vain. Kulothunga tells to Nambi “If you praise Lord Shiva and say ‘Om Nama Shivaya’ I would leave you or else you have to reach vaikundam (place where Lord Narayanan lives)”. Nambi closes his eyes and starts saying, “OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM”. The suspense prevails for some time. He finally finishes “Om Namo Narayana!”. The song Kallai Mattum starts, the song has been beautifully picturised showing the pain of a Vaishnavite. At the end of the song both the statue of Lord Govindaraja Permuaal and Rangarajan Nambi tied to it are thrown into the sea. All this happened in the 12th century.

Immediately the story shifts to USA (21st century). It shows Govind working in a research lab. The two wheeled mini scooter-like vehicle (as shown in the above image) used by the scientists of that lab is awesome. Govind places a vial inside a dry cold storage unit and leaves to watch the announcement of George Bush (played by Kamal again) regarding synthetic bio weapons. Anu, a monkey escapes from its cage and eats the semi-solid substance present inside a vial. The monkey dies with blood splashing out from it. They pour enormous amount of NaCl (Sodium Chloride) and arrest the virus. The semi-solid substance is a bio synthetic virus developed by Govind. It is capable of mass killing if it is let free inside a city. So Govind wants to destroy it. But he finds that his superior officer wants to sell the virus to terrorists. Govind takes the vial (containing the virus) out and escapes to his friend Suresh’s home. Suresh too works for the terrorists.

Fletcher (played by Kamal again), an ex-CIA agent comes in the helicopter to the home of Suresh. He shoots Suresh. But Suresh’s wife a Japanese girl (sister of Japanese martial arts teacher Shingen Narahasi, played by kamal) trained in karate helps Govind escape but dies in her attempt. Govind finds another friend in the car park. Along with him Govind escapes in his car. Still Fletcher chases him in the helicopter. ‘How does Fletcher trace them?’ Govind thinks and finds that it is with his cell phone. He throws the cell phone out of his friend's car into another car.

The vial was sent as a parcel to India by Govind’s friend by mistake. Govind tries to stop the Cargo Flight and goes to the airport. Fletcher follows him there too. Govind tries to escape and falls into the cargo luggage and is board into the flight.

Govind is arrested in Chennai by Balram Naidu (played by Kamal again), a RAW officer who has fondness for telugu people. Meanwhile Fletcher finds a Tamil speaking ex-CIA agent in Mallika Sherwath. He marries her and soon leaves to India. At the same time Avtar Singh (played by Kamal again) arrives at the airport for a concert. Avtar vomits blood in the airport. It attracts everyone in the airport. Making use of this, Fletcher takes custody of Govind and a police officer.

But before Fletcher takes him to custody, Govind had cleverly sent the vial to Chidambaram. Govind also escapes from Fletcher and reaches Chidambaram. In Chidambaram Govind meets Aandaal (played by Asin) in a math. The vial parcel was sent by Govind to Krishnaveni (played by Kamal again) in the math. She is mentally retarded and ninety five years old. Krishnaveni doesn’t return the vial back to Govind. Govind says that the vial contains a bio bomb, a virus. Krishnaveni runs out of the math and throws the vial into the Statue of Lord Permuaal, saying that Lord would save all from the virus. Fletcher follows Govind to Chidambaram.

Govind tries to escape with the statue and Aandaal follows Govind because it was the statue that she had been worshipping for long. On their way they are caught by a sand mafia gang and they escape from the gang while Poovaraghan (played by Kamal again) fights against sand mafia. Govind and Aandaal meet with an accident. There they meet an eight feet tall Muslim (Khalifulla played by Kamal again).

After this, what happened to the vial? Was the city saved? What is the connection to all this with the 12th century episode? All these questions are answered in an eventful manner with the Tsunami playing an important role.

Either the eight feet tall Khalifulla or the Japanese martial arts master, Kamal Hassan has proved that he is the Universal Hero. His dialogues especially in the climax when Fletcher asks the Japanese Martial arts master 'Remember Hiroshima?' to which the the Master counters him with another question , 'Do you remember Pearl Harbor?' was a treat. Michael Westmore (the make-up designer) needs a lot of appreciation for his work on Kamal’s face and body, without him Dasavatharam would not have been possible. Special words of appreciation must be given to Ravi Varman for his excellent cinematography and Devi Sri Prasad for a great BGM. Though the stunts of Fletcher (Kamal’s villain role) are super human it is enjoyable. This movie is the best (techinically) in the career of Kamal Hassan and director K.S.RaviKumar.

One doubt solved….

What is the connection between 12th century episode and Tsunami?

There are two connections

1. Butterfly effect – A small event like a butterfly flapping its wing is responsible for a tornado in some other part of the world.

2. Because the statue was thrown into the sea, it resulted in movement of tectonic plates and caused tsunami.

Kamal had not explained it in a detailed manner. In addition to the ten roles he has played on-screen he has played another off-screen role of a script writer also. He has performed all the roles perfectly. The movie runs for three hours. As a true Cinema fan I still like Anbe Sivam, but this movie is of a different genre, a scientific thriller. There may be many logical flaws.Still, it is definitely worth a watch.

Rating: ********* / 10
Bottomline: Fantastic entertainer,Defintely worth a watch!


Sunday, June 8, 2008

WORDCOUNT

Wordcount is my third game and I would rate it as the best of the three.





Screenshots of Wordcount game

There are two levels in this game.

  1. Frame the word.
  2. Find the word.

Frame the word

  1. You begin the game by choosing either a vowel or a consonant.
  2. After choosing 9 letters, your count down starts!!!
  3. Within one minute,you have to form a word using the letters (not necassarily all the letters) in the letter pool.
  4. Use each letter in the pool only once!
  5. You score based on the length of your word and maximum length possible.
  6. 5 times this level is played!

Find the word

  1. This is simple jumble solving.
  2. It is a seven letter jumble (with no letter repeating).
  3. Within 30 seconds you have to solve the jumble.
  4. If it is correct you score 200 points.

Your final score is out of 700 points.

This is an acid test to your vocabulary skills!

This game is loosely based on the COUNT DOWN game which runs on channel 4 in UK.



Download link: http://kctcse.googlepages.com/WORDCOUNT.ZIP

Friday, June 6, 2008

Well, in recent past I had been working only with VB, I had not done anything else and my second game after toggler has turned out to be more advanced, I have concentrated on theGUI of the game and I think I have succeeded to a great extent in that, the game is ROCK PAPER SCISSORS!









Screenshots of the game

The game is pretty simple.

Player has the full range of throws to play, as follows :

  1. He/she can select one of the three, rock or paper or scissors.
  2. Rock wins against scissors, loses to paper and stalemates against itself.
  3. Paper wins against Rock, loses to scissors and stalemates against itself.
  4. Scissors wins against paper, loses to rock and stalemates against itself.
  5. You get one point for every win and your opponent gets one point for his/her win!!!
  6. Final winner is the one who scores the maximum points (set at the start of the game) first!!!

It's between you and the computer!

Download link: http://kctcse.googlepages.com/ROCKPAPERSCISSORS.zip

Try the game give your comments on the game.

I am waiting for your comments.

Thursday, June 5, 2008



Screen shot of the Type Racer - Hack!

I am now really happy! I developed a crack to the type racer application in orkut. I set the speed to 85 words per minute because that would sound more realistic. If the speed goes above 100, the type racer asks image verification (very big CAPTCHA). So this is better. You would definitely love this crack to type racer.

I am happy because I atlast developed an internet oriented application!!!


It is a small 130 kb file!!!

Wednesday, June 4, 2008

All these days I had been working on few VB projects.That is the reason for me not posting in my blog!This post would be on the softwares(small softwares) I developed.
The softwares that I developed are:
  1. Torrent timer
  2. SD's Alarm Clock
  3. SDPAD
  4. Key Catcher
  5. Toggler
Torrent Timer:






Screen shots of Torrent timer

This software was the birth of my need to download torrents. My net plan
allows me unlimited download from 2 AM to 8 AM. So I had to wake up early in
the morning to switch on the net, to stop that, I came with the idea of
torrent timer. If you mention the hours and minutes after which the download
should start, this software will start the download automatically. It can
also be used to any other file/software also. I have added an audio player
with this software and the interface has been developed keeping the end
user’s comfort in mind.

Note:
When a playlist of format “.wpl” is opened a special playlist navigator opens
making the audio player user friendly.

Download link: http://kctcse.googlepages.com/TORRENTTIMER.zip

SD's Alarm Clock:


Screen shot of SD's Alarm Clock

It is a simple alarm clock with the feature of adding a music file as the alarm tone.
While enetering the date and time the correct format has to be maintained, otherwise the clock may not work as you desire.


SDPAD:


Screenshot of SDPAD

SDPAD is the replica of notepad! The additional feature is that you can change the color and fonts with better effect than in notepad!!!

Download link: http://kctcse.googlepages.com/SDPAD.zip

Key Catcher:





Screen Shots of key catcher

Off all the softwares I developed, this is the best one.
You can rename the key catcher as SYSTEM because in task manager, this would sound better!!! This software will store the keys pressed in your system when it is running! It will also store the active windows running in the system once every minute. You can hide the key catcher so that it runs invisibly!

Download link: http://kctcse.googlepages.com/KEYCATCHER.zip

TOGGLER:


Screen shot of toggler

This is the first game I had ever developed using VB(any language for that matter).
It is a simple game.
The goal of the game is to turn all the buttons from [X] to [.]. This is done by clicking. When a button is clicked, its state is toggeled, but so is the state of four buttons around it, so plan carefully!

Download link: http://kctcse.googlepages.com/TOGGLER.zip

You download these softwares, work with them and comment on the softwares.

Friday, May 23, 2008

Birth of our universe, this is the question that comes to every ones mind what is the shape of universe, how big it is? does it has any end? so how was the universe formed? though there are many theories two theories big bang by albert einstein and inflation theory by Alan Guth are most widely accepted below is the video which explains the evolution of our universe under 4 minutes though everything starts from the bigbang a bubble the main question is how this bubble came into existence and how something came from nothing?




Post your comments about this video.

Sunday, May 4, 2008

Do you Know what's a Liger? It's a cross breed of a Lion male and Tiger female.

Read on......

The 10ft Liger who's still growing....

He looks like something from a prehistoric age or a fantastic creation from Hollywood. But Hercules is very much living flesh and blood - as he proves every time he opens his gigantic mouth to roar. Part lion, part tiger, he is not just a big cat but a huge one, standing 10ft tall on his back legs. Called a liger, in reference to his crossbreed parentage, he is the largest of all the cat species.

On a typical day he will devour 20lb of meat, usually beef or chicken, and is capable of eating 100lb at a single setting. At just three years old, Hercules already weighs half a ton. He is the accidental result of two enormous big cats living close together at the Institute of Greatly Endangered and Rare Species, in Miami , Florida , and already dwarfs both his parents.

"Ligers are not something we planned on having," said institute owner Dr Bhagavan Antle. "We have lions and tigers living together in large enclosures and at first we had no idea how well one of the lion boys was getting along with a tiger girl, then loo and behold we had a liger."

50mph runner... Not only that, but he likes to swim, a feat unheard of among water-fearing lions. In the wild it is virtually impossible for lions and tigers to mate. Not only are they enemies likely to kill one another, but most lions are in Africa and most tigers in Asia . But incredible though he is, Hercules is not unique. Ligers have been bred in captivity, deliberately and accidentally, since shortly before World War II.

Today there are believed to be a handful of ligers around the world and a similar number of tigons, the product of a tiger father and lion mother. Tigons are smaller than ligers and take on more physical characteristics of the tiger.

Look at the pictures of this giant...










For further details: Click here

Sunday, April 20, 2008

I would like to introduce a girl to you!

"Adolescent from India, whom with an increase only in 58 cm,
the smallest girl in the world.


Jyoti Amge,14 years, and shorter than an average two-year-old , weighs only 5 kg."










She is a miracle indeed!

Tuesday, April 8, 2008



Rapidshare is the biggest file encyclopedia on the web. It is ranked among the world’s top 20 most visited sites by Alexa. With 100 gigabit/s of internet connectivity it claims to be one of the biggest and fastest web hosters world wide. Rapidshare allows you to upload any type of file from software, to music videos to audio music, games, ebooks and archives.

Searching Rapidshare Using Google

Though Rapidshare is a totally free service, which doesn’t charge its users for uploading or hosting a file on the web, the anonymity of files is still the biggest issue for Rapidshare users. Users cannot search the big great database directly using any search feature to get the content that they are looking for. Here we take the help of Google’s magnificent search capabilities.

Using Google Hidden Operators

Here is a list of great hidden Google operators which can be efficiently used to search files on rapidshare:
Here is what you need to write in Google to search for multimedia content related to your favorite sports car “Ferrari”

site:rapidshare.com "ferrari"

Like wise to search for music, videos and archives you can use the following code:

Music

+inurl:wmamp3ogg site:rapidshare.de

Videos

+inurl:avimpgwmv site:rapidshare.de

Archives

+inurl:exerarzip site:rapidshare.de