Dont mess with him

Though Cricket is my favorite sport (as for most Indians) I also love to watch football(soccer) though not a religious follower..I like it for its energy,speed,josh and the fun..I like Argentina the most. And the new wave in Argentinian football is Lionel Messi .
hes the wonder kid with great football skills.check out his recent goal for his club Barcelona against Getafe which is compared to the Great Diego Maradona's goal against England in the 1986 world cup.

Messi's goal


Comparison with Maradona's goal

Edhanalay Edhanalay (why ? why ?)

whenever we do something or about to there might be a question of Why..?
well after watching this movie I thought i shud have asked this question before watching.
Well no big reason to watch the movie.. I went to watch the movie jus because it released on Tamizh New years day and Harris Jayaraj's music and Jeeva's camera( well he directed this movie.. I liked 12 B too..) But padam paathathuku apparam yen da paathom nu ayidichu..
Melbourne- captured in the camera,music i thought were the saving grace..

innum detailed review .. if u can say so .. here

music plagiarism err.. inspiration

People normally or sometimes have the habit of comparing the tune of any new song with the ones that they had heard before.I am no exception.In fact we will find that many songs are similar to some other older song and vice versa.
I happened to listen to songs from a new Tamil movie "Naan Avan Illai" whose music was scored by Dishyum fame Vijay Antony.Most of the songs in the album were either remixes of older songs or inspired (read rip off)by some other songs .
One song kakha kakha is total rip off from number Main hoon Don from the movie Don 2006.
I Liked the song "Radha Kaadhal Varadha" which is a remix of a an old Gemini Ganesan song .This movie movie itself is of the same genre- Remake of a old movie of the same name.

Foreign coach

cricket fan 1:

why does the Australian cricket team not have a foreign coach ?

cricket fan 2:

they need not because Aussies themselves are foreigners ..

;-)

World cup 2007 gets hotter

Big hits,stunning catches,superb run outs ,high scores,quick wickets - these are the things that one day cricket is known for and this is what brings crowds to the grounds .Well this is not all.What makes ODIs more interesting are those thrilling last ball finishes .South Africa and New zealand are normally known for being involved in thrilling close finish one day matches.But todays world cup match between England and Sri lanka went till the wire and brought the somewhat jaded world cup some charm.
England should have won comfortably when they were cruising along in the middle overs.But thanks the brilliance of Sri Lankan bowlers who were well complemented by their hard working fielders turned the match sri lankas way.But New chap Ravi Bopara and veteran Paul Nixon took it till the last ball where Dilhara Fernando held his nerve to coast to an important victory.As things are at the moment at the world cup the 4 teams i think that are most likely to make it to the semis are Australia,Sri Lanka, New Zealand and SouthAfrica and man those matches are gonna be great.I personally want New Zealand to lift the trophy as i always felt that they were a very good all round one day side.
Sri Lankan team was wonderful.they played for each other and they played as a team which is most important.Our Indian cricketers should observe them play and learn from it instead of complaining about coach,pitch and stuff.I honestly believe that all elder players in the team should be shown the doors and youngsters should be given the responsibility.
Meanwhile the Kerry Packer act of Zee TV boss Subhash Chandra is taken in the constructive sense and hope it does some good to the cricket in India.

Broad Band internet from GOOGLE !!

Check this out ..Google at it .. another new launch .. this time its broadband internet to homes ..
check this out

Transcontinental google maps

More Blog hopping led to this...
Check out this Google maps driving directions ..interesting eh ...
Google maps link

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favorite videos..

Blog hopping led to this youtube video...(no plagiarism intended)
Many folks will accept that this would be one of their favorite old songs..
Ah yes this is kalyana samayal saadham from the movie Maya Bazzaar.
As a kid i (everyone wud have)used to wonder by watching the way the laddus and jangiris just fly into the mouth of Ghatothgaja the demon kid of Bheema in the epic Mahabaratham.

Rajni and Management

Super star is doing a MBA.. oh no ..nothin like that ....he has already said it all..
check this nice post on Rajni punch dialogues and Management mantras..

Google Homepage themes

Check out the new Google personalized home page themes.They look cool and the theme color, lighting etc change according to the time of the day of the place that u can configure ..
pretty kewl..

its here

Madras nalla Madras

Chennai the best city to live in our country ..

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the catch and the stumping

Take a look at this catch. it was a good ,tough catch but not great but what made it great was the guy who took this.Leverock is a character and his on field celebrations are a hit amongst the audience.

stumped of a no ball. oh not really the umpire was the one stumped here .
Virender Sehwag was stumped of a no ball. There was an excited appeal, and perhaps the excitement got to the umpire, Aleem Dar who pbly didn't see the no-ball call and referred the decision to the third umpire, despite the fact that a batsman cannot be stumped off a no-ball.

Settha paamba adikardhu..

Pinna .. what else can i say about the Six sixers that Herschelle Gibbs hit of the poor Dutch bowler Dan van Bunge(paavam pachai pullaya ipdi paadupaduthi...).Enna than adhu oru world recorda irunthalum.. I felt this as a poor advertisement for healthy cricket ..But anyways Gibbs kalakitan..
Aasai yaara vittudhu.. I wish our very own Dhoni performs the same feat against Bermuda. aama they are the minnows in our group..

Sponsor-shipped

After watching the inaugural world cup match in west Indies I wanted to post this ..The match wasnt that interesting as Pakistan played dull cricket and windies were ok..(andha dwayne bravo edho pakistan no 10 playera out pannathuku over alambal panran.. remba over...)But what caught my attention was the sponsorship hoardings and displays around the ground..More than 60 percent of them are Indian companies are rather the Indian arms of an MNC..Its not that this is the first time its happening since i think its there for sometime now.But this time around i felt it was more pronounced.
If we think Why ? the answer is very simple .we Indians adore cricket ,drink,eat,use the foodstuff and goods that are endorsed by cricketers more than other goods.atleast 50 million(the number mebbe less) people are going to watch the matches and so basically marketing for the core of the target audience.I spotted ads for Hero Honda CBZ ,Hutch cellular etc..In this rate it will not be a surprise if we find ads for Dabur chawanprash,Hawkins cooker etc not to forget our Kungumam,Dhinakaran..:)

Street Hawk

Street Hawk the serial featuring the superbike was one of my favorite serials in Doordarshan.This video is the promo/intro of that teleserial.

Gilli egurudhu....

Take a look at this pic ... kucchi parakudhu ... gilli egurudhu.... idhuku sooper example idhu dhan..
Nice photography .. SA captain G Smith had his stump goin for a walk against Pak in the warm up match in WC '07.. umar gul is the bowler..

Its here .. its the World cup of cricket

The cricket world cup 2007 is round the corner with the carribean islands playing host to this edition.There are few minnows in the world cup as there are 16 teams in the fray and the initial group stage is going to be either a barrage of wickets or a storm of runs as the top teams play against a few first timers.Hope that there is some sanity in those matches.
The super 8 stage holds the key and the major 8 test playing countries are most likely to make it without much trouble and then the fun starts here.
As far as team India goes I feel that they have a very good chance to make it to the last four and what happens after that depends on which team is smart enough on that particular day.
This is the last world cup for Indian stalwarts like Sachin,Rahul,Saurav and Anil. So they would be really itching to lay hands on the coveted trophy. Hope it happens that way.
For now gotta wait and watch...

Vaseegara..

Vaseegara.. around 8 years back there was this song composed by a little known composer called Harris Jayaraj and maiden filmi song for renowned carnatic singer "Bombay' Jayashree which was the toast of the music lovers that season and took the composer to new heights.Thereafter one Bombay Jayashree melody was a regular in most of his albums.I still remember the cover of a Minnale audio cd (not original) having a tag next to Harris Jayaraj's name as -A R Rehman's assistant.Though Harris jayaraj did not have a spurt of movies but he never looked back giving consistent hits though there were comments that some of his songs were inspired from other songs.In a place where absolute rip offs are super hits it was ok.
He in his interviews had said that "Blue" is favorite band and no wonder that some of his newer songs are inspired from Blue hits and the kind of instruments that he uses also tell the same story.
but in his recent album Unnale Unnale the song June pona is a total rip off from All rise by Blue.
Well the title of the post Vaseegara -- En nu kaeta . read on..
Harris Jayaraj - Gautam Menon (director -Minnale,Kakka kakka,Vettaiadu Vilayadu) combo has resulted in some good songs and super hits.
Now there is this new movie called PachaiKili Muthutcharam from the same combination.And this album carries a song called unakkul Naaney sung by Bombay Jayashree( there is another version by Madhusree) which I think has the potential to be another Vaseegara. I am not sure how many will go with me or really this song will be that popular, but i felt so.Its not too melodious and not too fast and it is simple and good to hear.Other numbers in the album are also pretty good with a good potential of being seasons hits.The album has an array of young singers including Naresh iyer,Girish(think hes a new singer-I mebbe wrong),Karthik(hes a veteran now).And why i like this album is though there are shades of partha mudhal naaley (VV) and kannum Kannum Nokia (Anniyan) they werent too inspired and were sung well with not much Tamizh kolai (read udit narayan,sukhwinder singh,sadhana sargam and the likes--though i like them sing but kinda don like when they really mess up sometimes which i feel that the music director should have stepped in and corrected)except for a few words by Madhusree.Listen to the songs and enjoy...

DadaGiri

Dada - the prince of Calcutta - Saurav Chandidas Ganguly .hes back.oh yes for the good.
Hes more determined this time around and he himself has said that coming back after an year after making it to the top, is tougher than making a comeback after 6 years which he had done it before.
India beat west Indies in the first of the series of four matches pretty close still after making 338.
Indian batting clicked Dada leading the way and kinda sad that he missed a century by a coupla runs.Hope team india carries on the good run..

One more auto corp sets shop in Chennai

Chennai is the Detroit of India . Wells that in a lots of ways is true.
Read a article in ET about Malaysian Auto maker Naza opening a manufacturing unit in Chennai which reinstates the fact chennai is really the auto hub of India .
But in the article I was surprised if not amused to read these lines "I am impressed with the speed at which Tamil Nadu state administration works," told by the Malaysian minister.
Well if its for the good no complaints whatsoever.