The show is all set. The tickets are on sale for the Bangalore venue. Click on the image above for a bigger version of the poster and ticket details. If you are in need of tickets, there have a bunch of Rahmaniacs from bangalore co-ordinating the effort. Email Radha for tickets and you can rock to Rahman‘s Humma Humma.
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First Off, I haven’t read this book. Infact, the book itself hasn’t released yet. So you know this is no book review of The Physics of Superheroes.
I heard James Kakalios‘ interview on NPR and got instantly interested. Being a huge comics addict during my teens[except for archie and jughead], anything on comic heroes puts on the interests. Just like how The Unbreakable and Incredibles used super heroes to explore deeper into the human mind, seems like this book explains theories of phyiscs using super heroes and their nifty equipments/tricks.
Pretty Impressive way to explain physics. If only my physics madam[classy dressed with a bob cut hair] at school tried to teach physics this way, I would have been writing like James Kakalios by now. Anyway, I hope she still teaches how to experiment ohm’s law in the lab. It would never work for me especially on the day of final examination at school. Physics, huh !!
Hemanth recommended Crash as we were sipping mocha at bucks. I went straight and added it to the top of my flix queue. Took it over to Ram‘s place to project it over a big screen and watched the crash happening one after another.
Crash has a fascinating screenplay. It isn’t unique. But still fascinating. 13 peoples’ life come in and go out of each others life on an unassuming day in LA. Most of the ‘come in and go out’ happen unexpectedly and that’s the screenwriter’s skill. Even as the movie runs as bits and pieces of incidents, its put together with absolute continuity and perfect harmony with other scenes such that no single incident seems better/worse than the other. These people who crash onto each other’s life are perfect strangers and belong to different races.
The movie talks about racism and post 9/11 anxiety issues which common people face in everyday life. An old meticulous Farsi shopkeeper who wants a gun to safeguard, a powerful attorney’s paranoid wife, a perfectly loving father who is victimized just because of his race, a chinaman caught under a truck for no reason and many more such good and bad people bump onto each others life. Scripting this movie could have been a tight rope walk. It’s easy with so much happening at the same time, the movie could seem like a collection of trailers. Paul Haggis, the writer-director of Crash seems to be a reputed TV series guy. I found that while reading about him after I watched the movie.
All the characters seem as important as the other and each one’s life changing event has been dramatised enough for the audience to relate with. The dialogues are provocative and blatant as required. With a studio producing the movie, these dialogues would have been dumped even during the pre-production. But it’s the same dialogues that makes one relate to the movie better. Independent films like these ensures a hope that movies can also be used for better purposes than entertainment. Movies needn’t propogate social ‘messages’ only through dialogues. They can be strong, subtle and might end-up on you as some kind of revelation. Someone watching the movie heart-of-heart will walk around their neighborhood looking for positives within people. And that’s a success for Paul Haggis.
Sivapaana Aangal Ingey Sila Kodi Undu
Karupaana Ennai Kandu Kan Vaithathenna
Kadal Vannam Vaanin Vannam Karuvannam Thaaney
Kadal Vaanam Kaanum Podum Unnai Kanden Naaney
Kettukko Luck Kaalkilo Loss Kaalkilo Labour Kaalkilo
Sethukko Bhakthi Kaalkilo Hope Kaakilo Talent Kaalkilo
Ellanthaan Sethu Kattina Periya Pottalam
Manodu Saeraamal Nadakindren Unnaaley
Maruthaani Pusaamal Sivakkinren Unnaaley
Sundu Vizhi Kandaaley Sokkuthadi Thanaaley
Korava Meenu Kudhikkira Aaththukkulla
Koarappullu Molakkira Saethukkulla
En Kooda Sagathikkoothu Aadu Thai Thai Thai Thai Thai
Adi Othath Thuni Uduthik Kulipoamaa Vekkam Thalli Vai Vai
The dream team now has all the players. Let the jugalbandhi begin. I am truly thrilled !!
There are a lot of stories about our famous hostility but there is nothing in it. We are good friends and Pearasu who has directed two of my films is directing Ajt this time, says Vijay on AVM-Ajith’s Thirupathi pooja. Thoda Hero !!
BTW, the already crowded and sweaty Kodambakkam must have shaken today. With 4 Poojas, the Chennai traffic jam would have been hectic, much to the irritation of office goers. Read the not-at-all important details on which movies kicked off and who’s who in kollywood.
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