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Hurray !! We guys are getting ready to watch the United States Grand Prix 2003 in Indianapolis on Sep 28th. A couple of my friends have already booked the seats. We are still trying for a gallery ticket, atleast. I never even thought in my wildest dreams that I can witness a Formula 1 especially when Schumacher is right there in pole position.

All of us we let down when he crashed at 150 mph while testing in monza. But this report says he will be fit for the forthcoming race. Lets hope that we can make it.

Scoop…Scoop and more Scoop :

Today’s dinamalar has the best scoop about Boys preview show. It says the tamil superstar rajnikanth who came for the preview show, sent his daughters back home after the first half hour of Boys movie. The best part of the news is that even writer sujatha’s( the dialogue writer of boys) wife went home after an hour of the movie in a seperate car.

The worst breakdown for Shankar is being compared with Selvaraghavan for the genuinity of Boys story. But this news says that after thulluvatho illamai released shankar dumped 55 thousand feet of film which he had shot and shot back 4 lakh feet of movie again. FYI : Only 16,000 feet is required for an entire movie.

All this news and scoops only triggers my interest to watch the movie. A perfect audience for this movie is my cousin who is just in his first year of his engineering. All he has to say is that except the first half of the movie which contains these vulgar-reality stuff the movie was an excellant watch. Infact he cried during the second half of the movie when the boys find their way through the hardship. With this judgement, I am sure that shankar has achieved what he wanted to. His target audience are the college grads and he has won their acceptance.

The Hindu’s review is also pretty subtly hinting about the failure of Boys to provide a compelling story. Read it here.

Yuva – The Mani Ratnam Extravaganza :

Rumours in air that the latest Mani Ratnam flick is named as Yuva in Hindi. *ing Abishek, Vivek and Ajay Devgan it has been put to hold and the crew awaits Vivek’s healing from the unfortunate accident on the banks of hooghly river in kolkatta.

As a measure to cut the production costs, Mani bounced back from the shock of Vivek’s accident and started shooting Ayudha Ezhuthu. Leaving no room for any newsleaks to the media, the shooting takes place in an anonymous place in chennai. This is Mani’s way of functioning from the beginning of his career.

Abhishek Bacchan plays the brat in Yuva while the same role is performed by the hot drool-stuff Madhavan in tamil. Ajay Devgan is again getting a role of his career as an intellectual rebel. In a rediff interview he describes his character as strong, energetic who thinks he can bring a change in society. That role is supposedly done by Surya in tamil. Boys fame Sidharth plays the role of Vivek Oberoi in the tamil version.

After burning his fingers in the Sandiyar controversy, it is believed that Kamalhassan is following the footsteps of Mani to cut the media from the shooting spot to avoid any more pack-ups. Kamalhassan is shooting Virumandi aka Sandiyar in the campa-cola campus located in guindy where a major part of Rajni’s Baba was shot.

P.S: The wait is over and Vivek starts shooting from Sep 9th. But he would take up Yuva during october because he isn’t still fit to take up the action scenes. Also MR has planned to have no songs in Yuva. Much to the talks going on, he doesn’t have to follow the Ram Gopal Varma’s way. For already he had thoughts of making movies with no songs during Alai Payuthey’s time.

Currently :

Reading – The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown. It is a riddle-filled, code-breaking, exhilaratingly brainy thriller.

Listening – All That She Wants and Cruel Summer by Ace of Base.

Watching – Tempation Island 3 in FOX. Horribly sick show but it’s still tempting. Reality TV you see.

The talk of the town is webulagam.com’s review of Shankar’s BOYS. It is the one of the most damaging review till day on BOYS. The review points out only Sabu Cyril’s art direction and Ravi K. Chandran’s cinematography as the highlights of the movie. It decides the arrival of Shankar’s first failure after haf-a-dozen movies. Even Rediff’s review wasn’t promising enough. Am eagerly waiting to watch the movie.

These reviews could directly affect the box-office collections and might result in huge losses. Though they say that BOYS was never produced at 22 crores. And all it cost was only 10 crores max.

It was a fun filled weekend in Wisconsin Dells. As we were driving towards wis dells, we could see thousands of bikers heading towards milwaukee to participate in the Harley-Davidson Birthday Bash. It was so cool to see such a global event happening just around the corner.

Many of my Indian friends mailed me on the Boys Debate. Looks like the movie is well placed for being a hit. But many of them are still arguing it for a yet-another-movie.

Mani Ratnam is presumably done with his first schedule of Ayutha Ezhuthu. The movie might be released by Apr 2004 in Hindi and Tamil. All of it depends on Vivek Oberoi’s healing up. The better rumour in this is that Rahman is out and Sandeep Chowta might be fixed in that place. However, I personally feel Mani would still go with Rahman given the rumours that were floating around before Alai Payuthey.

Talking about Alai Payuthey, I remember that whole of y’day we must have played Endrendrum Punnagai in the car for more than 20 times and the music is still fresh. AR Rahman’s synthesized husky voice and the on-the-move music blend so well. Especially the Hey! Here you go rap in the song, sung by Pravin Mani is a sure highlight. I tried so hard those days to get the lyrics right and then no stopping from there. As you drive down your bike through the streets of chennai, keep singing this rap and checkout your soaring energy levels.

Here is the lyrics of Hey ! Here we go :

Hey!! Here we go
I revved up on the marches
Singing with the hip-the-hop
Once again in effect
Feel the constant
Slamming of the bassline
Never mess around with the funk
Because I’m sticking
Kicking always finger lickin
I dont need halloween
Just to be trick or trippin
Cause I’m always on top
Ki wiggudu waggudu
Jiggudu joganna
Hey Wassup !!

And if you see someone zipping in black spelndor, singing this rap aloud, say Hey Wassup. ‘ Cause all possibilities that it is me 😉