The missing link in Ram-Sethu

Thank you.

Rajaram S — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 07:02:15 +0000

Thank you for making an otherwise ordinary movie like Vishwaroopam into a superhit. If not for your involvement in the banning of the movie, no one would have noticed the movie’s release and it would have gone into oblivion.

Yes, movies are also a medium for a person to show to the world his creativity and the complex thinking mind, but when it fails to come together into a compelling story-line, it just falls flat on its face. There were innumerable occasions where the message could have been conveyed to the viewers with a “wow” factor, but it just didn’t happen. The guise of a Kathak teacher, the fact that he was involved with the Al-Qaeda, the disclosure of all this to his wife – some of the instances where there could have easily been a “twist in the tale”, but it was as if the viewers were handed over a copy of the script beforehand and told to expect things which were to happen. Dialogues like “who are you, man” (or something similar) which is said by the FBI agent to Kamal after he speaks to our PM were so “B-gradeish”! The concept of cutting back to a scene to reveal what actually happened is so cliched nowadays and i wouldn’t expect such a creative movie-maker to adopt it.

Kamal has reportedly spent dozens of crores, maybe a bulk of it on the sets. If so, i fail to understand why the visual effects, particularly the bomb blasts or the helicopter flyovers were so amateurish that they seem to be straight out of a 2-day effort from a college fest. You probably can get better much effects with cheap software and a couple of chroma screens!

I watched Race 2 few days after watching Vishwaroopam and in spite of being the total commercial movie it is, it had better “wow” moments than the latter. Okay, Deepika and Jacqueline Fernandes were generously shown on screen to keep the audience interested, but then wasn’t it the same with the useless roles of Pooja Kumar and Andrea in Viswaroopam? Kamal is known for his onscreen over-indulgence with the heroines, but such a thing didn’t happen in this movie. So, when a person like Kamal gets two scantily dressed women in meaningless roles into his “magnum-opus”, it looks like even he doesn’t have the confidence in his storyline to keep the audience engaged.

I have been (and am) a big fan of Kamal’s movies, because i think there are not many today who can fit into so many genres and carry them off with such grace. But then, just the display of such capability will not make a movie successful. Yes, i do watch movies for their “star value”, but not just for it. Sometimes a power-star manages something better than a superstar!

Saif Ali Khan Kareena Kapoor Wedding Photos and Videos

Rajaram S — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 10:04:12 +0000

Photos of Mrs. and Mr.Khan coming from the court after the wedding

Photos from Saif’s place where the Sangeet ceremony took place

This was the wedding invitation printed for the wedding of Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor.

Below photos are from the Sangeet ceremony which happened on October 14th. Keep watching for the latest photos from the wedding/marriage of Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor.

Jal Satyagraha by Bollywood actors

Rajaram S — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 17:32:43 +0000

With the success of Jal Satyagraha in MP, even bollywood actors have taken to this style of protest. Shah Rukh and Katrina wanted to express their dissatisfaction with the censor board by following this novel protest method.

First photos of Aishwarya Rai and Baby Girl

Rajaram S — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 04:58:42 +0000

Well, these are the first photos on Google Image Search for Aishwayra Rai and Baby Girl. Enjoy!

First photos of Bin Laden’s dead body

Rajaram S — Tue, 03 May 2011 11:06:46 +0000

With the help of some Somali pirates hiding on the USS Carl Vinson, the first photographs of Bin Laden’s dead body have leaked out. Adarama Osmania Ali, one of the Somali Pirates, with the help of his Apple IPad managed to capture gripping images of Bin Laden’s corpse just before it was dropped into the North Arabian Sea.

Initially, there was some speculation whether this indeed was Bin Laden’s body, as the shape of a corpse resembled that of a woman. But all that doubt was laid to rest when Bin Laden’s personal trainer, currently at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, identified the shape as Bin laden’s and said that Bin Laden was a fitness fanatic and had enough muscles to match even Arnold Schwarzsomething. As you can see from the contours of the image above, Bin laden was definitely not happy at being shot on his head. Also, if you notice carefully (at a zoom of around 400%), a sign saying “Made in China” is visible on the top left of the cloth. This clearly proves that this photo was shot at an American facility.

Today morning, rumours started appearing on Twitter and Facebook that Bin Laden was not killed and thrown into the sea, but just asked to jump in and start swimming to wherever he wanted to. This was all because of this photograph taken somewhere on the Arabian Sea.

But, after multiple rounds of image analysis including a chemical analysis of the photo of the water, it was concluded that this was not taken in the arabian sea, but in the dead sea in Israel. I don’t know why people publish such fake photographs to grab attention! Btw, there are some conspiracy theorists and mathematicians hard at work to see if it is humanly possible to swim from the Arabian sea to the dead sea overnight…