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Today’s Quote

Posted on ஜூன் 15, 2007 | பின்னூட்டமொன்றை இடுக

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
– Gertrude Stein

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Sivaji (The Boss) – Bachelor of Silver Screen

Posted on ஜூன் 14, 2007 | 6 பின்னூட்டங்கள்
  1. Anoop going blah blah….: Sivaji – FIRST REVIEW ON NET!!
    • Scene with Shreya and train which is kinda unbelievable
    • The final slides on the screen as names roll by is something every Indian would dream for.
  2. Rajini-in-Sivaji.com » Sivaji First reactions– from a fan
    • Interval block resembles similar to Tagore (Chiranjeevi’s movie)
    • Iis all abt an NRI who teaches a lesson for all who don’t pay tax
    • Is all about a Medical College Revenge
  3. Random Thoughts / Perspective Reflections: $!V@J!:

    4. Chennai and TN: 50 -55 crores
    AP: 18 crores
    Karnataka: 7 crores
    Kerala: 3.5 crores
    Foreign (US, UK, Japan, Malaysia): 15 crores
    Satellite rights: 4-5 crores
    Audio rights: 1.5-2 crores
    The first day tickets sold in Madras amounted to 1.7 crores.

  4. Sivaji (The Boss) – Live Reviews « கில்லி – Gilli
  5. Sivaji : A Quick Review from Singapore.. « அலசல் – Probable imagination and Thoughtful futuristic suggestions 🙂
    • Rani Mukherjee IS the surprise heroine in the film. She is big Rajini’s pair.
  6. Lightning Strikes Everyday: Movie Review: Sivaji : 99% Style 1% Substance
    • Sivaji is a movie where shankar’s and Rajini’s negative aspects add instead of subtracting each other.
    • Jeans is a good example of a Shankar movie which had several main ingredients that were dead on arrival
    • Firstly, NRIs who are senior software architects will not be worth 200 crores.
    • I wish Rajini had accepted the Mudhalvan script. It had a story.
  7. Chakra’s Graffiti » Blog Archive » ‘Sivaji – The Boss’ – 100% Biased review
    • Did you hear the same story line in Padayappa? Yes, you did.
    • Does the free education stuff reminds you of ‘Gentleman’? Yes, you are right indeed.
    • The black money stuff – you would be right in thinking that you heard the same in ‘Mudhalvan’ and ‘Indian’ in a different flavour.
    • Yet, Sivaji is different.
  8. Muthu’s Rambling Blog: Sivaji – Rajini all the way
    • The coin gimmick has been done via graphics but the gum-popping scene at least looks real.
    • If Chandramugi, which had no steam in it, could run for 800 days, I guess then Sivaji has a long way to go.
  9. Indian techies success stories in Silicon Valley
    • Sabeer Bhatia’s sale of Hotmail to Microsoft for $400 million is a well-chronicled story
    • Virginia-based IIT graduate Hemant Kanakia sold his Torrent Technologies to Swedish giant Ericsson, also for $400 million.
  10. சிவாஜி படம் பார்த்தேன் : பகிர்கிறேன் « அலசல்
    • இந்த கதையை வைத்துக் கொண்டு என்னத்த சாதித்து விட முடியும் என்று நீங்கள் நினைத்தால் அது தவறு. ஷங்கர் புகுந்து விளையாடியிருக்கிறார்.
    • ஜினியின் ‘முதுமை ஊஞ்சலாடுகிறது’; ‘பாட்ஷா’ ரஜினியின் வேகம் இந்த படத்தில் பல இடங்களில் மிஸ்ஸிங
  11. Fun Bin: Shivaji – Story and Review
    (Telugu Version for Andhra Pradesh)

    • There are no heroic feats in the film actually.
    • Rajnikant has played like NTR, ANR and Chiranjeevi in a song.
  12. Noddys B-School Story!: SIVAJI – Review!
    • There was this guy in the theater who wore a Sivaji Style Wig and entertained everyone even before the movie started.
    • There was another guy who spent around 50$ on pop corn and distributed that to everyone so we could hurl it in the air when Rajini fills the screen space.
  13. Sivaji : The Boss – Movie review at தண்டோரா – இது கண்டதை சொல்லும்
    • ரஜினியின் மேக்கப்மேனுக்கா, ஷ்ரேயாவின் மேக்கப்மேனுக்கா என சாலமான் பாப்பையா
    • ஏவிஎம் ராஜேஸ்வரியில் ஆயிரம் நாளை கடப்பது நிச்சயம்.
    • சாருநிவேதிதாக்களையும் பாமரன்களையும் திருப்திபடுத்தியிருக்கிறார். தீராநதிக்களும், காலச்சுவடுக்களும் கிழித்து தொங்கவிடுவதற்கு
  14. superstarksa.com | Blog Archive | Sivaji – Coooooool!
    • Athiradi is clearly inspired by Roberto Rodriguez’s Mariachi trilogy, complete with the machine gun in the guitar and the rockets in the guitar case
    • you should be really foolish to expect any logic from most Indian movies.
  15. ‘Sivaji’ – first Indian film to incorporate 4K resolution
    • 2K resolution for digital intermediate (DI) is the set standard. Around 400 of the 2,900 prints of “Sivaji” have been made in digital format by Prasad EFX
    • A single frame scanned in 2K occupies about 12 mb space while a 4K image would occupy 4 times more (48 mb).
  16. A male’s tales: The S-Day
    • The frenzy that was there for “VV” does not even compare to this.
    • வானத்துல இருக்குது பல ஸ்டார்;
      நிலத்துல இருப்பது ஒரே ஸ்டார்!
      அது நம்ம சூப்பர் ஸ்டார்!
  17. Sivaji-The Boss: Experience of a Fan : PassionForCinema
    • A very mild looking oriental man peeped through the projection glass into the theater, shocked. The look on his face said it all.
  18. சும்மா டைம் பாஸ் மச்சி…..: சிவாஜி (ஒரிஜினல்) திரைவிமர்சனம்!
  19. Sivaji – BOSSa Overa Sodhapitanda Shankar « Pardon My Tamil
    • Shankar’s letdown was worser than what the Indian team pulled off in the world cup.
  20. IdlyVadai – இட்லிவடை: சிவாஜி – குற்றப்பத்திரிக்கை
    • ஒன்றாக கோர்த்தால் ரஜினி பட இம்பாக்டும் இல்லை சங்கர் பட இம்பாக்டும் இல்லை.
    • Cool!, நான் தியேட்டர் ஏசியை சொன்னேன்.
  21. நிழல்கள்: சிவாஜி – A quick review

Heroworshipping Rajinikanth: “Completed over 18 months, Sivaji’s Super 35 format makes the cinemascope broader and provides a panoramic vision to the viewer.

Other technologies like 4K processing and scanning with a resolution as high as 4096×3072 pixels (twice that of most Bollywood films), better colour grading and printing, and scene-based correction have been used to enhance the cinematic quality and the screen presence of the superstar.

But the technology and razzmatazz has come at a cost — AVM isn’t ready to share how much it has spent, but estimates vary between Rs 60 and Rs 80 crore — that analysts would normally find difficult to justify.

Yet, the film is not just likely to recover its spends, it could end up making a gargantuan Rs 150 crore in the first three weeks alone.

Of Sivaji’s 760 prints,

  • 300 have been released in Telugu,
  • 303 in Tamil,
  • 145 have been reserved for foreign shores, and
  • 12 for north India.

For Sivaji, his 100th Tamil film (he has acted in a total of 170 films), he is estimated to have been paid about Rs 15 crore + commissions, taking the total emoluments to around Rs 18-22 crore, something that would be the envy of Bachchan and the reigning Khans.”

HOW THE TWO BADSHAHS STACK UP
  Rajinikanth Amitabh
Bachchan
per film Rs 15 cr
plus share
of revenue		 Rs 5-6 cr
Number of films
they do in a year		 One every two years Acts in more
than 6 films
in a year; this year
he has 12 films
Fan clubs Over 15,000 About 24
Brand endorsements None 25
SIVAJI IN NUMBERS
Budget of the film Rs 60-80 cr*
Number of prints 760
How much distributors
have already paid		 Rs 60-70 cr
Overseas rights sold at Rs 18 cr
Sattelite rights sold at Rs 4 cr
Distribution rights in Chennai sold for Rs 6.5 cr
Expected box office collections in three weeks Rs 150 cr
* industry estimates vary widely
COMPARED TO BOLLYWOOD
The most expensive movie was Devdas with a budget of Rs 52 crore, followed by Kabhi Alvida Ne Kehana which had a budget of Rs 45 crore to Rs 50 crore
The highest number of prints was of Dhoom 2, which was over 1,000; usually blockbusters have prints ranging from 500-700
The highest box office grosser adjusted to inflation and the only one which has gone over the Rs 150 crore market in domestic box office sales is Sholay
Eros is believed to have paid Rs 46 crore for domestic as well as international distribution rights of Salaam -e-Ishq
THE OTHER SOUTH INDIAN SUPERSTARS

Actor

 Charge
CHIRANJEEVI Rs 5-8 crore plus earnings
from a territory
KAMAL HASAN Rs 5 crore
NAGARJUNA Rs 3-5 crore
MAMOOTY Rs 1 crore

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Posted in Andhra, AP, AVM, Cinema, English, Movie, Rajini, Rajiniganth, Rajinikanth, Rajni, Rajniganth, Rajnikanth, Reviews, Shankar, Sivaji, Sivaji - The Boss, Telugu

Provoked – A caricature of good and evil

Posted on மே 24, 2007 | பின்னூட்டமொன்றை இடுக

PROVOKED: Kiranjit Ahluwalia’s true story reduced to a crude cartoon.

Last week I complained that Stephanie Daley was a little obtuse about the issues involved in its subject, teen infanticide. This film demonstrates how the opposite can be worse. In 1989, a Punjab immigrant, Kiranjit Ahluwalia (a stunning Aishwarya Rai), set fire to her husband (Naveen Andrews) after years of abuse. The man died, Ahluwalia went to jail for murder, and the case became a cause célèbre that eventually led to an appeal, her early release, and the passing of an enlightened law regarding the prosecution of abuse victims. Very inspiring, but when reduced to a crude cartoon all it provokes is annoyance. Telling the story through clumsy flashbacks that culminate in a montage of “greatest hits” leading up to the torching, director Jag Mundhra reduces the tragedy to caricatures of good and evil. Rai offers a single expression of wide-eyed, non-comprehending terror, and nothing in her performance or the film shines any light into the heroine’s resistance or her redemption.

By PETER KEOUGH

May 17, 2007 5:42:23 PM

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Live from Frankfurt Airport

Posted on ஏப்ரல் 14, 2007 | பின்னூட்டமொன்றை இடுக
  • This is school vacation week in US. When you travel with kids you get to know your age.
  • It does not matter whether you blog or have an 80 gig iPod. One cannot hide his experienced looks.
  • IHT is a great newspaper. It should be available for subscription in US. Read three very engaging articles on
    • French primary elections
    • Delhi Traffic woes and the active arrogance of politicians
    • England vs Bangladesh
    • Kurt Vonnegut or some fellow who wrote lot of literary stuff
  • When you get old you are not good with numbers. The previous one has four entries, inspite of me leaving out Chirac´s legacy, McCain´s Campaign strategy.
  • There is a Tamil channel in Lufthansa. I heard a song which transformed old Ilaiyaraja hit Ádiye Manam nillunnaa nikkathadi´. They also played new classics like ´Loosu Penney´
  • Lufthansa forgets AVML vegetarians. Ofcourse feel free to listen to the tamil music. Sevikku unavau illai enil vayitrukku …
  • Jaffan converter or some other stuff similar to the recent Hindi plugin for blogger.com should be made available here too. Note to self: write to Matt about this; he will respond 😉
  • The liquid restriction woes, stripping of belt, shoes etc have become normal. When a hassle becomes routine, people are used to ill-treatment.
  • Jeyamohan Kurunovelgal kept me company in the flight. Good for peaceful napping than the aforementioned IHT op-ed pieces.
  • This post took 17 minutes to write and costs me. This concludes the experiment of blogging produces lunatics

Sayonara…

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Quotes to chew

Posted on ஏப்ரல் 4, 2007 | 1 மறுமொழி
  • If ever I was sure that someone was coming to help me, I should run like hell.- Thoreau
  • For a moment the lie becomes the truth – Dostoevsky
  • God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. – Voltaire

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APRIL IS NATIONAL POETRY MONTH

Posted on ஏப்ரல் 3, 2007 | பின்னூட்டமொன்றை இடுக

An exact comprehension of the composer’s intent
by Noah Eli Gordon

Cloudless sky, a tendril root, a chord begun
     as unfolding duration & one’s lost words,
a red lexicon, an empty definition

gathering its discourse—the flow from content
     to perception: language is a translation of grace.
Say the body, say the heart, a composition in blue,

the passing energy, cell, motion, inevitability;
     an impact until meaning wears through
the mind’s opulence, its spindle—a white thread.

Tethered to conviction, one says moon, one, emotion
     —the recurrence of night: a door will open,
shifting from anonymity to intellection—a translation

of sight with speech, awoken not by voice
     but what precedes it: the worldliness, wordless;
a measure of sound or movement to song.

From A Fiddle Pulled from the Throat of a Sparrow by Noah Eli Gordon.

Letter Home
by Pamela Alexander

I can’t write you because everything’s
wrong. Before dawn, crows swim
from the cedars: black coffee calls them down, 
its bitter taste in my throat as they circle,
raucous, huge. Questions with no
place to land, they cruise yellow air
above crickets snapping 
like struck matches. My house on fire, crows

are the smoke. You’ve never left me.  
When you crossed the river you did not 
call my name. I stood in tall grass
a long time, listening to birds 
hidden in reeds, their intricate songs.

The grass will burn, the wrens,  
the river and the rain that falls on it.  
I can go nowhere else: everything 
I cannot bear is here.

I must listen deeper. Sharpen my knife.  
Something has changed the angles
of trees, their color. Do not wait to hear
from me. I cannot write to you
because this is what I will say.

From Slow Fire by Pamela Alexander.

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Posted in Books, English, Poems

How women altered the business landscape

Posted on ஏப்ரல் 2, 2007 | பின்னூட்டமொன்றை இடுக

By Cecil Johnson, Mcclatchy Newspapers  |  February 11, 2007

40 percent of all privately held companies in the United States are owned or headed by women.

Every day, she says, 420 women-owned businesses emerge in the United States and women-owned companies are creating jobs twice as fast as all other companies combined and pay more salaries than all of the Fortune 500 companies.

“Women’s companies are more likely than others to stay in business, while companies owned by women of color are four times as likely as others to stay in business,” Heffernan writes.

In “How She Does It,” Heffernan focuses on the stories of 26 women entrepreneurs and business executives to show why they went into business and why they have been so successful. They all had something to prove to themselves, she writes. Some thought that they had been undervalued by their employers.

They thought that a rejected idea had merit, that they were financially responsible, and that their ways of doing things could be as effective as the predominant macho styles.

“In this respect,” Heffernan writes, “women entrepreneurs remind me of a wave of immigrants: driven out of a land they found hostile, taking big risks in their determination to create a New World where they can succeed on their own terms. America was built by such pioneers and, today, its economy continues to be enriched by the fresh thinking of women who don’t accept defeat.”

Other factors besides the need to achieve and transcend gender stereotypes that propel the women featured in Heffernan’s book are:

  • A high capacity for empathy that contributes to zeitgeist, the intuitive ability to see ahead to the next need, trend, and potential opportunity.
  • A greater propensity for improvisation.
  • A leadership style that favors orchestration over command and control.
  • A greater emphasis on values than on profits.
  • A nurturing concern for the well-being of their employees.

 “Every woman I spoke to may have had a slightly different reason for starting her business,” she writes. “But what motivated them after they had started was strikingly uniform: They were all driven to succeed for their workforce. They may have started for themselves, but they kept going for others.”

Book Links:

How Women Entrepreneurs Are Changing the Rules of Business Success  

How She Does It: How Women Entrepreneurs Are Changing the Rules of Business Success by Margaret Heffernan

 
 
The Definitive Drucker  

The Definitive Drucker by Elizabeth Haas Edersheim

A Business Guide to Managing Policy, Public Relations, And Legal Issues  

Blog Rules: A Business Guide to Managing Policy, Public Relations, And Legal Issues by Nancy Flynn

How to Win the Hearts, Minds, and Business of Boomer Big Spenders  

PrimeTime Women: How to Win the Hearts, Minds, and Business of Boomer Big Spenders by Marti Barletta

It's Called Work for a Reason!: Your Success Is Your Own Damn Fault  

It’s Called Work for a Reason!: Your Success Is Your Own Damn Fault by Larry Winget

What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful  

What Got You Here Won’t Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful by Marshall Goldsmith and Mark Reiter

The Power of Being a Woman  

Fight Like a Girl: The Power of Being a Woman by Lisa Bevere

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Posted in Books, Business, English, Female, Management, Media, Motivation, Read, Review, Women

How to ‘get found’ on the Web

Posted on ஏப்ரல் 2, 2007 | பின்னூட்டமொன்றை இடுக

Five tips to make yourself more findable on the Web

Mary Brandel (Computerworld (US)) 26/03/2007 14:00:40

1. Know where people look

Review at least the first three to five pages of results.

2. Start a blog

If you’re not yet ready to start your own blog, you can simply begin posting to a technology-oriented blog such as Slashdot.com or Thescripts.com.

3. Join the open-source code community

4. Build a Web page

5. Create a Web profile

Naymz, Ziggs, FindMeOn.com and ClaimID.-com, allow you to create an online identity or, if you already have several, manage them all in one place.

Be careful out there!

Here are some of the reasons candidates didn’t make the cut:

  • 31 percent lied about qualifications.
  • 25 percent had poor communication skills.
  • 24 percent were linked to criminal behaviour.
  • 19 percent bad-mouthed a previous employer or co-worker.
  • 19 percent posted information about drinking or using drugs.
  • 15 percent shared confidential information from previous employers.
  • 12 percent lied about an absence from work.
  • 11 percent posted provocative or inappropriate photographs.
  • 8 percent used unprofessional screen names.

 

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