Story times

Once upon a time I was a small kid .Hearing stories was my favorite time pass.In my generation as a child i had less entertainment.No Televisions..No Cartoons..No Video games..No fancy foods..
Stories were great time pass.
Stories helped a kid like me to know about this world's people,culture,heroes,history, ethical values.They made me to think and kindled my creative skills and dreams.When somebody narrates story I would create my own world in which story will start happening.

To get a good narrator is a boon.
Right flowing narration and exciting content will make story just like seeing a film or watching series of events over long time quickly in yours mind's world.A film or stage play depend on script content and actors.Stories depend on their content,narrator's style and way you imagine things you hear.Let me first say about my favorite story tellers .

• My uncle is the best person to say stories.He was teacher and knew lot of new stories.I was in grand mothers house during my childhood.I was a big fan of his weekend stories.His intention of telling stories was character building .So he will always say stories with good moral values.If i do something wrong he would indicate it in his stories.So sweet stories with sharp ends...

• I stayed in a place called paramakudi for a week during my third standard holidays. In my relative's house,a elderly person used to say stories of dasavataram for hours after dinner to me.The kind of knowledge she had in characters in epics like Ramayana,Mahabharata and fluency with which she narrated complex stories was amazing.She said sequences of events in avatars like Rama,Krishna,Narashima ,Koorma ,Parasuram ,Varaha with ease.Narashima avatar is short and thrilling avatar.Mahabharata had great examples of characterizations in human society.Krishnas childhood mis chives were very interesting to hear.Those days were just feast for my ears.

Story Books
Ambuli Mama,Bala mitra,Siruvar malar are my favourite books .I started reading these books regularly.My father used to buy Friday dinamalar for free edition of siruvar malar with it.

Ambuli Mama was quality story material for any child .Vikramadhittan stories had colorful image of him carrying vedhala(a kind of Ghost) .Vedhala used to say new stories to Vikramadhittan and ask questions at end of stories .This is was great way of developing logical reasoning in child's mind.


Siruvar Malar had pictorial stories,Pancha tantra stories,Tenali ram stories,Arabian stories,AthiMedhavi Angurasu .Every week Siruvar malar carried a cute face of kid in its covers.Siruvar malar improved my tamil flunecy and my reading speed .
I had bought story books to know about Tenali raman ,Appaji ,Vikramadhittan Stories.


I would like to know if kids of this generation are intersted in hearing stories.Child's
World has changed a lot.They seem to understand complex stories with ease since they are more exposed to Cartoons,Science films and media. Still parents must develop story telling skills and must say more stories to their kids.Stories are most natural way of saying something to kids.

Film Review -Moodhi Vilayadhu

Cast- Vinay,Kajal Agarwal
Music -Leslie ,Hariharan(Colonial cousins)
Direction -Saran
Genre-?????(Possibly could be Romantic Action comedy movie else Hitech multiplex masala movie)
Theatre (where i watched)- Cinepriya Theatre in Madurai .
Last Friday i went to Moodhi Vilayadhu on first day second show.Frankly i felt it was big mistake after watching the film for 15 minutes.Creativity in screenplay horribly gone wrong!!

Storyline.
Kalabhavan Mani is a cunning industrialist.Through this wrong business tactics he earns lot of money along with enemies .Vinay is his son brought up with a sponsored child(vodaphone dog).Kajal agarwal a student gets in vinays life as work maid for damaging his costly car.Both vinay and his housemate get into love for kajal .Suddenly his house mate gets killed while they travel in car over argument over kajal by Vinays enemies .Vinay loses everything and targeted by paid assassin from Bangkok and his father doesn't take care of his security. He comes to know his killed mate was real son and he was only son for mani in eyes of society.How he overcomes this situation and proves he is orphan becomes rest of plot.




First lets discuss about good things in this film.
+++++++++.......

• Rich camera work capturing some exotic locations.Real visual treat of some exotic locations in Malaysia ,Bangkok, Dubai.

• Kajal Agarwal looks gorgeously beautiful in this film!!!

• Pathi Kadhal song is awesome.

• Twist in tale after break.

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• Screenplay is not written well .Director clearly fails in this major point.

• Vinay has dubbed his own voice for the role.He has to talk like NRI but ends up talking like Telugu guy newly speaking Tamil with some poetic terms.

• The film has taken one year to complete looks patchy.

Never watch this film if you need good time pass.They have taken this film during their timepass.

Aussies could get burnt into Ashes!!!

Australia are probably going to lose Second test match in Lords.England are already leading 500 plus runs in just third day.First Win in a series is vital for a side.England would happy to take lead in this emotional series.
Fresh multi talented cricketers in English camp like Swann,Matt prior,Broad have rekindled their energy.Andrew Strauss bats like really cool test match Batsman.This is last series for Big Boy Flintoff.Wish him a happy farewell.

Difference between last test match and this one is improved bowling by England and poor batting by Australia.Surely newly added Onions has spiced up English bowling.Anderson has finally arrived as their major weapon and was instrumental in destroying Aussie lineup which was looking good last match .
Batting collapse is very destructive for any side in test matches and can cause unexpected results.Its unfortunate that both batting and bowling failed badly for Australia this match.















The major problem for Aussies in this test match was their wayward bowling by their bowlers particularly Mitchell Johnson.Johnson was expected to spearhead Aussie attack in absence of Brett Lee.If something is missing in Aussie attack these days,its lack of single Match winning bowler like Shane Warne.

Retirements of Legends from side like Gilly ,Hayden,McGrath had already weakened side.Self demolition of Symonds and Brett Lee's in and out form have done more damage to their strength.

Ricky ponting is looking helpless leader in this test match. He will be having awful dreams of Ashes defeat these days though its a long way to go.With this bowling attack Australia aren't going to win Ashes.
Transition period hasn't been smooth for Aussies.Their Twenty-20 World cup exit only proved their weaker state.Ashes Win is best gift England team can get this time.Freddie would be happy man to go on winning note.

Life and Love

This is my first blog.I wanted it to be my favorite topic "Life and Love".Lets start with love.
Love is a big thing.Just consider yourself as new born baby.Think about people who have loved you throughout your life and helped you.Your parents,friends,neighbors have been with you throughout your good and bad times.Enemies have shown hatred and changed some peoples life.In one sense you can love your enemies for giving drastic changes to your life.
Even negative emotions are malformed love.Negative and positive feelings are complementary .If you watch most people they have this mix of good and bad characters.Life will become obsolete without love.You don't need permission to love anybody.But when you expect love from a person it becomes complicated process .
Life is filled with love.When people love god it becomes devotion.When people love friends its friendship.Brotherhood,Love on opposite sex,religion,patriotism all have essence of love.We seem to love different things like sport,coffee,house, environment,cricket bat.So Love is a habit of people.When you love most things you face then life becomes very interesting.People when they love their job become more masterful in their job.