Super Sharanya

This is one movie which has come in ZEE 5 OTT platform. After i purchased new smart tv, I discontinued recharging my dish tv connection which was there with me since 2012 during my Mumbai days.

As a small compensation or to avoid guilty kind of feeling, I paid 500 and got this ott channel. Comparitively it's cheaper than other platforms and having lesser films than other platforms as well.

One movie which I am eagerly awaiting on this platform is Kashmir Files. I read somewhere that, zee has produced kashmir files and they are having exclusive satellite and ott rights for kashmir files. Now, Kashmir Files is running full house in all the theatres and probably will take another 2 to 3 months for ott release.

Earlier, when pooja, adi and sreekutty were here, i hardly used to watch any movies during week days. Mostly, I used to take adi and sreekutty for walk after dinner. After coming back, i used to read story books for Adi, sreekutty used to come and play in our room. Even sreekutty used to pretend reading books holding in her hand mostly upside down lying under the warmth of our blanket. During weekends also, adi demands me to take him to childrens park. We used to watch movies on tv only once in a while. But now, my dear dearest family has gone to kerala again during beginning of this March 2022 to attend Adi's year end exams. So, now i am watching so much movies. During holidays I am watching sometimes three to four movies per day or minimum two. I know this is not an ideal situation. Once my dearest ones joins me back at bangalore, i will surely go back to my earlier schedules and itenary. That used to give me so much more happiness.

I watched this movie on last friday ie, on 18.03.22. Coming back to sharanya, she is the same girl who acted in thanneer mathan dinangal. Similar to previous, there is not much story line except romance.

Sharanya native of Palakad, joins an engineering college in Thrissur. Four people are having crush on her. First her senior, then her lecturer, her classmate and finally an outside fellow whom she meets while roaming with her friends at Ernakulam.

She falls for the last fellow. The usual story of break up and reunion between lovers follows. There is some comedy in this movie and not dry like super star movies. It's okay, watchable and having some laughing element.

Jurassic Park :: The Lost World

This movie is based on Micheal Crichton's novel and sequence to the movie Jurassic Park. The movie was released in 1997. I remember reading the novel in my high school days. It took me a really long long time and Amazon Prime to watch this movie.

This movie again depicts the greed and idiotic nature of Corporate companies to make money at any cost.

In the first part, they try to take visitors to an island where the dinosaurs are kept. Then, all the plans backfire and the entire park is destroyed by the dinos and many people are killed.

In this second part, James Hammond, the Ingen company owner sends a research team first. Another group of company owners sends a team to capture the dinosaurs and bring them to USA for opening an amusement park.

As usual, many lives are lost. The twist is that, they manage to tranquilize a t-rex dinosaur and it's kid. The kid is being taken back in a helicopter and the adult in a ship to San Diego USA for displaying in the park.

The company is in for a rude shock when the ship arrives. The adult dinosaur sets free and kills everyone on the ship. The ship comes and crashes into the harbour. The adult breaks free into the common areas with huge population density. Huge panic and havoc follows.

Finally, people from research team uses the kid rex as a bait and brings the adult dino back to the ship. The adult is tranquilized, locked in the cargo deck and taken back to the island.

The moral is simple. Don't mess with nature, else we will have to pay a huge price.

Good Luck Sakhi

I saw this movie on Amazon Prime. This is a telugu movie dubbed in Malayalam. Actually Keerthi Suresh is the only actor whom i know in this movie. Apart from her, the trainer has appeared as villain in malayalam movie pulimurugan.

The story is about a village girl Sakhi. Initially, she is leading a normal life like other girls in the village. Then kernel comes to the village seeking talents for shooting competition. Based on her talent in playing goli and concentration abilities, Sakhi also participates in the trials conducted by the kernel and she is selected.

After 2 months of training, she participates in district trials and qualifies for state level competition. Just the day before, she has some issues with her boyfriend and looses her concentration. Then, in the middle of the competition, he boyfriend comes running, gives her the lucky golis and emotional issues are solved.

Now, she is on full fire and wins the state level competition against the established players.

It's a nice movie and watchable. It's about village girls, women empowerment and sports.

Neyyattinkara Gopante Aarattu

This is a Mohanlal starrer movie. The first half is really boring. It's like a fusion dance where multiple songs are played for 2 minutes each. Movies like Rajavinte Makan, Chandralekha, Rajamanikyam etc are replayed.

The real story begins during second half. Anti national forces are being dealt with properly. The loss of parents for an army officer is being avenged by a mozad kind of agent. The employer is unknown.

UnLike shown after theatre reviews, i found the second half better than first half.

But most Mohanlal movies are kind of unwatchable now. Though he is 60, he is acting in far too many movies and in roles which doesn't match his age. Mohanlal has over the years, lost his brand value due to wrong selection of movies and this movie is also one such wrong selection. Watched in Amazon Prime and didn't go to theatres.

Dark Side of Giving- The Rise of Philanthro- Capitalism

Source- Economic Times (25th March 2011)

This article makes a shocking revelation about the so called philanthropic interests of Melinda and Bill Gates Foundation. Warren Buffet is currently in India requesting Indian Business Men to contribute Funds to the Gates Foundation. 

The article says that they are not doing it out of charity, but to propagate and encourage American Corporate interests.

Africa is one place where the French and Europeans have greater influence than the Americans. Now both the Gates foundation and Rockefeller foundation is planning a new activity. It's termed as Alliance for Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA).  The real intention is to make 'MONSANTO' a dominant player in Africa. In due course of time they plan to make African agriculture fully dependent on the Genetically Modified varieties as they are trying with India and other Asian countries. 

There's another accusation against the Gates foundation. ie they have invested $23 billion in Monsanto, when asked about this Bill Gates replied that investment and charity must be seen separately. How can it be so when the main aim of the organisation is to help them come out of difficulties in life?

Some time back, Bill Gates had visited India and requested Indian business men to donate to their foundation. Shiv Nadar of HCL technologies said that he would do charity through educational institutions in rural areas and not through their foundation. He must have known the actual scenario there itself. 

Bill Gates initially ruled the world through Microsoft, he eliminated all other players. Now he's trying to do it in Agriculture through Monsanto. It seems his strategy is like making the India pay to ensure their dominance over us. It reminds me of the British era when taxes were collected from Indian peasants to maintain the army which was in turn used to suppress the freedom movement. Gates wants to repeat history once again it seems.

I don't know why Americans are always so selfish? Why don't they peacefully coexist with other nations instead of always trying to dominate?

I had a Quarrel with my Spouse!! How are you going to be affected??

Ever heard of this sentence before? Well, I have been hearing this sentence right from my 10^th standard board exams. This is a very famous excuse given by teachers who participate in centralized valuation. The students are of course at the mercy of these valuators. They suffer for no reason of theirs.Teachers give the excuse that they have quarreled with their spouses or on the huge quantity of answer sheets corrected by them for this poor performance.

I feel when they are being respected and obeyed; they also have the duty to be responsible enough. They cannot let innocent students score poor marks or fail for no fault of theirs. This situation shows lack of commitment among the teachers who indulge in such excuses. If they have a fight with their spouse, it’s something which is really personal and that cannot be spilled into their professional lives. What if the same happens with a student? Suppose he has a fight with one of his friends and comes to the class. If the student hasn’t done the homework or doesn’t pay due respects to the teacher, is he left scot free? It rarely happens. Infact the student in most cases will be punished again for his failure.

I wouldn’t say that the teacher should be punished in a similar manner. For every action there’s an equal and opposite reaction. If the result is not going to be immediate, then they will somehow or the other going to suffer for their irresponsible behavior in the near future. Even they have sons and daughters who are going to appear for university exams. These smart teachers mustthink about what will happen to then if somebody else corrects their ward’s papers in the same manner.

To conclude, such silly excuses are not at all acceptable. Teachers must be responsible enough to give a good job when they go for university paper corrections. Personal problems and professional duties must be viewed separately.

Environmental Impact- Policies With Long Term Vision Needed

The A.B. Vajpayee government successfully tested Indian Nuclear Bomb in 1998. There were big hues and cries regarding this. All major world powers termed this act despicable. The US even went on to impose sanctions on India. Twelve years have passed and look at the situation now. The governmental heads of all five major super powers have visited India and declared directly or indirectly that the prosperity in their nations depends to a large extent on India and its population.If people of the developing nations don't travel and prosper, for who else will Boeing and Airbus manufacture air-crafts for? If the capital markets of the emerging nations were not there, where else will Foreign Institutional Investors put in their money and get decent  returns? 

There's another scenario which has arisen recently. Jairam Ramesh was widely acclaimed and appreciated for his pro poor stand. He single handedly denied permission to Vedanta Industries limited for mining in Niyamgiri district of Orissa. Most politicians would have accepted bribes and allowed the company to mine at the expense of tribals who doesn't have any voting rights. Jairam Ramesh certainly chose to differ from others in the case of Vedanta, Lavassa and Posco.

Now it seems the whole government machinery is turning against him. Jairam Ramesh has been forced to give clearances with conditions. The companies are most certain to flout these rules and proceed as they please. The government argues that if companies are turned away in similar fashion, then India won't attract any FDI. 

This is an absolutely wrong perception. We must set the standards for environmental protection and sustainable development rather than doing it in the erstwhile imperialist  manner. The British and other colonial countries thought only about the welfare of their industries. They never took into account wheather the people in the colonies perished or went to hell. Our government certainly can't afford to behave in such an irresponsible manner.  

Initially it might cause a bit of distress and reduced FDI into the nation.Talking about long term, Where else can the developed nations invest their money if not in the emerging markets? Their markets are already saturated and there's not going to be any further significant growth. It's high time that we set the standards for pollution and environmental impact rather that letting the MNCs dictate terms to us. If we don't control them, they will start controlling us like the East India Company did in the 17th and 18th centuries. Should we allow history to repeat? Let's put on our thinking caps and get our acts together.