Monday, June 25, 2007

LOKESH-BRAHMANI'S ENGAGEMENT - The Hungama

A simple and traditional ceremony marked the engagement of Brahmani-Lokesh yesterday morning at Balakrishna’s home in Jubilee Hills.
Balakrishna was soaking in the attention of the film industry's biggies on the occasion of the engagement ceremony of Lokesh and Brahmani held at his house in Jubilee Hills.
The much hyped engagement took place and all newspapers and TV channels were showing it live much to the excitement of the audiences.

The VIPs list include who’s who right from Akkineni Nageswara Rao, Raghavendra Rao, Mohan Babu, Krishnam Raju, Ramanaidu, Venkatesh, Nagarjuna etc.

Mr Chandrababu Naidu and his wife Bhuvaneswari arrived in a Volvo bus along with their close relatives while Lokesh came in a separate car. There were a host of baratis following them in various imported cars and SUV's . Lokesh sported a embroidered light purple coloured shervani and he wore a Hyderabadi pearl necklace specially made for him.


Thousands of fans of Balakrishna thronged his residence to have a glimse of the gliteratti but private security personnel posted there turned them away. Even the media was not allowed to cover the proceedings. People and Photographers were permitted only up to the outer main gate and were seen pushings and gushing to have a glimpse of the stars.

The wedding of Lokesh with Brahmani has been fixed for August 26. Lets hope its a Mega Event.

Friday, June 15, 2007

Sivaji - The Boss :)

It is not easy to write the review of a movie that features the Superstar. Forgive me if I end up reviewing the Superstar and not the movie on the whole, it’s just that his screen persona is electrifying enough to make my brain cells go numb.

Let’s get it straight, Sivaji is a Rajni film directed by Shankar and not a Shankar film starring Rajni; which one do you prefer? One thing for sure, if you prefer the latter you are surely in the minority. The movie has enough and more for people who think that Rajni was at his best in Thillu Mullu and also for those who think that nothing can beat Baasha. Now you may be getting a feel of what the movie is like and as I had predicted earlier about my own weakness for the Superstar phenomenon, I haven’t yet ventured into any aspect of the movie other than Rajni.
The movie has everything that the trailers had promised. The fun, the lover, the terror and the boss.
Let’s put it this way, you get the first two in the first half and the last two in the second half. There is ample fun for everyone who is looking for some. Vivek and Rajni combine to provide some very hilarious moments.
Vivek must come in for special mention for his performance, especially the scene where he very candidly points out about every spring chicken of the industry trying to become the Superstar overnight, aping his mannerism (watch the movie for the real fun). Shriya comes and goes in the songs where one must say she looks gorgeous, but there is a very thin line between glamour and vulgarity and here the lines seem to have blurred. The high points of the first half however must be the songs. Balleilakka simply rocks; theaters are going to reverberate with fans, every time this song unfolds on screen. Nayanthara fits the song to perfection – looking very beautiful. The STYLE song, in praise of the Superstar’s inimitable element of style has been shot in a way that is completely novel to Tamil cinema. The choreographers – Brindha and Prabhu Deva respectively have done a great job. The plot of the movie thickens as we get closer to the interval and it is only in the second half that Rajni really unleashes on screen; it’s action time.
The second half is all about Rajni and the villains, Suman being the lead antagonist. He has managed to look every inch the ‘wolf in a sheepskin’ kind of character. Dressed in white and white, sporting a wide smile, this might just become the new stereotype look of the Tamil villain for some time to come. Villains cannot get more handsome. The script moves at an express rate here, with twists and turns galore. Not at one point does the tempo of the movie drop. In between, there are some very interesting comic interludes involving Solomon Pappaiah (you are bound to laugh every time he appears on screen) and a few other comic scenes to offer some relief from the tense main plot.Shankar has taken all the cares to make the script as unpredictable as possible and that has worked, as the biggest twist of the movie fell like a thunderbolt on the audience; you don’t see such things normally in a Rajni movie. The climax (of course you know who had the last laugh) is easily the best and the most exciting part of the movie.

Though defying superhuman powers, the fights choreographed by Peter Heinz (we are intentionally calling the fights choreographed, you have to see the movie to understand) and the extremely lavish sets created by Thotta Tharani stand out. Camera work of K.V.Anand is first rate through out, Antony’s editing is crisp and Sujatha’s dialogues are rock solid.
A.R.Rahman’s songs are being lapped up by the audience with background score adding substance to the narration. Shankar, the architect of the product should be applauded for raising the bench mark of a Rajini movie. Future directors might find it even more challenging to script the Superstar in the future.
It’s an absolute celebration of one man who can make millions feel good about life just by walking in elegance, by stroking his hair, or just by being there on screen. It is a celebration of the unmatched STYLE of our SUPERSTAR; come join the festival and revel.

Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Evangelist Dr K.A Paul feels danger to life from YS & Sonia

Well was watching TV yesterday and today and only one main news kept on flashing at the bottom of the screen. ie K A Paul Allegations against Congress Govt.

I could not control my laughter watching the entire thing on TV.

Well the news as in Newspapers

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In a sensational allegation, well broadcasted over all Television Channels and Radio Channels ....well-known evangelist Dr K.A Paul today said he apprehended danger to his life from Congress president Sonia Gandhi.

The President of Global Peace Initiative, based in the USA, claimed that Sonia Gandhi was out to take "revenge against me under the instructions of George Bush and Condoleza Rice".

Paul, who hails from Andhra Pradesh, alleged that Sonia Gandhi and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Rajasekhar Reddy had been "nursing a grudge" against him and "destroying" his ministry by imposing curbs on the activities of his organisation in the country.
He also alleged that Reddy was against him because he had refused to give $ 5 million party fund sought by Y.S Rajasekhar Reddy in December 2003 when he was the opposition leader.
Paul said he had enough evidence to prove the complicity of the Congress government in hurting his evangelical activities, which he would prove in a court of law.

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The so-called Dr K A Paul is liar. He has achieved the distinguished honor of being known as a liar, irresponsible for not paying his bills, and now he has been arrested for "lewd conduct" with a 14 year child. Yet, in spite of all this the "man" still has the nerve to be called a minister, an evangelist of God. Strange logic! He owns a 747-SP and he goes around the world begging for money (he calls it donations) for what he calls the widows, the orphans (his Little Teresas), yet most of the money he does receive goes to fuel his expensive toy (747), to paying thousands of dollars in maintanence, storage, and so forth. Have you ever seen him with a Bible in his hands? Nope! Because if he ever did hold the Holy Bible his hand would burn!

Surely this K A Paul is egomaniac. I am ashamed to call him as an evangelist. Not a single quality of a christian is present in him and in his mission. What this man is doing is fully satanic.In fact Bible encourages its readers to pray for the authorities and rulers of the nations. May Lord Jesus Christ forgive him as he has created unnecessary confusion.

Good one for today !

Flatter me, and I may not believe you.
Criticize me, and I may not like you.
Ignore me, and I may not forgive you.
Encourage me, and I will not forget you.

The Relationships

That must be the basic responsibility of every alert being: Before I move in any relationship I must be unburdened. I should not carry a hangover; only then can I help the other to grow. Otherwise I will exploit, and the other will exploit me! Otherwise I will try to dominate and the other will try to dominate me. And it will not be a relationship, it cannot be love, it will be a subtle politics.

And we are so bothered about these things which are NOT. You are too bothered if you are ugly. You are too bothered if you are beautiful. The worry is created by something which is not. A relative thing is NOT. It is just a relationship, as if you have drawn a design in the sky, a flower of air. Even a bubble in water is more substantial than relativities. Who are you if you are alone? Nobody. Somebodiness comes in relationship with somebody.

But as you become more and more aware of MANY people, as you become related to many people, one thing becomes absolutely clear to you: that ALL men are alike -- almost alike -- so are all women. Then settling starts. Then you start settling with one woman, with one man, in a more intimate relationship.
Ah, This!
There are two types of relationship: one is of fight, fear, hatred -- this creates ego -- the other is of love, compassion, sympathy. These are the two types of relationship. Wherever love is, fight ceases, ego drops. This is why you cannot love. It is difficult, because to love means to drop the ego, to drop yourself. Love means not to be.

A Bird On The WingsBetween the friend and the enemy there is not much difference. With the friend your relationship is love-hate, and with the enemy, your relationship is hate-love. That's the only difference -- just the difference of emphasis. Love on top and hate hidden behind it -- it is friendship. Hate has come on top and love has gone behind it -- it is enmity.

Graham Ford is not the coach

This is really weird. We get two newspapers at home: one Telugu which is Eenadu and one English (The Hindu) and both said Graham Ford is the new coach of the Indian cricket team . And today I read Graham Ford declines offer to coach Team India. So did they publish the news without confirming with the team and the “coach” or the Indian Cricket management is so desperate to get a foreign coach that they are declaring him coach without his consent? Do they plan to kidnap him, considering the shady elements managing the team presently? It must be quite embarrassing for the BCCI.
But then, I personally think, after the way Bob Woolmer died under mysterious circumstances, and the way criminals and betters have started influencing cricket on the Indian sub-continent, any right thinking personal will thinking twice before taking up the assignment.

So who's the indian coach ??? still a thing to ponder

Thursday, June 7, 2007

LOVE IS NOT A RELATIONSHIP

Love relates, but it is not a relationship. A relationship is something finished. A relationship is a noun; the full stop has come, the honeymoon is over. Now there is no joy, no enthusiasm, now all is finished. You can carry it on, just to keep your promises. You can carry it on because it is comfortable, convenient, cozy. You can carry it on because there is nothing else to do. You can carry it on because if you disrupt it, it is going to create much trouble for you… Relationship means something complete, finished, closed.

Love is never a relationship; love is relating. It is always a river, flowing, unending. Love knows no full stop; the honeymoon begins but never ends. It is not like a novel that starts at a certain point and ends at a certain point. It is an ongoing phenomenon. Lovers end, love continues– it is a continuum. It is a verb, not a noun. And why do we reduce the beauty of relating to relationship? Why are we in such a hurry? Because to relate is insecure, and relationship is a security. Relationship has a certainty; relating is just a meeting of two strangers, maybe just an overnight stay and in the morning we say goodbye. Who knows what is going to happen tomorrow? And we are so afraid that we want to make it certain, we want to make it predictable. We would like tomorrow to be according to our ideas; we don't allow it freedom to have its own say. So we immediately reduce every verb to a noun.

You are in love with a woman or a man and immediately you start thinking of getting married. Make it a legal contract. Why? How does the law come into love? The law comes into love because love is not there. It is only a fantasy, and you know the fantasy will disappear. Before it disappears settle down, before it disappears do something so it becomes impossible to separate. In a better world, with more meditative people, with a little more enlightenment spread over the earth, people will love, love immensely, but their love will remain a relating not a relationship. And I am not saying that their love will be only momentary.

There is every possibility their love may go deeper than your love, may have a higher quality of intimacy, may have something more of poetry and more of godliness in it. And there is every possibility their love may last longer than your so-called relationship ever lasts. But it will not be guaranteed by the law, by the court, by the policeman. The guarantee will be inner. It will be a commitment from the heart, it will be a silent communion. If you enjoy being with somebody, you would like to enjoy it more and more. If you enjoy the intimacy, you would like to explore the intimacy more and more. And there are a few flowers of love which bloom only after long intimacies. There are seasonal flowers too; within six weeks they are there, in the sun, but within six weeks again they are gone forever. There are flowers that take years to come, and there are flowers that take many years to come. The longer it takes, the deeper it goes. But it has to be a commitment from one heart to another heart. It has not even to be verbalized, because to verbalize it is to profane it. It has to be a silent commitment; eye to eye, heart to heart, being to being. It has to be understood, not said.

Forget relationships and learn how to relate. Once you are in a relationship you start taking each other for granted– that's what destroys all love affairs. The woman thinks she knows the man, the man thinks he knows the woman. Nobody knows either! It is impossible to know the other, the other remains a mystery. And to take the other for granted is insulting, disrespectful. To think that you know your wife is very, very ungrateful. How can you know the woman? How can you know the man? They are processes, they are not things. The woman that you knew yesterday is not there today. So much water has gone down the Ganges; she is somebody else, totally different. Relate again, start again, don't take it for granted. And the man that you slept with last night, look at his face again in the morning. He is no more the same person, so much has changed. So much, incalculably much has changed. That is the difference between a thing and a person. The furniture in the room is the same, but the man and the woman, they are no more the same. Explore again, start again. That's what I mean by relating. Relating means you are always starting, you are continuously trying to become acquainted. Again and again, you are introducing yourself to each other. You are trying to see the many facets of the other's personality. You are trying to penetrate deeper and deeper into his realm of inner feelings, into the deep recesses of his being.

You are trying to unravel a mystery which cannot be unraveled. That is the joy of love: the exploration of consciousness. And if you relate, and don't reduce it to a relationship, then the other will become a mirror to you. Exploring him, unawares you will be exploring yourself too. Getting deeper into the other, knowing his feelings, his thoughts, his deeper stirrings, you will be knowing your own deeper stirrings too. Lovers become mirrors to each other, and then love becomes a meditation. Relationship is ugly, relating is beautiful. Hence I say relate. By saying relate, I mean remain continuously on a honeymoon. Go on searching and seeking each other, finding new ways of loving each other, finding new ways of being with each other. And each person is such an infinite mystery, inexhaustible, unfathomable, that it is not possible that you can ever say, "I have known her," or, "I have known him." At the most you can say, "I have tried my best, but the mystery remains a mystery." In fact the more you know, the more mysterious the other becomes. Then love is a constant adventure

Friday, June 1, 2007

Weekend Plans

The day that i love most...frrrrrrrrrrrriday ..Well Friday is the day that i love .. coz i get 2 days of vacation after that .

Now for the weekend plans. One of my favourite things to do over the weekend is to go to late night buffets and party with friends. They are simply fabulous. They start at around 8pm and end at midnight. Perfect for catching up with friends after a long week of work. You can sit there and chat for a long time in a nice comfortable atmosphere, with a constant supply of food and the drinks that you like most . Once the drinks are done ..comes in the dinner part .. i am usually a poor eater and just take what is enough for my stomach ..after that the part that i again love most " Desserts " ... i just love the Trifle pudding, Custards, Ice Creams, Caramels .....and many other things whose names i dont remember now . I simply love them at Green Park the place i think is the right one for all kinds of desserts.

Of course they are many other things in Hyderabad which i am probably not aware off . Any new Ideas that you know off and i can use please revert back..

Well lot of planning to do lot of things today .. will update on it once i am done ...CIAO

MY LOVE IS LIKE A RED ROSE

"The rose was awake all night for your sake, knowing your promise to me: the lilies and roses all aware, they sighed for the dawn and thee.''

Why did i start blogging :)

There is a huge talk in my office within my friends when they heard i started to blog . All of them asked me the same question since yesterday as to why i started to blog. So here’s why I blog:
I’m used to blogging: You don’t have to believe me, but I’ve been blogging since 2005, here and there, on and off. Irrespective of whether I publish posts regularly or not, not having a blog seems odd.
To share ideas: When you share ideas you think more about those ideas. By writing them and sharing them with the others you solidify your ideas. You also obtain others’ point of views on your ideas and this helps you expand your thinking.
To keep me up to date: Blogging forces me to read. Whether it is copywriting, content writing, blogging, social media, seo or even web development, I read to keep myself informed as well as get new ideas to write about. I constantly learn new things and improve the existing ones. For instance, I have learnt a lot about Apps DBA and other stuff related to my work by reading various blogs and by visiting forums.
To improve my writing: I take blogging seriously in terms of writing. My blog gives me enough space to write the way I want to write. My blog lets me express my feelings about what is happening around me through writing and I’m seeing a big change in the way I used two days earlier.
To earn money: Of course some day I’d like to earn money from my blog directly. I know considering the kind of effort I put in it is not going to happen for a long time, or may be it won’t happen ever because my priorities are different in life.
To make new friends: I have come to know quite a few people through blogging. There are so many great people around and blogs act as a meeting place.You go to other blogs and people come to your blog. By agreeing and disagreeing we all strike up conversations and this gives rise to great friendships which are always useful in the long run :)