Snail Story...

It was raining the other day in Manila, and I and my friends were having coffee near the stairs where we usually use to drink... As it was raining, somehow a snail has crawled along the steps. We were looking at it with much curiosity as how it had climbed all the way over there... After sometime we returned to the same stairs for another round of coffee and found that it had climbed just two steps from where we saw it before... I was just wondering, was the Snail very slow or is it that I'm taking frequent breaks... :)

Unhappy person... Am I??

Recent study have found out that We Indians are one of the Unhappiest persons in the world... Ranked at 125 in the world, we are just 50 places above the least happiest nation (Burundi)...

Happiness Index

Just a crude check on the per capita income and the happiness index, one could easily note that its all related to money... Making a generalization one can say, the more wealthier u are the more happy u are... But exceptions are surely there...

GDP Per Capita

Comparing with our neighbor, Bhutan which ranks high above... Not so wealthy, they haven't had democracy for long, or even TV , new fashion or the video games, but surely happy... Its just a shame we are ranked so low...

How to Be Happy

Yes... Population is a big factor... Comparing it at the miniscule level...by just looking at myself.... Am I happy...? There are many of my friends earning 5 digit numbers every month... Are they happy...? Unhappy about Work, about pay... Umpteen reasons for it... Is it time that we stop worrying and start enjoying???

MogaMul

The story of a guy gifted to become the great Karnatic singer, almost loses it after falling in love with a girl(Yamuna). Things get more complicated as the girl he is love is 10 years elder to him and also born to the Brahmin father and Marathi Mother (The illegitimate second wife).Or is it more a lust than love towards her...

The good thing about the story is that the antagonist is the society we live in. Not the Village head... or some rich village guy who is often the villain in many of these kind of movies... instead its how we as a society would look at them. Whether we would accept them as part of us without any second thought...??

Apart from that, the movie doesn’t offer much. The cast: Abhishek; Archana; Joglekh; Nedumudi Venu; Vivek, and directed by Ghana Rajasekaran doesn’t ring any bell. None of them are able to exert any influence on the character in what should have been an emotional ride. The emotions just don’t get across. Many a times you feel like watching a TV serial than a movie. The story was lagging during the initial stages with most the time spent on looking for a groom for Yamuna. The story is much suited for short movie than a full pledged movie. The love between Abhishek and Yamuna was also not conveyed properly and also why is he in love with her except in a scene where he says that he grew up more with her than his mother. But a more convincing answer is that it is more lust towards her than love... as she says so in the final dialogue...

Music by Ilayaraja, and sung by Jesudas and Janaki (whom I could recognize from their voices) are all purely Karnatic of which I know little about to review/ comment about it. But unlike Sindhu Bairavi... it didn’t appeal to casual listener and commoner like me...

My Name in this part of the World...

In the Filipino World... More often Siba than Siva... Dont know why its hard for them to pronononce the "V" in my name... :)