Campaign against Diwali

Off late, I am seeing lots of campaign against celebrating Diwali where we use crackers or fireworks. This is propogated among the so called "intellectuals" whose brain gets drained reading lots of stuff.

Here are some simple arguments why this fireworks MUST continue on Diwali day.

1. As a child I had enjoyed it. It is fun. It gave me so much happiness. That's enough. Even today I relish it. This is needed for my life and existence in this world. Hence I will celebrate with fireworks.

2. It is for 1 day out of 365 days. Why can't I enjoy this day?

The arguments against are
1. Pollution: Please calculate the pollution of all the cars emitting CO2 on all the days. Is it much less than the pollution generated by firecrakers on Diwali?
2. Accidents: Tell me how many people have died due to accidents when compared to accidents on Diwali day.
3. Child labour: Ask the government to handle it.
4. Disease: Please compare with automobile pollution.

If you are so worried about pollution stop fireworks during IPL, during new year celebrations etc.

So please do not fall prey for some idiotic guys who cannot see others be happy say all this nonsense.

Enjoy your Diwali.

Thandavam - Illogical Irritating Film

My first hand experience with Thandavam: If you want to watch an idiotic script with illogical events do not miss this film. It is so funny.

This is another film where the director wakes up every day in the morning, reads a part of the news paper and introduces that idea in the movie. If  the above is not true how else do you expect the audience to understand the following items.

a) What was Nasser a British police officer doing outside the factory shop while  the hero and the villain were fighting and killing each other. (influence of   the news that the world  addicted to angry birds)

b) Nasser talking about Pancha Boothas after the climax (influence of the news  on reading about pancha boothas or watching Matrix)

c) British police more powerful than MI5 (influence of hearing words like  RAW, MI5, FBI etc).

d) Hero loving the ant (influence of Naan EE movie)

e) 3 heroines absolutely doing nothing, not even romancing the hero (influence  of dinamalar sunday edition center page, where it gives information on  actresses without movie chances).

f) Hero escaping the police while stealing the USB drive from a courier center  and then plunging into water AND escaping (influence of James Bond movies). Also if I remember correctly he steals in the night but falls with this car in the morning. Correct me if I am wrong. With so many comedy scenes, I could not remember.

Also it looks like the director had issues with "Call Sheet" of the artists because artists appear for certain scenes and then disappear after ten minutes. So on the days where some actors do not land up the director gets the story going with only the people present.

Finally I do not know why the director is so against Sri lankan Tamils. They have already been beaten to death by our Tamil nadu politicians and now film industry is also killing them. What else do you make out of Nasser who always plays video games, but talks very smartly and during climax only plays video games). Is this not an insult to our beloved Srilankan Tamils? Of course this could be the influence of the SL President visit to India.

Luckily the director has the habit of listening to some melody songs and hence the music is at least bearable in this movie.

Finally pity Vikram. I think he looks old after acting in such a movie. Talent of a nice actor wasted on a pitiable story line. I still have no idea why there were actresses in this movie, just giving them 33% reservation does not mean much for the movie.

On the whole, better buy the songs DVD and listen to it. Do not waste your time going to the theatre.

PS: I enjoyed the comments of some young guys in front of my seat which made this movie thoroughly enjoyable. Otherwise I would been out much before the interval.