My foto which many liked... 

Prabu in front of my office 

prabu 

My dear...

The guileless smile,
The bursts of anger,
Instantaneous penitence,
Childish innocence...

Magnanimity of heart,
Patriotic fervor,
Reconciling spirit,
Ocean of friendship...

Time knows nothing of these...
Nor do we know when
The candle in the thunderstorm called life
Gets blown away by the winds or drenched by the rains...

As the candle gave way to Darkness,
I am blinded in total void...
And through the void, a tiny tear looks out,
To bid goodbye to a part of Me...

The story of 4 parrots...

Once upon a time, there were four parrots-Beauty, Riches, Power and Lazy were their names.
As their names stand, so they are in the their characters. They have their daily conversations in the afternoon in the banyan tree at the center of their town. The conversations invariably center on each of their desires and how they are targeting them.

As usual, it was a nice summer afternoon and the conversation just began...

Beauty: Hey people, noticed my beak...(with a proud twitch of the neck) I have applied a new shiner on it...and now, Beauty has the shiniest beak!!!

Riches and Power acknowledged that it was indeed splendid lest they should attract another round trumpet blowing from Beauty. It was their tact to acknowledge Beauty even if the reality was otherwise as Beauty feels offended if her beauty is not praised.

Riches: Folks, I think this is the last day I will be meeting you people. I have made all arrangements to move to the next province. Their province has given me the permissions to settle their and as an incentive, they have also given me a nest loaded with yummy cashew nuts.

Beauty,Power: Ahh...really!!!!That sounds great. Well, you were earning 3 cherries a day here for cleaning the termites...What are you going to earn there?

Riches: I am as caluclative as ever, folks. Wouldn't I thought about it? Well...I am goin to clean the termites there as well....but I am getting 3 cahsew nuts instead of cherries....yippeeeeee.....All of you should be knowing a cashew is worth 50 cherries...
(Riches' eyes were flashing cashew nuts...)

Power: (To Riches)Yeah...indeed
(To himself)Cashews are the only edibles available there...(smirking)"Poor Riches"...

Riches: What about you powers...are you still going to stay in this province eating these cheap berries, cherries and nuts? You have to go out to see places yaar...

Power: As you all know, I am planning to become the next ruler of our province. I have already imbibed enough information on the current politics. I have started preparing my manifesto for the upcoming elections. Do you people know...the strongest propaganda from my side will be to give free nuts to every parrot in this province so that all their hunger is satiated in the most nutritious way.

Beauty: Ahh....that's a really great proposal...

Riches: Indeed, that would satisfy the common masses...But for the intellectuals and high-born like me, the next province promises more...

As they were talking they hear a flutter...Lazy, who had slept after the mid-day meal, had, as usual, come late to the meeting and was beginning to settle when, all of a sudden, a huge maze of twains fell on them....

"ahhhhhhh..............ohhhhhhhhhhhh.....scrrrreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeechhhh...
crrrrrrrrrrr..scrrrrrreeeeeee.........
oh god........................helppppppppppppppppppppp..........."

"A good catch for the day", the bird catcher said to his wife!

Presently,

Beauty hardly ever makes her up nor does she boast any more of her beauty. She was staring at the only person in the house, her master, a blind old rich man...

Power is speaking the same words repeatedly every day..."Hey folks, welcome to the Bingo Circus!!!!!" to earn his single 'nut'.

Riches is longingly looking at the plate of the bird catcher if he could get another crumb of bread.
(The bird catcher's son wanted one!)

And Lazy, who escaped the net of the bird catcher, is here, narrating the story of 4 parrots to the whole world!

Black...

Well, one reallllllly gud movie from bollywood at last.

After repeated endeavours to get a ticket to the movie 'Black', I was indeed fortunate to get it last weekend. I was a bit apprehensive in the beginning as I had got a lot of hype about the movie. I am always afraid of hype as many a times many good films ended up with me as an anti-climax. but 'Black' was an exception. Inspite of the N number of rave reviews and endless accolades showered by my friends, it did live upto the expectations, or rather, surpassed them all!!!!!!

Rarely do I get emotional. Particularly, when it comes to movies, it is pretty rare and I can count such instances witht he fingers on my one hand (there are only two as far as I can remember-Pasamalar(shivaji) and 'vedham pudhidhu'). But there are two stark differences between 'black' and other movies that exercised my lachrymal glands. In the other movies, tears rolled down towards the climax and because of an extremely miserable state of affairs. But to the contrary, whenever Rani Mukherjee triumphed against all odds in her life, tears of joy were pouring down.

Amitabh and Rani have given their career best in this movie. The technical aspects of the movie were impeccable. Kudos to the entire team with a special mention about Sanjay Leela Bhansali as it would be a sin if I didnt mention the name of the creator of this wonderful movie. Though Anto claims that SLB had done a blatant plagiarism by remaking 'The Miracle Worker" and not revealing it to the public, I am still happy that this plagiarism has helped us all to know that such a brilliant teacher did exist "Anne sullivan"!!!Helen Keller being the student goes without a saying...

There was one message which I really liked in the movie....Living a life to lead others live a life!!!!!

BLACK: An eye opener in many ways.