Tollywood , the telugu cinema as it is called, the film industry which makes highest number of movies in Indian cinema circle .

This post is for non-telugu movie watchers who want to watch some Telugu movies. This is a guide to what movies can be watched as a beginner to Telugu cinema. The criteria for selection are 1) good and interesting story line and not the routine ones  2) Made in recent years  in telugu 3) Not been remaked in Hindi or vice versa  4) Not having extras (:P)  5) Appealing to urban audiences.

These are the movies which I have in mind presently.Pls add anything u want to add in the list.

1)      Arya  – this movie stars Allu arjun and is a completely exciting story line where he puts interesting arguments about love. Watch it to know more.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arya_(2004_film)

2)      Arya 2- This movie is a sequel in namesake and is a exciting storyline where he presents interesting arguments about friendship and love.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arya_2

3)      Manmadhudu(English:Cupid)  – This movie stars Nagarjuna and the main theme is the hero doesn’t like women. Why, how and when he changed and how will he change his opinion again  is the story. Sonali bindre is the heroine.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manmadhudu

4)      Athadu (English: He) – This movie stars Mahesh babu and Trisha. Excellent cinematography, screenplay, dialogues, songs and overall a super story. The hero, after being framed in a political murder goes to a village impersonating other guy. How the actual killer is found and other interlinking stories forms part of the movie. Remaked in Hindi as Ek by Bobby doel but nobody has even heard of such a film . Also the worst remake movie I have seen.So better watch in Telugu.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athadu

5)      Okkadu(English: One man)  –  This movie stars Mahesh babu and Bhoomika . The story is about how a normal guy gets into factionists way and fights them  to save a girl. Some scenes are superb especially how the hero saves heroine from hundreds of Factionists.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okkadu

6)      Tagore – Tagore (Chiranjeevi) creates his own vigilante military network called the Anti-Corruption Force (ACF) that eliminates the most corrupt individuals, from all walks of life, in a systematic manner. How a normal constable finds this is the rest of the story and how tagore argues his case in courts is a must watch. This movie has paved political ambitions of Chiranjeevi in Andhra Pradesh.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagore_(film)

7)      Leader – This movie is a debut for Rana  . How a corrupt chief minster looses his life and throne is taken by his son, and the son tries to eradicate the corruption in the state.  Superb screenplay and story.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leader_(2010_film)

8)      Nenu Meeku Telusa…? (Do I know you)  –  This movie has not been a commercial hit but I found the story too interesting . Aditya (Manoj Manchu) suffers from recurring amnesia, which is the result of an accident in which he loses his father. His memories each day are wiped out by sleep at the end of that day. How two ladies enter his life and what happens next is the story. Screenplay might be a little bleak but worth a watch. Riya sen and Sneha Ullal are heroines.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nenu_Meeku_Telusa

9)      Gamyam- This movie was a official entry to Oscars from India in 2008. Loosely based on Motorcycle dairies , story is of a rich guy who in search of his girl takes help of a local thief and experiences different things of life.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamyam

10)   Happy Days- Happy Days follows the life of male and female college students as they experience love, friendship, and responsibility. The film is set in a typical engineering college in Hyderabad, and revolves around the individual and collective stories of four men and women.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Days_(2007_film)

The below list are the other films which almost made the list and can be tried after the above ten.

Aithe(English :So) – excellent screenplay, thriller with a hijack story turning unexpected http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aithe

Prasthanam(English: The Rise and Fall of a Person)- A politicians rise and fall and relationship with his sons. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prasthanam

Ye maaya chesaave (English: What have you done girl) – A beautiful love story http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ye_Maaya_Chesave

Dhee- Story of a guy who works with a don and how he saves the don’s sister from rival and falls in love. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhee

Nuvvostanante Nenoddantana (English: If You want to come, Will I Say No) – Story of a NRI who falls in love with a village girl and becomes a farmer to win a challenge by his brother-in-law and his love. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuvvostanante_Nenoddantana

Bommarillu(English: Dollhouse)- The film primarily revolves around the relationship between a father and son, in which the father’s excessive concern for his son, and interference in his life, has led to the latter feeling some bitterness towards his overbearing father. The son’s choices and his desire to achieve something in life are continually overruled by the decisions forced on him by his father.Starring Siddharth and Genelia , the movie is rated as the best screenplay of recent times in telugu cinema. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bommarillu_(2006_film)

Aditya 369- A sci-fi film of 1991 made by Singeetam srinivasarao, maker of Pushpak. How a scientist and his daughter , hero(son-in-law)  travel in a time machine to various eras ( 1500 AD and 2200 AD)  and find the where abouts of a diamond. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aditya_369

Magadheera- The film is about a warrior who protects the princess of his kingdom, only to be killed, and born again 400 years later to take his revenge on his enemy. The plot is based on reincarnation. This movie is the highest grosser in telugu cinema till now. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magadheera

Vedam – The entire movie revolves around 5 principal characters. Cable Raju Allu Arjun is a cable operator from the lower strata of society; Vivek Chakravarthy Manoj Manchu is an upcoming rock star and Saroja Anushka is a sex worker. Manoj Bajpai plays the fourth character of Raheemuddin Qureshi. Nagayya plays the role of a debt-ridden poor weaver who is desperate to get his grandson educated. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vedam_(film)

This is just my attempt to make a list of good movies in Telugu which are non-conventional and stand aside to other Indian Cinema.

Related posts: http://vams.wordpress.com/2008/07/08/25-must-watch-telugu-movies/

This can easily summarise what the six member committee on Telangana wants to say. This is not a final mandate on Telangana nor brought out some new facts and analysis.

It would be an official proof for all the claims and arguments the both side leaders are propogating.It is the whole database for the central govt and state govt to actually find the loopholes of the administrative activities in the telangana region.

Here are the some interesting points I have found in the report.

Note:These are only the interesting points i found and not the summary.

1)      “The States Reorganization Commission, accordingly, unanimously adopted the principle of linguistic homogeneity as the basis to recommend the reorganization of states.” .

2)      Though this is not related but gives a insight about political atmosphere in AP. “Incidentally, in the post emergency Lok Sabha elections (1977),although the Congress Party led by Smt. Indira Gandhi lost in almost all the northIndian states, in Andhra Pradesh, it won 41 out of 42 Lok Sabha seats” .

3)      “Dr. M. Chenna Reddy, earlier a well known protagonist of separate Telangana, became the Chief Minister on March 6, 1978, and reportedly announced that “separate Telangana is no longer an issue”.

4)      “The enduring leadership in the form of N.T. Rama Rao and N. Chandrababu Naidu of Telugu Desam Party and of Dr. Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy of the Congress Party for long periods, aided by a strong political machinery for governance while at the same time continuing to champion the cause of Telugu unity, helped in keeping the demand for a separate Telangana dormant or at best in a subdued state”

5)       “In the Congress election manifesto for 2004 elections, it was stated that “the Congress Party recognizes the growing emotions and aspirations of the people in the Telangana region”. It was further added in the manifesto that „while respecting the report of the States‟Reorganization Commission, the Congress Party notes that there are many valid reasons for formation of separate states in Vidarbha and Telangana. However the reorganization of existing States raises a large number of issues.The Congress Party feels that the whole matter could be best addressed byanother States‟ Reorganization Commission to look into all the issues involved”.

6)      “It may be relevant to mention here that unlike the National Common Minimum Programme (NCMP) of UPA-1, the NCMP of UPA-2 did not make any mention of the Telangana issue”

7) “One of the major arguments for a separate state of Telangana has been that since the formation of the state of AP, this region has been neglected and even discriminated against, resulting in economic and social hardship.” “Yet, when a study of rate of change,growth rate and shares in the state economy is evaluated, nothing unusual emerges.”

8)      “The relatively deprived region of AP is Rayalaseema”

9)      Page 191 – TRS and other groups gave wrong data to committee on university grants .

10)   “While the progress of literacy and access to schooling is satisfactory in Telangana, there are some differences in allocation of funds and location of institutions that need to be rectified”

11)   “There is a strong case, therefore, to allocate more funds to Telangana colleges”

12)   “The frustration of the youth when their expectations are not met is exploited by politicians who claim that their inability to get a job commensurate with their degree is due to discrimination against Telangana people thus causing interregional and inter-community disaffection.”

13)   “The data about incumbency of Ministers in charge of major and medium irrigation, and data about Engineers in Chief, as available from the Government of Andhra Pradesh, was also seen. The Ministers for Major Irrigation were mostly from Telangana (55%). The Engineers-in-Chief were mostly from coastal Andhra (56%) but those from Telangana were also incumbent for a considerable period (43%). This does not indicate that those in charge of this sector were mostly from outside Telangana”.

14)   “Catchment area cannot be the only criterion. “

15)   “on polavaram – part of the share of Andhra  Pradesh could come to Telangana also. Thus Telangana, while losing some land, would also benefit from the project. A demand for stopping the project at this stage appears misconceived.”

16)   “The agricultural power consumption in Telangana is much more as compared to coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema “

17)   “That demand for “regional reservation” for Group A  and B posts in administration carries serious national implications and was not found to be feasible “

18)   “Thus an analysis of MPs elected in the 2009 election shows that compared to 92% of Seema-Andhra MPS, only 35% of those from Telangana had a political or business family background. Among the MLAs elected during the same election, while 63% of the Seema- Andhra winners had a political family background, only 20% of those from the Telangana region had such a background. “

19)   “The Committee did not find any real evidence of any major neglect by the state government in matters of overall economic development “

20)   “The grievances of the people of Telangana, such as non-implementation of some of the key decisions included in the Gentleman‟s Agreement (1956), certain amount of neglect in implementation of water and irrigation schemes, inadequate provision for education infrastructure (excluding Hyderabad), and the undue delay in the implementation of the Presidential order on public employment etc., have contributed to the felt psyche of discrimination and domination, with the issue attaining an emotional pitch. The continuing demand, therefore, for a separate Telangana, the Committee felt, has some merit and is not entirely unjustified.”

21)   “The view of the Committee is that since a new governance model giving powers to a Regional Council within the state is to be legally established, a suitable provision to that effect may be necessary to be incorporated in Part XXI (Article 371) of the Constitution”

22)   “The united Andhra option is being suggested for continuing the development momentum of the three regions and keeping in mind the national perspective. “

23)   “Separation is recommended only in case it is unavoidable and if this decision can be reached amicably amongst all the three regions. “

24)   “The other combination of regions – coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema together can also sustain themselves as a state; in fact they can also sustain themselves separately.”

25)   Hyderabad‟s historical distinctiveness has always been well known. As a city, it is, as Nehru said of India, “an ancient palimpsest on which layer upon layer of thought and reverie had been inscribed, and yet no succeeding layer had completely hidden or erased what had been written previously”

Disclaimer: All these points are directly copy pasted from the original report given to Ministry of home Affairs, GOI. The author does not hold any responsibility for any of the 25 statements.

“We are a funny nation. Elections were held in Bihar, we expected Karnataka CM to get down and by the end of day AP got a new CM.”

Are you one of them, who like one of my colleagues, was surprised how a CM can resign without any reason. ?  Don’t be so surprised. I replied my pal “Its AP politics dude. AP politicians don’t know why they resign and when they resign. Infact there is a party which does nothing but resignations for survival and even nick named R for resignations in its name.”

Resignations of CM are an age old ritual of Regional Congress in Andhra Pradesh right from the formation of state. Guess the number of Congress CMs who had a full five year term in Andhra Pradesh in this long 40 years of Congress rule in the state. Its a meager 3.Yes, that’s right. THREE.  Technically only fifteen years were ruled properly.

It all began when Indira Gandhi, the first madam was ruling the nation. Someone got on a plane to Delhi and did bhajan for some days and returned as a new CM for the state. We had 4 CMs from Congress for the period 1978-1983. (This irritated the then movie star NTR and he started a party with the sole campaign topic of “Self Respect” for Telugus. And he was the next CM within 9 months of party launch). This was followed by 3 Congress CMs for the period 89-94.

I am not sure if other state politics are so interesting, but I bet someone can actually make a epic movie about politics of Andhra Pradesh.

The main regional party of AP, the TDP (Telugu Desam party) came to power within nine months of its formation. All the candidates stood as independents as the party was not a recognized by then and won 212 seats out of 294. It was the main opposition party in parliament for the period 84-89 in Parliament, read it again, the Parliament. After the death of Indira Gandhi , whole country was on congress sympathetic wave, but not Andhra Pradesh. Rajiv Gandhi won 404 of 543 seats and in AP, congress could get 6 out of 42. Since 1991, the party which ruled AP was also in power in centre or was a part of central coalition. It faced two major coups; one when the CM from the party, NTR went for a surgery in US was backstabbed by his deputy and formed a government unconstitutionally with the aegis of Central government and Governor. It again faced a coup by the founder’s son-in-law due to the reasons which are controversial till now and a black spot on the present president, also known as modern chanakya. He forms alliances in most unexpected combinations and recently did campaigning in the recent by polls by doing a dharna in Maharashtra.

The other regional party or technically a sub-regional party was formed when the founder was denied a ministry in the state government as legend says. The party elected representatives have resigned more than the times that the number of representatives presently. The president of that party leads the tally with 3 times getting elected to parliament in his 7 year MP career.

The newly formed party PRP founded by the megastar of Telugu Film industry could garner a decent amount of 20 % votes even though it couldn’t make a reasonable tally . And I personally believe the only party which understood the Telangana issue correctly by supporting a social Telangana cause.

The LOKSATTA party which was formed by a former IAS officer Sri Jaya Prakash Narayana, after being an NGO for ten years, is a non-political political party; it aims to start a second freedom struggle against corruption and began its long journey of thousand miles with one mile. It secured one seat in the last elections. The Loksatta NGO previously contributed significantly to the formulation of administrative and political reforms. Hope it succeeds as soon as possible.

PS: Everytime the congress changed CMs as per its wish, it lost the power in the state.

Giving justice to all those facts flouting on internet, Thalaiva released his film on the starting day of the month or as the legend says later , the month started only when Rajini decided to release his movie. Be it people thronging theatres at 4AM for early morning shows or all the theatres in Chennai screening only Endhiran/Robo/Robot  on that weekend or bringing down the Corporate bulletin board servers with analysis and discussions, it was only possible to SuperStar. The Euphoria was magnanimous. The exciting was unmatchable.  It was the Indian cinema’s answer to Terminator+ transformers+Matrix+Hulk  to the power of  Spielberg’s A.I. With an unprecedented making price and on-par Hollywood animatronics, its definitely the magnam opus of both Shankar and Rajini. Whatever Rajini can’t do in as a human being hero, did them by becoming the Chitti,the robot. Aishwarya supplemented whatever the audience need.

Rajini is more than familiar to Telugu audience and rose to stardom in Tollywood with Basha. Similar to what he says in that film, his one film was enough for him to gain stardom of hundred films in Tollywood. Followed by superhits like  Arunachalam,Dalapati,muttu  and Narasimha paved his Rahadari for box office collections in Andhra Pradesh. Chandramikhi and Shivaji made him the prime star of Tollywood.  So, when a Rajini movie is released, it’s also a festival for Telugu audience.

Robo showed Rajini on unbelievable scale with both protagonist and antagonist. Right from Chandramukhi and Shivaji, it was the second character of Rajini which entertained the most. Same case was here, where the second half was entirely Rajini mania on screen on various shapes and sizes. My only regret is that I was not able to see it in 3D and film could have come in 2 parts. If only it was, imagine the euphoria for Robo-2  3D !!     Priceless.!!

Next came the bumper combination with the most prolific screen writer and most handsome actor of Tollywood , Trvikram Mahesh Khaleja. Even though the film raked a slight negative talk in beginning, it plunged back like the regular trivikram movies. It was much of a one-man show of Mahesh babu with his best acting role till now. New style of dialogue delivery, new style of his dances, new style of dressing, it was pretty much his movie than Trivikram’s.  Even the comedy part was taken care by him with ‘Comedy cheste nene cheyyalroyi ‘ . The portrayal of heroine as less intelligent like earlier Trivikram movies  didn’t work quite well  for the director as the heroine has done some powerful characters earlier.

The story was great. Screenplay was bleak. Dialogues were directionless.If only sada siva song came at more appropriate timing, if only Kota Srinivas rao had a bigger role, If only Brahmanandam was given a better comic role in addition to  Abhayahastam scene,If only songs didn’t start abruptly,if only had a better climax movie would have been very much big bumper hit.

So, when the class hero Mahesh babu tried with to do a mass character, the Mass movie king, Jr.NTR came with a class character in Brindavanam .  The movie was a routine comedy-sentiment-family audience oriented with a slightly different story. As it doesn’t have any negative points, it is being dubbed as safe bet with cine goers and raking collections at box office.Gracious Samantha,Kewl kajal and Bommarillu fatherBbrahmi are enough for the movie to have good feel.

The month also has seen a comeback for RGV to Telugu audience with Rakta charitra. Even though the facts have been slightly deviated to make screenplay streamline, it was a rare showcase of violence in so much grandeur. With such a gripping screenplay, it showcased why RGV is still admired in film circles. The part 2 to be released on Nov 26 has to reach very high expectations now.

This November is also a litmus test for the second tier of scions of Tollywood megas.Kalyan ram Katthi and Orange are releasing this month. Followed by Nagarjuna’s two films in December and Venkatesh’s Chandra mukhi -2 are on the way.So, loads of entertainment on the way.

Long live Tollywood.!!

The Tricolor Indian flag

At an age of 63 in a man’s life ,perhaps he would have accomplished all his worldly desires n become stable in all respects and enjoy his prosperity grow beyond his imaginative limits and his younger generation of his off springs taking over his efforts. But INDIA celebrating its 64th Independence Day this year is still in deep troubles as a troubled teenager trying to make his life. Even as the GDP is growing at a rate of double digits and foreign reserves at an all time high and many figures and indices showing its prosperity, India still lacks a lot to become what it aspired to be in this global world.  . Can we imagine ourselves as a militarily invincible, economically unrivalled, diplomatically uncontestable and a dominating force on information channels worldwide? Or putting it in a simple way” Will INDIA be a superpower?” At this point this is the one of the biggest possible question to debate about. These are the some of the issues which cross my thoughts which may hinder us in becoming what we want. I call them the TRICOLOR factors!!!

Almost 3 years back, I have written a blog post titled “TRICOLOR factors. Will India become what it wants to be “. And here is the sequel and addition for the same. Please read the previous one , if u have not read it before.

‘T’ elangana and its aftermath

I fear to imagine how Andhra Pradesh would be celebrating the next New Year eve. If it goes as planned, the Sri Krishna Commission will finalize it report and submit it to Home ministry by then. I don’t need to predict as a astrologer that the incidents before and after dec 9, 2009 will repeat again. The major parties in the state are still not clear about their position and the whole state is divided on this issue.
I believe Telangana is a social issue and dealing it politically is not correct. Honestly, I couldn’t find a genuine, unique, rational reason for the region to be separated from the state in this country. Backwardness is not a reason when almost every state has a backward region. Looting of resources as some claim the reason to be doesn’t make sense when a region has 40% MLAs in state.Whatever, I hope the commission will look into all aspects and will give proper recommendations. And I hope they find a marker to divide the states in near future (like the language marker as states reorganized previously).

This is not what I am worried of. People (or should I say politicians) will again come on to streets for a year or so and everything will go back to normalcy. But what after a new state is formed in India where the process of formation was triggered by Violence and hunger strike [A fake one rather ] . [Some might argue that the same happened for formation of Andhra Pradesh, but it was Central government at that time delaying the already taken decision of reorganization of states on the basis of Language]. Leave aside the future of Telangana; the situation in country would be worse. All the new states aspirants will begin violent protests and I can’t imagine to what far they might go. Will the centre go on constituting the committees for every new state issue? Will we become a 50 State country?

‘R’ iver bank politics

The recent Babli invasion by TDP  has revisited the same old story what repeats frequently between Karnataka-Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh- Karnataka, India – China, India-Bangladesh and India –Pakistan.[Thankfully, we don’t blame Nepal for kosi floods ] . All the upper regions of the river basin want to support their population and there is no wrong in doing that. But at the behest of the people in the lower region is certainly non-ethical and unconstitutional. We don’t have a Supreme river water resource management committee in the country and still depend of Supreme Court verdict which it alters every now and then.

‘I’ nfrastructure

Ask every industrialist, about the bad thing about Indian economy is and it’s certain that Infrastructure would be his reply. We are improving a lot, but not at the rate our GDP nor at the rate of our population growth. Infrastructure may include traffic situation in Cities to Tractor roads in Villages, Unloading in ports to underground railways, busy railway routes to bizzli-less Villages. Iam talking about neither making Broadband a fundamental right nor bullet trains between important cities, but the common necessities of People such as Education, Health care and electricity.

‘C’ orruption and Critics

Nobody teaches this but everybody knows how to give a bribe and how to take bribe. Even a kinder garden child tells how to get your driving license in 3 hours or how to travel on a non-confirmed ticket. The corruption allegations on Ruling parties and Opposition parties are regular column news in newspapers as the obituaries. Some rent a Treadmill at 10 Lakhs and buy a toilet roll at the price of a treadmill. And I don’t need to stress the fact that if we shun corruption, we would be number one in the world.
Then we have the critics who simply criticize the state of affairs, don’t vote, pays bribes but not taxes, don’t follow rules and brag as this is the worst place to live. These armchair critics are the biggest nuisance for India.

‘O’ rder Order

A phenomenon which is disturbing me recently is the frequent interference of Judiciary in functioning of governments. Of course, it gives a temporary solace to make things work, but it hampers the whole idea of democracy and constitution in first place and defeats the whole purpose of Judicial System. One Public Interest Litigation is enough to stall a project worth thousands of crores because somebody feels that government is being unfair. Unless the executionary wing of democracy becomes chaste, we depend on judiciary for these momentary impulses and thank god, we still respect and fear judiciary.

‘L’ ine of Control

I don’t know why the name is given as Line of Control when we are unable to control either side. The Kashmiri’s should be taken proper care at least considering their prospects of Olympic medals in Javelin and Shot-put. Has the new Chief Minister turned from Hero to Nero or  don’t wehave spine to eliminate the anti-national forces in the valley from last two decades? I dont think this problem will be solved in next 50 years.

‘O’ ur own Red Horror

When we have the terrorists bombing our hotels and palaces in cities, there are some other people who are taking care of electricity towers and school buildings in Villages. Some intellectuals argue it as a social problem which it is, but they hamper the every step to reduce the horror,which  now spread to one-third districts in India. We sacrifice our trained armed forces to this horror as a routine saga yet we don’t find a unanimous decision at the top to take down this problem.

‘U’ nderstanding Nature

We, in this country don’t care about the Nature and surroundings. We throw all sorts of garbage at any random place. We make no concern or a little hullah bullah about a oilspill which happened on our premises damaging 100 of kms of shores, but are keen on how a British company spoiled shores of America. We don’t care about the Countless tribes living with the nature. We don’t care about the water resources. We don’t care about the mineral resources. We basically don’t understand what nature has given us and know how to use them judiciously.

‘R’ eligionism and Regionalism

I don’t need to specify where we are going wrong on these aspects. We fight over the invisible god with the living people. We fight over the territory which neither of us will be able to rule forever. We fight with other nations, other states, other districts and other villages. We fight with other religions, fight with other castes and fight with other sub-castes.

Are we still INDEPENDENT or In Dependent? Are we having the real Freedom? Many questions like this. 

PS: Happy Independence Day. Jai Hind.

Tweet

This is the start of my routine days here at the gigantic campus of Infy Mysore which proudly proclaims itself as the largest corporate university in the world. After getting into the professional attire and mood, the journey begins to reach the giant coliseum-cum-pantheon like structure which is the place of our training of college style lectures and assignments. We then park our intra-campus transport, the bicycle, near a structure which we called a globe in our novice days of this campus life. The golf-ball shaped multiplex (epcot like one ) , which premiers the latest release, is the heart of Infy Mysore in the geographical as well as psychological context. An evening siesta on a relaxing chair, one of many that surround the swimming pool in the Employee care centre beside the globe structure gives you the illusion of being in a penthouse. An aerial view of the buildings highlights the key word “Infosys“. Everything here bears the pride in the peculiarity of it.

The sessions go on with many folks listening like a school student and others like me doing sound-less snoring or pass time browsing the internal blogs and corporate bulletin board here.

Coming back in the evening, the well-furnished and AC rooms with rest-room of Parry-ware kill the desire to go out. The housekeepers give no room to express the bachelor in you who wants to retain the untidiness of your room. LCD televisions (the main source of internal entertainment as personal laptops are not allowed), an intercom that unites the campus and cycles make life more than comfortable. The food courts decrease the senses of one’s taste buds and many a times domino’s pizza becomes the savior. Sometimes my days end with trying a stroke at Tennis and some strokes in the water pool.

But who says “Happiness comes with no condition”. If on day1 they offer you all these heavenly facilities then on day2 they you are faced with a hectic but manageable schedule along with a huge list of do’s and don’ts. The crew of this professional cruise seeks the pursuit of excellence in all their brat-turned-disciplined sailors; what with dire disciplinary and academic concerns to the Anti-Sexual Harassment Initiative (ASHI) where any sort of eve-teasing or even an unwanted hand-shake is out of question. If the charming and utterly beautiful girls here won’t let you live, then daily assignments and perceptions (tests) won’t let you die.

PS: Hoping to complete this training life and warm the corporate benches as soon as possible

Some pics: http://picasaweb.google.co.in/vamsikris21/INFY#

There are lotta advantages of elections ..Read the newspapers and blogs and u get some exciting tolly and bolly stories.. Expect the unexpected. Also it’s the very probable chance where u can see ur fav reel actors in real when they hit road and do some roadshows .. .. Also u suddenly get uninterrupted electricity and water supply and bureaucrats become polite at the time of elections ..n many more to count.

Taking a glimpse at current scenario.. We have two major parties where, one has strong principles but not strong people…. They need to maintain the long history and heritage .They still go on the name of the famous families whose belongings we have to buy out in foreign auctions. Other has strong people and not strong principles or rather I say based on absurd principles ..whenever they want something , they take the name of god to rescue them and become like a temple building organization…n then we have other front which says we neither build temples nor we allow scions to rule the country…. Nobody is sure who is gonna win.. everybody are confident of their strategies and strategic alliances..
Here I wanna mention some people in the state level who r really changing the rules of the game.. CBN.. Chandra Babu Naidu..ultimate tactics .. mixing poltics , economics, society needs and people pulse . He gave the campaigning responsibility to the charismatic family of NTR with the Balakrishna and Jr NTR countering the recent entrant , Megastar Chiranjeevi. He is bringing out the others-think-impossible and legendary manifestos. The money transfer scheme to the poor was a breathtaking one .Many may ask , how it is possible … my answer would be “ he was a Gold medalist and a PhD student in Economics and his son is a MBA grad from Stanford…. It was implemented in Brazil and other parts and is regarded as highly successful poverty eradicating scheme”. I never knew giving Color TVs to poor had so many advantages. The tactics being played by him are top class and zero-fault finding .. awesome.. the waves he is creating in the TV channel and newspapers is tremendous.Even if he wins or not , which I wish he must win, he would be remembered as the best player in this tournament.
The other one I admire is a 1980 IAS batch topper .. JP.. LokSatta’s Jayaprakash Narayan.. a bureaucrat turned politician , trying his best to clean this politics..I hope he gets his credits for his work and hope to see him very high someday.
Watever it is, it’s a nice timepass to see how they play the game and who ends up sitting in the throne.

My verdict: Congress needs to take the support of third front to form the govt in centre(Considering the blows that Cong and BJP getting these days from their allies, they both might not get a clear majority). In the AP state, it would be The Grand Alliance may be with the help of PRP.
PS: One may ask, how come two different results here. But AP has the history of showing completely unrelated attitude in the state and centre politics. When Rajiv Gandhi won almost all the lok sabha , he couldn’t get decent enough numbers from AP and when the non-congress VP singh was the PM , congress swept almost all seats in AP.

PS: No offences.

I guess watching Ghajini in Hindi was not a film feast for a viewer who has already done it in telugu or tamil. But Amir was at his best at some places, especially while acting like a 15-minute guy. For me the film looked like watching a dubbing film. Asin would have done with ease as the movie has same dialogues just translated from the southie version.Jiah Khan did her justice to the role whereas Nayantara was not received well in the murugudoss previous attempt.I don understand y even the dialgoues were same . The camera angles were also same.The story was told to be same but not to this extent.They must have changed some scenes and added more flavor. The climax was made smooth and simple which made a mess in the previous version. The Villain adorned a double role which made the telugu/tamil version climax, the worst part of the film. Coming to the music charts, the scores are to be equal for the guru-disciple duo,Rehman and Harris Jayraj.

There are many points I appreciate and they certainly needs to be kudos qualified ones. The lyrics by prasoon joshi were an highlight and top class. If it have would been the Amir in QSQT or some 90’s movie , it would have been a great spectacle to watch the flashback romance on the screen. Surya was perfect in that role. Also the name GHAJINI was justified in the hindi version, whereas we donno y the name came up in the actual one.The song picturisation was perfect and u cant expect something better than this. The Hindi version scored well in the areas of stunts and climax. Stunts were excellently done and a new version of Amir can be seen. The heroine introduction song and the name of film to be named after villain are certainly plus points to go well with bolly audiences.

Anyways it was a very good movie in the recent days and also a great movie to watch if u have not seen it in other language.  The same was the case of many remakes .

Posted in Blogroll, movies ]]> http://vams.wordpress.com/2008/12/28/remembering-ghajini/feed/ 0 vamsikris ghajini1 http://vams.wordpress.com/2008/12/03/the-mumbai-massacre/ http://vams.wordpress.com/2008/12/03/the-mumbai-massacre/#comments Wed, 03 Dec 2008 13:44:27 +0000 vamsi krishna tellakula http://vams.wordpress.com/?p=72 ]]>

“They should undergo training for five to six months. There they should sprint 100 meters in 12 seconds.. should jog 10 km with just an half hr break.. they should march continuously for five hours carrying things weighing at least 20 kgs.. should be able to stay awake for five days in a row and not lose concentration and should be able to go without food for two days” [Source] .

Iam not talking of some Olympians or some heavy weight boxing champions, but of the sick headed filthy guys who came on sea, and then traumatized our nation and made Taj and Trident their hideout for three days. If these people were used for a better cause which can be anything than this.. they would have at least secured a medal each at Olympics.

I don’t think there are differences in the 9/11 and 26/11 in the motive and manner of the attacks. Both hit at the economic veins [we didn’t have some twin towers in Mumbai and may be this forced them to attack on hotels where all major commercial activity takes place ]. But, it took them just a small boat for logistics whereas they had to hijack many Boeings in US. What does this say?? We are less quipped with whatever we have. Talking in line with Tatas, I can surely say that we lack the crisis management infrastructure that needs to be present if such a thing happens. The NSG guys arrived 10 hrs after the scene started. The Chief Minister came to know the incidents after 2 hours .Then he asked Home ministry which many think that doesn’t exist in India, to send NSG. Then the step in the chain was that to inform NSG DG by Home ministry. Then the Commandos had to be assembled and they were ready after almost 4 hrs. Then the plane they had to travel had to be brought from Chandigarh to Delhi. The plane is said to be slower than Boeings and took the remaining latency in arrival of troops. Thank God it was night and they had no traffic woes in Mumbai. They didn’t have the plan of the buildings where they had to fight in addition to secure the safety of the hostages. Till then, the ill-equipped, cant-have-bulletproof ATS and police had to fight those people and had to sacrifice their leaders.

Inspite of all these, the great thing is that they have emerged as heroes now by showing what we can do with what we have and igniting every ones inner self of the country to go against what’s happening. Saluting and be proud of them is the best thing I do right now.

But the questions remain, why can’t we stop these? Why do we need FBI and Mossads to come and aid us in investigations? Why can’t we stop a satellite phone even after sending a machine to moon? Why can’t we stop media from giving 24 hrs update to help the insiders to strategize accordingly? [ Many questions like this ]The ultimate and the grass root answer leads to politics. Because these leaders don’t care about us… there is no coordination existing among them. . There is no political gain for them in doing something good.. It took the government to summon somebody responsible, a pretty time of two decades after the start of terrorism. Hope this happens completely!! It took them almost 2 yrs to make somebody feel responsible and quit their office. Perhaps, if the attack on parliament would have been successful, we might not be able to see so many massacres happening now.

We need better leaders for the better lives. We need to  stay united at these times of disasters. May be its time that we say “If u r good, iam good and if u r evil , I will do justice”. Its time to be tough on tougher issues and say “Enough is enough” . Can we see a solution in the way for all these?? Can we able to proclaim to the world that we not only love peace, but also we live in peace?? JAIHIND.

PS : Is 26 Bad ?? 26 Dec–Tsunami, 26 Jan–Gujarat Earthquake, 26 Feb–Godhra Train Fire, 26 June–Gujarat Flood, 26 July–Mumbai Train blast, 26 Sept–Ahmedabad bomb blast, 26 Nov– Mumbai again. [ courtesy: got from one of my frnd]