Taare Zameen Par...

This is yet another review..of the most wonderful film that I saw this year...a perfect christmas gift for any movie aficionado..Taare Zameen Par...the directorial debut of MY favorite actor Aamir khan.....an absolutely mind blowing movie to watch..it just brings out all the deepest emotions in ur heart..even without u getting to know..Truly saying..this must be the first ever movie during which i actually CRIED...and i thinkanyone else would surely do...some of the scenes are just soo touching...but the magic isthat u wont realise u r getting emotional until those tears roll down..u'll know y i said this...jus check out this film...u wont argue..im sure of that..
The plot is simple though..a normal 9 year old child named ISHAAN..who sees the world throughhis own eyes...and it doesnt consist of any school or any text book or anything else...but his imagination is miles longer than any other child of his age...Suffering from DYSLEXIA..he has severe learning and writing disablities..and no one understands this fault in him..making him just a lazy couch who's just born for failures...
Fed up with frequent complaints from teachers and some threat of him being expelled from his school...ISHAAN's parents have no alternative but to send him to a boarding school...here is where the film actually picks up from an ordinary movie...the boy begins to feel the lackor parental love...his depression takes him too far to be an angry young boy who is not interested into anything in life...till..... a man arrives to change his life and the way the others look at it...forever... Here enters the character of Ram Chandra Nikumbh...a newly appointed art teacher in ISHAAN's school(played by Aamir Khan)...being a dyslexic himself in his childhood...Nikumbh really understands the emotions going inside Ishaan'sinnocent mind...he visits his house one day...and after having talks with his parents...he makes himunderstand why Ishaan is the way he is..and also unearthes an extraordinary talent in this boy...PAINTING...
His pictures are made of imagination that cannot be found in any normal child of his age...They are astonishingly creative and massively deep in emotions... the teacher takes these pictures to the principal of the boarding school...and convinces him abt this superior talent Ishan has...the head seems confused enough but then finally gives nikumbh to give the child a time of six months to pass his 3rd grade...without any intermediate exams or classes...Nikumbh takes this time to make Ishan rediscover himself..understand what he's got in him..and teacheshim language in a disctinctively artistic way...
The end result....Ishan becomes hero from zero...he wins the painting competition held in school forall the students and teachers...with a picture that looks quite BRILLIANT on screen(wonder who drew itactually)..And the scene where this boy slowly comes down the steps to take his prize and cries out to hug his teacher..is an absolute tear dropper...the film ends with Ishan's parents finally coming to know their brilliant childand get surprised by the way he improved his grade in all the subjects...they come to take him back home..getting inside the car...he cudnt hide his love for his art teacher....he runs out frm the car to Aamir...and...that's the final scene...an end to a movie i wudn't regret watching 10 timess.....
The best thing of this film is by..far...the 8 year old ISHAN (played by Darsheel Safary)...all his mannerisms and way of talking...jus takes us bak to those lovely times...and although suffering fromdyslexia....in all his scenes v wud jus love him more n more for his sweeeet behaviour...DARSHEEL HAS JUST DONE A BLINDING JOB!!Morover...AAMIR KHAN has proved his versatility...this is jus an unbelievable debut film from him..no one cud have expected more....
hmm...well....this film may jus put together the brains of all those parents..who just bully their young kids forexcelling in academics....forgetting that life is not about learning things by heart...it is by exploring the world...by opening one's mind to the world of dreams...
AND FOR DYSLEXIA..i THink the film portrays the disorder superbly...it's jus something kids suffer in their early life...it's not at all an indicator of their capabilities...and all those names said in the movie..ALBERT EINSTEIN,ABHISHEK BACHCHAN,THOMAS EDISON....all these are REAL examples of dyslexic people..althougha stupid crowd in the theatre cudn't stop laughing at 'wat they thought were' jus silly lies!
SO dont keep waiting...jus go to d theatre..or get da DVD..or watevr else..jus make sure u dont miss out on this one...and dont hold up ur tears...jus let them go...cuz always listen to wat ur heart says...

MAFIA- the game

Nothing to worry about...,this is just about a PC GAME!!
Okay..those who are interested please go on reading..

EASILY One of the best games i have played till date, playing this game is THRILL at it's peak. REALITY is something that adds that extra bit of interest in any kind of visual entertainment. And with that case, this is ULTIMATE REALITY, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE at it's very best...
Every minute detail is incredibly realistic.
The story of this game is based in the 1920's and 30's, which was the time of the high rising of the greatest EMPIRE OF CRIME, the MAFIA..

let's check out their brief history taken from wiki

[ The Mafia (also known as Cosa Nostra), is a criminal secret society which first developed in the mid-19th century in Sicily. An offshoot emerged on the East Coast of the United States during the late 19th century following waves of Sicilian and Southern Italian emigration. In America, the Mafia often refers to Italian American organized crime in general, rather than just Sicilian American organized crime. According to historian Paolo Pezzino: "The mafia is a kind of organized crime being active not only in several illegal fields, but also tending to exercise sovereignty functions – normally belonging to public authorities – over a specific territory..."

Some observers have seen "mafia" as a set of positive attributes deeply rooted in popular culture, as a "way of being", as illustrated in the definition by the Sicilian ethnographer, Giuseppe Pitrè, at the end of the 19th century: "Mafia is the consciousness of one's own worth, the exaggerated concept of individual force as the sole arbiter of every conflict, of every clash of interests or ideas."

Many Sicilians did not regard these men as criminals but as role models and protectors, given that the state appeared to offer no protection for the poor and weak. As late as the 1950s, the funeral epitaph of the legendary boss of Villalba, Calogero Vizzini, stated that "his 'mafia' was not criminal, but stood for respect of the law, defense of all rights, greatness of character. It was love." Here, "mafia" means something like pride, honor, or even social responsibility: an attitude, not an organization. Likewise, in 1925, the former Italian Prime Minister Vittorio Emanuele Orlando stated in the Italian senate that he was proud of being mafioso, because that word meant honorable, noble, generous.]

This game tells the story of two MAFIA dons of the imaginary city of LOST HEAVEN. The first is DON SALIERI.. a poor man who had to work his way to the top through the hardest difficulties in life...but he is highly regarded with the people for his good deeds to the poor.
The second don is DON MORELLO...a ruthless CRIMINAL who aims at nothing other than to earn money.. ToGETHER..these DONS control almost the whole city

Our HERO..Thomas(a.k.a TOMMY)..enters the scenario as a taxi driver who helps two of SALIERI's men to escape from the hands of enemy gangsters. Unfortunately, he has to pay the price for it one fine day as the gangsters come and demoslish his taxi. Tommy has nowhere to go and ends up in need of help from SALIERI himself. There begins the rise of a fiery mafioso, TOMMY.

As the levels progress, the DON becomes almost like a godfather to TOMMY. He starts to get involved in BIG deals of the DON. SALIERI'S right hand, his Consigliere( advisor ) is FRANK, a european. There exists a MAFIA law called Omertà which implies “the categorical prohibition of cooperation with state authorities or reliance on its services, even when one has been victim of a crime.” FRANK is made to disobey this law under a critical circumstance of kidnapping of his wife and children. TOMMY, on a mission to eliminate this betrayer of OMERTA, feels pity of his family and asks him to escape to a remote location somewhere in europe.

THE GAME CONTINUES with high thrill...as many more dangerous missions come to TOMMY's hands.
And to the SALIERI's orders, TOMMY even takes care of the killing of DON MORELLO. This awakes a sense of high self esteem in TOMMY for his strength. He and his friend PAULIE make a plan to rob SALIERI's bank! The plans do become reality.

But what follows is the worst part. PAULIE is killed in his own apartment. Then SAM, pretending to protect TOMMY from SALIERI's men, asks him to come to an art gallery. But actually, it had been SAM who had killed PAULIE on the DON's orders and had purposely TRAPPED Tommy.
There begins the final mission of the game, which is a bloody hairy shootout. The final one on one encouter with SAM is the toughest part of the game.

Finishing this, the epilogue of the story starts. TOMMY, after wasting out SAM, immediately flies off. He then goes to the court and starts a case against SALIERI with the help of a lawyer. TOMMY wins the case. SALIERI and his men are put under the bars. TOMMY himself settles into a new life somewhere in SOUTHERN USA. In the last cut scene, TOMMY is visited by two men who with shotguns. THEY JUST SAY ,"Mr.SALIERI has sent you his regards" and SHOOOOTTTTT........................

THERE LIES A HEAVILY BLEEDING TOMMY IN THE GARDEN.....

END of the game, one which truly wouldn't disappoint you.

ORDINARY ROUTINE

wake up at 9, breakfast at 11 30 or 12, lunch at 4!, dinner (timed better) at 9 30, nd finally back to bed the first hour of the next day.

SEEMS WEIRD? well in that case u can call me a weird person cuz this is exactly what i do everyday!...but of course..SADLY... I can't have these LUXURIES once the school reopens again..

I have always felt very proud to confess that SLEEPING is one of my favourite things to do. And with the prediction of the meteorology department that monsoon would start by the final week of may 'UNBELIEVABLY' coming true.. I just thrive to sleep as long as possilble. After those SLEEPLESS, SCORCHING summer nights wen i used to think as far as stripping myself to get atleast some coolness!!(even that wouldn't have worked I feel), the heavenly feeling of escaping under that bed sheet which i use to conceal myself from the world altogether, those dreams which I completely forget the next day morning( I have tried soo much to figure out just 'WHAT DID I DREAM LAST NIGHT??',and i end up without getting even a tiny hint )
Okay then on to what happens after those dreams..



But post-sleep activities are not much better...sometimes i may go again and take a nap at the front room DIVAN!...with a blunt xcuse that i wuz just lying down for a little while..hmm so this is my ORDINARY ROUTINE you shall say..but if I continue to explain further I'm sure u r not goin to bear this for long.

SO let me chalk out something better...
Well..there is this website called ORKUT that is driving teens crazy these days( even i am a GUILTY victim of this). It happened one day that i saw this SERIOUSLY strange JAPANESE man with a friend request for me!!..really i wuz taken aback for 1 sec..MY FAME HAD REACHED EVEN JAPAN??
okay so i let the poor guy have me as a friend, and suddenly he started sending SCRAPS to me!!....and to worsen the scenario...ALL IN JAPANESE LANGUAGE!! Then i thought, if MR.JAPAN(his name is a real tongue twister) is soo much obsessed with using japanese.. then why don't I offer my respect to my own language, MALAYALAM..and so i did...replied him back with a few difficult words like 'KSHEMANWESHANANGAL'(well wishes), 'PRAKRITIDHATTAM'(by nature), 'SAMAKAALIKASAMOOHAVICHAARANGAL'(social thoughts)( dat tym i wuz quite gud at malayalam, esp due to board studies) nd all..ehh..poor guy...

Anyways..that was the end of my contact with MR.JAPAN..havn't heard anything from him after that

SO another hour is spend daily on CHATTING..which is quite a gud time pass if it's with my school friends..nd another 1 or 2 hours would be spend on pc games..

Listening to music is one of my favorite hobbies..so another 1 or 2 hours would be spend for that...

Aannd..not to forget the IDIOT BOX..which is my favourite companion...
The speed at which i surf between the channels is really blinding..that someone sitting beside me would think i have gone nuts!..but THAT is my xperience with the thing..i know xactly wer a watchable channel would come..i can even make what kind of show is going on from a split-second image!

Among other things..hmm...nothin much more..just somehow manage to keep wasting time...going out with friends, riding on the scooter for a while, going to the dvd shop to catch some cool new PIRATED movies,.... DAYS JUST GO ON AND ON LIKE THIS........

HUH...I'M RELIEVED

OKAY this one is cumin for u straight out of a very 'RELAXED' state of mind.

Keeping in memory all dat i have gone through in my 10th standard year, the results of my first ever Board exam in my life has come just like a perfect icing on the cake. 93.4%, a VERY MUCH good result for me. I really wasn't expecting much higher than this. And i also knew that i had not done any exeptional hardworking to get much beyond than this. At last, the bell still keeps ringing in my brains..
U ONLY GET WHAT U DESERVE.

NOW LET ME GO DEEPER INTO THIS STORY.

The build up for this thing started right from the beginning of the year. Pressure had been just soo tough to absorb. I really thought that i had to avoid pressure gettin on to me somehow, jus somehow.
And i did came up with a "MASTER PLAN".
Continue 10th just like any other normal year!!
I dint stop going for movies with friends, Stayed away from those deadly tutions altogether, Stayed away from guides till the study holidays, dint miss any oppurtunity to enjoy myself throughout the year, Even went till watching TV for 1 or 2 hours on the day before the exam!! And as i feel, just a little extra effort on gettin it right with the portions is all that the board exam asks from a student. GOing for any other kind of "NERD" stuff is absolutely CRAP! It's absolutely UNNECESSARY!!


Another MAJOR thing about this public exam is that it's

"an OMEN telling you that the future life is going to be much more paintaking and that there's no way of SLACKING OFF"!!!

This is the best way to describe the board exams i think.

Because 11th is just going to be an entirely new, unexplored kind of experience. Getting to be th e SUPER SENIORS in school, respnsibilities coming ur way, teachers not upto any more SPOON FEEDING, ....ehh...i jus cant wait for it!!. And for the PAINTAKING part, the portions are just going to be MILES longer!!!

Hmm then..i forgot to mention about the vacations!...

IT WUZ JUST THE BEST VACATION EVER IN MY LIFE.
i had never felt soo much joy during any vacation that i can remember!..
And the festival at my native place...jus got me turned on SOO much.
Even at home..usually at vacation times i wud be cursing the CRUEL feeling of BOREDOM...this time it wuz really NOT THE SAME...even if nothin was worth doing...i wud still manage to keep myself busy...
AND I REALLY HAVE TO SAY...EVEN SLEEPING FOR THE WHOLE DAY DINT GET ME BORED!!...
Itz just sometimes that you find urself wasting away time that makes you think u r gettin bored. I try not to say that to myself-" ITZ SOO BORING HERE". i just do whatever i want to do...I THINK SOMETIMES IT'S JUST NECESSARY THAT YOU HAVE TO FORGET THAT TIME IS PRECIOUS!
But really it was a wonderful 2 months which went off at jet speed!

Now that wonderful time is again nearing its cigarette-end........I dont think i will get such a lavish vacation time ever again in my life.....hmmm that does HURT!!

I have decided upon to take the stream of COMPUTER-MATHS next year...which is getting truck loads of STUDENTS behind it!! No one seems to think different!!....neither do I...so no point blaming anyone.

Anyway...all im looking forward to is a year full of fun and frolic...nd hop it turns out that way.....HUH!...finally got a positive note to end this blog....SO...keep waiting for more...until then ...
take care, bye bye, SLEEP WELL, DRIVE SAFE, STUDY HARD, PLAY HARDER, AND HAVE FUN THE HARDEST!!!


HEy and i know u have more time left..so do chip in some comments...CRITISICM WELCOMED!

my 10th standard

AN OVERLOOK AT MY TENTH STANDARD YEAR.

at first....i felt this waz it...end of joy, end of casual attitudes....
and many things else....
But this year has been very exciting 4 me...
I got to know many of my batchmates closely this year.......and most of them
were almost like new to me...as this wuz the 1st time i had been sharing a same
class with them...
I felt how excitin it was to get to know new people........to get to understand
their distinct characters....all so amazin..

this year...very surprisingly to me....a gud talent inside me waz brought out..
I had studied drums 4 1-2 yrs in school.......but even in my dreams i dint think
of me being a part of the school muzic band, going 4 inter school competitionz..
this wuz really a completely new experience 4 me.....

'THE IMPULSE'...an inter school event conducted by the choice school....
wuz easily one of the best moments this year.....
I wuz rather coincidentally selected to play drums 4 the music event...
but i hav to say that the xperience wuz truly a new one for me..
LOOOTTTZ OF FUNNN all the way........it wuz jus too superb....truly cannot
be described!!

after it... many such competitions followed....and i thoroughly enjoyed all
of them....

THEN CAME ANOTHER BLASTING MOMENT OF THIS YEAR...OUR CLASS PICNIC...
at first i thought that the picnic wud be borin cuz of the place we wer going
to... a place i had never heard of b4...
But once it started.......then evrythin that followed wuz a case of
losin myself to fun n joy........I still can't believe how i spent that day
so joyfully....no tension, no stress, no worry about anything....
Even this wuz the same for all of my friends........
THe place din't matter at all.........we wer all freakin out like party animalz
that day........HUH!! some kind of a picnic...it really waz!!...

After the picnic thigs quite settled down quickly........nd now more attention
had to be given to my studies..Our second terminal xam wuz held in december...
nd to tell frankly...the results had been far far worse frm wat i had xpected..
And i really decided to catch up frm that moment.....

Our classes had almost been finished up by mid january....
evry1 wuz busy ritin slambuks.....to hav something in rememberence for their
dear ones......but we boyz as usual...lazy with all these things.....

From january there wuz not much happening altogether......
nd the first real assignment in 10th came into our hands....the pre-board
examinations.....which wer actually meant for preparing us for the final xams..
but nonetheless........we had to study Alll the portionzzzz.......
tellin frankly....sittin and studyin such boorriinn topicz really is one
of the dumbest things to do!!!

F*** the man who invented XAMS!!!!

the cat n mouse chase for finishin up thr portions wud only start abt 1 or 2 dayz
b4 the xams for me......nd i end up sittin late into nights 4 the last few dayz...
so......thatz all i can tell about now....cuz i'm ritin this blog such a situation..
yah..i'm now in the chase...hope it comes out good!!!

1st blogg!!!

THIS is my first blog entry in my life!!!
Right now i'm 15 yrs old....studyin in my tenth standard......
and this year...i'm going to face my first academic competitive public exam....
My tenth standard CBSE board xams!!
One thing........right from the start of the year......pressure from parents
and teachers, early preparations, lots of RESEARCH from senior students,....
nd a loottt of other silly things......it has finally reached the big moment.
Now i jus feel like....FOR WHAT THE HELL AM I GOING THROUGH ALL THESE....
finally it is jus the matter if u r jus confident enough to study some 10-20
chapters for each subject....nd hav the coolness to take the matter easily so
that ur mind stays within ur reach.......YAh i may sound a bit philosophical..
but itz reality!!
I jus thought like....i can remember the dialogues in a film...lines of a song.
..names and faces of over hundreds of soccer players.....but y not the simple
chapters in my textbook!!!
I think its all jus bcoz of nervousness.....the biggest distraction to the human
mind........
Yes u do hav to work hard to get marks...but hard work does not mean sacrificin
ur pleasure!!.....Bcuz only a tension free mind gives that xtra edge to think
in an xam...
in my case.......i really dont start studyin unless i am in a good mood....
nd to get that i depend mostly on gettin my favourite pleasures......like muzic
to me