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A pulsating epic science fiction that takes us on a journey to an outer world planet called the 'Pandora' to demonstrate the limits of human interference with alien civilizations and communities closely intertwined with nature.



What Cameron brings to us in his comeback animation thriller using cutting edge stereoscopic 3D technology is human intentions to take control of the local population in the 'Pandora' called the N'avis to harness the large reserves of highly valued Pandorian natural resources.

With stellar animation effects and near to true world characters candidly called the 'Blue Monkeys' and with his team of colourful flying mammals and log horned rhinos Cameroon weaves magic on screen which frantic chases, deep mountain dives and not to mention the fantacising by his protagonists Jake Sully played by Sam Worthington and Neytiri by Zoe Saldana.

In a never ending quest of human kind for dominance and a "Mine is mine and also yours is mine" attitute, the story takes us through some intense moments of unity, courage and hope portrayed by the local N'avis to out play the human colonists.

Moments when Jake says, "Everything is backwards now, there is the true world and here's the dream" sitting in his spaceship are gripping making this a must watch thriller for all Cameron fans.

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The Revolutionary Road

Starts with a perfect setting in a small county in Connecticut with this happily married couple with a well set family, one thing that cuts them out fom the rest of their neighbours and friends being the restlessness and the questionable disregard they develop towards the way they lead their lives.

Starring Kate Winslet as April and Di Caprio as Frank Wheeler this movie tries to bring to light the realities of modern day lifestyles and the perpetual quest of young families trying to set themselves apart from the rest of the world not realising the implications of their motives, motives primarily characterised by sheer sense of emotionally driven behaviour and irrationality.



A keen observer shall quickly guage the moves April makes during the initial period of the movie.Not being able to withstand the monotonous living she goes through day after day, April proposes her husband to take a break from the job he does'nt love too much to pursue a larger and rather unrealistic plan of relocating to Paris.
Here she plans to be the bread winner for the family while letting Frank pursue his long cherished goals by giving him a chance to become what he always longed for.

While she manages to convince Frank of the idea, what she fails to realise is the apparent lack of practicality of her decisions while being caught in a rage of larger than life thinking.

Though, as the movie starts to pick up pace, we realise that the couple take a decision to further their initial plans while April realises she is pregnant and both settle down to honour their moral obligations to parenthood.

But what they fail to realise is that this decision would only begin to unsettle their individual lives more than ever before. Caught in a vicious cycle of plans and ambitions while continuing to manage work, kids and family the couples' lives and relations quickly starts nose diving into a downward spiral.

Life's back full circle !

Visit to college after 4 long years with thoughts of big time changes since time has come a long way through since then.
Surprising but true, there have'nt been sweeping changes that could make us feel like we have moved slow against time. Attendants running around in the examination section, lecturers talking about dropping ratios of performance statistics, staff stretching to the limits to gain mileage, nothing much was different.
Be it crossing across departments to get work done, feeling proud of a restructured placement cell, sipping a cup of coffee in a relatively improved cafeteria, waiting for buses at the special college stop counting down on the time to reach back home, it was a well deserved feeling of having moved down the memory lane with nothing much really to cherish about.

Life still has'nt changed much or is it that we have been running high on expectations unable to realise some basic tenets that better be left untouched !

DON - reincarnated !

Be it to promote the trendy neck ties marketed by Louis Philippe or the Monaco Sixty Nine for Tag Heur DON's all over the place but not quite really there !
Its just about the hoopla aired around and gung ho star struck Khan fans pulling a string or two that could well draw crowds off their feet.


Farhan Akhtar's attempt to bring back to life Bollywood's memoirs of yester years has well modestly speaking, been just a decent effort far fetched from any comparisions with the original version of the Amitabh starrer.

ShahRukh for a neat performance , Jasjit (Arjun Rampal) for a good screen presence and Roma (Priyanka) could well be few of the not many positives of this remake effort.

Trivia Zone

MAYOR VS PIGEONS: London mayor Ken Livingstone, who calls pigeons ‘rats with wings’ and is known for his implacable campaigns against things that annoy him, has made it his mission since he took office in 2000 to eradicate them from Trafalgar Square.

Germany ' 06 !

Mayhem at Nuremberg
With a record 16 bookings, 4 red cards coupled with a high paced drama , the nerve gripping encounter between Portugal and Netherlands could well be remembered in football history as the battle of Nuremberg thanks to some highly passionate and an extremely physical display of sorts by the two teams.


Netherlands in a effort to forget the reminiscences of their loss to Portugal in Euro Cup 2004 were forced to bear the brunt for a second consecutive time with Maniche back to haunt the Dutch scoring off a thriller hammering the ball to the top corner 16 yards off the post.


It was utter pandemonium at Nuremberg for the reminder of the 70 odd minutes with player after player being warned with yellows , and Russian refree Valentin Ivanov in a desperate attempt to ensure fair play booking players cheaply for offence which only fetched him a strict vote of no confidence by the players, the coaches and the FIFA President himself.
With less than a third of the Portueguese on field being spared of bookings, Deco and Costinha finding themselves back in the dressing room by the middle of the second half, things were not prettier for the Dutch either with Van Bommel, Sneijder and Van der Vaart being issued yellow cards Boulahrouz and Van Bronkhorst doing the rituals with their reds for Holland.
Looked like the days of war like Copa American football had descended down in Germany with the crowds extremely defiant of the proceedings.

Discover Mangalore !

On Fire n off Bangalore !

With all the floating mails, extended fone calls and discussions the planned visit to Mangalore indeed did take off, but for a few minor hitches at 15 past midnight on the 14th of Jan 2006. Bangalore-Kunigal-Hassan-Sakleshpur-Mangalore is this route we had to traverse .. well I think I am correct. Umpteen coffee breaks in a couple of dhabas along the way over the night and a small stop over in the morning is all that took us to span a distance of 350 odd kilometers along the NH-17 with the roads proving a perfect delight for all the travel buffs to help us through to Mangalore - our destination. A major sea port n ship building center of ancient India formed at the confluence of Netravati and a second river (could someone help?) we were welcomed with a lush green outset and relatively humid weather conditions.

Tired of the overnight travel but still in great expectations about the couple odd days we would be spending there, we laid our weathery shoulders to rest at the Poojna International. Incidentally a one of the big wigs of the restraunt happened to be a miscreant and is said to have escaped from the clutches of the cops by flying off from the top floor (now u got to imagine how !) . Trivia apart, the guys freshened up quick (thanks, Betts was'nt around !) and settled over for some break fast at Hotel Taj Mahal. Sumptuous moodes, tovves, ghee dosa, shira and hot filter coffees making up for a satisfying brunch .. the highlight being a few hungry men to steal the show and leave the waiter bedazzled.

Unlock the Bekal !

How do we plan our stay? ..where do we go frm here?... bargain hunting and extended justifications of each one's cause did bring us to a consensus to visit Bekal fort in the town of Kasargod, North of Kerala. A giant key hole shaped fort, golden expanse of beautiful beach untapped to its potential surrounding it, backwaters, hill destinations could make up for a simple description of the place. Followed by stretched out foto sessions , we could see a few of us in the group get off to the smooth sand shore and gradually into the salty waters which did inflict its share of losses over the course of the day ! All in all we could see each one of us having a good time in the waters jumping around with catchy scenes of a few guys displaying their, is there a flat bend type bodies making up for the much awaited amusement around.

With the sun settling down behind the ranges we saw ourselves back at the Poojna, exhausted but in full spirits to make up for best of the time to be spent through the course of the evening . We shed the sand off with a shower and sat down around in one of the rooms to discuss the modus operandi - Opinions galore..Manipal?... Sultan Battery ? .... dine n sleep ?... wht do we do..? wht was in store would leave a few of us in the troop with an experience demystified and truly sensational. We then set off for supper at a fairly laid back Hill top restraunt with the guys relishing the Prawn diet and Vinay lost in his Ondu quarter Vodka !

Chandni Bar ki raunak !

Our next stop over, Damini a dance bar with teen aged girls clad with ghagra cholis dancing to the tunes of item numbers. All the gyrations and the moves of these young ladies to swing the mood of the men seated around the dance floor. With the men shredding off rupee notes in tens of hundreds each one trying to project to be the most superior and powerful of the rest it was a scene never seen before for many of us. We were silently seated around one of the corners not witstanding the pathetic voices of a few of the singers..did we really care about it at all? One song tht stole the show and had its ramifications all through the night more to say over the course of the entire trip Ek Baar Aaja .. a girl of preferred choice for one of the patrons dancing away to glory taking the whole atmosphere to its sensuous best ! We then got off to the streets in a fully upbeat mood with some crazy suggestions like walking all the way to one of the beaches arnd the city late in the midnight floating around.. thanks to a few men losing their senses to the glitz and shine at the bar. Long , heated discussions abt life and the way one needs to approach it during the wee hours of the morning not even bothered to care abt being warned by cops doing the patrol after hours .

All about beaches n sand !

Got up quite late in the morning after all the masti over the night extending to the early hours. Had break fast at the hotel, complementary but still a decent one though. Headed off straight to Sultan Batteri a small beach place around a smaller fort with lots of cricketing enthusiasts around playing for the coveted trophy.. while we were busy tasting the todi and enjoying the soothing experience the Arabian sea had to offer. We then got across the river through a boat with some of us connectiong it to the SWADES experience to reach Taneer Bhavi another of those beaches that we were bored of seeing by now... unfortunate none of us had a choice ! Later headed towards one of those destinations which is place to one of the best technical institutes in India..and yes it was Suratkal... Took a view of the shore and shiny sands from one of the view points while a few of us in the crew still unsatiated and determined to get onto the waters. Decide to make a quick move from the place with time ticking off and most of us in a desperate urge to get back home before it would get too late for the next morning...

HomeWards bound

Relaxed and laid back start the journey back to Bangalore, Shashi playin the DJ act with his cool music gadgets making a good supplement for some rocking tunes through the evening. With varied discussions ranging from the Indian economy to movie mania to sexual tastes of humans we cruised our way through the dense forests and soothing landscapes to reach Bangalore late in the evening as planned just left with a bagful of memories to cherish.