TATA CRUCIBLE: A lost hope!!

Every year , i go on a pilgrimage to taj residency in cochin marine drive on usually the second week of march.!! Wierd isn't it..Well that's just me..Being a huge business buff, i am highly complacent about my abilities to win the prestigious tata crucible..This quiz is unlike other quizzes...There is a genuine feeling of ease whenever i try to answer the business related questions...fo e.g - in other quizzes they mat ask the desert in which the good , the bad and the ugly was shot!!! A brilliant question , claps all around if someone answers it right and claps for the quizmaster if anyone doesn't...in the crucible they shoe you the poster of a simple down to earth film like "udaan " and ask you who the production house...the so called "gods of quizzing " may not be able to answer it but the normal film addict would!! thats the beauty of this quiz..its too simple in a lovely way!!! business!!

For the first year , i just went about the quiz like an amateur with my quizmate anand, with no dreams only hope!! It was not a disaster mind you...for first years , we scored a lavish 10 points where the cut off was 13!! a good start ..thats when i realised this was for me!!
how wrong!!
the second year , i prepared for 2 weeks rigorously...seeping up every bit of trivia i could find on business!! They announced the finalists and yet again our names were unsurprisingly missing.

I decided it was time for me to step up , and prepare for the crucible 2011..this time the whole year was spent on writing a diary full of facts that you would crave to get your hands on!! This year Ronnie Raju would be my partner...From november 2010 i started preparing in a hardcore manner!! I had to atleast be in the final this time around!! 4 months of vigorous preparation, ended on march 21 9:00 pm ...when i decided this was enough!! Unfortunately, the next day i found it wasn't...Everything i studied was just rubbish and i had wasted my time on researching these topics...Huge mistakes in the prelims saw us losing out to 2 points in the prelims!!! How sad!!!
i guess that is what they call life!! this is not a positively inspiring post!! , this is just my way of letting out the agony i felt!!!

The uncrowned superstar: Rahul Dravid

First person to catch the ball 200 times ... Not so tough is it!! Try doing this in international cricket and it will take you 15 years.. Third cricketer ever to score 12000+ runs in test cricket.. He has been part of more than 80 century partnerships , a record in itself.. And not an ounce of complacency has creeped into this man whom i personally refer to as the true blue gentleman of the gentleman's game.. In the middle of october, while we were on an industrial visit , me and my friend arun were standing near the visvesarayya museum .. That is when i glanced upon a floodlight stand sprouting from a clutter of trees.. Dragging my reluctant friend along with me , crossing the road at the anil kumble square, i stood before the gates of the chinnaswamy stadium, which many bangaloreans aka software engineers and more software engineers take for granted...

beyond the gates was the "wall" a wall erected in honour of the dravidji that we know of.. The same one who doesn't care whether its shoaib akhthar or brett lee bowling... dragging their spike clad shoes running with the wind and bowling at unimaginable paces , the ball stops its motion with a mere touch of his bat! The bowler, astonished, tries the trick again and again but to no avail!! Commitment consistency and Class, the words imprinted on the wall at chinnaswamy are the words inscribed in our minds when we hear the name dravid.. This man was denied a slot in the Indian world cup team, (which by the way features half the chennai super kings) , yet he did not complain and he did not whine, ..That is the story of a true gentleman!!

The change that is the tamil film industry!

Now that the malayalam film industry's woes can be forgotten for a small amount of time since "traffic " has released, let us take a look at the booming tamil industry....Last year telugu and kannada film industries boasted an overall gross output of 1600 crores into their films....While tamil industry didn't go to that level of money just being wasted for unnecessary purposes(excuse enthiran) , they put their money where their pen was and claimed the most profits in the whole country....The most sensible explanation is that the tamil industry is going through a phase where the yesteryear crew is working even now, the 90's crew also doing great and the newcomer's are creating new never before heard genres....And its not just the actor's , it includes the whole set-the scriptwriter's , the directors, the composers and the art directors....while the malayalam industry is straining under the influence from the likes of prithvi, anoop menon and all, the tamil industry has definite superstars in the making which include arya, jayam ravi, karthi and jai.... Talking about the director's- instead of doing the old age tactics and references that the mallus use, they are thinking ahead and want to take a risk with the audience....Even though the below par films like vettaikaran and others got what it should not have, the audience definitely did not neglect the likes of madrasapattanam , payya and some....Last year saw the further upliftment of the brand -rajni...Even though his acting skills have been consistently put down by the critics , there was a definite enigma to his performance.... director shankar had thought too much and left some glitches behind but still the most expensive film in indian history was a must watch on the list of all ages alike....There is nothing more to say but that the tamil industry will keep booming while the stocks last!! And that will be for a very long time!!!!