Today Kalam – Kal ‘aam’

Well, when I started writing my first blog I was pretty excited. However trust me, when I think about this blog forget about being excited, it takes me to an emotional low. My title would have given you people an indication so as to what I am up to this time.

For the benefit of non-hindi readers, I would like to explain what “Kal ‘aam’” means (which I have put in the second part of my title). In hindi ‘Kal’ means tomorrow and ‘aam’ means ordinary. Yeah today he is the First Citizen and tomorrow he is just another citizen.

Well it is not that I want Mr. Kalam to be the "Permanent President” as some of our politicians like to call themselves. But there needs to be some dignity to be maintained folks. Come on

Firstly, it is about the PRESIDENT OF THE COUNTRY for God sake. It can become an object of ridicule for media of other countries.
Secondly, any disrepute to that post is a complete disregard and disrespect to all of them who had honored it before.
Thirdly, we are dealing with a person who is an intellectual genius. Frankly speaking I don’t know whether I am grammatically correct when I say ‘intellectual genius’ but I just want to use it against Mr.Kalam because he is one.

I can go on up to ‘Nth ‘ly…

HIS TENURE
Unfortunately in India, president just remains a rubber stamp. He has no major commitments that a common man can actually associate himself to and assess. His role restricts himself to passing the Special bills that are ALREADY passed in the Parliament, reconsidering whether death penalty to be given to the convicted for DANGEROUS reasons, Keep standing with the guest during RD….oh yeah not to forget giving speeches before RD & ID in Doordarshan, where that too he has to read the script that runs in the screen in front of him!!!

I mean no offense or my intention is not to hurt anybody’s sentiment. It is just that I feel the country is hurt with the proceedings.

Inspite of this not-so-interesting job profile, I feel Mr. Abdul Kalam has done which other Presidents of yesteryears never did.

Being the Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Defense Force he made some gestures which are not only worth mentioning but also to be much-admired.

On April 02nd 2004 President A P J Abdul Kalam made a historic visit to the Siachen glacier, becoming the first President to visit the world's highest battle ground to meet the jawans over there and give their morale a much needed and long awaited boost . Siachen is not only the pride of Indian army but also the biggest threat as it is faces pressure left, right and centre from both our neighbors on left and right!!

Not only that, it made him First ever Head of a state or any Government to visit Siachen. He commended the efforts of the soldiers in standing guard in such inhospitable conditions.
Well is that it, NO. Feather on the cap or icing on the cake or NAME IT AS YOU LIKE IT on June 08th 2006 from Pune Airbase he did something that was unbelievable. He flew on a Suhkoi -30 MKI combat aircraft for more than half hour. Now that’s a sign from the Head of the Indian Defense. Has any of the Defence Miniser done this before?? Well am sure this feat is going to remain for a long time to come, untouched.

Well does flying an aircraft or being at the world’s highest battle ground, gets one a shot at Rashtrapathi Bhawan a second term? He has something which I believe some of his predecessors never had, the support from the citizens- a thorough green signal.
He leads the millions of youngsters with his speech and achievements. He is considered to be the perfect role model for all the youth. He inspires them with what ever he does.
And it is distressing, disgraceful, and pathetic, to be said kindly, to know that the politicians have just given a cold shoulder to the interest and stand out choice of all the citizens.

WHAT DOES FUTURE HOLD FOR US???
And in return what are they offering us,

A lady who has been blamed, as of now, having involvement in a default in payment of bank loan!

A gentleman who’s son in law is said to be involved in some nonsense to which I didn’t pay much heed to during today’s news !

SOMETHING TO CHEW THE CUD
Here’s something for you to think about, I have two questions. One is Serious and the other on a lighter note

1. ARE THE CITIZENS OF INDIA FOOL ENOUGH NOT TO HAVE THE RIGHT OF CHOOSING HIS/HER OWN FIRST CITIZEN??
2. IF BUSH HAS SECOND TERM, CANT KALAM HAVE ONE???

WELL BY THE WAY, I leave it to you to choose which one was the serious one and which was not.

"Sivaji - The Boss"

Hey Amigos,

Right from my child hood I have been humbled and amazed by the acting prowess of Mr. Kamal Hassan. And I have stood for him in every argument and tiff during all these years among my friends, who although turn foe for that moment.

And it is very bizarre for a loyal Kamal Hassan fan to start of his first blog with a write up on “Sivaji- The Boss”. May one call it a timing of my blog or was it smart effort in pulling people towards my blog, this mania is really worth writing.

Well Guys, This write up is NO REVIEW as I am on of those who are yet so see this phenomenon as of today. It is just to express my views on the whole pre launch hype and events surrounding this movie.

CHANDRAMUKHI AND AFTER:

Chandramukhi was touted and greeted with great success. There are talks that in some theatre in TN, this movie is still being screened. Once a movie hits the numbers in chartbusters as Chandramukhi did, it is really tough for any actor to back it up with a better smash hit.

May be the success of Chandramukhi looked immense because of the failure of his previous film Baba. All said and done, now that the new parameters are set, it was up-to the core team of his next project that had to bring out something extraordinary from their sleeves.

TEAM SIVAJI:

Toghether Everbody Achieves More, that's exactly what it is all about. First have look at the brains that have gone behind this movie.

1. Shankar: The Captain of the Ship--> The lesser we talk it's better as his creations speaks volumes about him.

2. A R Rahman: The Second in command--> I would say, more than anybody else, he would have had the maximum pressure as his previous venture with Rajini flopped.

3. Thotta Dharani: Always overlooked --> What do i say about him, people like him are the real heroes

Did i forget someone......? Oh yeah ...of course ....Last but not the least Rajnikanth.

Not very often technicians of such class and caliber come together. However it doesn't mean that the success is guaranteed. I still remember that Real Madrid team which had Zidane, Beckham, Roberto Carlos, Ronaldo & Raul, the team miserably failed. When they all formed a wall the commentator remarked as "The worlds costliest wall !! "

MEDIA-THE CATALYST

Well any Rajini movie , is a festive occasion for his fans. Hence one doesn't get to be surprised with the fans getting frenzy during his movie releases. As a matter of fact when the movie "Padikadhavan" got released the First Day First Show fans refused to come out of the theater for the next four shows!! Such is his mass appeal and the fan following that he carries not only in the country but also in parts of earth like US, Malayasia, Singapore & Japan. In fact i would say it is unparalleled in the history of Indian Cinema!

But this time it was something special. This particular Rajini film saw something that was never seen before. It was riding on top of something else apart from the huge Tsunami of Fans wave, THE MEDIA.

May be it was really a tactical move in delaying the release of the movie couple of times or was it a mere coincidence, what ever been the reality would have been, media was suddenly in the race for making a difference to this Rajini movie.

The difference between the previous movies and this one of Rajnikanth is that this movie was in media even before the release. Normally his movies hit the media once they are released and running successfully.

It was just pretty amusing for me to notice that Professional TV Channels were airing 1 hour shows on "Sivaji-The Boss". I was not the only one who was surprised by the attention , i had an companion in form of a famous actor who has direct relation with the outcome of this movie, Mr.Rajinikanth. In his rare interviews to the news channel he was quoted saying for once he was feeling nervous because of the hype that was surrounding the release of this movie.

At this juncture, where the movie has just been released and rocking the world, few questions hover around my mind:

1. Has the quality of the Media degraded so much that they make a Boeing out of an paper plane??

2. Or has the competition become so intense that they are taking desperate measures??

3. Most important of them all, How is Rajni going to back this film up?

Questions are there for you people to answer!!

Would love to see your comments!

Thanks Folks for time!!