Movie: Dasavatharam

Man, I wonder how much things Kamal really knows! He knows right from 12^th century’s lifestyle to George Bush’s body language! Damn. I was wondering throughout the film about his knowledge over various country and culture.

I think Kamal is not much educated; I remember once I’ve read that he didn’t continue studies after 10^th std. Then, wondering how come he knows this much from history and world lifestyle!

I don’t think people, or even educated people might know so much of things technically and historically. I couldn’t understand some of the parts in the movie. I also went and searched for following topics for clarification.

1. Chaos Theory (http://www.extramirchi.com/movies/dasavatharam-chaos-theory-butterfly-effect/)
2. kulothunga cholan II (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kulothunga_Chola_II)
3. George Bush (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqLvBUSJucg)

And etc.

It was a great surprise to read the information about kulothunga cholan II from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kulothunga_Chola_II. Whatever was shown in the movie about this Chola is 90% a real story it seems. I did not know about this Chaos Theory/Butter Fly theory before watching the movie. Surprised to know all these theory. There shouldn’t be any surprise, if Kamal is going to talk about ‘Theory of Automata’, ‘Finite State Machines’ and ‘NP Complexity Algorithms’ in his future films! :-)

George Bush role! First, I was thinking that was some different guy, not Kamal. Because, his body language and accent was looking as if he was a native American. After 15 to 20 minutes passed, I came to know that that was also Kamal!

Balaram Naidu. Audience breaks out in laugh! Damn character. His acting was awesome! Looking as if he was from a typical Telugu family

Fletcher – He can be recommended to James Bond roles!. May be this holly wood can give a try with Kamal.

I simply don’t want to say this movie is good/bad/ok. Those one word comments cannot stand against this movie, when realizing the awesome knowledge of Kamal and the great acting done by Kamal. Dasavatharam can be a PhD topic, to explore the culture and legacy of India starting right from 12^th Century to 21^st Century!

Kudu Kuduppaikaran

It was a Saturday early morning, say 5’o clock. I couldn’t continue sleeping as I was hearing a strange sound continuously. That sound was not new to me. I remember I heard the sound some where at sometime long ago. I woke up and sharpened the ears close to the sound. That was clear then. It was a KuduKuduppai sound. I don’t know how many of you could have heard this sound in your childhood. Not sure, what kind of feeling you have had when you heard the sound of KuduKuduppai at that time. But, I've had a scared feeling at my childhood whenever I heard that sound. The KuduKuduppaikaran (couldn’t find an English equivalent for ‘KuduKuduppaikaran’ anywhere!.) walks along the streets in the mid-night. He has a terrific make-up as if some ghost comes along with him and he tells fortune at each house in the street.

Also, I’ve heard so many rumors about this KuduKuduppaikaran in my childhood. My mom used to tell me that people would not attempt to meet this KuduKuduppaikaran face to face at mid-night, when he is coming on the streets; because he would be coming along with ghosts. Also, my childhood friends used to tell stories that this KuduKuduppaikaran visits grave yards in the midnight and does some special pooja with skulls, bones and then come into streets to tell the fortune. I scared to the maximum about this KuduKuduppaikaran then! Thereafter, whenever I heard this KuduKuduppai sound in the mid-nights, I scared…embraced my mom and used to cover my face using her saree due to fear! Though they were rumors, I didn’t have a choice other than believing it – as I was a child.

Days passed by. I’ve grown. Live in boring Bangalore – where I don’t have any such interesting story tellers. After many years, I heard this sound at an early morning! Instead of scaring, I felt happy this time! I was happy that this guy had not yet gone missing. I just opened my windows and watched around. He was singing some strange song, probably it was a mix of Kannata & Tamil languages. He stopped at each door step and was telling fortune. He was walking on his own way then.

I feel sympathy for him now. He cant get a job it seems. Same time, he doesn’t want to beg. So, he does fortune telling, what his ancestors used to do. Nowadays these people are decreasing in number. In childhood, they told me hoax stories about this KuduKuduppaikaran. Then, who can tell me a correct story about him now?

Mr. Google.

Intially I couldn’t get any results on Google about this KuduKuduppaikaran. But, I didn’t want to give up. Rephrased, refined the keywords and shot again. Then, google returned some shocking news about these KuduKudppai Community. This the result, I’ve got from google (text is in Tamil, better readable in Internet Explorer or FireFox3):

http://photobala.blogspot.com/2007/07/blog-post.html

Shocked. I am really heart-broken to read that this community is denied education & work! I wish them one day they get all the benefits and rights in the society that we’ve today.

I scared to see this people in my childhood. Now, mind-set had totally changed.. I am happy to see such strange things back in life!