The Illusion of Reality

A successful businessman tells the secret of success to the failing businesswoman (Carolyn) in the film - American Beauty:

"In order to be successful, one must project an image of success at all times."

A transsexual (Agrado) on theatre stage, to the audience, in the film - Todo Sobre Mi Madre (All About My Mother):

"You are more authentic the more you resemble what you've dreamed of being."

கவித! கவித!...

வாக்கிங் செல்ல

பார்க்கிற்குப் போகிறார்கள்

காரில்.

குடிச்சுப் பாரு பீரு;

ஊதிப் பாரு சிகரு;

போகும் பாரு உசிரு!

சுனாமி

கொலை கொலையாய்

பயமுறுத்தின கனவுகள்,  இனி

அலை அலையாய்

வந்து பயமுறுத்தும்!

கும்பகோணம் தீ விபத்து

புத்தகங்கள் அழிந்தன.

தட்சணையும் அழிந்தது.

ஞானம் புகட்டும் பள்ளியே அழிந்தது.

ஆனால் அழியவில்லை -

யாம் கற்ற கல்வி!

கடவுள்கள்

இறைவா,

இங்கு தான்

மக்கள் தொகை அதிகம்;

அங்குமா?!

இவையும், என் பள்ளி இறுதிப் பருவத்தில் கிறுக்கியது.

Sage

Simple. Peaceful. Yet powerful soul.

I painted it when I was schooling. One boring day, I had new water colours; I holded the paint brush and scribbled on the waste paper lied nearby. One by one the curvy lines began to depict a sage.

After all these years I still don't have the feeling to repaint on a clean sheet of paper. Don't know why!

I consider this as the best of all drawings and paintings I ever did.

"How to express love to a girl?"

Yahoo! Answers (answers.yahoo.com) is one of the best site for finding solutions to our problems and answering other's queries.

Here is a few of many questions I answered in Yahoo! Answers, which I felt would be interesting (click the questions or use the URLs):

"How to express love to a girl?"
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AmAw039CFU2t9I4ELxhgdhnty6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20100614053023AAXxDLL&show=7#profile-info-wZ4Zegyuaa

"Wat to do?.does he like me or not? help me?"
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AupOKiwYht6xL4akpPy1SVrty6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20100617052513AAMMSQr&show=7#profile-info-dSuKSmr5aa

And a funny one:
"What are you looking for?"
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=ApZwmPFaz.pYUPYaxJE8yzLsy6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20100628062549AAhj7q5&show=7#profile-info-0PLV5uXjaa

'Apoorva Sagodharagal' tricks of Kamal Hassan

After all these years, I watched Apoorva Sagodharagal (1989) only recently. As usually Kamal's film is nice. While enjoying the film, I was also wondering on how they shot midget Kamal's scenes.

It was very interesting to analyse the tricks they used to shoot Kamal as a midget. Here are some of the tricks the film guys used to shoot the midget 'Appu' Kamal...

It's not true as it was marketed that Kamal tied his legs for the whole film to act as a midget. In most of the scenes where Kamal comes as a midget, they show only his body above his hip or knees.

In the scenes where midget Kamal is showed completely as standing, they should have dug up the surface and buried his legs. He could shake his body but wouldn't move his place in the dance sequences. Only because of this trick, they were able to film him at top angle, but not for any other scenes.

His walking scenes also used the same trick of 'dug up surface' and they made him to walk in that pit while others walk on the surface. If we notice, we could find that these kind of trick scenes were shot at the ground level at some distance. So one would be deceived because of that angle.

There are few scenes where he was showed swinging the legs childishly or keeping one leg above the other. They filmed these scenes by using 'dug up surface' trick, making Kamal to stand inside a hole and making another real midget guy to stand upside down in the hole - thereby the guy could hide his body inside the hole and could shake his own legs, deceiving as if Kamal's legs. Otherwise a puppeteer would hide his body in the hole and puppet fake legs by wearing midget Kamal's pant in the hands and moving accordingly. If we look these scenes attentively, they wouldn't show his back (or buttocks) because it's risky as it would reveal this trick.