Our history and the problem at hand.

Lets talk history,

We are on a vantage point in history right now, 

The present Universe began with the Big Bang about 13.7 billion years ago. (the big bang was not the beginning, recent studies say the big bang is a continuous event)

 

 earth was formed 4.6 billion years ago
 

Earth cooled down and water was formed 4 billion years ago
Q : what's so special about earth ?
A :  water, it is the elixir of life , no other planet in our solar system has water.

There are 400 million stars in the milky way galaxy, each star has numerous planets around it, each star is a solar system. There are more than 125 billion galaxies in this universe (many of the galaxies are bigger than our milky way), so .. earth is clearly a small negligible dust in this mighty universe. But as far as we have explored.., earth is the only planet with abundant water in it.

 

life formed on earth 3.5 billion years ago ,

photosynthesis started 3 billion years ago. (the arrival of the plants)

 multicellular life started 1 billion years ago

fishes emerged 500 million years ago .

Fishes with bones came 485 Million years ago. ( the rise of the vertebrates)

 

Insects came 400 million yrs ago .

Reptiles came 300 million years ago. 

 



Dinosaurs started walking on earth 225 million years ago. ( Jurassic park was released in 1993)



Birds arrived 150 million years ago .



90 million years ago India broke away from the coast of East Africa. Originally it was part of Madagascar but rifted away from  Africa and began its rapid movement northward.

During the late Cretaceous (80 - 65 million years ago), India was moving at a rate of more than 15 cm/year. No modern plate moves that fast. India's northward race towards Asia may be something of a plate tectonic speed record.

The reason it moved so quickly was because it was attached to a large oceanic slab of lithosphere that was subducting beneath the southern margin of Asia .

Ants came to earth 80 million years ago




Dinosaurs became extinct after a big meteor fell on earth 65 million years ago . Rats came to earth the same year ..

Rats started climbing trees and the primates formed (monkeys)







India's journey came to an end Ultimately colliding with Asia between 55 -50 million years ago .



Bats came 52 million years ago



Grass grew on earth 35 million years ago.



Cats meowed 30 million years ago






Deers came 25 million years ago.



Giraffe and bears arrived 20 million years ago .





kangaroos jumped on earth 15 million years ago
 




Elephants , zebras , lions and Rhinocerous came 4 million years ago




Neanderthal man came 3.5 million years ago



human beings emerged on earth 2.2 million years ago. (some might be thinking that the early cave men and dinosaurs co existed at some point in time but we never met the dinosaurs)

There are controversies about how suddenly humans got their intelligence. 
The appearance of life on earth and the appearance of intelligence are nothing short of a miracle.

The popular theory is that the primates had the curiosity to know things and they developed the first gene of intelligence, then slowly our brain developed. 

we started using tools 2.5-2.6 million years ago

Homo erectus and Neanderthals migrated from Africa to Europe before the emergence of modern humans. The bones of the earliest Europeans are found in Dmanisi, Georgia, dated at 1.8 million years ago.



Neanderthal man became extinct 25 thousand years ago

The continents broke apart and continental drift sent them to different parts of the globe.
The great Himalayas also formed due to the continental drifts.

Tamil Nadu, Lanka and Kumarikandam ((Lemuria) the archipelago that sunk under the sea during the deluge) could be the birthplace of  language, the Tamil language in particular. The first and second great ages (Sangams) of the Tamils happened in a land that is now under the sea.

The lost land mass by the name of "Kumari Kandam" is mentioned in Classical literature like Silapathikaram, Manimegalai, Tholkappiyam, Purananuru, Kalithokai, Kurunthokai, Iraiyanar Akapporul, and Thiruvasagam.

These texts speak of a Pandya King Nilan Tharu Thiruvil Pandyan 2 who led his people north when the Kumari Kandam continent was submersed by the sea. These Tamil literatures speaks of three noble flourishing periods of Tamil culture. Each of these three phases of high Tamil culture is called Sangam age.

According to the Kumari Kandam tradition, over a period of about just 11,000 years, the Pandyas, a historical dynasty of Tamil kings, formed three Tamil Sangams, in order to foster among their subjects the love of knowledge, literature and poetry. These Sangams were the fountain head of Tamil culture and their principal concern was the perfection of the Tamil language and literature. The first two Sangams were not located in what is now South India but in antediluvian Tamil land to the south which in ancient times bore the name of Kumari Kandam, literally the Land of the Virgin or Virgin Continent.

R. Mathivanan, then Chief Editor of the Tamil Etymological Dictionary Project of the Government of Tamilnadu, in 1991 … produced the following timeline …:

200,000 to 50,000 BC: evolution of “the Tamil people.

200,000 to 100,000 BC: beginnings of the Tamil language

50,000 BC: Kumari Kandam civilisation

20,000 BC: A lost Tamil culture of the Easter Island which had an advanced civilisation.

 

 16,000 BC: Lemuria submerged



6087 BC: Second Tamil Sangam established by a Pandya king.

3031 BC : A Chera prince in his wanderings in the Solomon Island saw wild sugarcane and started cultivation in Tamilnadu.



1780 BC: The Third Tamil Sangam established by a Pandya king.

The first Sangam, founded and nurtured by Siddha Sri Agastiyar was head-quartered in a city named Then-madurai (Southern Madurai) in the continent of Lemuria (kumarikandam) It was patronised by a succession of eighty-nine kings and survived for an unbroken period of 4,400 years during which time it approved an immense collection of poems and literature. At the end of that golden age, the First Sangam was destroyed when a deluge arose and Then-madurai itself was swallowed by the sea along with large parts of the land area of Kumari Kandam.

(statue of Agasthiyar munivar)

16,000 BC: Lemuria submerged, however, the survivors, saving some of the books, were able to relocate further north.

6087 BC: Second Tamil Sangam was established by a Pandya king.

The Mahabharata war, where Lord Krishna propagated the teachings of the Bhagavad Gita to Arjuna, is reckoned to have taken place during the Second Sangam period .They established a Second Sangam in a city called Kavatapuram which lasted 3,700 years. The same fate befell this city as well, when it too was swallowed by the sea and lost forever all its works .

3031 BC: A Chera prince in his wanderings in the Solomon Island saw wild sugarcane and started cultivation in Tamilnadu. Following the inundation of Kavatapuram , the survivors once again relocated northward .

1780 BC: The Third Tamil Sangam was established by a Pandya king. The Third Sangam lasted for a period of 1850 years namely in the modern city of Madurai (Keezhadi), which lays north of the earlier centers, after the whole of the (kumarikandam) Lemurian continent had gone under water.

600 BC: Tholkappiyam (the earliest available Tamil grammar)

And most scholars agree that that Sangam terminated around 350 AD.

The continent was destroyed by three large floods which wiped out most of the golden civilization with it. Literary evidence of the lost continent of Kumari Kandam comes principally from the literature of the Third Tamil Sangam and the historical writings based on them. Many of them refer to the lost Tamil lands and to the deluges which ancient peoples believed had swallowed those lands. The Silappathikaram, a well known Tamil literary work, for instance mentions, " the river Prahuli and the mountain Kumari surroundered by many hills being submerged by the raging sea".

The Venetian traveler Marco Polo visited Tamil Nadu twice during the thirteenth century and commented on how the Tamils viewed with great pride their black skin-complexions. He actually said that their young were anointed with oil of sesame which made them even darker and that, "Here the darkest man is better than the others who are not so dark," that they portray their gods and saints black and the devil as white as snow." You can find this passage in Marco Polo's Travels.

In ‘The Interior Landscape', an English translation of Kuruntokai, an anthology of Tamil Love lyrics recorded during the first three centuries A.D, translator A.K.Ramanujan notes It would be quite an interesting undertaking, if one were to explore how a society that valued romantic love in the Sangam Period transformed into one that has been dominated by arranged marriages in the last few centuries.

Devaneya Pavanar, who held that all languages on earth were merely corrupted Tamil dialects proposed Kumari Kandam is a sunken kingdom also known as Lemuria . According to these modernist interpretations of motifs in classical Tamil literature — the epics silappathikaram and Manimekalai that describe the submerged city of Puhar — the tamils originally came from land south of the present day coast of South India that became submerged by successive floods. There are various claims from Tamil authors that there was a large land mass connecting Australia and the present day Tamil Nadu coast. Adiyarkkunelar, described the distance between the Prahuli and Kumari rivers as 700 kavathams. This distance has been interpreted as about 7,000 modern miles (11,000 km).

Only in the last fifty years, since the invention of scuba diving, has systematic marine archeology been possible. Due to limited funding and the enormity of the world's oceans, marine archeologists have barely begun to investigate the millions of square kilometers of coastal shelf inundated since the end of the last Ice Age. The underwater world represents a void in our knowledge of our planet and of ourselves. Myths, however, have much to say - Graham Hancock.

Hancock's thesis is that there were many sedentary higher cultures on the lower-lying land areas exposed at lowered sea levels during the final parts of the Ice Age, and which now lie at the bottom of the sea.





Hancock demonstrates Marco Polo's belief that Ceylon was once connected to India, was one third larger in the past, and was submerged.

Evidences are pouring in Archeaology showing cultures in India upto 30,000 to 40,000 years BC. 

The paintings in the caves of Bhimbetaka of Madhya Pradesh belongs to 10,000 BC.

Dr. S.B. Rao, Emeritus Scientist of the National Institute of Oceanography, Dona Paula, Goa, has discovered under the sea, Dwaraka and dated it as between 5000 to 6000 BC. This news has been published by all the leading newspapers on 22th October 1988.

(ancient city of Dwaraka)

Recent discoveries of Maya occupation at Cuello, Belize have been carbon dated to around 2600 BC
This level of occupation included monumental structures. The Maya calendar, which is based around the so-called Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, begins on a date equivalent to 11 August 3114 BC.



Cities with brick walls , swimming pools and and proper drainage systems were built in INDIA in Harappa and Mohenjodaro in 2500 BC , a site in pakistan recently gave clues of civillisation earlier than this.

The Indus valley people and their culture had developed a highly sophisticated way of life which compares favorably with that of contemporary urban civilizations in Egypt and Mesopotamia.
The extensive excavations carried out at the two principal city sites, Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro, both situated in the Indus basin, indicates that this culture was well established by about 2500 B.C.







The great pyramid in Egypt was built in 2560 BC. But it can be older than this date, Researcher Graham Hancock says they could be built before 10,500 BC . . The pyramid of Egypt has remained a mystery that is waiting to be unlocked .



In 2000-1400 B.C , Cannabis(marijuana)or Ganja is mentioned in the Atharva Vedam as one of the five sacred plants of India. It is used by medicinally and ritually as an offering to Shiva. 

According to legend, the ancient Olympic Games were founded by Heracles (the Roman Hercules), a son of Zeus. Yet the first Olympic Games for which we still have written records were held in 776 BC .

700 BC The caste system emerges in India, with the Brahman priests at the top.

The Great wall of china's construction started in 700 BC.





Buddha lived on earth around 553 B.C. – 483 B.C .





The Mahabharata is roughly ten times the length of the Iliad and Odyssey combined, or about four times the length of the Ramayana , the oldest preserved parts of this book is older than 400 BC.




Aristotle was a Greek philosopher and polymath, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. His writings cover many subjects, including physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, logic, rhetoric, linguistics, politics, government, ethics, biology, and zoology. he lived between 384 BC – 322 BC .

Ptolomy II Soter, founded the Museum or Royal Library of Alexandria in 283 BC.(the Library at Alexandria was charged with collecting all the world's knowledge ,
. The classical thinkers who studied, wrote, and experimented at the museum include the fathers of mathematics, engineering, physiology, geography, and medicine. These included notable thinkers such as Euclid, Archimedes, Eratosthenes, Herophilus, Erasistratus, Hipparchus, Aedesia, Pappus, Hypatia, Aristarchus of Samos, and Saint Catherine.



Thiruvalluvar wrote Thirukkural somewhere between 200 BC to 800 AD .





44 BC: Julius Caesar murdered by Marcus Brutus and others.


Jesus christ was born on year 0000 which separates BC and AD


Jesus died on the cross somewhere between 30–36 AD




Christianity was introduced to India by St. Thomas the Apostle, who visited Muziris in Kerala in 52 AD to spread the gospel amongst Kerala's Jewish settlements .

 

Petro chemical oil was produced from bamboo-drilled wells in China in 347 AD (Today in the 21st century .., about 90% of vehicular fuel needs are met by oil)



Hypatia .. the woman scientist of Alexandria (Egypt) who found the heliocentric theory and also who found that the earth revolves in an elliptical orbit and not in a circular orbit was born in in 370 A.D

After this there was mass havoc as Christians retaliated against both the Jews and the Pagans , there was a religious war and the Alexandria library was destroyed by Christian groups in around 400 AD





which involved the death of Hypatia in 415 AD .



     

Nalanda - the first great university in the world was started in 500 AD .



Prophet Muhammad was born in 26 April 570 AD.



Bodhidharma , the father of kung fu was born in kanchipuram , tamilnadu and travelled to china somewhere between 482 - 539 A.D.. In South East Asia martial arts was introduced during the naval expansion of the Chola and Pallava Empires of the Tamil Country between the 2nd and 12th centuries A.D. At the turn of the 6th century A.D. 

Martial arts spread from Southern India to China by a Tamil prince turned monk named Daruma Bodhidarma. At birth he was born with a breathing disorder, He was adopted and trained at birth in breathing exercises and combat, namely in the arts of Varma Kalai and Kuttu Varisai. Bodhidarma also studied Dhyana Buddhism and became the 28th patriarch of that religion. From China, martial arts have spread to Korea & Japan.





Muhammad marched on Mecca with an enormous army, with more than ten thousand men and Muhammad took control of Mecca.
Most Meccans were converted to Islam and Muhammad subsequently had destroyed all the statues of Arabian gods in and around the Kaaba in In 630 AD. He died in Medina, at the age of 63, in the house of his wife Aisha on Monday, June 8, 632 AD.

The Chinese discovered gunpowder around 1000AD.



The Peruvudaiyar Temple in Thanjai was built by Raja Raja Chola in 1100 AD

Nalanda was ransacked and destroyed by Turkic Muslim invaders under Bakhtiyar Khilji in 1193 AD. The great library of Nalanda University was so vast that it is reported to have housed more than 9 million books which burned for three months after the invaders set fire to it, ransacked and destroyed the monasteries, and drove the monks from the site.




Ankorwat was built by Suryavarman II in 1200 AD.





Europeans obtained gunpowder in 1300 AD.

The catholic christians arrived in India at surat in 1320 AD and started converting thousands into christians.

 

Christopher Columbus discovers America on october 1492 AD. He did not land exactly in America and He was not really the first to land in America , its a big debate but he was the reason for christian power and colonisation of europeans in America.




Vasco da Gama arrived at Calicut, India on 20 May 1498 AD



Zahir ud-din Muhammad Babur invaded India after he learned about the riches of Hindustan and the Mughal empire started in India at 1526 AD , India's population at that time was less than 150 million.




Copernicus found the same heliocentric theory again in 1543 AD . No one knew of the lady Hypatia of Egypt by then.

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Shakespeare wrote Romeo and Juliet between 1591 and 1595 AD.

 

The first working steam-powered vehicle was likely to have been designed by Ferdinand Verbiest, a Flemish member of a Jesuit mission in China around 1672 AD.

 

The christian protestant missions arrived in India in 1705 AD They translated the Bible into the Tamil language, and afterwards into Hindustani.

 

In 1750, Benjamin Franklin published a proposal for an experiment to prove that lightning is electricity by flying a kite in a storm. Franklin's electrical experiments led to his invention of the lightning rod.

The British East India Company came to India and traded mainly in cotton, silk, indigo dye, salt, saltpetre, tea and opium. The Company also came to rule large areas of India, exercising military power and assuming administrative functions. Company rule in India effectively began in 1757 after the Battle of Plassey in which Robert Clive, an agent of the East India Company, lead forces which defeated the Mughal governor of Bengaland and the company rule lasted until 1858 when, following the Indian Rebellion of 1857.

 


(Battle of Plassey ,1757)

( Indian rebellion 1857)



Mass production of the cars started in US in 1821 AD
 

Charles Babbage is considered the father of Computers because he invented the Difference Engine and then Analytical Engine, which can store the information on Punched Cards . He experimented with them from 1822 until his death in 1871.

(The difference engine)

Mughal dynasty ended in India in 1857 AD




Mahatma Gandhi was born in india on 2 October 1869.

Queen victoria ruled india from 1876 .

 

In march 1876 Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone.

In 1878, Edison formed the Edison Electric Light Company in New York City with several financiers, including J. P. Morgan and the members of the Vanderbilt family. Edison made the first public demonstration of his incandescent light bulb on December 31, 1879, in Menlo Park. It was during this time that he said: "We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles.

The first motion picture camera was found in the 1880s in America.

 

First world war happened in 1914 – 1918 between the Allies ( UK , France and Russia ) and Central Powers ( Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy)





The physicist Albert Einstein did not directly participate in the invention of the atomic bomb. But as we shall see, he was instrumental in facilitating its development.
In 1905, as part of his Special Theory of Relativity, he made the intriguing point that a large amount of energy could be released from a small amount of matter. This was expressed by the equation E=mc2 (energy = mass times the speed of light squared). The atomic bomb would clearly illustrate this principle.
But bombs were not what Einstein had in mind when he published this equation. Indeed, he considered himself to be a pacifist. In 1929, he publicly declared that if a war broke out he would "unconditionally refuse to do war service, direct or indirect... regardless of how the cause of the war should be judged."




Harry J. Anslinger, ran a campaign against marijuana in the US and they made marijuana illegal in 1937 for the economical benefit of petrochemical oil well owners because Marijuana or cannabis hemp was used to manufacture oil and it was a potential competitor.

year 1940 : The atomic bomb was invented by two refugee German scientists in Britain, Professor Rudolph Peierls and Otto Frisch, of Birmingham University. They designed a "blue-print" for making an atom bomb in 1940.It actually began when the Italian-born physicist Enrico Fermi, working in the United States, invented an apparatus which produced the first atomic chain reactions. Both the Americans and British were researching the atom bomb and when the United States entered WW2, the British joined the American "Manhattan Project" and production of the bomb went on ahead in the US In 1940.

 

The second world war started in 1939 and ended in 1945.
It was the most widespread war in history, with more than 100 million people serving in military units.50 million to over 70 million fatalities. These deaths make the war the deadliest conflict in human history. 



 







In 1942 ,John Vincent Atanasoff invented the first automatic electronic digital computer .

(The first modern computer)

The first atom bombs were dropped in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan in August 1945

 

 

 

on August 15, 1947 , India got independence from the British after a long struggle.

  



Mahatma gandhi died  on 30 January 1948 (aged 78).






In November 1954, five months before his death, Einstein summarized his feelings about his role in the creation of the atomic bomb: "I made one great mistake in my life... when I signed the letter to President Roosevelt recommending that atom bombs be made; but there was some justification - the danger that the Germans would make them."

 

June 27, 1954: World's First Nuclear Power Plant Opens near moscow .



Oil exploration in North America led to the U.S. becoming one of the leading producer by the mid 1900 AD. As petroleum production in the U.S. peaked during the 1960s, however, the United States was surpassed by Saudi Arabia and Russia.



According to one estimate, 57% of the the total financial resources spent by the United States is in relation to nuclear weapons since 1940 .

 

Apollo 11 was the spaceflight which landed the first humans, Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, Jr, on Earth's Moon on July 20, 1969. (according to the widely believed popular theory)
 

The Voyager 2 spacecraft is a 722-kilogram (1,592 lb) space probe launched by NASA on August 20, 1977 to study the outer Solar System and eventually interstellar space.  It was the first probe to provide detailed images of the outer gas giants. Voyager space probe carries a gold-plated audio-visual disc (containing information about earth) in the event that either spacecraft is ever found by intelligent life-forms from other planetary systems. 



The Chernobyl disaster was a catastrophic nuclear accident that occurred on 26 April 1986 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine. The Belarus national academy of sciences estimates 93,000 deaths so far and 270,000 cancers, and the Ukrainian national commission for radiation protection calculates 500,000 deaths so far. Chernobyl will be uninhabitable for thousands of years due to radiation .




The War in Afghanistan, also called the Afghan war, began on October 7, 2001, as the armed forces of the United States of America, the United Kingdom, the Commonwealth of Australia, and the Afghan United Front (Northern Alliance) launched Operation Enduring Freedom. The primary driver of the invasion was the September 11 attacks on the United States, with the stated goal of dismantling the al-Qaeda terrorist organization and ending its use of Afghanistan as a base. The United States also said that it would remove the Taliban regime from power and create a viable democratic state. A decade into the war, the U.S. continues to battle a widespread Taliban insurgency, and the war has expanded into the tribal areas of neighboring Pakistan - THE WHOLE WORLD KNOWS ,THIS IS A WAR BETWEEN RELIGIONS FOR OIL WEALTH . 



 

  



Now we are in the 2000's, Nuclear plants use uranium which by nuclear fission creates plutonium which is used in nuclear weapons. 

Right now .. there are 441 operating nuclear plants on earth , 60 under construction and 150 being planned . on 11 March 2011: The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster is a series of equipment failures, nuclear meltdowns, and releases of radioactive materials at the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant, following the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. It is the largest nuclear disaster since the Chernobyl disaster of 1986.

 

In March 2012 japan has closed all 53 of its nuclear plants , Germany has decided to close its plants , 53% of US population are against nuclear power , 80% of population in almost all countries are against nuclear power.



But in India, the govt of India continues buying nuclear reactor plants from Russia even after seeing the Chernobyl and Fukushima disasters. The people's movement against nuclear power in India is suppressed and the protesting civilians are labelled as Maoists and terrorists. 

We have only one planet to live in this mighty cosmos.
















Finally,

References : The Scientific Dating of the Mahabharat War By Dr.P.V.Vartak // http://appiusforum.net/indusvalley.html// History of Cannabis in India Published on June 16, 2011 by Jann Gumbiner, Ph.D. in The Teenage Mind /// http://www.shahamaasi.com/18.html // http://www.scribd.com/doc/24007392/Land-of-Tamils-Loges-War-An // http://frontiers-of-anthropology.blogspot.in/2011/07/sunken-foreunners-of-asias-ancient.html // Caste, Dowry and Arranged Marriage in Tamil Society by Renuka Kumarasamy, 2006 Sangam AGM souvenir booklet // http://tamil-history.blogspot.in // http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=sOsp9ujOU1M#! // http://www.articlesbase.com/culture-articles/what-and-where-was-the-mythical-kumari-kandam-4642866.html // http://www.gloriousindia.com/history/bhimbetka.html // What Happened Before the Big Bang?- documentary // carl sagan's "Cosmos" documentary // Charles darwin and the tree of life documentary. //

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cinema 2012

After watching so many classics , we might think the era of good cinema is over , we missed the ages when cinema flourished step by step , but luckily we have “ The Artist“ , it brings the experience of the audience in the silent era , maybe it’s the reason it grabbed the Academy award for best picture .

I saw the film on big screen , eventhough it won the oscar , the theatre was not filled ,there were merely 25 viewers .
I liked the performance of the lead role , he tried his best to match the legendary artists of that period , I liked the dog , but later I read from the message boards , it was not one dog , it was three dogs painted in the same colour pattern. But still impressive .
The movie has a very small suspense and it is mainly abt the introduction of sound in cinemas . It also has borrowed the sound tracks from some great classics .

For those who watched “ singing in the rain “ , this movie wont be that appealing .
Singing in the rain is a musical masterpiece abt the introduction of music , live audio and dubbing in cinema ,

The dance sequences in The Artist are also majorly inspired from Singing in the rain , Whats so good about the artist is not its plot or the drama , it’s the effort of making such a silent movie for the present day multiplex audiences . The experience is really worth it for film freaks .

I also saw “ The Descendants “ , another Oscar Nomination and I will really vote George Clooney “ for best acting .


It was a soft , feel good serious movie .

My whole interest was on HUGO , it grabbed 5 Oscars for almost all the technical aspects .
so I checked it out , Its not an ordinary movie . A 3D film by Martin Scorsese , even James Cameron has said it’s the best use of 3D ever , Waiting for it to come in our nearby theatres, for the3D experience ,
But still .. watching it in desktop screen was a marvelous journey ,
The whole movie is like a Beautiful Golden Clockwork , Visually stunning ,,,The story of a small boy who lived in the clock tower of a train station , his friend Isabelle is a girl interested in adventures and books , she really gets a good adventure on helping hugo . It’s a fairy tale experience , a must watch for everyone .

we understand how machines can be beautiful and how everything in this world has a purpose . Hugo’s journey starts with his effort to repair a Small robot(automaton) which he thinks carries a message from his father .

His concept of the world is interesting .

Hugo Cabret : I'd imagine the whole world was one big machine. Machines never come with any extra parts, you know. They always come with the exact amount they need. So I figured, if the entire world was one big machine, I couldn't be an extra part.I had to be here for some reason.

why i think HUGO is better than The Artist – Don’t read if you haven’t seen the movie , it will spoil ur thrill.

The artist showed us the cinema history which was already done beautifully in singing in the rain .The surprise element in Hugo is ,its not just a fairy tale film , it carries a film history too , a different history lesson ,The legend of the Lumiere brothers and The father of special effects Mr George Melies.

it’s a gift to watch the pages of my film books on screen ,
Movies are dreams made real , and the man who started it all .. George melies , that legendary role was well done by Ben Kingsley

Another surprise was Sacha Baron Cohen who acted as the station inspector, famous for his weirdo comedy roles like Borat , he does a good job here in Hugo with his strict and subtle comedy ., He is someone who doesn’t laugh . had a sad background in war and pretty much an orphan like hugo.

Lisette: Don't forget to smile.

Station Inspector: Which one? I've mastered three!
Station Inspector: Which one? I've mastered three!
Jude law does well as Hugo’s father , After he dies .. its up to Hugo to repair what his father left .The movie is about how he becomes the change in the train inspector’s life and how he finds out George melies and brings him back to his purpose .

Hugo Cabret: Maybe that's why a broken machine always makes me a little sad, because it isn't able to do what it was meant to do... Maybe it's the same with people. If you lose your purpose... it's like you're broken.

There is a scene where Hugo is repairing the robo in his room , his uncle opens the door suddenly , the cigar accidentally injures his finger tip , his face mourns in pain and after throwing the cigar bud , he tells Hugo .. your Father Died in a Fire Accident. This expresses how dreadful the accident was .. which they don’t show in visuals . There are many such scenes where the director’s touch elevates it to another level .
when the station inspector walks to the woman several times but after the cleak sound in his machine legs … he comes back abruptly without talking ,
George melies says to Hugo : happy endings come only in movies , But Hugo wants to show him something .. he goes to get it and accidentally falls in the eye of the station inspector ,There is a big chase and suddenly it looks like a struggle for an happy ending . There is a dog with the station inspector , a ferocious dog which is no less than THE ARTIST dog in performance .

In this chase scene .. the dog starts chasing hugo after a massive introduction and music , awesome directorial touches by Sir Martin Scorsese .

 i suggest you to read abt George melies or watch some of his movies , his most famous " trip to the moon " will give an idea of what he tried in that time .

They even painted the film by hand frame by frame , what an effort to create a marvel .

Because the lumiere brothers dint sell him a camera , he made one himself , sold all his properties to build a studio . He started the time lapse , multiple exposure and stop motion animation tricks , he was a magician before he entered cinema , he saw cinema as an advanced level of magic while people like lumiere brothers said moving pictures dont have a future .
he started the dream , knowing him will help you enjoy HUGO to the best levels .

In the end … George melies appears before everyone on stage
Georges melies : My friends, I address you all tonight as you truly are; wizards, mermaids, travellers, adventurers,magicians...
Come and dream with me.he sees his wife when he says mermaids ( she really acted as mermaids in George melies’s silent movies ) ,Isabelle and Hugo will be sitting together when he says adventurers , magicians, all perfectly fitting for their part . and we cannot deny “movies are dreams made real “ .
don’t forget to watch this fantastic movie .

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TIME freeze

There is a frozen time in everyone's life,  this is the stage of life where I might have to be run away from what I'm doing (basically sitting at home watching movies) to what I should be doing but I'm stuck between the two. Probably between watching movies and making movies.

It has been a year full of unfinished, unexecuted scripts, sparkling and vanishing of ideas in the mind, a lot of discussions and movie watching of course (lots and lots of movie watching actually). 

This Frozen time in my life, eventually it has to defrost with some progress.

IMDB has become the new school and Pirate bay has become the public library. My time spent in Facebook (the anti nuclear protest, politics, freaking awesome movies, pro marijuana debates) has not contributed any visible growth in life. The debates in the comments section, threads, forums and walls sometimes continue for weeks.

Man's egocentric nature tries to find the ultimate truth but my idea is simple, our purpose is fulfilled if we can enjoy our life. 

When something strikes as odd, write it down and contemplate on it. Finding a job is easy, finding a life in it takes some time, Its ok to not be interested in a money oriented career,  in the ways of the society, marks based education, formula based science, industry based development, losing interest in these things is not LOSING interest in LIFE . life is beyond all these, even beyond the ego based arguments we do in Facebook.
anyways, IM LOGGING IN AGAIN!! 

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Cinema , a gift from God

A gift from god can be anything and it can be surprising and instant .

On the 6th day of the Chennai international Film festival ..

 
I check the films screening schedule every morning to decide which films to watch, I usually skip the 10 am show because I never reach in time but I always watch the last 8 pm show even if the movie doesn't have great reviews. That day.. I planned to be right on time for the 3 pm show after meeting some friends on the way.

 
When the festival started on Dec 14 .. I was disappointed by the poor theatre facilities and the boring  inauguration function but the collection of films was great . I dint even enjoy such a collection in the Film festival of India, Goa .

The kid with a bike (Belgium), My little princess , Late bloomers , The colours of the mountain, Tomboy , The mill & the cross ( Poland ), The monk ( Spain ), The son ( Turkey ), are some of the films I saw that season. I try to watch at least 3 a day in festivals. 

A Marathi movie "Babu band baja " was also good, It reminded me of  Gabhricha paus and Jhing Chik Jhing, these films were able to convey a message in a very simple manner using the art form. Tamil and Bollywood movies never had this simplicity in them .

I watched movies of all cultures which I won't probably remember for a long time but they seeded a feeling that stays and this feeling comes alive every time I see a world movie. 

"The truth of lie ", "my dream of loneliness never walks alone " were movies directed by Roland Reber, his movies always has nudity from the start to the end. They are like a stage drama, makes me sleep despite the nudity but watching such films are also a part of the festival experience.

I wont add Korean movies in the list of world movies , They were called world movies 5 years back but now they're like Hollywood or French cinema, very well marketed for mass consumption by mainstream audience but the Iranian cinema is still in that exotic, rare list of world movies.

In this Chennai film fest of 2011 .. there were some  fascinating world movies like Red sky (Greece) , Heat wave , 17 girls , Snows of Kilimanjaro , No return (Argentina) etc .

On the fifth day .. I had the opportunity to watch " A Seperation ", Iran's official submission to the Best Foreign Language Film category of the 84th Academy Awards 2012.

It was the first Iran movie I saw in this fest, there were very less Iranian movies that year. 

My respect on Iran movies multiplied after watching it. 

But On the 6th day of the Chennai international Film festival .. I watched " THE FRONT LINE "

South Korea's official submission to the Best Foreign Language Film category of the 84th Academy Awards 2012.

I was waiting to see a Korean film in this fest, Korean films always gives me complete satisfaction . Their culture is very similar to ours and emotions are very easy to relate with. My lust for Korean films started with My sassy girl, 200 Pounds Beauty, Windstruck, Sex is Zero, volcano high,  My girl and I etc. These are very commercial films.

My Love for Korean movies started with " OLD BOY " which I have rated as the No 1 movie in my imdb personal top 25 list .
http://www.imdb.com/list/kEXBr0wm3_8/

I've also seen the other movies by the director Chan-Wook Park.

Then on a fine day I watched the movie " Spring summer fall winter ", soon I also watched all the other movies by the director  Kim Ki-Duk. I watched more than 15 of his movies in the same week, notably "bad guy " and 3 iron. Watching his movies is a meditating experience. 

Then " memories of murder "  and " mother " by Joon-ho Bong were also amazing.
Even recently while watching " The Way Home " I was moved by the talent of South Korean film makers . . an absolutely stunning movie.

 
In the morning while checking the schedule .. this Korean film (the front line) was at 3 pm, I wanted to watch it but I'm never interested in war films. I have seen many Hollywood war films which glorify America winning the war. Even a documentary movie " Restrepo " about the Afghan war was focused on maintaining a good image of America. But there are also some Good war films like " Platoon " " Apocalypse now " and Stanley Kubrick 's "Full metal jacket" and" Paths of glory " which changed my idea about war movies. 

Even when i watched "Joint Security Area" I hesitated at the start before I was mesmerised by it. 

My friend told me a way to reach the woodlands theatre in Royapett from T-nagar, I'm not good with routes but we had a coffee in his room 😉 and I left the driving responsibility in the hands of my sub conscious mind. I was in the theatre at 3:02 pm .

I got a seat and also got involved in the movie quickly, I couldn't believe I reached in time. The movie was very interesting, I thought I was over reacting because of the coffee, then i heard the entire audience applaud for several moments in the film. We got emotional, we suffered and laughed with the characters,  we stood while the end credits rolled. The irony of the war struck us all.

I sincerely recommend this movie to all cinema lovers. South Korean cinema is the best. Today I felt it was god's gift. 

next on the schedule is Pina (Germany) 12:30 pm tomorrow :) 

A small tribute to Kim Ki Duk