Monday, July 07, 2008

reflections of nature

Master and the Servant?!
railway track.
lane in the wilderness
Ship of the desert in fertile land.
Camel cart
Peacock in plenty
An subway passage -under water!
Camel carts are common in Baroda
the road to nature!
Chandru aiming for perfect shot!?

C Cheerful salutes by kids
Green fields
Lotus beauty!
Eternal partner Lilly n lotus !?

Cranes with farmers - may be searching for feeds!!

Plucking Lotus - man on the job

Lotus Pond - a rare sight now-a-days

This weekend went for a round to take snaps from in and around baroda, u may call " Nature tour". we came across fertile villages, jublient children, peacocks in plenty, and agricultural fields are ready for the monsoon!!!

Tuesday, July 01, 2008

monsoon magic







Monsoon is playing hide and seek in Baroda... as on 1st of July 2008, heavy showers were not experienced in this part. But a ray of hope, yesterday, clouds envelopes the sky.. awaiting for sky to open...

nice movie


Last friday, the first day first show on the release in Baroda, watch the movie, DASAVATHARAM, fantastic movie, nevertheless, could not comprehend the story, hence going again today...!!!!
Before understanding the story line of DASAVATHARAM one should know what is Butterfuly Effect, the performance of Padmashree Kamal is excellent, but it is little difficult to comprehend the story: the logic behind the flying butterfly in the movie refers the theory:- the idea that a butterfly's wings might create tiny changes in the atmosphere that may ultimately alter the path of a tornado or delay, accelerate or even prevent the occurrence of a tornado in a certain location. The flapping wing represents a small change in the initial condition of the system, which causes a chain of events leading to large-scale alterations of events. Had the butterfly not flapped its wings, the trajectory of the system might have been vastly different. Of course the butterfly cannot literally cause a tornado. The kinetic energy in a tornado is enormously larger than the energy in the turbulence of a butterfly. The kinetic energy of a tornado is ultimately provided by the sun and the butterfly can only influence certain details of weather events in a chaotic manner.
Recurrence, the approximate return of a system towards its initial conditions, together with sensitive dependence on initial conditions are the two main ingredients for chaotic motion. They have the practical consequence of making complex systems, such as the weather, difficult to predict past a certain time range
DASAVATHARAM, story has the underlying themes of Chaos theory and chain of events. It begins with the 12th century with a conflict between the worshipers of two Gods namely Lord Shiva and Lord Vishnu. The king being a Lord Shiva devotee decides to sink the Vishnu idol which is opposed by Rangarajan(kamal), a vishnu devotee. So the king ties rangarajan with the idol and drowns them in the sea.The story propels forward to the current century, where a very harmful bio-chemical weapon is invented in the United States for defense purposes. However, following a hazardous leak, Govindarajan (the protagonist, played again by Kamal), decides to prevent it from being used. There are people who are not happy with this decision, and decide to stop him by hiring an Ex-CIA assassin Christian Fletcher (Again, Kamal). The Virus somehow lands in a cargo shipment that is on its way to Chennai, India. Govindrajan and Fletcher race to the other end of the world, in a bid to conquer this vial. The rest of the movie is a cat and mouse game, into which many other characters (most played by Kamal himself, in keeping with the theme of the movie), are drawn.The movie reaches a dramatic conclusion when the protagonist Govindarajan fails to stop the leakage of the virus (Fletcher consumes it and hence causes it to decay his body and spread onto the beach shore). This act would have destroyed a million lives, except that it is already established that the virus can be neutralized by pouring down tons and tons of NaCl.The chaos theory takes control again, with Tsunami rocking the seashores of Chennai, one that brings with it tons of NaCl, courtesy the salty sea water. This miracle is linked to the incidents that occurred back in the 12th century (the god sunk in the sea centuries ago,although killing thousands saves the lives of millions in the form of Tsunami) conferring that everything happens for a reason and god exists.
The ten roles Kamala Hasan plays in the movie are
1 The hero/Scientist,
2 Villan Ex-CIA assassin ,- fantastic casting
3 an old lady,
4 the vishnu devotee,
5 intellegence officer(indian), - Telugu - excellent peformance.
6 tall muslim,
7. a scheduled caste leader,- my favourite and i like the dialogue delivery and the make up
8 a japanese martial arts guy,
9 a punjabi pop singer and
10 George Bus
The songs also very good.. initially the songs did not made an impact, but repeated hearing made the songs a favourite hit.

Thursday, June 26, 2008

trip to silvassa

torrent waters of the lake
way to the lake
Daman Beach...filthy and alcoholic
lake in Silvassa
water flow from the dam sluices
from the top of the dam
Plouging the field
Farmer on the job
view of the dam

green canopy
dam - awaiting for monsoon to fill-up
down side of the dam
silvassa - fertile lanscape

side view of the dam



This weekend we visited a picnic spot (180 Kms away from Mumbai) called Silvassa.. The place is beautiful, green and fertile. But I could see lot of plastic waste, covers, used water bottles along the sides of the road.., by our greed we are spoiling the mother nature... I dont know what will happen if the same trend continuous... may be plasic mountains instead of natural mountains..




agony apart, some snaps...







to think... dont waste food....

Dont waste food..., there are millions of people suffering from want of food...moved and touched by this advertisement....

creativity- egg art









Wow what a creativity?? Simply amazing isnt...

Friday, June 13, 2008

awaiting

Will it rain??

silverlining at the horizons!


Cloud clovering western side

Playing hide n seek ?!

Colourful streak of sunshine in the dark clouds



The sky is playing hide and seek in Baroda, eventhough it was anticipated for an early rain, it was not happening... anyhow some snaps taken two days back - June 11th evening, shows development of evening clouds in the horizon.. but not rained... The normal onset of monsoon in this part is 15th June .. waiting for the skies to open...


Monday, June 09, 2008

i enjoyed

Recently, I watched some movies in a short span of time..

This friday, first day - Seen " Sarkar Raj", a brilliant performance by Amitabh family. We could see the Ramgopal verma's touch and style in the movie. The photo graphy and the camera angles are fantastic... wishing the movie - more than 100 days.... and a fantastic success...


I watched the earlier Indiana jones.. this one also very thrilling, and brilliant. The movie makes one to sit in the end, from the begining to the end.. never had a dull moment... worth watching...enjoy...

Also seen a telugu movie, in Hyderabad... the movie named Parugu... already a super hit in Andhra. The movie is romatic, emotional and enjoyable..

The casting and the photography is rich, the story also very good. Alli arun done a great show. some scenes, in the mist and hill side surrounding is pleasing to the eyes.

The are just some comments about the movies, I watched recently and not to take as a critic.

Wednesday, June 04, 2008

welcome...


Eagerly awaiting for the monsoon rains.... To the delight yesterday night, there was cloud cover and lightning in parts of Vadodara...
Infact there was showers in Ahmedabad, Anand and even Mumbai... so awaiting for SKY TO OPEN....
The Great Indian Monsoon already hit kerala coast on May 31st this year, and it covered parts of Southern peninsula and hovering around north Karnataka... so it is matter of time, for sweeping maharastra.. and then to Gujarat...
Indian Monsoon is magical and one needs to enjoy the transformation... from the Scorching Sun and heat to cloud and rain... even during peak monsoon rains, there would be hide and seek and it would be humid and hot... but the saving grace would be the entire atmosphere gives a rich, green and fertile look owing to rain fall, which is a pleasant sensation to eye and mind... awaiting and welcoming the great indian monsoon, the life-line of India...

Friday, May 09, 2008

from the sky


The recent cyclone with originated in the bay of Bengal, which initially threaten Chennai, Andhra Coast and which ultimately moved to Myanmar caused widespread devastation... On browsing I happen to stumbled upon this NASA ariel pictures, one showing the picture taken last year and the other one showing after the devastation of Cyclone Nargis.... We could see missing land mass, and we could infer the devastation and submergance of land mass... Let us pray for speedier recovery and relief for the suffering humans there.