Ambimama - India

Fight to save pavilion used by 1878 Australian tourists
A pavilion used by the Australian cricket team during their 1878 tour of England is facing demolition under plans to redevelop the former home of Worcestershire county cricket club.

Australia’s 1878 tour famously included a nine-wicket win against an MCC XI that was completed inside one day after the home side was bowled out for 33 and 19.

To read more visit: http://www.livecricketscore.co.uk/tinc?key=h6Ur7oOZ&id=2458822

NAUSHAD ALI - the mentor and Guru of A.R.Rahman died recently.

The song that created revolution in young minds of India and Pakistan - Pyar Kiya tho darna kya – (When you love what is there to be afraid of? Here she mentions particularly the Shehan-Shah AKBAR, whose son Salim loves Anarkali, sings this song.) This song created so many emotions, popularity that is incomparable to any song new or old. Because of the music of Great Naushad Ali who recently died. And lot of love and infatuation began to flow in the society. It revolutionized that loving is not a sin but strength, valour, brace, divine and a thing to be proud of.

I should have written about this long back. But at least let me pay a tribute to him. Naushad Ali’s Baiju Bawra songs are still ringing in my ears.

No doubt the melodies of A.R. Rahman are great whether it is Roja, Jeans, Mudhalvan, Pukar, Taal, Saathiya, Kadal Desam, Laagan, Alaipayuthey, Thiruda Thiruda, Iruvar, Dil Se, Yuva, Swades, Kisna , Vande Mataram and the list continues?.

You can listen to the great song - Pyar Kiya tho darna kya: (coutesy:indiascreen.com - my god how much sing collection they have!)

Mughal-e-Azam_1960-LataMangeshkar-PyarKiyaToDarnaKya-ShakeelBadayuni_NaushadAli.mp3

The above song takes a few minutes to load and plays in Apple by default. Must find away to play it Windows Media Player as we are used to it!!

Why so much unwanted appreciation to just water. It’s Holy. Widows were not subjected to any kind of abnormality so cinematically shown in the film. It is there in all religion. Christianity or Islam. But people are afraid of FATWA!! Or Ban!! Look at Da Vinci Code. Feminism is divine. But cruelties happened so much – and Dan Brown exposed it. And the Indian states and Governments afraid of votes from Christians are afraid to release it.

Hinduism was never afraid of openly discussing atrocities on women. Leave alone the widows. Widows were the Pattis, who told their grand children stories on Dharma. Sivaji, the Great Maratha Emperor who dethroned the last Moslem king in India, the Aurangazeb, was inspired by the stories of his widow mother. Such is the tradition.

And what a poor show of some unwanted and bad incidents wantonly highlighted on so-called atrocities on widows’ by a Cheap Indian woman to gain fame and money!!. Hollywood would gobble anything just for fun and filth.

I challenge to the creator of Fire, Water and Earth (I do not want to remember or mention her name) to create a film on the two elements left – Does she know? She will just blown away or vanish in space.

Tension prevailed in Tilaknagar, adjoining Jayanagar, here on Friday afternoon as rumours spread that two girls were kidnapped and one of them was found in a severely injured condition.

Deccan Herald

Tension prevailed in Tilaknagar, adjoining Jayanagar, here on Friday afternoon as rumours spread that two girls were kidnapped and one of them was found in a severely injured condition.

What could have erupted into communal violence was averted by the timely intervention of the police. A mob belonging to a particular community had already begun pelting stones.

Wow! Is Bangalore turning in to another Mumbai?

Read this review of Deepa Mehta’s Water (2006) by Tribune critic Michael Wilmington. I have not seen the film not too keen to watch it.

Recently, the film based on Dan Brown’s acclaimed novel Da Vinci Code was released amidst great fanfare and controversy. Some Indian States even banned it. Well, don’t start a flame war here but seriously folks, what were those people thinking protesting against a movie? Spend that time praying to God rather for world peach or personal betterment.

Anyway, back to topic.

Meera Nair’s movies are truly beautiful and moving. Realistic. Simple.

Water has so far done just $1.5 Million in box office collections over the world.. I don’t know the production budget for this project. I am sure it is quite small.

In 2002, Mira Nair’s Monsoon Wedding did a total US gross of ~$14 Million, with a production budget of $160 K, returning a whopping 86x.

http://metromix.chicagotribune.com/movies/mmx-060505-movies-review-water,0,3991026.story?coll=mmx-movies_leftutility

Deepa Mehta’s “Water”–the third film in her elemental “Fire”-”Earth”-Water” trilogy–is a gentle yet powerful drama of social protest, an impassioned portrayal of the fruits of prejudice, set in 1938 India, at a time when Gandhi’s crusade against British rule flourished.

Without being at all sappy, “Water” is a deeply romantic film; Ray and Abraham are one of the most stunning couples the screen has recently given us. And despite its incendiary subject, it isn’t strident. Even so, when writer-director Mehta, a Hindu herself, started shooting “Water” in India in 2000, she was driven out by extremist religious protests. (Mehta had to recast and reshoot the film in Sri Lanka, completing it in 2004.)

Protest dramas run the risk of seeming schematic and foreordained, but Mehta lets us relax into these images, live with these characters–just as she did in “Fire,” which dealt with contemporary arranged marriages, and “Earth,” which was about India’s partition. The way she shoots “Water,” so openly and with such unforced joy, exposes the evil rigidity of the widow laws as much as the story itself. The sight of Kalyani’s sweet, resigned expression, surrounded by a world of pain, imprints her face and fate on our minds, sets a blaze of love and rage in our hearts.