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Kochadaiyaan is nothing but Rana’s first part, says Ravikumar

Even as he is gearing up for the marriage of his daughter to be held in Chennai soon, director K.S. Ravikumar has been working round-the-clock in his latest assignment of ‘supervising’ the direction of Soundarya, the younger daughter of superstar Rajinikanth, as the former debuts as director with Rajini’s upcoming film titled Kochadaiyan. Ravikumar would also be writing the film’s story, screenplay and dialogues.


Kochadaiyan is nothing but Rana’s first part, says Ravikumar

The inevitable question of the fate of Rana, which was launched in April last year and abandoned subsequently after Rajini fell ill, was put to him once again recently. Pat came the reply from Ravikumar who said that Rana hadn’t been abandoned at all. “In fact, Kochadaiyan could easily be termed as the first part of Rana. The film has been progressing at a brisk pace under the able direction of Soundarya.

“In many ways, Kochadaiyan ought to be treated as Rana-1. There is not even an iota of truth in the rumours that we had abandoned the making of Rana. It has only been postponed and work on it would commence once Rajini completes Kochadaiyan. As all of us are aware, Kochadaiyan was planned as a short-term production in order not to trouble Rajini who was returning back to action after a gap of many months.

“Now that the shoot of Kochadaiyan is about to be wrapped up and would soon be followed by the film’s post-production work, we shall be (re)launching Rana in a grand manner once Rajini is free,” assured K.S. Ravikumar.


Movie Review : 'Ooh La La La' 


Director A.M. Jothikrishna, who had introduced the likes of Shriya Saran, Tamannah and Ileana D'Cruz into film world, has chosen to launch himself as an actor through Oo La La La.

Movie Review: Oo La La La

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'Oo La La La', according to the title card, is nothing but Oorvasi, Latha, Lalitha and Lavanya. But the explanation seems to be just a gimmick as it has no relevance to the storyline.

Surya (Jothikrishna) is your usual happy-go-lucky guy who moves around and enjoys life using his father’s hard earned money. His only goal in life is to have lot of girlfriends but no girl is interested in him. He nevertheless relentlessly follows girls.

Things take a turn when he meets Preethi (Divya Bhandari), who works in a coffee shop. His overtures to woo fetch some result, as the girl accepts to be a friend. Surya is on cloud nine and goes around with the girl. Her friendship proves to be useful to Surya, as girls start getting attracted towards him.

Preethi meanwhile, falls for Surya and decides to take the relationship further. But she is shocked when she finds that Surya is using her as a bait to attract other girls. She also gets humiliated after her kissing Surya has been exposed to many through an MMS. Preethi gets angry and moves away.

Surya soon realises his mistake and tries to console Preethi. But she is stubborn in her decision.

Do they come together again?

The storyline gives some scope for emotional drama and interesting viewing. All that a director has to do is to create a few watchable scenes to portray the build up to love, the period of romance, break up and the reunion. Director Jothikrishna has grossly failed in this. Worse, the actor Jothikrishna finds it difficult to suit the role. The script has no life and the hero has not potential to liven up. Result? A damp squib.

Detailing the failures of Jothikrishna as an actor and director would be a futile exercise as most of the film has been irritating. The director has tried to spice up things with mixing up comical element through out the film but it hasn’t fetched any good result, as the comical sense is sorely missing.

That the movie getting into serious mode in the second half doesn’t help either. It becomes afutile attempt as he sequences fail to impress in any manner.

Jothikrishna fails to make an impression despite choosing an easy He has chosen an easy role to make an entry. He has a long way to go in terms of dancing and emoting.

Divya Bhandari looks good on screen and emotes well. Ganja Karuppu's comedy is cheap and unimaginative.

Sekar Chandra’s music is forgettable.

Oo La La La is just another fare that hits the halls and disappears without making any mark.

Prabhu’s Bandha Paramasivam to be remade soon?

As it turned out, the lastest super-hot Bollywood film Housefull-2 was nothing but the ‘modified’ remake of the Tamil hit film Bandha Paramasivam which starred Prabhu and Rambha in the lead and released in 2003. Directed by the diminutive T.P. Gajendran, the hilarious comedy film had stars like Monika, Kalabhavan Mani and Abbas.

Prabhu’s Bandha Paramasivam to be remade soon?

Produced at a small budget by Vijay’s manager P.T. Selvakumar, the film turned out to be a profit-making venture for the producer. Housefull-2 has been produced and released recently without giving any formal credits to the producer and director of Bandha Paramasivam. Reports say that the film has so far collected more than Rs.100 crores in the all-India market.

Leading heroes Akshay Kumar, John Abraham and Ritesh Deshmukh and our own Asin are part of the cast of the film which has been running successfully. Funnily enough, efforts are on to remake the film again in Tamil with the current crop of stars.

While it remains a mystery as to who mooted the ‘remake’ idea of the film which released hardly a decade back, many producers and directors are said to be in touch with Selvakumar to acquire the re-make rights of the film in Tamil. Aarya and Jiiva are said to be among the top stars willing to be part of the cast of the film as and when it is remade.


Anjali plays Maheshbabu’s Anni in a new Telugu film

Actress Anjali has boldly taken on a role which had been rejected by many frontline actresses in both Tamil and Telugu. She has agreed to play Venkatesh’s heroine in an upcoming Telugu film which has another top hero Mahesh Babu playing Venkatesh’s younger brother in it.

Anjali plays Maheshbabu’s Anni in a new Telugu film

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As such, by agreeing to be paired up opposite Venkatesh, Anjali would obviously be playing Mahesh Babu’s Anni (sister-in-law) in the film. It’s this possibility which made many heroines refuse the offer to play Venkatesh’s heroine in this particular film. As she has always been daringly different, Anjali has taken up the role and has decided to go ahead with it.

While most of the heroines have been ready to do anything to land up an offer opposite Mahesh Babu, it remains to be seen whether Anjali’s decision to play his sister-in-law would hurt her chances of making it big in the Telugu film industry in the days to come. Anjali, who has earned the tage of an actress of substance through her roles in films like Angaadi Theru and Engeyum Eppodhum, is hoping that her decision doesn’t back fire.

It is also said that Amala Paul, who would soon be making her debut in Telugu films through a direct Telugu film, had first agreed to take up the role but backed up at the very last moment as she had a fledgling career. Anjali, who has signed along the dotted lines and has taken up the offer, is optimistic about her chances in Tollywood and Kollywood.


The Karlovy Vary film festival is indisputably the biggest film event of the year, not only for Czech movie buffs but also for filmmakers and festival fans from across Europe.

The festival is the country's only FIAPF-accredited competitive feature film festival and has come a long way since its foundation in 1946, through 40 years of censorship to its "resuscitation" by Jiří Bartoška and Eva Zaoralová in 1994.

Today, it boldly stands alongside such renowned European festivals as Cannes, Berlin or Venice, bringing the best of these festivals plus a wide range of new films to thousands of visitors every year.

From Friday, July 2, the box offices will open again and for the next 10 days, the festival will screen 204 films, including many premieres, and play host to industry guests, journalists, and, above all else, visitors, without whom Karlovy Vary wouldn't be known as "The Backpackers' Festival."

Vary, unlike the glitzy festivals mentioned above, is mainly a festival for people.

No other Category A festival in Europe offers so many accreditation-free visitors a chance to see the films of their choosing and even shake hands and sit down over coffee with filmmakers.

For many visitors, the only roof over their heads for the week of the festival will be a tent or the ceiling of a gymnasium shared with dozens of other guests.

Accommodation
If you don't mind sleeping on the floor of a gym, you can try your luck at the school building at Nábřeží Palacha 1, around 100 meters from the Hotel Thermal. The price per person per night is 99 CZK. Bring your own mat and sleeping bag.

If you prefer sleeping outside -- and the weather looks pretty favorable so far this year -- go to the campsite set up every year at the AC Start Karlovy Vary football stadium, where you'll pay 70 CZK per person/night. There's also a hall where you can sleep if you don't have a tent.

Since the festival attracts more and more people every year, it's always the best to book accommodation well in advance, but if you still haven't done so and would like to find a decent room for two or three, I recommend checking the official Karlovy Vary International Film Festival website's discussion forum for accommodation offers.

Tickets
Tickets will again be available again from the box offices in front of Hotel Thermal and the Grandhotel Pupp.

I'd recommend a buying a Festival Pass, however. These are available for one, three or five days or for the entire duration of the festival and entitle the holder to see three films per day free of charge. A Festival Pass also allows the holder to attend concerts and -- if there's room -- press conferences, and to swim in the Hotel Thermal pool at a reduced price.

Also through the Pass, you can reserve tickets via SMS text message from 7am every day. (Be punctual -- only a limited number of seats are available this way and are usually gone by 7:05am.)

Guests
And who is it that you should be looking for this year?

Jude Law will visit Karlovy Vary to receive the Festival President's Award, while Russian filmmaker Nikita Mikhalkov and Slovak director Juraj Herz are both expected to be honored with the Crystal Globe for Outstanding Artistic Contribution to World Cinema.

The festival will also welcome iconic film editor Thelma Schoonmaker, whose long-term collaboration with Martin Scorsese has included work on such films as Raging Bull, Gangs of New York, Goodfellas and The Departed.

Schoonmaker will introduce a restored version of The Red Shoes, which, along with six other films, forms part of a tribute to the brilliant British filmmakers Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger. Karlovy Vary will also host Pressburger's grandsons, Andrew and Kevin Macdonald --respectively a successful producer and an Oscar-winning director.

And of course, the festival will welcome the creators of the films competing for the festival's main prize, the Crystal Globe, plus the members of the jury that select its winner.

Films
Two-hundred-and-four films are ready to be screened for thousands of visitors. But which ones to choose?

The festival will open with Crazy Heart, starring Jeff Bridges as country singer Otis "Bad" Blake, a performance which won him an Academy Award and a Golden Globe, and close with Heartbreaker, a light romantic comedy starring Vanessa Paradis and Romain Duris that pays tribute to Dirty Dancing.

In between, there are numerous sections to choose from. The main competition features 12 new films, several of which are directorial debuts, and two of which were produced in the Czech Republic: Jan Svěrák's new puppet film Kooky (Kuky se vrací) and the thriller 3 Seasons in Hell (3 sezóny v pekle), based on the early life of underground writer Egon Bondy.

Probably the most sought-after section among film buffs who couldn't make it to Cannes, Berlin or Venice is the Open Eyes section. Cannes-winners such as Certified Copy (Copie conforme), for which Juliette Binoche won the Best Actress Award; Grand Prix-winner Of Gods and Men (Des hommes et des dieux); Jury Prize-winner A Screaming Man (Un homme qui crie); and Poetry (Shi) (Best Screenplay) are just a few of the films to look forward to.

From the other sections, don't miss the Variety Critics' Choice selection entitled Europe Now!, showcasing new European talent.

For lovers of B-movies, the Midnight Screenings section includes a collection of some of the best Ozploitation movies. Films like Dead End Drive-In, Razorback and the documentary Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation! are definitely worth staying up late for!

Last but not least, try not to miss the screening in the Grand Hall of Terrence Malick's Days of Heaven, truly a masterpiece of the filmmaking art.





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    History of Peace


    The evolutionary biologist Theodosius Dobzhansky once said, "All species are unique, but humans are uniquest." Humans have long taken pride in their specialness. But the study of other primates is rendering the concept of such human exceptionalism increasingly suspect.

    Some of the retrenchment has been relatively palatable, such as with the workings of our bodies. Thus we now know that a baboon heart can be transplanted into a human body and work for a few weeks, and human blood types are coded in Rh factors named after the rhesus monkeys that possess similar blood variability.

    More discomfiting is the continuum that has been demonstrated in the realm of cognition. We now know, for example, that other species invent tools and use them with dexterity and local cultural variation. Other primates display "semanticity" (the use of symbols to refer to objects and actions) in their communication in ways that would impress any linguist. And experiments have shown other primates to possess a "theory of mind," that is, the ability to recognize that different individuals can have different thoughts and knowledge.

    Our purported uniqueness has been challenged most, however, with regard to our social life. Like the occasional human hermit, there are a few primates that are typically asocial (such as the orangutan). Apart from those, however, it turns out that one cannot understand a primate in isolation from its social group. Across the 150 or so species of primates, the larger the average social group, the larger the cortex relative to the rest of the brain. The fanciest part of the primate brain, in other words, seems to have been sculpted by evolution to enable us to gossip and groom, cooperate and cheat, and obsess about who is mating with whom. Humans, in short, are yet another primate with an intense and rich social life -- a fact that raises the question of whether primatology can teach us something about a rather important part of human sociality, war and peace...

    Most people would be glad to have some peace of mind in their life. They would be happy to forget their troubles, problems and worries, and enjoy a few moments of inner calmness and freedom from obsessing thoughts.

    What is peace of mind? It is a state of inner calmness and tranquility, together with a sense of freedom, when thoughts and worries cease, and there is no stress, strain or fear. Such moments are not so rare. They may be experienced while being engaged in some kind of an absorbing or interesting activity, such as while watching an entertaining movie or TV program, while being with someone you love, while reading a book or while lying on the sand at the beach.

    When you are on vacation, do you experience some sort of mental numbness? At this time, the mind becomes calmer, with fewer thoughts and fewer worries. Even while you are deeply asleep, not aware of your thoughts, you are in a state of inner peace.

    Such activities, and similar ones, take away the mind from its usual thoughts and worries, and bring about temporary inner peace.

    The question is, how to bring more peace of mind into our life, and more importantly, how to experience it in times of trouble. You might also ask whether it is possible to make it a habit, and enjoy it always and under all circumstances. First, you need to learn to bring more moments of inner peace into your daily life. Later, you will be able to experience these moments in times of trouble or difficulties too, when you really need inner calmness and tranquility.

    You can turn peace of mind into a natural habit, but to do so, special training is required, through concentration exercises, meditation and other means. Browse this website, and you will find articles, advice and techniques for attaining peace of mind, as well as a special book dedicated to this subject.

    Here are a few simple things that can help you:

    Reduce the amount of time you read the newspapers or watch the news on TV.

    Stay away from negative conversations and from negative people.

    Don't hold grudges. Learn to forget and forgive. Nurturing ill feelings and grievances hurts you and causes lack of sleep.

    Don't be jealous of others. Being jealous means that you have low self-esteem and consider yourself inferior to others. Jealousy and low self esteem, often lead to lack of inner peace.

    Accept what cannot be changed. This saves a lot of time, energy and worries.

    Every day we face numerous inconveniences, irritations and situations that are beyond our control. If we can change them, that's fine, but this is not always possible. We must learn to put up with such things and accept them cheerfully.

    Learn to be more patient and tolerant with people and events.

    Don't take everything too personally. Some emotional and mental detachment is desirable. Try to view your life and other people with a little detachment and less involvement. Detachment is not indifference, lack of interest or coldness. It is the ability to think and judge impartially and logically. Don't worry if again and again you fail to manifest detachment. Just keep trying.

    Let bygones be gone. Forget the past and concentrate on the present moment. There is no need to evoke unpleasant memories and immerse yourself in them.

    Practice some concentration exercises. This will help you to reject unpleasant thoughts and worries that steal away your peace of mind.

    Learn to practice meditation. Even a few minutes a day will make a change in your life.

    Inner peace ultimately leads to external peace. By creating peace in our inner world, we bring it into the external world, affecting other people too.

    What do you prefer, a restless, agitated mind or peace of mind? Do you enjoy tension and mental unrest or do you prefer a calm and peaceful mind?

    Peace of mind is conductive to better emotional and physical health, increased energy, stronger mental powers, improved memory and a better ability to learn and study. It also helps handling more efficiently the daily affairs of life, and stressful and difficult situations and circumstances.

    Do you know that a stronger concentration ability brings deeper peace of mind, and a quiet mind strengthens the ability to concentrate? These two abilities are interconnected.

    We live in a world where fear, strain and restlessness abound. You might think that there is nothing to do about it, and accept this situation as an inevitable evil, but you don't have to. You can experience inner peace even under stressful conditions and circumstances, but it does not come instantly. It is developed gradually through special training.

    Just think how important it is for you. Become convinced of its importance, and decide to do something about it.

    Study and practice concentration and meditation on a regular basis, and your inner peace will grow. Repeat affirmations about peace, and eventually your mind will accept them. Visualize peaceful circumstances, and envision yourself acting calmly in situations, which usually make you feel tense and nervous.

    Daily practice will calm down your mind. This calmness will influence your inner being, your body, your circumstances and the people you meet. It will transform you into a peacefulness and calmness generator.

    If you are afraid that peace of mind might make your life dull, uninteresting and boring, you do not have to worry about that. You can enjoy life with a peaceful mind. In fact you will enjoy it more, because you will experience calmness, happiness and inner strength. You will not feel threatened by anything. You will have constant inner joy.

    You might need to give up some activities that agitate your mind, but the rewards are greater than the pleasure these activities cause you. When you start experiencing real peace, you will love and enjoy it. It will become more precious to you, than many other activities you loved and enjoyed until now.

    You will be able to enjoy an action movie or a thriller, yet stay calm and relaxed. You will be able to enjoy a football game, while at the same time your mind is calm and unagitated. You will be able to enjoy food, physical exercises, your hobbies or anything else, without stress and strain.

    Performing inner work, such as meditation and concentration, will ultimately turn peace of mind into a natural habit.

    Think about all the anger, resentment, unhappiness, physical and mental tension, nervousness, strife and the waste of time and energy that results from lack of inner peace, and you will start to appreciate the importance of gaining real peace of mind.

    Read the other articles at this website, as well as our books, and practice what they teach, and you life will soon start to change for the better.