Calamus

Ok so let me hit the iron while its still hot. Just saw Raavanan yesterday and wanted to review it. The movie was a good watch. Afterall it was a Mani Ratnam movie and so was not a complete disappointment. Its true that there were no rivetting scenes that take your breath away despite Santosh Sivan, but its still unfair to call it a bad movie. The pluses were the concept, the cast, and their performances. All of the main characters were portrayed well and the actors did a good job too. Karthik in particular was at his comic best. The most commendable was ofcourse the protagonist - Vikram. If Mani Ratnam wanted to make the viewers love Raavanan the villian-hero, he surely got what he wanted. Raavanan was quirkily charming and chivalrous. Aishwarya on the other had was convincing as a damsel in distress. Her kathak was graceful as she enticed Prithvi Raj with her fluid movements, which brings us to the one person who had every thing to gain with this venture despite a weak portayal of

"Out of millions only one emerges as a winner. And that winner is each and every one of us." - Anonymous. When a sperm outlasts millions of others to race forward and fertilize the egg, it is the chosen one to create another life. Thus each and every one of us is a winner, chosen from among millions. If we realise this, we can better accept the truth that we are meant to be exactly the way we are created and that our efforts to change who we are is to say the least, laughable. There are a number of moments in everyday life when we complain about trivial things. We wish we had better looking hair, thicker perhaps, or straighter or more manageable. But then we say - "I dont like this nose either, its so long it could make Pinocchio's look like a small stubble in comparison. That combined with the unflattering jaw-line makes me look like a bad cross of Supandi with Jay Leno. No wait, its these beady eyes that are the real problem. You can hardly see them if I smile, w