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Planning to make an out-and-out cop cum action movie in Tamil? Make sure every scene follows the concept below.       The hero/cop must manhandle all the dowdy rowdies in the five plus action fight sequences single handedly.       The heroine should be made to stalk her man. It’s important that she proposes her love first.       Her other role is to fall prey to the on-the-prowl villain and eventually get rescued by the hero.       Care should be taken to render the dialogues at the highest decibel level permitted. The hero and the villain must always try to outdo each other’s vocalization skills.       A cop is a good cop only if he is sensitive to others’ sentiments. His dialogues must make the bad guy repent for his sins.       Not the last and not the least, the hero must be the only one who takes the right decision...

We spend nearly half an hour to think and write the general essay in our English exams. What we write painstakingly is only given a glance by the teacher and marks are awarded sparingly.  Shouldn’t marks be given amply to encourage such idle, oops, Ideal minds to come up with brilliant ideas in their essays?? However, here are two essays I wrote in the class 11 exams. I got a 7 and a half in the first one and eight in the next (out of 10). Most of the stuff is made up, so please don’t charge me with copyright infringement!  Present day lifestyle – Merits and demerits    Introduction  It’s better to think about the present than the past or the future for it is the result of the past and the cause of the future. The present holds the key to the future. But lifestyles do not remain the same. It changes from time to time. And hence the question- ‘Does lifestyle affect the present day scenario?’ arises. Let us see the merits and demeri...

This is the second one of my school essays. It took me nearly an hour to write this in the exam. India ’s 60 years of achievement Introduction India is a land of many colours. India has endured many drastic but dramatic changes in the past 60 years of its freedom. Her accomplishments during this period are uncountable. Let us go through some of her innumerous achievements as a quick read, in the following essay. India and her people Sixty years back, India was a land, similar to a re-born child, just freed from the clutches of the British. Over 90% of the population was from the rural background . The literacy rate was extremely low. Industries, except those established by the East India Company were yet to develop. People were left to recover from the all the damage caused by the partition . But change happened fast. People began to value the culture of our nation as a whole. In 1950, India became a republic. Eight languages were given offici...

Our whole house is missing granny, my dad’s mom. She’s our unpaid house keeper. Everyone, but my mom, in our house is on vacation and she’s no exception. She has packed her lots or rather, a single yellow cloth bag and gone to stay at her relation’s place for some much needed rest. On a normal day, she prepares half of the day’s meal (the rest by my mom), puts all the dirty clothes in the washing machine, hangs them out in the sun, tidies up my parents’ bed room and of course, supervises the domestic help. Now in her absence, mom has to prepare everythin’, the dirty clothes are lying around the washing machine, not inside it and my parents’ master bedroom has turned into a monster bedroom. Grandma is nearly 80 years old. She is so frail, has severe knee pain and fibroids. But I tell you, she doesn’t ever stay idle. She spends all afternoon chopping vegetables for that day, the next day and the day that comes after it. My dad particularly didn’t buy that easy vegetable cutter thin...

I write this review after a month the movie was released. I’ve never watched a film on the first day (not even the first week). But I can’t get over the urge to write this review.     Cast :    Karthi, Tamannah, Milind Soman Director : Lingusamy The story The easy-go-lucky Shiva falls head over heels on seeing Charulatha at first sight. As she turns up wherever he goes, he loses his senses, messes up with his friends and even misses his interview. Luck has it that she ends up seeking his help to travel all the way to Bombay (Thank God the Sena folks don’t watch Tamil movies!). And when the damsel in distress has goondas from Andhra chasing her, the knight in shining armor has his own problems from his previous visit to the destined city.     Karthi’s transformation from a village hunk to an urbane guy is only partially complete. If only he had sported a clean-shaven look….  However he puts in a solid perform...