Ripples on the brain

This post is quite late, but is still relevant I think. Find below excerpts from Kris Srikanth’s pre-match analysis of the “quarterfinal” match between England and South Africa:

Both sides (England and South Africa) are beset with similar problems. The openers have failed to get going and the skippers are not among the runs. Sides generally lift themselves when the men at the helm strike and sadly that has not been the case with Graeme Smith and Michael Vaughan. Australia run away from the rest of the sides because nine times out of ten their openers give the innings the impetus and sadly England and South Africa have been found wanting in this regard.

South African captain Smith is not among runs in the series! Also, South African openers didn’t give impetus to their innings in the World cup! Clearly, the pressure to write some crap daily shows . Check your stats please.

Source: rediff

While answering questions from trainees at the Infosys’ Global Education Centre, Asia’s biggest business training centre in Mysore, Kalam replied in one word, ‘fantastic,’ when a trainee asked what he had to say about Murthy being made the next President.

Murthy responded:

Kalam has been very kind to me, my wife and our investors. I am very grateful to him.

Seriously, what’s the connection? wife? investors?

…this weekend. The movie’s performance is really heart-warming and leaves one convinced that the public still craves to watch such positive movies. It ran almost housefull yesterday in Mayajaal though the multiplex has increased the number of shows per day for the movie going by its first fortnight’s performance. The crowd predominantly consisted of young families with so many kids. I should add that women generally seem to enjoy the movie a lot. They laugh aloud at almost all the jokes.

I noticed some subtle things in the movie yesterday:
1. Prithvi Raj’s name appears even before Prakash Raj’s and Jyothika’s names in the titles.
2. When the titles scroll, a music plays and the corresponding musical notes (I think) appear in a music sheet (or whatever that is called) in the background. Good idea!
3. When I first heard the song “Pesa Madanthaye“, I thought Yesudas had sung it (especially when the person sings the lines “vizhi pesum siththirame“, the typical nasal voice appears in the lower notes). Later learnt that it was sung by Madhu Balakrishnan.

Due to the unexpected success of the movie, its home video release has been postponed indefinitely. While it’s a good news from the perspective of the producer, it shows that movie makers are still very fidgety when it comes to releasing their movie in discs. Not a very good new from the home video front.

Related link: My impressions of Mozhi

…not having been a part of the playing eleven in any of the matches during the world cup is that you can feature in advertisements now. Good for Irfan Pathan! But I don’t know how the advertising folks make such assumptions.