Read this .

http://www.esgindia.org/campaigns/bajpe/press/Press_Release_Mangalore_Air_Crash_ESG_220510.html

Link to ESG posting

Atleast 3 different under sea cables have been broken, out of which the cable located near Italy is going to effect the Indian Broadband Connections. The repair work has already started but would be continued for the next four days because of which the impact is going to disrupt the service atleast for the next few days. This is the time when you need to Optimize Internet Connection for making the most of all the speed you get and not just waiting for the higher speed unless the repair is completed.

Hmmm ..I got to be updated of what is happening around instead of trying to fix it locally

Alan

It is simply different and brings my mind to a world of fantasy ..I love this theme ..

In the weekend I saw this Ever hyped picture. Avatar is named as the “Movie of the millennium” and the top ranker in imdb list. Even the critics are all praise to this movie. Each one is praising cameroon to the sky. But would you kill me if i say AVATAR is the hollywood version of an old Malayalam Movie?

Yes. Avatar is the hollywood version of an old malayalam movie. A Mohanlal starrer, Siddique-Lal directed, movie called VIETNAM COLONY!!!

Now wipe out the “What the Fa” expression from your face and lend me your ears.

After 15 minutes into the movie i relaized that, AVATAR is VIETNAM COLONY RELOADED

To start of with, let me give you and Intro about Vietnam Colony, if you have no clue about it. This is an old malayalam movie which was released when i was a kid. The story line is based on a colony named as Vietnam Colony, where only gundas, goons, and below poverty line people lives. This colony is situated in the centre of the place and a construction company owns this colony. But the residents are not willing to vacate the place as they dont have any other place to go. Then the company makes a smart move by sending one person (Mohan Lal) to the colony, to be one among them and to tactfully vacate the people. But knowing the reality and by empathizing on the poor residents over there, the Man who was sent by the company, stands for the colony people and fight back against the company.

Striking something? Not Yet? Now replace the Vietnam Colony and the poor residents as the people in Pandoras World. Replace the construction company folks as those scientists. Replace Mohanlal as the Hero of Avatar. Now you got it.

In Avatar, the hero (sorry , i dono his name) goes to Pandoras world standing for the scientists and be one among the residents. Later on he realizes the value of their existence and fight back against the ones who had sent him. There are plenty of scenes matching with Vietnam colony.

In the begininng, grace would tell the hero that she was looking for his brother and have no confidence that he would finish the mission. Similarly, in VC, Construction Company first doubts about the talent of Lal and worry if he could evacuate the gunds and other localites from their place.

In VC, When Mohanlal Reaches the colony, at first, he would have an argument with the Auto Rikshaw guy regarding the fare. The Auto guy tries to indulge in a fist fight with Lal. Then the Main Rowdy of Colony, Rauthar, comes and stand behind Lal. Seeing him, the Auto guy would flee and Lal thinks that the Auto guy got scared of him only and when he turns back, he would see the gunda standing behind him. Similarly in Avatar, when they are in the pandoras world for the first time, an Elephant kinda creature tries to attack the hero and flee by seeing a much bigger animal behind him. Hero thinks the elephant got scared by him and when he turns back he see a much more bigger creature.

In VC, the person who had been sent by the company falls in love with a girl of the colony. Similarly in Avatar, he fall for a girl from the pandoras world. At one point of time, the slum people realize that he is a person from the construction company and attacks Lal. Then the girl comes for his help. Similarly in Avatar, tsu tey tries to kill the hero and its the girl who saves the hero.

In VC, during the climax, Lal gets back to the company and tell that he is no more working for them and then the company people comes to the colony. At the climax, Lal is fighting against them along with the other Colony people.In Avatar, along with the hero, whole community is fighting against the villains.

There are much more scenes which Resembles the old Malayalam movie. I am not saying Avatar is a remake of Vietnam Colony, but i am saying Avatar is the Hollywood version of VC. Cameroon has added lots of stuff to the western audience as well as to other viewers that you almost forget this point. Now that is an Interntational Talent which makes you forget about the original Plot. If Cameroon again take AVATAR after 10 years, i am sure he would add in essentials so that no one would notice that its still Avatar.

There are lot of wonderful scenes in AVATAR and Graphics is at its best. Those wild creatures and the flying dragons were too good. I would want to get rid of my RTR now and need a personalized vehicle like the one Hero captures during the end.

While coming out of the multiplex, the first thing that came to my mind is that instead of spending 500Rs at PVR Cinemas, i could have easily taken the dvd of Vitenam colony for 15 Rs and could have enjoyed it once again. This is James Cameroon’s most hyped movie and the film after 11 Oscar Award winner TITANIC. It tooks 11 years for cameroon to make this movie, a reality and now i wonder if Cameroon was watching the DVD of Vietnam Colony throughout these 11 years

Who would have had a hearty laugh watching these? None other than Mohanlal and Siddique-Lal. Or would siddique-lal have felt bad after seeing that their plot has gone international and have renowned Worldwide fame? It pains you know.

Well, If you havent watched Vietnam Colony, then you are Lucky. Avatar is a new Experience to you.
If you have watched Vietnam Colony already, and dint even recognize this until i wrote here, then praise the perfection and technicalities.
If you have watched Vietnam Colony and Already found out this similarity in the theatre itseld, congrats for your out of box thinking.

I read somewhere Life here is like a pendulum between two extreme standards of living.. It is Royal, Luxurious and at the same time poor , hopeless and haunting as well ..

…to be contd

Alan

TRIVIA

# Colin Farrell was in talks to play Watson before Jude Law was cast.

# The first Sherlock Holmes film to reach U.S. movie theaters in over twenty years, since the 1988 comedy Without a Clue (1988) with Michael Caine as Reginald Kincaid/”Sherlock Holmes”.

# Robert Maillet accidentally knocked out Robert Downey Jr. while filming a fight scene.

# Robert Downey Jr. read many Sherlock Holmes stories and watched “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes” (1984) by Granada Television (starring Jeremy Brett) in order to learn more about the character.

# Sienna Miller was in talks for a role before her ex-fiancé Jude Law was cast as Watson.

# The song that plays from 1:03 to the end on the second trailer is a piece called “Unstoppable” by the group E.S. Posthumus (specifically 1:47 to the end on the track).

# The set for Sherlock Holmes’s home in this film was previously used as Sirius Black’s home in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007).

# The part of Sherlock Holmes has been previously played by Michael Caine, while Watson is played in this film by Jude Law. Law took over Caine’s role in Alfie (2004) and Sleuth (2007), appearing together with him in the latter film.

# There were rumors that Brad Pitt has been cast as Moriarty and re shoots have taken place, but the rumors were quickly denied.

# Guy Ritchie’s first film not to be Rated R in the US.

# Guy Ritchie’s first film to be rated 12 in his native country U.K.

# The outfits worn by the navvies are the same ones worn by the railway workers in “Cranford: Part One: August 1844 (#2.1)” (2009).

# Delivered to some theaters under the fake title “Elementary Education”.

# Watson’s line to Holmes, “You know that what you’re drinking is for eye surgery,” is an obscure reference to Holmes’s cocaine usage. At the time, cocaine was used as a topical anesthetic for eye surgery. In the stories, Holmes injects cocaine.

# In the scene where Holmes first meets Watson’s fiancé, Watson is wearing a black, fabric-strip adorned jacket modeled on a famous family portrait of Nicholas II of Russia taken during his 1896 visit to Osbourne in England.

# The first scene in Baker Street is a nod to Granada Television’s “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes” (1984) series, starring Jeremy Brett. In the scene, the camera focuses on a “Baker Street” street sign, then tracks backward down the street and over a clopping horse pulling a carriage. This same camera shot and angle – with the overhead tracking shot over a horse and carriage – was used to reveal Baker Street in the opening credits sequence of the Granada TV series.

# Holmes says the United States chose the eagle as their national symbol over 100 years ago. The bird was chosen in 1782, which sets the film after 1882. He also mentions radio, a term that coined in 1897. The original Sherlock Holmes stories spanned a period from 1875 to 1907.

# At the end of the film, Mary asks Watson if she could read his journals of his adventures with Sherlock Holmes. Of the 60 Doyle penned stories of Sherlock Holmes, all but four have Watson serving as the narrator.

# Although Irene Adler plays a large role in the movie, she only appears in one Sir Arthur Conan Doyle story, “A Scandal in Bohemia”, briefly referenced in the movie.

# The story “His Last Bow” mentions that Holmes practiced shooting his pistol by putting VR (Victoria Regina) on his wall with bullet holes. In the movie, Holmes shoots VR in the wall in his room with a gun.

# The four symbols referred to in the movie, the Man, the Lion, the Ox and the Eagle, are also attributed to the four Evangelists of the Bible: Matthew (Man), Mark (Lion), Luke (Ox), and John (Eagle).

# Rachel McAdams and Robert Downey Jr. reportedly did most of their own stunts.

# Attempting to escape the clutches of wearing a tight corset every morning, Rachel McAdams would trick the costumers by pushing her stomach out or eating a big breakfast of oatmeal before being laced up. However, they eventually caught on to her ruse.

# Before the scene where Sherlock Holmes reenacts the black magic ceremony, we see a brief shot of an Inn called The Punch Bowl. The Punch Bowl is the name of Guy Ritchie’s pub in Mayfair, London.

# The letters “VR”, visible throughout the film, stand for “Victoria Regina,” the Royal Cypher (monogram) of Queen Victoria, who ruled England at the time.

# The name of Holmes and Watson’s English bulldog is Gladstone. He seems to be named after William E. Gladstone, four times Prime Minister under Queen Victoria. A Gladstone is also a type of bag, named after the man, which was sometimes used by doctors in this period to carry their medical equipment.

# Guy Ritchie has stated in interviews that he is a fan of (and a practitioner) Brazilian Jujitsu, made popular in mixed martial arts. Towards the end of the movie Holmes and Watson fight Dredger and finally manage to subdue him with an arm-bar and a modified rear naked choke, both popular Brazilian Jujitsu submissions.

# At one point, Holmes drinks something that Watson notes is meant “for eye surgery.” In the Sherlock Holmes novel “The Seven-Per-Cent Solution,” Watson laments that the cocaine mixture that Holmes was addicted to was originally meant for eye surgery.

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Movie is good ..I would give it a rating of 7 of 10 ..

Luv,
Alan