The Maruti Story – How it evolved over…

Maruti 800 – My uncle had this legendary car during the 90′s and it was a great pride for all of us.Every one of us loved the car and it seemed to be an object of fascination and status symbol.It was the latest car at that point of time other Premier Padmini and other set of big cars. I believe , it was the first major hatchback to hit India.

So when i saw the book The Maruti Story – How A Public Sector Company put India on Wheels ,i became interested and wanted to understand how the whole thing worked out.

Why i wanted to read this book:

• When my uncle sold the car few years later , he still sold  it for almost the same price for which he bought.I was always amused about how it was possible.

• Maruti Udyog / Maruti Suzuki – these names always confused me as in to whether  it is a government company and how a government company was able to evolve and stand up over test of time and be so popular even today.

• If you are in car market today , Maruti Suzuki is the king with major marke share. Come how many big auto giants ,they still cannot beat Maruti , especially  in the small car segment . Usually a company when small can be managed well but even after evolving into a big company, Maruti Suzuki is able to retain the numero uno position which made me wonder how they are keeping themselves above every one else.

So when i picked up this book , i was expecting to seek answers .

P.S: Since this book is written by Bhargava ,the Managing Director of Maruti Suzuki , his views may be generally biased and very positive about what they did . Hence i’m not going to research or being nitpicking but just share how the history evolved of the people’s car evolved  in India as i read in the book

 

Mayakkam Enna – My thoughts

The last time i wrote a full fledged review on a movie in this blog was for Aayirathil Oruvan and perhaps it was in January of 2010 . There were a few brilliant movies that i have watched in the due course and always wanted to blog my thoughts , but was not at all motivated.

So why a review for Mayakkam Enna -Perhaps the reason is,very personal.There are so many positive,critical  reviews on the web which made think more than once whether i missed some thing major in the movie that had been spectacular ! I kept pondering about the movie, re-collecting many aspects  of the movie.Since my fb update was biased and opinionated,i wanted to elaborate on what worked and what didn’t work for me in this movie .

Again the very reason why i wanted to write is to just explain my thought process and how i approach a  movie and this attempt is in no way , to provide credibility to the movie or the maker ,what-so ever.

There are lot of spoilers included ,hence reading this without watching the movie means you can make an informed decision and can save few hundred rupees.

Few things I loved :

-The very first scene. What a way to start the movie – executed brilliantly. The long conversations, the dialogue , the dig at the heroine , the slap etc explains the weirdness of the lead character is an absolute rocker of an opening for a movie. I was remembered of ‘Tarantino’ish style with an indian context,where in the long conversation that runs an under current subtle, some times making the audience uncomfortable and wishing for things to get settled without getting clumsy . Nicely done.

-In one interesting scene , the hero whose passion is photography, attempts for a big project and it turns out miserably and is shown the door. Next immediate scene , he is on the road side,catches a glimpse of  an old lady,captures a brilliant series of portraits of her. She looks beautiful , just to him – conveying that it has to do more with a pair of eyes . Following this sequence,he calls up the heroine who criticized his work and passion – initially agreeing to her comments on his work ,  but still claiming that he loves what he is doing and it makes him happy  and that he would continue doing it , on following one’s heart rather than doing mundane work . This scene slapped me in a brutal way and made me feel small in front of the super soul which seemingly looked like Steve Job’s version of ‘Stay Hungry , Stay Foolish’.

-Come how talented you are , fate is really fatal -luck matters to a great extent.To convey this,it is creatively done by a magazine that has the hero’s photography revolving over an entire office,through different hands ,  finally finding its destination by means of  a chance encounter ,landing upon a person eye who takes the photo to an all new level.

-You may not believe it to be a Selvaraghavan movie when a really confused depiction of the heroine , in the  second half , cries out to one of her friend who is a boy and is part of his friends group  - on her man’s misfortune with life and sufferings. It becomes more uncomfortable when this common friend tries to flick/woo this damsel in distress and the way  this gal slaps back at his very thought ,raping his intentions, word by word, politely, stripping him naked in entirety. That’s how you deal with nuances of human emotions subtlety. Not going raw every other time.

Now coming to the absurdity :

The central idea of the movie is basically ‘to follow the heart’ and the movie unfolds to show this by means of the lead hero in the movie – his passion ,struggle and what happened eventually.But the whole problem is that this basic plot is sidelined by the romances and complicated relationship.

Picture this: The hero is an aspiring photographer but the way how he approaches his peers , looking for a break  is total stupidity. Just replace the ‘photographer’ tag with an aspiring assitant director/hero/music director  who is looking for a break :it’s just one and the same . Stereotype and stupidity to the core. And more insane is the way how a leading successful photographer deals with this poor chap with swear words and steals the hero’s work .May be,the lead character is so stupid and doesn’t know abt copyright and stuff like that , but what abt his entire set of friends,that too when his girl friend is working in advt industry,it seems even are they unaware or does NatGeo publishes any photo without getting the RAW format /original of a picture and without proper validation of copyrights issue ?

So the basic problem with the movie is every character in the movie thinks and acts like  how the director (who to a large extent thinks irrationally) thinks .Every thing falls in place , not because a character or situation leads them into , but just the director wants it that way. I see the director in every character – friends , lead characters every body which implicitly means they are not realistic and do not possess an identity of their own.

There is this important scene where the hero kinds of attains salvation in looking at a bird that spread open its wing which is supposed to bring the hero divine joys of his photography- what an emotionally touchy feeling should it have evoked at every one of us – it rather turns with poorly done CG and inconsistent lighting to the whole frame making it a mockery of a scene. I understand and am perfectly fine when there are cheap CG cut out in songs but not in scenes that add to the soul of the movie. Even to show a forest , they bring the Avatar opening scene of Pandora ,  one moment , the heroine looks at the forest from her cottage with again cheap graphics and in next scene , from the same balcony , the surroundings and tree look like some garden  resort of ECR . I can bet that the cinematography is brought several level down by poor production values and CG. Director, you can make low budget movies but in no way should degrade the experience of the audience , for am paying a full 120 rs plus parking charges plus return toll charges.

The supposedly side track , of the hero’s romance, that has to support the central plot is both weird and unrealistic .It’s ok if it is weird ,but it  has to be made believable - that’s the hallmark of great writers.Irrelevant placement of  song ,utter dis-respect for the character of  heroine and all weird friendship stuff sounds  amateurish. More irony is in the form of heroine using weird ways to reach the hero hoodwinking the friend. And this  friend is nothing by Chuck Norris,stupidest depiction of any possible character living on earth. What we have here is basically a bunch of confused souls with their immature sense and sensibilities  ably supported by the director.

Suddenly towards the second half , the ‘confused-immature’ heroine becomes matured all of a sudden .May be they added a slide ‘ After few years’ with means , she becomes the holy sweet mother of God? They live in a very big rented house , but this modern gal , suddenly becomes ‘kudumbha-kutth-vilaku , wears saree with mildly applied turmeric on face and drives a scooty in rain with a slow song showing poignantly the suffering . The director, earlier killed any sort of belief that was infused to the character in first half , thereby driving out all women in the movie hall.  And does a 180 degree ‘U’ turn to instill a sense of morality and motherhood in second half. May be,coming of age?

And what we have seen so far is the fair struggle of the hero to become photographer , who spends most of the time confused about the girl he loves who is with his friend , flicks her and marries shamelessly, earns the wrath of every body. Funnily,his off- mental stability in second half and his pea-sized-maturity matched to the same level.

And yeah , we have see enough struggle of the hero that we now want him to succeed ? The only one who wishes for it , are the heroine and director . There are movies where in , we need not like the lead character , the maker  alienate you just because that’s the destiny of the character. But a character , in order to  truly triumph , from being zero to hero , the under-dog , the audience needs to feel for him and vouch his case , but it’s not the case here.The audience get a sense of relief when the hero succeeds finally because they can now understand that the movie will be over soon.

Movie  in its pen ultimate moments, gets into the Vikraman sentimental mode without the BGM of S.A.Rajkumar. And i prayed during the final frame that they don’t make the heroine fall of from the building making it an out an out weird movie.

Stand out performance of Dhanush – that explains every thing,that’s the only highlight which again means there is nothing more than it in this movie to talk about .

And there you are ! You witnessed a movie ,where in the hero , chases his dream , struggles with misfortunes, gets into emotional atyachar and finally comes out successfully with the help of his better half.

Way to go,Selva ! You rocketh

 

Aayirathil Oruvan

When was the last time you watched a Tamil movie like this ?Will some one  ever get to watch a Tamil movie like this in the past or near future ? I was happy to be part of this great cinematic experience.

Tamil Cinema, of late , is watching and celebrating all these nativity based real life movie that one can relate with it easily . But at times the experience goes to the next level when they show you some thing incredibly crazy that your awestruck with their unbelievable imagination and creativity. For long , we were always devoid of any movie in the adventure/historic  genre and then we have  ’Aayirathil Oruvan’(AO)  - a classic example for this .

Let me put things in perspective : AO isn’t a masterpiece and it doesn’t reach the pinnacle of film making . The story is awesome but the screenplay is not that great to make the audience glued to the movie till the end .

But the movie has opened up new  avenues for tamil cinema and movies that are to be made in future  can take a plenty of lessons from AO on what went right and what did not – viz story , screenplay,budget,casting,art direction,CG etc  I suppose.

The movie begins with a few-centuries- before  brief factual historical happening .If you miss or don’t understand the first few minutes  , then you can’t make any sense of what’s happening in the second half.

The movie  later transcends to the present day where in a group of crazy men and women(Karthi , Reema Sen and Andrea) are in pursuit of an ancient archeological marvel  that has fallen the test of time. Their encounters and misadventures  through the strenuous path is amazingly  shot with some remarkably stunning visuals and joshful back ground score.   There could have been many inspired scenes from Hollywood but for some one who hasn’t watched it before , it’s surely a visual delight.

The movie breezes through the first half like a whip of  fresh air. Karthi has a role that’s tailor made for him . He excels in every little frame and emotes with most of his body . The semi-remix of yesteryear ‘Adho Andha Paravai Pol ‘  is neatly captured  without over doing . If your surprised watching the sexual over tones or abusive language or gory violence , welcome to the world of cinema by Selva . This statement can be an exaggeration but the first half as such itself is a complete movie .

Towards the end of the first half , they reach and we are left to wonder what next.The second half of the movie as in the story line  is epic brilliant . I wonder how Selva could have come up with some weird vivid imagination .It happens so that when a group of  people cut out from external world for centuries – their lives when disturbed  and are in the verge of being  wiped out  by the sinners of today forms the rest of the story . It connects the movie’s initially few minutes here . But the screen play falters  and the brilliance is reduced to a significant extent owing to the at  times uninteresting-could-be-avoided brief episodes .

The sound track ‘The King Arrives’  which runs through the opening scene for the King (Parthiban) with some apt visuals elates the music to the next level . It’s very interesting and strikingly contrast when you listen to BGM in the second half  with  rock-ish feel. The encounters of Parthiban with Reema Sen isn’t that captivating and  the inspired play field stunts a look alike  from Gladiator is purely for the aesthetic touch .

At times, i got irked by the foolish screen play and the not so great acting or voice sync and some immature CG  . It’s easy to find so many logic gaps through out that prevents the movie from becoming an instant classic.The last 20 minutes of the movie is nice  but could have been brilliant . They resonate and strike a chord with the current world affairs on how men and women as in a race are wiped out from history in the name of war.

A movie like this can’t be made for all audiences for it may loose it’s soul . Accept the way for how the movie is . Don’t try to make Selva a  Shankar  and vice versa.It’s indeed a great effort from the entire team of AO. I bet with an exception for Kamal , no one can else can dare to make  a movie of this style and scale in the years to come in India . It’s an open challenge I say .

IMO , movies should not  be made for an audience . Great directors do create some thing out of the world  to show their exorbitant piece of creativity and acumen ship in terms of film making and then garner an incredible fan following . In a sense  , Selva has moved to the next level in terms of story telling and  direction but still has to go a very long way.Selva is certainly an ‘Aayirathil Oruvan’.

People who watch AO and term  it as  a crap/bull shit/worst movie of the year/decade :

GO , HIT THE ROAD n GET A LIFE!

 

Skandagiri Trek

The Starting Problem

Well , I always wished to try out trekking atleast once in my life for i found it to be uber cool and felt that it would give me a very different experience . When I came to Bangalore, my desire to trek intensified for there are many mountain ranges near by.

I came across a trekking club which organized trek to Skandagiri a one day trek and i got excited about it. But I was not sure if I’m fit enough to trek as it would put my physical endurance to great test. Moreover, all my friends over here were busy and  I had to join the trek with some unknown strangers . I had 100 thoughts whether to trek but finally decided that i should give it a try.I was relying on my new found love for photography and wished that it would keep me occupied in worst case.

The ‘D’ Day

I couldn’t sleep the previous night, may be I was too excited and hence woke up even before my alarm could wake me. It was shocking to see from my room window outside – it was raining hard. I was terribly upset and wondered why I committed to this. But thankfully it stopped raining half an hour later and i was happy. I was able to reach the pick up point of the touring cab after some anxious moments in finding the destination paying the price for not knowing Hindi.

The Warm Up

Slowly people starting joining and it was pretty dull and silent in the cab for some time . I had second thoughts in getting introduced to every one there. We had our first pit stop which was very useful for us to get introduced to every one and by the end of break fast, there was a good rapport between every one. It was interesting and unique experience for me to interact with different facets of people and loved every moment. We packed our lunch and bought water bottles and snacks. I had some time to shoot sparrows and try out some panning shot not so long when my driver cried that we have to start.

Getting started

We reached the foot of the hill and started to trek after having brief introduction. Our guide was leading whereas the organizer was accompanying the ultra slow walkers like me. The climate was warm and no signs of rain which was a great relief to me .

Mission Impossible

It was fun for some time, but after minutes, it became quite a task. Though it was just 5 kms ,  the steepness of the hill made it difficult to climb and progress . I was gasping for breath and took incredibly many short breaks. There was a point where in a fellow trekker offered to carry my bag. It was so nice that people helped me out a lot during the entire day . I was thriving on glucose, chocolates and water. But i was very determined to reach that top and hence did not give up though i was climbing at a very slow . Had very few snaps and found the otherwise light camera to be pretty heavy.

Reaching the top

After umpteen short breaks , managed to reach the top of the hill. It was mist all over .Every one was celebrating and I joined them. It was a exhilarating feeling and I enjoyed the moment thoroughly. There were few shops selling tea, coffee and omelet. A very old temple mandappam like structure was present there. We were exploring the places around. As with every trek , I was the pampered kid. Thanks to my selective filtering, I was able to get through it.

Lunch with the Sun

We settled on a place which provided us with amazing view point and stared to lunch. The very moment it started shining and was happy for i feared of not getting an opportunity to wear by coolers. Started running behind butterflies and things of little wonder over there. Few of them tried climbing a small stretch of rocks . I had chances to shot candid moments of trekkers over there. Few started writing their memories and experiences.

The Down Trek

I always knew that down trek would be relatively easy. We had wonderful views while trekking down. There was a friendly dog that accompanied us all through our down trek. We did manage to visit a small cave and started to walk fast after some time and managed to reach the foot of the hill with out much difficulty.

It ended memorably…

While returning, we did play dumbcharads and I encountered pretty funny, weird and unknown movies that need to be enacted and felt crazy. I had a very great feeling and it was exciting through out the day. I not only loved trekking but managed to interact with all the trekkers. It was a great and lovely experience and i wished to meet all of them some time sooner on some other trek .We parted every one with a big broad smile.

Well, it was one heck of a trek: Amazing and Adventurous.

 

And Life goes on …

Life hasn’t changed much in this brief mull . But interestingly , it has opened me up new avenues for looking at the smallest things in life and enjoy them . Well , there are couple of things which am doing now .

Spending time on photography . The inspiration to do this came from my office friends and am learning it slowly . It’s quite interesting atleast until now . Though it’s a hobby , it costs quite a sum to pursue it. I have never ever opened up eyes to so many things  before . I guess photography is more like a search – search for divine beauty thro’ your eyes  which is very subjective.

I never had time to notice that small little birdie near my room nor the garden lizard which looks like a dinosaur at eye level or at least the cute flowers that blossoms every day . All my painful photo walks nearby to capture that  2 wow shots keep myself roaming around .Planning for few trips near by to shoot – Trekking and Photo walk are on the cards.  I hope to discover a new world thro’ this new perspective – I can very well  say that  I have got  new eyes .

The other thing is watching and listening to hindi/english  movies/sitcom and music . The redundancy to tamil movies and music bored me to a great extent . F.R.I.E.N.D.S. have now  become an integral part of my life now and opened me up to this interesting sitcom culture. Well , All I can say is that , There is little fun if you keep sarcasm aside.HBO/Star Movies/Zee Cafe/Star World/M Tv/Channel V and Zoom are my only life saver . Well , how can I forget that awesome  HeadLines Today which does a special coverage of Raaki Ki Swayamvar.

Life is precisely difficult in a new place .Whenever I walk past ,  I ought to turn up and look at people who speak in my native language. Well , I miss Tamil and Singaara Chennai. Just imagine how difficult would it be to translate in English a  vadivelu’s one liner like ‘Anniyae Pudunga Vendaam ‘

But on the contrary , I’m meeting up with people who have varied interests . Nowadays , it’s becoming my hobby to try out few of  other’s interest which interests me .

I’m not going to avoid life being a hard-on to me , it is actually helping me to think and re-align my priorities in life and understand what I really want and love in life .

Life is not fair , get used to it.

Cheerz,

D

 

Abiyum Naanum movie review

Expectations were pretty high , atleast from me , for the team of Radha Mohan and Prakash raj strikes together again. But I felt disappointed after watching the movie. Though the team has to be appreciated for their meaningful and decent cinema , this fails to impress me .

The main reason being the waffer thin story line about an extra cautious dad trying to grow along with his daugther and the problems faced by the dad in seeing his child grow up independently with free thought . The plot is good , there are some interesting and touching moments , but the story is superficial and fails to touch your heart as a whole.

Most importantly , the way how dad ushers love for his daughter is not subtle , indian dads are known for this , but prakash raj’s love  for his daughter is showed too loud and lousy.

The movie is interesting at places , the humour is laced through out the movie beautifully and it has come out well.Some nice worldly , humane thoughts are brought out well.

Prakashraj steals the show but i feel he has over done the role and rest of the crew has nothing great to offer.Songs are a bit let down and dampens the already slow movie’s pace even further.

The movie delivers in parts and on a whole an above average decent flick worth to be watched with family and friends.

 

Bridge Watching

A very unusual habit with Chennaities , i call it ‘Bridge Watching’ ! Chennai recently saw the opening of new two fly overs , one at Kathipaara near Guindy and another besides the Airport in Trisulam.

Had a chance to travel through both of them.First experience was with the air port flyover. Was travelling  at night , when I saw many cars and autos and two wheelers parked by the side of the fly over. I initially thought there was an accident . But fortunately it was nothing like that and to my suprise i find  people getting down from their vehicles to watch the near by airport and run way .Truely ,  the run away and airport view from the fly over  was stunning  and we could easily see planes taking off and landing off clearly . Many people including me spent some time watching the airport and the colourful  run way in awe.

Video here

The following week , the same happened at the Kathipaara fly over .The Kathipaara is really good , the fly over is huge and a welcome relief for the traffic congestion for all the chennaities travelling down south.There were flood lights and  decoration lights adoring the fly over to mark its inagural.The butterfly shaped fly over view was splendid in short. 

YouTube Link here

Some time back ,  I was discussing with my cousin abt this , he too quoted similar instance that there are a lot of people who come to see the Liberty bridge near T Nagar for fun at nights .

Quite unusual and amusing too

 

The 26/11 Mumbai Cacophony

It’s been two weeks but still the wrath of  terror attacks on the Mumbai hasn’t lowered , thanks to indian media and the politics.

Every time when such a terrorist attack happens , there is a huge uproar with the public and government faces extreme criticism with patriotic fervor reaching incredible levels and jai maatha ki being the buzz word.

No doubt , the attacks are disturbing and impacted the whole nation to a great extent. The flavor of terror did strike me hard watching the news channels , those hard to believe heart stopping shellings and gory blood stains, were indeed awful.

A grand salaam to all those brave souls , the martyrs ,police men , NSG commandos , marcos , hotel staffs and the south african commandos and to each and every one of them , with out whom , a lot of lives would have vanished with out a trace.

As an aftermath of the terror strikes , we now witness the usual political stunts and media running frenzied behind literally everything to catch hold of their TRP’s aloft.

This attack has some significant impact on the politics being played across the country . Most of the time , it is only the common man who gets badly affected by these assaults – normally these happen on the roads , trains and other places where the common man moves often . Hence the slack govt hasn’t cared enough to take stringent actions, but this time , the target is on the elite section of the country . Now this should be a big head ache to the government for all the rich bell weather are completely outraged and this could strain the politicians relation with them .The Tatas and the Oberois and all of them .Hence we could find some significant actions and security increased across the country.

Though many famous people like NRN has commented that the coverage of these attacks were the finest piece of journalism in this decade , famous tamil writer Gnani has an entirely different opinion about the way the news channel and politics haven taken these .Read about it here .

Instead of continuing with the blame game , we need to move on -Enough is Enough. We need to extract the learnings from these and convert them as action items and try to implement them soon.

Be more vigil and have better disaster recovery plans. There was certainly some lapses in the way operations were carried out , there was no co-operation between the different units that was part of this rescue operation . Each acted on its own and no one was able to gain the holistic picture of the situation and sped forces in sync with the events unfolding .

It’s true , our country hasn’t faced such an unfortunate event that the combined efforts were not diligent.We need to formulate better plans and be more prepared to handle such tragic issues.

This moment , we are united and have expressed solidarity . Let’s learn from this crisis and become double stronger and declare our war against terror in all forms .

Let us believe in a positive change.

 

Vaaranam Aayiram Movie Review

When Simran runs to help the struggling Surya screaming in a urban english accent ‘What happened ?……...’ in the initial minutes , we are reaffirmed of the fact the movie is niched for a select urban audience who need to prepare themselves for viewing a different genre of movie , a slow saga and breaks all the mirch masala . You would love the movie if your into it with out any pre- conceived notions and expectations about the movie.

Sharing my thoughts which I felt interesting to me .

Gautham is incredible . He’s the next best to Mani Ratnam in handling romance , he’s best in the mush . The Surya – Sameera scenes are truly no words to describe . What a vibrancy and youthfulness ! Let it be the train romance or be the berkely episode , every frame is literally painted like a poem. Can some one other than Gautham think about a gal proposing to an adorable guy standing under the clouds , with a view of the lovely Golden bridge in San Francisco . These should sweep every one by their feet for sure. No way , give credits to this guy . Awesome photography , lovely music and impressive costumes – only gautham can do such wonders .

Surya for sure is incredible . Be the dad or the son , he’s given one hell of a performance . His painstaking effort is evident in every frame , he look worth more than one million bucks .He has taken utmost care in his looks , he fits in as a ‘T’ in almost every make over through his various stages of life. He is able to change himself for the mood of the movie quite easily.His emotional break up to his dad and mom on losing his love through a phone is the best . He should make gals go crazy over those romantic interludes. The portions where he suffers from an emotional break and the way how he comes out of it is quite unusual yet different.

Sameera Reddy , C’mon guys should i say anything more.

Very rarely , we could find an urban family being portrayed in tamil movies. I think those segments were etched out well. .It’s delightful to see a dad being so cool and casual with his son , being a friend , asking his son to follow his heart.How nice a dad calls his son by cute nick name .Even when I was a child , I have seen my neighbors converse very casually in English at home.So the director is not at fault , he has just shown the environment in which he grew up .

The music has really carried out the movie incredibly to new levels . Each and every song is a visual splendor . The Raja’s classical cult is brought out in the most lovable way in the movie. Adiyae Kolluthaey for sure rocks big time . Nenjukkul Peidhidum is actually painted . Mundinam Paarthanae could have been justified better with visuals.Only Gautham has the guts to have a romantic classical in the likes of Anal male panithuli towards the end of movie . Sad , that this is probably the last Gautham – Harris combination.

The dad – son relation ship should have been the most compelling factor of the movie .But these portions were pretty few and lite. There should be been more depth in trying to build up the character of Krishnan and on how be became the role model to his son.This the weak point of the movie , the dad is super uber cool and romantic but some how I felt it lacked depth and the strong bonding with the son wasnt that impressive. Had there been few more lorry and the cricket positive energy episodes , it would have been really nice.

The movie doesn’t advocate ‘No Smoking’ . But it has implicitly brought out very the message well.The movie is for sure a good one , though it could have been better.The movie towards the second half trodden towards unprecedented terrains , it drags a bit but since the movie moves through eventually to a son whose desperate to see his dad .

The movie cannot be termed as one of the classics but it was good attempt though falling short by miles.Movies like this has to be well received so that tamil movies can move to the next level.

Hats off to Gautham for a straight from the heart movie

 

PC Reloaded…

For a while  my PC at home was left unused . It was a very old one , bought in 2001 , upgraded once in 2003 . The idea of updating my hardware was in mind for quite some time .

And now I have upgraded it successfully . As i had a P4 processor , I upgraded it  1 GB Ram , loaded a new DVD writer .Installed Ubuntu straight away.

This is my first post from Ubuntu. Ubuntu is really cool