Smart Pandian

If you think this blog is about new theory explaining how 3 x 9 equals 3, you are wrong. Bindaaz. If you really interested in learning how 3 x9 equals 3, watch the movie “Taare Zameen Par” and here goes a mixture of my learnings and the review of the movie.

When I read the sub title of the movie “Every Child is Special”, I thought why only the child is special, its everything in the world is special. Later I consoled myself that it was a movie about child, so it has to be like that.

if Aamir Khan (or any well established person) is not there in this movie, I am sure that this would be a another documentary movie gone unnoticed. The presence of Aamir Khan in this movie makes it a commercial one. When I say “documentary movie”, please dont imagine, that I am underrating the movie. Most of the documentary movies were master stroke, but its sad that they always fail to win in the commercial market. Another interesting point I have noticed is that, this movie has got the shades of Rajini’s Old movie, “அன்புள்ள ரஜினிகாந்த்(Anbulla Rajini Kanth)”.

Every Movie is Special and has got some information that enriches knowledge. In this movie, its a new term , Dyslexia. Dyslexia is a learning disability with respect to written language. The Term Dyslexia appears as if it was a disease or some kind of mental disablity. But its not so. For example, if you are finding difficulty with reading and writing of “ல ள” in tamil or “ಬ ಒ” in Kannada, you have got Dyslexia. Whats actually requires is motivation, mentorship, & guidance. So, it was true that all humans have dyslexia. Though for us, its unnecessary or self interest, but For kids, its mandatory.

Now, to the title of blog, Similar to Dyslexia, Dyscalculia is a term refer to the difficulty in learning maths and the way how 3 x 9 equals 3 was explained is simply extraordinary.

Positives & Negatives

+Whatever it is, Kids add unknown beauty.(nowadays, its well known fact in Tamil Film Industry)
+The Hero Ishaan (the kid)
+Committment of Aamir Khan as a director and his interest in making such a concept to screen.

-Slow Pace
-Introduction Song For Aamir Khan

Rating : 4.8 / 5

written by Pandian \\ tags: aamir khan, dyscalculia, dyslexia, Movie, Taare Zammeen par

There was a Girl,
who was Tall & Thin & Fair,
her Hair, her Hair,
was a color of Ginger

An English Rhymes from the Tamil Movie, “Katrathu Tamil”, One of the Excellent movie of the year, packed with interesting, informative dialogs and intuitive screenplay. Achan kovil, Xaviers College, Tirunelveli (My Dad graduated there), munusaamy(A tamil Graduate), takes me back and forth in time. Even the dumb story of a dream tiger which is dreaming about the dream desert, adds unknown beauty to the movie. A One line about IT…

“If India is a growing, it has to be equivalent in all industry. if only Leg (IT) is growing, it is a Disease (yaanai Kaal), we have to cure it.”

explains the impact of IT over other industry. Just like real life, this movie has got no logic

Unlike my earlier blogs on Movies, This blog going to be a sketch of incidents that cames to my mind while watching this movie.

Incident 1:

Guindy, 04:30 pm, I have just reached the Gandhi Mandapam Bus Stand after ten minutes ran/walk from the hostel. I have got one and hours to reach the egmore railway station, so that I can catch the train by 0600pm . One and Half hour is more than enough for anyone to travel from Gandhi Mandapam to Egmore, provided 23C is ready to take immediately. As per the wide known fact that the expected bus wont come at expected time, 23C has not yet arrived while half an hour is already gone. My mind races for alternate strategy and it orders me to take any next bus, as any bus from gandhi mandapam has to go thru either saidapet or Guindy. From there, I can travel to Egmore thru metro train. Immediately, I took the bus that just appeared. It was well crowded bus. I have managed to stand in the foot stands. I checked my pocket for money. I was stuck. All I have got is a one rupee coin and a hundred rupee note (luck/unluck) while the ticket price is 1 rupee 50 paise. Conductor has got the one rupee, starts pestering me (sorry:) for the fifty paise which i didnt have. With in five minutes, the bus reached the stop. I have to drop. Now It was funny, but at that time, I was thinking that Ticket Checker, will catch me if I drop without getting ticket. I was clueless what to do. But, in that crowd, suddenly, a hand appears out of nothing, gives me a fifty paise. I said thanks, and give the coin to the conductor and immediately dropped from the bus. While I was walking to Saithai railway station, i realised that i have not even seen the guy who gave me the coin. I said thanks to empty air.:)

This incident is very usual one and It made me help people who were under such incidents on bus, couple of times.
“Katrathu Tamil” , incident has to be the worst of all, on similar grounds.

Incident 2:
This is an incident I have heard in my College when I was doing first year. I dont know whether it is a true incident or just a story.

It should be some year in 1990s, Patrick (Assumed Name) was from Coimbatore. He was always good at his studies and so he has got good marks in entrance examination and ranked in top 50 students in all over Tamilnadu. Because of his marks, He can get any course, in any college he can think of. Being from Coimbatore, the city which is known for its Cotton industries, he choose the course as “Textile Engneering” in CEG. I dont know what made him to choose, CEG more than PSG or GCE. His assumption is that, immediately after completing the course, he can join/contribute to cotton industry over there.

Unfortunately, he doesnt aware of the real status of Textile Engineering department, which is some what like the Tamil department. The opportunity to get a job for textile was very very very less or impossible at those time. But now, textile students wont take much notice of the Textile Industries, as IT industry is swallowing all Graduates.

Back to the story, He has joined the college. After some days, he was broken down when he came to know about the real oppurtunity of Textile Engineering from seniors and friends. Though he consoles himself, the real pain resides calm in his heart. Sometimes, He was disturbed by his Friends who take this incident as a snoop and pour more oil into the burning fire. Days were gone. Sometime during his second semester, he has committed suicide.

In Katrathu Tamil, its other way around.

Pls Note :- This blog was written with the assumption that the reader has already watched the Tamil Movie “Katrathu Tamil”. Anyways, Enjoy reading.

written by Pandian \\ tags: chennai, college, katrathu tamil, Movie, railways, rhyme

When ever filling an online form or an application, I used to stuck at last/sur name . Is it Pandian(my third name) or Annamalai(My Father’s Name)? . After a moment of doubt, I would write one of the two and click submit. After all, its my name.

But the question of last name was always a doubt. Finally, today, i searched for last name in wikipedia. Its a very big explanation. I keep on reading and reading, reading for a while.

Obviously, Last Name is used as additional identifier for a person. In various part of the world, the last name is used for different purpose. In Tamil Nadu & kerala, Nowadays, Father’s Name was used as last name while some hundred years back, caste or clan or place name were served as second name. Credit goes to Periyar. but all in vain.

It was happened to me to watch periyar movie, last week. As per school knowledge, I remember Periyar as a freedom fighter. But after watching the movie, I realised that he was more or completely devoted himself to fight against untouchability and casteism and he rarely spent time for fighting against Independence. He also called for a new country called dravida nadu (dravidstan) during 1938 - 1947 but it was not happened during Independence.

From this movie, I came to understand even at those time, everyone has acted with the political motto than thinking for the beneficial of the whole country.

Anyway, A must watch movie for Tamils (Also Malayali).

written by Pandian \\ tags: Last Name, Movie, periyar, Sur Name, Tamil