Am I a Sport?

Whenever I think of blogging, the first topic of thoughts go into sports.. So much happening yet so little time to follow.. Cricket gets its priority.. With Pakis playing the West Indies, England thrashing Bangladesh and Aussies starting their verbal warring with the poms, its a season of waiting for the big events to occur. My latest gluing to the television to have a glimpse of the basketball playoffs, with Michael Schumacher preparing for the long haul, the immaculate Federer perfecting his volleys at French Open, with Ganguly signing with Glamorgan, it is Sport that makes me non Stoic. It is Sport that I love.

But am I one? It is a topic left for discussion later ;)

I have to accept

Blogging is no fun when you stumble to pick words with appropriateness, and more when it happens to happen in every line, every post. Even with such reticence and reluctance, with such listlessness, I have a big motivation to blog. Inspite of my continued mockery of people blogging, here I am, writing this blog. No prizes for guessing who brought this 'cultured' change in me... And I accept the motivation is my soon to be 'better-half', and dedicate this dumb blog to her. ;)

Kudos to her for having made such a nerd blog.

Thalaivaa! You are the emperor!

Source : Sify.com, Blogrolled this one!

Chandramukhi is turning out to be bigger than Padayappa or Baasha, in terms of box-office collections! All existing box-office records are being swept away by the Chandramukhi tsunami wave at turnstiles. It has become the favourite summer outing among families all over Tamil Nadu and there is a repeat audience for the film.

This clearly indicates the final verdict that Chandramukhi is a blockbuster of gargantuan propositions. In Chennai city (in 21 days) the film has collected a distributors share of Rs 1.27 Crore and is all set to break the Padayappa record of Rs 1.45 Crore! According to a trade analyst, the film may garner Rs 2.25 to Rs 2.50 Crore from Chennai city alone in the long run, making it the highest collecting film in history!

In Kovai territory, comprising Erode, Tirupur, Coimbatore, Nilgiris and Pollachi on 24 prints, Chandramukhi collected Rs 2.36 Crore in 21 days and may become the first ever film to cross the magic Rs 3 Crore figure from this area in the long run. In Tamil Nadu’s biggest territory the NSC area (North Arcot, South Arcot and Chengalpettu) the film is likely to get a distributors share of Rs 8 Crore! And down south in TK area (Tirunelveli- Kanyakumari) the collections are likely to be Rs 1.50 Crore twice of what Padayappa did!

If one were to go by these figures, then Chandramukhi will do business worth Rs 22.5 Crore from theatrical rights in Tamil Nadu. The normal practice in film trade to calculate the box-office takings of a mega blockbuster is to multiply the Chennai city distributors share by 2.5 = Tamil Nadu distributors share. And if family and repeat audience continue to support the film till the schools reopen (June 1) and there after if collections don’t drop drastically and average around 50 percent, then Chandramukhi may do theatrical business worth Rs 25 Crore from Tamil Nadu.

In Bangalore, Rajnikanth’s home town Chandramukhi will do Rs 1.50 Crore and from rest of Karnataka another Rs 1.50 Crore making it Rs 3 Crore. From Kerala the film is likely to make a distributors share of Rs 1.50 Crore. In Andhra also the Telugu dubbed version of the film is a super hit and is poised to make around Rs 8 Crore! And in other North Indian belts like Mumbai, Pune, Belguam, Ahmedabad, Ranchi and Delhi it has a potential to collect Rs 50 Lakhs mainly from multiplexes.

Overseas also Chandramukhi is a big hit especially in Malaysia, UAE, US and as per trade buzz, the film will be the first Tamil movie to do business over $ 1 Million (Rs 4.3 Crore). It is expected to do Rs 7 Crore overseas including DVD and local TV rights.

So the bottom line is that Chandramukhi has the potential to do business worth Rs 45 Crore worldwide with almost 60 percent coming from Tamil Nadu theatrical rights alone. It is truly amazing that a Tamil film could do such bumper business worth $ 10 Million!

Rajni thalaivaa – you are the Emperor of Tamil cinema

Prince of Calcutta

Being a cricket freak, the first blog being one of cricket is no suprise. I am an ardent fan of Saurav Ganguly, also called Dadda by teammates and beloved fans. Having stood for everyone in the team during their off-colored days, now he seeks support from them in return. With Chappell becoming the national coach, let me write what I think he needs to do for Dadda.

The Bengal Tiger, perhaps, poses the biggest challenge for Greg Chappell. The new Indian coach will realize that Ganguly's captaincy is vital but before that Ganguly has to merit his place in the team as a batsman. Chappell has said that his strategy of getting players out of a poor run is to make them go back to their big performances and see what they were doing right. But then apart from Ganguly's struggle with form as batsman, there are other rougher edges to be smoothened out - inability to face the rising delivery, checking Ganguly's habit of playing too many shots to the third man region in the one-dayers, running between the wickets and the overall fielding standard. Chappell, in my mind, also has to help Ganguly decide on his right batting slot both in Tests and the one-dayers.

Having said all this, my heart goes out to Ganguly, and wish he returns well.

Why does everyone blog?

Its been a few years since blogging has become bread and butter. Why do people blog? I understand blogging to be a communication medium where what you write is unheard, or you dont care if it is. I realize how helpful it would be to those who have few channels for expression. Fortunately I have been lucky enough to have people around me to listen to my rhetorics, however they might be. Maybe I should rant less, write more. And there you go.

I get to everything late, and in most cases, forcibly. I start this blog not with a perpetual desire, but with a state or feeling of weariness, diminished energy, or listlessness..