Baran - Majid Majidi

Baran is the film which I would recommend others to watch. Its an iranian movie directed by Majid Majidi ( Hope some members here would have seen children of heaven)This film is the best one I have ever seen in my life , want to get a perfect example of unconditional love? Baran could be your best bet.This film also covers a gamut of issues ranging from Afghanistan problems and the problems faced by afghan refugees in iran to poverty and women isues.The hero Latif is a worker in a building construction and he is very close to the contractor there. The contractor illegally employs a lot of afghan workers and once an afghan worker falls down and this accident costs him dearly by badly injuring his legs. Later his friend Soltan brings a boy who is the son of the injured man.But the boy seems to be so weak and he miserably fails in the work of carrying bricks . On one fine day , things get seriously messed up and latif’s job of preparing tea and food stuffs goes to this boy. This makes him angry and he hits this boy. Later he discovers that actually it was a girl disguised as a boy for getting a job in building construction due to her poverty. He remembers the troubles caused by him like destroying her utensils and hitting her and her patience makes him really humble. Then the immigration officials spots this girl in the building site and she runs away ( as she is a afghan , afghans can NOT be employed without proper permission) , latif picks up a fight with the officials and she escapesand later he gets beated up and arrested by the officialsThen he travels a lot in search of her and he feels highly depressed on seeing her doing menial works like carrying rocks in a running stream , he later goes to his site and cries to the contractor asking him money ( infact his salary for the next two years and he promises him that he will work for him without a salary) . He goes back to her home and gives all the money to her father and returns without speaking a word with her.

At last when she leaves for afghan , her shoes get stuck in wet mud and he helps her taking that out and she smiles. She was still unaware of the fact that this young man has almost given everything for his love towards her , in fact the hero don’t even talk with her after knowing that she is a girl.I was really moved with this script of unconditional love . This is a real classic by majid majidi and it’s a must watch .

External Links

Links on the plight of tamil fishermen and the injustice meted out to them by Srilankan navy.

http://www.hindu.com/2008/02/11/stories/2008021157970100.htm

http://www.hindu.com/2008/03/06/stories/2008030653150400.htm

http://www.maalaimalar.com/asp/news/dis_news_article.asp?artid=254824

http://thatstamil.oneindia.in/news/2008/03/30/tn-lankan-navy-fires-at-rameswaram-fishermen.html

http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=25222

http://thatstamil.oneindia.in/news/2008/07/12/tn-2-fishermen-killed-one-wounded-in-lankan-navy.html

http://thatstamil.oneindia.in/news/2008/07/13/tn-lankan-navy-opens-fire-to-warn-indian-fishermen.html

http://www.kumudam.com/magazine/Reporter/2008-07-20/pg2.php?type=Reporter

http://thatstamil.oneindia.in/news/2008/07/31/tn-lankan-navy-attacks-tn-fishermen-again.html

http://tamil.webdunia.com/newsworld/news/tnnews/0808/25/1080825005_1.htm

http://www.hindu.com/2008/11/08/stories/2008110860570900.htm


http://www.kumudam.com/latest_news.php?type=latestnews&id=1174#1174

தாமரையின் அற்புதமும் , சுதா ரகுநாதனின் மாயாஜாலமும் கலந்தால் - அனல் மேலே பனித்துளி

நான் முன்பெல்லாம் ஹாரிஸ் ஜெயராஜின் இசையை விரும்பி கேட்பேன் , இப்பொழுது கம்மி . ஆனால் இந்த பாடல் சுதா ரகுநாதனும் தாமரையும் இவரும் சேர்ந்து நடத்திய அற்புதம் . இதோ அப்பாடலின் வரிகள் .கஷ்டப்பட்டு நானே தட்டச்சு செஞ்சதாக்கும்


பல்லவி

அனல் மேலே பனித்துளி ,
அலை பாயும் ஒரு கிளி
மரம் தேடும் மழை துளி ,
இவை தானே இவள் இனி
இமை இரண்டும் தனித்தனி
உறக்கங்கள் உறைப்பனி
எதற்காக தடை இனி

சரணம் ஒன்று

எந்த காற்றின் அளாவளில் மலர் இதழ்கள் விரிந்துடுமோ
எந்த தேவ வினாடியில் மன அறைகள் திறந்திடுமோ
ஒரு சிறு வலி இருந்ததுவே இதயத்திலே இதயத்திலே
உனதிருவிழி தடவியதால் அவிழ்ந்துவிட்டேன் மயக்கத்திலே உதிரட்டுமே உடலின் திரை அது தான் இனி நிலாவின் கரை கரை

சரணம் இரண்டு

சந்தித்தோமே கனாக்களில் சில முறையா பல முறையா

அந்திவானில் உலாவினோம் அது உனக்கு நினைவில்லையா

இரு கரைகளை உடைத்திடவே பெருகிடுமா கடல் அலையே

இரு இரு உயிர் தத்தளைக்கியைல் வழி சொல்லுமா கலங்கரையே

உனது அலைகள் எனையடிக்க கரை சேர்வதுன் கனாவில் நிகழ்ந்திட

In The End

In december 2004 , tsunami wreaked a great loss to the many lankan lives irrespective of their ethnicity.Its estimated that LTTE and tamils shared about 50% of the damages caused . Italian embassy collected a huge amount of money and gave it to LTTE for reliefs. Chandrika bashed them with anger for doing this " inhuman" act without consulting her. LTTE had huge economical losses , lost many weapons and about 1200-1500 cadres were dead due to tsunami. ( December 29 , 2004 report) . But the whole international arena appreciated LTTE for its painstaking efforts to provide relief measures. Disaster Management System of them became a role model to may countries in the world.

In november 19 , 2005 mahinda became the president and this was because of LTTE's announcement to tamils , they asked them to boycott the polls otherwise ranil could have won this election and the latest humanitarian crisis could have been avoided.February 2006 , both the sides went to geneva for a peace pact and it didnt work out.

In april 25 , 2006 sarath fonseka the army chief was attacked by a human bomb and he was severely wounded and 9 were dead. The big shock to them was the location of the attack , army head quarters.Mahinda rajapakse started his count in august 8 , SLA's air force attacked mavilaru due to a water dispute between tamls and sinhalese and won the battle by a huge margin.. October 16 , 2006 LTTE resonded back by the biggest suicide bomb attack , a person drove the lorry towards an army camp and killed about 129 army persons and in the same day SLA responded by killing 61 kids in sencholai. Totally the air force dropped 16 bombs there in sencholai and throughout the world this barbaric act was vehemently condemned.

When SLA attacked vaharai and mattakalappu about 60,000 tamils turned as refugees and 43 LTTE cadres were found dead and the biggest victory for GoSL came when they drove tigers out of triconamalee . Tigers were then considered to be weakest in their history until this happened.

In march 26 , 2007 LTTE bombed katunayake international airport , news may be similiar but this time they did it through air, 3 were dead and 16 wounded.The jet is a glider type and they altered the seating positions to drop bombs and in october 22, 2007 there was another attack through air.

In november 2 , 2007 su.ba.tamilchelvan along with 5 others was found dead due to an air attack in killinochi and earlier in december 14 , 2006 anton balasingham died due to cancer. Rest at the present we all can get the news about the humanitarian crisis and war front news happening now in lanka.LTTE was an organisation started with 30 and its now having more than 25,000 members. They are virtually running a government with police stations and courts , colleges and schools. But theres a great economic depression in their region , one Kg of rice costs 180 Rs and its 400 , 650 for sugar and petrol viz due to the economic constraints place on their region.

Thank you mate , if you have read all my stuffs from the beginning.As i have already said am not here to present anything in my perspective and I took maruthan's book as my reference and started this 4 days ago. But I really had to face a lot of troubles due to my limited vocabulary. Earlier in my school days i knew LTTE as a terrorist organisation having child suicide bombers and they killed rajeev and I thought that they are trying to separate a good innocent country and all the credits goes to the media persons like ram and cho.They had their criticisms but they didnt tell about the genocide happened ( happening) which according to me is a biased journalism. When i joined TNP in orkut , lot of arguments were going on about eelam and i was unable to participate in all those topics and when i was almost convinced that LTTE is completely legitimate , Srinivasan ramani ( my college senior) showed me the other side of the coin. I knew nothing about the genocide happened and thanks to people in TNP for constantly bringing up this issue. My works are definitely not for experts , but there are a lot of people like me still unaware of whats happening in lanka and I hope that atleast some people would get a birds eye view of what happened there.

Thank you all

Peace pact - A mirage

When the whole world was celebrating millennium , colombo and yazhpanam were burning as usual. In January 1 st 73 bodies were found in yanayarivu inclusive of army men , tigers and tamils. 40 were dead in vavynia post office due to a parcel bomb and a black tiger killed 12 in the prime minister office.On the same year a LTTE symphathiser kumar ponnambalam( political leader) was killed by some person and LTTE gave ponambalam "maamanithar" tag.
Chandrika announced JUNE 7 , 2000 as martyr's day for SLA and on the same day cabinet minister C.V.Gunaratne along with 21 other people were blown off and these things form the third part of oyatha alaigal moondru.
Fourth part of the oyatha alaigal moondru started in december 26 , 200 LTTE started it in muhamalai kilali and 150 army men were dead and 500 from both sides were wounded . In october 23 LTTE started attacking eastern ticonamalee and this was compensated when a violent sinhalese mob bet 29 children to death in a juvenile jail in pinthanuvo.

Then came the significant decision form chandrika , she called norway to facilitate peace ( oslo pact aalamaram pugal norway) Eric solheim arrived in october 31 and eric was good enough to handle the situation. As expected inDECEMBER 21 , 2000 LTTE announced that they were ready for peace and there would be no offences from their side.But in january 16 , 2001 SLA tried to capture yanayarivu and LTTE retaliated back quickly , both violated the peace pact and the initiative was from GoSL.In march 31 , tigers gave back by blowing up a ship( Dvora fast attack craft) worth 500 million dollars ( People say that SL navy shot bullets against tigers) . In april 24 , operation rod of fire was started by SLA and LTTE quenched the fire with black tigers.

May 4 , collin powell , external affairs minister condemned both sides and asked them to find a peaceful political solution.JuLY 4 , LTTE attacked bandaranayaka aerodrum and wreaked a loss upto 500 million dollars . In september 26 , SLA killed an important commander sankar. Eric solheim warned both the sides and irritated by this GoSL asked norway to change the person and thorbjoern jagaland replaced eric.
December 7 , 2001 UNP won the elections and Ranil wickramasinghe became the PM and in january 2002 , he lifted all bans on western provinces and in return LTTE released 10 captured prisoners. In february 22, 2002 LTTE and GoSL signed in the peace pact and the A9 road was opened for public and GoSL got back its army men. In april 23 , 2002 LTTE and Ranil signed in a MoU.September 5 , 2002 ban on LTTE was lifted and in november 27 , prabhakaran gave an interview. The crux of his talk was , he made it clear that LTTE was ready for peace and it was upto the GoSL to decide about separate eelam or allowing a federal system of government. Sounds sweet right? Yet one person was discontented about all these development and it was none other than the president chandrika , because....no war , no politics in lanka.

Chandrika waited for that opportunity and in november 4 , 2003 when ranil went to USA , chandrika announced " emergency" . She then joined with JVP ( Janatha vimukthi peramuna) and formed an allaince called UPFA ( United People's Freedom Allaince) and she became the president inapril 2 , 2004 and mahinda rajapakse was the PM.

In march 2004 TMVP ( Tamil makkal viduthalai puligal) was formed by karuna and the reason he gave was that prabhakaran was not paying proper attention to eastern province tamils. Karuna joined LTTE in 1983 and was a special commander in mattakalappai and ambarai . He is accused in many cases like getting bribes and he played a key role in 90's in the muslims massacre and his group killed 400-600 SLA men in the same year.


The next one would probably be the concluding article mates.

War , War and more War

We have to go back to the place where we have left earlier and the place is a five star hotel called hilton. In may 1989 premadossa invited LTTE for talks and he wanted to use tigers to drive IPKF away . In fact more than premadossa , prabhakaran used this offer well and strengthened his army.







In march 2nd , 1991 rajan vijarathne's( minister) mercedes blew up along with him .Then in april 23rd, 1993 lalith athulathmudali was shot dead in colombo.He was the opposition party leader and the party's name is DUNF ( Democratic United National Party) which came away from premadossa's party.In the same year in the may day when premadossa was campaigning in the armor street there was a huge traffic jam. He came out of his car to clear it and suddenly a cycle came by the way and after an hour the guards were unable to find even parts of his body . LTTE immediately released a report saying that they are not responsible for this but people were extremely certain that this was done by LTTE.







In may 7 , Dingiri banda vijathunga became the temproary president and he was there for the next 6 months of the interregnum and he just acted like a military chief and LTTE captured 3 important army camps in these days.







Chandrika kumaratunga was the daughter of srimavo bandaranayake and she became the president in august 19 ,1994.She relaxed the economic constraints in tamils region and she was the first to talk about ' peace '. September 2 , 1994 prabhakaran sent a letter to her asking her to take all the economic constraints and he also said that he was ready for peace talks and as a signal to that he said that LTTE will release 10 captured police men. She replied to him in september 9th welcoming his decisions .







In october 23 , 1994 kamini dissanayaka along with 56 other people was assassinated , she was an opposition party leader but there was no solid proofs on about LTTE's nexus with this incident .In november 12 , 1994 chandrika became the president and LTTE announced peace for a week and they wrote to chandrika that there would be no offences from their side through ICRC ( International Red Cross Committee ) and GoSL presented them with the head of chinnathambi padmanaban ( mali ) , a LTTE cadre throug the same ICRC. Tamil chelvan wrote to GoSL asking them the body of mali and he condemned their act claiming that this was against peace , but there was no positive response from the other side.





OYATHA ALAIGAL ONDRU :

Chandrika had promised prabhakaran that she will get back her troops from vavunia but that didnt happen and in fact he gave her time till march 28 , 1995 but she didnt care about that and he extended his dead line till april 19 but still there was no response. LTTE started asking questions in a different way , they blew up the ships surya and ranasuru in tricanomalee . Those were gifts from china worth 20.85 crores . When SLA was about to retaliate LTTE destroyed a couple of brand new AVRO jet flights. The worst part of this is LTTE raided a lot of army camps and plundered mmany weapons and in 1995 alone sinhalese lost 2026 army men and LTTE wreaked them with a loss of billion dollars. January 31 , 1996 LTTE sent six to eight suicide bombers in a lorry and it killed 80 near central bank , colombo.

SLA began effectively retaliating in december 5 , 1995 and they called it as operation sunshine and within 40 days they announced that yazhpanam is under their contol . LTTE in july 18 , 1996 started attacking mullaitheevu and during this period they raided important army camps and took 2 artilleries from them. After all this rampage SLA sent its troops through sea and named that operation as " thrivida bagara " but in fact LTTE's navy was very strong to respond to this and this cost 1200 soldiers to SLA and in all these attacks LTTE lost a lot of suicide bombers ( karumpuligal) . Upto 1995 , from the IPKF debacle the war is named as " Oyatha alaigal ondru " ( Incessant waves part one) by tigers.

OYATHA ALAIGAL IRANDU :

Then came the second portion in which through sathyajaya operation 3 troops were sent and vavunia and killinochi were captured by SLA and following that was operation jaya sikuru which intented to capture the intermediate portions. In february 2 , 1998 LTTE started their account to capture killinochi back and later in september 26 killinochi was under their control . Part 2 of the oyatha alaigal ends here.

OYATHA ALAIGAL MOONNDRU :

This one comprises of 2 portions. The first one is the war to get back ottuchuttan captured by SLA and after huge losses they captured it in november 1 , 1999 and gradually they captured mangulam , kanagarayangulam puliyangulam areas.

The second portion of this is from november 7th when mannaar and pallamedu , periamadu , dakshamruthamadu were captured by LTTE from SLA.

கர்ண மோட்சம்

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siG-AL5mAF8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OlJ--rWWEQ

கர்ண மோட்சம் ,இந்த படத்தை விமர்சிக்கும் அளவுக்கு உலக சினிமாக்களை கரைத்து குடித்த ஞானி இல்லை நான் , ஆனால் என்னளவில் தோன்றியவற்றை எடுத்துரைக்க முனைகிறேன் .நலிந்த நாட்டுபுற கலைகளில் ஒன்றான , கூத்து கலையை ஒட்டி எடுக்கப்பட்ட அருமையான "குறும்படம்".படத்திற்கு எஸ்.ரா தான் கதை மற்றும் உரையாடல் , நான் அவரின் துணை எழுத்தை தான் முதலில் படித்தேன் . அவர் எதையுமே ஒருவிதமான குற்ற உணர்சியை ( guilty consciousness) மய்யமாக வைத்து எழுதுபவர் . அவர் கோவில்பட்டியில் பாவை கூத்து பிரபலம் என்றும் அதற்காகவே மந்திதோப்பில் தங்கியிருந்து அதை பார்த்தார் என்பதையும் அவரது எழுத்து மூலம் அறிந்தேன்.நானும் எங்கள் ஊரில் நிறைய பேரிடம் விசாரித்து பார்த்தேன் பாவை கூத்து இருந்ததற்கான அறிகுறியே இல்லை. வீட்டின் அருகாமயில் இருக்கும் அயர்ன் தாத்தா மட்டும் " சின்ன வயசுல பார்த்ததுபா .....இப்போலாம் எங்குட்டு நடக்கும் , மறந்தே போச்சு " என்றார்.

இந்த கதையும் ஒரு கூத்து கலைஞனின் வலியை , கலை நலிவடைந்து போனதை ஒரு அழகான , ஆழமான கவிதை போல் சொல்கிறது .முதல் காட்சியிலேயே காலி பெப்சி டப்பாவை குடிக்க முயலும் மகனை தந்தை தண்டிக்கும்போதே அவர்களை சூழும் வறுமை நம்மையும் ஆட்கொள்கிறது . மகன் ஒருபுறம் கிரிக்கட் மட்டை வாங்கி தர சொல்லி நச்சரிக்க , கர்ணனாக எல்லாம் தருகிறேன் என்று வாக்கு கொடுக்கும் தந்தை , பள்ளயில் கூத்து இல்லை என்ற செய்தியில் நொடிந்து போகிறார் . கூத்து கட்டமுடியாமல் , மகனை த்ரிப்திபடுத்த முடியாமல் அவர் தவிக்கும் தவிப்பும் , அந்த ஒப்பனையை மீறிய அவர் முக பாவனையும் .......ஆஹா , அனாயாசம் ! யாரய்யா அந்த நடிகர் ?

இன்னுமொரு முக்கிய கதாபாத்திரம் அந்த டீக்கடை சிறுமி , மௌன மொழி பேசி அவர் அடி வாங்கும் கதாபாத்திரங்களில் விழியில் நீர் வழிவதை தடுப்பது சிரமம். ஆர்வத்துடன் அந்த பெண்ணிற்கு கூத்து கற்று கொடுப்பதிலும் , உடைந்த குரலில் கூத்து கலையின் வீழ்ச்சியை சொல்வதிலும் , அந்த பெண்ணை கடைகாரர் இழுத்து செல்லும் பொது ஒரு விதமான சோக இழையோடு பார்ப்பதிலும் , அந்த கூத்து நடிகர் ஜொலிக்கிறார் . கதைக்கு உயிரோட்டம் தருவதென்றால் இது தானோ ?கடைசியில் அந்த ஒரு ரூபாவை அந்த பெண் கொடுத்து குரு தச்சனை தருவது படத்திற்கு முத்தாய்ப்பு .

என்ன செய்ய நிஜ கர்ணர்களுக்கு கொடுக்க வசதியில்லை .ஆமாம் படத்தின் இசை யார் அந்த பிரபாகர் ? சக்கை போடு போடுகிறார் . ஆரம்ப காட்சியின் வரும் மிருதங்கத்தில் இருந்து , படத்தில் சோக இழையோடு வரும் அந்த மெல்லிய ராகம் தொடர்ந்து , கூத்தின் இசை வரை புகுந்து விளையாடி இருக்கிறார் . குறும்படத்திற்கு இவ்வளவு தரமான இசையை தந்திருக்கும் அவரது உழைப்பும் , அர்பணிப்பும் போற்ற தக்கது .நான் நான்காம் வகுப்பு படிக்கும் பொழுது கூத்து பார்த்தது , இப்பொழுது மான்கள் மயில்கள் என்ற பெயரில் நடக்கும் " கூத்துகளை" தான் பார்க்க வாய்த்திருக்கிறது .

நம் மண்ணின் கலையை , நம் வாழ்வியலை , நம் பாரம்பரியத்தை , நம் வரலாற்று சிறப்பை , நமது கலைஞர்களை பாதுகாக்காமல் போனது நமது குற்றமா ? அரசின் குற்றமா ? ஊடகங்களின் குற்றமா ? தெரியவில்லை , எஸ்.ராவுடன் சேர்ந்து நானும் அதே குற்ற உணர்ச்சியின் பிடியில்.........