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My & Royal Wedding day! April 29 A repost from last year. My wife posed a challenge today. Wives do pose a challenge everyday and so what is the big deal? But,this is an unprecedented one atleast for me. She asked if I could write something on our wedding day. I took up this challenge to write not because it is a least expensive gift but I thought this would be a challenge on its own. Wedding day is not just another annual day to exchange expensive gifts. Exchange is probably not the right word, wife to receive and husband to give in most households. Wedding day ideally should be a day of reflection on how we have lived our life through. Married life is essentially a love in evolution and wedding day provides an opportunity for its evaluation. In months after tying the knots, love and romance start taking the back seat and they turn into rituals of relationship. Love will and should form the back bone on which daily chores, logistics of life, priorities in family and ca
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Kaatru Veliyidai- A Manirathnam film. There are two sides to how Manirathnam excels in his movies. His storytelling prowess and the best use of technicians in his movies especially cinematography, music and editing. I would rate this movie as one of the best in terms of Manirathnam using cinematography to make each frame of this movie visually pleasing, aesthetically immense and technically proficient. Each frame of the movie can be frozen to please our senses. The visual angle created in cinematography adds to the magnificent and spectacular picturisation. As for storytelling, Manirathnam seems to have lost his magical touch. He made it as a simple narration of the story alternating between now and flashbacks. It is all the more confusing to comprehend what he is trying to portray his lead characters as. The movie starts with an Air Force officer at Kargil war evicting himself from a fighter plane, falling onto enemy territory and then being imprisoned in Pakistan prison. It
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