Saravanan Meenatchi

Saravanan Meenatchi 03/29/12

Segment One: Saravanan is sad for Soundharya's life. Rajasekar and Soundharya ask him to take things easy. Meanwhile a lawyer comes to Saravanan's house and he gives an anticipatory bail to Rajasekar. He also tells them that Thamizh had asked him to take a bail for them as a safety measure and he asks them to thank Thamizh for showing his concern. Soundharya decides to thank him and she sends an SMS to Thamizh. Thamizh after realizing that he has received an SMS from Soundharya, replies to her in English with the help of his sister Sudha.
Segment Two: Thamizh and Soundharya SMS each other and wait for their replies and there blossoms a friendship between Thamizh and Soundharya. Yamini tries to call Saravanan and he ignores speaking with her. But Yamini keeps on trying and Saravanan attends the call.
Segment Three: Yamini tells him that she is missing him a lot in UK and she tells him that she is going to extend her vacation for another month as she is forced by her cousins. Sarava...more

Kanaa Kaanum Kaalangal Kallooriyin Kadhai

Kanaa Kaanum Kaalangal Kallooriyin Kadhai 03/29/12

Segment One: Karthi comes to college and decides to check whether he can impress girls by his looks and attittude, but it ends in comedy. He asks Ashok, Appu and Kaathaadi whether he is unfit for love and they say that 'He is a total waste'. Jaya asks Nila and Vidya about what Karthi said about her character is correct or not. Vidya advises her to change her attitude. Paandi and Sivaji see Ashok and Vimal disucussing about their invention. They tease them that these crack things will not help them in life, but Ashok says that they are jealous of them and they will prove their talent soon.

Segment Two: Karthi asks Bala to help him to change his attitude. Bala says that it is better to seek tips from someone like Vimal as he is a expert in correcting figures. Vimal comes in and asks Karthi to do a walk and checks his voice and says that is too rough and tough to change. Karthi disturbs Bala by calling at night and asks his help again. Bala gets tensed and says that he will come to hi...more

About sachin

The century that the whole of India was awaiting finally arrived in Mirpur on March 16. We celebrate the occasion by presenting a century of facts about Sachin Tendulkar.

1 - Sachin's father, Ramesh Tendulkar, was a professor of Marathi language and literature in Mumbai, and also a Marathi poet.

2 - Ramesh Tendulkar named his son after his favourite music director, Sachin Dev Burman.

3 - Sachin attended Sharadashram Vidyamandir where he was coached by the legendary Ramakant Achrekar whose other wards included Balwinder Sandhu, Vinod Kambli, Ajit Agarkar, Praveen Amre, Paras Mhambrey, Chandrakant Pandit and Sameer Dighe.

4 - Achrekar took his pupils through their paces at Shivaji Park in Dadar. Sachin revealed that a 'late cut' (slap) from Achrekar for skipping a match changed his life by making him practise harder and put in more hours into his game.

5 - During his school days Sachin visited the MRF Pace Foundation in Chennai to train as a fast bowler. It did not take long for Dennis Lillee to advise him that he would be better off focusing on his batting.

6 - At the age of 14, Sachin was a ball boy for the match between India and Zimbabwe at the Wankhede Stadium during the 1987 World Cup.

7 - Sachin fielded for Pakistan as a substitute in an exhibition match between Pakistan XI and Cricket Club of India Golden Jubilee XI at the Brabourne Stadium in Mumbai in 1987-88.

8 - In the semi-finals of the Harris Shield in 1988, Sachin was involved in an unbroken 664-run partnership with friend and team mate Vinod Kambli against St Xavier's High School at Azad Maidan. Sachin made 326 not out while Kambli made 349 not out.

9 - Sachin went on to make another triple hundred - 346* - in the final. He averaged over a thousand runs in the tournament that year!

10- On 11 December 1988, aged 15 years and 232 days, Sachin scored 100 not out for Bombay against Gujarat, making him the youngest Indian to score a century on first-class debut. He is the only player to score centuries on debut in the Ranji Trophy, Duleep Trophy and Irani Trophy.

India pay the price for running in circles

What happens if you embark on a suicidal rotation policy? Well, you end up running in circles and, at the end of it all, you might only feel giddy and fail to stay in control.

So is it really surprising that India kept collapsing in the triseries, and eventually crashed out of it too?

For conspiracy theorists, though, it isn't as simple or clear-cut ; they see a deeper and much sinister plan behind everything… and this one was clearly made in heaven just for them.

One of their theories as far-fetched as it may be, goes like this: who was being singled out for India's deteriorating performance on the field? Captain Dhoni of course. What was going to be the eventual fallout of this decline?

Well, one of the hypotheses was that India might opt for three captains for the three for mats, to reduce the load on Dhoni. And who were the likely candidates? Sehwag for Tests and Gambhir for One-dayers.

The duo was anyway always in the race to succeed Dhoni; they had already served as his deputy, and had even led the team on a few occasions. They just needed a couple of towering knocks to edge him out of his ivory tower.

But, they just didn't get the free run to settle down and fall into a rhythm; in fact, after a poor show in the Tests, they might even have felt like newcomers, battling to carve a place for themselves. Failure was the only option.

If their fall from the vice-captain's seat, if not from grace, can be seen as a related development, it would look like the conspiracy theorists have got it right.

After all, what has Kohli really done to be elevated into this role? Not too long ago, his very place in the Tests was being questioned he even came within one match of being discarded from the scheme of things. Yes, he delivered a sensational hundred in a desperate cause; but does one abandon all other stalwarts and prospects for that?

Let us also not forget that Kohli is not your ideal role model: he is too hot-blooded, with a hell-may-care attitude which does not befit a future leader. He was censured for a middle-figure salute and you can often see him mouthing obscenities. Not good omens.

The good news, though, is that the added responsibility might temper him down; he does own a cool mind and sharp cricketing nous which should make him a formidable captain, if he doesn't lose his way or his head along the way, that is.

Beyond him, though, it's interesting to note that Dhoni's rotation policy didn't stop with the senior trio: he seemed to have one for his bowlers too, especially the part-timers . Raina, Sehwag and Rohit Sharma, who have been used very effectively earlier, barely bowled enough overs.

Zaheer Khan and Praveen Kumar, on the other hand, played in only four games each: were they not fit? Were they carrying niggles? If so why were they on the tour?

Only three players featured in all three games the ubiquitous Ravindra Jadeja, Raina and Kohli. Jadeja, of course, bowled as many as 61 overs (next only to R Ashwin's 63); but he picked up just three wickets at a baffling average of 109.

So, did he contribute more with the bat? Well he amassed 101 at the amazing average of 16.83. Clearly, someone thinks he has tremendous potential and deserves many more chances.

One has to agree with such a theory, especially because Team India was looking ahead to the 2015 World Cup. It would have been foolish to rest him (we don't drop players, you see) and deny him valuable practice on Australia's hard pitches.

One just wishes the same privilege had been accorded to others too; Manoj Tiwary got all of zero matches. If he is also in the race for the 2015 World Cup, too bad: he anyway got a feel of Australia in 2008, when he played one game… within hours of landing in Brisbane, didn't he?

Spinner Rahul Sharma and wicketkeeper Parthiv Patel were the only other players who might feel that they didn't benefit from the rotation policy. But then, was it meant to benefit anyone, or at least the team? At times, it's fun to listen to conspiracy theorists.

Australia tour: Where Team India lost their way

To lose a plot, one has to have a plan in the first place. The Indian team's performance in Australia resembled a do-it-yourself-kit which the players had to assemble in the field on match day. The strategy, or lack thereof, was bound to flounder, and it did.
Like on their previous tour to England, India seemed to have a grip on things despite losing the first Test. In the second Test on both occasions, India had a chance to give one back to the opposition. However, they imploded from that moment, spiralling out of control in all three formats.
Here is a look at the five moments during the Australian tour when India lost their way.
Batting first in SydneyThe SCG is one of the best batting wickets in the world and, given the grass cover for the second Test, the sensible option was to bowl first and then wait for your turn to bat. Given India's limited bowling firepower, it was hoped Dhoni would field first and make use of whatever help there was. But he decided to bat, India got shot out for 191 and then saw the Aussies rattle up 659/4 declared with skipper Michael Clarke smashing a triple century. India did bat well in their second essay, making 400, but it was too little, too late.
Not playing Rohit or Rahane in AdelaideBy the time the final Test in Adelaide came about, the series had been lost and India were desperate to avoid another whitewash after losing the previous game in Perth in two-and-a-half days. VVS Laxman's Australian dream had come crashing down, with the Aussie pacers bowling full swinging deliveries to devastating effect. Rahul Dravid kept getting bowled like it was going out of fashion. Instead of giving a chance to the hugely talented Mumbai batsmen Rohit Sharma (right) or Ajinkya Rahane (below), the team stuck with the two ageing veterans. Virat Kohli had come good in Perth after a string of failures and the other youngsters could have done well on the batsman-friendly Adelaide track. India failed to cross the 300-run mark in both innings, Laxman ended the series with 155 runs from four matches, Dravid accrued 194 and India got walloped.
Tied matchThe fifth match of the tri-series against Sri Lanka in Adelaide cost India dearly in the final calculations. Chasing 237, India were well poised at 178 for four after 40 overs with Gautam Gambhir batting on 91 and skipper Dhoni on 29. But in the next over, Dhoni ran for a suicidal single and Gambhir was run out. The wheels started to come off the chase right then. Needing nine off the last over and then four from the last ball, Dhoni failed to take the team past the finish line. Had India won that game, the equations would have been vastly different as it would have been India's third win on the trot.
Open dissentThe lack of communication among the senior members of the Indian team became apparent after the twin defeats in Brisbane, when skippers Dhoni and Virender Sehwag gave contradictory versions about the reason behind the rotation policy. Dhoni said the seniors were too slow and couldn't be fielded together; Sehwag retorted by saying Dhoni wanted to test youngsters before the next World Cup. Back channel talks between the management and the BCCI ensued but all the commotion came at a terrible time as the Indians slumped to three defeats in a row.

Keeping out Irfan and Praveen

For some reason, Irfan Pathan (bottom) and Praveen Kumar (below right) were played in only four out of the eight ODIs. Not only are they reliable seamers, their lower-order hitting could have come in handy in some of the matches. But the team management thought it was better to persist with Ravindra Jadeja in all the matches, in place of a seamer/lateorder batsman. Jadeja took three wickets from all the games at an economy of 5.3 and hit 101 runs. Irfan took six scalps from four games and smashed 96 runs. Irfan was injured for the last game in Hobart, but the horse had bolted by that time.

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traffic penalties for all!!

The steering wheel of our cabinet, which appears to have unmatched wheels (some with flat spots too), decided a few days ago that tougher penalties would be imposed on people who misused the roads by doing stuff behind the throttle and brake that they otherwise would not do even in the privacy of their sound-proof de-bugged offices of public good - they committed traffic offences! Most of these penalties would be by way of monetary fines on, who else, the urban middle class.

Nobody else would be impacted, because they would take the steering wheel of the cabinet away, anyways. But people are saying, oh-ho, these new increased fines, they will only increase corruption on roads? What to do, what to do, some new method will have to be found! Cabinet is moaning? Oil the hinges! But then the cabinet will, err, spin too fast. Inside will change.

So, before the cabinet (why does a cabinet have wheels, anyway?) loses control, here are some more different and better foolproof penalties proposed for them to consider implementing, which I got from my friend, Montoo the driver, who knows a thing or three about traffic offences, even though every time he is caught, he insists that it was not him, that he is just a "shareef aadmi".

So, in that spirit, for other "shareef aadmis" (and "aurats), here is a better option to bring discipline and law and order and defeat corruption on our roads:-

# People mis-using Government cars - the car will be grounded at the house of the person misusing the said car, the old tyres donated to charity, and the person who misused the car will have to buy a fresh set of tyres, everytime. Radials, tubeless, preferably endorsed by a cricketer or film star. Special for parking Government cars in NO PARKING zones - they have to get white sidewall tyres.

# People with big-big cars and huge SUVs and no Pollution Under Control Certificates - a penalty equal to 10 times the cubic capacity of the engine of their cars, in currency of country of origin of the SUV or rupees, whichever is higher. And the PUC certificates to now cost 10% of the said cubic capacity. Every quarter.

# People in Careless Driver (CD) or Couldn't Care (CC) cars wrongly parked especially in Khan Market or at airports - there is nothing to prevent the host country from issuing the challans, though the aliens visiting won't pay them under the Geneva or Vienna or some such Convention. So, issue the challan, collect the statistics at the end of the year - and then invite the local headman of the top-3 alien habitats for an award function. At the driver training school near Sarai Kale Khan. Diplomats can be called, too, for prize distribution.

# People in cars which are surrounded by other cars going poon-paan poon-paan whoop whoop whoop and then siren noise - compulsory listening to Himesh Reshmaiyya songs for their total protocol, security, PS, PA, PS to PA, PA to PS, PPA to PPS, PPS to PPA, and bandobast staff and all future travel in luxury video coach also with more Himesh Reshmaiyya (Best of) songs. Only. With sub-woofer.

# People with illegal red beacons on their cars - penalty will be to provide free ambulance service for 2 weeks. In GB Road, Falkland Road/Kamathipura, Sona Gachi, Nelson Mannickam Road/Nungambakkam, and places like that where red light means red light. Not something else. And all their cars to be painted with the name "Reeperbahn was here".

# People not paying toll on highways and other such toll plazas by taking "VIP" status and claiming exemption - they will be made to pay the toll for the next twentyfive (25) public transport or stage carriage or ST buses passing through the same toll plaza. After that, they need to ride in the 25th bus to its destination, wherever it is.

I could think of many more, but Montoo has to go out and fight with the person parking in front of our gate, life is difficult.

There may be no truth to the fact that this blog has been inspired by this article:-

Never in Politics again: Shekhar Suman

March 2 - Politics is a strict no-no for actor Shekhar Suman, who is coming back on the small screen with the new season of his popular satirical show "Movers and Shakers". However, his first guest on the inaugural episode of March 12 would be Anna Hazare.
"No, never again," was Shekhar's response when reporters asked him about his political plans. He was a Congress party candidate from Patna in the 2009 Lok Sabha polls pitted against Shatrughan Sinha of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He had lost at the hustings.
Shekhar, 52, promises a "more refined, funnier 'Movers and Shakers'", which will now come on SAB TV.
"The show (the first version) was path-breaking in many terms and we have only set tougher and higher benchmarks for us for the new innings," he added.
Suman, who was in Lucknow Thursday to promote the show, said the show would have a mix of new and old guests and said that it would be shot only a day in advance to ensure it is as fresh and newsy as it could be. (IANS)