Forward this !

I open my mailbox to see this mail from a friend who is also in IT field. The mail subject says "If you don't forward this you don't have heart". Immediately I understood that it is yet another forward to delete, all the same I was surprised by the subject. How dare someone writes a mail like this? Out of curiosity, I looked through the mail. Looks like it has hoped a minimum of 10 mail boxes before reaching me and all of them have faithfully forwarded it with all the mail header in place. It took a while to go down all to see the message. The mail is about a child who is going to get a complicated medical treatment and each forward of this mail will earn 5 cents to the childs parents.

During my very early days of computer literacy, I have received such mails and faithfully have forwarded it thinking it is going to benefit someone. But the moment I understood the background of e-mails the first thing I did is to stop forwarding. These are such a scrap which will simply take up network traffic, storage (in each persons mailbox) and the precious time from the reader. I was really surprised to see such forward from a friend who is working in IT - he cannot say that he has no knowledge about e-mails. These mails grow like a banyan tree and it is real waste.

If you really want to forward, forward this post - claiming everyone to delete any such forwards. Somehow please put a stop to such forwards and make use of the resource for something better. There are so many other constructive things that can make use of these resources, lets give for them to proceed.

Before I close, the first thing I did after reading the mail is to trash it and went to bed with a satisfaction of breaking one tiny branch of a banyan tree email.

"Company"

I came across this movie when I was looking at the Indian video section in the local county library. Read the back cover review, and somehow got interested.

What a movie! Its a classic depiction of the underground don world. Two people join up, form a "Company" - a underworld group, soon becomes a empire. Police smells them, but they move on to Hongkong and they become untouchable to many. They also enjoy the luxury of a foreign land still holding the reins in the Mumbai underworld. The only way the "Company" can now fall is by its creators. Situations brings in a clash within them and they start fighting themselves. What happens to the "Company"? And that is the story.

Interesting movie, unlike many traditional Hindi movie style, this has been taken with a difference. Director has done a very good job in the making of this movie. Though the story is simple, the picturisation and screenplay is very good.

The actors have been rightly choosen - Ajay Devgan and Vivek oberoi have done a very good job. Especially for Vivek Oberoi, it doesn't look like a first movie at all. Mohanlal plays the classical Police commissioner role.

A good Indian movie after a long time. A very good one to watch.

"Banning Da Vinci Code is against freedom of expression"

"The ban on screening the controversial film "Da Vinci Code" in Tamil Nadu was against the fundamental rights of expression"

"Justice Prabha Sridevan, the counsel for the petitioners said as once an expert body (Censor Board) had allowed the screening of the movie, it was not open to the state to pass an order on May 31 on the ground that it would "disrupt public peace". If this is allowed, the state can sit over the judgement of expert bodies. There is no scope for apprehension of violence or law and order because even before certifying the film, the views of religious leaders were considered", he contended."

I too feel so. When the Indian censor board has approved it, I dont think there is any reason to block it by some group. Why did the group not step up when so many other films came? This is a blockbuster movie, even in countries where the majority are christians. While India is a secular country, impartial to religion, there is no reason for such a movie to be banned - that too by a state over ruling the central censor board.

People should have the freedom to express, freedom to accept or reject what they beleive is right for them. If they dont like it, there is no need to watch. Also there is no point in banning the movie when the original book has been given a green signal. After all India is a democratic country.