Just happened to watch an impressive performance of a little girl called Kavya from Virginia. She has sung Twinkle Twinkle Little star song in many different accents.
The way in which she has performed this is impressive. The level of maturity she has shown in the delivery of this song shows the amount of hard work that must have gone into the preparation.
Though the concept and most of the words have been copied from 1980s Balachandar’s tamil movie, which was refined by Revathy Sankaran in her remake of it, this kid has pulled it off in her own style with further refinement by adding Georgia accent, Russian and Italian accents.
I was so amazed at her performance that I spent some time finding out who this kid is. I was amazed by various talents this kid has. Now I know two things about this kid:
1. The kid is extremely talented and gifted. She knows how to speak, dance and sing. (Just see her videos uploaded by her father and you will agree with me)
2. Her parents are really interested in making sure she learns various things in life and also work hard enough to perfect them and execute them as per plan.
With the booming economy in India, it is becoming more and more difficult to find helpers for various jobs. Some examples are car drivers, baby sitters, maid etc. (If you are in India, I am quite sure you are also going through something similar when looking for helpers.)
The best part of this is a common funny pattern that we found when we interviewed people for such positions.
1. They will call you over the weekend, discuss the salary part, timings, etc with you and say they will take up the job and come from Monday.
2. They will call on Monday morning and give you an excuse saying someone died in their family. The last excuse we got earlier this week was funny: Uncle got electrocuted and died
3. After two days, either they will come and join or they will disappear.
My theory based on my guess is as follows:
a. They respond to multiple advertisements and call all the employers over the weekend and confirm that they will come on Monday.
There has been a lot of talk this month about the state of affairs at Kingfisher Airlines, the airlines founded by Vijay Mallya.
While Vijay Mallya has asked the Government for bail out money (is Kingfisher too big to fail ), the Government has rejected his request.
This brings up an interesting point.
Vijay Mallya has been a serial entrepreneur, having a track record of running successful businesses. Examples:
UB Group: The brewery group that produces Kingfisher beer and related products (It is one of the leading brands in India today)
Royal Challengers IPL Team (Not sure if you know the value of all IPL teams have gone up 100 times)
Force India Formula One Team (Bought for 90 Million Euros in 2007 and a smaller stake sold for 100 Million US Dollars to Sahara later)
Some people have said it is just not right for Vijay Mallya to ask for the Government backing when he is a multi-billionaire and he can bail it out himself (But I guess the rule of business that a smart business person never uses their own money is being used here.)
Overall, this appears to be a situation where a person with a good track record has faced the first big setback in business and it will be interesting to see how it turns out.
Many of my friends asked me for the meaning of Kolaveri after listening to the Why This Kolaveri di song, which is making waves on youtube and social media.
For my friends who do not know Tamil, here is the meaning:
Kolaveri is made of two words ‘Kola’ and ‘Veri’. Kola means Love, Veri comes from the english word Very. So by now you should have guessed it, yes, is very much in love
So the singer is asking this girl, why are you very much in love. The entire song is around this logic. I hope you enjoy the song.
Please feel free to express your love to anyone you want by simply saying ‘I have Kolaveri for you’.
Update: I found a remix of this song already on YouTube.
Happened to watch a depressing movie called Kites on Netflix.
This movie is all about how things can be done in a wrong manner in life and how things can go wrong all the time.
Hrithik Roshan is the hero and he is a US citizen living in Las Vegas. He plays the role of a crook, who marries 11 times to cheat the Government and get Green Cards for people in exchange for money.
He is also a dance teacher, teaching for 100 Dollars per week – one good thing was that Hrithik showed some good dance moves in this movie, which are quite different from his usual monotonous dance movies we have been seeing from his first movie.
While browsing online, I came across two specific pictures which had a common pattern: Creative road side shop keepers copying popular internet brand names and coming up with their own shop names.
In one instance, a person opened a mobile soft drink stall called Gogola and nicely copied Google’s style.
In the second instance, this person has started his own mobile fast food stall called Facebook Chaat.
It caught my attention and so I am posting it here.
Mamata Banerjee is emerging as a leading politician in India and hence my politician of choice for a review this week. She is also addressed to as ‘Didi’ by many of her followers.
Unlike many other politicians, Mamata Banerjee has maintained a very humbly lifestyle and is a role model for many aspiring for a political career in India. (It is extremely rare to find a politician who is humble in India).
Mamata Banerjee has been quite active for a long time in Indian political scene, and was a part of Indian National Congress party for a very long time. Later in 1997, she started her own party and called it All India Trinamool Congress.
Not sure if you know, the CPI-M led Left Front had been elected in West Bengal state for 34 years and holds the record for the world’s longest serving elected ruling party anywhere. Mamata Banerjee led her party to a landslide victory this year in the State Assembly elections and is now the Chief Minister of West Bengal. Earlier, she was the Railways Minister in the Central Government.
In 2006, she led the famous Singur protests against Tata setting up the Nano plant in West Bengal. I am not sure if that was the right decision or not, but Narendra Modi later came up with an agreement with Tata and the Nano project is now fully functional in Gujarat.
Mamata Banerjee has been in the news recently for her active opposition to the rise in petrol prices in India and might even break away from active partnership with the central government, and might end up just giving outside support to it. This is a very interesting situation as she represents a good number of MPs and hence cannot be ignored by the ruling party.
As mentioned earlier in the politician review done on Narendra Modi, Mamata Banerjee and Narendra Modi are two major forces that the US Government is keeping a close watch on, as they believe these two politicians have a high probability of becoming the future Prime Minister of India.
It will be interesting to wait and watch what happens.
Chillar Party is a children’s movie made just for kids. I am quite sure old people will find this movie boring, but if you are young at heart, you might enjoy it.
Chillar Party is the story about how the kids in a colony get together to fight a battle against all odds in saving a dog that belongs to their friend. They battle it out with a minister to save the dog and finally win.
The movie gets more and more exciting as each scene progresses, maintaining the funny side to it from start to finish. The way in which the kids talk and maintain the momentum in the movie is amazing. In every scene, the director has made sure there is a message that teaches good things to kids.
