Chandrayaan - 3!!

With less than 100 hours for the countdown to land on the lunar south pole of the Moon, India’s most ambitious space program has come a full circle. The space mission has come a long way from rockets transported on bicycles to now, where it is propelled by the LVM3 M4 rocket and consists of a lander ‘Vikram’ and a rover ‘Pragyan’ along with a propulsion module that acts a orbiter. 

Our only satellite, Moon, has been the subject of many explorations half a century ago and provided a new perspective to our human history with July 20^th 1969 etched in our memories for ages. The Moon is unlike any of the million satellites that orbit the many planets. 

Here’s why.

·         The Moon is 400 times less than the size of the sun and exactly 400 times closer to Earth than sun, thereby providing us with the most spectacular solar eclipse with the Moon barely swallowing up our sun for a few minutes nearly every year. This phenomenon is unparalleled and happens only on our planet.

·         We at Earth, see the same face of the Moon because the Moon’s revolution matches its rotation. In other words, Moon’s year is the same as its day. This is because its position is interlocked with Earth’s and its own gravity. This causes the bright side of the moon to have a blistering temperature of nearly 250 Fahrenheit and the dark side of the moon to plunge to a staggering negative 387 Fahrenheit.

·         The Earth and Moon exerting gravitational pull cause the oceans to bulge out and thereby creating high and low tides and also lock in Earth’s axial tilt to a manageable 23.5 degrees.

·         With all these reason’s many speculate that Moon is artificial satellite set up by a unknown force of nature or otherwise to monitor the people of earth.

·         Infact, there was a top-secret project ‘A119’ to detonate a hydrogen bomb on the moon to answer some of the mysteries and anomalies of the moon.

Whatever the reason maybe, our dear Moon has always enthralled and enchanted the space-explorers in us and the many poets describing its beauty through the ages. With the recent failure of Russia’s Luna-3 project, high hopes rest on our country to lead the way to successfully attempt to land the first rover on the south side of the Moon and set up a base for human exploration project. 

This would be first step in our superhuman effort for exploration of Mars, other planets all the way up to Nibiru/Planet X as shown in the countless Sci-Fi movies. Please join me in wishing our country all the very best for this and any future endeavors.

P.S: A big shout out to my all my friends and family for taking time to asking for and reading my blogs regularly.

Thalaivar’s HUKUM!!

With the least expectation of all Thalaivar’s movie (because of the disastrous last outing), my friends and I ventured into the world of ‘Tiger Muthuvel Pandian’ and his HUKUM in Rajni’s latest movie release ‘Jailer’. 

The movie directed by Nelson boasts a star-studded cast of Mohanlal, Jackie Shroff, Shiva Rajkumar, Ramya Krishnan, Tamannaah, Yogi Babu and host of other actors.

Pros

• Music by dedicated fan-boy ANIRUDH is a blast with ‘Kaavala’ ruling the airwaves from the time it hit the market. The movie’s BGM is one among the BEST, and I doubt if Anirudh can push himself beyond this.

• The story and screenplay in the first half of the movie is delightfully fast-paced, entertaining with as many twists and turns as you think off.

• Shiva Rajkumar climax entry is as whistle worthy as much as every frame Rajni is captured upon. Each of the mass scenes along with rollicking BGM are sure to erupt all the theatres.

• Last but not least is beast of this man, our very own lovable SUPERSTAR RAJNIKANTH, (73 years old and ruling the industry like no one) sparkling in each scene whether it be mass or performance.

CONS

• The second half of the movie lags to start with and then seems to take confusing twist and turns, till it reaches an interesting climax. Logic takes a back-seat in any mass masala movie, but black-hole sized loopholes is taking it a little too far.

• All the stars of each industry (Hindi, Malayalam and Kannada) sparkle is limited capacity and perhaps is a effort to make the movie pan-India.

• The supporting cast and crew are under-utilized and could have been used better which is also true for the flashback portion of the movie.

• The cinematography deserves quite a praise for some good shots, but some really out of focus scenes disrupted the flow of the movie with some of wondering about our eyesight.

Great directors set up the movie in the first half and reveal/take forward the actual story in the second half while others exhaust everything in the first half with not much to carry forward. Even though the movie was quite entertaining, it definitely could be written/executed better.

In totality, the movie is well summarized by the director Nelson, who once said in his promo view, “I expected one thing and you provided me something else”. 

Do share your comments and thoughts on the movie.