Jalaluddin Mohammed !!!

It all started with the news that coverd the controversy in the movie ‘Jodha Akbar’…. Lets get to the controversy later and focus on the context of the post… I slightly rembrd few points about this chap Akbar which I heard during my school days…. The controversy talks triggered my curiosity to know akbar’s proper history…

Way too amazing, I had a wrong impression on mughal rulers known for their barbaric attitude towards the country were ever they rule…. Actually they were but akbar was a little kinda exception on this… son of humayun, father of salim (Jehangir), husband of Jodha bai (Rajput princess)…. Akbar captured a significant role for himself in the mughal era by living his own way of life…. Herez the list that impressed me on his life…

…though akbar was born in sindh, he was taken to afganistan by his dad humayun… he was a mere fugitive that time and he grown up in afgan soil with out any education… he spent his childhood in learning to fight, hunt and those sorta stuffs…

…Akbar got in to the throne at his age of 13 and straight away went to the Warfield when they fought against hindu warrior hemu… akbars chief minister baram khan was known for his thirst to conquer whatever he finds.... this drived him to go nasty and kill the king (Hemu) in brutal manner… however, history (the movies and books) says akbar wasn’t keen in killing people to conquer the land…

…akbar took the responsblts once he became the grown up king… he then started to respect the people irrespective of their race or background… he took off the pilgrimage tax and non muslim tax that he had on hindus in his empire… many mughal rulers din like him as he is being so liberal and spoiling the reputation of the mughals…

…known for being a shrewd politician, he married rajput princess to prevent political problems and this made him to be more unique in the well of mughals…. He let his 3rd wife (jodha bai) to practice her own religion in the mughal’s palace… infact, she had her own mini temple inside the palace in her area… akbar was infact attracted to her more and more…

…though he is an illiterate, he had extreme passion about gaining knowledge and so he had many scholars in his court and they read out the books for him … akbar himself wrote many books with the help of other literates in his court… he always appreciated talented chaps in his kingdom who excelled in management, poems, writings, intellectual skills, fighters etc…. akbar himself is a master of many… hunting, carpenting, entertainment, writings etc….

…he is the only mughal who later gave up his non-veg. eating habbit to show his attachment with Jainism… he had setup a chamber to encourage talk shows on various religions… he even encouraged aethists to come out with their views…

All the above points are purely my research outcome and only based on these, I admired this one and only unique mughal ruler who wanted some real peace and harmony in his kingdom….however, I visited few sites that totally bashed akbar and his slaughter house to kill hindus…. I some how feel it’s a kind of faked one….i am not sure though…

These above points made me extremely curious to watch much hyped ‘Jodha bai’…. The trailor of the movie made an impression of a full fledged action movie of a mughal emperor… however, the movie is mostly dominated by the love and romance between the rajput princess and the sehensha….

It’s a warm and pleasant movie for those who likes love movies …. An intrstng piece of art work for those who keen on the technical wonders that one can make in the movie (editing, camera works and stuffs)… an intrstng not-so-famous bit of history for those who wanna know wat exactly happened…

a r rehman once againd proved his talent with the BGM and songs…. The choreography was mindblowing in ‘Azeem-o-shaan’ song… the melody of ‘Jashn-e-bahaara’ still echoing in my mind…. Hrithik, lived as a akbar in the whole movie…. I wonder if akbar would have been this fit… am not much of a ash mad and so I don’t have any comments on her in this movie….

Jodha Akbar…… from my view is an excellent product to enjoy once and nothing much to excite (or mourn) about….

On the Off… Is it God or GANGULY?

Being an ardent fan of Cricket and a religious follower of matches wat ever Indian Cricket team plays against, I guess I got every reason to make this post on my favourite cricket player in my country team…. Its none other than the DADA himself…

I used to admire him at his debut season for his charming appearance and the way he grew himself to stabilize his position with the team… but now I like this man for his well crafted mix of attitude, skill, bravery and ability to excel with the responsblties on his shoulder… character gets better with experience and he is no exception…(ofcourse, am talking about cricket only & not those useless off the field controversies/speculations on him… thaz not my concern as well)

Let me list out the best on this-cat-will-drink-beeraa (puriyala?? intha poonayum beer adikumangra maari) looks chap that made me to have him as one of my favrts in the sportsmen list….

- his class, he has the honour of being a partner of tendulkar in opening the game and adding the most tons… his mind blowing strokes on the offside will tell you the reason… he is such a sweet timer of the ball and a master physician himself who is good at speed and angle of reflection ;)

- attitude, this is the most admiring part of him… some may call him arrogant or indisciplined but I seriously love him for his attitude that he shows to the opponents… not much of sledging…. He just shows his anger with his skills and only after he wins against those bloody opponents who raised his BP… remember? the way he stripped his tops and waved to the English audience conquering the England series in their own soil…. He was waiting for that moment and he just represented/reflected all his countrymens raging intentions… the empire of his own class

-charm, he is one amazing cricketer with a charm on his appearance all the time… he shows up very well wen hez tensed and a pretty emotional guy which I would say, increasing his charm as a person…

- Responsiblty, the way he handles his respnsblty shows his maturity as a senior player… obviously he is one of the most successful captain for india and ther can be no debate on this… the way he handles the pressure is seriously admirable…the only hiccup he faced is the loss of form in the middle and again, he came back like rajnikanth with hit over hits… however, he was off the track being emotional and kept his head quiet and calm all the time since hez back….

Ganguly is a very useful hand for winning any match… though he is know for being a batsman of his own class, he is a golden arm bowler who rise to occasion… I still remember the sharja cup were India played 5 ODIs against Pakistan and won 4 of em…. Dada got the man of the series by scalping 2 wickets in each parallely hitting around 40+ average…. Sachin mentioned him as a ‘Golde arm’ in the final presentation….

He was a man caught with lots of off field issues and even though its disappointing its none of our (fans) business to think about it as it is his personal side… for me wat matters is how he is with the team and country… the most disappointing news that BCCI could ever let out is the dropping of the inform dada from the most imprtnt CB series in Australia…. Sure this is a shock one to whole country….

On an attempt to promote the young Indian team funda, the country lost the much needed experience to handle the immaculate task India facing at the moment… the ongoing series is turning out pathetic purely due to the lack of experience….

See the first match against Australia which India won… the total (160) was peanuts and India should have won convincingly with bonus point (by finishing it in 40 overs… crap, they just suffered and thanks to Dhoni who showed some character to win the match by giving out everything… yesterday’s match (India V. Srilanka) was absolutely pathetic display of the inexperienced Indian team…. May be these matches are learning curve for the youngsters but at the cost of losing ‘on-the-hand’ games…??? Had ganguly was there (irrespective of opening or in the middle order), the win is always achievable combined with the exp. Of sachin , dhoni along with the fired up talent of youngsters….


If India loses the tournament, I would strongly comment with out any reservation that its because of omission of the inform, experienced ganguly… this is totally unfair to a player who contributed more than his potential all over his career with Indian team… I some how losing my intrest these days with these stupid decisions from the selectors… all I can do is show my anger only in this post…. !!!

Photograph

There is nothing better that made me feel so pleasant and warm straight in the morning than seeing my photographs (that I clicked when am in good clicking mood) printed in the office magazine with my profile in it…. the magazine was dropped at my desk last night just like they (the office) did for every other employees. I was taken by sheer surprise as I totally forgot that I sent my creations as entries for the editor team…. My joy knew no bounds… I never thought the team will recognize my pics… as I guessed there would have been ‘n’ number of entries to fill up those 2-3 pages exclusive for photograph works….

Photography is an alien word for me still…. But I always love to tickle the creative part of my brain limiting it to just ‘my abilities’… and I am always aware that I am not achieving anything with that as there are 1 billion better photographers at any part of world…. Still I like this Jack-of-all feeling not restricting my hobbies to one or two for the sake of filling up my resume : )

I may read or surf through few of the photographic techniques wen I find time (ofcourse at my office) …. But never been so keen as I like to keep myself unique with my skills (skills????)…. My hunt is still on the perfect camera aiming to grab when time comes (means, I don’t have enough money yet to buy a costly camera with all features)…

Though I love this hobby, I have a big aversion to this carrying camera stuff as it most of the times doesn’t allow me to enjoy the scene completely… the main hassle being handling the camera safely… specially when I do trekking or when click pictures over the water or during the rain…. I should always make sure the equipment is safe from any sort of hazard…. Pain !!!

As a kind of healing, I got my mobile (Nokia N73) with 3.2 mp lens which partly satisfies my needs to ‘click on the go’ and ‘easy handling’ issues…. By this I was able to take more pics and name it myself as ‘Mobile Photography’ …. He he he…. Here I attached few of clicks off my mobile….

Aravindh's Angle:

The Highway:

Cute Monster:

Beauty of the sunset:

Standing Tall: