In Kappan, Surya is PM bodyguard who saves farmers in his spare time.
In Bhoomi, Jayam Ravi is a NASA scientist, who seamlessly converts into an Indian farmer.
In Sulthan, Karthi transforms Chennai rowdies into farmers, in six months.
Farming is so much comedy to you va?
In Sulthan also there is an Ambani type villain who wants to convert all farmland and do mining and all.
He comes in the middle of the night wearing cooling glass to personally seize the Land and do fighting.
I mean why will an Ambani come and do fighting And all?
I never understood this trope in Tamil cinema, where an industrialist worth 10000 crore, gets into the field and do fighting with sticks and all with the hero.
And that too with a cooling glass, no matter what time of the day it is.
Hollywood has been roundly criticized for their "White man saviour" trope, where a white man does something better in 5 mins, than what the native man did for 5 centuries
But nobody criticizes Tamil movies for showing City boys with zero knowledge, do better farming than Farmers
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When we all joined Social Media ten years ago, we just wanted to have some fun, share info, expand our world view, maybe get into an occasional disagreement and laugh about it and move on.
I don't know where it all went wrong...
And I don't agree with the Politics part of it.
We are and will always be political. In the olden days though, difference in Political opinion was a given. But we used to overlook all of that, while interacting with others.
And there never was so much hatred.
Look At E Sreedharan. That man is a national hero. What that man has done will serve India for the next 200 years, if not more
He literally moved mountains and Delhi, to being people together and make India a better place
But because he joined the BJP, he was suddenly, wrong
I still cannot believe the stupid adoration that Tamilians and Telugu people have for their film stars.
Like them, love them, it's ok.
But what currently exists is Madness. For a supposedly well educated and an intelligent state, this kind of behavior is a travesty.
What I also can't believe is that people spend their own hard earned money in promoting their star. Be it trending their star on twitter, abusing the rival, printing giant flexes, everything.
I mean stars earn 20 cr for a movie. And you earn 0.001% of that. Why indulge in this?
And most of the stars probably don't even give 2 Rs for these activities. I am sure they don't even care about one flex in Thisayanvilai.
And if some superfan tries to come near, I am sure the star's security will have no compunction in throwing them out
Watched "They shall not grow old" a Peter Jackson Documentary on WW1.
I still can't believe how Serbian killing an Austrian started a series of events, which led to an entire Generation of New Foundlanders dying in France, fighting the Germans
There are tonnes of books, movies, videos, documentaries, TV shows about WW2.
But there is actually very little about WW1. A war which had similar human causalities as WW2.
This documentary goes a long way in addressing that.
It's truly an epic watch.
Particularly amazing is the part concerning the Battle of Somme. What I consider the worst battle in modern era.
A battle in which Soldiers were ordered to carry a 70 kg bag and walk towards the enemy, while they fired on you with Machine Guns and Artillery.
How the Future of India and USA, was determined by the inability of the Austrian Kings Joseph I and Charles VI, to produce male heirs..
When Joseph 1, died of smallpox in 1711, he had two daughters but no son. As a result, his brother Charles VI, succeeded him on the throne
Given that it was 1700s and the presence of a Son was considered paramount for succession, and the Salic law, in effect at that time barred women from inheritance, Charles VI was the last male heir to the throne, unless Charles VI had a son.
Which he didn't.
But he had 2 daughters, Maria Theresa & Maria Anna. Realizing that his kingdom would be divided on his death, he decided to change the law, and allowed his daughters to inherit the kingdom
Which was pretty sad for thhe daughters of his elder brother, Joseph, who he disinherited