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    Aa book thanneya udhesiche. Librariyil membership illa
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    sreekrishna parunth enna book njan vaayichitilla ....aa peril cinema und . krishna parunth enna noval und PV thambiyude . trivandrum public library il und .
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    Quote Originally Posted by nidhikutty View Post
    Aa book thanneya udhesiche. Librariyil membership illa

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    poyi membership edukku ............4 book vare edukkam at a time . 500 rs koduthu membership edukku ................book vaangikkan enthina veruthe cash kalayunne ivde aakumpol
    ishtam ulla athrayum books vaayikkam

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    Pikan time kittarilla. Ata prashnam
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    poyi membership edukku ............4 book vare edukkam at a time . 500 rs koduthu membership edukku ................book vaangikkan enthina veruthe cash kalayunne ivde aakumpol
    ishtam ulla athrayum books vaayikkam
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    Dream With Your Eyes Open - Ronnie Screwvala
    An Entrepreneurial Journey

    Born in 70's Bombay into a Parsi lower-middle class family?s 1BHK apartment at Grant road Rohinton Soli?s (Ronnie?s) first entrepreneurial experience was selling tickets and snacks to the balcony of his house from where spectators could watch movie stars attend red-carpet receptions of the next-door Novelty Cinema. Educated at Dunnes Institute, Cathedral School and BCom from Sydenham College. Capitalising on the rock-n-roll culture, he set out to hosting the first multi-city music fashion show at Shanmukhananda Hall, which turned out to be a disaster but by then, roles in school and college theatre had him hooked to entertaining people. Got his first cheque for delivering voiceover for a commercial punchline. Imported a second-hand toothbrush making machine from UK, started a company with school-friends and began manufacturing UniLazer toothbrushes in the 80's which turned out huge profits only to lose it all in his first movie production Dil Ke Jharoke Mein. Started United Television (UTV) in the 90's with 40k and no external funding for 5 years until Rupert Murdoch?s News Corp recruited them as their content partner in India. UTV?s Shanti became the first daily afternoon Indian TV series, a time-slot reserved for educational programs and documentaries, that too episodes being shot at breakneck speed of 1 per day. It took 6 months for the audience to lap it up and then went on to run 800 episodes. Unable to manage the workload in TV content production, he decided to take on a partner to move forward for which he met with four movie houses; two Indian, Yash Raj and ABCL; and two foreign, Sony and Fox ? the first two smoothly told him he was an outsider; the other two made him feel like an outsider. Ronnie admits it was his failure to jump into the satellite television broadcasting business. When the major concept going around was Indians wouldn?t buy what they couldn?t touch or feel, he started teleshopping and failed for two different reasons, first his belief it would turn out like the American counterpart didn?t work out; second, he couldn?t keep up with the market demand for his most successful product ? the roti maker. Finally got into film production. Rang de Basanti, A Wednesday and Life in a Metro took the studio to such high levels that between RDB in 2006 and Barfi in 2012, UTV garnered 25 National Awards for 9 films ? a record for an Indian movie production house new to the business. Ronnie was the first to display front-page ads where UTV would compare their box-office crore-successes with other studios (Yahraj and Dharma), something which was considered offensive then but is lapped up by every studio today. Most of their movies were trends but there were trucks too, onto which knowingly very well the outcome, they went into straight-on collisions ? Chance Pe Dance and Joker. He launched kid?s channel Hungama by bringing in Japanese manga animation series on making it a success, sold it to Walt Disney Co. He launching the first Indian 16-24 age group youth channel Bindaas which went on to become another huge success. Finally he sold UTV to Disney and is now into kabaddi and football franchises and planning to make it back into movie production. His greatest pride was how RDB went on to rouse the young public to conduct a candle-lit march to protest against the Jessica Lal case, finally bought the case to judgement and then he got the opportunity to make a movie about that too.

    I love reading about first-generation entrepreneurs talking honestly about themselves. And UTV is a production house that impressed me a lot with their content. I mean, look at their filmography: Lakshya, Swades, RDB, Khosla Ka Ghosla, Life in a Metro, No One Killed Jessica, Jodhaa Akbar, Harischandrachi Factory, Mumbai Meri Jaan, A Wednesday, Fashion, Oye Lucky, Kaminey, Raajneeti, Peepli Live, Guzaarish, Delhi Belly, Barfi, Kai Po Che, The Lunchbox, Haider, Dangal. Don?t think YashRaj or Dharma could ever boast such a repertoire. Ronnie has made his memoir worth a read by giving beautiful anecdotes about handling failure, about handling people, how he got over people mocking his surname, how the notion of a solid education ensuring stability is slowly evaporating, how he built up scale, how he was fixed with his business acumen of innovate and then disrupt, how the mindset of putting a time limit to achieving something is a sure-shot recipe for failure, how multi-taskers run the risk of losing everything, how branding and naming are important, how disruption is as crucial as innovation, that too at the right time? though often heard in such similar works, sounded fresh and fragrant this time around.

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    Robin Williams: Come Into My Mind

    HBO documentary. Since its more like a life-study, here would be apt.

    Celebrity suicides have never bothered me. Drug overdose, alcoholism, depression, financial debts… never bothered me. Always felt these problems were invited by the victim in the first place. But the suicide of Robin Williams was a shock. Man, I loved Robin. His stand-up acts, his movies, his energy during interviews, just infectious. And who can forget him in Dead Poets Society, The Awakenings, Good Will Hunting, One Hour Photo. The only celebrity suicide that made me wonder for the first time, what could it be?

    This documentary is a straight-forward retelling of his life. Only child of a happy conservative family. Father was a Ford Motor Co. salesman. Mother was a homemaker who would do impromptu comedy acts during family get-togethers. Lonely childhood spend with toys. All-boys school education. Always at the edge of the frame in school photos or picnic snaps. College education shifted from political science to arts and that’s where the acting bug stung him. That’s where he realized he needed to make people around him laugh. LA was a new shore to him. His energy was what bought the roof down during his stand-up acts. TV followed and bought along cocaine. 3 marriages. 3 children. Energetic while working, completely quiet while not. The death of his friend and fellow comedian made him sober up from drugs but later years saw him drift to alcoholism. The director of One Hour Photo recalls how Robin would use spare time to crack jokes and pump up all of his energy to play the creepy character when the camera turned on. Then there is the US Army tour he did, something which he need not have done, but gave his whole into it.

    Segments by David Letterman and Billy Crystal (comedians and friends of Robin), his first wife, his first son, his authors, his colleagues – all share one common aspect – Robin had a huge heart of gold. And that he strongly believed in preparation though it all seemed spontaneous. The good thing about the work is, Robin is not shown to be some circus clown that cries inside while laughs outside, no, he is shown as a genuine comedian who just wanted to make people laugh. The problem was his brain worked so fast, so fast that sometimes it sent him the wrong messages.

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    WILD WILD COUNTRY

    Netflix docuseries that ends up more thrilling than an actual movie.

    It starts off with the 40 ranch families of Antelope, Wasco County, Oregon being suspicious of the purchase of the 63000 acre Big Muddy Ranch by followers of the Bhagwan Sree Rajneesh. All the stories they have heard about the activities in his ashram in Poona and the pace in which the utopian City of Rajneeshpuram is being built makes them fear for their privacy. This sets off a 4 year struggle between Osho’s private secretary Ma Anand Sheela and the county council which becomes stage for the biggest immigration fraud, biggest bioterrorist attack, food-poisoning on massive scale, wiretapping, attempt to rig local elections, attempt to murder locals culminating in planning to assassinate a State Attorney General. Unable to keep up with the pressure of the Hollywood group and the possibility of losing the upcoming elections, Sheela escapes to Germany following which Osho tries to pin all the illegal activities on her thereby inviting the FBI to investigate into the proceedings inside the commune ending up with Osho trying to flee to a country where he won’t be extradited only to be caught at the last stop and bought back for trial and eventual deportation. The docuseries has archival footage laced with present-day interviews of all the people involved on both sides. Must watch. Excellent stuff.

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    ദീപൻ ശിവരാമൻ ചെയ്ത "ഖസാക്കിന്റെ ഇതിഹാസം" നാടകത്തിന്റെ കേരളത്തിലെ പ്രദർശനങ്ങളെ പറ്റി അറിയാൻ എന്തെങ്കീലും മാർഗമുണ്ടോ ??
    Pls help

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    s hareeshnte 'meesha' enna novel adutha aazcha purathirangunnu... the ongoing controversy surrounding the work should make it a best-seller...
    ee religious fanaticsne vrenapeduthi oru work irakkunnathum, controversy kaaranam athu vijayikkunnathum, its becoming tedious...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Perumthachan View Post
    s hareeshnte 'meesha' enna novel adutha aazcha purathirangunnu... the ongoing controversy surrounding the work should make it a best-seller...
    ee religious fanaticsne vrenapeduthi oru work irakkunnathum, controversy kaaranam athu vijayikkunnathum, its becoming tedious...
    Just an ordinary work...but Sankhis nte matha vikaaram vranappettath kond deserve cheythathilum valiya reach kitti athinu... ippo nammude naattil eattavum easy aayi vranappeduthaan pattunnath matha vikaaram aayi poyi
    Btw Haresh nte Kerala Sahitya academy award winning 'Adam' vaayichittundo ??

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