C and C++ Questions

Here is a Word document that has a list of all the frequently asked technical questions in interview. I didn’t want to bring anything technical into my blog, but couldn’t resist from doing so. I have uploaded it on rapidshare but if someone can tell me a better file hosting server, I would appreciate that. Here is the link.

Disclaimer: This was not prepared by me (obviously). I just found it on the internet somewhere. Hope this proves useful.

Click here to go to the download location

Oram Po - My Review

If you are struck by boredom and have no idea how to fight it, you can watch oram po. Movie lovers, don’t expect too much.

There is no fascinating story, spellbinding action or beautiful song sequences but it is all simple and straight with predictable end and no twists and turns.

The movie is all about auto racing. I appreciate the director, who has given a turn to the tamil cinema from the usual car racing and bike racing, for picturing such a concept (hoping that this doesn’t inspire somebody to make a movie on Rickshaw racing). To give you an outline, Bigulu and ‘Son of god’ are two most popular rivaling auto mechanics (who earlier worked together) and chandru (arya) is Bigulu’s friend. And from there, it is all about auto racing between the two teams, some challenges faced by arya and expected love episodes between arya and pooja.

Though the movie lacks good comedy and appealing dialogues, individual performances definitely need to be marked. Arya, for the first time has played his role with right expressions at the right points of time. Pooja, needless to say, rocks in the movie. Others have played their parts with no flaw. One more commendable aspect of this film is the screenplay which is the first of this kind. Also the manners in which the auto races have been pictured are sure to excite the audience.

Rating - ***/5

I feel it deserves these 3 stars for excellent screenplay, good acting, “the typical tamil film racing styles” using autos.

Verdict : A not-so-boring movie worth watching for the novel concept.

P.S- Don’t miss the final scene. Pooja looks ravishing in it.

The Shadow Man

As I lay in the dark under the comfort of the blackness that surrounds me; the eyes alive to witness an impeccable event; through the window shines the light of the moon straight onto me and is born behind me, my shadow.

I witness, as my shadow disunites from me, the heavenly winds en wrapping an unrivaled path of transition; my shadow ascending to the height of the sky through the passage that nature created; and as it rises in the invincible segue, the gods of the goodness blessing it with the power, the identity, the character, the courage, the energy, the weapons, the support, the intelligence, and all that is needed to win battles for the earth against the elements of evil.

I see my dark shadow in the virtual world up there, prepared to fight battles; with strength to fight, mind to win, heart to kill and will to succeed.

I watch, with bated breath and delighted heart, my shadow slashing the heads of the immoral with the sword of the earth’s all the honesty; cremating the corrupt with the fire of all the divested souls, stabbing the hearts of the inhuman bodies that was selfish enough to make the deserving humans unjustly poor; shooting the brains, mercilessly, of the slothful empty souls who disrespect the laws of the nature and hurt the sinless creatures; beating to death and destroying the families of all the avaricious humans who mask their hearts with good; strangling to death the souls with minds that is not patriotic, sucking the blood from the hearts of souls that desire power to misuse and skinning the rich that refuse to help the poor.

After all evil die, I see my shadow standing with blood stained all over its black complex body; breathing heavily in rage and anger; feeling ecstatic that evil were all eliminated and as the good humans of the virtual world surrounded my shadow, applauding, thanking and blessing him for creating such a harmless world, I see my shadow smile…

I see him, departing from the virtual world waving goodbye to the thankful souls, and descending through the magical path that gave it all the nonpareil powers. Down he comes to the real earth and stands in front of me, meeting me eye to eye. With no words to speak and no tears to cry; with no prayers to pray and no feelings to hide; as the virtual world watch us from above; we break out into the loudest laughter a human could ever hear, a laughter so loud that echoes to those suffering evil in hell, a laughter so loud that flies all over the world up there to wipe the tears of the poor, a laughter so loud that lashes the fear from all the good souls, a laughter so loud that brings back life to all that are dead but deserve to live and as the thunder roars and a lightning flashes whiteness to the darkest night , we cry out aloud-“For all you evil still out there or yet to be born, be prepared to die in the hardest way in our hands”… and thus pours the heartwarming rain.

After the celebration; as the silence restores; as we realize that time is just apt for my shadow to reunite with me; I felicitate him with smile expressing my happiness and exhilaration for which he returns a smile to me expressing his hope that I do his deeds for the salvation of the good in the real world; and as he unites with me; I stand near my window, enjoying fragrance of the wet soil, praying to god that I fulfill my shadow’s dreams.

All I Think About Billa 2007

This is a movie that needs no introduction about the story, the cast, etc. The story spread from Amitabh Bachan’s Don to Rajinikanth’s Billa and Sharukh’s Don with some different twists and turns in each creation of it. But Ajith’s Billa is just a mix of all the three, a hopeless mix. And moreover, the climax is a replica of that of Al Pacino’s The Recruit. All that comes to my mind after watching this movie are only advices to personnel involved in film making now a days. And since that is too large in number, I will give only what is of most importance in the context of this movie.

First, for all you Rajinikanth fans out there, I am sure this movie will disappoint you. Even if you say that the movie is “ok”, please watch the old Billa again. I am sure your views will change.

Now, to the crowd wandering around propagating that the movie is “Hollywood range”, for heaven’s sake, please go and watch the movie Don (the new one), which is far better than Billa 2007 and you’ll realize that no big efforts have been taken to make this film since it’s a replica of Don.

In my opinion, the director’s biggest mistake was to situate the events in Malaysia. It would have been much better if the movie had been localized and taken in India. I would prefer Ajith’s silly punch dialogues to Billa’s forlorn styles. Here is a list of all the stupidity in the movie.

1. Ajith will NEVER get Superstar Rajinikanth’s styles, acting and “gethu”.

2. Ajith actually tries to imitate Sharukh in Don. That is a minus.

3. The movie is totally slow paced and Ajith’s dialogue delivery makes it even slower.

4. The movie is all about Ajith, Ajith and only Ajith. The background music, the screenplay, the actions and songs are all heavy only when this man is on screen and other details are given lesser grandness.
5. Namitha Doesn’t know to act.

And added to it is foolishness. Here are they.

1. The information about criminals is copied in a pen drive by Ajith which he gives to the DSP (Prabhu). The last half an hour is about finding the pen drive and giving it back to the criminal gang. The director uses advanced technology here. Yeah, in the current world, all info is maintained in PCs and pen drives are of course the most preferred way of copying files. It is so foolish that when the information is given in a pen drive to the police, the don’t make a copy of it. Logic is badly used here. (Very well, it’s a tamil movie after all.)

2. And before Raguman joins Prabhu, Billa’s gang do get information from about police’s moves. There is no reference to who actually gives that information, at any point in the movie.
And beyond all it’s absurdity, if there is one reason why a man should watch this movie, it is because Nayantara is in it. Throughout the movie she is hot and that’s what your ticket is worth.

I give this movie 1 star out of 5 and that’s only because of Nayantara. Long live the young lady. And I really think Ajith,being such a handsome man, should start playing roles that presents his acting skills than those that are merely made for magnificence and greatness of the Hero.

And for all Ajith and Vijay fans, stop fighting about who will be enthroned superstar among these two. The superstar Rajini himself is still out there marking all his movies and stands Rock Solid.

Verdict: Not the way to remake a film of such high greatness.

These are my personal views. Feel free to post your comments. Accepting and opposing comments are welcome. However abusive comments will only reflect bad on Ajith's fans and Ajith himself.