Software Engineers are not criminals!!!

I got a chance to watch two absolutely fanatical Tamil movies that portrayed software engineers as the curse of the human society. I really could not comprehend this negative sentiment. Why such a sick, sinful, highly exaggerated display is required in a filthy movie ???

A software engineer do not cheat around. He does not rob,steal,mug anyone. He is also a common man who works for his living. He has commitments, responsibilities like any other person. Then what exactly discriminates him from common man !!!!

Salary ??? It is all an illusion. The fact is, he is the one who achieves much less and works much more than anyone else. The mental stress, deadlines, sedentary life style compensates for the extra penny he earns. To put it simple, HIS LIFE IS PENNY WISE BUT POUND FOOLISH !!!!I m sure that every software engineer will be looking for an alternate career option than being a couch potato, staying away from his families most of the time.

Lifestyle ??? This seems to be a major weapon for middle aged men to attack software engineers. I absolutely agree that they had tough time during their youth. They started earning only by late twenties and by that time they would have got married. New roles and responsibilities had kept them busy drafting future plans. But each and everyone would have some unfulfilled dreams and wishes of a typical youth. Even a software engineer is like everyone else except that most of them start earning pretty early and get a chance to fulfill some of their dreams. The most notable being the fancy clothes, bikes, bike trips etc. Wake up folks !!!

Most of the people in jobs other than IT live closely with their families in their habitual place. But life of a software engineer is disturbing rather annoying. As the IT companies are mostly located in confined areas, relocating is mandatory rather compulsory. As those places are expensive and highly mechanical his parents decide to stay at their native places. The result, even if any urgency, he cannot visit his home due to the non availability of travel tickets. In my case, there is only one train to my home town and I need to book tickets two months in advance at least. For anyone who was brought up in a conservative, affectionate environment this separation will definitely have some impact on their day-to-day lives.

A software engineer loses so much to earn very less. Every IT company just sucks the hell out of every employee and awards him some peanuts. But each and every person, right from street vegetable vendor, auto driver till people owning shops in big shopping malls, try to wiggle out the hard earned peanuts from him. Is it ethical ? After all he is a software engineer, not criminal, becoz if he was he would have entered "The great Indian politics" !!!!

Kamalhassan -An Unparalled artist

The much awaited movie "Dasavatharam" got released last week. Me being a avid Kamalhassan fan, used to watch all his movies on the day of release. Though some of his movies were not up to the expectations, most of them did. Dasa is not an exception. As a method actor of his own sort, he has put three years of hardwork in this movie, which is so apparent to anyone who watches it. Moreover I really admire his "technical wizardry" (Backed by Sujatha who is no more!!) that is so evident in this particular movie. He has weaned himself out of the traditional Indian formula movies and has elevated himself to a new dimension. No wonder, he has the distinction of being the actor with the most number of films submitted by India in contest for the academy award for best foreign language film.

Unfortunately I did not get a chance to watch Dasa on the first day. But I managed to sneak into the theater on the second day. Kamal has reprised ten roles which according to me is completely unnecessary as the story demands nothing of that sort. To be in sync with the title "Das Avatar" a couple of roles has been nudged in and that make the movie to digress from its main line. The only advantage of this 10 role is that it proves his proficiency in acting. As stated above it proves why he is a "method actor". Being the most expensive film in Indian cinema, I really wonder why they did not take care of the screen play. It really sucks. It is simply a mix and match of some hollywood movies. I dont know whether it is Kamal's fault or director's. But this has attracted worst reviews from the so called critics appointed by every news channel and news paper.

But I really liked the concept in this movie. After the movie "Anbe Sivam" which preached his view on atheism, Dasa preaches his agnostic views. At the end of the movie he says,

"I am not arguing that god does not exist but I think it would be really good if god exists"

And that says it all. Conceptually the movie is really good but the screenplay is not up to the mark. Worth watching JUST FOR KAMAL and to have a vision of how Indian cinema is going to proceed from now on.