My beautiful city in early morning

Some of the famous places in my heritage city - Tiruchirapalli

1) Cauvery river

2) Early morning sky

3) Rockfort temple in various views

4) Sri Rangam temple - a view from cauvery bridge 

5) Sri Rangam temple Raja Gopuram

6) Famous St.Josephs Church

7) Rockfort temple in the past

8) A footage of Tiruchirapalli ( Trichinopoly ) in the past

My admiration - KAMAL HAASAN ( part 1 )

Kamal Haasan, the word KAMAL in Arabic it means perfection and HAASAN in Arabic it means handsome, good. He lives according to his name. He an actor, director, writer, choreographer, singer, producer, etc has taken many avatars and continues to inspire people who see him. Every time I see his posters and films and events he drives a lot of energy and charm and I think this is one that many other actors lack the most. He started his carrier at the age of three and half and still going on strongly. Moving from strength to strength day by day and the latest feather that is added to his cap is the Hollywood film in collaboration with Barrie M. Osborne who is producer of the film series The Lord of the Rings. The untitled film is said to be revolving around the origin of man in the world. The passion for good cinema and his hard work through his 50 yearlong carrier will be glorified by this film. As every new technology is introduced by Kamal to Indian cinema (DTS for example) have again introduced the new era by going to act, write and even more a Hollywood movie. Kamal who tops the list of more number of film nominations for Oscars from India will take this opportunity to know the world who he is. As soon as Barrie saw the screening of the viswaroop, he came up with idea and great happening occurred in the 13^th IIFA awards in Singapore with the official announcement by Kamal and Barrie in the press meet.

Here is the video of the official announcement...................................

This will mark a new era for Indian cinema and Academy awards will no longer be a great distance to cover and I surely believe both the viswaroopam and the untitled Hollywood film will be huge box office around the world and the man kamal will reach more and more heights.

A new format for IPL 6 - 2013

IPL 5 had come to an end and I wanted to make an autopsy of IPL 5. The sudden thought that came to my mind was this IPL has to be remembered for its quality of cricket. I can corroborate the fact by saying there was 20 matches which came to last over finish and 14 matches which was a last ball thriller and even the matches that had a comprehensive finish was only because of outstanding and breath taking performance by individuals. The examples are

• ·    AB de Villiers 17 ball 50 odd runs against Deccan Chargers
• ·    Steve Smith unbeaten 44 off 22 balls and 25 off 12 balls match winning performance against CSK and KXIP.
• ·    Murali Vijay’s fastest century  in IPL 2012 against Delhi Daredevils in semifinals.
• ·    Chris Gayle's 128 not out off 62 balls helps Bangalore to 21-run win over Delhi.
• ·    Dale Steyn turning the tables with his pace, length and aggression to make match winning performance against Rajasthan Royals and Bangalore to give chance for Chennai to try for a hat-trick title championship.

Still many more but I stop with these facts. Even though good performance in field there were some infuriating things like Spot-fixing, Shahrukh khan – MCA guard controversies and M amata Banerjee Bengal CM in KKR IPL title celebrations, etc.

Amongst all these factors IPL 5 was a failure in terms of business values that is according to a valuation by Brand Finance, the brand value of IPL has fallen to $2.92 billion (Rs 16,163 crore) from a peak of $4.13 billion (Rs 19,675 crore) in 2010. A Business Standard report noted that even television ratings have fallen consistently from 4.81 in the first year (2008) to 3.27 this year. Even ad revenues have slumped 30 percent this season from a year ago. (Courtesy - http://www.firstpost.com/business/brand-ipls-problem-too-much-entertainment-too-little-cricket-328592.html).

The TRV value have drastically reduced during the league matches where each team play 16 matches. And cricket critics say that the format of IPL has to be changed and the number of matches (now 76 in total) and time of play i.e. two month period should be reduced at least 1 or 1.5 months and has to be gelled with teams in groups, etc. This point hinted me and I have come with an idea where the whole IPL season will be divided into stages. The idea is as follows,

Stage 1 - Here the number of matches played is  9C2 = (9!)/(2!*(9-2)!) = 36 matches.

              Teams will be arranged according to points after stage 1.

Stage 2 - Three groups are formed by dividing the points table by 3 and are arranged as shown and              

              will be 2 matches for each team within the group. The top two teams will qualify for the 

              next stage. The number of  matches played by each group is 3 and stage is 9.

Stage 3 - Two groups are formed by arranging the Rank 1's in stage 2 in single group and Rank 2's   

              in another group and same as Stage 2, two matches for each team within the group. The  

              top two teams will qualify for the next stage. The number of  matches played by each 

              group is 3 and stage is 6.

Stage 4 and Stage 5 are as usual.

By this kind of the format the number of matches gets reduced to 55 and now the tournament length can be greatly reduced. Because of this structure the BCCI can also request IPL to be add the International ICC calender. If ICC adds IPL to the calender list then more and more viewership will be generated around the globe and because of the reduced tournament length franchise can also save some money. At the same time crowd attraction will be more because each team will play against all the teams once in stage 1 with no elimination for the next stage and in stage 2 there is chance for the last rank team to stay alive in tournament by putting a fighting performance. 

As I am huge fan of Indian cricket, I wanted to suggest this idea because IPL is a platform for every India player to learn, perform and showcase his qualities at the International Standards.