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DANNY - A MASTERPIECE

A classic movie is made by the craft of the director, strength of the script, a fresh narration and to top it all by great performance by the cast. T.V. Chandran has given to the Malayalam movie a classic, one which can be shown off proudly to the world.

T V Chandran has made superb movie throughout his careers. It looks like Mammootty got an excellent chemistry with the director. Their first movie Ponthanmada gave Mammootty a national award. The only actor who has acted more in this director’s movie is Nedumudi Venu.

The movie Danny is an off-beat movie, an award movie, as per the present terminology. The story progresses as a narration by a third-person. There is freshness in the narration and that is because there is humour underlying the movie.. The humour is not the kind which makes us laugh till we break our ribs, but one which creates a smile in us always. The kind which makes us smile whenever we think about it.



The next point is the brilliant performance by Mammootty. Mammootty in the beginning introduces him as Mammootty itself. His slang was amazing throughout. The dialogue presentation is an ability which Mammootty monopolizes in Malayalam movie industry. There is nobody to compete against him. His body language in this movie was also very impressive, especially as an old man.

A negative point in the movie is the rest of the cast. Most of them were quite failures. But the director could cover their failures by his brilliance. But Siddique who acted as Danny’s friend Freddy has done a good job.

I am not going into detail about the story because it’s a must be watched movie and all should please try to see it as soon as possible. There are some movies which creates tears in your eyes. But this one creates smiles in your mind but at the same time creates an ache in your heart. Danny will haunt you forever.

INSIGNIA '08 - HACKERDOM

Computer Science and Engineering Department of Govt. Engineering College, Thrissur brings before you Hackerdom, the third edition of its annual event Insignia, this time in association with the Free and Open Source Community of Kerala.



Its not only a meeting place of hackers. It also aims at bringing in users and turning them hackers. The motto of our program is "Come a User, Return a Hacker". Free Software has got firm grip in India and especially in Kerala. But it has always been limited to certain range of people. We aim at taking it to one and all by destroying all barriers. When there are wide doors we can open to come out, why take a small window?

Hackerdom comes with a well defined theme - "USERS + DEVELOPERS = COMMUNITY". In that sense its a community event. But its conducted by the Compsciz of GEC, Thrissur. So it will also be a GREAT event.



The curtain raiser for this was held last Friday, 29th August, 2008 at our college's Seminar Hall at 10:30 AM. The chief guests for the occasion were M.L.A. Therambil Ramakrishnan and IT advisor to the Cheif Minister Mr.Joseph Mathew. The function also included the official release of the theme music (which was done by Jain of S3,CSE), trailor and the mascot Kruger. That was all for the morning session.





The afternoon session was an unconference for discussing plans to take the event forward. Beside the students, Mr.Joseph Mathew, HOD Prof.Manoj Kumar and several prominent Free Software workers from thrissur too took part.

"Computers are like air conditioners. They stop working when you open windows"

THE GODFATHER (Mario Puzo)

THE GODFATHER (Mario Puzo)
08-06-2008

"A Classic"

A perfect book. Cannot be put down. The characters are impressive and their style is doubly so. Great dialogs add to the effect. The dialogs by Don are less but are "filed to perfection." The book is organized similar to Bible. The entire book consists of 9 books and each has different chapters. All together a difference experience of reading books. The story writing is so lively that characters are formed in front of your eyes and you can actually watch them as in a movie. The large size of book might have at times affected the entertainment factor but surprising twists and whole "set-up" of the Mafia makes the reader engrossed in it. The author has gone into detail about working of the Mafia. At the same time, he gave importance to the family. Hollywood too comes to play at times. The value of friendship is what kept me close to the book in the initial chapters.

THE MONK WHO SOLD HIS FERRARI (Robin Sharma)

THE MONK WHO SOLD HIS FERRARI (Robin Sharma)
29-02-2008

"Must be Read" *****

Have you ever been bored with life? Ever felt how dull life is or felt a lack of interest in your daily chorus. Here you find the perfect book for you.

The narrator and his senior Julian at the Law firm are the main or only characters in this story. At his prime of his job, Julian is forced to quit due to a stroke. He leaves the place and goes to India. He comes back from there after meeting the Sivana's of Himalayas. He learns many lessons which he recounts to the narrator as the story progresses. He learns from there many ways to enjoy life and also of his destiny in the world. There are many simple techniques for attaining them. He both learns them and applies them in his life to bring magical changes in him physically and mentally. All this he shares with the narrator. At the end of the book, the narrator promises to change his life for better and so did I after reading it. And I hope and believe all the readers would also do it. This is the best inspirational book I have ever read.

THE ALCHEMIST (Paulo Coelho)

THE ALCHEMIST (Paulo Coelho)
23-02-2008

"Excellent"

"A magical fable about following your dream." This is what I saw on the cover page of the book. And that is exactly what I feel like telling after reading the book. This is a book quite different from all others. The author "sings" about the soul of the world and the soul in everything in universe. He asks us to communicate with the other souls in the universe as well as with our heart. The word alchemy was redefined in this book from what I knew about it. Many lessons necessary for a better life comes here disguised as parts of this magical fable. Everybody in this world should be or rather will be a dream. That is really the path chosen by GOD for us in this world. It's GOD's blessing.

THE LOST WORLD (Michael Chrichton)

THE LOST WORLD (Michael Chrichton)
30-12-2007

An "average" book and an "excellent" sci-fi.

The second part of Jurassic Park, but lacks many features which made the first one a master-piece. This story mainly lacks axcitement which was plenty in the former.

The story is of a group of people who searches for the Lost World, and the dangers they face when they finally reach there. Lost World mean an area which still hasn't been discovered by humans, where fauna and flora must be living untouched by humans. So there is a chance to find extinct animals there. But when they reach there, they actually find dinosaurs. The scientist in the group, Robert Levine, is happy seeing the dinosaurs because this is going to help the scientific community beyond explanation. But to their surprise they see lots of building with modern facilities which looks as if it had been uninhabited for many years. Ian Malcolm, the mathematician who was a part of Jurassic park too, suddenly realizes that this island is a backstage for the original Jurassic Park. This is actually were breeding, growing, etc. took place.

They are attacked by there vicious creatures. All they want now is to escape from this dangerous "LOST WORLD".