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Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Music & Movie Review : Mankatha
Movie Name : Mankatha
Language : Tamil
Release Date : 31st August, 2011
Cast : Ajith Kumar, Trisha Krishnan, Arjun, Premji Amaren, Lakshmi Rai, Vaibhav Reddy, Mahat Raghavendra, Ashwin Kakumanu, Andrea Jeremiah, Anjali...
Director : Venkat Prabhu
Producer : Dhayanidhi Alagiri, Vivek Rathinavel
Banner : Cloud Nine
Movie created a lot of expectations since it is a combination of Venkat Prabhu + Ajit + Yuvan Shankar Raja.
Before Movie Release - Interview with Music Director :
Interviewer : What is special in this movie ?
Yuvan : We have taken inspiration from 50 Cents
Me (Watching the Interview) : Hmmmm....Decently accepting that the music was copied....
Music Director : Yuvan Shankar Raja
Label : Sony Music
Lyrics : Gangai Amaren (1,6,8), Niranjan Bharathi (2), Padmasree Kavingar Vaali (3,4,5)
English Lyrics : Yuvan Shankar Raja
Hindi Lyrics : Sucharita
Music Album Details - 8 Tracks :
01 Vilayaadu Mankatha - Yuvan Shankar Raja, Ranjith, Sucharita, Premgi Amaren, Anita
02 Nee Naan - SP Charan, Bhavatharani
03 Vaada Bin Laada - Krish, Suchitra
04 Machi Open The Bottle - Mano, Premgi Amaran, Tippu, Haricharan, Naveen
05 Nanbane - Madhusree, Yuvan Shankar Raja
06 Balle Lakka - Karthik, Vijay Yesudas, Anusha Dhayanidhi
07 Mankatha Theme Music
08 Vilayaadu Mankatha (Extended Dance Mix) - Premgi Amaren
- Its hit with the Ajit fans
- But not for Music Lovers.... copy from English albums and taking the tracks from his previous hits!!!!!
- A Single Track was released first before the entire album was released : 01 Vilayaadu Mankatha, which was a hit
- Melody songs are nice : 02 Nee Naan, 05 Nanbane
Before Movie Release - Interview with Movie Director :
Interviewer : What is special in this movie ?
Venkat Prabhu : Its Ajit's 50th Movie
Me (Watching the Interview) : Ya, Its Ajit's 50th Movie, i too accept it. But, What is special in this movie!!!!
- A multi starrer movie and the movie can be guessed...
- Ajit playing the role with negative shade is bold
- Pace of the movie is 1st half slow & dragging; 2nd half still fast and dragging and climax is fast and nice
- As usual, this movie too has funny scenes, shows its a Venkat Prabhu movie
- Lots of funny punch dialogues from other movies and funny tag lines
- Nice twist at the end ( but can be guessed )
- Most the movie scenes copied from Oceans Movie Series, Matrix, Wanted
- Felt one of the background music copied from batman-joker movie... where the intense of the music keeps on increasing as the seriousness of the scene increases....
But looking the movie as a fan, got upset that :
- The melody song 02 Nee Naan was not given to Ajit, i felt that a really a bull shit
- Other characters were occupying the screen more than Ajit
- Ajit gets blows from Vaibhav
Didn't Like :
- Irritating long gang fights with gun shots, thinking when will they die and finish the fight
- As a Ajit fan
- Lots of dirty dialogues getting censored with mutes....
- Funny dialogues
- Climax and its twist
- After the movie ends, few behind the scene clips were running which were superb...
- In Vijay Movies, he has good control with the movie script and director, so he occupies the screen throughout the movie, which is what a fan usually wants to see...
- Ajit gives importance to the movie script, thats good; but its too much allowing others to share the screen space!!!!
Conclusion : As a whole, good time pass for movie maniacs but not for Ajit Fans
Sunday, August 28, 2011
Working with Oracle Application Express (APEX)
Oracle Application Express 4.1 (latest version ) installed on 28th August, 2011
Installing Oracle Application Express 4.1 requires:
1. An Oracle Database version 10.2.0.3 or higher
2. Oracle XML DB needs to be installed and configured in the database
Note : Oracle apex comes default along with the latest oracle versions
Step 1 : Install the latest version of oracle in your system :
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/enterprise-edition/downloads/index.html
Note : Installed 11gR2 (11.2.0.1.0)
a. Download and unzip both files (total 2GB size) to the same directory
b. Install oracle database in your desktop or laptop
c. Check whether you are able to use : Enterprise Manager Database Control URL - (orcl) :
https://localhost:1158/em
Step 2 : To enable the APEX, follow the below steps :
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.0.6002]
Copyright (c) 2006 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
C:\Users\ME>cd C:\app\ME\product\11.2.0\dbhome_1\apex
C:\app\ME\product\11.2.0\dbhome_1\apex>sqlplus sys as sysdba
SQL*Plus: Release 11.2.0.1.0 Production on Sun Aug 28 23:26:30 2011
Copyright (c) 1982, 2010, Oracle. All rights reserved.
Enter password:
Connected to:
Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.2.0.1.0 - Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP, Data Mining and Real Application Testing options
SQL> @apxconf
PORT
----------
8080
Enter values below for the XDB HTTP listener port and the password for the Application Express ADMIN user.
Default values are in brackets [ ].
Press Enter to accept the default value.
Enter a password for the ADMIN user []
Enter a port for the XDB HTTP listener [ 8080]
...changing HTTP Port
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
Session altered.
...changing password for ADMIN
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
Commit complete.
SQL> alter user anonymous account unlock;
User altered.
SQL> EXEC DBMS_XDB.SETHTTPPORT(8080);
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
SQL> commit;
Commit complete.
SQL>
Step 3 : We are now ready to access APEX with the following URLs :
http://localhost:8080/apex
http://localhost:8080/apex/apex_admin — for admin page
Note that the format of URL is a little bit different from when using HTTP server with mod_plsql -
http://localhost:8080/pls/apex
http://localhost:8080/pls/apex/apex_admin — for admin page
Reference : http://oraexplorer.com/2007/11/oracle-apex-in-11g-installation/
Saturday, August 27, 2011
Restaurant Review : Nawaab's Restaurant @ EA
Restaurant Name : Nawaab
Description : Speciality for Lucknow dishes
Visited On : 27th August,2011 for Dinner
Location : EA (Express Avenue), Chennai
Type : Dhaba Style
Price : It's not just costly, too costly.
All dishes are more than Rs. 250 (VAT charged was : Rs. 160)
Ambiance : I was almost about to cry because of the smoke from the kitchen
Service : Not Satisfied
Taste : Ok, but still bad.
I hate the Lucknow special biriyani that i had....it was just like having rice...
Conclusion :
Total waste for money
One of the worst restaurants i have ever visited....
Will never go there again...
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