Ponniyin Selvan 2

Scene - Oomai Rani manages to save her God son Arulmozhi Varman.  Adventures of Poonkuzhali in the rescue of Arulmozhi Varman and Vanthiyedevan. Subsequent treatment of fever of the prince Arunmozhi Varman  in Nagapattinam Buddhist monastery. 

Scene - Sundara Chola is sad. Tells his tragic love story to his daughter Kundavai. And flashback of past island life of young Sundara Chola and Oomai Rani. Sundara Chola had to leave Oomai Rani because of his duties as prince.

Scene - Oomai Rani tries to commit suicide but fails. An injured young Veerapandian is brought to the island where Oomai Rani lives.  Love blossoms between Veerapandian and Oomai Rani. 

Scene -  Vanthiyedevan after informing Kundavai  that prince Arulmozhi Varman is alive prepares to  persuade Karikalan from visiting Kadambur but fails. Vanthiyadevan comes to know and sees secret plans of Nandini who wants Karikalan's head as a revenge for Veerapandian. 

Scene - Kadambur palace visit by Karikalan.  Meeting with Nandini. 

Scene - Vanthiyedevan,  Nandini,  periya pazhuvettarayar and Karikalan.  Periya Pazhuvettarayar  manages to pin Vanthiyedevan and makes him unconscious.  He wants to kill Nandini and by mistake the knife pierces Karikalan. Death of Karikalan. 

Scene - Vanthiyedevan brings the body of Karikalan to Thanjavur and angry people and high officers suspect Vanthiyedevan for killing Karikalan and he is  jailed.  Learns from fellow prisoner that Senthan Amuthan is real Madhuranthakan or Uttama Chola

Scene - Periya Pazhuvettarayar takes blame of killing Karikalan and commits suicide. But before dying confesses to Nambi that Karikalan died due to some other reason. Vanthiyedevan released from jail.

Scene - Coronation ready for making Arulmozhi Varman as king. Arulmozhi Varman refuses and says Senthan Amuthan is real Madhuranthakan and real Uttama Cholan. Senthan Amuthan becomes king. Poonkuzhali becomes his wife.

The end

Ponniyin Selvan 1

Present day Thanjavur palace having Maratha influence due to maratha rulers.

Vandhiyadevan is on a mission to Kadambur to find out the plans of chieftains on the future of Chola empire. He was sent on this mission by Karikalan the eldest son of Sundara Chola the current emperor.  Sundara Chola is bedridden due to illness. Vanthiyedevan after collecting information is assigned to go to Thanjavur and inform Sundara Chola and Kundavai (the only daughter of Sundara Chola and sister of Karikalan).

During these times there appears a comet in the sky. This according to soothsayer means a death in the royal family of Cholas. 

Vanthiyedevan befriends Ahrwharkadiyan Nambi during his journey who is a Vishnu bhakt and who manages access to high offices and places due to his wit, bhakti and smartness.

When Kundavai is informed about the secret plans of chieftains she sends Vanthiyedevan to Lanka where the youngest son of Sundara Chola Arunmozhi Varman is waging war. She asks Vanthiyedevan  to bring Arunmozhi back to Thanjavur from Lanka.

Kundavai is smart and attempts to break the secret plans of chieftains by proposing marriage alliance of her brothers.

Peria pazhuvettarayar the eldest chieftain has a beautiful wife Nandini who is in reality is devoted to Pandya kingdom (Madurai). Pandyas and Cholas have bitter enmity.

Vanthiyedevan reaches Lanka helped by Poonkuzhali who is expert in boats and seas. Vanthiyedevan also earlier befriended Senthan Amuthan in Thanjavur.  Senthan Amuthan is interested in marrying Poonkuzhali.

Vanthiyedevan meets Nambi in Lanka. Together they manage to meet Arulmozhi Varman.  

Arulmozhi Varman tells the story of Oomai Rani who always saves Arulmozhi Varman from deep disasters. Arulmozhi Varman also explains why he is called Ponniyin Selvan. 

Sundara Chola realizes that conspiracy in his kingdom is strong and orders arrest warrant of Arulmozhi Varman.  This he believed would bring Arulmozhi Varman safely to Thanjavur. 

Pandyas enter Lanka too and want to kill Arulmozhi Varman.  They mistake Vanthiyedevan for Arulmozhi Varman because of great plan of Arulmozhi Varman.  

Arulmozhi realizes Pandyas have captured Vanthiyedevan and tries to rescue him. A series of fight and sea storm makes the ship drown in the sea along with Arulmozhi Varman and Vanthiyedevan.  Poonkuzhali observes this happening.

News spread in Thanjavur that Arulmozhi Varman is dead in sea battle. 

In the Lankan sea Oomai Rani tries to save her God son Arulmozhi Varman. 

What happens next? Watch Ponniyin Selvan part 2.

Dal proteins

I used to be in gym and do workouts in my earlier phase of life.

I have an experimental mindset inside me and observed closely the effect of proteins. 

If you are not into increasing bulk of muscles or unlikely to injure your muscles then dal(pulses) are good enough.  They are helpful in muscles maintenance.  But not in injuries or increasing size. Soybeans are much better here. 

Most vegetarians in India consume milk and milk of course is great in muscle building.  But they have fat.

Food choice of course is a matter of so many factors.  My point here is to highlight significance of dal. And they are fine for average workers. 

Plans ahead

 

My selfie business model is likely to get me 500 rupees in a day. Drawing portraits using selfie pictures.  Now 500 rupees is sufficient for breakfast,  lunch and dinner with tea and snacks twice a day anywhere in India.

Food no problem. 

I have theories on art, mathematics and music. I hope to develop my thoughts on these areas and become more approximate. 

I am endeavoring to cooperate and make better models for my company SAIL to run its business.  Coordination is of utmost importance and I am striving day in and day out for this. God promise. Unfortunately my Microsoft credentials have gone a waste and I had to refresh.  Anyway I kicked my electrical experience too at Bhilai. As a compensation my 1,x,x squared concepts are strong.  And also gamma functions.  So Maclaurin series is understood.  And sine and cosine are electrical engineering.  I may be pardoned.

Let's hope a better world of things happen for SAIL. 

Khuda hafiz!!

Is my commissioned work feasible?

 I always was in the impression that I must have an alternate source of income. To feel secure. To get confidence.

In this context I thought a commissioned work in portrait drawing is feasible. But is it so?

A colored printout of an A4 sized portrait will cost Rs.10/-. Then, will a customer pay Rs.500/- for my portrait drawn with the help of technology? 

Here are some thoughts.

1. A printout is a mixture of the three basic colors. While a portrait drawn using my method is colored with property of light and property of water.

2. There is an element of artwork and a customer is expected to pay Rs.490/- extra for this.

3. It is possible to color the dresses and background with watercolor pencils, thereby increase the value of portrait drawn. For example, I suggest a light chocolate brown shirt and creamy yellow background for the below portrait of Nana Patekar.

4. I plan to suggest a number to the customer. This is because I am strong in numbers. And this suggested number will help the customer in better mental balance.  For example, I suggest constant e and the number 8 for the below portrait of Nana Patekar.

My good wishes to all my dear readers !!

Today's sher

Kudrat ke kai raaz maaloom hai, par taur tareeka seekha nahin;

Engineering ka raah chunn liya, Art School ka raasta dikha nahin.

Ab ki baar mere rab yeh duaa ko mukammal kar do;

Mathematics ke journals aur books mere naseeb kar do;

The present day portraits

The present day portraits are not a journey from 0 to 100. But 90 to 100. Because already technology exists for going from 0 to 90 in the form of things like Brolaviya mobile stand, DaVinci eye app and all.

The journey from 90 to 100 is very exciting.  There are guys from all over the world who are at 99 level. Both in color and monochrome.  I am at 92 in color and 95 in  monochrome.

Here is a sample portrait of Prakash Raj. The stages it went through. 

At 0.

At 90.

At 92.

So this what it is.

If you want to ask me about anything please do. Whether morality? Why draw portraits? Just anything.  . .

Have a nice day. 

My drawings are filed

I file my drawings. I punch holes using punching machine and file them. This is for A4 size art.  Apart from that I have drawing notebooks too. Then I have printouts of Lou Darvas cartooning course.

Today's sher

Kyon aalsi hai har insaan yahaan, baat yeh samajh na sakaa

Quality ek gehrayee hai, insaan kewal dikhawaa kar sakaa

Tum har pal saath dena mera, har pal yaad rakhna

Mard hoon aakhir is jungle mein yeh yaad rakhna

 

Bollywood. . . an imagination

 

I recently saw "No time to die"; and I thought Indian movies are way behind in quality.  Be it camera, Action, editing, art direction, post production,  usage of computers.  Even "Bahubali" is only 66% of the quality of "No time to die". 

Buck up boys.

I can in imagination play a role in music. Songs. But I don't know to play instruments.  I don't have a troupe.  I am not backed by big banners.

I can contribute possibly in screenplay too. I have a good sense of logic for writing screenplay. If suppose someone asks me to write a screenplay for "God of small things ", I feel I can do a decent job. But my pace and style is likely to be of Adoor Gopalakrishnan. 

I want bollywood to concentrate on art direction first. It is likely to be costly.  But Reliance and big companies should help bollywood in art direction and sets. 

Let's improve.  And make great movies. 

Lights, camera, Action.  . .

🤣🤣🤣

All the books

 

All my kindle books

Today's sher

Kya maqsad ho saktha hai ek bharatiya insaan ka

Har koi apna kar raha hai, tumhe bhi apna karne ka

Udhaar ke paise kaise loutayaa jaye, ek sawaal hai mera

Mehnat nahin, balki luck ya hunar se, yeh jawaab hai mera

Today's sher

 Gaur se apni zindagi ko dekh, aur bata tune kya jaana hai

Rajneeti to hai par aalsi insaan hai dushman yeh maana hai 

Kuch kar dikhaane ke liye  kaise sochaa jaaye batao

Haasil karni hoti hai maalik karna dimaag se hatao

Ranchi city

 

Ranchi is the capital of Jharkhand. Jharkhand is a state in India.

Ranchi is at an elevated height as compared to other cities like Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata and Delhi. It is surrounded by beautiful places but I never ventured going to these places. You get branded pizzas and other items like Chinese(Indian type), Tandoori and south Indian tiffin dishes in the restaurants in the city. There is a five star hotel too and other star hotels also.

The city is small compared to Delhi. But is very disciplined. Police need not worry too much here in Ranchi.

Foreigners visiting Ranchi may stay in five star hotel and consult hotel staff for sightseeing. They may buy Jharkhand arts and crafts. They may try coconut water too. There are local brands in bread, bun and the bread here in Ranchi is likely to be fresh. 

That's all for now, folks. Have a nice day !!