கைலாசம் பாலச்சந்தர் (K. Balachander, கே. பாலச்சந்தர், சூலை 9, 1930 - திசம்பர் 23 , 2014) தமிழ்த் திரைப்பட இயக்குனர் ஆவார். கே. பாலசந்தர் எனப் பொதுவாக அழைக்கப்படும் இவர், மேடை நாடகத் துறையில் இருந்து திரைத்துறைக்கு வந்தவர். திரைத்துறையில் 1965ம் ஆண்டு வெளியான நீர்க்குமிழி இவரது முதல் இயக்கமாகும். நாகேஷ், இதில் கதாநாயகனாக நடித்தார் [1]. இவருடைய பெரும்பாலான படங்களில், மனித உறவு முறைகளுக்கு இடையிலான சிக்கல்கள், சமூகப் பிரச்சினைகள் ஆகியவையே கருப்பொருளாய் விளங்கின. அபூர்வ ராகங்கள், புன்னகை மன்னன், எதிர் நீச்சல், வறுமையின் நிறம் சிகப்பு, உன்னால் முடியும் தம்பி முதலியன இவர் இயக்கிய சிறந்த படங்களில் சிலவாகும். தமிழ்த் திரையுலகின் முக்கிய நடிகர்களான கமல் ஹாசன் மற்றும் ரஜினி காந்தை அறிமுகம் செய்தவர். 90களுக்குப் பிறகு கையளவு மனசு போன்ற பெரும் வரவேற்பைப் பெற்ற தொலைக்காட்சித் தொடர்களையும் இயக்கினார்.
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Tuesday, December 29, 2020
கே.பாலசந்தர்
கலாநிதி பரஞ்சோதி ஜெயக்குமார் (Arch T. Colwell Cooperative Engineering Medal)
அமெரிக்க இராணுவத்தின் மூத்த ஆராய்ச்சி விஞ்ஞானியாகப் பணியாற்றும், கலாநிதி பரஞ்சோதி ஜெயக்குமார் என்ற இலங்கைத் தமிழர், பொறியியல்துறையில் மதிப்புமிக்க உலகளாவிய விருதுக்குத் தெரிவு செய்யப்பட்டுள்ளார். அமெரிக்க இராணுவத்தின் டாங்கிகள் வடிவமைப்பு ஆராய்ச்சி, அபிவிருத்தி மற்றும் பொறியியல் நிலையத்தில், மூத்த விஞ்ஞானியாகப் பணியாற்றி வருகிறார் கலாநிதி பரஞ்சோதி ஜெயக்குமார்.
Monday, December 14, 2020
Indus Valley Civilization and consumption of milk, meat of animals
The Indus Valley Civilization (IVC) was a Bronze Age civilization in the northwestern regions of South Asia, lasting from 3300 BCE to 1300 BCE, and in its mature form from 2600 BCE to 1900 BCE.
"An analysis of ceramic lipid residues from rural and urban sites of the Indus Civilization in northwest India provides chemical evidence for milk, meat of animals like pigs, cattle, buffalo, sheep and goat, and possible mixtures of products and/or plant consumption."
Sunday, December 13, 2020
Kim Ki-Duk South Korean Director. கிம் கி-டக் உலகின் மிகச் சிறந்த சினிமா இயக்குநர்
2000-ம் ஆண்டு கிம் இயக்கிய த இஸ்லே படம் 2001-ம் ஆண்டு டோரென்டோ சர்வதேச திரைப்பட விழாவில் திரையிடப்பட்டது. அப்போது, கிம் படங்கள் உலக அளவில் கவனத்தை ஈர்க்கத் தொடங்கின. 2017-ம் ஆண்டு கிம் மீது அவருடைய படத்தில் நடித்த நடிகை ஒருவர் பாலியல் புகார் தெரிவித்தார். அது மிகப் பெரும் அதிர்வலைகளை ஏற்படுத்தியது. இந்தநிலையில், கடந்த மாதம் ஐரோப்பிய நாடுகளில் ஒன்றான லட்வியாவுக்குச் சென்றார். அங்கே சென்ற அவருக்கு கொரோனா பாதிப்பு ஏற்பட்டது.
Kim Ki-duk (Korean: 김기덕 [kimɡidʌk]; 20 December 1960 – 11 December 2020) was a South Korean film director, noted for his idiosyncratic art-house cinematic works. His films have received many distinctions in the festival circuit, rendering him one of the most important contemporary Asian film directors. His major festival awards include the Golden Lion at 69th Venice International Film Festival for Pietà, a Silver Lion for Best Director at 61st Venice International Film Festival for 3-Iron, a Silver bear for Best Director at 54th Berlin International Film Festival for Samaritan Girl, and the Un Certain Regard prize at 2011 Cannes Film Festival for Arirang.
His most widely known feature is Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring (2003), included in film critic Roger Ebert's Great Movies. Two of his films served as official submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film as South Korean entries. He gave scripts to several of his former assistant directors including Juhn Jai-hong (Beautiful and Poongsan) and Jang Hoon.
Kim was known as the bad boy of Asian art-house cinema and made his name with a series of visually stunning but extremely violent films, including The Isle (2000) and Bad Guy (2001). The Isle, which features gruesome scenes involving fish-hooks, was sanctioned by authorities in Britain for animal cruelty.
Kim Ki-Duk Dies Of Covid-19: South Korean Director Won Prizes At Venice, Cannes, Berlin Was 59
Thursday, December 10, 2020
Children of Heaven Movie Review
Synopsis
- Ali takes his little sister Zahra's shoes to the shoemaker to be repaired, but loses them on the way home. The siblings decide to keep the predicament a secret from their parents, knowing that there is no money to buy a replacement pair and fearing that they will be punished. They devise a scheme to share Ali's sneakers: Zahra will wear them to school in the morning and hand them off to Ali at midday so he can attend afternoon classes. This uncomfortable arrangement leads to one adventure after another as they attempt to hide the plan from their parents and teachers, attend to their schoolwork and errands, and acquire a new pair of shoes for Zahra. Zahra sees the shoes on a schoolmate's feet, and follows her home, but the two soon become friends.
Ali enters a high-profile children's footrace in the hope of receiving the third prize of a new pair of sneakers. He accidentally places first and wins another prize instead. The film ends with Zahra finding out that she will not get a new pair of shoes, but there is a quick shot of their father's bicycle at the end of the movie that shows what appears to be the red shoes Zahra had been focusing on earlier and another pair of white sneakers, presumably for Ali, whose old sneakers were torn from so much use. The film ends with the final shot showing blisters on Ali's feet. Some versions include an epilogue revealing that Ali eventually achieves the larger-scale success of having a racing career.
"Children of Heaven'' is very nearly a perfect movie for children, and of course that means adults will like it, too. It lacks the cynicism and smart-mouth attitudes of so much American entertainment for kids and glows with a kind of good-hearted purity. To see this movie is to be reminded of a time when the children in movies were children and not miniature stand-up comics.
The movie is from Iran. Immediately you think kids would not be interested in such a movie. It has subtitles. Good lord! Kids will have to read them! But its subtitles are easy for 8- or 9-year-olds, who can whisper them to their siblings, and maybe this is their perfect introduction to subtitles. As for Iran: The theme of this movie is so universal there is not a child who will not be wide-eyed with interest and suspense.
The film is about a boy who loses his sister's shoes. He takes them to the cobbler for repairs, and on the way home, when he stops to pick up vegetables for his mother, a blind trash collector accidentally carries them away. Of course, the boy, named Ali, is afraid to tell his parents. Of course, his sister, named Zahra, wants to know how she is supposed to go to school without shoes. The children feverishly write notes to each other, right under their parent's noses.
The answer is simple: Zahra will wear Ali's sneakers to school every morning, and then run home so that Ali can put them on for his school in the afternoon. But Zahra cannot always run fast enough, and Ali, who is a good student, gets in trouble for being late to class. And there is a heartbreaking scene where Zahra solemnly regards her own precious lost shoes, now on the feet of the ragpicker's daughter.
I submit that this situation is scarier and more absorbing for children than a movie about Godzilla or other manufactured entertainments. Even when you're a kid, you know you're not likely to be squished by a giant lizard, but losing something that has been entrusted to you? And getting in trouble at school? That's big time.
Majid Majidi's film has a wonderful scene where Ali and his father bicycle from the almost medieval streets and alleys of the old town to the high-rises and luxury homes where the rich people live. The father hopes for work as a gardener, but he is intimidated by the challenge of speaking into the intercoms on the gates of the wealthy. His son jumps in, with offers of pruning, weeding, spraying and trimming. It is a great triumph.
And then there is a footrace for the poor children of the quarter. The winner gets two weeks in a summer camp and other prizes. Ali doesn't care. He wants to place third, because the prize is a new pair of sneakers, which he can give to his sister. My guess is that the race and its outcome will be as exciting for many kids as anything they've seen at the movies.
"Children of Heaven'' is about a home without unhappiness. About a brother and sister who love one another, instead of fighting. About situations any child can identify with. In this film from Iran, I found a sweetness and innocence that shames the land of Mutant Turtles, Power Rangers and violent video games. Why do we teach our kids to see through things, before they even learn to see them?
Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert was the film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 until his death in 2013. In 1975, he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism.
மூச்சிரைக்க செய்யும். எல்லாரும் முதல் இடத்துக்கு ஓடிக் கொண்டிருக்க...... இரண்டாம் இடத்துக்கு ஓடிக் கொண்டிருக்கும் அவனை காலம் மிக உணர்வு பூர்வமாக பார்த்துக் கொண்டிருக்கும்.
Wednesday, December 9, 2020
Formation of organic molecules & “Prebiotic chemistry”
How life on Earth began remains an unexplained scientific problem. This problem is nuanced in its practical details and the way attempted explanations feedback with questions and developments in other areas of science, including astronomy, biology, and planetary science. Prebiotic chemistry attempts to address this issue theoretically, experimentally, and observationally. The ease of formation of bioorganic compounds under plausible prebiotic conditions suggests that these molecules were present in the primitive terrestrial environment. In addition to synthesis in the Earth's primordial atmosphere and oceans, it is likely that the in fill of comets, meteorites, and interplanetary dust particles, as well as submarine hydrothermal vent synthesis, may have contributed to prebiotic organic evolution. The primordial organic soup may have been quite complex, but it did not likely include all of the compounds found in modern organisms. Regardless of their origin, organic compounds would need to be concentrated and complexified by environmental mechanisms.
"Scientists from Japan and the U.S. have confirmed the presence in meteorites of a key organic molecule which may have been used to build other organic molecules, including some used by life. The discovery validates theories of the formation of organic compounds in extraterrestrial environments.