Tuesday 6 December 2016

Baap Of All Smartphone's - LG-V20

Launched on Dec 5 2016, LG-V20 is available for sale both on retail stores and online too through Amazon India. Costed at Rs. 54,999/- let's discuss some of the features of LG-V20 to know whether it's a smart buy or not:
Build Quality
This phone boasts of top notch build quality somewhere on the lines of Samsung Galaxy S 7 active.
It is covered with same high quality aluminium which is used in the making of airplanes, sail boats and mountain bikes. To make it further more durable it has been incorporated with Silicone Poly carbonate flaps on top and the bottom. The same material is said to be used in the making of helmets.
Display
This is a rare segment in LG-V20 which no other smartphone can boast off.
It has 2 separate display panels:
1. A Primary screen with 5.7 inch QHD Quantum IPS screen
2. A Secondary display 2.1 inch QHD Quantum screen on top
It shows notifications like weather, messages, time, date and battery level.
Camera
It has 16MP + 8MP  dual cameras, one with a standard 78 degree lens and another with a 135 degree wide angle lens.
The viewing angle of 135 degree lens is 1.7 times wider than existing smartphones.
It guarantees much better group selfies compared to its competitors.
Top notch audio quality
Due to the presence of 32 bit Hi Fi Quad DAC it has a very clear sound as the distortion and the ambient noise are minimized upto 50%.
All these features discussed guarantee LG-V20 a sure shot smart buy and a winner at hand!
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http://www.lg.com/in/v20 
http://www.amazon.in/LG-LGH990DS-V20-Silver/dp/B01MZXEACC



Sunday 11 September 2016

The Chaliyar River – Before / Now / After

With the astonishing length of 169 Km, Chaliyar is the 4th longest river in Kerala. The Chaliyar was extensively used as a waterway for carrying timber from the forest areas in and around Nilambur to the various mills in Kallai of Calicut city, mostly during the late 19th century and early 20th century. Even in the drought season, Chaliyar doesn't get dried up unlike some of the other rivers. Most of the rivers in Kerela dry up in march and april. A few years ago ecological damage was caused by a pulp factory at Mavoor that released effluents into the Chaliyar river and affected the marine life.
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In the region between Elamaram and Pallikkadavu, fish mortality occurred on a large scale in the Chaliyar river near Calicut from 7-3-1979 to 16-3-1979. Large quantities of waste water from the Gwalior Rayons Factory located at Mavoor was seen discharged into the river through the emergency outlet at Elamaram, on the evening of 6-3-1979 as per the information gathered from the inhabitants on the banks of the river. The possibility of occurrence of some metallic poison in the water
couldn't be ruled out as the fishes disappeared from the heavily polluted areas. 
      Government of Kerala has now decided to close down the Pulp and Fibre divisions of the Factory till pollution abatement measures are completed.This factory has since closed down.
CHALIYAR AND FEROKE BRIDGE
The 100+ year old Feroke Railway Bridge has now been replaced by a brand new bridge as part of track doubling. The old Feroke Road Bridge can also be seen next to it.This new bridge was commissioned for service 2002. The granite pillars of the old bridge which was pulled down can be seen on the right. It (Old Bridge) was a wonderful piece of engineering marvel using available resources and materials.
In the banks of Chaliyar, Kallikkad Forests spreads over an area of around 10 acres and is very suitable for students and research scholars. Every year as a part of Onam celebrations a boat race is conducted here.
Nilambur is another beautiful town on the banks of Chaliyar river. It is famous for its teak plantation which boasts of being the oldest one in the entire world. This teak plantation, 'Conollys Plot' spreads over an area of 2.31 hectares and is beside the Chaliyar river. The main attraction here is the oldest teak. 
Kannimari Ferries are available to take you round a trip on the Chaliyar River. Very close by is the world's first teak museum where you can have a comprehensible knowledge of everything related to teak. The museum is housed in a two storied building. Very close to the Nilambur town (around 18 km) is Nedumkayam - the rich rain forest. Prior permission is required to visit this forest, but once inside you can view the elephants and deers roaming around freely in the forest from a cottage that was built during the British era. There is also an elephant training centre here. Half an hour jeep ride from Nedumkayam will bring you to Mancherri, the settlement of Chola Naikas, a primitive tribe. 
The town itself is famous for the Kovilakoms, or the residence of the rajas. The kovilakams have beautiful frescoes and art work in wood to attract our. Chaliyar Hospital, Nilambur is a 150-bed multi speciality hospital with modern amenities located at Nilambur Town in an area with village atmosphere and civic facilities with temperate climate. 
The history of vazhakkad is being related to the Chaliyar River. This place was under the governance of Samothirians before coming in the hands of the British. 
As a result of this Nilambur Kovilakam, Kizhakke Kovilakam, Padinjare Kovilakam etc became the landlords.As a part of the freedom fight many eminent leaders like K. Kelappan, Muhammad Abdul Rahim, Moidu Moulavi, A.V. Kuttymalu Amma, K.M. Seethi Sahib, and Pokar Sahib etc stepped in vazhakkad. Later the district board member Azhakath Kodoli Kunjunni Nair also came. He became the president for the construction of roads, hospitals, wells, Harijan schools and other institutions.The factory in Mavoor named Gwalior Rayon’s factory started in 1960s has played a crucial role in changing the life style of the people here.Apart from all these certain negative impacts took place due to the factory outlets. The air and water pollution that happened during that period is still a bad dream in minds of people here.
“I am participating in the Chaliyar River Challenge activity at AdventureN in association with Jellyfish Watersports”

Friday 9 September 2016

Baar Baar Dekho - But Only Katrina, not the movie!

Nitya Mehra directed Baar Baar Dekho is a love story of a couple committed to each other since childhood. Everything is going well until Katrina decides to get married to Sidharth one day. Under pressure he agrees but they end up fighting a day earlier than their marriage and the girl leaves the guy, forever. Here a twist starts where Sidharth wakes up every day in a new year of his life? So from childhood to late 50's he can see everything about his life. Here the whole plot is messed up by the 1st time lady director. Just like the main lead even the audience is clueless about the story line?
Katrina looks stunning but the age difference of 8 years is visible between her and Sidharth. This similar mistake was earlier done in A Flying Jatt? Ram Kapoor as Kat's father is more irritating than convincing. Both Kat n Sid have no emotions on their face throughout the movie. Age gaps have been justified just by the usage of make up but the performance level has not been paid attention to.
The motive of this movie is to show exotic locales for holidaying and the super toned structures of both the leading non actors! This was but expected from a Karan Johar Production but as co-producers Farhan Akhtar n Sidharth Roy Kapoor have also failed miserably(just like Fitoor earlier).
 My Movie Rating is 1 star (0.5 star extra for stunning Katrina)....
My advice - "avoid it and just enjoy Katrina on You Tube"!!
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Sunday 28 August 2016

Is Shahrukh Khan Responsible for Downfall of Filmfare Awards??

Filmfare always had a very special place in the hearts of audience as well as the Stars just like Oscar's! It was regarded as a prestige issue to win at least 1 Filmfare Trophy in an actor's lifetime. Who can forget the famous Sanju Baba speech after receiving his first Best Actor award for Vaastav. There are many such instances associated with this ceremony since the famous golden days of Dilip Kumar, Raj Kapoor and Dev Anand!
 Dharmendra specially ordered a tailor made yellow suit for himself when he was confident of winning the award for Betaab as the Producer. Such was the charm and charisma of this event. Nobody from the film fraternity wanted to skip this extravaganza and always made a special effort to attend it, irrespective of the fact that whether they will win an award or not.
 Shahrukh Khan made his debut with Deewana for which he did win Sensational Debut Award (deservedly). In a year he had made brilliant PR skills to impress Big Banners like YRF and even with Sponsors of Filmfare awards. This gave birth to fixing of awards and as a result SRK was awarded best actor for Baazigar for which he was earlier nominated as a Villian but on the last minute changes were made so that Sanjay Dutt is deprived of his trophy(for Khalnayak).
This became a kind of trend and every year Shahrukh started winning non deserving awards and once when limits were crossed, Aamir Khan boycotted going to award shows(he was deprived of his deserving award for Rangeela).
    Today nobody respects Filmfare or any other award show as you already know that which ever big star is present and is seated in the front row is going to win an award for certain. Kangana Ranaut avoids all the award shows and only accepted National award from the President of India.
Today reality is in front of everybody that even for last 3 washout flops - Dilwale, Happy New Year and Fan - Shahrukh was nominated for the first two (if not won) and would get a certain nomination next year for the 3rd one?? Now the gap is so much widened between Megastars (Salman,Aamir) and ordinary star SRK that how much ever he lobbies, maximum he can win a nomination but can't win an award now.
Filmfare lost its charm which had a history of more than 60 years just for a very ordinary actor with a brilliant business mind.
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