Master’ teaser: Vijay and Vijay Sethupathi lock horns in epic showdown

   Directed via way of means of Lokesh Kanagaraj, the movie hopes to hit monitors via way of means of Pongal 2021

After an awful lot hype (and delay), the teaser for Vijay’s Master has been launched this Deepavali.

Directed via way of means of Lokesh Kanagaraj, the movie stars Vijay as a university professor and Vijay Sethupathi because the antagonist, locking horns with him. The teaser guarantees a quickfire action-thriller, with masses of favor and swagger, as each the celebrities head toward a very last showdown. Not an awful lot else is found out withinside the teaser, that in the main serves as a exhibit for Vijay fanatics to cheer him on.

The famous person solid includes different massive names including Shanthanu Bhagyaraj, Malavika Mohanan, Andrea Jeremiah, net collection artiste Brigada and Gouri G Kishan of ninety six repute in key roles. Kaithi’s Arjun Das additionally changed Malayalam famous person Antony Varghese of Angamaly Diaries withinside the project.

Produced via way of means of XB Film Creators, the movie has track via way of means of Anirudh Ravichander, who's participating with Vijay after Kaththi and the cinematography is via way of means of Sathyan Sooryan.

Initially touted for a summer time season 2020 after which a Deepavali release, now Master is anticipated to hit monitors for Pongal 2021 if theatres throughout Tamil Nadu are performing at complete capability via way of means of then.

Readers Write In #298: Soorarai Pottru regarded thru the lens of VIP

It were a definitely long term seeing that I had visible a Surya movie. I changed into excited for SP. Sudha Kongara had mightily inspired all and sundry with Irudhi Suttru. This changed into additionally imagined to be Surya’s huge comeback which it thoroughly may nevertheless be.

When I changed into looking Soorarai Pottru, I changed into regularly reminded of some other movie – Velai Illa Pattadhari – A movie that changed into imagined to be a huge comeback for some other actor – Dhanush.

The movies are eerily similar. Let me.

In Maara, and Raghuvaran, we each have people who desired to be successful however couldn’t due to the society seeking to convey them down.

Both of them have father problems and loving mothers. This is wherein SP falters. This is wherein VIP shone. Most of why it doesn’t paintings is due to the fact we don’t get to recognise all of them too well.

Both SP and VIP has the scene wherein the disgruntled son has an outburst closer to his dismissive father. In VIP, that scene changed into amongst people who warranted your attention, and it held it fantastically as soon as it were given it. It labored due to the fact we noticed Raghuvaran’s anger being pent up. A sluggish increase and an explosion is constantly cathartic. In cinema, and elsewhere.

But in SP, it’s simply noise. The foremost a part of why it doesn’t paintings is there’s too little time invested in mastering that Maara. A collection of montages as a flashback fast sped thru isn't always going to make us care sufficient for the outburst.

Both Maara and Raghuvaran lose their parent. Both Maara and Raghuvaran are overdue to go to their death parents.

In SP, the increase to the mourning is fantastically set up. Surya sells us the soreness he's in whilst he can not pay up for the airline price price tag to go to his.

But the real mourning. Now that felt too long, too theatrical. Contrast that with the silence of Raghuvaran. Raghuvaran’s silence spoke a great deal louder than all of the wailing of Maara. Again that is due to the fact the father-son courting changed into sincerely non-existent in SP.

We sense for Raghuvaran’s plight more (at the least I did) even if his childishness changed into the reason of his mother’s death. Maara changed into misunderstood of now no longer loving his father because of quick and risky telephonic calls, and he sincerely wasn’t the motive his father died so you’d anticipate Maara’s plight could tug at one’s coronary heart even deeper however seeing that there has been no on-display screen portrayal in their courting, it sincerely wasn’t sufficient.

Both SP and VIP has the scenes wherein the group pitches in. In VIP, that changed into a whistle worth moment. In SP, that changed into a scene that performed out normally. There changed into no punch. It got here out of nowhere and disappeared wherein it got here from.

On the alternative hand, the scene wherein Karunas palms over his life-financial savings is done well. I handiest wanted the crowdsourcing scene had the identical impact.

Both SP and VIP has a social message spouted as a bit of discussion at some point of the proceedings. Raghuvaran rants approximately the training and it form of blends in. The socialite/socialist regarded compelled in.

In each VIP and SP, there’s a scene wherein the protagonists attain out to the humans in large. Raghuvaran makes use of social media. Maara makes use of AIR.

The similarities don’t stop there. Even the villains of SP and VIP are similar. One villain is hell bent on unleashing the darkish pressure even as a person near them reminds them that maybe, maybe… don’t pass all in. In SP, it's far Paresh’s brother. In VIP, it changed into the villain’s father.

All this isn't always to mention the movie changed into bad. It changed into something however bad. It changed into correct for maximum parts. But it had it in it to grow to be incredible. The manufacturing values are pinnacle notch. The visuals are correct.

I don’t recognise what’s with modern-day era administrators’ tryst with non-linear filmmaking is. The approach isn't always in question, it’s dealt with quite well. But the utilization is.

Just whilst we're seeking to soak in, the movie includes us over and drops in some other completely distinctive setting. It doesn’t allow us to breathe. This going from side to side additionally doesn’t assist in organising any form of emotional join one could wish in a drama.

Simple, traditional storytelling could have salvaged a great deal of the beats the non-linear filmmaking misses. Non-linear filmmaking generates drama in movies like Memento, Pulp Fiction, Vada Chennai due to the fact the tool is utilized in a manner that helps drama. Here it fizzles away the drama. It makes use of non-linear filmmaking as an excuse for too many flashbacks.

The courting among Maara and Bommi changed into the brightest spot withinside the movie. It’s been years seeing that I ultimate noticed an equal, innovative couple in Tamil cinema. The ultimate I should take into account is OK Kanmani. Aparna changed into a whiff of clean air. Sudha has a incredible eye for her heroines.

But even Bommi’s spunk which stored the primary 1/2 of lively, fizzles away withinside the 2d 1/2 of. Speaking of slaps and controversies, here’s a man, who’s residing off of his a success spouse and he slaps her with none repercussion. I felt this to be problematic. That after this, the handiest issue she does is throw a tantrum doesn’t assist either.

The movie throws one battle over some other. While battle generates drama, you can’t preserve battering the protagonist till a factor whilst the target target market thinks, “This is it, right?”

After getting beat left-and-right, you at the least need the payoff to be grand, to make up for the sluggish increase. The explosion. The glad ending. What is with the new-gen administrators and their want to be diffused all of the time?

The climax changed into anti-climatic. There changed into not anything rousing as one could anticipate. You need to exit on a high. Not limp afterwards. Imagine Bolt going at full-velocity for ninety metres handiest to stroll the ultimate 10 metres. Imagine Ken Miles going at it in full-throttle for a great deal of the race handiest to sluggish down earlier than the chequered flag. Oh wait. That did show up and the disappointment I felt at that point changed into comparable to what I felt looking SP’s climax.

Vijay Deverakonda’s respond to Sam bowled over her

Samantha Akkineni is exploring new horizons. The actress has these days became host and efficaciously hosted the truth display Bigg Boss Season 4. Now, the actress has became host for a movie star speak display known as Sam Jam with a view to be streamed at the OTT platform Aha. The speak display’s first episode has been out considering the day prior to this and because the teaser advised Vijay Deverakonda has been the visitor for the primary episode.

Unlike the opposite movie star speak shows, this one will deal with some social issues. Samantha believes that “it's miles going to extrade the lives of many.”

Vijay Deverakonda is at his witty great withinside the episode. As part of the task, he broke out the serial kisser tag, and whilst asked, “How can I emerge as a serial kisser after I didn’t even kiss Samantha as a minimum once,” this respond from Vijay became sudden and Samantha became amazed too.

Tamil Nadu authorities orders enquiry in opposition to Anna University V-C

The authorities stated it has ordered the probe primarily based totally on court cases of rampant corruption withinside the university, economic irregualrities and graft prices in opposition to Surappa, amongst others.

Surappa denied the prices and indicated he changed into prepared to stand any probe.

The Higher Education Department constituted the enquiry committee below retired High Court decide Justice P Kalaiyarasan to enter the allegations because the branch stated prima facie they (prices) have been severe in nature.

The authorities stated it has ordered the probe primarily based totally on court cases of rampant corruption withinside the university, economic irregualrities and graft prices in opposition to Surappa, amongst others. 

Justice Kalaiyarasan shall probe into the allegations and if proved proper recommend approaches and manner to save you such recurrences in future, it stated.

Denying the allegations in opposition to him, Surappa advised newshounds he changed into now no longer worried in any corruption and claimed he has now no longer obtained one paise.

He stated he had labored in numerous institutions, together with the distinguished Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), in numerous capacities and that he changed into clean.

“The (enquiry) committee will do the job...no problem... it’s alright,” he stated while requested if he changed into prepared to stand the probe.

He stated he changed into prepared to reply all and sundry at the prices, adding: “My money owed are open.”

CAT 2020: Section-wise preparation tips for IIM entrance exam

Since not many days are left for the IIM entrance test, here is a look at an action-oriented strategy to score good marks in CAT 2020.

The Common Admission Test (CAT) is an exam conducted for entry into IIMs and other top management institutes in India. Cracking the CAT is the dream of lakhs of students. With just a few days remaining for CAT 2020, revision is the keyword now. Relook, revisit all the concepts learnt so far and more importantly try to identify the ways in which you have made mistakes in the mocks taken so far. The more one knows about one’s mistakes, the better one becomes. Learn from the wrong answers you have marked and take the corrective measures. That’s the demand for the next few days left for the CAT entrance exam. So, being action-oriented is the key and the remaining days should be used very judiciously.

The three broad areas tested in the exam are verbal ability and reading comprehension (VARC), logical reasoning and data interpretation (LRDI), and quantitative ability (QA). As per the recent changes, the time has been reduced to 120 min from 180 min and this demands a strategy change from the students preparing as per the old pattern. This test is definitely about informed decision making rather than wild guesswork. The English section has been mostly reading-based in the past 4-5 years with a focus on reading comprehension, para jumble, summary, and odd man out type questions.

Last year, particularly, was a lot about critical reasoning based questions with words like inference, assumption, least depth, most agree, most invalidate, except, etc. used in RC questions. So, one has to practice at least 2-3 passages daily and work a lot on CR type questions. These are clearly skill-based questions and the aspirants need to practice a lot of questions to reach a good accuracy level.

Verbal ability and reading comprehension

For the English section, one should do a good mix of RC and VA questions regularly. Doing passages, para jumble, para completion, summary, critical reasoning, fill in the blank, should form the basis of the preparation. Vocab building with a bit of focus on idioms and phrases should be done every day without fail. Basic grammar rules should be learned and practiced once in a while.

There is no fixed distribution of RC topics so one cannot neglect any topic/ area during the preparation. The passages and paras can be from areas like philosophy, politics, psychology, history, biology, economics, literature, etc. A good number of questions may come from the neglected topic/area in your CAT slot. So, a selective preparation strategy is very risky.

While doing passages develop a habit of writing summary, title, important points, etc. Understand different genres of passages and try to work on comfort level and the reading speed gather the words picked up during general reading and note it down with the meaning and usage. A good vocabulary is definitely a key to better reading. Though the focus in the next few days should be more on the RC practice than just reading articles and novels.

Tamil Nadu CM to announce selection on reopening of faculties on November 12, Minister says

Around 45% of mother and father of college college students gave their remarks on whether or not faculties must be reopened for lessons nine to 12, and Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami will announce the State’s selection on the difficulty on November 12, stated School Education Minister K.A. Sengottaiyan in Gobichettipalayam Taluk on Tuesday.

Addressing the media after dispensing Deepavali bonus to contributors of milk co-operative societies at Siruvalur and Vettaikarankovil villages, the Minister stated that handiest 45% of mother and father participated withinside the consultations held at faculties throughout the State on Monday. “A very last selection on reopening the faculties on November sixteen might be taken with the aid of using the Chief Minister and he'll make an announcement,” the Minister stated.

The Minister stated that sixteen,three hundred college students had registered for NEET loose on line education lessons, and lessons started out for them on Monday. The State authorities has supplied 7.5 % horizontal reservation for NEET-certified State authorities college college students in undergraduate clinical courses.

Nearly 5.18 lakh college students were given admitted to authorities faculties withinside the present day educational year. “School uniforms, footwear and socks had been prepared and might be disbursed to them soon,” he added.

You recognise Ponting received’t go away any fight: R Ashwin on spat with Virat Kohli in IPL 2020

R Ashwin showed that there has been a heated second while Virat Kohli become having a dialogue with the umpires and Ricky Ponting intervened.

Delhi Capitals’ Ravichandran Ashwin showed that there has been a heated second that came about at some point of the IPL 2020 suit in opposition to Royal Challengers Bangalore while Virat Kohli become having a dialogue with the umpires.

During the strategic timeout, the RCB skipper become having a dialogue with on-discipline umpires while Delhi’s head train Ricky Ponting regarded to have stated some thing earlier than the 2 engaged in a verbal fight.

In his YouTube display after Mumbai Indians received the title, Ashwin narrated the incident pronouncing, “I had a lower back trouble after I ran. It become a horrible pain. They took MRI scans and it become traced to a nerve pull to lower back. I went off after bowling. And you already know Ricky, he received’t go away any fight. And while RCB questioned, he stated we aren’t like that etc. Heat of second”

On November 2, the wily off-spinner brushed off the RCB skipper for the primary time in IPL. On the massive wicket, Ashwin stated, “I actually have usually cherished bowling to Virat. He might in no way take possibilities in opposition to me. Would now no longer provide his wicket; it become a count number of delight for him. MS Dhoni also, is like that. In Pune, 2016, I set him up with a ball out of doors off and it went absolutely excessive and simply as I become thinking, “Aaha, kohli wicket,” Ankit sharma allow t he ball slip thru his fingers at extracover! Ai! What have you ever done!”

“From then on,human beings might hold pronouncing Ashwin hasn’t taken a wicket of Kohli… and so after I ultimately took his wicket now, it become a satisfied and a nice second; a non-public justification of sorts,” he added.

We loved every other’s enterprise withinside the dressing room and left from there to the opposite motel. Wife and children had already come to the brand new motel and we're leaving from right here directly to Australia tonight. Even the children needed to go through a swab test. Once we attain Australia, we've a 15day quarantine.

Explaining why their meals menu has been pre-determined for the primary 3 days, Ashwin stated, “They have already given a menu of meals for the primary 3 days in Australia. There are 3 objects in that menu as alternatives and simply one object vegetarian. And I am a vegetarian. So no alternative for me! (laughs). We will bend backwards in hospitality’; it’s now no longer like that overseas. If you need a few specific meals subsequent week, order now itself!”

Netflix, Disney+ Hotstar, Prime Video Will Now Be Regulated via way of means of the Government

Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, and Disney+ Hotstar at the moment are going to be beneathneath law via way of means of the authorities. The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting now has jurisdiction over on line content material carriers (along with the aforementioned 3 streaming offerings) and on line information systems, a cupboard secretariat notification dated Monday states. Until now, there has been no authorities frame that regulated the content material of virtual media systems, and that is some thing that the Information and Broadcasting minister has formerly stated become required.

Other styles of content material are regulated via way of means of our bodies just like the Press Council of India, the News Broadcasters Association, the Advertising Standards Council of India, and the Central Board of Film Certification.

Now, the President of India Ram Nath Kovind signed into regulation a brand new amendment [PDF] to the Government of India (Allocation of Business) Rules 1961 on November 9, which provides the 2 following strains to the purview of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting:

VA. Digital / Online Media

22A. Films and Audio-Visual programmes made to be had via way of means of on line content material carriers.

22B. News and cutting-edge affairs content material on on line systems.

These additions will come after “V. Films” phase withinside the Government of India (Allocation of Business) Rules 1961 [PDF, page 98]. Online content material carriers and on line information systems now take a seat down along cable television, All India Radio, and Doordarshan as entities that fall beneathneath I&B's regulatory framework.

Just over weeks ago, I&B Minister Prakash Javadekar had hinted that the authorities may want to adjust on line systems. Speaking to The Indian Express, he stated: “I even have referred to as them two times to speak approximately a reputable self-law method, however they've now no longer give you a proposal.”

Javadekar has been mentioning the want for law for some time now, having introduced up the authorities-imposed censorship surroundings of nations along with China and Singapore in a assembly with representatives of streaming offerings lower back in March.

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Staff crunch: Madras HC order brings to fore whats in poor health Anna University

CHENNAI: Anna University is Tamil Nadu's most advantageous era college and frequently political events combat to take credit score for its stature. But an order of the Madras excessive courtroom docket on Monday has highlighted that the most advantageous group has much less than 1/2 of the quantity of ordinary personnel it need to have. Much of the display is administered through transient college, a number of whom are paid on an hourly basis.

The excessive courtroom docket order expressed surprise on the scenario. The transient college, the school staffed to compensate, welcomed the judgment and stated that it can provide them a truthful hazard at everlasting recruitment.

Anna University must have had 1,284 college participants for undergraduate publications and one hundred twenty for postgraduate publications, in keeping with tips stipulated through the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE). Though the 111th Finance Committee had sanctioned 981 posts, handiest 556 posts have been full of ordinary personnel, at the same time as the relaxation have been transient.

AICTE policies require engineering faculties to hold a college-pupil ratio of 1:15 for undergraduate publications and 1:20 for postgraduate publications.

With thirteen constituent faculties and 3 local campuses, Anna University is a most advantageous institute withinside the state. While it had these days informed the centre that it is able to generate over Rs three hundred cr sales on its personal for the reason of the institute of eminence tag, approximately 1/2 of its instructors have been now no longer recruited withinside the ordinary mode.

Justice N Anand Venkatesh on Monday located that, "It is even greater stunning that the coaching college have been engaged even on an hourly basis. Fortunately, it's miles knowledgeable that this exercise has been disbursed with. This isn't the way wherein a reputed college must be functioning."

Express couldn't attain the Anna University registrar L Karunamoorthy for comments. MK Surappa, the Vice-Chancellor of the school stated that recruitment for the everlasting posting has all started already. "We will observe policies mandated through the courtroom docket," he stated. He but did now no longer remark if the transient college can be paid on par with assistant professors till ordinary recruitment is made for the post.

Some of the transient college at Anna University Express spoke to welcome the judgment and say that lots of them felt discriminated against. "We had the equal instructional and administrative workload as assistant professors, however we have been paid handiest a 3rd or fourth in their pay," stated a transient college member from the primary campus in Chennai.

A transient college member from one of the constituent faculties who changed into terminated in June 2019 stated they have been recruited handiest for 6 months at a time and the control determined to terminate everybody who criticised it. She stated that she changed into terminated after operating with the school for seven years. "A ten-member committee performed a 1.5-hour check and interviewed me as properly. We have been picked to the spot on merit.

The Court order will make sure that the school considers our enjoy at the same time as making use of for a everlasting posting," she stated.

The Judge similarly located that the figures provide a clean photograph in regards to the scenario triumphing withinside the college and opined that, "It is unexpected that scholars who pop out of this college are faring properly notwithstanding the non-availability of enough college."

He introduced that both the scholars are extraordinarily vivid or the to be had college is appearing an exquisite undertaking with brilliant coaching skills. "The truth stays that the college will must take instant steps to fill the vacancies thru ordinary appointments," he stated.