I grew up reading Tinkle comics and other comics too, but having an Indian touch to it, Tinkle has made it's impact on me.That's not only true some 10 years back, it's also true till now.The publishers , actually the creators of tinkle are the famous Indian story compiling group called Amar Chitra Katha(in short we'll call it ACK).They are one of the famous and one of the old story tellers, with well known publications like the amar chitra katha and the tinkle monthly.They also have a long list of well known comic characters like Suppandi, kalia the crow, tantri, shambu,etc.,.And that's not all, their mission statement says that they intend to become one of the most favoured and top entertainment and educational media provider for the youth.In their mission statement, they have also mentioned about steps to make the experience more intriguing, encourage the children to bilateral thinking and improve their creativity.But I must say, there are fans ranging from kids to adults who would love to read a Tinkle.

Tinkle was one of the first nation wide comics for children and it was the first to give more than stories- comics, puzzles, quizzes, contest and other features in a unique mix targeted at school children.India book house owned the Tinkle but ACK bought the rights by 2007.And who was the editor-Anant Pai was the founding editor of the Tinkle,those who have read Tinkle must have seen some column dedicated to the general knowledge , by Uncle Pai, well that's the editor himself, with an alias.He was also the one behind the ACK.The history of Tinkle dates back to 1980s when the first edition of tinkle was printed.Also unlike other Indian comics, Tinkle boasts of certain character and columns, that never change with the changing issues.Only the stories and content of the column changes.hence one can say that Tinkle has been instrumental in helping school children across the country.As mentioned before, there are some characters of Tinkle, that when you say the name itself, people recognise the name of the magazine-Tinkle.The fame of tinkle is so much that it has even been read by people of fame, in their childhood,including our former Prime Minister Mr. Atal Bihari Vajpayee.

 

Let's see about some of the famous characters that Tinkle still carries - one story that gives children an idea of good, bad, friendship etc is Kalia the Crow .This character is featured in the famous series "kalia the crow"( obvious isn't it!).The plot is most of the time, two friends(bad) - Chamataka and a crocodile-DoobDoob  a loyal friend but somewhat stupid crocodile, together they try to capture and eat two rabits, and Kalia the crow outwits them all the time.Time and again, to avoid redundancy, other characters- a bear and an elephant are used in the plot.Sometimes to spice things up, a female companion of Kalia(I don't remember the name) is combined in the plot.Imagine- a crow, a fox, a crocodile and two rabbits(plus 3or 4 side characters) and this crew has captured readers for almost two decades with different stories!.

This next character we are talking about is a top priority celebrity among the Tinkle characters.It's Shikari Shambu!.He is usually portrayed as a very lazy yet, unusually lucky hunter, but the world around him assumes him to be brave and powerful hunter,who captures something at the end of the story always.He usually runs away from the dangerous animal, but due to the luck we mentioned earlier, he ends up capturing the animal, single handed.The amazing thing is this character is always portrayed with a hunter's hat, face half covered with the hat and only facial feature visible is his doodling moustach!Nothing else, yet he has fans all over the country.

To give an idea of how things go wrong, when you are thinking wrong, Tinlke has dedicated a character, that always ends up with disaster.Time and again, this character also uses modern day gadgets, while it's about a minister during the age of Kings.The character is noe other than Tantri the Mantri.He always tries to kill his King so that he can occupy the rule, but his plot always backfires.But relentlessly he has been coming up with new ways to bring down the king, for the last two decades!

Then the last, but (believe me!) not the least - Suppandi.This is a superstar of Tinkle.One of the very shortest series to be available in every issue, Suppandi is a character that is about a rather stupid boy who usually does the reasoning in the wrong way and ends up creating a hilarious disaster.

This character, made it's first appearance in 1983, January issue.This was not originally created by the minds in Tinkle studio, but it was created due to a reader - narrative stories about a stupid boy ,sent by P.Varadarajan from Chennai.The artist who brought Suppandi to life is, Ram Waeerkar.He was drawing the character, till 2003 , after which it is now being taken care his daughter, Archana Amberkar.More than a fool, the readers would agree that he is just any other common man, but he is more a simpleton.Since the inception of the character, it has received nation wide accolades, initially, Tinkle recieved many posts from fans relating to Suppandi and the editors realised that this simpleton with the funny rectangular head is going to stay for very long.And yes, the character still is the top among Tinkle characters, the character is loved by children's, teenagers, and adults.

That brings us to the topic at hand- from 2D to 3D.The famous character, Suppandi is making a big leap to the film!.Yes the favourite character of all times is making his debut in the cinema.But not just any other film, but a 3D film!.Indian animation industry is yet to give a good film, that is accepted and loved by all but this film will change that I think.Also the 3D element, has not yet been experimented with, in Indian Film industry much.But some animation films, from international studios have already made their way into the 3D world.Hope Suppandi will show the world, we've our own comic characters that have captured minds nearly for three decades.The film is set for release in November 2010.

 

This romance and fantasy novel, written by Stephenie Meyer, revolves around Isabella Swan, who likes to be called Bella, a seventeen year old stubborn, klutzy girl who comes to live in the town of Forks, of which she has had an aversion since she was a kid. She comes from Phoenix, which is a dry, cheerful, sunny place, to Forks, which is one of the wettest places in the country of USA. The reason behind it is explained well and it makes us love Bella for her magnanimity. She misses everything about Phoenix and mainly her loving, erratic mother who travels with her new husband Phil. Her father is her only company here in Forks and he is Chief of Police. Her father tries to make her life less difficult in Forks. The bond between the father and his Forks-hating daughter is touching. Bella hates everything about Forks until she meets the inhumanly beautiful Cullen family, at school. Bella is awestruck by their beauty and unnerved when Edward Cullen, the most handsome boy, displays unexplained hostility towards her. She is intrigued by his continued absence, and when she finally gets over her discomfort about his absence, which, she somehow feels, that is due to her, he turns up and things start to get friendly between them. Bella encounters two near death experiences from which she is saved by Edward under impossible-to-save circumstances. Bella suspects that there is something more about the Cullens other than their looks. It is then that she gets friendly with Jacob Black, her family friend, whose family believes that they are descended from werewolves. They despise the Cullen family and claim that they are vampires. Bella refrains herself from believing it, but, it turns out that Jacob Black was actually right. The relationship between Bella and Edward grow stronger as Edward eventually tells Bella the truth about him and his family. Bella, instead of fearing them, is actually infatuated by them. Edward insists that his family of vegetarian type, that is, vampires who do not prey on human beings. Bella finds herself irrevocably in love with Edward and gets immeasurable love in return. As Bella gets accustomed to her great, new life, she unexpectedly meets a coven of human-preying vampires who are determined to kill her. Edward and his family do their utmost in trying to save her. At this point, the action starts and it keeps the readers enthralled till the end. The relationship, that Bella and Edward share, is highly exotic. The unexpected turn out of events and an exciting climax keep the readers entertained.

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i)Basic inormation about movie

ii)Cast and Crew

Hi friends in this article let us discuss about the storyline of the one of the best an touching movie that makes us cry, "The Kite Runner".

The film starts at San Fransisco, California in 2000 when Amir Jan and his wife Soraya were in a park.After that they go to their apartment and they found a parcel was found near their door.After that Amir Jan carries the parcel and both of them were nervous and exited.Then they open the Parcel and the parcel contains the book which Amir Jan wrote and it is titled as "A Season For Ashes" and both of them were happy to see and they say that it is like their baby.

After that Amir Jan gets a call and he finds that it was Rahim Khan who was calling from Peshawar,Pakistan.Then Rahim asks Ajmer to come to Pakistan and then go to Kabul.Amir first hesitates and says that it was not the good time.But Rahim said , "Its a very bad time but you should come" and after that he says this famous line

"There is a way to be good again"

This is the a positive note as Rahim says that there are unfinished jobs and someone he must meet there in Kabul.But Rahim didn't mention the exact reason and he asked to come back.

Then Amir looks the window and then the film goes to the flashback, to Kabul,Afghanistan in 1978, 22 years ago.There a group of young boys were flying kite and there Amir was sitting and Hassan was asking others for the string to fly the kite.Later one of the kite was cut and it starts to fly.

Now Hassan starts to run and he knew the way in which the kite will fly and he reaches that place directly and gets that kite.After Hassan gets that kite he was asked by Amir how he was able to find it and many conversation takes place which shows Hassan was ready to do anything which Amir asks for  and these scenes in the film shows how they both were best friends.

After that the scene goes to Amir's house and Amir was a so of the wealthy person,Baba.There it was shown that Baba was giving a cheque to one of the charity association and along with him his friend Rahim Khan was also found.Meanwhile Amir and Hassan returns home and this time it is revealed that Hassan was the servant's son.After that Amir goes inside and finds that and Baba and Rahim were discussing about him.

Then Rahim goes inside Amir's room and he finds that Amir was writing something.Amir says him that he was really sad as he feels that his father hates as he killed her mother,i.e he feels that he was virtually responsible because his mother when she gave birth to Amir.

But Rahim asks him not to think like that and then he asks Amir to give his paper.Amir said that he was writing some story and also said that  Rahim won't like it.But Rahim said that he will read the story and will tell the feedback soon.This was vey encouraging for Amir because till now no one other than Rahim was not interested in reading his story.

Next morning both Hassan and Amir were sitting outside and during that time Hassan  was asked to uses  his slingshot to beat a dog and after that Amir says that he has got money and after that both of them went to a cinema theatre  for the film "The Magnificent Seven" and enjoyed the movie.After finishing the movie they were very happy and were discussing about the characters in that movie.

At that time a group of bad boys under Assef threatens to beat Hassan , because Hassan belongs to Hazara ethnicity and Assef don't like Hazaras.They threatens to beat him and at that time Hassan uses a slingshot and threatens he will beat Assef if he doesn't leave them.Aseef and his boys were frightened and they left the place thinking in mind that they would get another chance.

Next day,Amir got a letter from Rahim Khan and Rahim appreciated him by mentioning "Bravo".Amir explains Hassan that it was an Italian word meaning "genius".The Amir explains the story and according to the story there was a poor man who gets a lamp and the gets gold for every tears she.So in the climax of that story, that poor man kills his wife and he starts crying and he gets lot of gold.Hassan interrupted and said if he wants to cry he could have used onion!!!!

Next morning Amir calls Hassan and gives him a birthday gift as it was Hassan's birthday.He presented him a sling shot which was made in USA.After the both of them goes and Amir writes in tree "Amir and Hassan, the Sultans of Kabul".Both were happy and they found that Baba was coming there.In the image below you could see a tree branch behinds them where it was written "Amir and Hassan, the Sultans of Kabul"

Baba asked them to get inside the car.When Amir was about to sit next to Baba, he asked Hassan to come and sit next th him as it was his birthday tjat day.It was this incident which slowly started to change his bind and this marked the beginning of brek of their friendship , as he couldn't tolerate his father to show kind to Hassan.

Then all goes to a kite shop and Baba asks Hassan to take any kite he wish and this also made Amir angry.The Hassan finally selects a kite and that night all of them in Baba's house were discussing about the  kite tournament which was about to take place next day and Baba also reminded that, when he was young he also won that kite tournament.

Next morning the kite competition starts and Amir with the help of Hassan won the competition as he was able to cut his opponents kite and able to win the tournament and all appreciatd him.

Hassan is the "KITE RUNNER" for Amir and that's why the film name is called after this.After winning this competition, Hassan goes and finds the kite which Amir has cut and this time he was caught by Aseef and his bad boys.

But this time Aseef didn't lose his chance he he also goes to the extent of giving Physical tortures to Hassan and this scene is responsible for creating lots of controversies.At one point Asif also gave chance to Hassan that if he gives the kite he will not hurt him.

But Hassan said that he will not give this kite as this was the present to his best friend  Amir and he suffered.Meanwhile Amir somehow finds where Hassan and he also watches the tortures that Hassan suffered but he didn't try to stop it.

Amir didn't say anything to his father thinking that he might think how brave Hassan was and also felt that his father may not like him as he didn't stop Aseef when they torured him.So slowly the relation started to break and both Amir and Hassan didn't speak for one week.But there was no mistake from Hassan's point as he was totally unaware why Amir was doing like this.

Amir also tries to avoid him, by asking his father why can't they have new servant but Baba was very angry and said Ali(Hassan's father) and Hassan will never leave this place and they will stay together.This also mad Amir angry as his father was so affectionate towards Hassan than him.

So, one day Amir goes to the extent of hiding his watch under Hassan's bed, when Hassan was not there and he complained his father that Hassan stoled his watch.Hassan also accepted for the crime he didn't commit.But evennow Baba was so cool and said he will forgive Hassan.But Ali said that he and his son will are moving and will never comeback again.

Meanwhile the story moves to December 1979, where the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan and Baba felt that he will be captured as he was against Russia and Communism.He along with Amir left the city and asks Rahim to take care of his house.Baba pays 10,000 for getting him and Amir to cross the border to Pakistan.

Then they go in a truck along with some other refugees in a truck and on the way the truck was stopped by the Soviet soldier.There the soldier was asking for a girl in that refugee.Baba couldn't tolerate this and he was exchanging words with that Soldier.Meanwhile the higher officer comes to the spot and he clears that place and the problem was solved and they reached Peshawar,Pakistan.After 6 months they got Visa to USA and bot of the left for USA.

There they started their new life at Fermont, California , but they were living in an apartment that was not luxurious.But he had a luxurious life back in Afghanistan. After 9 years, in 1988 Amir received his degree in a community college and Baba celebrated this in a bar with others.

Usually Baba and Amir sells used goods at a flea market at San Jose.There Amir meets Soraya and Soraya was the daughter of Genereal Taheri, who was also an Afghan.Meanwhile Amir said his father that he was not interested in Doctor job,which Baba wants Amir to do, and he wants to be a writer.

Soraya was very much interested in Amir writings and slowly this relationship developed into love.Meanwhile Baba was not feeling well and he was admitted in the hospital and after getting discharged from the hospital, Amir asks Baba to get permission form General Taheri for the marriage.

General Taheri also accepted ann Soraya also revealed a secret that earlier he was living with anotherAfghan man inspite of his opposition from her father.But Amir said it was not a problem and they both got married.Baba become very ill and he died.Both Amir and Soraya finds that they can't have child.

Now the flashback gets over and Amir decided to go to Pakistan to meet Rahim.But Amir initially hesitated when Rahim said "There is a way to be good again", which he though that Rahim was mentioning how he framed Hassan as a thief or he was mentioning for leaving his friend alone.

There he meets Rahim and also gave the book, which he wrote.Rahim was happy to see that Amir has thanked him in his book as he was the first one to read hsi stories and that inspired him.

Then Rahim says that while he was in Kabul in Baba's house he was seriously ill and he had to come to pakistan for medical treatment.He also said that he managed to bring back Hassan and his family.Hassan was married and he had a wife called Farzana and son Sohrab.

He also said that Ali was killed in a land mine.Rahim also said that one day Taliban came to the Kabul house and whe Hassan said that he was a care take, Taliman felt that he was lieing as he was a Hazara shot him and his wife and killed them.

Rahim also infroms that one week before Hassan's death, Hassan sent a letter to Rahim and asked him to give to Amir when Rahim meets Amir.He also explains clearly that Ali was sterile and he can't give birth to anyone and he opens the secret that Hassan was his brother and so Sohrab his nephew and he needs to go to Kabul and save his nephew who was an orphanage as his parents died.

Rahim also said his father lied to Amir so that he could maintain his prestige and honor.Rahim also said that he had arranged a good driver,Farid, who is also a good person and can take Amir to Kabul and help him in getting Sohrab and return safely.

So after this Amir starts to read the letter from Hassan and in the letter Hassan wrote,

 

"ln the name of God,the merciful, the compassionate,Amir agha, with my deepest respects. My wife and son

and l pray this letter finds you in fine health,and in the light of God's good graces.I'm hopeful that one day I

will hold one of your letters in my hand sand read of your life in America.l am trying to learn English. It's

such a tricky language.But one day, agha. I miss your stories.

 

I've included a picture of me and my son, Sohrab.He's a good boy.Rahim Khan and l taught him how to read

and write,so he doesn't grow up stupid like his father.And can he shoot with that slingshot you gave me!But I

fear for him, Amir agha.

 

TheAfghanistan of our youth is long dead.Kindness is gone from the land,and you cannot escape the killings

Always the killings, dream that God will guide us to a better day. l dream that my son will grow upto be a

good person,a free person,an important person.l dream that flowers will bloom in the streets of Kabul  again

and music will play in the samovar houses, and kites will fly in the skies. And I dream that someday you will

return to Kabul to revisit the land of our childhood.lf you do, you'll find an old faithful friendwaitingfor you.

May God be with you always."

- Hassan.

Really if you have watched the entire movie and after hearing this letter surely for most of tears will knock our eyes.Truly this is the one of best scene of the movie.After reading this letter he calls his wife and says the entire story and they also decided to adopt Sohrab as their son.

After that Amir goes in a jeep with Farid with a faked beared to Afghanistan and there he  finds the entire situation was changed and the city was destroyed very badly.Then they go to the orphanage home and the condition was very pathetic there.

The owner of that orphanage home, managed to get foods for the children with the help of the money he gets from the Taliban who gives money after taking some of the children from that home.Amir showed the photograph he had , but that owner was pretty confident that the boy was not there and the owner said that the Taliban might have taken that boy and if they want tat boy they can deal with a person whom they can meet in the football ground.

So Amir and Farid started to go to the football ground and on the way Amir stops the truck when he saw his house.Then he enters his house and also he finds a tree where he wrote "Amir and Hassar, the sultans of Kabul", and he really felt bad for Hassan.

Then they reach the football ground and during the halftime period a group of Taliban entered the ground  with a woman and a speech was given by a man, which the orphanage home owner, and according to that speech this woman against Muslim and the women is stoned to death.

After that Amir with the help of Farid gets an appointment with that man and when he went to his house he was suprised to Assef (He also came to the ground along with the man who gave speech) and Assef found that Amir had a faked bear and he also said he wont  said Sohrab with him.

Sohrab was also there in the scene and when Amir was not willing to go out of Afghanistan without Sohrab, quarrel started and Aseef started to beat Amir. When the situation was critical and when Amir was on the received side, Sorhab used his slingshot(his father also is an expert in using the slingshot) and hit Aseef.

Meanwhile when Aseef could recover both Amir and Sohrab managed to escape form that place in a car, where Farid was waiting for the.All of them leaves Afghanistan and they reach Pakistan and when they go to Rahim house he was not there and the neighbour said he left and wont come hereafter

The next day when Amir woke he found Sorhab was missing and he searches the entire town and founds that he was not there and when he came back dejected for losing Sorhab, he was suprised to see Sorhab was sitting in the stairs.He also shoed Sorhab the photograph which Hassan send to Amir.

After that they reach America and they were received by Amir's wife Soraya, who was eagerly expecting for Sorhab.Then in the house Soraya father General Taheri was unhappy about this adoption of a Hazara boy and he asked what he will say when others ask who this boy.At this time Amir says the entire story and asks the general to say the true story to whoever ask him about Sorhab.

The next morning Amir and Soraya takes Sorhab to the park where many people were flying kite.It was at this scene the author this novel "The Kite Runner", Khaled Hosseini does a cameo role as a doctor.When Amir finds Sorhab was watching the sky which was filled with kites he immediately buys a kite and started to fly that kite.

Then he also defeats other person who was flying kite and he also said he used his father's technique to cut his opponent kite.After winning he runs after the kite which he has cut and during this time he says to Sorhab the words, which was previously said to Amir by Hasaan,"For you, a thousand times over"

The IMDB rating for this movie is 7.8 out of 10.

Hi friends in this article let us see about a Science fiction Thriller film "DISTRICT 9"  which was released this year and its also a blockbuster.When you see this movie for the first time you might feel that this is a documentary film.But as you watch the movie it moves very fast and it is also a thrilling entertainer.

This film can also be seen as the the virtual war between the humans and the Aliens, but actually the humans tried to dominate the Aliens as they treat them very badly.They allot a separate camp for them and this camp where all the aliens live is called as "DISTRICT 9".

Actually this film is based on the short film "Alive in Joburg" and this was also directed by Neill Blomkamp and it was released in 2005.This short film was produced by Simon Hansen and Sharlto Copley.

Actually this District 9 is located at Johannesburg, South Africa.These Aliens are given accommodation here for more than 20 years by the Government and also this area is not accessible to the human beings.

In this film, they have mentioned that a space ship came to that region in 1982 and they couldn't go to their planet as one of their command module was accidentally dropped and they couldn't find that module.So the Alien had no option but to stay in Earth.

More than 18 lakhs Aliens were there in the District 9 and they were living in that camp for around 20 years.One important thing about the movie is that, it also shows how a friendship was developed between a human(the hero) and the Alien.The climax of this film also reveals that we might have to wait for the next part to come.

The make up and graphics which are used for the aliens are excellent and really the way in which the movie was taken is brilliant.Actually the story of this movie is about the problem which arises, when the Aliens are about to be transported to the other camp, which is 240 kms out of Johannesburg, and the new camp is called as District 10.

Multinational United(MNU) takes care of all these aliens and they appoint a new officer Wikus van de Merwe and on 9th August, 2010.

According to this new operation they gave notice to all Aliens, and by that notice all Aliens are given 24 hours time to support the MNU for the transportation to the new camp.

The most important part of this movie is that there is a research department in the MNU, and they capture some of the Aliens and they treat them very cruelly for their research process and they also test them by burning the aliens.Really all the scenes are vary natural and particularly the spaceship which was floating in the sky for 20 years looks very real and the graphic work was also great.

I guess for those who haven't watched this movie this article will help you to get an idea to know about the basic theme of the movie.This is not only a science fiction movie , but it is also  thrilling and especially after the firts half an hour you will be really excied to know whats going to happen next.

For the cast and crew of the film click here