A short note on Band of Brothers....

Shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, young men from all walks of life flooded recruiting offices to defend their country. Some volunteered for a daring new elite unit the paratroops. Formed in July 1942, the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division of the U.S. Army molded civilians into soldiers at Camp Toccoa, Ga. But only a fraction of those who started training were able to finish it, and those who did were "the cream of the cream." In September 1943, after 15 months of training, Easy Co. and their fellow paratroopers boarded the ship Samaria in New York for the long voyage to England; some veterans recall wondering, as they passed the Statue of Liberty, if theyd ever see it again. Many Easy Co. men would not over the next two years, the unit sustained 150% casualties as they dropped behind enemy lines in Normandy on D-Day, fought for the liberation of Holland, held the line in the Battle of the Bulge, and captured Hitlers mountaintop retreat, Eagles Nest, in Bavaria. Through it all, each veteran recalls that his reliance on his brothers-in-arms is the reason any of them made it back alive. For their repeated acts of courage and bravery, the entire division, as well as individual soldiers, earned multiple citations, including the Purple Heart, Silver Star, Bronze Star and Distinguished Service Cross. In 1998 and 1999, director-producer Mark Cowen and writer-producer Will Richter had been going over ideas for a World War II documentary, and subsequently became aware of the "Band of Brothers" miniseries project during a pitch meeting with Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzmans production company, Playtone. Cowen proposed seeking out veterans of Easy Co. for background research for the miniseries, and making a companion documentary. They initially contacted former company commander Richard Winters and veteran Bill Guarnere, both of whom had been responsible over the years for keeping track of other veterans. Winters and Guarnere spread the word among their comrades, and for the next two years, Cowen and his crew travelled to 30 U.S. and ten European cities, as well as to annual Easy Co. reunions, creating an "on-camera oral history" of Easy Co., comprising stories not in historian Stephen E. Ambroses book, and in many cases, never told to the veterans own families. Cowen also accompanied veterans Guarnere and "Babe" Heffron on their emotional return to the forest battlefield at Bastogne, where Easy held the line REAL-LIFE VETERANS 3 in the Battle of the Bulge and Guarnere lost his leg. All told, Cowen shot almost 200 hours of interviews with 44 veterans, and some of their family members. "This has been a life-changing experience," says Cowen. "It wasnt just a project." More than half a century after World War II, the bonds shared by the men of Easy Co. remain strong. "You know those people better than you will ever know anybody in your life," notes veteran Shifty Powers. Every year since 1946, they and their families gather for a reunion, reaffirming their unique ties to each other. As for Easy Companys legacy, veteran C. Carwood Lipton asserts, "Every army unit thinks its the best. But we knew we were the best." WE STAND ALONE TOGETHER.The series is directed by Mark Cowen; written by William Richter; executive producers, Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg; co-executive producers, Gary Goetzman and Tony To; produced by Mark Cowen and William Richter; music composed by Jeff Pfeifer and Rob Pfeifer

As i promised before, here comes more of my reviews on the next episodes of Band of Brother series

The Patrol ....(****1/2)

This is the story after german forces have been defeted at most parts of the world. With the war perhaps winding down, Easy Company is then moved into an Alsacian town near the German border. Still on the front line, the men get to sleep in houses, just across a small river from German forces doing the same thing. They are asked to send a patrol across the river to take some Germans prisoner, an assignment no one wants to be picked from. Except Lt. HANK JONES, fresh in from West Point and eager for combat experience. He's put in charge of 2nd platoon, alongside Sgt. DON MALARKEY ,who is still broken up about losing so many friends at Bastogne. When Malarkey is picked to lead the patrol, Jones asks to go in his place, and Capt. WINTERS okays it. Also getting the call is Pvt. DAVID WEBSTER (Eion Bailey), our narrator, returning to the company after having missed all of Bastogne for a wound. He finds it's not so easy to gain the acceptance of his old buddies. In the end, the patrol is successful in retrieving two prisoners, but Easy loses a man killed. The way they have picturised the patrol was really superb and the blitzkrieg that goes on the city in which they stay is also shown well. Seeing all this, Winters disobeys an order to send a second patrol the next night. All in all a good movie to watch...

Why We fight *****

This is one of the best one in the series. In this, Easy Company finally enters Germany, where they find no resistance, and begin kicking residents out of their homes for the night so they can sleep. It is really a bad thing to do. But it is germany because of which hey needed to wage such a war. They find the "enemy" to be industrious and not much different from them, and the veterans enjoy a chance to relax and even "fraternize" with the locals. Maj. WINTERS is concerned about his friend Capt. NIXON, who returns from a disastrous combat jump with another unit, cynical about the war and drinking heavily. After getting news that President Roosevelt has died, Easy heads out to another German town, from which Winters sends a small patrol into a forest. The patrol finds an abandoned concentration camp, with hundreds of emaciated and still imprisoned inmates, mostly Jewish -- a surprise to Winters and everyone else. The director has nearly brought the concentrations camps back to our sight. It was really sympathetic to watch such things. The Company start to feed and release them, but then are ordered to herd them back into the camp so that their recovery can be monitored. This was done by a soldier who knows german. He couldnt control his feelings when he asks the ppl to go back to the concentration camps. Then they supervise the cleanup of the camp and its many corpses by the disgusted local citizenry -- who disavow prior knowledge of its existence. Atlast they get the news that Hitler has killed himself.

I still need to watch the last part... Lets see wats there in store for me.

Ha... here comes more reviews from my favorite series " Band of brothers"

BAND OF BROTHERS

BASTOGNE *****(I think this is the best part in BOB)

In this part Easy Company fights in the forest outside of Bastogne, Belgium. Easy Company digs foxholes in the snow around the Belgian town of Bastogne. But the problem is that they are woefully under-manned and under-supplied to hold the line against the inevitable Easy Company digs foxholes in the snow around the Belgian town of Bastogne. They are woefully under-manned and under-supplied to hold the line against the inevitable. The hero in this part is a medic EUGENE ROE (Shane Taylor). This part actually takes u through the experiences of medics. Roe scrounges morphine and other much-needed medical supplies to treat the various ailments and wounds of the men, who are bitterly cold and, in many cases, stricken with trench foot. For the supplieshe hag to go to a cut-off Aid Station in the surrounded, besieged town of Bastogne. There he meets a beautiful Belgian nurse named RENEE LEMAIRE (Lucie Jeanne) ministering to the horrible suffering of wounded American soldiers. My best scene was when Roe was in the hospital and a soilder wounded in the stomach with a hole comes. Roe puts his hand inside his stomach to stop the arteries. It was Damn gud and it was really painful to see such things. I donno how the medics wuld have faced these those days. Easy loses two men on an ill-fated patrol. One of them gets shot at the neck. No body could go and take him to medic because of heavy firing. That guy couldnt even cry as he got hit on his neck and his pain is unexplainable. My God!! i donno how these guys really faced these things. With no sign of relief in sight, the men celebrate a miserable holiday together in their foxholes. Then at last Germans bomb Bastogne and it hits the Aid Station and kills Renee, whose body Roe discovers.

The Breaking Point ***** (This is again a great part)

Having held off the German attempts to overrun Bastogne, Easy Comapny is now faced with the task of taking the nearby town of Foy from the enemy. Company First Sergeant CARWOOD LIPTON (Donnie Wahlberg) tries to hold the company together as they withstand several fierce artillery bombardments, during which several Easy veterans are killed and maimed. There is one scene where due to an artillery Joe loses his leg. Bill tries to bring him back to his fox hole and damn he gets a damn hole in his leg. U dont believe but the hole just shows us the otherside of the leg. Sgts. JOE TOYE (Kirk Acevedo) and BILL GUARNERE (Frank John Hughes) each lose a leg. This results in an emotional breakdown by Lt. COMPTON, who has to leave the line. Morale of the company is further dampened by the incompetence of their commander, Lt. NORMAN DIKE. Lipton warns Capt. WINTERS about Dike, but Winters is well aware of the problem and can do nothing about it. Then comes a cruicial atck on Foy. But there Dike freezes up during the crucial attack on Foy and it results in many deaths and casualities. Then Winters sends Dog Company's Lt. SPEIRS to relieve him. Speirs successfully leads the taking of the town, and Lipton is happy that Easy finally has a true combat leader again. My favorite scene in this part is the one where Lt. speirs runs to the other side of the town between the germans and germans get surprised and intially donot even try to shoot him. The best part is that he even comes back to his hideout in the same way. That was really superb.

Heart :::
Marvelous instrument created by the supreme Master
- Leanardo DaVinci

Nature is full of infinite causes which were never set forth in experience
- Leanardo Davinci

Athing that moves acquires as much space as it loses
- Leanardo Davinci

Today I started with "Band of Brothers" series. It is too good. Am i good enough to critic the work of Tom Hanks and Stephen Speilberg?? hmm... let me try... Instead of saying something about the work of those guys let me explain the way the soldiers died in the war. The way they brought the world war II before us is really gr8.

Today i saw the fourth and fifth one in the series ...

Let me give my reviews over all the five movies

CURRAHEE ***1/2
The first one was just a starter where the "Easy Company" were trained under a very strict officer. David Schwimmer played the role of that officer and it is very diff to picturize him in tat role as he was well known for his comic role in F.R.I.E.N.D.S. Any way it was an "ok" one.

In Toccoa, Ga., 1942, a disparate group of young men begins voluntary training to become members of one of America's newest military regiments - the paratroopers(the one who jumps with parachutes). Under the harsh leadership of Lt. Sobel (David Schwimmer), members of the newly formed Easy Company go from green civilians to some of the Army's most elite soldiers. As training progresses, a rivalry flares between Sobel, whom the men despise, and Lt. Winters (Damian Lewis), a junior officer who's earned the respect and admiration of Easy Company.

DAYS OF DAYS *****(cant give more than this.... otherwise there wuld be infinite stars to this part)

On June 6, 1944, D-Day(next famous to war stallingard), planes with thousands of paratroopers cross the English Channel to France, where they come under heavy fire. None of the men land where they expected to, and many lose their weapons and supplies in the drop. Winters links up with solitary soldiers, and they set off to find their units. The scene where the planes come under heavy fire was awesome. Then thousands of paratroopers just jump from the sky. It shld be seen .I cant xpress such a beautiful scene. Easy Company's first objective is to take out a German artillery installation at Brecourt Manor, a few kilometers north of Ste.Marie-du-Mont. Winters (Damian Lewis) is chosen to lead an attack on a fortified German artillery position; the mission is successful, but Winters, now acting company commander, loses his first man. The way they plan the mission hs no faults. Its simply mind boggling. It says that the same mission is still xplained as a text cases in most of the american military units.

CARENTAN ****1/2

SUNDAY, SEPT. 16,. Two days after D-Day, Easy Company is sent to take the town of Carentan, engaging in a successful battle that results in several casualties. The scene where they try to occupy a building is awesome. The casualities are less but it is very cruel. One soilder loses his leg. And just on one person a bomb explodes making a hole in his chest. One medic who tries to help a casuality gets a shot. It was too bad. Some soldiers, including Pvt. Blithe (Marc Warren), have a difficult time adjusting to combat. Later Bithe gets a shot in his chest and dies. It is really painful. If we ppl feel like this i cant imagine how the ppl who participated in the ar would have felt. After 36 days in Normandy and several fierce battles,the Easy company returns to England, but their celebrations are short-lived, as news comes that they're moving out again. Really no one wants a war.

REPLACEMENTS ****

Due to heavy casualties, a group of fresh paratrooper replacements joins Easy Company in time for a massive drop into German-occupied Holland for Operation Market-Garden. For the first time here we got to see a failure mission. They had no resistance in Eindhoven, but Easy and a cluster of British tanks are repelled from a nearby town by a superior German force, sustaining many casualties as they retreat. The Allied plan to enter Germany through Holland and end the war before Christmas fails. And it ends with 8750 deaths and many casualities. Easy loses 150 men. The ppl they show as replacements were very young and it was really pathetic to know that ppl of 17-18 years were just forced to join in the army and many got dead s they didnt have enough training.

CROSSROADS ****

Easy Company leads a mission on a Dutch dike near Arnhem, Holland. It was really a gr8 mission. And Lewis was awesome. When he kills a german soldier(a small kid) his expressions were watchable. They are damn perfect and faultless. The mission results in a resounding victory, for which he is promoted to Battalion Executive Officer. Dissatisfied with his new, largely administrative job, Winters is concerned about the leadership of the three companies he now commands. After a weekend pass to Paris, news arrives of a massive Axis effort in the Ardennes Forest, threatening to break the Allied lines. Easy Company races in to hold the line, ill-equipped for the bitterly cold weather and the entrenched battle ahead. I heard that the next one was the best in the series. Lets see what hanks and speilberg has kept in store for me.

neways.... Damn gud movies .. Tam Hanks and Speilberg recreated the World War. The settings are too natural. The screen play is flawless. Even the actors in BOB are professional and they look like real soldiers. I donno when our indian movies will reach this standard. Lets hope they do reach soon......

Do u know this???

If a quantity of wine is placed in a vessel thru which the water is continually passing it will never come about that the water is in the vessel will be without wine even after infinite amount of time. This is beacuse every continuous quantity is divisible to infinty.

Just a small change today as today is Teachers Day...

"If you can read this, thank a teacher." --- Anonymous
"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell, where his influence stops." Henry Brooks
"Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges." Joyce A. Myers

No one culd ever say that there is no influence of teachers in their life. I belive tht other than our parents, the teachers are the most important ppl who influence our life. They change the way we look at things, they make us think, they help us to read write. A gud teacher will always influence at some part of ur life may be knowlingly or unknowingly.

Let me introduce some of the most influential teachers in my life. They are many but....
these r the most important teachers in my life

1. My mom--- she used to teach me during my primary. Its not that she is my mum but she is a damn gud teacher.
2. Mani teacher --- she was responsible for my gud maths scores
3. Chandriah sir --- He was the one who created intrest in me on Social studies.
4. Nagamani madam --- Best mathematics teacher ever. She is the collest teacher i ever saw. She is the best teacher for me in my life. I belive she is the one who made me to reach IIIT.
5. Rajeshwari teacher --- English .... She is the reason if iam able to write all this stuff. I like her a lot.
6. Srinivas sir --- OS, Networks ... He is the one who is resposible for my knowledge in OS and N/W. Without him it wuld have been very diff to organise many events in the college. Not only thru subject but also morally he supported me a lot.
7. Sravan sir ---- TOC .... He is the best lecturer during my graduations, His classes in algorithms and TOC were truly gr8.
8. Kamal sir--- DBMS --- For me .... he is the god of DBMS . He make the things so simple and so easy that i left my very intresting field (N/W) and jumped in to DBMS. I started liking this subj only after listeneing to his classes.
10. Prosenjith sir--- Algo's
11. Prasad Jayanthi sir---Best teacher in IIIT. His classes in TOC were the best in my life. He made the very complex TOC subject in to a very easy one. His assignments are very thought provoking.
12. Jawahar sir--- He is the most dynamic teacher i have ever seen. His assignments are the best.

Touching more lives, affecting the outcome of so many futures a teacher is the epitome of a leader. Just as a leader has his or her own style, their way of motivating their students, also plays an important part in a students success. Spending more time with children than most parents do, a teacher is fundamental in shaping children. If they are poor leaders the children suffer. When they shine as leaders the children blossom and the universe is wide open to them. For a teacher it is of utmost importance that he tune his leadership skills and find the best style of teaching for the students.

Let me start this blog with a nice movie "Red October" ****


Red October is the name of an advanced submarine designed by russians which can not even be detected by powerful radars. Sean Connery, the capitan of the ship, takes the ship in to the american waters. The whole of russia and america are in panic as they see sean as a mad general who is going to ignite the cold war between the two great nations. But was this the intention of the general?? No it wasn't. Was he trying to save the world from the cold war in this process??


The movie has got masters in it. Every charecter is perfectly potrayed. I would say "The picture was awesome" . It got a lot of nail-biting sceans. Especially, the scene where the general saves the submarien frm the torpedo's is too good. Its a must see movie.

Hi all ....

This is my first post here in the blogger. Ha... there will be nothing here xcept some movie reviews... If u r nt a person who is not intrested in movies, this not a place 4 u.