Road down to recession?

After Sun microsystems news on laying off 6000 employees, Citigroup is now planning to down-size by 53000 employees. 53000! the size of a small town may be. It sure gets depressing to think of a small town of people without work.

Traveling around the city I find so many shops that have put banners that they are closing down. Even behemoths like CircuitCity have filed for chapter 11. I'm not sure how many financial companies could be saved with the $700 billion, or how many more automakers could be given a bail-out. Can US afford to support so many companies? Wonder how all this is going to percolate to the developing nations.

Vaaranam Aayiram

All is well that ends well. I guess that's the only reason why everyone in the theatre was waiting. We were all waiting for a good ending to an average movie. But the ending "also" disappointed.

Instead of Vaaranam Aayiram, the movie should have titled "Oru Daddy-in kathai". Surya uses the word Daddy every minute for the whole 3 hours and the word starts paining the ears towards the end of the movie.

Surya has acted well and the story also sounds good, but the screen play is very sober and slow paced. It really felt like a documentary. I guess the director tried a different way of narration, which unfortunately did not click.
+ -> Surya, Music
- -> Slow screenplay

Surya has developed a good physique and his looks are making me think again about exercising. May be people will find me on the treadmill soon :-)