Well! This is one question that has been haunting me over the past week. I was busy pouring over my record work and notes preparing myself for the practical exams of my 4th sem.
What led me to think about this is the type of questions which we got.
First up for me was the Logic System Design Lab. 6 of us were standing in queue to take our question paper. It so happened that my friend who was standing before me moved out of the line to take his IC Pin-out diagram or something and thus I moved to his place and he moved behind me. I got an easy question to design an Astable Multivibrator (which was supposed to be picked by my friend) and my friend got a difficult question. I got the output on first try whereas he got only a partial output.
Same happened with Data Structures Programming Lab. Though everyone in a batch gets the same question, the degree of difficulty of the question for each batch was different. We got to implement Priority Queue (in a little twisted question) whereas some batches got direct questions like implementing ‘Merge Sort’ and ‘Quick Sort’.
Though I got full outputs on these labs, why am I complaining?
Last sem, in C Programming Lab, we got a difficult question to read and manipulate data from files. The question was indirect that it even confused the external examiner who in turn confused me. One batch got a question to input a number, find if it is even or odd, prime or composite and its factorial (+1 stuff). I passed but with low marks which affected my GPA badly.
So this leads to my question. Does the question one receives depend on his luck and there by does his performance also depends on his luck? If so, how can one judge a person’s programming ability with questions of varying difficulty?
Thalappavu, the debut directorial venture of actor Madhupal, is one of those films which keeps you under its spell even after you have left the cinema hall. Visual splendour, splendid performances by the cast and a deep and touching tale forms the core of Thaalppavu. If anyone watches the movie expecting comedy, romance and dance, then you will be disappointed. But for those who want a pleasant change from the regular hero movies, Thalappavu will work for you.
Thalappavu is the story of a naxal leader of Wayyanad, Joseph and his friend, a constable named Ravindran Pillai. The movie is the story of Ravindran Pillai and his confessions of pulling the trigger on his friend Joseph on the order of his superiors.
What makes Thalappavu likeable is that it has its heart in the right place. It is not aimed at making the audience laugh but at making us think. Thalappavu is an example of a movie in which the entire cast and crew has performed at their best.
Prithviraj breathes life into the character of Joseph. He stands, speaks and looks with the pride and dignity of a naxal. But the man who steals the spotlight is Lal, whose performance as Ravindran Pillai is excellent. The rest of the cast are also very good. Direction by Madhupal is excellent. Story and screenplay by Babu Janardhanan is the main asset of the movie. The movie jumps from the present to the past and further past and forms an exciting but complex narrative.
In the end, Thalappavu is about the choices we make – to suffer or to react, to be selfish or to speak for the downtrodden. Is it a sin to take the law into one’s hands for the ‘Greater Good’?
In the end, Thalappavu is a visual feast for a movie lover.
Rating: 7/10
This is a scene which I witnessed while returning home from a book store. The smoke from a train’s engine was blown on to the road. I first thought it was due to some accident down the road. This is something which I have been seeing for sometime but today I had the previllege to capture today, thanks to my phone. Cybershot roxxx. 
edit – The place is college junction, kollam.
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