PONGAL 2012 RECIPES AND GREAT CELEBRATION

Many events are being celebrated in different parts of India including Pongal which is the harvest festival celebrated for four days in a region named ‘Tamil Nadu’ which is the southern state of India. Pongal is one of the most important and very much popular festivals of Hindus. The basic concept of this festival is to thank nature. It has originated from a Tamil word having mean ‘to boil’. According to Tamil calendar this festival falls in the month of "Thai" which is normally during the English calendar months of January or February. This is the time of year when many crops such as: rice, cereals, sugar-cane, and turmeric are harvested throughout the country.
The pongal dishes that are mostly liked and made are:

• Rice Pongal
• Sakkarai or Chakarai Pongal (sweet pongal)
• Rava Pongal
• Khara Pongal
• Venn Pongal

The tastiest Pongal 2012 Recipe is Venn Pongal.

·         Venn Pongal: It is one of the most delicious varieties of Pongal recipe. Its ingredients are:

Ingredients

Raw Rice 1 and a 1/2 cup

Moong dal 1/2 cup

Black Peppercorns 1teaspoon

Cumin seeds1 teaspoon

Ghee 2 tablespoon

Finely chopped ginger 1/2 teaspoon

Cashew nuts 5nos

Curry Leaves 8 to 10

Salt 3/4 teaspoon

How to Prepare Venn Pongal:

First Wash the rice and Moong Dal. Put them together in a cooker. Add about 5 cups of water in it. Now pressure cook it for around 8 minutes. In the meantime, coarsely grind the pepper and cumin seeds separately then Chop the cashew in pieces and fry in a little oil till they give a beautiful golden. After 8 minutes, release the pressure of the cooker and mash the rice and dal together with the help of wooden spoon. Then Add pepper, cumin powder, cashew, ginger, curry leaves, salt and remaining ghee to the rice and mix them well to make a great mixture. Now the dish is ready. Serve it beautifully by garnishing some hara Dhaniya on it.

BUSINESSMAN MOVIE REVIEW

The Indian film industry is growing very fast. It has revived its excellence by making another Telugu version of the movie named “Business Man” . This film is co-written and directed by a famous personality of Indian film industry i.e. Puri Jagannadh. The cast of the film includes: Mahesh Babu and Kajal Agarwal. They are playing the lead roles in the film. This film started its shooting from September 2011 and got release on January 11th, 2012.

Businessman is a production of RR Movie Makers. The caption of the movie is “Guns don’t need agreements” reflects that it must be an action movie. The Muhurtham of the shot was picturised in July 2011 but due to some delay the regular shooting started a month after. It has been found from few internal sources that Shruti Hassan was selected for the female lead role, but later Kajal Aggarwal has been finalized for the movie. This is the first experience for Kajal Aggarwal acting with Mahesh Bahu in a lead role. From the caption and the wallpapers it is proved that this film is a real action thriller.
The other Cast of the movie includes Raza Murad, Dharmavarapu, Prakash Raj, Subramanyam, Jahangir Khan, Bharath Reddy, Brahmaji, Sayaji and Shinde.
The Music in the movie is given by S.S. Thaman, Cinematography by Shyam K. Naidu, Editing by S.R. Shekhar, Produced by Ram Gopal Varma, R R Venkat and Storied by Puri Jagannadh . The movie has got good rating of 3.5 points out of 5 so it can be recommended for change and entertainment. The downloads for the Telugu film “Businessman” can be get from following link:
http://www.teluguone.com/tmdb/news/Businessman-Movie-Review-en-10924c1.html

BILL MOYERS’ SHOW AND ALL HIS SPEECH

Bill Moyers was born on 5^th of June in 1934. He is an American and works as a journalist and also as a public commentator. In past he served as a White House Press Secretary under the administration of President Lyndon B. Johnson for the time period between 1965 and 1967. He not only worked as a news commentator on Television for ten years but also has great involvement with public television in respect of producing documentaries, news journal program that’s why he not only give criticism on United States media but also become a well renowned trenchant critic.

 Bill Moyers has been President of Schumann Center for Media and Democracy. In spite of many of the work of Bill Moyers he is a very good speaker. His determination and grip on the subject and his behavior while delivering the speech is matchless. He is a great journalist and has a good command on presidential issues like we can watch one of his video related to comments towards President Obama. 

NANBAN MOVIE STORY

NANBAN is a movie being released on 12^th January 2012. It is a Tamil version of block buster bollywood hit 3 IDOITS. The movie is made at the same pattern which is full of fun, entertainment, knowledge, twists, emotions, great music and a message for young generation. Nanban is no doubt running very successful making it worth seeing again and again.

Its cast includes: Srikanth, Vijay, Sathyaraj, Iileana, Sathyan and others. It is directed by Shankar. The music director of Nanban is Harris Jayaraj. It is the production of Gemini Film Circuit. The cast and the whole crew have really made it a real hit by doing a great business in just few days.

The story of Nanban starts as a flashback. Srikanth named Venkata Ramakrishan in the movie revises his past memories starting from his ragging at his engineering college. He was ordered to dance in his underwear by his seniors. 

Then comes the entry of Panchavan Aka Pappu (Vijay) in a great musical background. Panchavan is also being targeted by the seniors but gets success in escaping from the ragging.
Sathyaraj who is the principal of college has been well known among students as Virus. He is a great scholar believes greatly in handwork and success. He is a man of success, who promotes his students toward a hard and struggled life. After meeting Panchavan, Virus got a new seek that life is not a name of running towards success, it is a name of excellence. The movie has a lot more reasoning behind making Satharaj convinced of Panchavan’s view of life. As happens in every movie, the Nanban movie story also includes some love section between Panchavan and RIA (Ileana) daughter of Satharaj.

The story moves around Srikanth, Panchavan, and Jeeva. Shankar has not changed much in the version to keep its originality intact. It’s a great movie and everyone should watch it even if he has seen 3 Idiots many times.