<!--QuoteBegin-Bharatvarsh+Jul 5 2007, 08:24 PM-->QUOTE(Bharatvarsh @ Jul 5 2007, 08:24 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin--><!--QuoteBegin--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Aanivaer sets new standardsÂÂ
The producer also brought in South Indian Tamil technicians for camerawork & direction. The film has been scripted and directed by <b>Jon</b> Mahendran, son of the celebrated director Mahendran.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->[right][snapback]70836[/snapback][/right]<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->Do you know the religious affiliation of the director? This matters to me. (And if he's christian, he should change his surname to Matthew or something.)
In Sri Lanka christian Tamils are desperate for leverage and so use Tamil Hindus for their purpose.
In Tamil Nadu there's no such ruse: their enemies in TN are the Hindus (just like it is in the rest of India). What's more they badmouth Hinduism in every Tamil board. <!--emo&:angry:--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/mad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='mad.gif' /><!--endemo--> And when they're not doing that they evangelise (they bought out several boards and it got infested real fast by anti-Hindus who'd insult Hinduism on one hand and then praise christianity on the other).
Or they start appropriating Hinduism. I remember reading some non-Indian lady posting in a Tamil thread, asking after Tamil poetry by Bharatiyar. At one point she was interested in knowing the meaning of Tamil names. She asked about Eesan, said she found it beautiful. A Hindu posted how it meant Shiva. (Perhaps you know already that Eesan = Ishwaran, literally it means Lord but it refers to Shiva - just like Latin Dominus means Lord, but refers to Mithra. In fact, the Hindu case is more special in that Eesan is particularly a <i>name</i> of Shiva in Tamil. That's why so many Tamizh male children for countless generations have been bearing that name.)
Then a christian had posted that Eesan means 'Lord Jesus' in Tamil. Total garbage; an outright lie. They've no sense of Tamil, of history, of Hinduism, or even of their own religion: christianity. Why can't they just use English 'Lord' or take their names from Syriac or Aramaic or something? Why steal Tamil words meant for Hindu Gods; why steal Tamil Hindu names?
Okay. Digressed too far.
The producer also brought in South Indian Tamil technicians for camerawork & direction. The film has been scripted and directed by <b>Jon</b> Mahendran, son of the celebrated director Mahendran.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->[right][snapback]70836[/snapback][/right]<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->Do you know the religious affiliation of the director? This matters to me. (And if he's christian, he should change his surname to Matthew or something.)
In Sri Lanka christian Tamils are desperate for leverage and so use Tamil Hindus for their purpose.
In Tamil Nadu there's no such ruse: their enemies in TN are the Hindus (just like it is in the rest of India). What's more they badmouth Hinduism in every Tamil board. <!--emo&:angry:--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/mad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='mad.gif' /><!--endemo--> And when they're not doing that they evangelise (they bought out several boards and it got infested real fast by anti-Hindus who'd insult Hinduism on one hand and then praise christianity on the other).
Or they start appropriating Hinduism. I remember reading some non-Indian lady posting in a Tamil thread, asking after Tamil poetry by Bharatiyar. At one point she was interested in knowing the meaning of Tamil names. She asked about Eesan, said she found it beautiful. A Hindu posted how it meant Shiva. (Perhaps you know already that Eesan = Ishwaran, literally it means Lord but it refers to Shiva - just like Latin Dominus means Lord, but refers to Mithra. In fact, the Hindu case is more special in that Eesan is particularly a <i>name</i> of Shiva in Tamil. That's why so many Tamizh male children for countless generations have been bearing that name.)
Then a christian had posted that Eesan means 'Lord Jesus' in Tamil. Total garbage; an outright lie. They've no sense of Tamil, of history, of Hinduism, or even of their own religion: christianity. Why can't they just use English 'Lord' or take their names from Syriac or Aramaic or something? Why steal Tamil words meant for Hindu Gods; why steal Tamil Hindu names?
Okay. Digressed too far.