The particular Very Cool Korean Motion pictures as well as the Northeast Indians.

 I have a confession to make. I'm hooked on Korean movies. So can be thousands in Mizoram, Manipur. Well basically the whole of Northeast India. I have heard it's way more in countries like Myanmar (Burma), Thailand, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Vietnam, Indonesia, China, Taiwan, Philippines, etc.

It's been a while now since I watched my first Korean movie - it was My Sassy Girl. (Incidentally, My Sassy Girl was typically the most popular and exportable Korean film in the real history Korean film industry according to Wikipedia. So popular so it outsold The Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter which ran at exactly the same time. Dramacool It sold 4,852,845 tickets!) Which was around two years ago. By now I have watched scores of these - Windstruck, Sex is Zero (Korean version of American Pie?), My Wife is really a Gangster 1, 2 & 3, The Classic, Daisy, A Moment to Remember, Joint Security Area, My Little Bride, A Dirty Carnival, You are my Sunshine, Silmido, etc to call but a couple of!

I'm completely totally hooked!

When a friend first invited me to view My Sassy Girl I was frankly not sure if I would enjoy it. Nevertheless the spunky, don't-care-a-damn-tomboy heroine because movie made me fall in deep love with Korean movies (and soaps even!). It is not particularly surprising to me that I fell in deep love with Korean movies considering the truth that I enjoy French movies. Korean movies have exactly the same treatment of these subjects like this of French movies. I regularly watch TV5 French movies and Arirang TV whenever my cableguy allows me! Of course different genre of movies offer you a different perspective on Korean movies. I do believe comedy is where Korean movies would be the best.

Now the Korean movies and soaps, as I have said, are popular in the Northeastern states of India. Even yet in New Delhi there's a video library or two where you could get Korean movies. You can be sure I'm a regular! In a more severe note, the question is why... why do the northeasterners love Korean movies?? Despite decades of Hindustanization with Bollywood, Hindi lessons and Indian politics are we somewhat wanting for HOME!

It is great to see one of your (read chinkies?) on the screen after so many decades of it being filled by the Amitabhs and the Khans and the Roshans of Bollywood. Korean dramas are such as a breath of outdoors after so much stale Bollywood movies which I seldom watch except for Ram Gopal Verma movies. The intricate plots of twists and turns and a whole lot more urbane emotions are what attracted me to Korean and French movies. Maybe, just may be, race has a role here. Being racially similar, our habits and cultural nuances are very similar! Their gestures and facial expressions are very similar to the expressions. The rather alien Punjabi or Bihari nuances of Bollywood deters me from so many good movies!

Korean movies may also be technically more advanced than Bollywood movies and may also contend with Hollywood movies. Awards and recognition even in the Cannes Film Festival are becoming a yearly occurrence for the Korean film industry. In fact Hollywood biggies Dreamworks has paid $2 million (US) for a remake of the 2003 suspense thriller Janghwa, Hongryeon (A Tale of Two Sisters) compare that to $1 million (US) covered the best to remake the Japanese movie The Ring.

It is true that we, Northeasterners, love everything that's new to the culture unlike our mainland Indians. We actually welcome change and changed we are to an extent. We effortlessly copy the western style of dressing jeans, T-shirts and et al. That could be another reason for our recent addiction with Korean movies. But somehow I doubt that it is a passing thing like teenage love affair. It has cultural affinity overtones written all over it. Bollywood will have to counter this onslaught of Korean movies with increased Chak De characters! It has recently lost much audience to Korean film industry.

A couple of weeks back while having a chit-chat about our lives in New Delhi - the awkward stares, the down right patronising calling of names and the abuses in workplaces - with a buddy of mine he remarked,"Are we in the wrong country?" ;."Are you going to be happy if you're treated such as a guest is likely to country?" asks among the two Northeast characters in Chak De India. As for me it's bearable with assistance from movies like My Sassy Girl and the like from our kin Korean film industry. Laugh your heart out and forget the troubles with this country until, needless to say, Chak De India has bigger roles for Northeasterners!

Are you ready for Top rated 20 Animated Cartoons for all time? Just what exactly Designed These folks So good?

 Who said cartoons are for the young? The results and technology that switches into making a high animated movie are nothing short of brilliant! How could you not appreciate that?

The most truly effective 20 animated cartoons of all time are based on revenue, simply how much they gross. The following list has collectively earned a complete greater than USD200 million - but what exactly is it about animated cartoons that attracts viewers and fills movie theaters? The following titles may offer you a hint.

1. Shrek 2
2. Finding Nemo
3. The Lion King
4. Shrek the Third
5. Shrek
6. The Incredibles
7. Monsters, Inc
8. Toy Story 2
9. Cars
10. Aladdin
11. Ratatouille
12. Happy Feet
13. Ice Age: Meltdown
14. Madagascar
15. Toy Story
16. The Simpsons
17. The Polar Express
18. Ice Age
19. Beauty and the Beast
20. Tarzan

Obviously the advent of 3D computer software has brought animated characters to 'life', so to speak. Viewers cannot help but be enthralled at the realistic features, character traits and movements. Teamed with whacky objects that amazing things, incredible special effects and backgrounds - they're one of many reasons these animated cartoons are so popular.Mangabudy

People also want to laugh and be entertained - animated cartoons are created to do just that, make people laugh and evoke emotions, so a good storyline is essential. Nobody really wants to see an animated cartoon movie set around a dramatic storyline. Characters must be fun, whacky, lovable and endearing, which most of these are. Backgrounds are beautifully illustrated and objects move and do silly things, telling their very own story and along the way entertain as much as the characters do. It also helps to possess a common actor while the voice and personality behind the smoothness - someone the audience can identify with and almost without exception all the most effective 20 usually have a lot more than one.

Yet without technology and some brilliant and talented people, this all would not be possible. Bringing a drawing to lifelike proportions and allowing it tell a tale is nothing short of miraculous. With the aid of sophisticated software programs and teams of highly talented individuals who possess colossal ideas and fantastic imaginations, animated cartoons as sophisticated even as we see today, would not be possible.

Next time you think an animation is for children only, think again. Treat you to ultimately an hour or so or two of amazing special effects, a good storyline and all the benefits technology and computers would bring, and give credit where it should indeed be due.