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THE HINDU (Madurai) : Tuesday, March 19th, 2002

www.dinakaran.com, Thursday Febrauary 28, 2002

The New Indian Express, Saturday January 19, 2002

I prefer Love Marriage

If you missed it, it s too bad. And if you are a Jyothika fan, it's worse for what you missed was an opportunity to chat online with the bubbly actress herself. Organized by www.galatta.com, this was the second chat session that Jyothika was having with her fans. Even before the actress had logged in many of her fans were in the chat room, some of them as early as half an hour before the scheduled time.
And when she went outline, the questions just wouldn't stop. For many of her fans, it was too just hard for them to believe that they were chatting with their favorite actress.' Is that you Jyothika?' kept popping up after every few minutes of chatting. 'What kind of marriage do you prefer?' I prefer love marriage' replied 
A smiling jyothika. But even before the answer was completed there came a barrage of questions with which she tried to keep pace.'Who is your favorite star?' (John Travolta), What's your favorite dish?'(Butter chicken)','When are you getting married?'(After a couple of years).'Who is your favorite co star?' (Shaam).
Jyothika also broke a few hearts when she said she would act only for another two years. But the fans didn't seem to mind for they were happy with the opportunity they got to have at least a few words with their star. So how did she feel at the end of it?"It's very sweet of them to come online and chat with me. I had great time," She said. The feeling's mutual, we're sure.

Dinamalar

Dinamalar: Tuesday, November 7th, 2001

THE HINDU: Wednesday, October 17th, 2001

THE HINDU: Tuesday, October 16th, 2001

Ticket to stardom on 12 B

THE GUY on-board bus 12 B was spotted strolling around on the information superhighway on Saturday evening. Yes, we are talking about the man who a lot of fans believe is ``the best thing to happen to Kollywood after Madhavan''.

Shaam spent close to two hours at Dotcom Infoway on Saturday evening, spending an hour answering questions posted by fans. And an hour, chatting with them live over the net.

The 25 year old debutant hero attired casually, was making his chat debut as well for the site Galatta.com handling questions thrown at him with ease. Needless to say, the majority of the participants were girls, going by names.

Here are some of the most popular questions along with his answers as well: Do you have a girlfriend?

He started off replying with a flirty retort and then changed his mind halfway during the chat, when he said `No'.

Where are you from? ``Madurai''.

What is your religion Shaam? ``Indian,'' replied the hero.

Is that your voice in the movie? ``No, it was dubbed. I would be using my own voice from my next movie,'' he said.

What was it like, working with Jyotika?

The actor chose to reply rather soberly to that. ``Wonderful. She was nice to work with''.

And when fans asked him for his birth date, they had a surprise in store.

``Shaam, April 4 is Simran's birthday also,'' they informed him.

``Dai Shaam,'' called out a few girls, asking him for his email ID. He obliged as he gave away his email address (arien04@rediffmail.com). When someone asked him for his home address, Kollywood's latest star flashed out his homepage address: shaamonline.com.

Asked if he would prefer being Shakti, the guy who took the bus or the mechanic Shakti who missed the bus in 12B, Shaam said he preferred to be the mechanic Shakti.

``You dance so well, your acting is so good'' and other compliments followed as Shaam made sure he wished every other person in the chat room at least a Hi.

While some chatters preferred to type in transliterated Tamil, Shaam promptly replied accordingly in Tamil as well. He seemed to enjoy the chat, especially when female fans asked him about his next movie. And he responded, ``Ay, Nee Romba Azhaga Irukkae''.

Well, that really is the name of Shaam's next movie. Incidentally, Shaam has signed up for another five movies including K. Balachander's next movie after `Parthalae Paravasam'.

About 12 B, Shaam has no regrets at all. In fact, he is grateful to director Jeeva for his brave effort in telling a story that is refreshingly different. Shaam hopes to be in Jeeva's next film as well.

If 12 B was about what happens if Shaam took the bus and what if he didn't, the chat itself had a similar structure: What if he was online and what if he was not!

When the moderators logged him out sharp at the end of the chat and logged him in again with a different nickname, Shaam could see for himself the conversation that took place without his presence. Just when one odd participant got started with Smart Alec comments, Shaam surprised the chatters with a re-entry and informed the troublemaker that he read his comments.

The others enjoyed the joke as Shaam had the last laugh. And this was just his beginning.

By Sudhish Kamath

Dinamalar : Tuesday, 25th September 2001

Dotcom

Wonders of the Internet World

Website for each city

Today it has become that a website is a necessary media for a city.  And so websites not only for cities like Chennai, Madurai, Coimbatore, Trichy, Salem have been launched but also for cities like www.aruppukkottai.com, www.manamadurai.com, www.sattur.com, www.sankarankoil.com have also been started. Other than www.chennaionline.com, sites like www.singarachennai.com and www.chennaiguide.com have also been launched for headquarters Chennai.

These websites pave the way to the tourists who come to Chennai, people who come to settle in Chennai and also for the Chennaites who lead their daily life.  These sites provide information to solve their problems online.

www.madurai4u.com provides Free Ads, NRI Directory, School Alumni, College Alumini etc covering  the old and new students.  This site even entertains the users through Flash by wishing them on their birthday.

Adding to its pride culture and to the other changing environments, this site portrays Madurai to the forefront.

Among all the cities, Kanchi is known to be the most important one.  In the North this is known as City Kanchi.  www.kanchipuram.com provides us more information on this city.

www.palanicity.com, www.tiruttani.com, www.thiruchendur.com are the sites which will be helpful for the devotees of Muruga.

By visiting sites like www.kanyakumari.com, www.kodai.com, www.mudumalai.com, www.thekkady.com, www.yercaud.com one can get the real feeling of a tour.

Those were the days before starting a holy trip one will see the stars and etc whether to go in the North or East.  But today it's enough to see that respective city site before starting.

Dinamalar : Friday, 21st September 2001

Dotcom

Wonders in the Internet World

Celluloid's of Cyber Space

The organization that is behind www.galatta.com also launches sites for celluloid actors and the dancing dolls who have come from Mumbai.

Jothika, Mumtaz, Vikram, S.P.B Charan, Kushbhoo, Meena, Nasser, Madhavan, Laila are those who have taken part in such celebrity chats.  This live celebrity chat is conducted every Saturday.  Even the small screen personalities like Swarnamalya, Gayathri, Vijay Adhiraj and others have made an attempt for the event.  This site hosting organisation have designed sites like www.jothikaonline.com, www.kausalyaonline.com, www.laila.net, www.mumtazonline.com, www.prashanthonthenet.com, www.rmadhavan.com and so on.  The fans of celebrities like Jothika, Kausalya, Laila, Mumtaz, Prashanth, Madhavan can visit and enjoy their respective sites along with their tight close ups.

This organization introduces video conferencing of the celebrities before launching their sites.  Actors like Vijay and Abbas have taken part in such video conferencing.  In response for a request for an autograph by a female fan from Madurai, Abbas promptly asked her why she needs, when he has already been given a place in her heart.  The young female fan and her mom were quite taken back and flattered by the actor's instant moving reply.  There were questions that made him out, when he was asked, "Will the technology development in graphics affect the celebrities interests" and so on.  To know more about Abbas, visit www.actorabbas.com.  As curtain raisers for movies, click and enjoy sites like www.starthemovie.com, www.dheenamovie.com etc.

THE HINDU: Friday, 31st August 2001

Abbas joined the constellation on the information super highway, when 
he launched his website www.actorabbas.com recently.
   And he got baptised, engrossing himself in a live chat with his fans from Madurai enabled 
through teleconferencing ,sitting at the DBS centre, Kodambakkam.
  The internet savvy star rushed to the city for the launch of his site and 
quickly flew back to Mumbai, where he  was shooting for his Hindi project.
    Abbas surely is bitten by the computer bug. On further investigation 
of the symptoms, it has been discovered that the star has been spending too 
much time on the sets of 'kadhal virus'.
    The reason we haven't seen him around too much after 'Minnale' and 'Anandam' 
is because  Abbas is busy with Hindi projects. Talking of Minnale, Maddy is gearing 
up for the Hindi remake 'Rehna Hai Tere Dil Main'. The Maddy-Abbas rivalry now shifts to Bollywood.
    Only that this time around, it is Saif Ali Khan Who's is playing Abba's role in the 
Hindi version opposite Diya Mirza.
     And that's only because Abbas is busy doing solo hero projects in Hindi.

THE HINDU: Thursday, 2nd August 2001

Feeling chatty

She loves to sing.  She likes dancing.  And after a hard day's work, chatting is certainly not her cup of tea.  Or, is it coffee?

Never mind all that, Monal gave her full one hour online on Saturday evening.  She was the celeb. for the live chat on Galatta.com, a film based portal.

Not that she was passionate about the whole event in the beginning.  With her eyelids droopy, she sat through.  And at the end of it she did look invigorated.

And why not, compliments were flowing - "Monal you looked great in Lovely", "Monal you are looking great, are you coming from a shooting?" (a web cam was clicking away simultaneously).

There were queries about her height (5 feet 6 and a half she answered), her younger sister's name (that's Jothi) and even about her habits and mannerisms ) she admitted that she sometimes did some nail biting).

And then there were questions about how great it was working with Vijay in "Badri" and on her new ventures.

The still curious ones wanted to know about the rumours doing the rounds in Kollywood about her sister Simran's marriage with Raju Sundaram.  "It's not yet fixed," she replied.

Someone asked her about her fav. directors and she said Yash Chopra and Maniratnam.  Now who does she sign for if both approached her?  She kept them in suspense.

She promised all that she'll be back.  Bye Monal, come again, they all said.

By Saptarshi Bhattacharya.

THE HINDU: Madurai, by AR.Meyyammai

Info galore in Corpn. website

Browsing the net has become the way of life for the surfers in the city.  The number of aspirants looking in for umpteen sites, is shooting up with the break of each dawn.  Such is the 'net enthu' of collegians.

Many portals catch the fancy of these youngsters.  But the question is whether they all go in for the city based portals and websites.  Not many, is the monotonous single-liners from the owners of the Net cafes.

If not the localities, then who else surf these city sites are a strong doubt, which arises in anyone's mind?  The site possessors themselves clear the query.  Surprise hits us when they say that it is Non Residential Indians who have their roots in Madurai, are the "widest browsers'.

To have a glance at the city portals, there are many-some functional and many non-functional.  And a few on constructions.  Madurai. com, one of the oldest websites which was active a few years back is now in a state of dormancy under the care of Coimbatore. com.

Maduraionline. com, the first website that offered content in Tamil, started off with great promises.  But now needs to be updated.  Many more sites come under this category.  Some sites, which existed before, are non-existent now.  The count in this lot is four.

To get business information, there is maduraibazzar. com.  Want to know details about the city and its surroundings, there is always the madurai4u.com, a new but promising entrant.  A part of the galatta.com group of websites.  Guess who launched it.  It was actress Laila.

Plethora of private portals.  Is there any Government site that gives you in depth detail about the wonders of the city, is our concern?  Oh! don't bother.  There is the Corporation site, maduraicorporation.com that takes you to the pathway of its own sub sites.

Wow! will be the exclamation and expression of any soul who grazes on this site.  The web page welcomes you with the landmark of the city-the spectacular tower of Madurai Shri Meenakshi Sundareswarar Temple, the pix telling the philosophy of life.  A Worshipper in darkness saying his prayers to iron out his worries.  Tower in the bright focus.

Is that all?  No.  Madurai Corporation excels all other city based sites feeding us with lots and lots of information.  Starting its 'site story' from location, places of interest, administration, council, announcements, services and statistical details, the pages display the write-ups with beautiful pictures flashing the snaps of "Tamizhannai" (Mother of Tamil) and other significant photographs.  Something strikes your eyes.  It is, of course, the formal usage of library language which is pretty tough to unearth in the other city sites.

Useful to  Madurai basis or not, the particulars about the places of interest, are definitely a hand and accessible disclosure to the foreigners.  Need to know about the general climate, the topography, archaeology, the historical background, then they can very well rely on the site.  The map of the city gives one a clear picture of the built-up town.

Not a galatta for the fun lovers.  Serious and a heavy stuff.  But who is the person who got into the venture of Corporation net.  It was the former Commissioner of Madurai Corporation, Mr.M.Saikumar, Later on, developed by his successor, Mr.Gagan Deep Singh Bedi.

Of course, the budget in the administration site ought to be updated.  The picture of Mr.Bedi also awaits change.  But how can it be when the Commissioner for the Corporation is yet to be posted?

THE HINDU: Wednesday, 18th July 2001

Catching the doe-eyed doll live 
 We had our step into the Pandyan Hotel, this time. One might think that there is some food festival going on to give a hype to the taste buds. Naturally. But the prediction is cent percent  wrong. Hotels are no more tied up with cuisine and food festival only.
        A New Way of life was going on in the Banquet Hall of the hotel just springing us in a surprise, the instruction board not a cinema hall of course. But a character from the "Tinsel Town" was there. English flick fans immediately don't  get reminded of newly-slim John Travolta, for his flattering role in the film.
     It was the charismatic Meena grinning, blushing and chuckling with the entire crowd keeping their ears and eyes wide open. If you think that she was chatting amidst her fans, then exactly that's what she did. Not an iota of doubt about it but with a little difference.
       Her buffs had a small regret they couldn't pinch her to confirm that everything was real  'coz she was there smiling and yakking on the giant screen. Don't say, oh no! Meena was caught live in the video-conferencing projecting a face to face and even an eye-to-eye contact.
   Remember, it was Sam Pitroda, the telecommunication wizard who a month back entertained the Maduraites in an informative way in video- conferencing. To accept the fact, there was little crowd then. Not as it was two days back to converse with Meena. 
         Well,this is Yet another proof that Madurai basis eat and breathe cinema apart from the establishment of umpteen fan clubs for all celluloid objects in every nook and corner of the city. That's way the 'galatta' guys, C.R.Venkatesh of Dotcom Infoway and owner of portal,
galatta.com, Ashwin Desai of A&T Network Systems and Ashok Kumar of the Web World have  all taken to their 'heels, an uncompromising  vow to interest the dry 'Madurai Makkal'Hats off to them for stepping into a trailblazing task. 
   Forwarding to the 'chillin' technology  that has bridged the hiatus  between the celebs and admirers, Indian Video  Conferencing Network (IVCNET) that was  launched   by 
Mr.S.Renthinavelu, President, Tamil Nadu Chamber of 
Commerce  and industries ,is the first of its kind, similar to STD booths, where the public can walk in and have a video 
communication with dudes across the country and abroad.
     The essential for the public video conference rooms have come down to lakh and a half with a tiny camera, television
Set and ISDN line. Of course, the charge is pricey compared 
to the STD cost.
     Rewinding to the chat with Meena, its was all fun and frolic form the fans. If you expect her admirers to be only of men, then you are mistaken, It was a heterogeneous lot, tossing question to clear off their doubts about her and 
showering credits to her performance ranging from her
debut in 'En Rasavin Manasilae' to her significant but small role in citizen'.
    Her opinion about the evolving high-tech  methods- animations, video communication and internet was all solicited. To give a mention about the air-kiddies, adolescent
group, teenies, middle-aged businessmen, house wives,
 All made their presence to eye her live.
      Routine interrogation went non-stop for an hour after activating her website, www.meenaonthenet.com. when she  was unable to make out the questions, Venkatesh  went  in handy  for her rescue. You know, the polly -dolly even 
harmonized a number from her recent album,"Kadhalism"
that also has contribution from Vikram. She hummed two 
lines on request from Venkatesh -'Kandal Vandhu kan simmituthae'-really fluttering her doe-eyes. 
       But the galatta.com owner couldn't succeed in making 
her shake a leg. Quite a disappointment for her buffs at the end. But they all left the hall impressed thanking the youthful
organizers.
                                By AR.Meyyammai

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