Archive for April, 2011
The Beauty of Taijiquan
Taijiquan is an ancient Chinese martial art form that – in its gentle and slow fashion – is perceived to be soft as cotton and to be hard as steel when one’s internal energy is activated at will to create an explosive physical (and internal) impact.
Taijiquan movements are soft and pliable, but explosive in energy. The Dao De Jing states that when two great forces oppose each other, victory will be yours if you know how to yield.
“The gentlest thing in the world overcomes the hardest thing in the world. That which has no substance enters where there is no space.”
Taijiquan movements principally involve the whole body and it has an overall beneficial effect on improving one’s strength, flexibility and stamina. The conception here is the cultivation of your mind and body to move in unison and as a whole in a well coordinated and balanced manner. When done correctly, the varied forms of taijiquan help your body joints to be supple and improve your overall physical and mental health.
There are two ways to look at taijiquan- as a form of exercise or as martial art. In China, and in many parts of the world, many people take up taijiquan to keep their body healthy. You can easily find the garden parks full with the young and elderly who wake up early at dawn to practice this art. Taijiquan movements involve breathing methods which is essential to work well on all of one’s muscles and joints in the body and helps to circulate one’s internal energy or ‘qi’ – when you have a constant good flow of ‘qi’ your body will stay fit and healthy.
Hindi Films of 2009
Here is the list of Bollywood movies releasing in 2009. Akshay Kumar has quite a good line up of films in 2009 while Shahrukh Khan, Aamir Khan and Hrithik Roshan have a film each, apart from their special appearances in three films. Among the actresses, the three Ks-Kangana Ranaut, Kareena Kapoor and Katrina Kaif look set to have a good year.
* Victory: Victory starring Harman Baweja, is one of the most expensive movies of 2009. The story is about a boy from a small time village in Rajasthan who fulfills his father’s long cherished dream of being an acclaimed cricketer at the national level. There are cameo appearances by many international cricketers as well. Anupam Kher and Amrita Rao costar in Victory.
* Acid Factory: Acid Factory, a Sanjay Gupta film has an elaborate start cast of Dia Mirza, Irrfan Khan, Fardeen Khan, Manoj Bajpai, Aftab Shivdasani and Danny Denzongpa. Acid Factory is about a group of people, whose sense of past has been erased from their memory. It is a high octane thriller, making the bad and evil relish-able. Dia Mirza plays a bad woman for the first time. The music of Acid Factory has been give by many music directors, including Sandeep Chowta, Anand Raj Anand, Mika Singh. The director of Acid Factory is Suparn Verma.

