Monday, August 22, 2005

Chandramukhi -- Reloaded ( Part I )

PART – I – INTRO OF RAJINI

Scene - 1

IT village,Siruseri, Chennai.

The camera flashes at the sign board of the company which read "LMRV Web Technologies". The company wore a deserted look. The doors of this World Wide Web technologies company were locked and upon the ceiling one could see a company wide web, woven by some spiders. It had been 2 months since the company's top management decided to close the operations temporarily and sell the shares of the company . But why would anyone think of selling a profit making company? Thatz a secret...shhhhhhhhhhhhhhh........Come on, let's go inside the room. The door opens (Graphic Effects) and the camera takes us into each of the rooms. Inside one dark room, suddenly a PC switches on automatically and shows up some fearful screensavers with terrorizing musical effects. (Scene ends)

Scene-2 opens with a light music

Prabhu was driving a car. His mobile ringed and he attended the call. At the other end was his P.A, Mr. Thyagu. "Sir, as u desired, I had successfully completed the dealing. LMRV Software Company would be merging with us soon. We had got 75% stake in the company". Prabhu smiled. "Wow, That was a real good news Thyagu. My Jyo would be very happy to hear this news. She was the one who advised me to take over this software company". A delightful Prabhu switched off the call and the scene ends.

3rd Scene opens

"VBA" Software company in Ekkaduthangal, Guindy. All employees were busy working on a Friday morning. Jyothika a.k.a Joe was one among them. You could hear typing sound everywhere which should imply people were busy working. The company's Senior Project Manager Neelambari was also busy with her daily work, i.e playing NFS IV in her system. Things were going smoothly, when suddenly a group of testing people, Guru, Shree and Deva, came running into Neelambari's cabin. As Neela did not expect this, she lost control over the car she was driving and was pushed to second place in the game. She got irritated and shouted at them. "Don't you folks have any manners? Is this the way to come to a PM's cabin?..... Tell me, what is the fuss all about?" One of them replied, "Sorry Madam, we just found a major bug in the Banking project that threw a javascript error. Thatz why we rushed to inform you...." Guru promptly reproduced the bug at Neela's machine. Neela's face grew red in anger upon seeing the bug. "O.K, so track down the bug immediately and fix it at once." Jyotika, whose cubicle was next to Neelambari's, came running to her place, and hold Neela's hands, pleading to her "Maa'm… How would the testing team know about the error or where to fix… Please dont ask them to tamper with the code, I had written. The bug they refer might have caused due to other reasons and not because of the code… Allow me to debug the code, Please..". Before she could stop, Neela slapped jyotika. "Afterall you are a software engineer working under me and you dare to advice me", she shouted and turned to the Testers and said, "What are you waiting for?. Go and do necessary code changes to fix the bug".

So the testers sat down at Neela's system and debugged the application to find out why the bug was occurring. After some time, Guru says, "Madam, the bug is likely due to this particular function in the security module. If I comment the line that calls the function, the bug does not recur"… Neelambari thought for a while and then responded "Go ahead, either delete the function or delete the line that calls the function… I just want the application to work without errors and give an impression to client that all is well with our product". The testers hesitate, "Maa'm this is legacy code. It had been part of previous releases also and worked without errors.. If we break this, it might lead to other problems also." Neelambari shouts, "I don't care about all that... Just go ahead and do what i say".

And hence Deva proceeded to delete a piece of code which he thought would have caused the bug. Jyothika who was witnessing all these incidents happening was sincerely praying that the code change should not happen. Afterall, it was she who coded that module, slogging in the nights, weekends to complete it. As Deva was about to press the DEL button, a hand grabbed Deva's hand and pushed it away. An Intro music with heavy beats started playing. The hand took the network cable that was lying in the floor and fixed it in the server machine that was hosting the database. Apparently it was unplugged while Neelambari was busy playing NFS. The bug did not recur when it was rerun. As the camera moves from his hand to the face we find it was none other than our Superstar Rajini. He flashed a smile into the webcam at the audiences (whistles and claps) and bang, started the intro song.

[ Tune : Padaiyappa starting tune...]

"Work hard and go to onsite..........

Already onsite? (then) work for ur sight*...."

*sight - one's boy friend or girl friend (in Tanglish)

A brief pause and there was silence everywhere. Superstar waited for somebody to ask "who are you man?" so that he could continue the song. But everybody seemed to know our superstar and hence nobody asked anything. At that moment in some other room an interview was taking place and interviewer was asking the candidate. "Tell the simplest form of datastructure in C"

[ Rajini leaves Padaiyappa tune in the middle and picked Devuda Devuda tune]

[Tune : Devuda Devuda tune]

"Array...Array....Array...Array"

"Chicago, Florida,

Software means India..

Java or .NET

we are the king yaar....

English is stronger

We can work longer..

You please continue outsourcing..

(chorus -- REPEAAAATU)

knowledge - vast (u)

less is our cost (u)

We are the IT super power

(chorus -- Sabashuuu)

Intro song ended thus and Rajini went to meet Jyothika .

A visibly peeved Neela who was waiting for the song to finish, started to shout at Jyothika now, realizing Rajini had come to meet Jyotika......... "How many mails do u need me to send reminding the guidelines regarding Personal visitors. Dont u know that Visitors should not be allowed to enter office premises at all...Where is that security", she called out for security "Security....Security.." . Rajini stopped her, "Relax Relax...Neela, why are u getting so angry.. I am not a visitor, I am the Network security expert coming at the behest of ur company chairman for consulting on ur company's network issues. Here is my visiting card". Neela glanced at the visiting card and realized what Rajini said was indeed true.


Rajini continued, "Why were u getting too much irritated, For a Project Manager, commitment can be there, but not commotion , pressure can be there, not panic, should know to talk soft, not shout like this........ On a whole a manager should be a manager and not a damager. You know one thing? A Faulty Design document is the root cause for all Bugs. One should know how to control it. Otherwise the project would be a big failure. Good Bye!!!..Rajini started to leave the place but turns once again (Whiskkk..... special effect)

LAST BUT NOT THE LEAST!! ... A Highly tensioned Project Manager or a lengthy coding Programmer can never be able to complete a project successfully". Whissshkkkk, Rajini salutes in his own style and leaves the place amidst a roaring BGM. Jyothika also used this opportunity to escape the place and they both met at the Food Court.
(TO BE CONTINUED .... )