Get ready for another party at the party den of Trivandrum – purple lounge. Virgin mobile presents DJ NITE Tunes & Tonic on the 14th of March.
Tickets are available at Ambrosia outlets in Kesavadasapuram, Kowdiar, Technopark, bakery jn, Style plus kowdiar and all spice kuravankonam.
Couple entry : Rs. 600/
Stag entry : Rs. 400/
To know more about purple lounge check out this post
10.00-11.15
Dam/Age Aradhana Seth/50m/2002/India/Uk
Traces writer Arundhati Roy’s bold and controversial campaign against the Narmada Dam
Say No to Plastic / Priyanka Chhabra/1m/2008/India
An animation against the usage of plastic bags
Rehana : A Quest for Freedom / Gargi Sen & Priyanka Mukherjee/29m/ 2007 India
Rehana Adib is a woman from a minority community, a mother of six, a crusader for social change..
11.30-1.30
Mukand and Riaz / Nina Sabnani / 9 m/ 2005 / India
An animation film about two friends seperated by the partition of India and Pakistan
There was a Queen ( Yi As Akh Padshah Bai) / Kavita Pai& Hansa Thapliyal/105 m/ 2007/ India
Through the lives of Kashmiri Women- proud and Strong- the film explores what peace means and it can come about
2.00-4.00
The furnished Room/ Priyanka Chhabra / 9m / 2008/ India
An experimental film on the continuous passage of time based on a story by O’Henry of the same name
This is Me..Is This Me? / Siri Devi Khandavilli / 2m/ 2009/ India/USA
An experimental work on the filmmaker’s relationship with her body
Skin Deep / Reena Mohan / 82m/ 1998/ India
Exploring body image and self-identify among contemporary middle class women in urban India
Defiant Art (1 segment)/ Sharni Jayawardana/10m/2003/ Sri Lanka
An enquiry into the nature and purpose of art today, especially in a time of crisis and conflict in Sri Lanka
4.30-6.30
Notes on Man Capture / Nandini Bedi / 43m /2008/ India
About Ratmi’s marriage, the Garo tradition of ‘man capture’ and the players behind the event
Our Family / Anjalu Monterio & K P Jayasankar / 56 m/ 2007 /India
What does it mean to cross the line which sharply divides us on the basis of gender? A look at a family of three trans- gendered women
Cosmopolis : Two Tales of a City / Paromita Vohra / 14m / 2004 India
The mythology of a cosmopolitan Bombay told through stories of land and food
Smiley Customer Privilege program is all set to launch in Trivandrum with a Bang ! Thanks to the efforts of TrivandrumBuzz.com. 6 months old,more than 3000 privileged members and over 300 outlets all over Kerala,Smiley is all set to extent its operations to Trivandrum by this month.In fact you can soon see ad’s of Smiley in partnership with Trivandrumbuzz all over the city.
Smiley program stands out from rest of its counterparts for many a different reasons.Where most of the customer loyalty programs have been based on reward points or may be lower discounts with conditions applicable,Smiley provides year round discounts up to 50% from the kingpins of Brands in all categories.The membership comes in two versions as of now,Platinum Privilege & Women’s Privilege.
Smiley has always been choosy about the brands it chooses to associate with and its been following the same thing here.The initial lot of Brands from Trivandrum are Ambrosia,SP Grand Days,Baskin Robbins,Poovar Island Resorts,Thomas Hotels,Classic Avenue,Purple Lounge,Current Books and many more to come in.
Cine Actor Asif ali has come to be Smiley Icon and these are some of the ad-works planned in the city.
If this if your first “Attukal Pongala” experience in Trivandrum, you are in for a treat. The day in the city when most bachelors survive on maggie. The whole city turns festive with women folk lining up in HUGE numbers in the sides of the roads to make “Pongala” and offer it to the Gods on this day.
“Pongala” is a sweet recipe prepared using rice, jaggery and coconut in earthen pots and offered to the Devi of Attukal.
Attukal Devi Temple, more popularly called the Attukal Bagavathy Temple is located near the Sree Padbhanabha Swamy Temple. This temple is one of the oldest Devi Temples in South India with Goddess Bhagavati (a form of Parvathi) as the presiding deity. Goddess is considered as “amma” (mother) by many giving her the name, Attukalamma. This place popularly known as the “Sabarimala of Women”, is most popular for the festival – “Attukal Pongala” held in the malayalam month of Makaram – Kumbham (Feb-March).
Attukal Pongala got its international fame when it got into the Guinness Book of World Records in back February 1997 when around 1.5 million womenfolk donned the roads to offer Pongala to the Attukalamma.
It is said that a attukalamma appeared in the dream of a 12 year old girl of the Mulluveettil family and asked to create a home for her at a spot nearby marked by 3 lines. The temple was built at the exact same spot accordingly.
Trivandrum Bus Station is situated at around 2 Km from the temple at Thampanoor and the city bus stand at East Fort is around 1.5 km from Attukal Bhagavathi.
Trivandrum Central Railway Station is also location nearby in Thampanoor.
Valiyathura has the Trivandrum International Airport which is around 7 km from this temple.
Attukal Bhagavathy Temple
Manacaud P.O.,
Thiruvananthapuram – 695 009
Kerala, India
Phone Numbers +91-471 – 2463130 (Off) 2456456 (Temple)
Fax +91-471 – 2456457
There is a lot to be said about the festivity of Attukal Pongala, the extravagant 10 day celebrations, it will be another post 
@KeralaTourism is doing things right on Twitter by constantly engaging with the world of Social Media. Today they organized a Tweetup at the Trivandrum Central Railway station to celebrate their recent online shoot and tweet campaign which involves tweeters taking photos of the Kerala branded Rajdhani Express and uploading it online with the hashtag #rajdhani
This train has been branded by the Tourism Department of Kerala Govt. for 6 months with everything Kerala. The train is expected to boost domestic tourism to Gods Own Country. The tweetup today at Trivandrum Central Station in Thampanoor saw more than 25 attendees making it one of the biggest tweetups in the city. When the train arrived in the station, it was an amazing sight with both twitter users and normal travellers whip out their cameras and take pictures in front of Kathakali, Mohiniaatam, Chinese Fishing nets, Kovalam beaches and other Kerala sights.
Image Courtesy : @arunsadanand ,@rejigl
Attukal Pongala celebrations, the much awaited 10-day festival at the Attukal Devi Temple is starting this weekend on February 20, 2010. The Pongala is on February 28, Sunday.
Various cultural programmes will be held on all days of the festival at the two venues inside the temple complex. Malayalam film actor Jayaram will inaugurate the cultural programmes on February 20. Kappukettu will be on February 21.
One fine sunday morning we have this crazy idea of exploring all the statues in Trivandrum and we went for a ride in the city with our GPS enabled mobile phones. We didnt know that we had this much statues in Trivandrum.
When we speak about statues in trivandrum the first one that may come to our mind is the Mermaid at Shankumukham by Kanai Kunjiraman.
There are a bunch of other beautiful sculptures by Kanai in Veli also. But our attempt was to study about the Statues of great men in our city. We found out almost 20 such statues in Trivandrum including the memorial of KCS Mani infront of the Swati thirunal Music College. They are plotted in a map with photos and description and is added here. We are planning a documentary video on these statues and you can watch them one by one in Trivandrum buzz very soon. Please feel free to add if we missed some statues here.
Click on the blue baloon in the map to know more about each statue
View Larger Map
A few months down the line Trivandrumites will open their eyes to a whole new world of shopping experience. The credit crunch, real estate collapse and the R-word are becoming icky old tales and the market has started looking upwards. So has the many Mall projects lined up to commence construction, many of which were in the cold storage because of the global financial meltdown.
As many as half a dozen mall projects are all set to begin on various pockets of Trivandrum. The Malls remain a topic of huge interest especially among the youth and it has been discussed and detailed on many forums and blogs before. Lets get ourselves updated on where we stand with these much awaited lifestyle projects.
Big I Mall
1.5 lakh sq ft
Opposite Technopark, NH Bypass
Kazhakkuttam
Status: Under Construction
Alfa Mall
2.5 lakh sq ft
NH Bypass
Enchakkal
Status: To commence soon
Plaza Center
1 million sq ft
NH Bypass
Akkulam
Status: Approved
Varkeys Mall
1.25 lakh sq ft
Statue
Status: Approved
Nikunjam Mall
1.75 lakh sq ft
MG Road
Paramount Junction
Status: Under Construction
http://www.nikunjambuilders.com/
Condor Mall
2 lakh sq ft
Pattom
Status: To commence soon
http://www.thecondorgroup.com/
The list is in no-way complete and we hope to put up an updated post once we get to see the shape and size of all these beauties.. 
An exhibition on women in Malayalam Cinema was held at Kanakakunnu Palace on 12/12/09. The exhibition was inagurated by eminent film personality Sharmila Tagore. The exhibition was a tribute to the women who sacrificed much for the sake of industry. The exhibition salutes the spirit of the women in Malayalam film industry. A video of the event shot exclusively by the Trivandrumbuzz team is shown here. The exhibition was held as a part of the International Film Festival of Kerala.
The 14th International Film Festival of Kerala from 11th-18th Dec 2009 is being organized by Kerala State Chalachitra Academy
on behalf of Cultural Affairs Ministry. The movies to be screened are as follows..
The Films selected to be screened in the Indian Cinema section are as follows:-
The Films selected to be screened in the Malayalam Cinema section are as follows:-
TrivandrumBuzz is our humble contribution to the capital of Kerala – Trivandrum. This is a community portal which has contributions from the people of the city who want to know and share updates on the happenings in town. Click here to know how you can contribute to this initiative.
