The Return of the King...

The king is back... and he is more magnificient than ever... If you have'nt seen the movie yet... either u must be in a remote village like Indore (Latest news that i heard is that... it is even released in Indore... but not sure if Mr. King has dialogues like ""...) ... or you must be out of your mind...

Peter Jackson has taken Mr.Kong to an all new height... The first 30 minutes could have been done a bit better... i almost fell asleep... but then when i was about to doze off... the story took an expected pace and the ship hist the coasts of skull Island... and from then on Jackson gives only a few moments here and there to catch your breath... The chase scenes and the fight between Mr.Kong and the Dinos are totally breath taking and the graphics is sure out of the world... It wouls have been more fun if Jackson had retained the original fight with the huge snake as well...

Adrian Brody has his part to play too... he plays the I-would-do-any-thing-for-my-lady character perfectly...

At the end of the movie... you feel that... yes... Peter has re-created the magic...

Totally blank...

For some reason i am feeling totally blank... The TV is running with full volume turned on... I've downloaded all the latest movies available in the net... I have the fastest available broadand connection to download anything that i need... have a car to go anywhere i want to go... but still i feel something is missing... Ah i got it... i need company... no certainly not a girl friend... for i cannot be a dumb guy hanging around with a bimbo agreeing to any stupid thoughts of hers... spending all my fortune on her... All i need now is someone i could talk... talk on any topic... oh mAn... i am missing my friends... thanks to the BellSouth service... i asked them to schedule the disconnection on 11th and the service was disconnected on 7th...

This sleep-cook-eat-work-eat-sleep routine is killing me...

Three movies in two days...

This weekend was really tight... thanks to the roadrunner... and to Vijay... downloaded three full movies and watched three movies at a stretch...

The first one was Sivakasi... hero is a roadside workshop owner... shows machcism... thrashes anyone on his way... passes vulgar remarks on Asin.... this makes Asin fall in love with him...(Ya you read it right...)... and she decides to marry him after he thrashes her own brothers... (kudos to the director for a superb logic...)

The second one was majAA in which Vikram repeats the word majaa after every nth minute to remind ppl that they are still watching the movie... The romance in this story was totally different from the previous one... hero thrashes the goons who wor under Asin's commands... this makes her fall in love immediately... when she is informed that Vikram and his family were actually big time thieves, the romance takes a giant leap... and Vikrams brother pasupathi also has his quota of romance... because afterall he too was a former thug (the basic qualification for the love bug to bite...)...

The third movie was ABCD... no i am not in any elemntary school... this is the name of the movie... In this one the hero Shyam is overqualified to get any job in a place like chennai...If you have read in any of those statistcis that jobs are booming in chennai... then think again... a qualified person like Shyam could not get a job in this place eventhough he manages to get three classy figures... padathula Shyam rombaaaaaa nallllllavangaaa.... but still the three girls fall in love with him... appAdA thanks to the efforts of the director... for i was about to become a thug after watching the first two movies... but saravana subbiah (director of ABCD...) intervened at the right moment to save me... because he is the one who gave this great messsage thru his movie that a thug might get only one girl... but a perfect gentleman (like me :)) will get three good looking homely girls...

But then there is only one roadblock to roamance in my life... I am employed... oh man!!! had he come up with this movie ten years before, i would have saved all the oils from the many midnight lamps that i burnt to complete my degree in first class with distinction (beleive me i did...) and would have had more oil than the oil wells in Iraq...(but then America would have attacked me instead of Iraq...)

Let me wait and see... because they say All is well that ends well...

Here we go again...

Well i think today will be a no samayal day in my house... For i am in a serious (did i say that...) blogging mood... On the other day my roommate was talking about the life at Madurai... well the very sound of the word 'Madurai' took me to that place... so here we go to Madurai... vrooooooom.... On a typical day in Madurai you would notice the following scenes...

Scene 1: Typical middleclass household...
People in the screen: Middleclass mAdhavan.. in other words purusar (MM), vAyulla vAni... in the same words pondAtti(VV), kai pulla vadivelu (No not the one from Winner... this is real kai kulanthai... herein referred as KP)...
Here we go...

MM: Endi innaikku enna samayal... kadaila innaikku sariyAna kootam... ana oru paya purchase pannala... ellam velai mattumthAn visArikkirAnunga... verumpayaluga... nalla pasi... edunA sooda chenju vai... kai kaal kaluvittu vandudaren...
VV: Ama ivar periya aeroplane Ottittu varrAru... ivar vanda udane soodA kudukka... veetla oru maligai chAmAnum illa... idula enga samyal panna...
MM: mm verumbaya veetla ponneduthu nAn enna vegetable biriyAniyA edir pArka mudiyum...
VV: idO pAru yAru verumbaya... enga veetla annaikke 40 pavun pOttu katti kuduthurukkAinga... konjam iru arisi irukku Soru vachurukken... thottukka edAvathu ready pannittu varen... de vadivelu tAtA polAmA..
KP: ngA.. gaga.. amma...

VV leaves home with KP carrying a 1 foot thookkusatti and a tiffen carrier...

Scene 2: Roadside Idly kadai...
People in scene: International idly kadai owner Idichapuli selvarAj (IS), VV and ofcourse KP but no dialogues...

VV: Anne rendu idly kudunganne... en maven unga kadaila idly vAngunA thAn SappudurAn... (ada pAvigalA Aru mAsa kulanthai eppadA idly sAptuvhu?)
IS: yAru en marumavanA... enna peru vachrukkAn umburusen... (annennu sonna udane automAtickA adutha morai ellAM varuthu pArunga...)
VV: pAndinnu sAmy per thAn... ana veetla vadivelunnu koopudalAmnu irukkom...
IS: ada namma vaigai puyal vadivelA enkadaikku vandurukkarathu... aatha ippothAn soodA idly oothirukken... satha poru katti thAren... ama edunA pAthram vachurukkiyA sAmbhar, chutney katta?
VV hands over the 1 foot thooku and the tiffen carrier (ada rAsa... rendu idlykku oru adi thookkula sAmbhArA... appo veetle sambhAr sAdhamA... inga oru kinnam sAmbhar 10$...)
VV: anne sAmbhar konjam kooda oothunga (en Sothukku pathAthA?...) unga marumavanukku karachu kudukkanummm... chinna payalla.... (pottAngadA sentiya...)
IS: InthA aatha ellAM sethu katti irukken... marumavana nallA pAthukka... embonna avanukku thAn kattanum...
VV to herself: (...mm sAdathukku ennnatha thottukirathu... aaha kAra chutney vAda thookude...) Anne kAra chutney konjam kattunganne avanukku aduthAN pudikkum...( rendu idlykku ithana itemA... mm 10 rupA irunda maduraila innaikkum polutha OttidalAmdA...)

IS packs everything and gets 2 rupees for the idly...yes you got it right... 2 rupees for 2 idlies, 3 chutneys and 1 foot thookkusatti sAmbhar...

Well now that the story has started... i am getting a good flow here... so taking it to the future...After 10 years...

KP has grown into a 10 year old lAd... IS has a 4 year old girl now named mOOkolugi muthulatchumi (ML)... and the idly price is still 1Re/idly... well thats Madurai for you...

Scene 3: KP is going to school bus stop... giving a passing glance to ML... IS is busy packing vadai for his yet another pAsakkAra thangachi...

IS: ele marumavane enna pAthum pAkkAma pora... unnaiya nambi pullaya vera pethu vachurukkEndA... olunga padi... nee collector Anathum kalyAnanthAndi maaplei...

ML runs into the house full of vekkam... KP too runs with his full eye fixed on the idly kadai and trips over a stone and is wounded...

Now taking the story further into the future... after another 15 years... KP is a 25 year old lad now... working in a Software MNC as a senior SE... earns 15 LPA and has visited almost all places in the world... thanks to outsourcing... ML is a 19 year old devathai... wearing half saree and taking care of her International idly kadai... Now whenever KP sees the thalumbu in his mutti... he sees the face of MM in it... and last but not the least the price of Idly is still 1Re...

Scene 4: International idly shop has become really international... ppl from MNCs who visit offshore site never forget to visit IS's shop... with a parking lot as big as that of a Walmart Super center the shop still is in a small hut with dinamalr and kumudam and a bunch of banana cheepu hanging in a ageold rope...
People in the scene: KP, ML, IS and Bill Gates (BG)!!!.... yes the real CEO of MS... settled in Madurai for all good reasons...

BG : Anne 5 idly kudunganne... mm nenache ennAleye namba mudiyala... unga madurai vAlkkaikkAga MS products ellAthaiyum Open Source Akkittu verum 100 roopAyum, manja paiyyayum pudichuttu inga vandutten... aana ellam nallathukkuthAn....
IS: ama pangAli... unakku anga epdi enga ooru manja pai kedachudu...
BG: oru Auctionla vithAinga... 500,000 $ varai kettu Linus Torwalds othungittAn nAn vAngitten...
IS: Auctionna adu enna elavu...
BG: ada sandaippA... unnoda pesuradukkunne... nAn konAr notesa karaichu kudichutten...seri rendu molagA bajjiyum rendu thinathandi paperum kudu... antha paperla bajji oru amukku amukki ennaiya pulinjuttu sAptAthAn velaiye odarathu...

In the mean time KP passes the shop to catch the 19A bus to go to his office at mAdakkulam... ML comes to the shop reception from inside just to see the newly pasted poster of 'Pudhiya Madurai' with a remix of machAn peru madurai song... well my guess is she had come not for the poster but for the future poster boy KP...

In the next one year KP proposes to ML and somehow IS comes to know of this... and there ends all the mAman, marumavan , thangachi senti... now the two families are dead against each other... ML is locked inside her house and her murai mAman mAyAndi has been invited from US to marry her... nowadays mayandi stands at the entrance of international idly kadai with a 3 foot long sickle (bought in an US auction... but made in thirupAchi... for some reason Indian goods are cheap in US...)...

oneday mAyAndi spots KP giving something to ML... he runs to the spot and when he is about to behead KP... VV runs and falls in his legs and kadarifies asking him to pardon her son... just then mAyAndi's father comes to the scene and by just a look he understands the whole scene... he catches VV by her hairlocks and lifts her up... one look at her face and he collapses.... mAyAndi forgets about KP and carries his father to mission hospital... When his father gains conscious the scene for a moment goes back 30 years where a still photo of the above mentioned scene comes again but with a different cast... mAyAndi's father is at KP's role, VV is in ML's cast and MM is ofcourse in mAyAndi's role...

(Oh shit.. it is 1.00 PM and i need to cook for my lunch... oh mAn... atleast before my next visit i should get married and bring my wife along... this cooking business is sure an overkill... and so I am putting an end to this 3 hour long story...)

Due to the intervention by mAyAndi's father KP survives and does not end up as a poster boy( the kanneer anjali poster that you see in mAdurai walls... and not the movie poster u dumbos...)... mAyAndi marries ML, KP after a two-year-but-no-shave-devdas life marries his murai ponnu... and all live happily ever after...

Last but not the least... the price of Idly always stays at 1Re/idly with three chutneys and thooku sAmbhar....

Slowly...

mm after two months i am slowly finding my feet in US... During my last visit to this place i am was staying in a rabbit hole... with no facilities but just a sleeping bag and a few untensils for cooking... but this visit... i almost got everything required to lead a royal life (except for a royal queen... If there is anyone around please post your Resume... onrukkum merpatta resumekkal irundhal... kulukkal (pun intended by all means) muraiyal therndedukkappadum...)
2 - 3 seater Sofa - 100$
3 TV - 100$
Road runner connection - 30$/month
Laptop - 900$
Wireless Router - 80$

Downloading a masala tamil movie and watching it in US - Priceless...

Well this time the priceless (or should i say logicless...) movie was 'Sivakasi'...
Though the story line was totally bullshit... i liked the movie for the following 10 reasons

1)Asin
2)Asin
3)Asin
4)Asin
5)Asin
6)Asin
7)Asin
8)Asin
9)Asin
10)secondhalf (though Asin is missing in the second half the screenplay compensates for that...)

There is no greater sin than not being a fan of Asin... she sure rocks...