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....