Abaswaram

Its been quite a while since I wrote something on this blog. Writers block people would call it. But adhellam writers ku thaan varum. Namakku enga adhellam. The reason for the break is laziness. But that is not what this post is about. Lets move on to the topic.

Regular K TVers would have guessed the topic as soon as they read the title. For others the mention of KTV would have given a clue that it has got something to do with Tamil movies. To be specific its about a man who has taken Tamil cinema to a global level. As a Kamal fan i would love to tell that I am talking about Kamal Haasan. But no. Of course he has served Tamil cinema better than anyone else, if you consider cinema as an art. But only one man in the last 20 years(minimum) has ruled Tamil cinemas from the entertainment perspective.

The man who can beat up 20 people on screen and walk out without even a scratch, the man who can kiss a nalla paambu on its lips!!, the man who created a fan following in Japan, the man whose movie ticket cost twice any other movie in an US theater. Superstar! Everyone knows about him and most of them like him. Most people think that you one can be a fan of only one of Kamal or Rajini. I am a big big Kamal fan but I like Rajini too. There is one twist to it though. I dont like Rajinikanth the hero as much as I like Rajinikanth the villain.

I often wonder why he wanted to play the good guy when he could portray the bad guy so much ease and elegance. A very recent example of Rajini’s abilities to play a brilliant villain is Chitti 2.0. Even the staunchest of Rajini haters i am sure would have clapped and whistled when Thalaivar says “Vashiiiiiii. Meehhhhhhhhhh” (Note the intelligent usage of thalaivar to refer Rajini the villain and not the hero. Thank you Thank you).

There are mainly two reasons why I feel he would have been better off playing a villain than a hero. First - Most of his fans would agree to the fact that their favorite scenes are not the ones where he romances with the female lead nor the emotional sequences before the interval where he is at the lowest just before the comeback phase. Its always the scene in the middle of the comeback phase he meets the villain to taunt him and take revenge. These scenes will always be his most remembered scenes. The twisted smile and the ability to mock with such ease in a likable way would have been put to more use if only he had played more negative roles.

Second - Anger, which I believe is another important emotion for a negative character than the hero, was one of Rajinikanth’s best potrayed emotions. Proof. More than the dialogues in that scene it is his eyes that does the talking. “Fire in his eyes” was the reason that Balachander believed that he could succeed.

Seri conclusion. Most of tamilians are happy with Rajinikanth the Hero. There is something in me that says that they would have been happier with Rajinikanth the Villain.

Ippo idhellam pesinadhukku pala per enna thitta poringa nu theriyum. Rajini fans for calling him a better villain and Rajini haters for complimenting him. Irundhalum rombaaaa bore adikkudhu so post panren. Last oru finishing touch. Aandavan kettavangalukku neraya koduppan aana kai vittuduvaan. Nallavangala sodhippaan aana kai vida mattaan. Ippo idha edhukku sonnen na. Rajini pathi oru post ah irundhalum adhula punch irukkanum. 

Idhepdi irukku.

One Sunday Morning

I was staring at my photo on the computer screen. ‘Indha moonjikku idhellam kekkudha’ was the only thought running through my mind. I felt butterflies in my stomach. To ease the tension down I closed my eyes and put my head down on the desk.

I was planning to ask her out. I was thinking about that and thats when i heard the ping.  I lifted my head and looked at the screen. Her name was there on the right bottom corner of my screen. “I am coming to Chennai for the weekend” it read. I smiled. The Leader of their group, a common friend, had already told me this but I decided to act surprised. But the next message did really surprise me. “Will you be able to come out for lunch on Saturday afternoon?” I was dumbstruck. I did follow Varenya’s advise but I never thought I would be able to achieve so much progress in just 15 days.

Just a fortnight ago I had sent her a facebook message. Yes. I had decided to talk to her after four and a half years of sight adichifying and e-sight adichifying (mainly gaping at her fotos for hours together on facebook or if I was fortunate enough, a photo that was not available to the public sent by one of the common friends). I had asked for her Gtalk ID. Facebook is very risky as it is open to general public. Even an update that I had added her as my friend would be enough for some Naradhars to start their work. Gtalk was a safer option. No one would know even if she rejected the request. Eventually she did add me which actually surprised me. I thought she might not really like this idea of me talking with her because she knew I liked her and she still added me knowing that I was going to flirt with her from day one. This made me wonder if she also liked me.(ISS)

The first set of exchanges did not go very well. I did most of the talking. If only someone had counted the number of characters I had typed i think it would have been more than 99% of the chat log. And most of her replies were hmmms and ohs. But I was happy that she put some ‘lols’ for some of my well tried comedies. Not sure if she really laughed. Still better than nothing. I waited for her to ping the next time as I did not want to show her that I was desperate. She pinged the very next day.  By then I had taken some online classes on ‘how to correct girls’ by Dicky. So this time I was prepared and I knew how I had to approach her. That’s how our friendship started.

Saturday afternoon came. She wanted to go to The Park. Ashok Nagar park ah nu kekkanum nu thonichu. Control pannikittu ok sonnen. I was to meet her in front of the hotel. She was there by the time I reached and needless to say she looked gorgeous. Angels in white dresses started dancing around me for an Ilayaraja song the moment I saw her. Even Premji would have taken more time to get those angels there. After all it was the first time I was actually meeting her in person.

We walked to the Hotel from there. It was a pleasant walk. (Chennai veyyil afternoon 12 o clock but love la irundha ellame pleasant thaan). We reached there and both of us were silent for a long time. Chatting over the net definitely is easier I thought. You can take your time to think about the mokkaiest replies to impress her or worst case send the chat log and get help from someone else. But talking in person is completely different. No time to think, no one else near to help. Keeping all that in mind, I decided to open up a conversation to break the silence. “I love you. Will you be my girlfriend?” I had completed the sentence even before I realised. She was shocked. So was I. That was not what I wanted to tell her. But her expression changed back to normal so i did not take back what i said. She said she needed some time to think about it although I felt she had already made up her mind what her answer was going to be. The next word we spoke was after the lunch and it was ‘Goodbye”. It gave me a bad feeling.

I called her that night and we decided to meet up at the beach the next day morning. She was going back that night and I hoped she would give her reply before that. I was waiting opposite Barista for her. There she was. Walking towards me in a beautiful red salwar.(Same ilayaraja song) I saw a smile on her face when she reached me. I tried hard to smile back at her. But I couldn’t. My only thoughts were about her reply. I was not able to see her in the eye so I turned around and waited for her to talk. I felt an arm on my shoulder. I did not turn back.

“Excuse me” the voice said. Excuse me ah? “Hello.” said the voice again. I turned back and she was not there. Just when my eyes started scanning for her I realized that I was not at the beach. I was sitting in an AC hall in front of computer that had my photo and some other details about me on it. I saw the lady who had actually called me. “Keep your ID proof on the table” she barked. Eh? She muttered something under the breath which sounded like “Idhellam enga uruppada pogudhu. CAT ezhuda vandhirukkara lakshanatha paaru”. I felt the same but for a different reason. Appo naan innum avan kitta pesa kuda illa. Ada pongada!

Kaadhal Kavidhaigal

The most common and the most beautiful way of expressing one’s love is poetry. From time unknown, men have always written poetry about the beauty of their lovers. (I don’t think the reverse has ever happened or will ever happen). I have always admired kavidhais that emphasise on the beauty of love. But the lines that made me realize the eternal beauty of this genre of poems were -

Marathula irukkudhu Kaai, Marathula irukkudhu Kaai
Thoonga theva Paai, thoonga theva paai
Nee mattum Oknnu sonna indha Karthi on kaaladi naai selvi, on kaaladi naai

Inspired by these wonderful lines, I decided to do some more research into the types of love poems and classify them. 

Seeing

The first stage of love. Guy sees girl. Girl sees guy’s friend. Guy thinks she sees him and starts writing poems about her beauty. These lines in most cases are not true.

Tea la thottu saapadanum bun, urundaiya irukku un kannu.

Pazhaging:

These are the type of poems which the guy can use to ask the girl out on a date and interact more with the girl. 

Keyboard vasippan yaani, Rajni nadichadhu johny,

En nenjula nee pasumarathaani, En kuda disco ku vaa nee, (Inspiration: Rahul Ganesan)

Feeling

Poems that are usually written admiring the girl and in most cases talks about the physical attraction the guy has towards the girl.

Thoppa na tyre, En nenjula nee mootitta fire.

Proposing

This is the most important stage. One has to shower praises on the girl irrespective of whether they are true or false. Through this the guy expresses his non-existent love for the girl

Veetla irukudhu TV, Nee aaviya ennoda Beevi?

Failing: 

It is possible to skip any of the other stages but this stage is inevitable in love. The poets through these poems explores the possibility of living without the girl. But this stage lasts for a very short time as most of the guys move on to the next girl very quickly.

Thanni illena edukkum dhaagam, Nee illadha vaazhkai romba Sogam.

Mastering the above types of poem writing will make correcting girls a easier as there are a lot of other components that actually go into this. 

Below are some of my own creations.

SS music VJ Lekha, Shakira paadinadhu waka,

Nee irukka romba shokka, Nallaikku polama mocha.

Rasathula podardhu perungayam, Unnala en manasula Perum kaayam.

Sandai na bruce lee, Madurai na malli, Naan rumba olli, You are very lovely.

Un mela enakku romba pyaru, Idhukkelam guru Teeyaaru.

Enakku pudichirukku ava manda, azhaga vechirukka adhula oru Konda, Nenjukku mela irukku thonda, (from public: moodittu po da….)

Meedhi ellam naan book ah velidaren. Ellarum vaangi padichi sandhoshama irunga.

P.S: The poems have not been copyrighted and the readers are allowed to use them.

For more details about love and girls please contact Love Doctor: Adithya Raghavan

Why do I blog?

Bombay. No beach, no Bakya, no tamil movies on the weekends and most importantly very few friends to timepass with. Aaaaah. That’s when I started wondering “What am I going to do in my free time?”

Being very new to timepassing alone I posed the question to some of my friends. “Books” said the to-be journalist. “photography” was the suggestion of a not-so photogenic face. “Go to disco disco” screamed the president and started shaking his head making people around wonder if he had a seizure. “Sitcoms”. “Body building”. “Travel”. “Get a girlfriend machi” said the others. That’s quite a lot of options. To shortlist these I sat down to do a Strength and Weakness analysis (16 months of work-ex at my ex-company teaches you do these in a couple of seconds even if you don’t know anything).

Option	Weaknesses
Books	Brilliant option. But not for a person who got 3 books to read in February and has still not touched them.
Travel	‘Ek Gaav Mein. Ek Kiss an’. In this city??
Studying??	Included this just for the sake of it. (From malli, vikki, juju to me: Ipdi Solli Solliye)
Body Building	Endhirichi nikkave vazhi illayam idhula....... body building kekkudho.
Sports and Games	Watching oda stop pannikalam

Note:

• Strengths have not been mentioned because there weren’t any.
• Also, options like go to disco, Get a girlfriend were rejected because “idhu raja annamalaipuram pogavendiya moonji alla.” 

Result - Not one of the options suited me. So I came to a conclusion that only thing I could do was wait for malli, dicky or juju to come online and chat with them or do some Attention Seeking Activities(ASA) like changing profile pic and asking people to comment on the beauty of my face (or the lack of it), updating 100 character long statuses (of which 85 characters are smileys 14 exclamation marks and 1 full stop) on facebook.

In one such chat, a friend of mine suggested me to do something i am good at. So I started to list those down – Rumours creating, ASAs, Vetti Pechu, random blabbering. “Hmm.idha ellam vechi enna timepass panradhu”. “Blog pannu machan” was my friend’s reply. He was right. You just had to know just one thing to blog – nothing. If at all you dont know what to do you always have google. So only thing I had to do was, cut down on the vetti pechu with some always online elderly friends of mine, type the same random thoughts in a blog and upload. LK ellam blog ezhudhi hit aagudhu. Naan ezhudina aagadha. So blog ezhudaren, hit aagum, fan following will increase, ladies will like it, propo...... 

“But one small problem” he interrupted.. Arrgghh.. Imagination la kuda sandhoshama irukku vida mattingale. "Enna da". "English" he replied. He was right again. It seems to be an unwritten rule that bloggers have to use words from the Barrons and phrases like ‘See you a Tsubasa and raise you a Rahul Ganesan’(please ping me if you understand this phrase), so that people don’t understand a word of what you are speaking and hence think your blog is good. Namakko normal writing eh!!!!! Idhula blog vera. The whole group will surround me, kalaai me till I hang myself or watch Sura(I prefer the first). Oore kai kotti sirikkum.

"But adhukkellam kavala pada mudiyuma machan. Apdiye thodachi vittukittu poikitte irukka vendiyadhu thaan. English theriyatti tanglish la ezhudu. Purinjavan padikkatum" he ethi vittufied me. And i did fall for it. ASA + Hours of timepass (considering I have to do at least 3 or 4 hours of dictionarying to write a para) as opposed to some kalaai. Sounded good. And surely way better than all the other options I had. Or so it seemed.

Blogging it is! (vera vazhi illama)

P.S: I can hear your mind voices that me blogging is also raja annamalai puram category. But as the self proclaimed next superstar (errr.) ilaya thalapathi says “Evvalavo pannittom idha pannamattoma.”