நீ-மரணம்-உண்மை

 மரணம் உண்மை என்றால்,
என் கண்ணோடு ் உரையபோகும் கடைசி காட்சி உன் முகமென்பது,
மரணத்திற்கு நிகரான உண்மை.

I wept for the long gone steam engines

    The title would have certainly made you say... What ? ... weeping ? that too for a steam engine ? c'mon dude. Even I am myself such a guy who wont buy that even on a situation where  a girl lying on my chest looking at my eyes straight with full of love saying so... but, i have to admit YES i cried. I cried for the discontinuation of steam engines on India. There is this illustrious NatGeo Documentary " The Great Indian Railways ", all those who indulge in watching Discovery, NatGeo or so called infotainment channels would have come across this Doc. It was shot a decade before i.e., in the early 90's when our National railways authorities decided to orphan the BLACK BEAUTIES... yes the steam engines were called so.

    This NatGeo documentary is one of the best, which will make you see the Steam engines as a living, Breathing thing. It certainly depicts the character that a Train has. May be because we indians are used to admire trains right from our childhood, May be because the Railway stations and Trains has been a part of all our great indian cinemas all these years, May be because Trains are the ones that took us to different destinations..for marriage ceromonies, for festivals, for a death of someone close to us, for a journey which would introduce us to our love, for the survival and for all the memorable journeys of life.....we see it more as a living being than just a giant transporter. Had if our Railway authorities seen this documentary before they decided to stop the steam engines, they would have  chose some other ways to keep these beauties to continue their admiring journeys. The impact that this documentary made on me is hard to describe. At the end of the movie i was weeping like a child who weeps watching her mother leaving him alone. I strongly recommend the video to all, especially to the train admirers. It really is a tribute to those BLACK BEAUTIES.

கவித..கவித..

பல  வருடங்கள் , பல   பள்ளி ஆசிரியர்கள் ,
என்னை கொட்டி கொட்டிேய  வீங்கிய என் அம்மாவின் முட்டிகள்,
என்னை அடித்து முறிந்த பெரம்புகள்,
இவையால்  வராத இலக்கணமும், தமிழும் ,
உனை  கண்ட கனம் முதல் கொட்டுதே கவிதையாக. 

Kamal haasan - The illusionist

    The name is illustrious for numerous things,you cant fit him into a single profile. He is the synonym for versatility and no one will deny that even those who criticize him.As far as i know or most of us know he is the only artist who have completed a 50 long but successfull years in the cinema industry.In the last few days i could see him frequently in the TV shows like interviews, debates.. which is definitely new to all of us becoz a artist at his standard will appear only in a month of sundays but he seem to be easily accessible to common man.
 
    I always used to admire him and every day its growing inside me like a bamboo plant. He is undoubtedly, certainly a legend and Tamil cinema industry is fortunate to have such artists in its stable. He lives for what he does, he does what he likes to live, he doesnt have different roles in life. Unlike a common man he doesnt have a personal and professional life seperately. He has only 2 things in his mind, 1.How to push his industry to next level ? and 2. how soon it can be done ? He may not be young phisically but he is restless, out of 53 years he has spent his 50 years in cinema, truely he is a apotheosis.

    Take the emotions and fury from Al Pacino, Take the mobster attitude from Robert de niro, Take the hillarious expressions from Rowan attkinson and mix them all 30 % of kamal haasan is ready but the remaining 70% ? no one else can fill that except kamal himself. He is very shrewd both on the screen and off the screen. Its hard to define him in few paragraphs it might need more than that. Though he is less educated, he is a university of life where you can learn anything about art,literature and even rationalism. Like kamaraj to Tamilnadu politics kamal is to Tamil cinema. It wont be a exaggeration if a Film institute is named after him.At 53 he is still a youth icon and a legend to follow. Let the next 50 years be more educative to us, the Movie maniacs. Long Live Kamal Haasan !

A Tribute to Dr.Kamala haasan

Run of life

2 weeks back i was on a one day trip to Namakkal accompanied by 2 other colleagues to attend one of my colleague's marriage. Marriage was in the morning 6-7.30 AM, we attended and went back to the hotel and napped for a couple of hrs and started from Namakkal around 1'O clock and reached salem around 2.30 PM. Our Return train was from salem @ 3.15 PM and the name of the train is 'DHANBAD EXPRESS'. We had a quick lunch and reached station by auto @ 3.00 PM. The digital display in the station read that 'DHANBAD EXPRESS' will arrive at Platform No.1.we reached the PF.1 in few mins and my watch showed 3.10. When we reached the platform there was a train already waiting there and the name of the train read as 'ALLEPY EXPRESS', so we decelerated our walking pace thinking that once 'ALLEPY EXPRESS' goes off the 'DHANBAD EXPRESS' will arrive here.

    The other 2 guys got busy with their mobile phones,one with his wife,the other one with his 7th true lover and i was jus observing the persons running here n there suddenly my phone went on ringing and it was Mani one of my old colleague but still we are in touch, coincidently he belongs to salem and i was talking with him meanwhile the train started moving. We all 3 of us were busy with this hand held device, The train started to run @ a good pace and and and....i was dismayed to see a name board on one of the coaches reading 'DHANBAD-ALLEPY-EXPRESS'..... my heart missed a beat or two by looking at that, for a moment i went blank and came back to reality becoz the train's pace was so high that it needs a hollywood action hero :-) in you to chase n catch that. I turned and shouted on these 2 guys... hey Graham bells !! u saw that ? this the train we have to board ... this is the dhanBAD Express. for a second we 3 froze and started running towards the train, the worst thing is i have a BackPack and a plastic cover in which i have my shoe and the most biggest hinderance my weight... I am 114 kg giant wearing a floater which was not at all letting me to run.... so slippery it was still i ran like i never before have done that. The moment i placed my left foot on the steps i could feel the speed of the train it should be moving atleast @ 30kmph, a spine chilling experience but i regretted for that after making it. What if i have slipped, OMG i couldnt imagine. really a haunting anecdote.

2 days of indulgence

It always gives a pleasure to any beings to get pampered. Last weekend was one such occasion for me, yes going to one of your frenz home is something you should never miss especially if its pradeep's home (salem) .... naa never :-). Occasion was one of my frendz marriage, it was on sunday morning on a hotel located between erode and bavani so our plan was to reside on pradeep's home @ salem and attend the marriage from there. Salem/Erode these are some of the destinations which always kindles the eternal reminiscences of college days so whenever i get a chance of visting these places i jump in. We reached salem JN by 6 AM, sky was gloomy, air was so cool, gave me a hill station feeling and also an urge for a hot cup of tea. we reached home in few mins and we were welcomed with a hot cup of tea (i was so happy). Me, Tma,pradeep n pradeep's dad were involved in a interesting chat for an hour then we slept for an hour or so... had breakfast... gagged for few hours and had lunch... then we left to 'Hot shots' a place we used to patronize during our college days to play snooker. We played for 2-3 hrs.Next day attended the marriage reception and returned back home, we went for a pleasant walk in the evening around home that was a big time, will stay for few years with me.

Crying clown

My first rap....goes like this....

Take away from me all that you can grab
but i swear i'll shatter if you backstab
i cant stand all that you backbite
hit me straight if you're f**cking right

Making everyone happy is all that i know
whoever..whatever.. i never used to say NO
but when someone try to take me on a ride
i'll defend myself to save my own pride

There is nothing that i own
here i am sitting all alone
pretending as if i was never blown
but you know what... i am a crying clown