The Thalaivar Movie Release Syndrome

Bring out the cut outs, stick those new posters and practice those shrill whistles that you'll blow in the theatre as soon as you can. Yes it's another Rajnikanth movie release and its festival time in Tamil Nadu (well atleast for a majority that excludes me). But yeah nevertheless you cannot deny that the sun rises in the east and neither can you deny that a Rajnikanth movie release day is one step short of a Government holiday.

If you walk into the bank and find one counter operating instead of the usual three, dont worry; if you go to your favourite vegetable market and find the crowd to be surprisingly thin dont worry; they'll all be at Satyam, Inox, Kasi and every other theatre that you can think of. Its 'their' thalaivar's movie release.

But definitely there are things that i am going to miss, seeing people carry those Paal Packets (Milk packets) up the cut out and do the abhishekam, seeing fans go crazy in the front row as soon as Chuck Norris' Indian clone comes on screen and the ticket being torn to shreds and thrown at him in adulation, these are Tamil cinema kalaacharam (culture) which reaches a crescendo when it is a Rajni movie specially.

Although I wont miss the class (considering Kamal rejected this script :P), I'll definitely miss the Mass. Catch Endhiran in the Theatres soon.

Trivia - First time without that moustache on screen after eons or to be precise after Thillu Mullu.

This one's for you Siddhu :)

Srini

Berba Magic :)

Back after a pretty long break to be called a hiatus and apologies to some sad/saddening posts prior to the exile.

The Ballerina

This post is primarily an ode to one man who the world seemed to despise for having worn the red shirt apart from a die-hard few and Fergie (err he had to trust, spent 30 million). Dimitar Berbatov.

For starters, this season has been a bounty for Berbatov lovers, six goals in four games, we are not talking Wayne Rooney, Didier Drogba or Frank 'Deflect my way to goal' Lampard but yeah one man who with that silken touch has delighted me atleast in all these seasons, Dimitar Berbatov. I have had a penchant for these people who personify lazy elegance in sports be it Inzy, Ranatunga or the man in subject Berbatov. A lot can obviously attributed to a huge impact of the lazy part in any game that I play. For all the criticism that Berba faced pre-season and the growing voice among fans to have him off-loaded, Fergie could infact have been understood for once by all football fans with his decision to send off Berbatov but what a decision it has been to hold him back. Yes, its too early in the season but its never too early in the season to record a win over the Scousers and in what a way, the first hat-trick in nearly sixty years against the phony Reds...brilliant.

When a crowd of 75000+ erupts into massive applause as the man walked off the field to let Ando make his first appearance in quite some time reminded me of the ballet dancing performances which are greeted by tumultous applause at the end of the performance. The two brilliant headers and the 'already goal of the season contender' bicycle kick were the icing of the cake to the hitherto unknown work rate that Berba has been showing this season. It was probably the signing of Chicharito and the Mexicans perfomances that accompanied it in South Africa that spurred on the former Spurs man to deliver the performances that he has this season. Under pressure, even the weakest deliver sterling performances and this mountain of potential just showed us what was behind that calm facade.

May that volcano continue erupting and may the goals keep flowing.

Berba, take a bow and keep the magic working for a greater part of the season :)

Cheers

Srini

P.S: Blogs are meant to pour out your feelings, I somehow feel more comfortable doing it in 140 characters these days but still a sincere attempt to revive the blog.

Once upon a time when I left India for the first time, people created all this hype about some thing called Mad cow that arises out of beef, then came SARS and then came Avian flu and now the world battles with the H1N1 virus or in common terms (not denying the fact that every knows what I am talking about when I say H1N1) the latest kid on the block - SWINE FLU!!! Well, yeah lets look at the serious part, its a pandemic (now whatever that is). Ok, so here we go Wikipedia says "A pandemic (from Greek πᾶν pan "all" + δῆμος demos "people") is an epidemic of infectious disease that is spreading through human populations across a large region; for instance a continent, or even worldwide. A widespread endemic disease that is stable in terms of how many people are getting sick from it is not a pandemic." The most innovative response that our dear Government of India's Health wing has come up with and pleads time and again for implementation is exit-point screening. Now what the hell is this exit point screening and how is it going to help. Now lets see, the United States of America has used India as its biggest dumping ground for ages now and the swine flu is no different. India is 35* in this race, no no not the T20 World Cup, we were first knocked out by England and then humiliated by South Africa in the World Cup. THe 35* I was talking about was the swine flu count in India. Yeah 35 and around 99% of these were people who flew in from USA. Now what is Ghulam Nabi Azad's team actually trying to do here? They are simply saying Hey Obama! Now enough of cracking jokes on Dick Cheney and writing impromptu exemption letters for ten year old school girls, as President of the so-called largest power in the unipolar world and the most crippled nation as a result of recession get to work and stop the pig from running amok. Now introduce this exit point screening. I guess its been around 3-4 times i've mentioned exit point screening. If u dont already know what exit point screening is in other words if u havent inferred its simple screen the passenger at the exit point in this case any airport in the United States of America and if the person is infected quarantine them there, dont let them pollute the already polluted Indian air with H1N1 virus now. Anyway how does this exit point screening help or does it actually help. Well I have a few off the cuff references which might actually help because I certainly believe exit point screening can help. So here we go:

Situation 1 - For those of you who dont know Ananth, he is this mad Dravid fan who can go to any lengths to defend the Wall ... talk about defending defense itself :P ... Well Ananth if he had screened some of his arguments before telling me or Sid about them could have saved a lot of blushes for himself, like even now after two years of school Sid n I take his case over some ridiculous arguments and laugh at him. He could have avoided all this with Ghulam Nabi Azad's exit point screening. Now one ridiculous argument stands out - Virender Sehwag inspite of being in a malnutritioned state with regards to runs was picked for the 2007 World Cup, now this was attributed by Ananth to Dravid's foresight that Sehwag will come to form in the World Cup and the form was a lone century against Bermuda (not the shorts, the country) but sadly for Ananth, Dravid and Sehwag, he couldnt do much as India didnt play much just like in the T20 World Cup.

Situation 2 - Atithi Devo Bhavah is a venerated statement in India which means, Guest should be treated Gods but even if you the guest have the privilege of being treated like Gods you must know certain limits and stay within them. Now I had gone with dad to the house of one of his Pakistani friends to meet them and the T20 World Cup, yes again an impregnable part of this post was on and it was Pakistan v Sri Lanka, the first game of the Super Eights where the World Champions were humbled by the real cricketing nations and Pakistan lost their only game in what was to be their march to the semi-finals and I was so happy and wanted to shout out my joy but then shouting out would have resulted in i) embarrasment for both the hosts and dad and me and ii) stick form dad. Here exit point screening saved me.

Now I have given you two references, one where exit point screening didnt happen and one where it did. We can clearly see how the exit point screening actually helps. Let's listen to these poor folks in the health department and do it for once. The result could be way better instead of sitting and facing the television where Rajdeep Sardesai and Barkha Dutt use their inept brains to pull India out of this situation wherein India might have overhauled the World Record here and stand a step above the rest from our humble current 35* which each batsman found very difficult to achieve except maybe for a certain Sardar Mr. Harbhajan Singh had he been given more balls to play and a calmer situation to bat in

Cheers

Srini

One more year flies past...

Out of those 5 pages in this exhaustive chapter called College Life, one more finally fluttered into position drawing the dawn upon what could be the most memorable page in the whole chapter or what I hope could be a template to be bettered and bettered only by these remaining three.

When in college you get to gain some and you get to lose some in that journey. I did gain something and lose something too. The twosome as I should call them, so the end of this chapter in college and left in search of that final destination in life in separate paths choosing the roads that they chose to travel. One into the hustle and bustle of the busy Nariman point and the other to the land of red and white stripes to gain a lot more of that wisdom. With them there wasnt the need for anything else, guiding my every step with an iron rod at my back, they saw my steps were nothing but right all these two years. Now although the two of them wont be there, the iron rod is still going to be there at my back. The fun and frolicking is never going to be the same without the Complete Man or Mr. Thunder T***** (Shhh!! I didnt say that) ;) . 

What did i gain, well u cant call it a gain, it maybe called a positive a big one in that sense. There are some people who just wade past through your life but there are some who walk in and create such a huge impact that u just carry on with them or they tend to be an integral part of ur life thereon. There is this one person who did just that. Its a crime enough for not having mentioned her in my blog till now according to her and now i absolve myself of that crime. She simply did just that blew me away and took me away and made herself an integral part of my life directing the flow this way and that way. A mammoth thanks awaits the three of you, i know i'll be kicked for the thanks but then when I have to say it I say it.

No Deepa the Thanks that i refuse is not the same as the one I just said. Ohh speaking of Deepa, there are a lot more people who well I wont say thanks but then deserve more than a mention coz when i say thanks, i am going to be so badly bruised and sored even by the Senior Citizen of my floor ;)

SAMBAAD + BPADS said Ani, yes Love you SAMBAAD + BPADS

Abhay, no words man, he has been right there looking at everything happening from the vantage point opposite to my room and laughing when he needs to and helping when he needs to. We can only get better bro and we will, dont worry ;)

Bangaali, that skeleton covered with skin and a few muscles here n there as Budda will put it. Hazy vision covered my love for u throughout the semester :P and now when the air is clear, i know although u Loiter here and there, u r the man who wont lie and be there forever :)

Ani, the bloody nerd who totally vanished from the floor during the exams, Abhay always says there used to be a funny ani, no ani i disagree, u still have me in splits at the odd moment and my statement still stands, never take ani seriously even if he says he's dying coz i know u can pull it off and become abhay's funny ani again... keep making me smile and i'll try doing the smile :)

Mardi, the mad DJ has spent least time on the floor this year but still had as entertained on some absolut fun nites like that day vivek will never forget with ur awesome djing and mixing on virtual dj, god am scared as i saw how efficiently u can take badla with ur music, that one evening after exams got over... Keep mixing and be a good boyfriend ;)

Buddaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The man that the floor lives around, wat an ingenuine "item" from Poona oops sorry Pune. With the Marathi manoos in him flying high this sem be it the history classes or to end on a stale note with the IPL ;) This tag was always there around me, more so during the exam time with him out of my room only to sleep... keep nagging and keep being that old and kill ur sastas before they kill us ;)

Bum P's in one lines keep getting those arguments and pringles coming always its fun ;)

Dada giri comes next, the eternal flow of wisdom from our very own Minor guiding every1 in the batch including myself...keep it going Dadu...love you :)

Atit ... those 'celebrations' and the hello followed by the arguments, they just got very much the better this time around i guess, keep them going ::)

Sunny ... u became a bloody nerd yeah but stick cricket champ with a special demonstration for me on that day when i managed to climb those imposing three floors and come to ur room....dont lose that sense of humour and love for those achaar stealing stunts from bum p's rooms ;)

Apart from these guys tho yeah there are loads more people, and one more will come soon....dont start complaining deepa, nayanthika and garg....one more will come soon

Peace

Let the World be carpeted by those white flowers!

Let the World rise up for that elixir called peace!

As Sunrise embraces the earth filling it with yellow shine!

Oh flowers! Shed your laziness and wake up.

 

The symphony of the zephyr

The song that rain sings

Can they give us the happiness like that moment of silence and peace?

 

The millions of melodies

The words strung across by poets

Can they express as much as a drop of tear does?

 

Let the World be carpeted by those white flowers!

Let the World rise up for that elixir called peace!

As Sunrise embraces the earth filling it with yellow shine!

Oh flowers! Shed your laziness and wake up.

 

Wherever those little kids,

Stretch their little palms,

You appear there, white moon.

 

As soon as mankind,

Finish their mighty wars

Cry out loud and establish yourself my little Dove!!

The Flab 4

"Those were the best days of my life

Back in the Summer of 69"

Legendary lines aren't they, these are one of the very few lines that any music lover cannot deny listening to at any point of time in their lives. The lines themselves signify so much and mean so much that anybody can adapt it to their lives too, like I would say Those were the best days of my life, Back in the summers of 04 and 05.

It was not an encounter by chance, something that was destined to happen, that is what all of us felt at the end of it all. Sid, Ananth, Bulb and Srini, forming the enigma called Flab 4 ;) ...

Size does matter was the catchword there, slogging balls out of the 6th sector grounds, failed attempts to jog from Sid's house to Ananth's house, Book cricket marathons, Mimicry sessions, Raju raping, Chary bashing, Terrace Cricket, the Photoshop wars, Sachin - Dravid fights, IPL debates more a RCB bashing game, The Ball Breaking wars with Chary, Ananth's Dhoom Machale with AB :P, the eye-ball races all over the city ... the list can go on and on...

There are Somethings in life that money can buy, for everything else, those moments of irresistable hogging, inimitable fun can never be recreated... because one thing that can never happen again is the way we hit it off...

To you guys and the many more Summers I wish to share with you...

Srini

Thanks Zaf!!

Here we go again after a brief break....this was written sometime ago, sometime when i used to sit all over the class before i found one place with the glue holding me to my fixed seat ;)

This was next to Adi in an exceptionally boring well not so surprising it was boring though coz it had Alok Gupta and OP in class, i wrote this what i would call bull-shit poem with no aim whatsoever with that KG kid rhyme scheme of abab :D

As I sit here, dreaming and drooling upon Logic,

My mind pulls me to focus away from my stereotypical magic.

Mess up says the mind, with this piece especially

Conscience says you must treat every poem specially.

As my mind plays football in a totally different field,

I gaze at the pigeons who their beaks wield.

Come on! Get a theme says my intellect,

Come on! Take some notes says my heart.

There are better ways to use it,

But common sense says select,

The heart still goes out for Notes!

Just like the horse relentlessly pulling the cart.

Marks sadly are the scale of measurement,

In this system where nothing else matters but marks

Can I change it, I scream to myself, because no one else would hear.

Everyone is busy, ignoring a mind battling close and near.

The Trumpet was sounded and conches were blown

As Intellect and Heart prepare for a war in town

Town being the body that houses this heavenly soul,

Get back to the theme screams the inbuilt earthly soul.

As I fiddle around looking for the theme,

Themes galore in this world are,

Fire, Water, Space, Earth and Air

All of them most broached upon,

Poisoning, Betrayal, Treachery, Heresy

Themes that may not be the favourite for all

Themes galore in this world are,

Yet there are none that could be broached upon

At this point of time I doubt myself

Sorry, No Witches, Wizards and House Elf

You can call me stupid for doubting my genius

I would just reply with three letter word Yes

Brains and Creativity are God’s Gifts

Let Me Use them for the next Gift

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        Thinking of a Theme

Srini :)