How true..!

There are few lines that stays in my mind after reading some people`s blog even after so many days – and those people don`t know how much it has helped me to understand few things better ! Thanks to them.

Some of those lines that i happened to recall from other people`s blog this week and liked them a lot:

1) If after reaching a particular point in life, if one feels that their life can proceed in any direction and they dont get any hard feelings about it and if they are ready to travel in any direction that life takes them. .Then can we regard that the person has attained the least purpose of his life ?

- [ Read these lines from Rambler`s blog..}

- very very true and my favorite... Well written and i am impressed with this line as this makes sense for one to measure their own maturity level.

2) Never ever expect something different from someone … its all ordinary..

- [from one of the commenter (Vishnu) in aparna-a`s blog]

- How true ! I just had a huge expectation on a person without seeing the person for a long time and considered the person is very special and finally I ended up feeling after seeing that person as normal as everyone and has got nothing so different. No hard feelings meant ! Once when you go about in understanding a person very much and succeed with it then it all becomes so ordinary. Bitter truth.

3) A Man who has Nothing to lose cannot be lost

- [ these lines from rahul ki`s one of the old stories]

- How true ! I just love this line and somehow use it for myself atleast 10 times a week on many occassions and i miss the original story script of rahul. [ Rahul ki if you are reading this..and if you have that IT engineer going to a sugarcane field story - do send me man..]

{ this post to be continued…  }

 

Dasavatharam – an Incomplete Review..

This review below for the Dasavatharam movie is an incomplete one and if one understands the movie properly then each day he/she will be able to get microscopic details and funda inferred(mark this word) through this movie. Also I had tried to collect some special review & analysis facts from other sources as well , consolidated them and presenting them here along with my own thoughts:

This movie Dasavatharam – Directed by K.S.Ravikumar – Music by Himesh Reshamiya and the 10 lead roles played by Kamal hasan – is a normal entertainer for some group of people , could be a boring entertainer for some…and for some special group of people – i.e. for those who either strongly believe or disbelieve the existence of God/Super Natural Power , this movie gives for them a super feast…because the God / the Super Natural Power by itself plays an important role in this movie along with the 10 characters. And for those who believe in the existence of God , can understand that the God / SNP character appears throughout the movie giving only the hint that It appears. The sad part is that many , are not able to appreciate such minute things in this movie.

The movie highlights the happening of huge unimaginable things of life because of our ignorance – with a perfect right blend of eternal concepts like –
re-incarnation , omens , karma yoga, chaos theory and the butterfly effect. So before starting watching this movie, if one can atleast try to understand what these are, he /she will be able to appreciate the minute things of movie even. Otherwise the movie is just a commercial entertainer.

To explain the theme of the movie in one-or-two liners :
Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. And the fact is that this is true even for universal entities including the SNP that created this universe, and applicable for centuries throughout. This is the hint. A statue which gets immersed into the ocean in 12th century(action) is responsible for creating Tsunami in 21st century(re-action). And re-action occurs in such a way that equation gets exactly balanced. The reverse corollary is Basically, small perturbations results in amplifications which completely destroys the original nature of the system and makes prediction impossible.
i.e.

Action:
Kamal and Asin who gets separated in 12th century (characters)
Fighting for existence of Perumal(vainavites)
Because of statue getting immersed(event)
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Re-action:
Kamal and asin(re-incarnated carrying karmic records) getting re-united in 21st century(characters)
Justifying the victory of perumal
Because of Tsunami (event)

Tsunami was created on 26th December 2004 out of tremor that started in Indonesian ocean…that’s just one part everyone knows. But what created the tremor ? if one says the remnants of deep earth inside the ocean created the tremor, then the next question will be , what created those remnants ? A cause and effect analysis or a Why-Why analysis and a reverse engineering will finally end up somewhere in the layers above the earth, which will enlighten one that basically the ones that got buried centuries back because of some events are emanating in this century to balance some universal equations on the previous event.. If one gets this basic thought and a basic question within him / herself like – Why should an unexpected tsunami arise all of a sudden and kill 30000 people. Is that a destined event ? . This movie captures one such possibility for the event, saying like “tsunami was created by a SNP that occurred for a good cause. If it would not have come at that point may be the happenings on earth would have been worse”…

The catalyst for the above equation being the re-incarnation and the karmic records getting translated from century to another century. And the characters created in the intermediate karmic journey(designed by a controller/ SNP).The basic of any equation is that there needs to a ‘control system’ / controller. That SNP/ Govindaraja Perumal which has been portrayed as the Controller in this movie is the question for all – That where is it and how is it ? From where does that GRPerumal control all these events?

“World history is an art of chain of events balancing some equations.”
Ulaga nigazhvugalin koarvai dhan ulaga sarithiram..

For example : If a butterfly flaps its wings in Africa,it could result in a cyclone in USA.(Mark the word COULD). The fact is that butterfly’s wings might create tiny changes in the atmosphere that may ultimately alter the path of a tornado or delay, accelerate or even prevent the occurrence of a tornado in a certain location..

The movie starts when the Ranganathar / Govindaraja Perumal idol was thrown out of the sea causing the tsunami at the end of the movie which highlights the cyclic nature of life. Actually the Nambi character(Kamal) highlights both Chaos and Karma.

That is the brilliance of this film, there is so much to see and understand.

But How?
For that one must have a minimum understanding of “CHAOS THEORY” and “BUTTERFLY EFFECT”.
(Which kamal also explains during the start of the movie)

What are they ?

To just brief about these Concepts,
(PS : Explanations below sourced from review gathered from different experts. Presenting them below)
An expert basically explains them as below :

Q: What is Chaotic System ?
A: Basically a chaotic system is one wherein long term predictions are impossible.Like for example,if I push a car, I know that it is going to move and it will continue to do so if I go on pushing it on and on.However,in a chaotic system,this situation cannot be predicted over a long period of time.
Weather for example is a chaotic system.No matter how good your instruments are,you simply cannot predict the weather with 100% accuracy over a long term basis and forecast it.

Q: What is the Butterfly Effect ?
A: It is the most important component of a chaotic system.Basically,small perturbations results in amplifications which completely destroys the original nature of the system and makes prediction impossible.
If a butterfly flaps its wings in Africa,it could result in a cyclone in USA.(Mark the word COULD).

(A highly dumbed down explanation of the butterfly effect is in the film Anniyan,where Vikram’s sister dies because a liquor shop owner sells liquor on a dry day.)

Now coming back to the butterfly effect..

If a butterfly flaps its wings in Africa,it could result in a cyclone in USA.(Mark the word COULD).

A butterfly COULD cause a hurricane? yes..That’s a huge probability. Or Would be a negligible probability. NOT a huge one. if that were true, we would have cyclones on an hourly basis as butterflies keep flitting all over Africa and u don’t have so many cyclones to account for a HUGE probability.
Chaos,relativity and quantum mechanics are so damn weird that I will think I am talking metaphysics and pseudoscience.

Like for example,according to quantum mechanics,there is a finite probability that you will fall right through a solid chair.And it is a PROBABILITY.
Even 10 to the power -26 is finite .

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_theory http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly_effect

In the above links u can see that butterfly’s wings might create tiny changes in the atmosphere that may ultimately alter the path of a tornado or delay, accelerate or even prevent the occurrence of a tornado in a certain location..

Okay. Now where is the connection of all these concepts in DASAVATHARAM?

IF after understanding the above concepts , one watches the movie, they`ll be able to appreciate some minute things in the whole movie which are summarized as below:

How does Dasa incorporate it ?

A: In essence,Dasa talks about 8 characters who are inconsequential as such,but are integrated in a larger picture.

• The 1st scene is perfectly connected to the climax. The 1st scene where Siva-ites and vainavites fight for establishing the Govindaraja Perumal Statue – is perfectly connected to the climax, remember what Kamal says in the 1st scene, that he will not say “Om Nama Shivaya”(Panchacharam) , but Asin tells him to chant it , but still Kamal refuses , ( in this kamal in his story tries to tell that ) and only chants ‘Om Namo narayananayaa”(Astacharam), Nambi(Kamal) believes in his God more than anything, but Asin feels “It’s ok if we change the God or chant other God’s name, its life that’s most important.”

• Now if we see the climax it’s JUST OPPOSITE(Re-action funda again)…. Kamal doesn’t believe in God much and values lives of people the most…. but Asin deeply believes in god and that too this dialogue comes when both Asin and Kamal’s hand is on the God(Justifying Perumal`s presence after so many 100 years) which came from the sea , and it also means that they are getting united from the place they departed hundreds of years back ( Kamal and Asin).

The connection between the 1st scene and the climax in the movie shows the generation circle combined with supernatural powers of GOD and destiny…..!!!

• If you watch it closely you can also find another actor who has done double action other than Asin and Kamal.
Asin’s father Sahasranamam [12th Century], in the beginning he says to Nambi “Panchatchira manthirathai sollitu vaango mappillai” and at the End [After tsunami] he says “Avar enna jathiyo inga vaanga paati “.
That’s Another Eg. of Chaos Theory and circle of life..

• Another explanation(and this is slightly farfetched— as explained earlier) is that Govindh the scientist is in fact the reincarnation of Nambi. As Nambi he couldn’t protect God and died in the name of God. In order to fulfill his Karma, he is reincarnated as Govind Ramasamy who ultimately saves the world from destruction. The idol in the end somewhat hints to this theory; his story began with the idol and it ends with the idol.
As far as the connection with Nambi character and events in 12th Century goes…
The connection is based on the “Butterfly effect “.

• When Govind and Andal goes to bury the idol in the sands, Andal will stumble on a particular stone couple of times…This is the same stone as the one from 12th Century when Kothai(Asin) rips her Thaali and flings it at Kulothunga Chozan…it will end up hanging on the stone. So, the implied message here is Andal is Kothai reborn in the 21s century.
During the encounter with Santhana Bharathi in the sand quarry, it is repeat of the incident from 12th century. Instead of Kulothunga Chozhan, it is the Sand Mafia which tries to inflict damage on the land.

• The idol that is drowned in the sea along with Rangarajan in 12th century by Chozha king results in a fault being developed at the bottom of the ocean and creates tremors more than 800 years later. These tremors result in the Tsunami. This again is a classic case of Butterfly Effect wherein a seemingly inconsequential event (the drowning of the idol) saves Tamil Nadu from being wiped out off the face of the earth.

• Actually kamal has not left anything for our imagination… Explanation struck the right chord, Kamal does tell to Asin in a dialogue that idol which gets sunken back then gets struck between the tectonic plates under the sea and causes tsunami…
Many people missed this dialogue i guess. Kamal’s accent was so very perfect Tamil, that many people missed it…. Being perfect Is a Problem by Itself !!!

• Although the explanation is a least possible theory, that is what “Chaos Theory” And “Butterfly Effect” are all about.

Its not just the statue that caused the tsunami, but it just started a large chain of effects which kept multiplying exponentially and finally lead to it after 800 years….!!
Why just say this concept is perfectly illogical… But it is possible!!!

• Mallika sherawat and Fletcher are to be interpreted as re-incarnated versions of shiva-ites which is clearly evident when mallika sherawat tries to stop the lorry coming on the road by waving her hands. The pose with which she shows her hands to stop the lorry will be soon shown in the very next clip as an Shiva idol sketched in the back of the lorry. Similarly the lorry in which kamal and Asin tries to escape will carry the Perumal Namam sketched on it.

• The story line is that things going wrong are made to be right which involves many people and countries knowingly or unknowingly.

Knowingly:
-Bush, Manmohan Singh, Govindh, Fletcher, Balaram Naidu, Mallika Sherawath.

Unknowingly:
- Nambi’s drowning to death with the heavy statue causes simple changes to the seabed that causes a devastating tsunami 800 years later [Acc. to Chaos theory it is possible.... although it is least probable... It is possible.. so nothing TOTALLY WRONG About it ]
- Poovaragan (actually saved kamal unknowingly—when poovaragan enters kamal and asin were caught by those manal kollayargal. There poovaragan distracts the gang helping kamal to escape),
- Avatar Singh(gave way to Fletcher to escape in the airport unknowingly),
- Japanese(saved Govindh from fletcher,he knows he is saving but he doesn’t know about the play and was there only for revenge),
- Kallifulla and family(saved Govindh unknowingly)……..
- Vincent Poovaragan is a dalit leader of a lower caste( the so called ) but saved an Iyengar Girl ……and at the end becomes the son of the Iyengar Paati
- If Shinghen(the martial artist) Narahashi’s sister was not killed, Fletcher could have killed Govindh and used the virus for wrong purpose..

This is based on Chaos Theory..!!!!!
• Without Shinghen (the martial artist from Japan), Govind the scientist would be dead.

• Without the tsunami,the world would have been destroyed.

• Even Krishnaveni Patti plays a very important role.If she had not put the vial in the idol, maybe Govind the scientist would have recovered it then and there and a powerful weapon would have been unleashed.The very fact that it went into the idol meant that it was being accelerated to its destiny.

• Without Kaifulla Khan, Govind would have never escaped;the list simply goes on.
Be it a coincidence, or He possibly had that in mind as an inspiration, the following very interesting facts also amuses me !!!

One thing we had noticed is why people didn’t get the real subtext and reason for the various roles and hence the title.
If you knew the real Dasavatharam of Lord Vishnu and their characters you can appreciate the script more.
Let me explain, starting with the best adapted role:

1. Krishna avatar – Vincent Poovaraghavan
Lord krishna is actually a dalit, he is dark-skinned [shyamalam]. He saved draupadi when she was being violated and he was the actual diplomat in Mahabharata. Lord krishna dies of an arrow striking his lower leg. Now look at how Vincent was introduced.. he appears when asin is about to be molested and he saves her like draupadi. Vincent is the dalit diplomat, fights for land issue [soil issue to be exact] and dies from the metal rod striking his leg. Oh even five of vincent’s men are drugged at P. Vasu’s.. sounds familiar???

2. Balarama avatar – Balarama Naidu
This is an easy given. as the name suggests and the role personifies you can easily get it.

3. Mathsya avatar – Ranagaraja Nambi
Nambi is thrown into water in an act of trying to save lord from being thrown into sea, though vainly. what more clue do you want?

4. Varaha avatar – Krishnaveni paati
During the mukunda song, Krishnaveni paati does varaha avatar in the shadow puppetry. The frame freezes on it for a second. there is the clue. Moreover, in varaha avatar lord actually hides earth so as to protect life forms. Here too Krishnaveni hides the germs – life form inside the statue so as to protect.

5. Vamana avatar – Kalifulla khan
Remember in vamana avatar, lord Vishnu takes the vishvaroopa, that is the giant form! Hence the giant Kalifulla here symbolizes vamana avatar.

6. Parasurama avatar – Christian Fletcher
Parasurama is actually on an angry killing spree and killed 21 generations of the particular kshatriya vamsa. Hence the real KILLER… Guess what that’s what our Fletcher is! He comes around with the gun [modern upgrade for axe] and kills everyone around. I have to check if he kills 21 people though.

7. Narasimha avatar – Shinghen Narahashi’s
first of all the name itself is a play on the words singam [means lion in Tamil] and Narasimha [the avatar being symbolized]. Lord Narasimha manifests himself to kill the bad guy and he also teaches prahaladha. In the movie, he shows up to kill the killer Fletcher! and is also a teacher.. Lord Narasimha had to kill the asura with bare hands and hence the martial arts exponent here.. get it?

8. Rama avatar – Avatar Singh
Lord Rama stands for the one man one woman maxim, kind of symbolizing true love.. Here Avatar portrays that spirit by saying that he loves his woman more than anything and wants to live for her.

9. Kalki avatar – Govindaraja Ramasamy
As you know, the hero in kaliyug can be none other than the Kalki avatar!!!

10. Koorma avatar – Bush
This is the most loose adaptation I couldn’t clearly comprehend. But if you look at the real Koorma avatar, the lord is the turtle/tortoise that helps in stirring the ksheera sagara and bringing out the amruth. This essentially creates war among the devas and asuras. Similarly today Bush facilitates war between you know whom… May be Kamal also indicates that this avatar is a bit dumb like the tortoise..

Perhaps this is the closest way .. any layman could lay his hands over chaos theory – butterfly effect !!

One can think like – Can a flap of a butterfly cause a tornado elsewhere ?! – is a bullshit.
But Theoretically yes !!

Science is not so complex .. but Nature and Life is .. !

 

A Preview Story – for Dasavatharam Review

 This Story below is a brilliant juxtaposition of characters whose paths cross, if only briefly, which is stunning . Okay ? What`s the purpose that i am posting this strory here..

Well..Please spend some time in understanding this post how much ever you can…bcoz  this will give the reader sufficient energy and adequate boost to do a sophisticated analysis of this movie – “Dasavatharam” . I am not bothered about the 10 characters or the kamal hasan`s talent all that.

But the script and theme of the story is truly great and truly my favorite of all time, The Brilliant and best of all story scripts that I have ever come across –  the relationship and correlation of all happenings in life that are unimaginable things because of our ignorance. Making a story in this theme itself is a great task .

The central theme of this story being ..The Butterfly effect and the Chaos theory. Confused ? okay..just read ahead this story here ..and i`ll soon come up the Dasavatharam`s complete review facts throughout and come here back..

Here goes a story for the readers to read and analyse…

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A mentally demented person wrote this once long back

1975 Jan 1

It is about five in the morning. Father (I am not bothering with names) woke up with a start. Many years had passed since he had founded the orphanage.

He had named it “X-Orphanage”, a rather funny name. But looking back, everything about his life seemed funny now. Hearing some noise outside, Father decided to have a look.

A child lay there in front of the orphanage. It was a girl. Seeing her abandoned like this in the cold morning, Father felt a sense of anger for the merciless being who had thrown her away like this. He took her in his arms. He would raise her like his own child.

17 Years Later

The girl has grown up now. She is now staying in a hostel. She meets a man and falls in love with him. She gets pregnant. The man disappears.

She is thrown out of the Hostel.

Father comes and takes her back to the orphanage. She gives birth to a girl but the baby is mysteriously stolen. Unable to bear all this, the Father commits suicide.

Due to some problems concerning the delivery, the girl went to see a Doctor. The doctor having examined her, said with a sad expression on his face, “Adrenalo Sytosis, a serious case of hormone imbalance”. An operation was performed in which the doctor had to change the sex of the patient.

The girl was now transformed to a man.

The man was very depressed because he had lost his child, the father had committed suicide, his lover had betrayed him, and he had to change sex and so on. He eventually took to drinking.

One day he saw that a new bar had opened in his locality. The name of the bar was ‘Sangeetha Bar’. He went inside. There he saw a bearded man.

The bearded man told him that he had a Time Machine and that he could take it. He accepted the gift from the bearded man. He decided to go to the past (to the year 1992) and started the Time Machine!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

1992

The man arrives with the Time Machine in the year 1992.There he meets a girl (the same girl who has now become the man) and falls in love with her.

The girl gets pregnant. The man, unwilling to marry her, leaves the town. He goes to another city, earns some money and comes backs to the city where the girl lives. He wants to conceal his identity, so he has grown a beard.

He starts a bar named ‘Sangeetha Bar’. When he was sitting in the bar, a man comes (the same man who was earlier the girl). He gives the Time machine to the man. The man starts the Time Machine and goes to the past.

Suddenly a man wearing a mask comes to the bar. He points a gun at the bearded man .He says that he has a Time Machine and he will take the bearded man to the past. Taking the bearded man with him, the masked man starts the Time Machine.

When they reach the past, the masked man gives the Time Machine to the bearded man and runs away. The bearded man finds himself in front of X-Orphanage. He goes inside and finds a woman (the same woman who later becomes the man) lying there with her new born baby. It is a girl. He takes the girl and starts the Time Machine to go to the past (to the year 1975).

1975 Jan 1

The bearded man arrives with the girl. He leaves her in front of X-Orphanage. He joins a college, studies hard and becomes a doctor. One day a woman was brought to the hospital. He examines her and finds that it is a serious case of ‘Adrenalo Sytosis’. He performs an operation in which he changes her sex. He then starts the Time Machine and goes to the past.

He arrives at a time of great famine and suffering Seeing all this, he decides to become a priest and to serve the people. He starts an orphanage and names it ‘X-Orphanage’.

One day (1975 Jan 1), he finds a girl lying in front of the orphanage. He takes her and brings her up like his own child.

 

One day he hears that the girl is pregnant and is thrown out of the hostel. He brings her back to X-Orphanage. She gives birth to a girl.

The Father wants to go to the future. He wears a mask, takes a gun and starts the Time Machine. He reaches in front of ‘Sangeetha Bar’. He goes inside and forces the bearded man to travel along with him to the past.

Reaching the past, he feels guilty about forcing the bearded man to come with him. He gives the Time Machine to the bearded man and runs away.

When he returns, he hears the sad news that the baby is stolen. Unable to bear the sorrow, he commits suicide.

 

Everest Visit

Last week was very special for me.

The best part was that – it was not ‘Special’ made by luck – but it was a pakka pre-planned travel and experiencing it in reality, made it special.

 

This post is all about sharing my experience about that travel – a visit along with 10 of our organization`s ‘Team Everest Trust’ members to a place called “Chinnalapatti”, an interior village near Dindigul. Yes! Dindigul – my own birthplace! A trip from Chennai to my own hometown where I had my school education. The agenda was to distribute School uniforms to all the school children @ Thilagam primary school , a free school operating for more than 50 years in this village. Unlike my previous two visits as a part of CSR wherein I got IN by mere luck, this was the first time ever that I myself nominated me for a good social cause.

 

Kartheeban – is a very young associate from my organization who primarily takes care of a team called EVEREST an independent charity wing in our organization having around 1800 employees (especially more of Entry level freshers) for doing social service. He organizes weekend visits to orphanages, schools etc and day by day the team is growing in size in a very large number and their motto is to identify remote places of the state and bring in Educational awareness throughout.

 

About a month back, I was sitting working in front of my system and I received a forward mail regarding a visit planned by this team Everest for a village “Chinnalapati” , which is in the interiors of Dindigul district. And Kartheeban, the organizer had called for about 10 volunteers for the visit.

 

Dindigul district? OMG . That’s my town and how cannot I remain without nominating for it. Immediately on seeing the mail, I was nominating but as usual my name was near  14^th in the list of people who nominated and only 10 of the volunteers were required. I was little bit skeptical whether luck will favor me this time too. But however You know, When something really need to happen for you, the entire universe conspires in helping you achieve it. Yes. Kartheeban himself called me over phone and asked “Hi Suriya Narayanan, are you from Dindigul?’ “Yes”, I replied. “For our June 21^st visit to Dindigul, can you join with us and help us arranging for the travel from Chennai and if any other help required we will let you know”..of course a great opportunity for me to learn things. And when I tried to look for the train availability online, almost all the trains were booked . However there were 1 or 2 trains left out with limited number of seats and I dint have my Credit card also to book immediately. Sh!t. Should all this happen only when the chance knocks my door? And I immediately called my appa and gave the names of the people and he booked the tickets in Dindigul and sent it by post to me to Chennai. So somehow all the travel plans were made pakka last month itself and we all were waiting for the date June 21^st to arrive.

 

June 20^th Friday evening 6 PM – Chennai central – Nagercoil express:

 A team of 10 – Kartheeban(the organizer), Sadhanai(an upcoming Tamil patron), Vigneswar(an upcoming poet), Prasanna(my type :-; ), Satya(an upcoming politician), Madhumathi(an upcoming speaker), Aarthy(BPO specialist), Parvathy Devi(an upcoming speaker), Manikanta(writer), Jaysh(Singer cum dancer) and Myself. We got introduced with each other and exchanged talks till late night. To start with, I had a personal Interview session for about an hour with Kartheeban and got many useful insights from him. Following that , there was a group discussion with many inspiring speeches, incidents , memories etc and the this was going on till 12 PM midnight. And 12 PM was the birthday for Sadhanai and we had a party for her and she had a virtual cake cutting ceremony.

 

June 21^st Saturday morning – 10 AM – Thilagam School – Chinnalapatti:

As I arrived the school some 20 min early than others, the school headmaster and teacher offered me a chair and started interviewing  me for some half an hour.. (Interview – Censored).

 

Within minutes the other members joined and the school management had arranged for uniforms distribution function and the function continued for about 3 hours. The function agenda were : Speeches by HM, teachers, Kartheeban and Sadhanai; Uniform distribution; A song and dance from Jaysh ;Vote of Thanks from Shobana (one of the school girl doing her class 5th).

 

I had to leave early from the school, as we had a plan to go to Dasavatharam movie the same day evening and so I left the place for booking tickets. As I started walking, the little girl Shobana who read the vote of thanks was also coming with me to give me company till bus stand.  I was really surprised How such small kids are able to understand us. Actually I was walking alone from the school to the village bus stand and she called me and came running towards me. She asked me where I am going. And when I replied that I am going to bus stand, she said she will give me company till I reach there. Even after me insisting that was not needed and I can go alone, she was not ready. She came walking all the way there till bus stand, invited me to her home for a lunch , thanked our team for the uniforms, asked me which school to join for class 6^th  whether to continue in the same village or should go to dindigul stay in hostel and study, what she needs to do if she needs to become an engineer etc etc. All these I did not initiate , she herself raised all these questions to me and I shared my views with her and Thanked her finally for giving me company until the local bus to dindigul arrived.

 

Finally The day had a highlight when all the 10 members arrived my small home in the evening – had snacks – and we all went for the “Dasavatharam” movie.

After the movie the day ended with a Dinner @ balaji bhavan. J

 

 

Wishes of India

One religious work from a non-familiar tradition you’ll read…

Book on ‘Taoism’.

One song that you like–from your ‘least likely to listen to’ genre…

Classic carnatic songs fall in ‘least likely to listen to’ genre

However there are every few I like veryyyyyy muh.

From Sindhu bairavi:

A book from a genre you almost never read, that you have read, or you will read (promise!):

RIG-VEDA

Somewhere you’d never thought to go on holiday/vacation, and why it might be fun to go there?

Andaman Islands. (My recent crush list).

A specific food you’ve never tried, but will because of this meme, honest!

An Uludhu appalam(or any Fry items) placed in a Fridge freezer for Half-an-hour

A sport or game you really hate, or haven’t tried yet, but are willing to give one more go:

Golf

A style of dance you probably won’t try (we won’t make you promise on this one):

Kuthu and Kuthu Only

A career job you don’t feel you’re suited for, and why:

A Real Tough Qn…I am not getting an answer even after several minutes.

Need some time.

What is it that you will dare to wear which you have never worn before?

Spider-Man suit

If there’s one thing in life you wanted to do, and will do because of this meme, what will it be?

Will attempt this entire tag a second time – once `am back from my hometown coming Tuesday. J

 

Rajinikanth & KamalHasan

This weekend Sketch attempt….

 

‘The Monkey King’ Special

MARTIAL ART IS BASED ON DECEPTION , MY FRIEND.

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The young man gets the holy stick from the old antiques shop and on touching it , he gets travelled magically to a …place. And meets The Drunken master Jackie Chan….

Jackie Chan: You are in Danger here…

Young Man : I caan`t understand you…

Jackie Chan: Youuu areee inn Dangerrrr..!!

Young Man : I cannn`t understaaand yoou!

Jackie Chan : That`s because..YOU ARE NNOT LISTENIN…

Young Man : BTW I don’t know where I am. Or How I got here…Who are those guys. Why do they want to kill me…? Whatever you did that was sick…

Jackie Chan :I am Lu Yang. Travelling Scholar. What land you ve come from Monk ?

Young Man : I am not a monk..I am Jason..Jason Tropeketas..from south boston..is this a dream?

Jackie Chan : NO ! Where you came from is the dream….

Through the gate

Of No-gate.

Young Man :What ?Is this a black hole or something?

Jackie Chan : No.It means you are either a zen master..or you carry something very special in your hands..

Young Man :This? This stick ? I got this from the antiques shop…I need to return this stick to its rightful owner. What ?

Jackie Chan : mmm… ! Its long been foretold..there was an old prophecy…that a secret researcher will come..to restore this holy stick to the right person and end the reign of the Jade War Lord.

Young Man : What ? Return the stick to whom?

Jackie Chan : THE MONKEY KING..!!!!…

The Monkey King

~Born of a stone

On the mountain of fruits and flowers (MK`s adi no.1 here..)

But his weapony there (MK`s adi no.2 & 3..)

His teeth become like a fire (MK`s adi no. 4 & 5..)

His stick fighting like a magic (MK`s adi no.6)

He defined the order of the land (MK`s adi no.7)

But

The Jade army could not defeat him

(MK`s adi no.8,9,10,11,12…)

(MK`s adi adi adi adi…..)

The monkey king crushed every soldier ..

With his magical stick he is unbeatable

Well with his disobedience he Travelled

To The Forbidden Kingdom of Jade emperor

To the Five elements mountain

Land of the immortals..

Once every 500 years

The Jade emperor hosts the heavenly gathering

It is here the heavenly ministers

Gather to celebrate the longevity

And drink the Elixir of immortality

Once if this heavenly elixir drunk

Will give everlasting life

Free from mortal sufferings and desires

In to the heavenly gathering of heavenly ministers

The Monkey King crashed

Uninvited !

The jade emperor was fascinated by the Monkey king

But the Jade warlord was not amused.

The Jade war lord , the army guide demanded

And the Monkey king bowed down to it

(in his own naughty style)

And said “Okieeee…??”

Soldiers come to stop him….(adi no.13,14,15,16..)

The jade emperor felt the Monkey king is just only bit unrefined.

That’s all !!!

The emperor asked the war lord

To give as a Naughty monkey title and cast him away.

Satisfied with the heavenly drink in the gathering

The jade emperor left the place

To begin his 500 years meditation

Leaving the Jade war load in-charge of heaven

But rather than obeying the words of Jade emperor command

The Jade war lord challenged the Money king for a fight,

AND SO,

High above the five elements mountain of fruits and flowers

THE BATTLE OF IMMORTALITY WAS FOUGHT..

Here it goes….

Unable to defeat The Monkey king

The war lord replied The Monkey king..

“Without your weapon you are nothing but a lonely hermit

No more weapons

No more stick magic

FIST against the FIST ?”

The Monkey King was too trusting

And believed war lord`s words

Lying down his magic stick

As he kept down the stick

The warlord played a trick

And cast the stick far away.

And made The Monkey king into a STONE.

And Said,

MARTIAL ART IS BASED ON DECEPTION , MY FRIEND..

Being immortal The Money king could not be killed

Only made as a Stone

At that moment a secret prophecy was written that…

A researcher from west will come one day

And restore the stick

And free The Monkey king

To Life.

So how is he freed ?

Watch THE FORBIDDEN KINGDOM..

 

The Forbidden Kingdom

Desperately i want to write in my style ..my own review for this movie ‘The Forbidden Kingdom’ which i had seen y`day and simply liked it very much. But . Work is getting hectic for me and Not finding enough time to write it.

Typical My type movie…and especially though only limited characters appear in the whole movie,  i liked almost all the characters’ role and performance…especially the Jetli`s Monkey King character(My favvorrite), the immortal shop keeper jackie chan`s old man character, jackie`s the drunken master character , jetli`s monk character, the villain lady fighting for elixir of life(she is rrrReally pretty !!! ) and the young man who fights for the holy weapon and the sparrow lady…excellent. The Theme of the movie even was a typical my type…

Shall post a separate review if i get time …

I Love The Monkey King !

 

 

Mr.D.V.KrishnaIyer

With me slowly getting quite a few requests from my friends,colleagues,relatives etc for making some sketches with some of their photo, i am gradually curiosly getting into this.

In that way, This weekend`s sketch attempt – - a request from my paati-  Mr.D.V.KrishnaIyer- My kollu thatha (My paternal Great grand father), really ! This is probably the only photo of him, that had been lying with my dad for years and the original photo copy itself was a photo of a sketch of his. So this is again a re-sketch attempt with slightly enhanced shading effects..

And coming to the Some interesting noteworthy points about this person..

1) He had been a teacher and lawyer in his profession and great saint RamanaMaharishi before he became swamiji had been his old class student during his early school days when D.V.KrishnaIyer was a teacher in Municipal School, DIndigul

2) Mr.D.VKrishnaIyer had once visited RamanaMaharishi after he became a saint and it seems Ramanar did not forget him greeted his old guru with a high respect.

3)Last but not least, a very interesting one..There lies a rockfort in dindigul built during tipu sultan period..Once a British person was relaxing himself there in the fort and a snake had come over there near him. This person Mr.D.V.KrishnaIyer who was there accidentally started shouting at him in English and gave him a caution. That time both of them had exchanged talks and the britisher was very much impressed with his english communication..and had offered him a manager role in “Spencer`s cigar company” in dinidigul…The famous dindigul tobacco cigars(suruttu) from this company gets exported for Winston Churchill`s personal use.

Seri..:Like you these tales are commnicated to me through my paati and dad…and like the readers here i am also not sure to what extent to believe all this. Anyways just reflected them here.

Here is his My sketch.

 

Me vs Dindu

Sometimes My old friend…Rahul Kumar Tewari..ends up writing extremely good imaginative dialogue between him and myself.

Here is one – with a very good theme :

Human relationship gets originated with the nature of human instincts during the beginning of the relationship… If we know the right instinct and start with that point.. we can always have a good relationship with anyone…

You don`t get anything ?

Check out. HERE .