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Sunday, September 30, 2007

T.Nagar

I made yet another mistake in my life today that is I went to T.Nagar.

I wanted to spend sometime out, I wanted to go out with family, I wanted the place to be lively, I wanted to see the roadwork going on in T.Nagar so I chose T.Nagar and we decided to go by train from Palavanthangal to Mambalam. Train was delayed the when it came it was so crowded people were longing for air. A kids father was enquiring the kid if he is alright through out the journey as the kid looked like he might faint anytime. We dont need septic tanks to get asyphyxed our local trains are enough.

Once we hit mambalam we climbed the stairs towards Renganathan st and found the stairs was full and people were moving at snails pace and when the street came to view I was shocked to see the crowed remained stationary and was not moving.

I considered turning back home but joined the crowd and was pushed from all directions. Atleast in train we had something to hold on to but here there was nothing to hold on. The street was slushy with I didnt know what I was stepping on. Though it was open air it was like I was inside a furnace. By the crowds grace I moved along and went to the famous Saravana stores.

From the security to the salesman everyone insults us but still I moved on like a beggar rushing towards food outside Marriage halls. Finally we bought the suitcase we wanted to buy and I was in no mood to explore further. Again after an agonizing 30 mins we reached the station. The station was again crowded with people indicating there was no traing for quite sometime.

Finally somehow I reached home.

When I was walking through the crowd one lady was shouting to another lady "this is such an important place look at the way the street is".

The street was full of slushy debris. Everywhere there is degrading materials. You have to walk on top of those. To add to this they have dug the road in the middle for more than a meter throughout the entire stretch. There are iron rods protruding out of that pit and some parts they have covered with some wooden planks which were very damp and very weak. People were walking on those planks unaware of the waiting iron rods beneath.

90% of the people doesnt seem to care about any of these they just buy loads and loads of stuffs from Saravana stores and Jeyachandran textiles, eat Jamaai ice creams and walk without caring whether they are causing any nuisance to other persons walking along with them.

Animals move with grace when they walk as a crowd. It respects another animals space. Here people are worse than animals.They dont guy things they hunt for things in packs like hyenas.

What a disgrace?

If those rich shop owners in that street put Rs 10000 per head they could make the entire road usable. But sadly they are the ones who make it unusable by throwing utter nonsense into the streets. This is the complete failure of everyone. From the government, to the shopkeepers to the customers everybody fails. They just live on.

The crowd behavious is only slightly better in the west. But the infrastructure in the west makes it bearable but here with the failure of everything nothing is bearable.

Thursday, September 27, 2007

Hypocrites

Whenever famous people are asked to comment on someone who is famous in public they give feedbacks like

he is very simple though he is famous
he helped me a lot when i acted with him
its only because of him we are living
he is a vast university lot of things to learn from him
he is etc etc
he is blah blah

When a common man is asked an opinion abt another common man not in public we get replies like

he is a selfish guy
he is hopless
he is an useless moron
he cant even do this
i had to help him a lot

Now what those famous people will tell about the famous people they commented in public when they are asked personally by someone personal i dont think they will praise them as they did in public. to just move up in life some people praise top people. what hypocrites.

I stopped this long time back and ended up with lesser number of friends and to be accurate now i have only acquaintences and no friends but life is peaceful this way.

Wednesday, September 26, 2007

மலைக்கோட்டை

இந்த பிளாகின் வாசகர்கள் எண்ணிக்கை சராசரியாக 15 ல் இருந்து இப்பொழுது 3 ஆக ஆகியுள்ளது.
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மலைக்கோட்டை படத்தின் டிரைலர் பார்த்தேன், திமிரு திரைப்படமும் பார்த்தேன் சன் தொலைக்காட்சியில். விஷால் படங்கள் எல்லாமே ஒரே மாதிரி இருப்பது போல் உள்ளது அது மட்டும் இல்லாமல் காட்சிகள் முதற்கொண்டு, அவரின் லுக்ஸ் வரை அனைத்து ஒரே ரிப்பீட் போல் உள்ளது.

கடந்த சனிக்கிழமை 'சிட்டி ஆப் காட்ஸ்' என்ற திரைப்படத்தை பார்த்தேன். மிக மாறுபட்ட படம். பிரேஸில் நாட்டில் உள்ள ஒரு குடியிருப்பில் நடைபெரும் வன்முறைகளை படம் பிடித்து காட்டுகிறார்கள். வன்முறை செய்பவர்கள் பெரிய ஆட்கள் இல்லை, 5 ல் இருந்து 20 வயதுக்குள் உள்ளவர்களே. இது உண்மை சம்பவங்களை தழுவி எடுக்கப்பட்ட படமாம். படத்தில் திரைக்கதையில் இருந்து, கேமரா, ஆர்ட், நடிகர்கள் என அனைத்தும் அறுமை.

நம்ம ஊர் ஆட்கள் எப்போது மருதமலை, மலக்கோட்டை போன்ற படங்களை விட்டு வித்தியாசமான படங்களை எடுப்பார்களோ. காப்பி அடித்தாலும் நல்ல படங்களை காப்பி அடிக்க மாட்டேன் என்கிறார்கள்.
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இன்று ஹிந்து பத்திரிக்கையில் தி.நகர் ரெங்கநாதன் தெருவின் படத்தை போட்டு இருந்தார்கள், இந்த இடத்தில் எல்லாம் நம்ம ஊர் ஆட்களால் ரோட்டை தோண்டவே முடியாது என்று நினைப்பவர்கள் முகத்தில் கரி பூசும் விதமாக ரோட்டின் நடு மையத்தில் அகலமாக அருமையாக தோண்டி போட்டு உள்ளார்கள்.

வால்க சனநாயகம் !

Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Sivaji 100 Days

This saturday I watched Sivaji for the third time and the day was exactly the 100th day. I watched it in a local theater near my house. I was visiting the theater after many years. The show which was supposed to start at 11.15 started at 12 as there was a pooja because this was the first movie to reach the 100th day in that theater.

They fired crackers, distributed sweets and gave Sivaji stickers. The crowd was less may be 40 to 50% full. But the theater was hopeless and the audiencer were also hopeless. But the activity reminded me of watching movies as child.

Most of the people in the theater were families who had come with kids. Kids climbing on seats as they couldnt see the screen, ladies walking in and out of theater when the movie is running. Sunlight beaming in through the open doors of that Noon show, Dads buying samosa and cone ice during intermission, screen alternating between dim, dimmer and bright, power going off inbetween and people whistling. Though I couldnt enjoy the movie as I wanted to it was pretty nostalgic.

All the three times I missed the new title card Super Star.

Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Long time..

Its been quite sometime I wrote something in this blog. Life has been pretty hectic for me with issues lurking behind everything I turned. As the faith in GOD grows the issues disappear but when a new issue comes my faith in GOD decreases. I am caught in a vicious cycle.

The weather has been quite pleasent over here in chennai except for occassional hot days.

I tried watching Sivaji once more but didnt get tickets at INOX.

Kalaignar TV has started rolling and all tamils are very happy as this has solved all their problems.

Sethu Samudram is now the hot topic in India. BJP claims the bridge built by Rama should not be touched. Another hot issue is the Nuclear deal with US.

Enough for now. Hope all those who are not in chennai got a dose of desi news from this blog.

A Simple Plan and Just Mercy