Morning Walk!!!

It’s Sunday night 10 o clock and we just returned from Chola Sheraton after having a decent dinner with the gift coupon valid Rs 2000 but we ended paying additional 3200 as the bill amount! Goodness a buffet costs 800 but it had quite a lot menu items. So, I searched for my mobile to keep alarm at 4:30 AM. Everyone at my home was in a shock and the first question was “Are you planning to watch any movie? It’s not even a Friday and what’s special?” I got pissed off! I said ‘I am planning to go for jogging and walking’. Everyone laughed wickedly! This time I didn’t even turn on my monitor because this stupid facebook and orkut always ask me to sit in front of it. So it’s snoring time!

Morning Raaga started to play in my mobile!

Shivah shakthya yukto yadi bhavati shaktah prabhavitum
Na chedevam devo na khalu kusalah spanditumapi
Atas tvam aradhyam Hari-Hara-Virinchadibhir api
Pranantum stotum vaa katham akrta-punyah prabhavati

Now you know why I never turn off or snooze the alarm signal! I took my mobile to the hall and let it play and started to brush my teeth! I went and changed to sporty fit. Citibank round neck Tee, Tracks and the new-born Nike Shoe J with Nike socks. I know I will sweat like a pig even if it’s early morning 4:30 hence I took a handkerchief and I stole 20 rupees from my dad’s wallet! All set ready! I opened the door and I didn’t wake anyone at home and went down! I loved climbing down the stairs and I kept watching my new-born shoes all the way! I open the main gate and something stopped me! I forgot my ‘vappaati’ my mobile! My baby has got an application called Walk mate and it’s quite amazing as it counts the number of steps and sets me a goal for everyday! By default the goal set was 10000 steps a day and I thought it’s quite easy to achieve. So I went back and took my mobile and started Walk Mate! Baba counting starts!!! I just crossed my street walking and I didn’t want to jog because of stray dogs! Counting showed 45. I was calculated 10000 in the mind and I don’t have 45 in my fingers :P. And now the running begun!

Oru sooravali kalambiyadheyyyy

Siva thaandavan thodangiyadheyyyy

I ran, jogged, ran, jogged but never stopped. May be because of the new shoe and I didn’t want to stop and I felt very comfortable and I never looked straight instead my eyes focused my shoes always! I started from 13^th Main road, crossed Karthik Tiffin Center, crossed KFC, still I didn’t stop, crossed Santhosh stores, crossed LKS Jewelers, Crossed Hi Style, Reached Blue star signal, now I am trembling a bit but I didn’t want to stop and I continued, crossed HSB and reached Ayyapan Temple! I know I shouldn’t stand or take rest and hence I continued walking slowly. Let’s see what does the walk mate shows? 857, Holy EFFFFFF!!! Now I valued the walking and I know it’s not an easy thing to achieve 10000. I entered Anna Nagar tower and the time was around 4:50.

Anna nagar tower is not the old one anymore. It has been renovated superbly and they are yet to fully open the park to the public and still some renovation work is going on! Early morning 5:00 had quite a decent crowd and but I couldn’t even see a single youth except me! All I could see fall over 50s and 60s. I never say anyone running or jogging and everyone were walking! So after coming from a long jog I decided to walk for a while! Interesting people! Very interesting people! The surrounding would approximately be around 2kms and I decided to take the longest boundary! I had many company! When people carried a stick in their hand, I carried my mobile and kept seeing the count every now and then! There is levels 2k 4k 6k 8k and you have the goal 10k. I am at 1389. After walking for a while and I decided a jog and the surface was very good to jog as it had a mosaic laid in the pathway. As usual, my eyes started to search for good looking figures but poor thing it was too dark! I checked the time it was quarter passed 5 and I still couldn’t believe why it’s too dark! “Otha specs marandhuta da pannnada” But it’s OK if I had to wear my specs, I would certainly a wiper fixed to my specs. There was an aunty who was walking very briskly. I had a strong feeling that she is walking in a very strange way after getting some advice on how to walk briskly from someone! I laughed and surpassed her! Now I had a company. One uncle with blue tee was jogging and I was confident that people will also jog in the park J but the man who was jogging, people who were walking could easily overtake this man!

I successfully completed one full round and I could make out the path. Now I started to have a feeling as if I am walking here daily. There was an old man who was greeting everyone he surpassed! And he was walking or rather coming in the anti clockwise direction so that he can greet many! He said Morning Sir! Morning Madam! Good Morning Saab! But when I crossed him, he said Welcome! “okkaali ivar aayul kaapteedu pola” When I came to see many greeting each other, I felt I am a new comer! But I wish that way and I never mingle with others and too all oldies J

Now it was almost 6o clock and the crowd has increased. People started groups and there was one bloody group of men who were walking blocking everyone’s way. They were speaking non sense and laughing bull shit and clapping craps. They must belong to the Nitrogen Oxide family in the name of ‘Laughing therapy’. I wanted to over take them so that I can jog for a while! I did and started to jog! I slowly stopped! “iyyyyy Ladies ladies ladies!!!” at last, God is great! I saw someone of my age! ‘Super figure illenaalum oru pakkuvamaana figure’. Now there is no time for slow walking! Come on Vicky! But she didn’t stay even for a round! Wonder where she went so soon! Every time I kept meeting an old man near the gate no 2 and he walks anti clock wise direction and this time I was a bit slow that I met him sooner before gate no 2 came! An old man can walk faster than me!

I completed 4-5 rounds and after which I couldn’t. My walk mate showed 7500 and I know I couldn’t reach the goal. So I decided to call it a day! Came out of the park and stepped inside a tea shop! Ordered for a tea! Near that Tea shop there was a bunk shop where they kept a lot of vessels filled with colorful water. Everyone who was coming out from the park was having the juice and per glass it costs 5 rupees. I was so curious to ask him what it is, but another man overtook me! I came to know they were herbal juices. They had at least 10 different types and you can mix them have it in a single glass as well. But I didn’t want to have so I started back home! I never thought I will wake up so early and I could complete walking approximately 10 km. But in the end, I made it. I came walking all the way home! It was a good show for a debutant and let’s see what’s there for tomorrow onwards!

Crazy Crazy Crazy ALL THE WAY

If there is an expectation or rather an attraction for this movie 'Kola Kolaya Mudhirika', there can be only one man, Crazy Mohan, the story and dialogue writer for this movie. Apart from him, there is absolutely nothing or none from the crew who can attract the audience to watch this movie. The director certainly won't feel good to tag 'From the director of Vallamai Thaarayo' and I feel except for the Crazyest part, the other two namely direction and screenplay are probably amateur and contributed its share to the flip side of the movie.

The story is about a treasure hunt told in a comical way and Crazy has just used all characters on earth to connect the story and make the treasure hunt a valuable one. Of course, the verbal master, the man who contributed a lump some in most of Kamal's movie has yet again proved that he can use his vocabulary skills at the best comical way. But we didn't have a Kamal who literally mastered each and every slang and quite brilliant in dialogue delivery so that it doesn't spoil the actual content. Well, the actors of KKM did a fair job thought I personally felt a few can be replaced with many others.

We had Munnadi Pinnadi Kannadi in Panchathanthiram and we have Theriyaadhu Theriyum here! There are other numerous worthy mention dialogues that play with words. The way how he drags to tell that the 'Kadhal Dhaadha' died because of the fish thorn! It's just amazing and clever play of words. I can't still stop laughing when I think of the conversation.

Avalo periya dhaadha-nu solreenga, oru saadharana mullu kuthi sethi poitaara??
Mulla kaalula kuthalapa thondaila kuthichu!
Edhuku thala keezha nadakkanam?
Saapdumbodhu kuthichipaaa!!!
Edhukku mullu laam saaptaaru?
Iyyo meen saapdumbodhu mullu kuthichu paaa!!

Of course, like this there are numerous witty dialogues and one can discover more such interesting dialogues probably at the second or third watch! So without a second thought, people who love Crazy's work can definitely watch the movie million times as we even see Panchathanthiram thousand and odd times just for the witty dialogues.

Talking about the performance and casting, we have loads. Since the story tend to connect more and more characters. As I said earlier, the lead role done by Karthik could have been given someone else. It doesn't mean that he didn't do his job well but in some areas he over reacted to the scenes. The same holds good for the heroine Shikha. MS Bhaskar utilizes efficiently for the minimal scenes given to him and he has done very effectively. The comical villains Anand Raj, Vaasu Vikram and others did a very good job. Jayaram comes as a cop and his performance needs no explanation as we have already seen him with Crazy's work in Panchathanthiram. There were quite a few guest appearances from Radha Ravi, Sarath Kumar and the man himself Crazy Mohan. No matter how many characters were there, they did a great work and more importantly they didn't spoil the play.

Now we have the area Direction and Screenplay! Probably the only area which is on the other side. We knew the general trend in Tamil Cinema to include songs here and there in the screenplay. There should be at least one of the two conditions to accept this inclusion.
1) There should be a demand for the song in the screenplay.
2) Even if there is no demand, the song should be pleasant to listen.

In KKM, both the conditions are ruled out. There is absolutely no necessary or need for songs and moreover, the songs were seriously horrible! Adding to that, it even spoils the play. Also, it's the director's responsibility to divide the first half and the second half in a sensible way. It took about 90 mins for the interval to come and the second half just went in a flash. The climax, I felt that it was kind of amateurish to finish it like that.

So, where are you crazy fans? Grab it quickly before the ugly Lion starts to roar!

Review posted @ www.clapsandboos.com