Mathumitha

Writer: Ravindran. R

மதுமிதா!!

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உடம்புக்கு சுகமில்லை, இ்ன்னிக்கு லீவ் எடுத்துக்கறேன் என்று மேனேஜருக்கு வாட்சப் செய்தேன். உடனே பதில் வந்தது.

"ஏன் , என்னாச்சு?"

"நெஞ்சுக்கு கீழ கொஞ்சம் வலி, அஜீரணக் கோளாறுனு டாக்டர் சொல்லிருக்காரு"

"ஓகே, பழம் ஜூஸ் எல்லாம் சாப்டு. உடம்ப பாத்துக்கோ"

"சரி"

"எனக்குக்கூட உடம்பு சரியில்லை. நானும் இன்னிக்கு லீவு தான்"

"ஓகே! டேக் கேர்"

மேனேஜரும் லீவு, பேசாம ஆபிஸ் போய் தொலைச்சிருக்கலாம் என்று தோன்றியது.உடம்புக்கு எல்லாம் ஒன்றுமில்லை. லீவு போட்டதுக்கும் ஒரு அபத்தமான காரணம் இருக்கு.

ஆபீஸ்க்கு கெளம்பும்போது, தட்ல சாப்பாடு போட்டுட்டு டிவிய ஆன் பண்ணேண். ஆனந்த தாண்டவம் படம். அரை மணி நேரம் அண்ணாந்து பாத்து யோசிச்சுட்டு, இப்டி ஒரு படம் வந்துச்சானு கேக்கற அளவுக்கு ஓடின படம்.ஒரு சினிமாவுக்காக வீக்கென்ட்டை விரயமாக்காத கல்லூரி தினங்களின் வெள்ளிக்கிழமையொன்றில், நானும் ராமும் சுப்ரகீத்'ல பாத்துட்டு , படத்தின் இயக்குனரை வகைதொகை இல்லாமல் நான் வசைபாடியது வரை எனக்கு ஞாபகமிருக்கிறது. சுஜாதாவின் 'பிரிவோம் சந்திப்போம்' நாவலை இவ்வளவு த்ராபையாக படமாக்கிருப்பதாலேயே, இன்னும் அந்த இயக்குநரை நான் மன்னித்த பாடில்லை.

முதற்காரணம்,  மதுமிதா! 

தமன்னாவை என்னால் மதுமிதாவாக சிறிதும் என்னால்  ஏற்றுக்கொள்ள முடியவில்லை. மதுமிதாவை அழகி/பேரழகி என்றெல்லாம் வகைப்படுத்த முடியாது. பேரழகிகள் என்றால்  ஹெலன்,ஆப்ரோடைட் வகையறா. மதுவிற்கு ஒப்பீடே இல்லை . கனவில் தோன்றும் முகம் தெரியா அழகி அவள்; வானவில் ஓவியம், யாழிசை, நீர்வீழ்ச்சியின் சாரலென உவமைகளுடன் கவிதைகள் , கதைகள், கனவுகளில் மட்டுமே வசிப்பவள்.சொல்லப்போனால் எல்லா ஆண்களுக்குமே ஒரு மதுமிதா உண்டு. பெண்ணிற்காக அவர்கள் வகுத்திருக்கும் இலக்கணத்திற்கு வெளியே அவளை வைத்திருப்பர். ஆகவே , மதுமிதாவை மனித உருவில் ஒரு பெண்ணாக , அதுவும் தமன்னாவாக என்னால் ஏற்றுக்கொள்ளவே முடியவில்லை. 

இரண்டாவதாக, இதன் திரைக்கதை,வசனம். சுஜாதாவின் எழுத்தை ரசிக்க, தமிழ் அறிந்திருத்தலே போதுமானது; அதை திரைவடிவமாக்க அது மட்டுமன்றி , ஒரு  சுஜாத்தாத்தனமும் வேண்டும். பீனைல் அசிடைல் ஆசிட், நற்றிணையில் வரும் கைக்கிளை பாடல், ஹாரல்ட் ராபின்ஸ் என ஒரே பத்தியில்  எல்லாரையும் பற்றிப் கோர்வையுடன் ரசிக்கும் படி எழுத சுஜாதாவால் மட்டுமே முடியும். யோசித்துப் பாரத்தால் மணிரத்னமோ சங்கரோ கூட சிறப்பான திரைவடிவம் தரமுடியுமா என்ற சந்தேகம் வருகிறது.இதில் அனுபவமே இல்லாத இயக்குனர் எடுத்தா இப்டிதான் இருக்கும் என்று சமாதானமாகிறேன்.

"சக்தி, நீ அழகா இருக்கனு நெனக்கல!" -சுஜாதாவின் வசனம். எவனும் இப்டி காதலை சொல்லிருக்க மாட்டான்; சொல்லப்போவதுமில்லை. ஆனாலும் எல்லோரும் ரசித்தோம்.மதுமிதாவும் அப்படித்தான். நிஜ உலகில் மதுமிதா சாத்தியமில்லை. ஆனால், மதுமிதாவை மறக்க முடியாது. இப்டி திடீர்னு மதுமிதா மதுமிதா என்று இதயம் வந்து காதில் சொல்லிக்கொண்டு இருந்ததால், மீண்டுமொருமுறை அவளை சந்திக்க , ஆபீஸ்க்கு லீவ் சொல்லிட்டு கெளம்பிட்டேன். 

படிச்சு முடிச்சுட்டு யோசிக்கும்போது தான் ஒரு Earned leave போச்சே'னு பீலிங்! தட் வட போச்சே மொமண்ட்! மதுமிதாக்காக தர்லாம், தப்பில்ல!

How to Name it

One can never anticipate, expect or even give a thought how his/her life can take twists and turns at any point of time.

Well ! This unstated law is applicable to everyone. No one including POTUS or LOTUS or kim Khardiashan or even KRK could escape this unstated 4th important law that governs life. Off course the 1st 3 laws we learned in 7th grade for passing also governs the life, but in different form only because of those 3 laws we were able to pass physics and continue our education for remaining part of our life. 

I am not a scholar in Philosophy, So definitely I cannot write a blog about Life After Death or Life Before Death. If you ask me I am a person who belong to this peculiar category, the category which comprises of people Who wanted to become Doctor in 5th, Pilot in 6th, Physiotherapist in 7th and later they will be settled for engineer. I belong to that chunk of group. I became an engineer not because I liked it rather I had no options or knew any other career other than software engineer at that point of time.

So after a deep thought I decided to name the blog as  "The Wrong Turn". After sometime my inner voice spoke to me and said you can use only singular subject called "The Wrong Turn" when you have encountered a single disaster. So the inner voice advised me to name it as "Wrong Turns" to reiterate the fact every turn I took was due to 1 wrong turn and because of that 1 wrong turn serious of wrong turns happened consequently  wrong turns became part of my life similar to a chain reaction in fission process.

So I planned to settle with the title " The Wrong Turns", I got a message from my philosophical friend who send me a Whats-app message "Namakku vayiru rombina aporam sapadra oru idli kuda mathavanodathu"

After reading the message I gave a thought and said to myself "I am getting noodles, soup, Rava dosa and coffee for my daily meals, So I concluded the topic should not be "Wrong Turns" rather it should be "Bad Turn"

Again, I got a Whats app message from the same philosophical friend. This time I decided not to risk myself I did not open the message fearing about his dose of communism. I settled for the topic "U turn"

U turn? Why did I select this weird topic? Definitely I am not a Congoon, I am not a supporter of Congress for sure. Then why did I choose Ajay Makens book topic "U Turn Modi Sarkar".  On a lighter note Narendra Modi government is taking some bold steps and at least making some move.  Mr. Maken (Spokesperson of Congress and The Delhi CM candidate) has forgotten that UPA government did not even take a step from 10 Janpath (Official residence of Sonia Gandhi).

So definitely my blog topic is  not "U Turn"

At last I decided to concentrate on the stuff inside the blog or subject of the blog rather than the topic.

Ok! Topic !! Wait! What am I doing??Am I writting a political blog? No! enough of politics. Already, my friends are screaming in and out for spamming their FB wall with my Pro-BJP updates.

So for time being I decided to give a break to politics and write something different.

Unfortunately, I do not know anything other than Indian politics. I do not say I am similar to strategic expert Yogendra Yadav, Who succesfully predicted Kejrivels historic victory in Varnasi but I am coming to say my knowledge in other sectors are as bad as Yogandra Yadavs prediction. It neither stands near the reality nor even appeases with peoples thought

Ok? If not politics, Why not on science?

I know nothing about science (Chlorophyll, Dolly, Gods particles, Polonium 210 these were some of the terms I happened to hear in the recent past)

Ok! If not on science, Why not about phones and Apps?  Again I am a odd man out here. When you bloody invest 40k in an Apple product you cannot browse other phones and hurt yourself. After seeing What Xiomi and One plus has to offer for price less than half of Iphone, I decided not to browse about mobile phones.

I decided either to wait for 3 years or I wished that I get a girl friend who can potentially buy me a new IPhone for my next birthday. The former is possible at least after 2 or 3 years but the later is highly uncertain

So If not on phones, Why not about books?

Why not a brief note on Pax Indica? Why not on MadharBagan?  At least  I can prove to my people in TL that I am secular and voracious reader.

Ok, When I concluded I should go with books, I decided to write about Chethan Bhagat.

Oh wait Ram! A inner voice spoke to me again and conveyed its displeasure that "one should not write about Chethan Bhagat books, one should evolve day by day and one should read works that has a literary impact and impact on life"  I asked what is literary impact?

The voice replied the literary impact must make you understand the questions asked by Karan Thapar in Devils Advocate, at least you can help the guests in understanding the question

Well! Then I decided  I should read only Election 2014 - Rajdeep Sardersai or The Gin Drinkers - Sagarika Ghose both have excellent vocabulary stuff, one needs to sit with oxford dictionary to complete both the books.

After browsing for The Gin drinkers and Election, I came to know my inner voice is dirty and filthy. I made fun of my inner voice.

Silently I tried convincing my inner voice, the present lot of youth who are using Flipkart for buying novels were the 1 who first used to order CBS book even before it released. This man has made masses to read English.
Before my voice respond, I skipped books too

Finally What to write???

Ok, enough of bureaucracy, enough of CB, enough of journalists Why should I write about x, y or Z? Why cant I start with my life?

So What should I write?

About my crushes? Well, the lists never gonna end anytime soon.

Or should I pen my thoughts about missed opportunities?

Well, again the divisions are plenty in this segment.

a) Should I write about the missed opportunity to score centum in Maths? (It happened only once in my lifetime during my 10th standard, I am so proud of it at least my 10th standard teachers are remembering me as a studious chap the rest remember me as that irregular boy)

b) Should I write about my 12th standard Public exam Physics lab? I was given a tight slap by my Physics mam for not calculating the break in voltage of Zener diode with the values recorded in the record note during our practical lab.

c) Should I write about our 1st engineering exam preparation.

Ok ! Now I settled for this (The topic is done)
Yes! Its about our First year engineering exams.

 There were 9 people preparing for 1st year engineering semester exams, I was the only person in the gang representing ECE department others were from mechanical engineering department. All the 9 prepared together for 6 out of 8 exams. One of my 12th standard tuition friend decided to test my 10th standard school classmate.
 (I did 10th, 11th and 12th in different schools) In order to avoid conflicts and prevent myself from Dharma adi (thrashings) from the concerned friends, Lets name my engineering friend as P who also happens to be my tuition friends, lets name my 10th standard schoolmate as S.

S had lot of contacts in other departments that too especially with girls. In contrast P was known to all other people in other department as DON (Still I could not figure out why those idiots thought him as DON, Those idiots include lot of our 1st year staff). So its habit of P before even a class test or weekly test or semester to check with others preparations and milestones every half an hour.
 So its was a First year non semester exam (1 semester exam covering both the semester paper). As usual he started checking with each and everyone about the status of our preparation. The next day we had Engineering Graphics, I had my exam along with EEE, FT and Civil departments on the next day morning, My other mechanical friends had exam on the next day afternoon. Ultimately I was left with 9 hours and my friends were left with close to 15 hours for preparation.

Before continuing further, you must know about my extraordinary drawing skills, In my 14 years of school education and 4 years of engineering all my record works were completed by either my Grandpa and Grandma (till 7th) and by my mother and sister (from 8th standard to 4th year of engineering). Myself and 2 of my friends were great source of inspiration for my sister to choose engineering. She candidly said before choosing engineering, "If Ram, Ravi and Srini anna could complete engineering without reaching on time to classes or without finishing records or without even caring for exams, anyone can complete engineering". After her engineering, she went on to add, "I always felt I could definitely meet someone as worse or even worse as Ram but I am wrong Ram is unique, nobody can substitute him as well as his friends in irregularities".

Well ! I have faced insults worse than this, I chose to forgive my sister for this insult.

Coming to the point, " I suck in drawing as much as Sanjay Jha sucks in The Newshour".

Given my credentials, you must by now got an idea how much I would have prepared for the exam.

Once I told my mother during initial days of engineering that "If there is

a subject that can stop your son from getting degree that would be Engineering Graphics".

Coming back to the plot, My ambitions were pretty clear, getting a pass mark in Engineering Graphics. In fact I had same ambitions for all other subjects except Computer Science

and English. Two exams in 1st year which I wrote with complete satisfaction were English and Computer Science,

I loved those paper for two reasons,

1. I loved those subjects as they were damn easy,

2. I love those 2 staff members for their affection and their trust they had in me.

 I was fearing that I would flunk in Engineering Graphics for 3 reasons

1. I am bad at drawing
2. I am very bad at drawing

3. I am extremely bad at drawing

Keeping everything in mind, I gave my maximum for the preparation, so by 11 PM the previous night I completed all the chapters in the subject and I completed my 1st revision.

Scene 1: So P started asking some questions like :

                                                     how to draw a pentagon?

                                                          what is a top view?

                                                               What is a lateral view?

                                                                      How to draw prism ?

We started visualizing it and in some cases we even drew it in a rough paper. All these time Mr. S was busy hearing songs in my LG DYNAMITE and Mr. Ps phone. Yes we started using multimedia phones during end of 1st year, a phone with mp3 player and 2 mega pixel camera.

Post Script: Those were the days (2006-2007), Tamil Nadu film industry saw more than 100s of films releasing that year. We did not leave even a single film, I sincerely doubt ARRS Muliplex used our money to construct a International school. Now they have this big International School (ARRS International School).

Its our habit to take a strategic break of 10 minutes every 2 hours, the break often extended to 25 or 30 minutes, during those breaks we used to hear June pona July kattre from Unnale Unnale, Karka karka from Vettayadu veliyadu and Yarro friendship version from Chennai 600028.

So even while writing these songs it takes me back to our preparation days.

Scene 2: We decided to break for tea, We had 1 pulsar and 2 splendors to carry 8 people. Mr. S did not choose to reply for Mr. Ps continuous invite for joining the tea. He was either so involved in the song or he did not choose to respond to him.

Scene 3 Mr. P pulled the headphone from is ear, and He found out that volume was not that high and he found S hearing to the song from Thavamai Thavamirindhu, song name is Unnai Charan adainthan

Scene 4: Mr. S decided to pretend as if nothing happened. P got pissed out and started enquiring about the preparations and Mr. S replied he has completed 3 revisions the day before with girls in college cafeteria.

Scene 5: My another friend, We can call him as Mr. G. He is also pretty famous among girls. He barged in and joined the conversation, Mr G asked S "You neither came to class nor completed the assignment, how did you complete 2 revisions?"

I barged in and said 3 revisions!

Another friend and cousin of mine, lets name him B, he joined in and said Screw your statistics!

Scene 6: Mr. S replied "girls gave me deep insight about Engineering Graphics they taught me entire EG in 2-3 days and I also studied with them during study holidays"

Scene 7: Mr. P pissed out and asked Mr. S to brief him about 5th unit.

Scene 8: Mr. S instead of briefing said that he did not study Pentagon alone (Drawing Pentagon was a basic chapter, definitely it was on our 2nd unit not 5th unit).

Everyone showed our back and started to laugh,

Scene 9: Mr. P without even controlling the laugh asked him, " OK! Help me with atleast Hexagon"

There are many ways you can piss of people 1 such way is laughing at a person even while replying or asking something.  P always had this and is having this peculiar habit, Which pisses many people

Scene 10: Mr. S visibly pissed off and did not answer for that.

Scene 11: Mr. P went on to piss him even more by congratulated Mr. S for his 2 revisions, sorry sorry 3 revisions and started for tea.

Mr. S said "He is gonna sleep, As he was tired with revisions"

Scene 12: Mr. P hiding his laugh asked him to sleep inside rather than on roof top. We dispersed for tea (Our Spot was 3 km away from the host house. Our spot was Iyeangar tea shop in Hasthampatti

and the venue were we assemble for group study was P house).

Scene 13:  In Iyengar Tea shop

Mr. S covered our tea gossip break and Mr. P started making fun of him to the core, not P alone We all joined him but Mr. P was going beyond the limit in pissing everyone.

Scene 14:

Sometime in July or August 2007

4 or 5 months after exam

1st year Results came, from P to G everyone failed in the exam Ps roll no was 87. We were also alphabetically sorted friends. When you sort out our group alphabetically Mr. P will be the 1st member and the last member of our group has "S" as his starting name. Literally my mechanical friends were placed in attendance from 87 to 95

For instance G's name also starts with S, but we call him as G for various other reasons.
My best friends name also starts with R but we call him as N for various other reasons
But "Ps"  starting alphabet is also "P"
Mr. S's starting alphabet is also "S"

So everyone failed from 87 to 95 there was 1 guy who literally passed the exam.

I got 31 for 80, failed by 5 marks and my friends got similar marks 28, 30, 33 and Mr. P got 30 marks and to our surprise Mr. S passed the engineering graphics exams causing severe heart and stomach burns to us.

Out of 8 those who prepared for the exam Mr. S was the only 1 to pass, but he did not clear all other papers was another matter of fact.

So literally our masti exam preparation was blasted to pieces by Engineering Graphics results.
 2 of my friends  N and B lost their distinction in degree sheet just because they had Engineer Graphics arrear in 1st year. (Our distinction requirement is 75, Mr. N and B had more than 75 but had history of arrears in EG).

I cleared my EG in 3rd attempt, I flunked in my next attempt as well.

Moral: Do you even think there is anything that I should convey to world???

PS: I decided to name this blog as "How To Name it"

Thank you: Singer Chinmayee (Her blog name is "How to name it")

Thanks Giving Day

I wonder how two decades and 3 yrs have passed just like that ???!!

Great Epic The MAHABHARATHAM says dat we start learning from mothers womb !! And thats why wen a women carries our grannies and doctors advice women to be optimistic.

Lets not get into that.

Intro:~

So for wat i m writting dis?? just 2 pass time???yeah dat may be one of d reason ! but dats not d primary one...i take dis as an opportunity 2 thank everyone !! U can ask me what d bloody thing i have acheived 2 thank???? I know u will ask ,if only ppl who acheived a lot sud thank,den dis world will be filled with ingratitude ppl.

Neither i have acheived something big nor i m ingratitude.. wen u read dis der r chances u may remem everyone who have helped u des days !! in ma case d list goes lik dis ...

Unexpected Pat~

Ma mom used 2 say dis,i never cried in reflex,wen i was born !!!why was dat?? i guess even @ dat time i must hav given a tot lik dis,"EVALAVO PAKKA PORAM !! EVALAVO PANNA PORAM,EVALAVU NAL AZHUGA PORAM,ETHUKU IPPO AZHTHUKUTU,so only i sud not hav cried???!!! Coming to the point,ma family doctor

MRS.MANI MEGALAI din leave me,she gave a nice pat on ma back 2 make me cry !!! Der everything started !!! Thank u doc !! 4 makin me cry 1st time ....

ROFL~

Ma dad who always have unnecessary worries,wen it comes 2 Ram kumar,he will do his job overttime !!! When the whole family rejoicing for d 1st kid n der house .Ma sweet father  broke d pin drop silence prevealed in d hospital by dropping a steel tumbler...

I screamed,shouted cried in reflex !! ma dad exclaimed  "MA SON IS NOT DEAF!!"

DAD THANK U !!! U MADE ME REALIZE dat I CAN HEAR !!!!

Heavy price~

Ma neibhors n ma village still used 2 say "chinna iyer,schooluku ponadhu keeranure marakathu"so wat it was??? Ma grand father made me sit in elephant and took me 2 pre kg admission !!! some used 2 say iyera !! THANK U THANK U SO THATHA !!! we were neither rich nor poor,we were and still we belong 2 GREAT INDIAN MIDDLE CLASS...!! but spending some 3 thousand bugs for going 2 school was bit costly in 1991

Vespa or chethak??????

After settling in Trichy,i was admitted in Arockia matha matric school ! 3 km frm ma grandpas home ! I grew up in ma grandpa's house till ma 7th std. I was always late 2 school dat even repeated in ma college ! Ok , coming 2 da situation. I always miss ma auto only during morning on dat day i missed ma auto in evening.

I was just 4yrs !! Our school Security (i started calling him security only frm ma 2nd standard,dat too after his complain 2 ma father.dat i sud not call him as watchman) took me 2 staff room. Der i met one of d finest man in ma school who died later after 14 yrs ma music and physics master late Jesuraj sir !!

He gave me tea ,snacks and took me 2 ma home .i feel asleep even @ 5.30,he made me stand in front in his blue scotter ! i guess it was lml vespa. He droped me in ma home !!! his house was 8 kms away from ma home,i.e 4 kms frm school.....he wasted 9kms jus 2 drop me safe in home.

Thank u sir !!! I came 2 know wat  Responsibility is and  d love dat u had  towards students.

whom sud i thank ,whom sud i not??

we learn lessons everyday from everyone

i m ingratitude !!

If i forget Mrs Elizabeth Rosalyn ,who made me score 95 n maths(still ma highest in dat).

Ma favorite  teacher Mr.Anthony Raja nd ma school Headmaster Arockia Raj who motivated 2 know current affairs !!!

Ma English mam vathsala for makin me the  chairman of Literary association in ma 12th std

Mrs Indhira Jayanthi,Ms Smitha,Mrs Prema Prakasham all ma 12th staff members bcoz of dem i completed ma 12th inspite of so many health issues!!

Ma class counseller Ms.Thenral Ks(sister) who always encouraged me and Hods Mr.Gopi ,Mrs.Alirani,Mrs.Sumathi , 2 all i owe ma degree.

Mrs NIRMALA PRIYA & Mrs GAYATHRI for Trusting ma skills and making  me head  various dept associations and functions .

Der r few ppl who work jus for students welfare,in dat way whenever i go to these ppl as club representative ,dey have always helped me with our club activities Thank u Nithyanatarajan Salem, Mrs.Sujaritha Saravanan,Mrs.Salma ,Mr.Paramasivam Muthan,Ms Jhansi Rani,Mrs Vadivu,Mrs Saradha laxmi.

Spl thanks 2 ma Trainers Mr.Manuvel Ebinaesar and Mr.Patill who Trained our batch in CTS

We learn from Dad,Mom,Sister,Friends,juniors,seniors

We even learn from our lessons later we call dem as experience

SO SPECIAL THANKS TO ALL WHO THOUGHT ME VARIOUS LESSONS IN VARIOUS SITUATIONS

Happy Teachers Day

5/September/2011

In Memory of K.Balachandar

 It was custom duty of middle class family to watch Oliyum Oliyum during Fridays and watch regional movies in Podhigai during Sundays. It was one fine Sunday when the entire family was watching a movie called Kalki, There was one particular scene where the lead actress would have an encounter with her Ex Boyfriend, The heroine would candidly ask her boyfriend "How she looks with baby bump?"   I guess that was my first KB movie.

 Just imagine in 1996, He directed a movie which talks about live in together, breaking up with relationship and coping up with relationship after pregnancy.

Yes! I am talking about the film Kalki and this post is about K. Balachander. Imagine a government servant who worked in an unknown village as accountant with his hard work and hope went on to direct 101 movies , produced numerous movies, pioneered tamil tele serial and introduced more than 100 artists to Indain film fratenity.

Why should one write a post on KB?

KB is not just 1 film director who used cinema for commerial gains, his film were of low budget costs, I heard from people that actors used to pay KB just to be part of his film.

KB the name itself in later stage went on to become a brand. (Ramesh Aravind, Director Vasanth, Director Samoothrakani are some of the gems mentored by him).

The brand KB become so unique by seeing the camera angle, hearing a single dialogue let people decided that this creation belonged to KB 

Even when color cinema was introduced, he took films in black and white. He was a kind of person who used tele film and tele serial as a medium to convey his displeasures with the society, he believed tele film and tele serial as a powerful tool to fight against the injustice melted against the innocent people.

I am neither a film reviewer nor a film maker to talk about the nuances of his direction or screenplay. In this post I am going to share my views about my favorite films directed by KB and the way he handled social issues.

Women Empowerment:

It has become a fashion for naive people to talk about women empowerment. Empowering women from same family (mother and sister) is not women empowerment. Certainly I am not talking about Rahul Babha, SoniaG and PriyankaG ;)

KB was one director who never portrayed women has a sex object, His entire film would be female centric, very few works of him had an item song.

Here we can take the classic cult  "Aval Oru Thodarkathai" (Her life is a unending story), where heroine (Sujatha) would sacrifice her love when she was asked by her boyfriends mother to sacifice her job and family. She would sacrifice her wedding with kamal to uplift her family, The entire film revolves around the heroine.

He never directed a movie with stalwarts as hero, his characters and his products later went on to become stalwarts. His movies had a unique speciality that the story was the hero and in most of the story plot the heroine were playing the role of hero.

A Reformist:

KB always dealt social issues with at most care, In "Thaneer Thaneer", he spoke about water scarcity and condemned the government, bureaucracy and feku sadhus (POOSARI), who were exploiting the common people.  In the same movie when Heroine (Sarika) was asked to end the dharna by her police husband (People were protesting (dharna) for poor water resource against the government), She chose to annul her marriage, when she found her husband demands were against the welfare of her village people. 

In his films he portrayed women as a decisive power than a divisive power.

KB, Although hailing from a Brahmin family, he strongly advocated inter caste marriage and opposed evil practices followed in the society. 

There was 1 scene from the film Unnal Mudiyum Thambi,  Where Sita (from lower caste) kisses Kamal (upper caste) in front of her future father in law stating that there is no difference between the kiss rendered by an upper caste girl and a lower caste girl. The film itself conveyed the frustration faced by the lower caste people and how their basic demands where denied by the upper sect.

KB being an ardent Subramanya Bharathiyar fan, he propagated Bharathiyar kavithai in form of songs in almost all the films, He took Carnatic and Bharathiyar to masses. The film Sindhu bhairavi is a perfect example where he took classical music to the lowest sect of people and popularised bharathiyar, bharathidasan, nattupura padal vaarigal via Carnatic music.

A scene from Varumayin Niram Sigapu, where Kamal was forced to sell the Bharathiyar kavithai book to a paper man for food, he would mimick the society by saying "These people might have made me to sell your books (Kamal would try to talk to bharathi) not my principles or learnings"

KB : A Communist in thoughts, A rationalistic theist in following his religion

His communistic views were reflected via Kamal in Varumayin Niram Sigappu, he bashed Govt, Society, the education system for the ongoing poverty and unemployment. Indeed one can say VGM, so far is the only movie in India which exactly reflects the atrocities faced by unemployed youth. 

(A scene from VNS Interviewer:  Do you belong to the communist sect? Kamal: I belong to the unemployed sect of independent India).

KB candidly conveyed if the trend continues, unemployment sect itself would become a distinctive religion

Romantic killer:

KB = Romance, The way he handled  subjects such as love after marriage or Young boy falling in love for an elderly woman or Extra marital affairs ( Manmada leelai)  or Love after love failure (Punnagai mannan) or Triangle love plot (Avargal) or Two brothers loving a same girl (Duet) gave him a cult status in the industry for handling the subjects well ahead of the time.

How can 1 forget his Ek Thuja keliya? 

I would say Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna was an extended version of Puthu Puthu Arthangal.

 Music & Art lover:

He never used songs in films just for the sake of using them as a gap filler, His songs itself conveyed a story. Lets take the evergreen hit Avalukenna Azhagiya Mugam, this song beautifully showed people how a song was composed and lyrics were written and how the song was shot?

Though the film was not directed by KB, but the story was based on KB's drama

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiYCD6Nldqg

In this song you can see Vaalee writing the lyrics when the song was composed.

He conveyed the philosophy of life, lust, meaning of life through a drunken brother in the song Deivam thantha veedu in Aval Oru Thodarkathai

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGuuEpdDpTY

Beautifully penned by Kannadhasan.

Tamil diehard fan:

Only KB can create a situation in a film where a poem sung by hero and music hummed by heroine can romance each other rather than a typical hero-heroine romancing each other

Sippy Irukkudhu Muthum Irukkudhu from Varumayin Niram Sigappu

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEz1ZtQkopw

KB was one of the rarest director who gave us a clue that two lovers can have a healthy flirting while discussing and sharing a poem

Sangeetha Swarangal from Azhagan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VchhlBn9wjg

This film is 1 of the best from the ace director, his love for Bharathidasan works and his usual female centric story lines are better expressed in this movie

This film also gave a wonderful musician to the tamil industry Maragsthamani he is called as Keeravani in Telugu indistry.

He can give the complete picture of the movie via 1 song, he also showed us how a modern theatre recording takes place and even said about Rajas punctuality 

The song Kalyana malai from Puthu Puthu Arthangal is still a visual and audio treat to us.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VchhlBn9wjg

The love between old couples itself conveys 1000 stories in single film, 

Duet: Can anyone think a 75 year old man can take a such a film?

The speciality of the movie is most of the songs has 2 primary voices 1 = saxophone and another= SPB voice portraying the characters of SAX playing prabhu and singing Ramesh Aravind

I woukd rate Duet soundtrack and background score has one of the best of his career.

One can never forget, KB has introduced more than 100 artists in southern film industry. Kamal, Rajni, Vivek, Nagesh, Gemini, Prakashraj, A.R, Rahman (Roja was produced by KB) were all introduced by KB

Unlike other movie directors he never bashed any 1 particular religion or i particular caste or 1 particular community for the social evils, he utilized media both small screens and large screens to advocate women empowerment, derail male chauvinism and promote optimism. 

Indian cinema has lost a visionary director, screenplay writer, producer and a noble human being.

24/December/2014

Edit1: How did i miss this? Film produced under the banner of Kavithalaya used to have the 1st Thirukkural as its 1st frame. This showed his love towards tamil and rationalistic theist behaviour. His 1st film itself had an unconventional title caalled Neerkumuli.

He can be called as father of unconvedntional cinema

Valibha Vaalee

Romba natkalaga ezthavendum endru aasai, etha patri ezhthuvathu?
Science ?  Dats not my cup of tea
Politics ! Athu dan 9'0 clock Newshourla Arnab kattu kathu katharare,
Vera enna Films? Madhan, Rajeev Masand (CNN IBN), avangalavidava ?!


Sivaji la vivek solra mathiri, "Vidala pasangalem punch dailogue pessa arambichitingapa", yara pathallem profilea film criticnu solranga, activistnu solranga, youth empowermentunu, women empowermentnu solranga Sometimes when i see such profiles, I just wonder all these ppl belong 2 Youth congress??!! .

Seri yaru epadi ponna enna, summa ethavudu namulam try pannalamanu I am starting this blog. I wanted to write about "Kavingar Vaalee"

Muchu avaridam irunthu piriyum varai pattu ezhuthi kondu irunthavar, kadasiyil kuda nakkal kurayamal nayandi adithavar

"Swasam romba mosam" nee uraitha iruthi varigal....

Y Vaalee ? 15,000 songs , M.G.R to Sivakarthikeyan, $ku Thalaimurai kanda ore kavingar

Vaaleeyin Varthaigal udhaya suriyanai udhayamikayuthu, MGR ennum ariya manithanai ariyanayil utkara seydathu. D.M.Kyin asthana kavingarai vilangiyavar vaalee.

"Antha naal nyabagam, nenjile vanthathe nanbane nanbane" intha pattai ezhtheyavar vaalee anal MSVyo intha pattai ethuyuvar Kannadaasan endru oor ooraga poi solli kondu iruthur. Oru kalla katathil Vaalein varigala alathu kannadasanin vaaregala endru aaivarum kolamban azhavuku kannadasanuku nigarai ezhthuyivar vaali.

Vallibha Vaalee
"Thottal poo malaram, thodamal nan malarnthen
Suttal pon sivakam, sootamal kan sivanthen
Kaigal padamal, kangal thodamal kathal malarvathile"

Though it was reused by ARR n New, it was penned by Vaalee for MGR.

"Oh maria oh maria , oh maria oh maria
 fruit jerryah nee vareya emailil love letter thariya"

Can anyone say it was penned by 72 year old man?! These days even a kiddoo speaks about Ipad and tablets. Imagine in the year 1998 when kadhalar dhinam was released.
Apolem PC vechurukirathe aboorvam IT , PC, Internet revolution was about to start in India for middle class people.

"Manasai vittu mousea thattu maditum 18
 Computeril kathal seiyum kalam inni,
 Kathal vithai katrodu thoovi kathalmeiyum agattum boomi"

Appolem orkut kuda kidayathu, look @ d way he handles globalisation? who can write like dis?


Vaalee about love

"Neerum sembula cherum kalanthathu pola kalanthidalalam"  JILLENU ORU KADHAL (MUNBE VA)

Vaalee DEVOTIONAL HITS

"Sriranga ranganathenin namam vanthanum seiyadi
..................................inbum pongum then gangai neeradi
theiva pasuram padadi"    MAHANADHI


"Janani Janani Jagam nee agam nee,
Jagathkarani nee paripurani nee"   Thai mugambikkai

infact this song brought a turning point in Maestros career, its still remains to be his favorite song , he perform this song in all his concerts.

"Devanin kovilale yavarum thebangale
 paavigal yarum illai........"

this is a christian song, Sivaji dances with school kids.

"Om siva om , rudhra naamam bhajegam"

pirapal  iyengar, shivanai pattriyum padum vallamai kondavar vaalee, athuvam samaskrithatil.

To add glory 2 his list , he has penned d telugu lyrics for Dhasavatharam too


Valee Pennai varnipathil unaku ennai Neeya

"Nangai nilavin thangai,
 Mangai neethana sengai"

Munalle nan John harry
unalle Ippo muthu mari

Ethugai monnaiyelaam unnai minja oruvan kidayuthu

Pothuve poonna patha english(Peter) varumnu soluvanga look @ d below lines
"Unnai Paarthathum Oøraivittu Aangilam
 Pøødi Pønathenna"

"Mandaakini Maanganani,
 Šinthaamani Vaa Vaa Amsaveni..
 Nee Pøurnami Maa Rathini,
 Mrunaalini Nee Èn Šwapna Raani.."


Valee patri pesinal pesi konda irukka vendiyathu, To be continued..............