Happy Deepavali!!!

May this Deepavali light up our mind and heart to chase away the darkness of ignorance and evil from the world!!

Happy Deepavali!!!

குடை

ஏய் குடையே! – உன்னை
இன்று முதல் என் நண்பனாக்கிக்கொண்டேன்.
காரணம் மொழிகிறேன்.அதையும் கேள்.
என்னவளை நான் தொடும் முன் – அந்த
மழை தொடாமல் நீ பார்த்துக்கொண்டதனால் தான்.

Experienced One-time. Remembered Lifetime.

Yes. As the title says, it was one thing that I experienced last evening for one time. But its remembrance stays in my heart for all my lifetime. But to have this experience, I travelled to a place nearly a 100 Km away from the Chennai city that really took around two and a half hours. But I never felt bad or uncomfortable for that. Because it’s really a deserved event for that travel, even more too. If you think that I’m exaggerating something, then I would say ‘Not at all….’

Okay. Before you let your patience down and throw some trash at me, let me tell what I experienced last evening. Me, along with my friends Thiyagu, Aravind, Clarence & his bro went to a live concert ‘Jai Ho’ that gave us chance to winess the lightning performance of the Twin Oscar Winner, the Mozart of Madras, the one and only A R Rahman. Before you give your heavy sigh off, let me tell you one more thing that it was a crowd of 70,000 people with whom we enjoyed this event.

As you all know(even if you dont know, get it now ), Rahman is doing his ‘Jai Ho’ live concert tours, after winning the Oscars. This is his 3^rd event of his tour after rocking there at Calicut and Pune and the first live performance in his hometown after the Oscars. This whole Chennai concert happened in Swarnabhoomi, a going–to-be built township by Marg Properties. Buses were arranged by them and we were picked from Guindy and dropped there at the venue around evening 5.30. But before the event was started, our patience was really tested for nearly an hour, giving some speeches and other things by Marg Properties. This thing and rendition of hindi songs even if a tamil version existed for it can be named as little negative in this concert.

But, when we heard the magnetic voice of Rahman with a glimpse of him, the whole venue roared with enjoyment to welcome our own Rahman. At that very moment, the whole crowd just forgot about the long journey and wait that they have done. As Rahman started with a special composition for Jai Ho concert making small changes to one of the theme music of Guru, the whole venue was lightened with cheers and everyone were trying their best to see this man. And then came the number Kalbali from RDB and Athiradee from Sivaji, both being performed by Rahman himself.

Since many of the people were struggling to watch Rahman, he stepped into a crane like thing; he was taken to the top; and moved all over that he enjoyed the crowd and we watched him performing live the track Jiya se jiya from his album Connections. What a celebration it was??? It cannot be told just in words.  And then came some mind blowing hindi numbers and some more soothing love numbers by other singers and Rahman.

Then the time at the whole crowd got charged up was when the song Taxi from Sakkarakatti performed with full energy by Benny and Blaze. We all stood up in chairs and sang along with them clapping the hands with full cheers. Then we got bombed back with the number Mayya mayya from Guru. The melody specialist Hariharan then rendered his voice for song Kathal Rojave(Hindi version) from Roja, but it sounded not that good to match the original by SPB. It was the original singer of Kabhi Adithi from Jaane Tu ya Jaane na performed that song next and it was too good to listen it live.

And we were able to watch Rahman playing Piano in the stage to give us some instrumental enjoyment that also include the Gangster Blues theme from Slumdog Millionaire. Later Hariharan  joined him to give some evergreen songs like Uyire from Bombay and Tamizha Tamizha from Roja. As there are two halfs in a movie, there was also in this concert. A fifteen minute interval time was stolen by the Marg Properties people to do some speeches, to felicitate Rahman with the holy waters brought from the Ganges, the Jerusalem and the Mecca for his achievements. At that time, Rahman gave us the news that best is yet to come in the second part.

You know one thing??? Rahman always delivers as his promise and he did that here also. The song Azeem-O-Shaan Shahenshah from Jodha Akbar was started by Rahman and slowly moved to Veerapaandi Kottaylie from Thiruda Thiruda in style. Simply superb it was. Rahman’s close friend and our own favorite drummer Sivamani hasn’t missed to give his stunning performance alone and along with Rahman also. It was really mesmerising to enjoy Rahman performaning the Ghazal style songs of Khwaja from Jodha Akbar and Maula Maula from Delhi 6. Rahman while performing these ghalzal kinda songs, sat down in floor with some ethnic wear and played the Harmonium too.

Then came a pleasant surprise for us, the unexpected Chinna Kuyil Chitra with her evergreen Kannnalane from Bombay and a bonus of Nenjinile (Telugu Version) from Uyire. We got entertained with the magical voice of Rahman again for the number Dil se re from Dil Se. Most of the songs were from Maniratnam’s movie, as we all know Rahman have been at his best for Mani always.

And came the last part of the concert, where we were just taken back to the nineties. We saw that young Rahman back live in the stage. It was started with some different kinda guitar sound, making us to feel puzzled a little to guess the song, and slowly moved to the original guitar strings. Yes, we guessed the song right and it was none other than ever-ever-evergreen friendship & farewell song till date in Tamil cinema Mustafa… Mustafa… from Kathal Desam. What else you want if those most cherishing lyrics was rendered by the great AR Rahman himself. The whole 70000 people were standing in chairs, singing along with Rahman and waving their hands. Really a mind blowing experience for me it was. It’s still not over ppl… with the stylish intro by Blaze for a song that rocked the charts like anything, Rahman throwed the words on air for the song Humma Humma from Bombay. 

Finally came the climax of the concert. Rahman thanked all of us for the love and passion we have for his music and gathering all his concert team on stage, started the song for which the whole concert is being done. Yes, as you guess it is ‘Jai Ho’ from Slumdog Millionaire. Hearing the single voice of Jai Ho from Rahman alone do hell a lot of magic. Think what would be the experience if that is rendered by 70,000 people together. Chanceless. As this song lighted us with joy, the sky was lighted with colorful fireworks.  The mood at that time is simply unexplainable. I was a little disappointed at that time, as I expected the track Vande Mataram a lot from Rahman in the concert. Hope not only me, but many out there. 

Guys… It was AR Rahman there in the stage… How would he let us move away with disappointment???? Yes… he always reads the minds of we people… he always gives the one that we people love to hear from him…. As the jai ho song was about to complete…. A R Rahman just moved the song to Vande….. Mataram…. And the whole crowd including me were in ecstasy…  We all joined with Rahman to to end this never-forgettable concert with a patriotic touch.

Jai Ho!!!

Honour or Encouragement???

Just now Preity Zinta informed me about this news. Believe me… Actress Preity Zinta informed me directly… As I say this, I guess many ppl would have got surprised at me having got the information straight from Priety Zinta. But I’m more surprised than you at the information that she shared with me. Even she was even more puzzled at the info as she shared it with me.

Ooooooooooooh!!!!! I could hear ur scream here. Before you smash ur screen, let me tell you the information that I was talking about and you more eager to know about. It is nothing but the U.S President Barack Obama has got felicitated with the Nobel Peace Prize for this year 2009.

Not only me, but the whole world is wondering at this decision of the Nobel committee.  It has not been a year completed since he chaired the government there in U.S. The war is still not completely switched off in Iraq and Afghanistan, yet to pass the law to reduce carbon emission and has been a very little reduction in global nuclear stocks since he assumed office. His efforts may seem to be far better than that of his predecessor George W Bush, but not up to the benchmark contribution of a Nobel laureate I believe. It is too much kind of thing for him at this very early stage of his tenure.

May be he himself would have surprised at this announcement and even commented something like ‘Naan Avvalavu ellam worth illa da (I am not that worthy dude)…’ in vadivel style.  Let us hope that he take up this award as an encouragement, as a trust from the world communities to make his commitment against peace, poverty and disease more stronger than before and to act more stiffer than ever. But those committee people should understand the fact that such awards are not meant for encouragement, but for recognition.

Dude… Still thinking of me getting informed by Preity Zinta… I’m not saying any lies… Wanna know how??? Let me tell that before I sign off… Me being her follower in twitter, got her message in my twitter board…  Hope you got it now!!!!

Cya!!!!

அடையாள அட்டை!

உணர்வுப்பூர்வமான அடையாளங்களை தொலைத்துவிட்டு…

உயிரில்லாத அட்டைகளை கொண்டு அலைகிறோம்…

மனிதர்களாய் இல்லை… வெறும் மண் பொம்மைகளாய்…

இதெல்லாம்…

பெரும் உண்மைகளை நிரூபிக்க அல்ல…

நம்மை நாமே நிரூபித்துக் கொள்ளவே!!!

Celebrating the day!

Yayyyy!!! I’m back here with a post after a long break, but for a special reason. I guess that many people may shower me with loads ‘n’ loads of curses if they got to know that special reason. But am not scared again of those curses and bold enough to put yet again a post to kill you people. Ok.. Ok.. With these idiotic exaggerations ‘n’ mokkai apart… let me come to what I wanted to share with you, without running around the board (I jus love to test your patience…… J)… It’s nothing but that it has been a long 1 year got completed since I started this blog….

Yes, the same day, a year back, sowed a tiny seed by the name ‘Third Eye’ in this evergreen blogging world. At that time, I was not even sure of whether I’ll keep this one alive till this day. Bcoz many things I have started in my life, but a very few out of them are staying alive today. So I feel happy that this blog is able to celebrate its 1^st birthday. For this, maybe I’m one of the most important reasons… but without the kindness of you ppl to accept my writing and the patience of some more to ink their comments, this would not be possible… So I wish to thank you ppl today…

I feel very fortunate to celebrate my blog’s first birthday in a week that is being celebrated as Joy of Giving Week… So let me also get the joy of giving some awards to my blog’s fellow readers… and here I go…

First,

- to Arun who was my biggest inspiration to start this blog and a blogger to follow my posts with his cool comments always… He is one of the coolest blogger that I’ve came across… And I jus love his fictions and stories…

The next award,

-to Kaarthik, who have just written most number of his posts on movies… A blogger who just keep tab on every posts in my blog… Me too on his blog….

This one,

-to Savitha who is one of the most mature blogger that I’ve came across… She is one blogger who just pen every post in her blog for a reason and a meaningful thought embedded in it….

Here is a special award,

-to one of my blog’s ardent reader Murugesh, who never forget to speak about the latest post in my blog every time I speak with him over phone… He cannot be called as critic and even calling him by that would sound funny… so am giving this award to him…

And a final award with a simple note ,

-to many readers of this blog who have made their presence just by their silence and to ppl who were willing to let me know their comments by penning them here in my blog….

So with this joy of giving, let me thank all of my blog’s readers for their patience and hope that I’ll stay alive here in this blogging world forever… J

Cya!!!

A wish came true !!

Many times wished… but never believed that it would come true… nothing much serious I am talking about…  Every time watched a movie in Sathyam Cinemas, wished to see some classic movies in that screen, but never believed it would happen… at last that day came… Yes… it was last morning I watched one of my all time favorite classic ‘Devar Magan’ here in Sathyam…

Whenever I watch or think or talk about this movie, a quick flashback runs in my head… it’s about the first time when I watched this movie… It was my dad who took me, my mom and sis to theatre to watch this movie… If I commit back to my memory, this was the first movie which my dad took us for a movie in theatres…

And the part which comes to my mind is that, my dad having been such well worst with Coimbatore, that day was searching for routes to find the entrance of the theatre… We were just going round-o-round the Archana Theatre….  At last got to find the entrance and when we get into the theatre, the movie has got started already and ‘Potri Paadadi Penne’ was playing out there…. We all four just enjoyed the movie… When we were about to leave the theatre, it was my mom who told that it would be good to watch this movie again… It was she who stood against this movie and wanted to go to Roja…

Coming back from my flashback… Really don’t know the number of times that I have watched this movie… but last morning, it was with same curiosity and interest with which I watched this movie… That’s the magic always some classics bring to us… really an awesome experience… enjoyed each and every frame… especially the emotional conversation between Kamal Hassan and Sivaji Ganesan… In that scene both of them will puzzle us to find the who the best actor is among them… and just can’t remove the frame of Kamal appearing with devar moustache just before the intermission from eyes even now…

Hell a lot of ‘em and things are there to extol in this movie… Kamal’s performance as an actor, story, screenplay & dialogue writer and producer… Sivaji’s awesome performance… Ilayaraja’s Mind blowing score that gives us the exact mood the frame…. And list just goes on….

Hope more such classics will be screened in Sathyam in future…

Am Jus waiting for it….

Friday Fill-In #4

Got the questions for this week from my friend Kaarthik… Thought that he would not send this week also because of his hectic work (bulidup)… but somehow kept up his words… 

I was honest in my answers, but a bit incomplete… So with due apologies, let me start this weeks fill-ins…

1. What incident made you raise ur eye-brow this week?

It was an incident that happened on Sunday… I was driving the car all through from Namakkal to Coimbatore… this is my first long drive…

2. Mention one new thing you learnt this week

Nothing new I learnt this week… but some things aler me that I should train myself to do some financial planning…

3. Which is ur favorite Reality Show?

Reality show… Most of the shows should be called as ‘Reel’ty shows only… n my favorite is Airtel Super Singer and Neeya Nana…

4. Who’s ur most favorite girl in ur class during ur college days?

Most favorite girl… There was a girl… But I just won’t let her name out here…

5. Mention one Kamal Hassan movie u like the most and one you don’t like at all.

I have become such a passionate fan of Kamal Hassan that I just love all his films the most for one or the other reason and my ‘don’t like’ bucket remains empty always!!!

6. How many crushes you have till date and who’s ur fav among them?

Crushes… I don’t have any as such… crushes last for a very short time… I just don’t believe in it… I would just watch the girls whom I like (athu than pa… sight adikarathunu solvaangale… avlothan…).

7. What’s the weekend plan?

And as for the weekend, tonight I’ll be enjoying my office colleague Hari’s treat and may go to Ninaithale Inikkum, tomorrow my plans include washing hell a lot of clothes (damn… I hate it…) and Sunday, I would be watching the special screening of Devar Magan in Sathyam Cinemas.

Friday Fill-In #3

As my friend Kaarthik forgot to come up with his questions for  this week, just picked up some random ones… and before filling in the blanks for this Friday, let me wish a very happy married life to my friends Dhananjeyan, Gopi, & Senthil who are getting married on Sunday…

And here I go…

1. I am very serious about me being not serious in matters where I need to be serious. (Please don’t get serious!).

2. I’m blogging to express myself.

3. Tom & Jerry always makes me smile

4. Right now, I’m listening to Yuvan’s ‘Poi Solla…’ which is one of my all time favorites.

5. Hate to hate. Love to love.

6. When I look at a full moon, I feel being in bliss.

7. And as for the weekend, tonight I’m looking forward to have my travel to my heavenly land Coimbatore, tomorrow my plans include nothing but to spend time @ home and Sunday, I want to attend my friends’ marriage @ namakkal and perundurai!

Happy Friday!!! Cya!!!

யுத்த பூமி!

புத்தம் மதித்த பூமி இருந்தது ஒன்று – அது
சதி யுத்தம் செய்யும் மண்ணானது இன்று.

அங்கு அமைதி போதிக்கும் மந்திர ஓசை ஒலிப்பது நின்று    எங்கும் தமிழீழத்தின் அழுகுரல் மட்டுமே கேட்குது இன்று.

மதம் போற்றி வளர்த்திட திளைத்த நாடே…
ஈழத் தமிழ் மகளின் மானம் காக்க மறுத்ததேனோ??

மதம் தெரிந்த உனக்கு…
கொஞ்சம் மனித நேயமும் தெரியாமல் போனதேனோ???