Sunday, December 25, 2005

The STAR JAMMING ERA begins.....

Yes, its true. Its been in all the best magazines mattermurasu, gana vigadan, paruppu hindu, poimoota express and even in worst times. The STAR guys have started off a new feat and this time its something we have never explored.

The article says.....

Yesterday, late at night maybe about 10.00 PM or so, the deadly duo finally agreed over dinner that they will combine once again to create cacophony history. Yes, we are referring to Kurt JACK and RAM Cobain, the 2 famous star music guys who have spent half their life in singing and learning guitar respectively, but have failed miserably all the times. Anyways, sources say, kurt and cobain decided to meet up for dinner (from garam masala) at kurt's residence. They had a long talk about their respective careers in music.

"This fucker cobain hasnt changed a bit in all these years......he finished off all the chips and biscuts from my cupboard having spilled half of them on the bed. And of course he always wants to finish off my cigarettes, drop ash on the floor and screw my bathroom" claims kurt with a smile.

Their histories have been unforgettable. Kurt jack and ram cobain started their musical tints in star singing gana songs and got exposed to rock during dope times. They were impressed and cobain chose singing and kurt picked up the guitar (but never used it). After the initial split in star they formed their own bands. Cobain joined Mulcha and performed his first live concert in chetpet railway station. Their first album was named "Kazhudhaikku thriyuma Karpura vasanai" targetting kurts split and contained 16 tracks of non stop nonsense. Kurt on the other hand formed his own band with Iyan&Madhi (like simon and garfunkel) as the lead singers and perfomed in the west mambalam station. They released their first album in competition to cobain's and it was named "Pannikku theiryuma ponds powder vasanai" and contained 12 absolutely nonsense tracks as well.

Both the albums failed to hit the box office making only 65 paise and 45 paise in each railway station. Then they dropped their musical careers and proceeded in different directions. BUT that was the story until yesterday night. NOW, they have combined again and the entire music industry is eagerly waiting for the bands name and new release plans. The troup manager and recorder Sottai prasanna has called for a press conference tomorrow at noon. He plans to announce the bands plans for the next year. However, there are romours that the kurt Jack & Ram Cobain duo decided to name the band as "Mooku chali". We asked RAM cobain as to why they chose this name and here's what he has to say......

Press: Mooku chali seems to be a rather disgusting name...How come you guys arrived at this?
Ram Cobain: Well, our music is disgusting as well, but people love it. And every one in this world would have to put up with the real mooku chali at some time. None can escape it. More over the actual reason is based on the fact that cough and cold together cause the real mooku chali, similar to how Ram cobain and Kurt jack would cobine to form the music from our band "MOOKU CHALI"......

There was a huge applause from the surrounding crowd and both finished the autographs for the overwhelming crowd waiting since morning.

Kurt revealed that they had been jamming all night on some nirvana songs and said they put in a lot of efforts to get it to some shape after these longs years of silence.......It was recorded in kurts house with the help of his roomie+manager Sottai prasanna......

Here is a small piece of their first recording.........Enjoy the Mooku Chali guys......

http://www.4shared.com/dir/175562/8e1c6a81/sharing.html

(Click on the file and in the next page go down and click download)

Monday, December 19, 2005

POWER LAUGH 2....

Suchi had written a comment about an episode, which could become one of the best power laughs any time. The CD story.

Scene : In the KK Nagar room, the MCA boys had bought a new computer (supposedly for writing programs). However, the best use of that PC was for porn movies, games , songs and washing out the hard disk once in a while. The dim lit room was not empty....sami, durai, prakash, reddy, guru and me we stuffed into the small room. We just finished watching the porn movie. Just then Ram entered.....

Ram: Machan, ennada enakku wait pannala....neenga pathutteengala
Jack: Otha, nee nenacha nerathukku varuva, naanga unakku wait pannanama
Ram: Seri vidu, CD podu naan thaniya paakaren
Guru: Neeye potukko, engalaala asaya mudiyaadhu
Ram: Himsa pasanga da....CD yenga?
Prakash: Table mela.....
Everyone shifts to balcony for a smoke. After 10 mins.
Ram: Machan, CD work pannala da.
Durai: Dei, ippo thane daa naanga paathom
Ram: Appo neeye vandhu podu
Durai and Prakash Check it out. The CD has been slided in the wrong side.
Prakash: laughs!!! Dei, CD indha pakkam potta eppadi da play pannum
Ram: Dei, yenna kindala. CD vechu, yendha pakkam moonji theriydho, appadi slide pannanum. Yenakku theiryum.....

All this in the second year of MCA.

One more sequence for dear bharatwaj......

Scene: Everyone in KK Nagar room lazily lying down and watching a movie. Our dear bharatwaj was also present. He had just joined in the server team of Citibank. The comp crashed and we got a blue screen.

Prakash: Dei bharat, nee than PC'kku close'a irukka. Reboot pannu da.
Bharat: Clueless. Appadiya. Walks slowly towards the PC
All of us still watching him
Bharat: Pulls the main plug out and then puts it back.
All of us: Dei, edhukku da plug'a pudingina. Reboot dhane panna sonnom. Disk poidum da.
Bharat: Machan, naan server team. Yenakku thriyaadhu, server ellam reboot panna maatom. Appadiye panninaalum, ippadi dhan pannuvom.

If you have an account with citibank and your account shows negative figures.....He's the man to contact....

Tuesday, December 13, 2005

Power Laugh.....

This is a sequence that i am introducing from now. The idea behind this topic is copied from the power nap theory.

By defenition, A power nap is a short nap, usually 30-60 minutes. It is thought by many to maximize the benefits of sleep versus time. This type of sleep pattern may be associated with polyphasic sleep; however, it is more often used to supplement normal sleep, especially when the sleeper has accumulated a sleep deficit.

Since most of the people in this rather mundane and sick world are suffering from laugh defecit disorders, i would like to present "power laughs" to you. All you have to do is to imagine the charecter, the sequence and the dialogue delivery and it will make you power laugh......

Here's a couple of them

A small intro to the MCA boys.

Sami : Claims to be a jamindar from tiruvannamalai (Although i have never seen him change his green thundu, in first year it was knee length, second year thigh revealing, and third year, man i cant say). He has finished MCA, but still doesnt know what it stands for.

Reddy : A typical golti guy who speaks excellent tamil. Their family business was rice mills and reddy resembles a fully loaded rice bag. Would have gone upto 1 Cr for the MCA seat, because he could get that from the dowri. MCA Result never mattered.

Durai : A typical village boy (pillai) from the athipatti. He came with a "manja pay" to stdy MCA. All he owned in the room was 2 tins of shower to shower powder, 1 ameoba shaped jetti and a cartoon painted bedsheet.

Prakash : Supposedly the web wiz kid of MCA group. Forgetfull about everything, once he went out and came back as he dint know where he was heading to. He is a night gear master, always on top speed. Actually forgot why he did MCA and is in export business now.

Ravi : Endhapakkamum sayadha baba. Slightly insane but an excellent singer. Good at studies and resembles "guru-sishyan" prabhu

Guru : The boy with the IIT looks and a well funding dad. Missed IIT by about 9000 ranks, but made it up in physics. Joined MCA and passed out in flying colours red, green and blue. Pretty good in hacking stuffs. He was the one who hacked the professor's account by watching the keyboard for the 3 charecter password.

The scene is in a dim lit pub where sami and i meet for a drink.....

Saminathan : Dei jackie.....enga da Mr. KNK ooru'la irukkara illiya..
Jackie: Illa machan, poland poirukkaru....vela vishayama
Saminathan : Oh, appadiya....All india tour'a
Jackie: Speechless......

One more

Scene is when guru and sami are driving across ashok pillar......sami explores other options

Saminathan: Machan, pesaama indha MCA'va vittutu, oru "Multi Cousin" restaurant open pannalam'nu paakaren.
Guru: Adhu ennada "Multi Cousin" restaurant
Saminathan: Dei, adhu dhan rendu moonu cousins sendhu aramippangale, adhu dhan "multi cousin" restaurant.....
Guru: Saniyane, adhu "Multi Cuisine" da.....

Last one

The scene is in the bachelor's room in KK Nagar, all the MCA boys jackie, reddy, sami, prakash ,durai and Ravi are sitting and discussing the college vetti matter about "Muthu lakshmi". This babe was like a crow peeping out of a tar can.

Prakash: Pasangala, news theriyumaa....Muthu lakshmikku kalyanamam hehehehe
Sami: Dei, maaplai yaaru da
Guru: Maaplai Abu dhabi'am, pesikaraanga
Reddy: Yaaru da avan, Abu dhaabi!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Everyone: Baffled...speechless
Jackie: Dei reddy, *(&(*)&()&)(*()**@$#%@&....Abu dhaabi oor peru da, aal peru illa.
Reddy: Amam da, neenga tamil nadu'la edhavadhu ooru per solluveenga, naan andhra, enakku eppadi da theriyum
Everyone:Loud laughs....
Dorai: Dei reddy, unakku matter theriyaadha, shiek pasangalukku karuppu ponunga na romba pidikkumam.....(dorai thought she was marrying a sheik from abu dhaabi)
Everyone: give up man, these guys are freaking....:)

Hilarious......more power laughs to come....

Monday, December 12, 2005

8th sector ground

Eighth sector, considered the mecca of K. K. Nagar cricket by many pundits, was the official home of the Star gang. Many of the star members had to sign a contract to play there, much on the same lines as Tendulkar's with Yorkshire. People from allover were signing up and considered it an honour to play with the elites of Murugesh anney, Siva anney, Sundar anney, Vijayan anney, Palani anney, Logu and others. The game starts promptly at 4:00. The senior side was captained by Sundar or Logu and their counterpart from the Juniors also varied from Iyer Balaji to Ram to Lawyer at various points in time. We also had a commentator in Nerambadi Venky who wanted to be the next Harsha Bogle. Iyan was a long time spectator from commentator box (Venky's house) before he turned into a star opener for the junior team.
The games were a fifteen, eighteen or twenty overs depending on the light conditions.

Captain Iyer Balaji was a shrewd leader. If he wins the toss, he asks me to open. If he looses, he hands the ball to me. And I didn't mind that a bit. Infact as an allrounder I deserved it. I was the then Irfan Pathan of 8th sector. Iyer had a lot of faith in me and I responded aptly with a flurry of 2Gs, 3Gs and boundaries or a handful of wickets in my opening spell. Ok if you are still laughing, I swear I never had to bribe him the "Otha rooba" for the "aatu kal soopu" or for the "kenathadi sithal".

The game thus begins with pressure building up as it proceeds. Everyone got a fair chance as the captain rotated the players by retiring the batsmen after a few overs.

Each day saw controversies about wides, no balls, scoring and other bad umpiring decisions. Sometimes the controversies end when Murugesh explains the situations with his immense "logic" drawing parabola's and hyperbole's to indicate the direction of the ball... He also makes sure that nobody gets a by-runner if he is not hurt inside the game. Sometimes it required the wisdom of Sundar to give a fair decision based on the arguement of the two sides. Sometimes Logu's gentlemanly gesture stopped the problem. But the game never ceased as we reached an agreement one way or the other.

The finishes were always nailbiting with Hari's towering sixes or Priyath's big innings after an initial slump. Venky added spice with his aggressive attitude and walk-outs abusing the captain for not giving him a fair chance to prove his mettle. Jackie was the Robin Singh of the team. Mookan was another poular opener. Lawyer was one down batsmen who was always on a lean patch. We also had Azhar (kutti hari) who was stylish and considered a prodigy. Kunju was the paceman with a late order role to play in the batting. Venky was the regular keeper in the begining of every game only to be replaced by Iyan after a catch drop.

The Exnora kuppa thotti was the gallery for the players. Some came just for the cigarettes and Pan parag. We also had celebrity visitors like Selvaraghavan of Kadhal Konden. Our own Ballu and Kadir were keen spectators.

Although we won almost all the games. There was no shortage of excitement every evening. A fond memory. This prepared us for the Flood light matches where we lost invariably because of over overconfidence.

Here is the Senior Team. Have a look and tell me if this is funny or not.
Sundar
Palani
Logu (c)
Vijayan
Murugesh
Siva
Palani Jr
Ajayan
Chandra
Raja
a few others.

Thursday, December 08, 2005

Raging Ragoo & tamed Rajesh

To those who did not notice, yesterday I had to withdraw the two columns Gajini and Ragoo after I learnt that a few sentiments were tested by my sharp pencil (so I call my writing).
After an agreement I have posted them again, with strikethroughs at various places.

Now I have come back to acknowledge that my exagerrations were way over the top and represent nothing close to reality. "Ragoo" was spelt thus not only to give an effect. It was a conscious decision taken by yourstruly to fictionalise a real life Raghu and elevating him (some say degrading) to a reel life character.

Default Disclaimer
The characters represented in this and all the stories in this blog are about 85% fictional and maybe 15% original. The imagination is introduced purely to induce humour to readers. Please don't mistake me. This is the default disclaimer for the entire blog.

Apology
While Raghu is one of our own, I should not have thrown caution to wind, while replying to Latha's post which also bore no ill-intensions. Sorry Latha, if I have hurt you. I acted out of excitement and regret every bit of it.

Comments
Also you may have missed the comments section of "Ragoo". I am just including them inline for ease of those of you who have no time to read the comments. Raghu has lashed out at me pretty hard and it should not go unheard. Here they go.

Well I meekly surrender instead of responding. Satyameva Jayathey. Truth alone triumphs.
Anonymous said...
You have spotted my change well though you have exaggerated beyond propotions at times. Sad that you havent noticed me changing again. Wish you could write some fair blogs as well.Ragoo
1:24 PM

Anonymous said...
Nicely written though nothing new to know.Edhaelam oru talent da...But indha chamathu paiyan vechu enkita star gumbal meter potadha..decenta cut panitiyae..Rajesh...apparently change is inevitable. Heard the story about you transforming from a heavy drunkard to a pious family man now... after the unforgettable event at raghavedra hospital...Andha Raghavendra hospital mattera..konjam detaila ezhudhina....unmai nalu peruku theriyum......Lathu.
12:44 AM

Ram said...
this blog issue is the best so far only after andys fibnocci series......Raghuvoda transition can be compared to that of Ambi to Remo......only a few have succeded in this and our ragu is one.Very good fight back by Ragu and co in the comments section.Latha rajesha pathi avane ezhutha matan namma yaravathu than atha konjum sabaiku vellakanum....Mothathil Ragoo Bramandam
2:17 AM


Rajesh Raghupati said...
Ragoo,Please list the exaggerations. Infact writing about you did not require exaggeration. I have not witnessed your changing again "whatever that you have changed to".Lathoo, Enna pathi naaney ezhudhardhu konjam nalla irukaadhu. Unkitta meter potaangannu sollariye. Neeye TNagar busstandla social service pannindu irundha. Un kitta enna meter. Maximum Kaushik oru 100Rs vangiruppan. Ellarkum Ragoo pannina sadhikku, it is no compensation.Un frienda kuda vittu vekkaliyey avan. Appovuma unakku puriyala? As I said "Such was his talent"
5:32 PM

Ram said...
Intha matteru konjam for loopla poguthu end the loop ASAP. ovaru vattiyum word verification vera
2:31 AM

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2:32 AM

Anonymous said...
Rajesh,"The amazing thing is, how easily he moved from one girl to the other and made each one believe that he was a honest, caring, loving and responsible guy. Little did they know that he was only looking for one besant nagar trip." - This is BULLSHIT. Its completely your imagination and probably what you wanted to do in life. You dont have any clue about anything that happened. If you really have something to prove...then please state else remove it.Raghu.
8:57 AM

Anonymous said...

9:00 AM
Valasarwalkam Chitra was your girlfriend and you didnt have the nuts to talk to her because of your complex and as a friend i went to help you. There is nothing more and you know about it. This is another one of your imagination.Raghu
Anonymous said...
BTW...none of us had that INR100 at that time and we had to meter latha. If you had also you didnt give it to us. Yep... i have repaid enough to her and its time for you to apologise for ridiculing that gesture today.Raghu
9:02 AM

Anonymous said...
" Ellarkum Ragoo pannina sadhikku.." No general comments pls...be responsible for what you are writing. Its too easy to make such statements... Think once again if you want to take it back... else prove it.Raghu
9:05 AM

Anonymous said...
Can you please tell me as to what happened between me and "Kaushik's Swetha"? . You seem to know better about me than myself. As far as i know i javent even spoken to her.
9:07 AM

Anonymous said...
"Kavitha (5th sector)"... i know that such a girl existed as anybody else. What else i have got to do with her? Can you please explain? Once myself and kdir asked for a fvour from her...and that is it. If you know something more, please let me know as well. Even i guess you would accept your mistake here.Raghu
9:09 AM

Anonymous said...
"Kadir's Nandita"... oh my god! she is our classfriend and what more was between us?Whom ever you have claimed to have been affected by me are all very good friends of mine still today. If you are using to medium to express your own perspective and imagination, then i have no issues. That cannot become fact / truth. If you want to argue that everything stated in this blog are facts then i am open for any discussion.Raghu
9:18 AM

Anonymous said...
Madi veetu Savitha was a very good friend of mine and we were family friends... infact you guys were taking pains to go all the way to panagal park to get a glimpse of her and notorious with her.Do you have any information that i proposed to her or i promised all those things that you have stated in your blog?
9:22 AM

Anonymous said...
I really dont want to comment anything about shoba here... that is after you have proved all the above.Raghu


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Wednesday, December 07, 2005

Daud hai.....

Its been a day since i wrote a blog. Of course, i wasnt busy with work but i had some other petty issues to resolve like shaving, taking bath, paying rent and other bills etc. Now, i'm back and this time around we need to take a walk thru some of the most eventfull star days.

The day was kadir's birthday. And we wanted to celebrate. When we said this to kadir as usual we received a completely unexpected response in his husky dusky voice "dei.....namma enna ghandhiya, namma porandha naal'a kondaada....maap'la namma indha ulagathu vandhu enna saadichom"....my instant response was "dei kadir, engalukkum theriyum nee porandhadhu oru waste'nnu, ivvalo naal illadha indha vetti thought ippo edhukku".......kadhir started rubbing his half grown beard (a sign he used when he is in deep thought)....."seri innikki enga annan padam release, adha paaka povom, appadiye thanniyum poduvom......By "his annan, he meant sanjay dutt in DAUD"....(yaarukku yaaru annan......u should have looked at his actual bro...sambandhame illa)....anyways, we dint want to dissapoint him. The gang was all set. Kadhir, jackie, kaushik, balaraman, bharath, eeyan and ram.......

We entered the humungous theatre well known to chennai as a "Jothi, bit theatre". Its name is derived from the small "bit" clips of nude fat women and grotesque men twisting each others monkey tits and rubbing the butt occasionally, sometimes also kissing the knee (i never knew how people can watch this horror show). However, the chennai crowd always welcomes a free "bit" and the theatre was a big hit in the low class crowds. DAUD was released in jothi too....We never knew why ,maybe because the theatre owners saw some semi nude pictures of urmila and thought it was sex movie......whatever the case, it was there and it was housefull.

As usual we knew we had to make efforts to get tickets, so we were looking out for black ticket sellers. The black ticket sellers were marked with a difference. Some of the traits to look for, they always wore the collar up, they had a wet hankey hanging somewhere, they spit thrice every 2 seconds and they are always sweating (as can be seen from their shirt). Eeyan and I were browsing the crowd with shrewed eyes when we locked in on a person. His back was facing us and all qualities matched, we knew we had found the guy. Slowly we approached him and every step made us more and more sure on our hit rate. When we stepped in to see this guy's face we were astonished...it was a shock....it was dear Ram.....with his cohllar up and spitting "pan parag" and clumsily holding a cig in his hand. Iyan and I exchanged looks and laughed aloud making ram wonder.

By that time our marked salesman kaushik had already got the tickets. Kaushik would let go of anything in life for watching sex movies. He was an addict, but this time around his views coincided with the theatre owner. He too thought it was a sex movie. But he got the tickets anyways from a man, who was very much similar to whom we had spotted...:)

Now, we wanted some fuel before we went in for the movie. It was a hot day and dusty too with crowds pouring in to show what "jothi theatre" has to offer them. We spotted a nearby wine shop and decided to take a "cutting". A cutting in star terms was a 90 ml of corrupt and duplicate liquor. The water packets should be used as a medium for mixing the drink (no stirrers) and then one gulp. This was a process and it was relegiously followed by each one of us. But after the liquor was in, each exhibited a different style. Eeyan for one would have his eyes (like vijayakanth in vaidhegi kaathirundhal) and rub his finger over the lips. Bharath on the other hand would smell the hair of the guy next to him (whether he knows him or not). The very fact of seeing ram gulp was a sooper scene (guys...do you remember)......

So, we all bought the drink of our choice. The seasoned drunks were kadir, me, bharath and eeyan. So, we all had a old monk quater each. Ballu was just swinging his initial drinking spree (i will write a seperate blog for this) but wanted to expand his limit. I protested saying "ballu, nee first oru cutting adi, apparom innoonu vaangu", and he responded saying "enakku evalo kudikanam, evalo kudikka kudaadhu nu theiryum, nee moodu". So, without a choice we fed ballu with a quater. We all had our drinks quickly and rushed to the theatre.

We were all sweating and smelling of old monk + cig + mixture + oorga, man for some time even the theatre toilet was smelling better :). The movie started and bharath was shocked. "Ennada ellarum hindi la pesaraanga......" poor fellow thought it was an english movie and ram had already spit some thing on the floor and formed a nice wet smelling patch. Eeyan had no clue and neither did kaushik and me but we tried to focus urmila's boobs. Kadir was busy watching his brother in action and you should see the smile on his face. He really thought he was sanjay dutt. Poor fellow, all we could do was hear it for him. But, all thru our man balaraman was quitely resting his face on the front chair.

With a sudden bang came the song "DAUD HAI....DAUD HAI...." and the next minute we could see 2 people running. ONe was sanjay dutt in the movie and the next was ballu in the theatre. We all thought we are dreaming. Then the third one followed kaushik. Confused, we walked down to the bathroom. We could see ballu puking with a loud noise and kaushik was holding him. Without reaction we came back. This was very common to us. Ballu came back and sat down. After some time the song began again "DAUD HAI....DAUD HAI...." and ballu was back in action. In total we figured out finally that ballu had a pretty decent role to play in the movie. He finished with 5 times (5 times the song appears in the movie) and was dehydrated.

We dint want to go home but we forced ourself to go and freshen up and get ready for the evening. We all assmbled evening in PARK wines nungambakkam for saminathan's treat for going to US. The modd was getting dull because of the busy afternoon. We were all wishing him good luck, when bharath chose to be a little different. He said "saaminathaaaa...US poriya...seri...seri....nalla enjoy pannu.....BON JOVI". Poor bharathwaj actually meant "BON VOYAGE".....we all started laughing aloud and it still remains bharaths ever green comedy. Ball was back with "voboodhi" and drank pepsi. He had tasted the bitterness of hangover yet again. We all finished up and decided to go to the beach.

Meantime, somethings were happening in the back ground. Hari had joined the party too. And all of you know that hari's father was a more shrewd than a CBI agent. He was always on the prowl looking for his sons whereabouts and trying to spy on his activities. He and the bajaj scooter were inseperable. By the time we were having dinner he had already made some 15 calls to my house asking for hari. He was well aquainted with my grandmom, after the 6th call and then knew my mom as well by the 15th call. His opinion was clear, if he is not seeing his son by 11, he's gonna call the police saying that his son was missing. We really wished he was missing but never materialized :)

After dropping hari and ram, i was back home when i saw hari's dad waiting on the scooter on my gate. More like a watchman. He asked "yanpa...ungalukku than responsibility illa, harikku irukku paa....please avana unga set'lendhu cut pannidunga..." i wanted to laugh aloud but controlled myself. I said "its fine uncle, i have dropped him home"....he said "yennatha fine'o" and in a flash he was gone like a bird......

I was begining to notice something weird on my terrace walls. It was monkey i though, but i had never seen one before. Thinking it was the drinks doing some tricks and getting some scoldings from my mom, i went upstairs to check it out. I still saw the figure and it was making some awkward noise. It was too big for a monkey though. It reminded me of the 3 monkeys (kettadhai paarkaadhe, kettadhai pesaadhe and kettadhai kekaadhe). When i took a closer look, it was eeyan. Fucker was sitting on the terrace wall in the monkey posture like the 4th monkey (vaandhi edukkadhe) and facing the road and puking. Man, it was scene. We dint have digital cameras then, else it would have made a great wall paper.

After that we went to sleep....realising that an eventfull star day has ended....It was a fast day which ran off so quickly....its just "DAUD HAI....DAUD HAI..."

Gajini - A remake.

CAST
Ragoo
Lathoo
Savitha
Annachi
Bharath and Suchi (guest appearances)
Madhi
Kabali

The movie starts off with Latha , a medical student (this itself is a big joke) who wants to do a project on patients with brain damage. Her perusal through the files on brain patients leads her to one 30 year old Ragoo Ramaswamy. Ragoo suffers from anterograde amnesia, a condition wherein a person is not able to convert short term memory into long term, due to some head injury. Ragoo's memory lasts 15 minutes.

Latha expresses her desire of doing her project based on Ragoo’s condition to her professor. The professor tells her that it might not be a good idea, since Ragoo’s case is still an unproven police case, and if she gets entangled with him, then it might prove to be disastrous to her career. Latha gives up her idea, and the storyline switches to Ragoo.

Ragoo is busy bashing up an unidentified person played by Kabaali (cycle kadai). After killing him, Ragoo takes out a set of photographs, and tries to identify him. He takes out the photograph of the person whom he killed and crosses it out. (Into mark)

The police detects the crime and comes out with full force to unearth the murderer. The police officer, played by Suchinder, gets a bus ticket from the scene. On its backside, he notices that someone has written 3/100. He makes a vow that he will get to the person who committed the murder in a few days time.

In the meantime, we get to know that Kabali, whose boss Annachi is worried about the fact that he is the second person killed within a week.

The story again goes back to Ragoo, who uses another set of photographs to get back to his house. He identifies his flats as well as the watchman using Polaroid photographs. He enters his flat in RK Shanmugam Salai, and his house is full of maps and photographs. His daily life is a struggle and we also get to know that his ultimate aim is to kill Annachi. To get to his ultimate aim, he uses photographs and body tattoos to keep track of various events in his life, since he knows that he would forget things in 15 minutes.

Meanwhile, the police played by Suchinder, identifies the conductor of the bus who issued the tickets retrieved from the murder scene. The conductor says that he can identify the person. Suchi manages to get to Ragoo’s flat, and after a surprise attack, manages to overpower him and tie him to a chair.

Our intelligent cop Suchi, starts searching the house. He stumbles on a diary of the year 2002. He opens it to find a photograph of Ragoo as a handsome guy, unlike the present state. He starts reading the diary, and that’s how we come to know of Ragoo's past.

The diary tells the story of Ragoo Ramaswamy, owner of PCO booth and Travel Agency inherited from his father Mr. Ramaswamy. He has huge plans for India, and is busy building a financial empire. The diary also speaks of many girls - one of them is Savitha, a small time ad-model, who is struggling to make it big.

A small confusion by the employees of Ragoo forces Savitha to feign in front of producers that she is the girlfriend of Ragoo. Savitha is able to get better roles and is achieving what she had aspired for, until the news is broken by a magazine. Ragoo is furious to learn about it and goes to meet his so called girlfriend. On the way, he sees Savitha helping a few handicapped children and falls for her, without knowing the fact that she is the girl who has spread rumors about him.

When he reaches the studio where Savitha is doing her shootout, he recognizes the girl. Savitha had not seen Ragoo before and she mistakes him for a struggling poor actor. Ragoo plays along and they become good friends. Many hilarious situations follows and we see that Ragoo is falling in love with Savitha. On New Years eve, Ragoo confesses his love to Savitha, who asks for sometime to tell her decision. Ragoo tries to take her to Besant Nagar.

The diary ends here, and Suchi bewildered for not getting the entire story starts searching frantically for the diary of the year 2003. As he is about to start reading, as Ragoo breaks free and ties up Suchi after some stunt scenes.

With no one after him, Ragoo makes another attempt at killing Annachi, only to kill another of his gang member Madhi, who divulges to Annachi that someone is trying to kill him before dying. Annachi goes about killing anyone who was his enemy including Dravida Mani and Pudur Karna, but still he has an intuition that his attacker is still at large.

Meanwhile, Latha stumbles upon Ragoo and befriends him. On one such occasion, she goes to his flat, and finds it unlocked and unoccupied.

She goes about searching the house, and learn of the murderous intent of Ragoo, she also finds Suchi gagged in one of the cupboards. Ragoo enters the scene, and starts chasing Suchi, who meets with an accident while he is on the run and dies. Now, Ragoo starts following Latha, who makes use of Ragoo’s amnesia to escape from him.

Latha is unaware of the real facts, and goes and meets with Annachi to tell him the details of the person who had made many attempts to kill him. With the identity of his to be nemesis in hand, Annachi plots to kill Ragoo. But Ragoo has other ideas, and he lands in Annachi's shop, only to realize that Annachi has an identical twin. Before he can make a note of it, Latha calls Annachi to tell him to destroy her photograph that Ragoo had to identify her as his friend or hand it over to her. But it was Ragoo picks up the call and notes her address.

Ragoo reaches Latha’s hostel and attempts to accost her. Instead he is trapped, and taken into police custody.

Now comes the dialogue of the movie. The police chief played by Bharath, looks at the tattoos in Ragoo's body and says, “All these numbers are 10 digit, so they must be cell phone numbers. If we call these numbers, we can get his identity.”

One of the phone numbers is that of Annachi, who is forced to pose as his friend. Just then Ragoo’s doctor and lawyers appear and take him home.

Annachi attacks him at his home, but he is unable to kill him, due to the fear of police getting back to him as he has earlier made a statement to police that he was Ragoo’s friend. So he decides to wipe all evidences from Ragoo’s life which would link him to Ragoo. So he destroys all photographs, maps and defaces the tattoos.

Latha suddenly remembers that she had taken the diary from Ragoo’s house. I think she was also suffered a bout of amnesia and forgot about the diary. So she starts reading it.

Now the viewers learn the remaining part of Sanjay’s story.

Savitha also confesses that she is in love with him, and they decide to marry. Even now, Ragoo had not revealed his true identity to her, and as he was about to do that, he gets a call to attend an urgent meeting in 1st sector. Savitha also gets a call to attend a shooting in Mumbai.

The diary ends here. Latha is moved by Ragoo’s story and investigates. She sees a news article on one of the old newspaper she unearthed at the library, which leads her to a school kid as well as a female police office. They tell her the remaining story.

On her way to Mumbai, Savitha rescues a set of girls who were being taken to Mumbai to be sold. Her rescue attempts and daredevilry is praised by the media, but incurs the wrath of Annachi, who lost money due to Savitha’s benevolent attitude.

Ragoo returns and is about to reveal his true identity, only to find that Savita is being attacked by the gang. He tries in vain to save her. Annachi kills Savitha and hits Ragoo on his bald head and Ragoo immediately faints.

After reading the story, Latha is filled with remorse, and what follows now is utter mayhem. I lost track of the movie after it, since it was plain masala stuff. To say it in simple words, with Latha’s help Ragoo tracks the villain and hands him over to Bharath IPS.

The story ends. After which Ragoo regains his memory but the hair never grows. Incidently Latha falls in love for his bald head and they both move to Holland and live happily. Ragoo now has a different Vyadi. This is his due to the sexual exploits that he was involved in during his 15 minute memory relapses.

ceRAMic

The effect of Bharath's fibonacci, if it has to be undone, is achievable only by releasing my trump card - Peengan. Lakshmanaswami Mudaliar Salai is home to many a middleclass families and the one in discussion (henceforth refered to as Peengan) is no different.

A joint family of two brothers, Vishwanathan & Ramamoorthy (or whatever) live in a house at the centre of Lakshmanaswamy Salai - exactly the midpoint between Alagiriswamy Salai and RK. Shanmugam Salai. The house had a huge frontyard with fully grown trees and a decent building where the two families were living happily for several years. But there was some mystery to the house.

No, I am not talking about the malhandling of the Pamban Kuzhu finances that were dwindled while Mr Ramamoorthy was Treasurer for buying the house. That is a totally different subject. We don't want to touch that. We shall leave it to the son of the Kuzhu's president (Ragoo Ramaswamy) to investigate.

The mystery was something different. It was not obvious to onlookers. From outside it was yet another bungalow.

All of us had to cross Peengan to get to Star. Even those who lived far away frequented the route after a game in the 8th sector Maidhan. Once in a while we would stop at Peengan to speah with him. For many years, nobody was allowed beyond the gate. Not even close friends. The Peengan remained a secret. Whoever wanted to meet Ram was dealt with at the gate. Even water was provided only at the gate. The security was so tight that White House used it as a proof of concept.

Finally, one fine day, I was able to breach all the security and get inside Peengan. Whe I came out, I was stunned with astonishment. I was just witness to the 8th Wonder of the World.

Every room was aesthetically designed. But that was not what caught my eye. (I am having goosebumps as I write it.) Each room had an attached bath. In all there were three bedrooms but seven bathrooms. There were only six people in the house. It beats me why there were seven bathrooms. Raman later told me that his periyappa had future in mind when he designed the house.

Each bathroom had a different colour and style of commode. But the common ground was ceramic (peengan in tamil). If I am not mistaken, one enters the house through the bathroom. The entry bathroom had a traditional Indian style Kakoos - nevertheless made of ceramic.

If Taj Mahal was made of marble, this one was made of the highest quality ceramic. Why not, I thought and appealed to the Guiness Records. They recently have added Peengan into two categories.
1. Wonders of the world.
2. Maximum number of bathrooms in 2400 sqft including commercial public toilets.

PS:- Parryware also awarded the most valued customer award to the family.

Tuesday, December 06, 2005

Our Mom's Meet...

Today seems to be entirely a blog day, i have been blogging from the morning but still seem energetic and motivated after our star guys discussions.

Me and suchi have been friends from class 9. But even today when i talk about suchi my mom asks about his mom and the vice versa. The reason is, the incident which made them meet seem to have created an everlasting impression on each other for how they brought up their kids, which was me and suchi.

It was not a normal meeting, in fact they met when suchi and I got suspended from school in class 12. They became good friends after having waited outside the principal's office to collect our detentions and together listen to the story of the valour and strength displayed by their sons. The sad thing was that there should have beem more mom's, but unfortunately me and suchi were the only scape goats. Here's the story....

After our evening football session me, kaushik, suchi, koodu, T.N Aravind and Potlam (R.Karthik) were winding up to go home. We were planning for our regular meet in saravana bhavan for the veg meals (of course with "extra everything" for kaushik). We were in the school cycle stand and Suchi was seated in a quite new BSA deluxe as though he owned the cycle and the company which produced it......In our terms we called it "verrappa ukandhan".....and we were around stading near him.

A junior (10th i guess) who looked like he was born to a crow and cockoroach mix came by and started staring at suchi. Suchi was staring back at him. Finally we realised that this boy owned the cycle which suchi was sitting on. By that time it was late, that boy had abused suchi saying "thevidiya paiyya, erangu da cycle vittu"......he actually though suchi was alone as we were standing a little apart as a different gang. Suchi, even though was harmless by nature, looked like a third grade stunt man those times......he jumped out of the cycle abusing the boy, his mom, his dad and the entire family. He seemed to have a never ending dictionary of words for these purpose. Soon we joined the fight and abused the boy. Had there been a GRE/TOEFL on bad words, we would have got green card in US by this time.

T.N Aravind, was a nervous boy, and well known for his phyco acts (although until the end we never knew suchi was behind it). He slapped and pushed the boy. This "kaka" boy pushed aravind back and that was enough to trigger the fight. Suchi kicked him and the cycle. Koodu came rushing to stop the fight but ended up pushing the boy again. Me and kaushik had our go verbally. Why, even potlam was aggressive. Then we let the boy go. He was crying and started turning the handle bar of the cycle making his way home. We sat and discussed the whole issue, the more we talked about it the more angry we got, how the fuck can a junior come and abuse a senior like that. That too suchi.......not done boys. Lets get up and give him a better lesson.

So, we took our cycles and followed him until we caught him on the busy "amman kovil" bus stop. We stopped him, got him out of the cycle, slapped him again. This time it was aravind. Then suchi pulled out the air from his cycle furiously. I think such was now abusing his great grand father or something......Kaushik and koodu had gone to drink "pazha rasam" from the opposit store. The boy left the place with a torn shirt, disfigured cycle and a slighly swollen face. He resembled an angry crow with its feather sticking out. I gave him 1 re and asked him to fill in air, and not to mess around again. Later i realised that this arsehole had given my name too.

The next day the entire school was talking about our gang's exploits. This gave us an even more "getthu" we had the looks of "dont mess around with us types"......The day was ending when the intercom flashed the announcement. Suchinder and Anand from 12F1 please come to the principal's office. We looked at each other and that instant we knew what we were called for. But we were still happy because the day was almost ending and no suspension that day. So, we walked hand in hand (proud of what we had done) to the principal's office.

There we saw my mom and suchi's mom were already there and chatting happily about something (maybe discussing what their sons role was...my son hit him on the jaw, it was my son who pulled the air out etc). And they gave us an ugly stare (like the are you my son types). We went into the office and then saw the boy and his dad. My instant reaction was our guess of the the boys dad. He indeed resembed a cockroach. After an hour of howling and advices we finally got away with a warning slip each (this was our scholorships, the more we had the better we were).

After coming out of the principal's room, my mom and suchi's mom were still chatting and thus began their never ending friendship....

Fibonacci Series....

Forgive me people, i am not trying to prove my mathematical and programming wizardary in this blog. However, there is an interesting coincidence that i would like to present to our star guys.

The fibonacci series is an ancient number series for representing the golden section of nature. The series as you can see is represented as

0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, 233, 377, 610, 987 and so on.....

But for now, we are bothered only about the first 6 of them....

0....1....1....2....3.....5

In the past several artists and architects ,biologists and scientists have done various work in representing the golden ratio. For example, da vince had several of his paintings maintaing the golden ratio. Leaf arrangements and natural shells preserve the golden ratio and so on. All thru these years people contributed in some way to depict , understand and preserve the golden ratio.

So, did our man bharatwaj, even though he was just a small time mathematics student if not in stanford at least in our AMJain college......He had his will power and dedication behind him for representing the golden fibonacci series in his style. And the best part is unlike da vinci and mother nature, he dint have to strive hard at all.

It was his tribute for the fibonacci series although he never knows fibonacci or what work he did.

I am not joking my dear men, i am not at all joking. Yes, our man bharatwaj had the above fibonacci series as his 2 year BSC marksheet. And yes, its in the same order.

o, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5

Here we see that even small people can contribute to the work of great mathematicians.....

long live our math wizard bharatwaj......we are honoured to have him as our friend.....

Monday, December 05, 2005

Gramatically....

Guys, i'm back. Its been a depressing 72 hours since i visited the blog site. Not that i was having a meeting with bill gates, but i was busy doing some funny stuffs. Anyways, we had this discussion today about updating some exploits of our college days.

The college where i studied my under grad was A.M.Jain college. It was famous in its own respects. The only college where you can get away with ragging at a nominal fee of 2 Rs or buy a plate of "bajji" and tea for the ragger. The most expensive ragging is to buy a full bottle of old monk for 10 seniors and imagine all these idiots got drunk after just smelling it. But, everything said and done, AMJain was like a resort for us. By us, i mean Bharathwaj, Ram and me. Our total attendence put together in the college would be less than 25 hours in 3 years.

So, after our 12th standard exams, we 3 were in different situations. I had 80% and no hopes for engineering and neither for Bsc (you are denied a seat because the arts college folks think you might move into engineering later). Bharath had a total of 49% in 12th, which his mom claims was because of his "thonda ganam , manda ganam and fever" although for bharath it was still his highest total ever achieved till date. Ram had a modest 60+ and was clear he was entitled to become the next ramanujam (mathematician). The common thing between all of us were, we all got a seat in AM Jain not in merit but thru recommendation. Even for that shit, we needed reco and finally after some begging crying and cribbing we got a seat.

There was our first year exams and we hardly ever knew the syllabus. The first if i remember was english. That day, we met, had some tea and cigarettes and set out for writing our first Bsc exams. Bharath looked absolutely studious, with vibhoodhi and a few books. Ram was there in his violet pants (which he thought made him a pitaji setji) and i was on with t-shirt and a trouser (torn in bottom). Lucky it was, it made me pass my exams, but just pass remember.

The bell had hardly rung and i see bharath had a flying start, he was the only guy who borrowed extra sheets when the exam started. He made his point, he dint want to waste time in waiting for extra sheets later. Ram dint even bother to look up at us, he seemed he had a job to do and i was clueless looking at the question paper. It was meant to be for 6th standard students. But, everyone was happy because it was an easy paper. It was hardly 2hours, when bharath me and ram handed over our papers to the prof and came out.

Man, you should have seen the joy in our faces.....bharath had the look as though he had just got thru IIT and ram was joyous. I was confused because i expected a better standard from the paper (my marks dint reflect them however:)) So, i started off saying, "Guys what do you think about the paper....something is terribly wrong"......Ram said "dei, shut your trap, the paper was easy and lets just celebrate" bharath added "machan, this paper cannot cross 6th std...hehehe"......

So, slowly we started discussing the paper and the it came to point when the laugh was unbearable. This was the question that was asked, imagine the state of the university where a panel deicdes on grammar questions for first year undergrad......Even oxford would hang its head in shame, our guys were tough.....

Question

Fill in with OR, ER or AR

"MOT _ _"

Man, i was telling ram, "machan , this question was intolerable. How could they think we were so freaking stupid"........

Ram said "yeah i agree, even for my gill adarsh english it looked funny....BTW, its MOTER right" I was in a state of shock, just the way you are now. I dint know how to react, should i laugh at this joke or should i feel bad for this little man who has grown up almost half his life without knowing the spelling of motor. It was confusing....really confusing....For a moment i thought, god thanks to my mom and dad for getting me educated in a CBSE.....Then i told Rama, this is atrocious, you cant say this....eppadi da MOTER nnu ezhudhina".......

Then came much awaited response from our man. Bharathwaj, who was quietly staring at me all thru this conversation. I bet, anyone near me would have burst into laughter and never recovered. But bharath was serious. He then giggled and said "Machan, i was confused with this question whether it was MOTOR or MOTER, so i took the question in choice" and i looked at the choice question "It was phrases and clauses".......I need not talk more about it, you must be laughing your way now.......

Those were the days when we happily enjoyed our english exams. BTW, i passed with 66%, ram was close with 45% or so, and bharath i dont have to say.....he retook the exams in end september.....:)

Friday, December 02, 2005

Ragoo - Late Puberty, Lasting Ecstasy

From an orthodox beginning to a lifestyle that Howard Stern would envy, our Baldraman has shown that transformation is possible.

A responsible middle-class Bhramin that he was, Ragoo always sported a veshti and aformal shirt from a very young age of 12. No one has ever seen him in "ara drayer" (shorts) or full pant outside school. Righteousness was written all over his face.

He ridiculed people who smoked or drank. All he knew was Panchamrithan, Palani, Pamban and Lord Muruga and school. After High School, Ballu wanted to join Electronic Engineering and was very eligible for a seat in one of the million colleges that were opened (Vel's Colege, JJ College, St. Peters). Disapointed that he had to pay a huge capitation fee to realize the dream of becoming an Engineer, he quickly decided against it. Inspired by Cheta (as told earlier), his besant nagarchithappa and murali athan, Ragoo chose CA. That was the end.

Soon Ballu was out of the shell. He mingled with girls from all over the city and started enjoying their company. Thanks to the CA institute. Although Ballu had a small crush during his pious early years with a girl name Swarna - he had his first kiss with her - (don't want to reveal anything more) , he felt this newfound interaction with girls very interesting. As a CA student, he had to do apprenticeship and he chose his own uncle's company "Sthapathya". There, I don't know whether he learnt anything that would help him in his academics, Ragoooooo soon learnt the tricks of smoking, drinking and gambling.

With dhum, thanni and now kuttis Ballu quickly shed his conservative outlook and started wearing shorts, T-Shirts and sports shoes. I have never seen him play sports even as a child.

Riding on his vehicle of choice (red Kinetic), he soon set out looking for girls everywhere. His destination of chice was ..... Yes, you guessed it right. Besant nagar beach. Ragooo used to sit there alone singing "Kaalai mudhal ... Maalai varai... Kashmir Roja kootam".

After the star gang was formed, Ballu started looking for choice within the group. From Kadir's Nandita to Jackie's Shoba to that Kavitha (5th sector), Madi veetu Savitha, Valasarwalkam Chitra, Kaushik's Swetha, he started shopping locally and was fairly successful. If he wanted, he had. He never bothered about who's life he is affecting. From 0 mastrubations in 12th sttandard to hardcore by the he finished CA, Ragoo was now an addict. An addict of all three vices mentioned above. All his friends were hiding their girl friends from him. Such was his talent.

Soon came the saying "If he takes a girl to Besant Nagar, it means everything is over". The amazing thing is, how easily he moved from one girl to the other and made each one believe that he was a honest, caring, loving and responsible guy. Little did they know that he was only looking for one besant nagar trip.

Soon, He fell in love in a "Didi tera Devar divana" style and still after marriage continued his exploits. In S'pore, Thailand, Australia, US and now Holland, he has seen quite some variety. But his urge is far from over. The question is will his thirst ever be quenched? The answer I think is "NO, NEVER"..

Verdict :- Balaram - A sea change

Thursday, December 01, 2005

Patta Pagalil Kolai Merattal

Makkale.....ushaar'a irunga. Ippo dhan wireless pesinen suchindar'oda......A1 calling A2 over.....A1 hearing loud and clear.....The message is

Raman has been deeply disturbed by the way things are moving. The secrets of his sutra (Rama sutra) have been made public. Kala Kala ma katti kappathi vandha indha technique'ka suchindar "wealthy" pannittan......

Adhukku raman decide pannina punishment....maranam....Next in the list is me, yenna naan than adha bangalore muzhukka solla porenama....irrukkara velayellam vittutu, ramasutra class edukka porenama.....

Adhunaala suchinder ellarukkum "RED ALERT" issues pannirukkan. Ushharaaa irunga da. Avan avan veetukulla poi badhrama irunga. Innikki AIDS day nala raman attack panna maaten'nnu Bangalore SEX times'la arikkai viturrukan. Mela, indha star valibargaloda kolai threat avan than panninen num sollirukkan. Official'a spinal cord ramasutra technique'ka sollitharennu rasigargalukku promise pannirukkanamam.

Suchi oda last'a pesaravanga ellam pesikkonga da.....