Whats in the names.....
Been a while since we looked at annachi vazhi. Iyan bought up the names list and asked someone to do a writeup....today morning in office looks like the perfect time.....
I will provide you will the names and the explanations for the names. Most of these names originate from a popular gang in "Bharathidasan colony". Bharathidasan would have changed his name if he knew people like this inhabited the colony.....2 people we know are Bharath and his bro om prakash. For some reason, they always call it "Kaalny" instead of "colony". I even think bharath and co made a protest near udhayam theatre to change the spelling to "kaalny".......
Every one has some dreaded fears, diseases, weakness and so on. The speciality of the Kaalny boys is to name them in such a way that they can never forget it. Everytim some one calls him he should be reminded of this fear and should live with it all his life.
(1) "Thol" Karthick. This guy was having some issues with his skin. He had some kind of scaled skin. Hence named appropriately. Some people even called him "Paambu thol kaarthick" to differenciate him from other karthicks with skin problems. In his next birth he should be born with feathers on his skin.
(2) "Kai" balaji. This guy doesnt have one hand. Hence the name. They also talk about his greatness, like "kai balaji can light 3 cigs in one hand and so on....." Kalyan used to call him Termi Balaji, because his right had had only 2 fingers and looked like a terminator it semms. Bless his soul. These guys were supposed to be thick friends.
(3) "Nondi" Saravanan. This guy is handicapped on his right leg. Cant walk properly. Hence the name. I think people also call him football saravanan, since the way he walks looks like delivering a football kick. Excellent...
(4) "Potti" Murugan. This guy doent not own a potti kadai, as you may have guessed. He is an Iron Kaaran. From iron Potti it became Potti. This guy thinks he looks like ravi shastri. Maybe in front of chella, saabu, cherian and suresh....he probably does.....
(5) "Iyer" Balaji. This guys dad is a saastrigal. But balaji has been classified as an iyer only in the name, so that people can make fun. "iyer balaji, oru pidi thairu balaji" was a popular song on his praise.
(6) Kunju. Unfortunately, this time around it was our guy. Seshadri. I thik Arun Ramalingam kept this name some 15 years back, when he actually dint know how it might sound when you are called like that. The best instance of use of this name was by Ram, when he asked sesha's dad "Mama, neenga ondi vandhurukeenga, kunju varaliya".....awfully funny....Ram is divine....
(7) "Paan" Babu. Firstly he could have never given up a habit with that name. Secondly even if he gave up the habit no body would have believed him with this name.
(8) "Karuppu" Saravanan. Nothin much to say, he wasnt fair, that was the only problem.
(9) "Fighter" Saravanan. He was a stunt man. Not to forget, he always has his collar up...
(10) "Gundu" Ravi. very common name. Normally ravi's are fat.
(11) "singer" Ravi. He thought he was SPB, sang in all the wine shop sessions. I remember we have also clapped for it.
(12) "Vendha Vada" Venkatesh. I have allocated a seperate chapter for this guy.
Some people have the address of home and work place attached to their names, so that finding out their house becomes very easy. Its a very primitive form of GPS i guess. Some examples are
(1) "PUDUR" karna
(2) "RTO" Balaji
(3) "CPWD" Senthil
(4) "Ayodhya Kuppam" veeramani
(5) "10th sector" Thula singam
some others are a bit more patriotic, having their country name
(6) "Ceylon" Mani
and so on......
Some other examples have no relation with the actual names or physical form
(1) Iyan : This was vinods name, since he used his nose, more for speaking than his mouth. It had the "eeeeeeeeyaaaaannnnnnnnn kind of effect"
(2) SIR: A man who dint have education, who has never worked, all the time played cricket (that too pathetic) with children. He was called Sir, because he was tall. 8Th sector guys made up this name.
(3) Arnold. although he did fight like him, looked like skin on skeleton.
and so goes the never ending list.......
I will provide you will the names and the explanations for the names. Most of these names originate from a popular gang in "Bharathidasan colony". Bharathidasan would have changed his name if he knew people like this inhabited the colony.....2 people we know are Bharath and his bro om prakash. For some reason, they always call it "Kaalny" instead of "colony". I even think bharath and co made a protest near udhayam theatre to change the spelling to "kaalny".......
Every one has some dreaded fears, diseases, weakness and so on. The speciality of the Kaalny boys is to name them in such a way that they can never forget it. Everytim some one calls him he should be reminded of this fear and should live with it all his life.
(1) "Thol" Karthick. This guy was having some issues with his skin. He had some kind of scaled skin. Hence named appropriately. Some people even called him "Paambu thol kaarthick" to differenciate him from other karthicks with skin problems. In his next birth he should be born with feathers on his skin.
(2) "Kai" balaji. This guy doesnt have one hand. Hence the name. They also talk about his greatness, like "kai balaji can light 3 cigs in one hand and so on....." Kalyan used to call him Termi Balaji, because his right had had only 2 fingers and looked like a terminator it semms. Bless his soul. These guys were supposed to be thick friends.
(3) "Nondi" Saravanan. This guy is handicapped on his right leg. Cant walk properly. Hence the name. I think people also call him football saravanan, since the way he walks looks like delivering a football kick. Excellent...
(4) "Potti" Murugan. This guy doent not own a potti kadai, as you may have guessed. He is an Iron Kaaran. From iron Potti it became Potti. This guy thinks he looks like ravi shastri. Maybe in front of chella, saabu, cherian and suresh....he probably does.....
(5) "Iyer" Balaji. This guys dad is a saastrigal. But balaji has been classified as an iyer only in the name, so that people can make fun. "iyer balaji, oru pidi thairu balaji" was a popular song on his praise.
(6) Kunju. Unfortunately, this time around it was our guy. Seshadri. I thik Arun Ramalingam kept this name some 15 years back, when he actually dint know how it might sound when you are called like that. The best instance of use of this name was by Ram, when he asked sesha's dad "Mama, neenga ondi vandhurukeenga, kunju varaliya".....awfully funny....Ram is divine....
(7) "Paan" Babu. Firstly he could have never given up a habit with that name. Secondly even if he gave up the habit no body would have believed him with this name.
(8) "Karuppu" Saravanan. Nothin much to say, he wasnt fair, that was the only problem.
(9) "Fighter" Saravanan. He was a stunt man. Not to forget, he always has his collar up...
(10) "Gundu" Ravi. very common name. Normally ravi's are fat.
(11) "singer" Ravi. He thought he was SPB, sang in all the wine shop sessions. I remember we have also clapped for it.
(12) "Vendha Vada" Venkatesh. I have allocated a seperate chapter for this guy.
Some people have the address of home and work place attached to their names, so that finding out their house becomes very easy. Its a very primitive form of GPS i guess. Some examples are
(1) "PUDUR" karna
(2) "RTO" Balaji
(3) "CPWD" Senthil
(4) "Ayodhya Kuppam" veeramani
(5) "10th sector" Thula singam
some others are a bit more patriotic, having their country name
(6) "Ceylon" Mani
and so on......
Some other examples have no relation with the actual names or physical form
(1) Iyan : This was vinods name, since he used his nose, more for speaking than his mouth. It had the "eeeeeeeeyaaaaannnnnnnnn kind of effect"
(2) SIR: A man who dint have education, who has never worked, all the time played cricket (that too pathetic) with children. He was called Sir, because he was tall. 8Th sector guys made up this name.
(3) Arnold. although he did fight like him, looked like skin on skeleton.
and so goes the never ending list.......
posted by Anand at 9:09 AM
9 Comments:
Best post.
too good...how about your name Vellai(white) and jackie?
dei....yen pera wealthy pannina...seri...undhu yenna vaazhudhaam....adhu yenna "jingli"...
rajesh...super post...reading it quite late..but i was a bharadhidasan colony resident too!!!
and if u didnt know it was 'navbharat' colony before being called 'bharadidasan'..
too good da jack ceylon maniyam -ram
Interesting...lived there for 10 years and moved out when I became a teenager. Now I dont have to ask my parents why.;-) As Ajay said, it was Navbarath colony once.
Deepa,
is that right? i lived there for 6 years and moved when i was ten...
machan have u stopped writing blogs venda vada venkatesh has a seperate chapter am
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