I belonged somewhere in-between all of the them, spending time in ground, class, library and ofcourse theatre. Infact most times he lighted the cigarette to the counter-culture thalai.

FYI, they only smoked filter kings and the guy coming with an issue should buy a single tea and filter kings for the others. These dudes get to the listen to the color color stories of both the other groups and finally be the naataamai. There is also the other set of ‘counter-culture’ boys who bunked all the lectures and sat in the cricket ground beneath a puliya maram to start a club called puliya maram priends kilub. There is this other lot of guys with the so-called figure madikara personality who usually rode samurais and splendors, who carried a helmet with flashy colors and a question mark sticker on their helmet windshields. Athanaala ippdikaa orama olinchu, ennai kaanavillaye paattula vara vinneth mathiri, namma figurea paapom. One friend would tell me, Machan, naama onnum abbas mathiri periya persnalty illa da. It was gang of 20+ kids entering college and bunking the second day to run around the theatre in a train-like fashion, during the songs.Ībove all I knew tons of college mates, imagining themselves as Vineeth and Abbas, trying to walk behind the girls just like that Ennai Kanavillaye song. And yeah, we bunked our second day in college to watch Kadhal Desam (for the third time!!) at Devi. Without Ennai Kaanavillaye or Mustafa Mustafa the movie wouldn’t have hit the box-office, even for the first few weeks. Though sets were just made of savukku kattais with the face of modern architecture, it was a cool attempt in kollywood.

While KD was being shot, I visited the mahabalipuram sets of Kadhal Desam and hence I could always relate to it. Donno if I had mentioned it here but the reasons are numerous. I have a special softcorner for Kadhal Desam. It was like gulping a full pack of Full Throttle. So today with the sun beaming across my face through the car window, I chose to listen to Rahman’s music. But then just after six months, I started to appreciate the sun. Coming here from the water-‘less’ area like Chennai, I enjoyed the rain. And it was a day when the whole of Seattle chose to lock themselves inside their houses and hope for the victory of hawks. I wasn’t listening, today.Īfter a brief peek, last tuesday, the sun god finally came out yesterday. I drive briefly to a park & ride, where I take the bus to Downtown Seattle. And everyday, yeah every single day, it would rain during my morning commute. Its been raining in Seattle for the last three months.

Kadhal desam b