Latest Attraction...

Maddy for his sixer smile, Vijay for his dance, Ajith for his eyes, Siddharth for his tough looks... There is something about everyone that attracts. Eyes, smile, dance, looks...I guess Michael or Mike as he is known in the Star Vijay grosser shows, KKK and Jodi No 1 has it all:) He has already become the biggest drawing card in the new season of the serial where he plays this really tough guy. Yesterday he left me charmed with his dance in the male solo dance. He is not this really tall handsome hunk but his gestures can put one in trance...;) A presage, this guy is gonna make it BIG.

Hmm...It's Okay.

I have never been able to dislike/hate anyone. Do I have a prob? I don't judge people. I have keyed out there is no use in that. My liking and disliking is always limited to principles. I have this conviction, 'there is good in everyone'. Well I don't go correcting them but still when my friends get chatty about people and say they are so and so. I stay mum. I kind of find myself ill at ease among buddies complaining or gossiping about someones character and nature. Character is something really personal. With just some obscure knowledge on someone, who are we to comment. Before dishing the dirt, why not think about yourself being hashed out. My friends wont understand, they will tell me 'Yaa dear, to your eyes everyone is good'. N they will have tons of examples, 'You said she is not like that, now you get to see for yourself'. Lolzzz. I have kind of got used to this now. Friends mean more to me than proving myself right. My world will fall apart without them. But to dispense with this personal guidepost is just not possible for me 'Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody'.

The Super Cool Woman...

Kiran Bedi is busy and is no mood to rest even after retirement. The First Indian IPS woman to the Hindu, 'Earlier, I used to serve to earn and now I earn from radio,tv,newspaper columns to SERVE my NGO's'. Read more on the article here .

Drenched...

It's been a really long wait for the release of Gautham's 'Vaaranam Aayiram'. So many grapevines about the story. Some say it's Russian film 'Character' and many others it's Tom hanks 'Forrest Gump'. Now all this, given that Gautham takes lots of inspiration from Hollywood flicks. Whatever, I wish the film releases soon... Heard the music tracks. Good ones. The melodies ' Nenjukul Peidhidum' and 'Mundhinam Parthene' will stay for long. Naresh Iyer's voice in 'Mundhinam' is damn romantic, better than in Munbe Va. I can't review about the tunes but ya the lyrics by 'Thamarai' is in a word 'outstanding'. I say that coz she is this lyricist who gives so much importance to 'Tamizh literature'...Writing simple lines would have been an easy job, but I guess she really wished to give people a different treat. I suppose 'Nenjukul' is a song wherein she has used so many adjectives to refer to a beautiful girl and all of that in a guys perspective. When I heard 'Karkha Karkha' from Vettaiyadu Villayadu I thought Thamarai was really good and now Nenjukul makes me feel she is brilliant. Na na...I haven't been able to comprehend the song fully even after so many hearings. The specialty in the song is the rhyming words... Watch out for the different 'ai' 's that goes so well with the rhythm of the song... Maamazhai(heavy rain)... Thaamarai(Lotus)... Vaanilai (weather)... Pizhai(fault)... Perrallai(huge wave)... Thaaraghai(lady)... Kaarighai(beauty)... Kaanchanai ( lady)... Anthaadi(Everything, mudhalum mudivum). I ended up reading my first ever thamizh short story of Pudumaipittan while searching for what does 'Kaanchanai' mean. As per the story Kaanchanai is this really beautiful daughter of the King of Kasi. Intense Google search took me to Sanskrit pages, so much of related stuff with 'Thiruvaimozhi' , 'Aandal Kalyanam' et all:)

'Kavidhayin suvvai, artham puriyum varrai...' (The taste of poetry is only till you have got the picture of it..)So I stopped my search there. Poetry is always fun. You can interpret it the way you want it to be. I am presently relishing this Harris+Thamarai+Hariharan's 'Nenjukul Peidhidum Maamazhai'...Totally drenched!

Nenjukul peidhidum maamazhai…
Neerukkul moozhgidum thaamarai...
Sattendru maarudhu vaanilai...
Pennae, un mael pizhaii...
Nillamal veesudum perrallai…
Nenjukkul neendhidum thaaraghai..
Ponvannam soodiya kaarighai...
Pennae, nee kaanchannai.
Oh shanthi, shanthi oh shanthi…En uyirai, uyirai nee endhi...
En sendrai sendrai, ennai thaandi…Inni nee thaan endhan anthaadi.

Nenjukul peidhidum maamazhai…
Neerukkul moozhgidum thaamarai...
Sattendru maarudhu vaanilai...
Pennae, un mael pizhaii.

Yedho ondru, ennai eerkka...
Mookkin nuni, marmam serkka...
Kalla thanam, yedhum illa...
Punnagaiyo, bogam illaa.

Nee nindra idam endraal, vilai yeri pogaadho...
Nee sellum vazhi ellaam, panikatti aagaadho…
Ennodu va, veedu varaikkum...
En veettai paar, ennai pidikkum...
Ival yaaro yaaro theriyaadhe…ival pinnaal nenje pogaadhe...
Idhu poiyo meiyo theriyaadhe…ival pinnaal nenje pogaadhe...
Pogaadhe...

Nenjukul peidhidum maamazhai…
Neerukkul moozhgidum thaamarai...
Sattendru maarudhu vaanilai...
Pennae, un mael pizhaii...
Nillamal veesudum perrallai…
Nenjukkul neendhidum thaaraghai..
Ponvannam soodiya kaarighai..
Pennae, nee kaanchannai.

Thookkangalai, thookki sendraai...
Yekkangalai, thoovi sendraai...
Unnai thaandi, pogum bodhu...
Veesum kaatri,veechu verru...
Nill endru nee sonaal, en kaalam nagaraadhe...
Nee soodum poovellaam, orupodhum udhiraadhe...
Kaadhal ennai, ketkavillai...
Kettaal adhu, kaadhal illai...
En jeevan jeevan nee thaane, Enna thondrum neram idhu thaane...
Nee illai illai endraale, en nenjam nenjam thaangaadhe.

Nenjukul peidhidum maamazhai…
Neerukkul moozhgidum thaamarai...
Sattendru maarudhu vaanilai...
Pennae, un mael pizhaii...
Nillamal veesudum perrallai…
Nenjukkul neendhidum thaaraghai...
Ponvannam soodiya kaarighai...
Pennae, nee kaanchannai.

Oh shanthi, shanthi oh shanthi…En uyirai, uyirai nee endhi...
En sendrai sendrai, ennai thaandi…Inni nee thaan endhan anthaadi.

Title Change...

For the last few days I have been thinking about this... What has my 'blog posts' to do with my 'blog title'... 'Remnant thoughts from the inside shelf'( dat is a delusion, there was nothing really personal in my blog). So changed it into LIKES... Ya this is quite apt. I hardly maintain my diary but even then at the end of the day I write something thr, even if it is just some scrabbling... I am not this usual blogger, its gonna be only till I find a better pastime...

Pray for me brother...

Just felt like adding the video. Though I keep writing time and again about love for ARR music, I sometimes just can't express the feeling after listening to many of his numbers. Sort of spiritual fulfillment... I don't know exactly what to write.

Weird...yet Nice:)

'Kadhal ennum saabam thandha devadhaye, kaannalaamo raagam nindru povadhaye...' This song 'Oru mani adithal' has followed me for years or rather the other way. I can't point out what I like about this song... the lyrics or the fact that it was a rarity to hear this number. I still remember once when returning from collg, this song was played in some shop in loudspeaker and I was lingering before the shop wanting to listen to it fully and another day got to enjoy the full number in FM played in the auto I was travelling. There was this another song, 'goat song' as I used to call it. Rarely in FM or in some music channel I get to hear it. I never knew which film or who was the composer even. But it always sounded catchy. I started googling with just some middle lines in the search tab since I wasn't sure of the starting word even. Found it was 'Oyilaa Padum paatila' from SeevalpperiPandi. It was an Illayaraja song. Happy to have both the songs in my system now:-) Not just that, years back, guess during school days I remember watching a Karthik-Gowthami-Suhasini movie. It was a quite a good flick. And there was this one song picturing between Karthik and a little girl, a dad-daughter one which was like really touching. An unwitting subject to search on. But sometimes it's like that... You will remember a pani puri or an icecream shop that's quite far away from your place and you would have eaten there just once... But you would do just about anything to get there. Ever been in thos shoes? Now this was a search for a video song... Knowing nothing but the actors it was hard to look for. I had to type all that I knew about the movie, wishing atleast some of the keywords in the search tab would lead me to relevant pages. Gowthami's wikipedia and from there went on to find the movie where she costarred with Karthik and then from the movie name to the song. Atlast I was glad to find someone had uploaded the video in youtube. Dat was quite a rare number sung by Mano composed by Illayaraja sir again. 'Naan vaazndhadhu konjam andha vaasathil vandhudhitthu uyiril kalandhaai enn uyire... ' It was 'Endhan vaazhkayin artham solla' song from Chinna Kannama. The little gal was Baby Shaamili. I just didn't remember that while searching. It had this heart-warming lyrics. Stupid na but I was like so happy. Pleasure of finding something long lost. Must be that.

Lyrics of Endhan from Chinna Kannama

Endhan vaazhkayin artham solla
Pookalin vannam kondu pirandha
magaley enn magaley
Naan vaazndhadhu konjam andha
vaasathil vandhudhitthu uyiril
kalandhaai enn uyire
unn poovizhi kurunagai
Adhi aayiram kavidhaye

Endhan...

Vaanam thalatta megam neeratta
valarum velli nilave
Vaazhvil nee kaanum sugangal nooraaga
vendum thanga chilaye
Thaayin madi serum kandru pola
Naalum valarvaai en maarbiley
Sei unn mugam paarka thunbam theerum
kaalam kaniyaagum deviye
siru kili pol pesum peachil
enai marandhean naan amma

Endhan...

Kanavil ninaivaaga ninaivil kanavaaga
kalandhal kaadhal devi
uravin palanaaga kadalin amudhaga
pirandhai neeyum kaniye
kaana kidaikaadha pillai varame
kannil jolikindra vairame
kodi koduthalum unnai pola
selvam kidaikadhu vaazvile
pulli maaney thoongum mayile
ennai marandhean naan amma

Endhan ...



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