Unnaipol Oruvan

This is not a movie review, just penning my thoughts about the movie and the movie watching experience. Ever since i heard and read about the movie A Wednesday i desperately wanted to watch the movie. The weird thing about my hindi is i know how to write and read, but cannot understand the language. Though i got the first mark in hindi in school till 8th std(plz never mind it was CBSE third language) , still i get confusion between "tha and thee". The concept of gender for things never got into mind. Please dont ask whether iam through with English grammar. That's a separate story.



Okay now on to the movie... First thing to say is that i didnt watch A Wednesday and do not know about the story except for the one-liner, so i went complete with an open mind. To say precisely about the movie would be - Perfect in all sense. No songs to deviate, no unnecessary punch dialogues, sentiments and the super hero fights. Just a movie from an ordinary man's perspective. It doesnt mean that i hate all those masala movies, iam a hardcore fan of thillu mullu and micheal madana kamarajan. I can watch these movies even today without changing the channels.

My aathukarar said that the film had fantastic screenplay, and sorry to say this i donot know what a screenplay is, though he explained me later. What i felt was it took me along with it as the story travelled. Every actor in that movie were tailor-made and their body language and the mannerisms added gloss to their performance. Whether it was those two cops at their best or the TV anchor or the computer website hijacker, each had their own moment of glory.

This movie too had a hint of humour , love and sentiments but in a perfect dosage. When it was advertised that Shruti haasan was the music composer , i expected at least couple of songs. And i was completely surprised to see a song less movie. Not to include those back ground scores and the bits of songs. What i meant was a flash back song or a romance one.

But not everyone can enjoy the dialogues since half of it were in English especially the war of authority scenes between Mohanlal and Lakshmi (sorry please reduce the make-up in the next movie atleast , it was horrible watching all those close-up shots) . Humour was laced amidst the gripping scenes in the form of one-line dialogues . IIT drop out guys casualness is worth mentioning with the modern lingos.

On the whole it was a beautiful movie without any compromise and a crisp story line. Though the ending was not a convincing one.

Letme post the experience in the next post

Chocolates

I somehow dont like the taste of all these milk chocolates. Some how the white color doesnt impress me much and it doesnt give me the feel of chocolate at all. The taste is so blunt and it leaves a bitter taste in my mouth. (isnt weird to hear)

I always had a penchant for these chocolates with a hint of nuts and also the wafer chocolates. Especially kit kat and perk (who would forget the preity zinta ad ) .My all time favourite is Dairy Milk. All the special occasions would demand a bar of Dairy Milk.

My recent craze are these unique and delicious Ferrero Rocher chocolate sweets which come individually warped in a distinctive and rich looking gold colored wrapper. I learnt that these candies are made of roasted hazelnuts. They just melt in your mouth and i like the sweet sensation tingling in your mouth. ( should watch out for calories though)

And there were a whole lots of chocolates all of which were available for 25 np and 50 np . To name a few caramilk, coconut punch, aasai , lacto king, and this pulippu mittai which would leave a sore tongue at the end of it.

There was this theatre just a stone's throw away from our house where we friends would hand out once in a while. So while we are up to the movie we would fill our bags with this brownie chocolate which was 5p at that time. It is a groundnut coated with chocolate and was called the bournvita chocolate and who would forget the sweet honey laced then mittai. I just would love it. Whenever i and my cousin used to go to the shop which was just behind our house to get "vethala paakku" for my grandpa we would demand extra money to get these then mittais.

It was also a season of frymes and wheel chips but i didnt favour them much. I hated the very chikku naatham of it. But, i loved those cute little samosas.

Somehow all those little expeditions gave us the chance to know the value of money. They trusted us with the money how much ever little it was. It gave us a sense of responsibilities and a penchant for savings. But, i dont think i give the same to my son. All those fun of running to the " mona naattar kadai" whenever we get a little amount from our grandparents or relatives cannot be put into words. I feel guilty when i take him to the super market and allow him to choose from a wide range of products. But i make sure to tell him the price of that and try to teach him the value of money in my own possible way.

Random thoughts...

Iam reading Birthright - a book of Nora Roberts. Iam very well able to relate to the protagonist (not in the exact sense though)

I did clean our bathrooms - it might sound silly but when i clean the bathrooms and toilets somehow i feel i have spent my day qualitatively. It gives me pleasure to see the ever sparkling tiles. Am i sounding foolish :(

And yippee my kid had the full quota of snacks and lunch which i gave him and he gave me the prolonged happiness by finishing the full bowl of beetroot halwa which i gave him.

Without me prompting he himself gave rest to the PC from exploding (he plays games by googling the superhero names ) by shutting it down and sat back with his notebook to study. (he is in his UKG)

Got to make raagi dosai for my dear aathukkarar.

Cooking Mania!!

Of late, Iam more content being full time house-wife. From second week of August iam at home, not that i have bid adieu to my office, but due to unexpected holidays for my son and other commitments. Soon should work out my time to go to office. Its both advantage and dis-advantage having your own business which is predominantly taken care by dear aathukkarar. One of the main advantage is the attendance. Yippee.. Iam enjoying this phase especially.

Mornings from 6.00-9.30 - fast paced life as my kid usually refers to me as the "super-fast machine". After that the machine slows down. And picks up again at 2.30 P.m.

Meantime, iam browsing for the recipes and experimenting with them. Since my kid refuses to acknowledge any vegetable other than potato iam into research mode in finding new ways of adding the veggies to his diet. One thing i have found of late is that he likes kurma ( that too after having tasted it once in Ginger, pondicherry while on the trip) , so it has made my job easy.
So, i have started adding the veggies to it and another method is to make the soup which he would take in any form if it is garnished with bread.
My next headache is with the fruits, somehow i force him to have it in the milk shake format. But, he refuses to eat raw ones. The very sight of the fruits and the smell especially drives him 100m apart. Any one please suggest... I have tried begging, thrashings , forcing and even bribery, but nothing works....

Coming to my experimentation, today iam going to try a new recipe with soya chunks . Since, my aathukkarar is on strict diet ( pls dont say "wow" - this is his nth time) to reduce his cholesterol and BP, (he is jus 30) he is also trying out new diet regimes. One of the new discovery is BLUEBERRY . He got this idea from google search. The name always strikes chord with DORA for me - remember "Blueberry malai" .

Today my menu is mullangi sambar, thakkali rasam, kothavaranga paruppu usili, and new recipe involving soya.