"I will definitely marry only you."
No no. Please. That was not something foolish that I told one of the girls at my college. And please, definitely not in the first year. (Remember, we are trying to remember things in this blog in a chronological order..!!)
That was the name of a Tamil film (dubbed from Telugu) that we went to watch as soon as the exams in the first year got over. "We" refers to our class. Our plans for the outing had been very ambitious. We "planned" to watch Minsaara Kanavu first. On the day of the outing, it dawned upon us that our first trip of this nature merits much more than watching the melodramas of one PrabhuDeva and one ArvindSwamy and one Kajol. So we decided to watch Thalaivar's Arunaachalam. Once we reached the famous udhayam theatre with hopes flying high, we encountered unexpected trouble in the form of a HOUSEFULL board. Since we were too many in number, even the theatre authorities couldn't help us out. Since udhayam is a multiplex, we were made to do with another flick running in another theatre. Which brought us in contact with unnaiyE kalyaaNam paNNikkiREn, starring Nagarjuna and Tabu.
To give proper credit, it was not that bad. ukp was a decently made comedy film, with loads of family senti and some rain songs thrown in, as is the wont of Tollywood. And when you are in the midst of friends, I don't think it matters too much what film one sees.
After the film, we proceeded to a classmate's home, making ourselves comfortable with some snacks and juices and then adjourned. Yeah, it was a pretty good outing that we had for our first time.
Post Script: The next day, some of the boys had a field day. They would go to one of the girls and ask her innocently, "What film did we watch yesterday?" She would reply, "unnaiyE kalyaaNam paNNikkiREn." To which, depending upon the girl, the boy would either smile shyly and say "OK" or widen their eys in horror and say, "no, please, no, anything except such a punishment!!!" If you accidentally entered our college on that day and found the spectacle of some boys being chased angrily by some girls very surprising, this was it.
Post Post Script: What, Me? No, I was a good boy. I didn't do such things. (Those who do not notice the past tense in the answer will be suitably rewarded!!)
(Posted on 03-Jun-2004)
That was the name of a Tamil film (dubbed from Telugu) that we went to watch as soon as the exams in the first year got over. "We" refers to our class. Our plans for the outing had been very ambitious. We "planned" to watch Minsaara Kanavu first. On the day of the outing, it dawned upon us that our first trip of this nature merits much more than watching the melodramas of one PrabhuDeva and one ArvindSwamy and one Kajol. So we decided to watch Thalaivar's Arunaachalam. Once we reached the famous udhayam theatre with hopes flying high, we encountered unexpected trouble in the form of a HOUSEFULL board. Since we were too many in number, even the theatre authorities couldn't help us out. Since udhayam is a multiplex, we were made to do with another flick running in another theatre. Which brought us in contact with unnaiyE kalyaaNam paNNikkiREn, starring Nagarjuna and Tabu.
To give proper credit, it was not that bad. ukp was a decently made comedy film, with loads of family senti and some rain songs thrown in, as is the wont of Tollywood. And when you are in the midst of friends, I don't think it matters too much what film one sees.
After the film, we proceeded to a classmate's home, making ourselves comfortable with some snacks and juices and then adjourned. Yeah, it was a pretty good outing that we had for our first time.
Post Script: The next day, some of the boys had a field day. They would go to one of the girls and ask her innocently, "What film did we watch yesterday?" She would reply, "unnaiyE kalyaaNam paNNikkiREn." To which, depending upon the girl, the boy would either smile shyly and say "OK" or widen their eys in horror and say, "no, please, no, anything except such a punishment!!!" If you accidentally entered our college on that day and found the spectacle of some boys being chased angrily by some girls very surprising, this was it.
Post Post Script: What, Me? No, I was a good boy. I didn't do such things. (Those who do not notice the past tense in the answer will be suitably rewarded!!)
(Posted on 03-Jun-2004)
1 Comments:
At 12:38 AM,
MSV Muthu said…
>> She would reply, "unnaiyE kalyaaNam paNNikkiREn." To which, depending upon the girl, the boy would either smile shyly and say "OK" or widen their eys in horror and say, "no, please, no, anything except such a punishment!!!"
lol. I remember such thing in my school days, one sunday DD was supposed to show the movie "Sollathudikuthu Manasu" - you know, on those days watching sunday movies in DD was first in the list and out of curiosity we would try to know the movie in advance - so we would ask any one like "hey do you know what movie this week?". she would reply "sollathudikuthu manasu". we would ask : please sollen
she would blink and again repeat "sollathudikuthu manasu" da..after 2 or 3 times only she would recognize!!
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