VAARANAM AAYIRAM!!-definitely not a review!

Vaaranam Aayiram...the story of a man on the verge of his life...

This movie is facing a mixed response as people say..Many say "its an awesome movie"..Many others say"this movie is a crap..but suriya is a gr8 actor..watch it for him"..

Well...according to me let me be very clear...I DINT LIKE THIS MOVIE!!

Do you people know why i dont like Vaaranam aayiram??

I DONT LIKE THIS MOVIE:

*cos the movie made me cry..

The very first scene when Mr.Krishnan vomits blood all over and suffers a lot and even then wants to clean up the blood made me cry...and anyone with humanity within would ve atleast spelled a "ayo" or "ssssh" seeing him suffer...yeah!i was able to hear a few of such sounds in the theatre!

*cos Mr.Krishnan and his wife Malini were very much like my dad and mom!When Krishnan says that hes gonna live for his new born son's happiness he did seem like my own dad!

*cos when the tiny tots Suriya and Shreya were lying on the bed in their small Calicut house..Krishnan and Malini slept on floor which is the same case as in my house!

*cos when Suriya played guitar Malini and Krishnan were shaking their legs to his tune similar to which my parents do while i sing!

*cos Krishnan talks in english..mind u..very good english just like my dad!*cos Suriya quotes Robert frost's "WOODS ARE LOVELY DARK AND DEEP"which was too apt for his situation and which also happens to be one of my most favorite poems!

*cos Krishnan says "write letters..not formal one..casuallah..10 varsham kazhichu padikka nalla irukum"!

*cos it made me feel "cha i should ve learnt to play guitar..i missed the fun"

*cos it made me smile and suffer along with the protagonist Suriya!

Well the above list is just a few reasons for why i dint like Vaaranam aayiram!!yes!!

I dint like vaaranam aayiram....but....

I LOVED IT!!!

After Anbe Shivam and Taare Zameen Par..this movie made me cry buckets!!This movie was not wrongly named as many people feel!!It has been rightly named as Vaaranam Aayiram meaning thousand elephants which i interpreted as the strength of the effect this movie has caused in my heart..the pain it gave me when Mr.Krishnan passed away..the happiness that Suriya's rehabilitation gave me..the reverbing thoughts about my family that i got...these all equals the power of 1000 mighty elephants!!!

Hats off to Mr.Gautam VASUDEV menon{cos his dad wanted him to name as Vasudev}and ofcourse Suriya SIVAKUMAR....both of you are respected in this place not just because of your work...but also cos of ur dads!!!!

Cheers to all the crew members of Varanam aayiram...you people touched my heart..Thanks for such a wonderful movie!![:D]

GOD BLESS YOU ALL!!!

To conclude...DADDY..YOU ARE MY HERO DADDY...WHENEVER YOU USED TO TAKE OUT YOUR PEN TO WRITE POEMS I USED TO ADMIRE YOU..WHEN YOUR ARTICLES GET PUBLISHED IN ANY MAGAZINE BUT PEOPLE NEVER KNEW ABOUT YOU YOU ALWAYS FORGOT THE PAIN WITH A SMILE...EVEN IN YOUR MID FIFTIES YOU KEEP SENDING YOUR ARTICLES AND POEMS TO VARIOUS PLACES BELIEVING YOU WILL BECOME FAMOUS SOME DAY..YOU ARE MY HERO DADDY!!THIS POST IS FOR YOU...Just like the movie ends i end this post sayin

"YOU ARE MY EVERYTHING DADDY!THIS IS FOR YOU!LOVE YOU DADDY!"

THE MUST-READ POEMS...

Those people who are frustrated..who are hungry for success..please read the folowing poems..for i feel that would make you still more focussed in your journey towards success..because whenever i am disturbed or diverted..these poems act as my energy tonic..


Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening-ROBERT FROST


Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village, though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.


My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.


He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there's some mistake.
The only other sound's the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.


The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep........



A PSALM OF LIFE -H.W.LONGFELLOW

WHAT THE HEART OF THE YOUNG MAN SAID TO THE PSALMIST


TELL me not, in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty dream ! —
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
And things are not what they seem.

Life is real ! Life is earnest!
And the grave is not its goal ;
Dust thou art, to dust returnest,
Was not spoken of the soul.

Not enjoyment, and not sorrow,
Is our destined end or way ;
But to act, that each to-morrow
Find us farther than to-day.

Art is long, and Time is fleeting,
And our hearts, though stout and brave,
Still, like muffled drums, are beating
Funeral marches to the grave.

In the world's broad field of battle,
In the bivouac of Life,
Be not like dumb, driven cattle !
Be a hero in the strife !

Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant !
Let the dead Past bury its dead !
Act,— act in the living Present !
Heart within, and God o'erhead !

Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time ;

Footprints, that perhaps another,
Sailing o'er life's solemn main,
A forlorn and shipwrecked brother,
Seeing, shall take heart again.

Let us, then, be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate ;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labor and to walk.


Two enchanting poems...following which one can face life however it may be...
Lets keep on moving as there are miles to go for which we need to learn to labor and to walk!!!

BHARATHI AND ME

NALLADHOR VEENAI SEYDHE -ADHAI

NALAM KEDA PUZHUDHIYIL ERIVADHUNDO?

SOLLADEE SHIVA SHAKTHI..ENNAI

SUDARMIGU ARIVUDAN PADAITHUVITTAI(why throw a beautifully made veena in dust as an useless crap...say..o!goddess!u hav created me jus lik tat!)

Mahakavi Subramania Bharathi has always been my guide,friend,philosopher,guru,role model....anything..and everything!He has written his instructions and suggestions to me years before!I can feel him and his words in everything happening to me!......

I wanna be a bharathi in questionin the wrong-doers ...i wanna be a bharathi in inspiring people...i wanna be a bharthi in writin down my revolutionary ideas...i wanna be a bharathi in helpin others...i wanna be a bharthi in intelligence...i wanna be a bharthi in boldness....in short..i wanna be as multi-faceted as he is!!!i feel him inside me but refusing to come out...jus cos of the fear about life...fear abt society...

Goin against a powerful group ruins self these days...this stopped me frm lettin my bharathi out...

Now i kno y he said..

NALLADHOR VEENAI SEYDHE-ADHAI

NALAM KEDA PUZHUDHIYIL ERIVADHUNDO?...............

See how far-sighted he is!!!!he said

KASI NAGARA PULAVAR PESUM URAIDHAAN

KAANCHIYIL KETPADHARKOR KARUVI SEYVOM(let us invent a device enablin the people in kanchi to listen the speech given by a poet in kasi)

And...a radio was discovered!!!!now not only frm kasi...we can listen frm any damn place and see the happenings even!

His motivations to the youngsters are thru numerous poems...it jus kindles the spirit of the youth...

But...how many of them are readin bharthi these days....

Hmm....very few....I feel bharthi must be made a compulsory-read..

Atleast then we can expect sum youngsters to turn responsible towards the society..

Here he calls them..

OLI PADAYTHA KANNINAAI VA VA VA;

URUDHI KONDA NENJINAAI VA VA VA....