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"LINGAA" movie review

I watched this movie as a sudden, impulsive act on the 2nd day of its release in a theatre abroad.

NOAH'S ARK


ONE: Don't miss the boat.
TWO: Remember that we are all in the same boat!
THREE: Plan ahead. It wasn't raining when Noah built the Ark.
FOUR: Stay fit. When you're 60 years old, someone may ask you to do something really big... to surprise you !
FIVE: Don't listen to critics; just get on with the job that needs to be done.
SIX: Build your future on high ground.
SEVEN: For safety's sake, travel in pairs.
EIGHT: Speed isn't always an advantage. The snails were on board with the cheetahs.
NINE: When you're stressed, float awhile.
TEN: Remember, the Ark was built by amateurs; the Titanic by professionals.
ELEVEN: No matter the storm, there's always a rainbow waiting.

CRISP AND CLEAR

Ant
A busy insect that still finds time to go to picnics.

Adder
Mathematically inclined snake.

Atheism
Non-prophet organization.
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> Babies
> Nature's way of showing people what the world looks like at 2 a.m.
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> Baby sitter
> A teenager who must behave like an adult so that the adults who are out can behave like teenagers.
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> Buffet
> A French word which means "Get up and get it yourself."
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> Charisma
> That mysterious something that bald, dull billionaires have.
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> Comic books
> The opera of the print media.
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> Drama
> What literature does at night.
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> Ecstasy
> Discovering a second layer of chocolates under the first.
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> Ego trip
> Something that never gets you anywhere.
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> Emergency numbers
> Police station, fire department, and places that deliver.
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> Eternity
> The first 60 seconds of a blind date.
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> Etiquette
> Learning to yawn with your mouth closed.
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> Fancy Restaurant
> One that serves cold soup on purpose.
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> Fear
> Excitement in need of an attitude adjustment.
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> Great economist
> Someone who, tomorrow, is perfectly capable of explaining why what he forecasted yesterday didn't happen today.
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> Kissing
> A means of getting two people so close together that they can't see anything wrong with each other.
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> Marriage
> A friendship recognized by the police.
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> Mobile phones
> The only subject on which men boast about who's got the smallest.
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> Net worth
> Fisherman's income.
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> Perfectionist
> A person who takes great pains and gives them to others.
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> Pessimist
> Someone who complains of the noise when opportunity knocks.
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> Poise
> The ability to continue speaking fluently while the other fellow is picking up the cheque.
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> Quartet
> Where all four think the other three can't sing.
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> Real Patriot
> The fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.
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> Semiconductors
> Part-time band leaders.
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> Slimming
> Living beyond your seams.
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> Summer vacation
> When parents suddenly realize that teachers are grossly underpaid.
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> Superstition
> Dark side of wonder.
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> Tattoo
> Permanent proof of temporary insanity.
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> Walking
> A form of exercise that loses some appeal when it's done behind a lawn mower.
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> Workaholic
> Someone whose favorite entertainment is Monday morning.

Great scientists were invited to a conference ...

* Newton said he'd drop in.
* Descartes said he'd think about it.
* Ohm resisted the idea.
* Boyle said he was under too much pressure.
* Darwin said he'd wait to see what evolved.
* Pierre and Marie Curie radiated enthusiasm.
* Volta was electrified at the prospect
* Pavlov positively drooled at the thought.
* Ampere was worried he wasn't current.
* Audobon said he'd have to wing it.
* Edison thought it would be illuminating.
* Einstein said it would be relatively easy to attend.
* Archimedes was buoyant at the thought.
* Dr Jekyll declined - he said he hadn't been feeling himself lately.
* Morse said, "I'll be there on the dot. Can't stop now, must dash."
* Gauss was asked to attend because of his magnetism.
* Hertz said he planned to attend with greater frequency in the future.
* Watt thought it would be a good way to let off steam.
* Wilbur Wright accepted, provided he and Orville could get a flight.

And
Dr. Sigmund Freud couldn't help but give it the slip!!!!!!!

Thought for today

"A liberal paradise would be a place where everybody has guaranteed
employment, free comprehensive healthcare, free education, free food, free
housing, free clothing, free utilities, and only law enforcement has guns."

"And believe it or not, such a place does, indeed, exist.
It's called prison."

A suicide bomber died and went to heaven, as foretold. When he arrived there, he met Allah, and he said to Allah that he was ready to claim his virgins, as promised. Out of curiosity he asked Allah why there were so many virgins in heaven. Allah regarded him for a moment, then replied, "Actually, the 72 virgins are here in heaven because a------s like you murdered them before they could experience the pleasure of sex. So you're here to service them. Since they're virgins, they're quite sexually ravenous; and, frankly, you'll be on constant, exhausting duty. And I shall banish you from Paradise should you fail!" The bomber responded, "Well, I guess I can live with that. How hard can it be to keep 72 women satisfied for all eternity?" And Allah replied, "Who said they were women"

CHAPTER 26

If the dead can come back to this earth and move unseen around those they loved, I shall always be near you; in the garish day and in the darkest night"amidst your happiest scenes and gloomiest hours"always, always; and if there be a soft breeze upon your cheek, it shall be my breath; or if the cool air fans your throbbing temple, it shall be my spirit passing by." Paul Hoffman, The Left Hand of God




Shock or Disbelief
Denial
Anger
Bargaining
Guilt
Depression
Acceptance and Hope


The days following the death of a loved one are the most difficult for everything is numb from the mind to the limbs. You cannot think straight and you just cannot move your body towards any action. Grief will do that to you my friends. But time flows, the sun rises, the sun sets and with it a bit by bit your soul tries to heal itself. But there is a catch, your broken soul is mended and ready but it is in a new form and shape. life has reworked your soul and the scar tissue casts a new shadow on your mind. Nothing is the same and everything is new. Brother dead, father dead, mother gone and years later i still stand by the window waiting, hoping against hope that a miracle will happen and i will be with them again. From the age of five i have not walked with the legs of a child, have not seen the world through the eyes of a young boy but i have walked with the legs of a grown up man heavy with the burden of one who has seen everything, too soon. Death will do that to children.


The young man knew his blind mother was dead and his heart broke. He felt something turn in his spirit and looked into the forest and there stood an old cow.
She came towards him and nudged him softly with her wet nose. Then they came one by one, the huge black maned lion and other animals. They came and gathered around the young man. They gathered around the light that now shone brightly from his face and body. They knew he was ready and that he would walk with them into the forest and would return only after many years, after he had finished the task that he was meant to do. He stood tall and the tears fell like thunder on the ground and he felt his heart was about to break. He lifted his face towards the sun and roared loudly and all the animals roared loudly with him , he in grief and they in happiness. The cow touched him again and he felt the sadness flow through her and then all the animals touched him and he felt their pain flow into him. He felt the pain of the land and he slowly wiped his tears away. I am ready, so lead me into the forest for i am hell and heaven and i am all of you. I will bring peace to your lives and to those that have gone before me. So they walked, the young man, the lion, the cow and all the animals. The tree stood rooted, its branches turned towards its child and then with a mighty heave the tree pulled out its roots and marched behind the young man and the animals and into the darkness of the forest. The blind woman was not the only mother he had for the whole universe was his mother and they would be his side through darkness and death. Passage from The boy who went into the dark and came back with light.




Three dreams,one key and an answer

"Dusk is just an illusion because the sun is either above the horizon or below it. And that means that day and night are linked in a way that few things are there cannot be one without the other yet they cannot exist at the same time. How would it feel I remember wondering to be always together yet forever apart?"Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook


Saami Kittay Solli Putten
Unna Nenjil Vachi Kitten
Othayaa Nae Naanum Paesikkavae Mudiyalennu
Manasukkullae Paesikkittom
Suthama Nae Naanum Parthukkavae Muthiyalennu
Kanavukkullae Paarthukittom



Priya slept and her dreams were full of the times she and chandru had spent together. She used to listen to the above song again and again especially when chandru had to be away from the city, sometimes for many days at a stretch. She would wait for him to call for she was scared that she might call when he was in the middle of an important meeting. In her dreams she remembered that one time chandru's dad had picked up his son's phone and priya not unknowingly started singing the song. Chandru's dad had answered ' Nalla paatu priya, entha padam ' and priya had nearly died in fright.

The tears rolled down her cheeks and priya slept on. She was in the dark searching for chandru, screaming his name again and again but no response.



Balaji slept and lavanya haunted his dreams and he caught her and asked her why she had played with his feelings and had broken his soul. Lavanya ran through the darkness asking him to follow her into the forest and balaji ran behind her. she stopped at a tree and pointed and balaji followed her finger and saw dhana hanging from a tree bleeding from deep wounds in his body. A giant stepped from the darkness but balaji could not see his face and he screamed dhana when the man cut his friends neck.


Dhana slept and his dreams were filled with snow and mountains. Many years ago dhana had travelled to nepal and had slipped into tibet with a help of a local guide. Dhana had done this for he had heard of a Monastery , which had monks who were masters of a lost martial arts technique. He had met many monks and they had guided him to a very old man who had not taught him anything but spoke to him about life in general. After spending nearly a week with the old monk in tibet dhana was about to leave and the old man had told him a few sentences in sanskrit and had asked dhana to use it when he really needed it.
Deep in sleep standing in the snow alone among the towering mountains dhana now softly said those words given to him by that old monk. The voice whispered ' it has been a long time but you have come for i have been waiting for your arrival. Dhana looked around and understood that the old man spoke to him in his soul. Dhana ' master i am tired and there is something ugly hounding me in the darkness and i am scared that i might lose the fight.'
The old man ' scared, tired. child open your eyes for then you will see everything. Fight without fear, fight without fear of losing or winning and fight back with your every cell and fight with total concentration.'

Dhana ran into the forest and something huge was running ahead of him and dhana ran faster and faster and the beast turned. Time flew away, time travelled back and time took dhana back to college and time carried him to lavanya's funeral. The beast turned and arjun stood there and he asked dhana to come closer and pointed his finger to a tree. dhana looked up and saw the bodies of chandru and malaiswamy hanging from the branches. his gaze travelled up and he saw the bodies of priya and balaji hanging there bleeding from massive wounds. Dhana screamed ' balaji ' and woke up from his dream.

Dhana knew that it was arjun and that somehow he was the cause of all the destruction. Dhana now knew what to do and who it was he was fighting against and who it was that was fighting against them. Dhana swore ' not again. i will die before you can hurt another innocent life.


On the first day of the war Krishna drove the chariot between the two armies. Arjuna saw his grandfather, his teacher, his friends and relatives in the Kaurava army. And he thought, 'Should I kill all these just to gain the kingdom? He sank into his seat. He perspired, His famous bow, the Gandeeva, slipped from his hands. "No, Krishna, let us not fight," he said, "Bhishma is my grandfather. Drona is my revered Guru. Ashwatthama is my good friend. How can I kill them ? And what do I gain by killing them?"
Krishna said, "Arjuna, such words are not worthy of a hero like you. Your duty is to fight. Those who have joined the forces against justice and righteousness have to perish. The good must be protected. Attachment to friends and relatives should not come in the way of your duty."
"Man must do his duty. Do not think of the fruits, the results. 'These are mine, those are not mine' -do not have such thoughts. A wise man treats all alike. Anger and desire dull your intelligence. Accept pain and pleasure in the same way. A man must understand and do what is right. Everyone that is born must die. Justice is more important than human beings. Partha, give up this base faint-heartedness, arise and do your duty."



irandu manam vaendum, iraivanidam ketten
ninaithu vaada ondru, marandu vaazha ondru...

iravum pagalum irandanaal
inbam thunbam irandanaal
uravum pirivum irandanaal
ullam ondru pothathey !


You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do." Eleanor Roosevelt

CHAPTER 27

Forrest Gump: You died on a Saturday morning. And I had you placed here under our tree. And I had that house of your father's bulldozed to the ground. Mama always said that dying was a part of life. I sure wish it wasn't. Little Forrest is doing just fine. About to start school again soon, and I make his breakfast, lunch, and dinner every day. I make sure he combs his hair and brushes his teeth every day. Teaching him how to play ping-pong. He's really good. We fish a lot. And every night, we read a book. He's so smart, Jenny. You'd be so proud of him. I am. He wrote you a letter. And he says I can't read it. I'm not supposed to, so I'll just leave it here for you. Jenny, I don't know if mama was right or if it's Lieutenant Dan. I don't know if we each have a destiny, or if we're all just floating around accidental-like on a breeze. But I...I think maybe it's both. Maybe both is happening at the same time. But I miss you, Jenny. If there's anything you need, I won't be far away.-- Quote from the film Forrest Gump


Stand still. stay quiet. In solitude sit in peace and wonder what life is and where we are going.Look up and see the air you breathe float away, float higher and higher and yes the breath of your soul lifts into the jet streams and goes speeding away into everywhere. From arctic to africa, from asia to australia all breaths of all lives are one and they are in the belly of this place called EARTH, a tiny blue dot, a grain of dust speeding through the solar system.
Forget the drama and forge your life in one track.be happy and do the best you can for that is all you can do.




ASHES TO ASHES AND DUST TO DUST -1

"It's important to attend funerals. It is important to view the body, they say, and to see it committed to earth or fire because unless you do that, the loved one dies for you again and again." Ann-Marie MacDonald, Fall on Your Knees


veedu varai uravu
veedhi varai manaivi
kaadu varai pillai
kadaisi varai yaro?

aadum varai aatam
ayirathil naatam
koodivarum kootam
kollivarai varuma?

veedu...

thottilukku annai
kattilukku kanni
pattinikku theeni
ketta pinbu gnyaani

veedu...

sendravanai ketaal
vandhuvidu enbaan
vandhavanai ketaal
senruvidu enbaan

veedu...

from the film Paathakaanikkai



Dhana opened his eyes and the darkness that lay on the world when he fell asleep and the darkness that lay on his soul both vanished and the bright sunlight revealed everything.It was nearly 7.30 a.m and it had been months since he had the luxury of rising so late.The phone rang softly and his personal secretary rajeev informed him that chandru's funeral was at 10.00 a.m and wanted to know if he was he going to attend. Dhana knew if he said yes, then lots of arrangements would have to be made and the quiet and dignified funeral would become a circus like affair. Although Gurumurthy chandru's dad had accepted dhana's request to attend the funeral, it would not be fair on his part to disturb their peace. Dhana made a call to the police commissioner and spoke to him calmly for about ten minutes.


Priya had been awake by 5.00 a.m . She did not want to sleep but the medicines prescribed were such that they put her under even when she struggled to stay awake. She was scared and at the same time felt guilty that she was asleep while chandru's body lay in cold box. She had spoken to her boss gurumurthy and he had told her that he would send his car to pick her up and then they could all leave together from their house to the crematorium.

Priya entered the room in which balaji was recuperating from his wounds and saw him awake and his bed in an upright position. He looked at her sadly and said hi priya, please come in.'

Priya sat in the chair next to his bed and both looked at each other and smiled sadly not knowing what to say in the situation.
Balaji I am sorry for your loss priya. I know very little of mr.chandrashekar but that little time was enough for me to know that he was kind and a nice person. I really wish that I had died instead of him.'

Priya balaji, you are such a lovely soul and I thank you for those kind words.Yes, chandru was a great human being just like you are and I too wish that I had died instead of him. And, not to forget malaiswamy, a gem of a person. They have sacrificed their lives in the quest for truth and here I am alive and lost, totally lost.'

Balaji slowly took priya's hands and No priya, you are not lost and you have a cause. You need to finish what chandru started and that is what he would have wanted. Finish this and maybe you might make peace with your loss.'

Priyas hand clenched around balaji's hand and both felt the bond of loss and a new bond of friendship. She saw in his eyes the loss she was feeling and also the grief that was plaguing him and smiled sadly.
The tears that fell from priya's eyes were like burning coals and overcome with grief priya lay her head on balaji's palm and balaji felt his hear was going to break.

Arjun with a cap on his head and bent low quietly slipped into his house and found his mother and a few people around the freezer box, in which lay his father's body. His mother quietly asked the people there to go and wait outside and leave arjun alone with his dead father.

Arjun stood over his dad's cold corpse dad, I come with good news. I have struck a mighty blow for us both and now you can rest in peace knowing that, soon I will strike again and then it will be done. I am going to burn your body knowing that your spirit is with me as I commit my final act of vengeance. Bless me and forgive me for not being a better son to you and for not being there with you as you fought this illness that consumed you.'

Arjun called to his mother and hugged her lightly and then his dad's body was loaded into the mortuary van and off they went. Even arjun's mother did not know where the final rites were going to be done and everything was kept secret.
The man clicked photo after photo from his hiding spot and as arjun left in the mortuary van a motorcycle followed him. It stopped at one place and from there a car followed the van. Every few kilometers vehicles kept changing and although the mortuary van under advice and supervision from arjun took many twists and turns to throw off anybody following them and reached the banglore highway one vehicle tailed him without him knowing. The mortuary van was headed towards kanchipuram for out of sight and farway from prying eyes, arjun would set fire and say a quiet goodbye to his dad.
But a master was at work and a battered old Bedford lorry took up the chase and work of tailing arjuns van. For unknown to him vehicles had been placed to tail him in every road leading away from Chennai.
nari color maari kaatukullae pocha
matha mirugamellam ennada ithu
pudhusa oru mirugam vandhirukuthae
appadinnu paathu bhayandhu pochu.. aiyayoo..

hahaha.. naan andavan anupiya purushan
hahaha.. ungalai aazhaa vandhirukkum arasan
mirungalellaam bayandhathu
angu nariyin raajiyam nadanthathu

oru naaL
maegam idithathu
minnal vedithathu
kaatru adithathu
kaadu thudithathu
nilam asainthathu
mazhai pozhindhathu
aaahhh...
kaatu vilangugal kalingana
konjam bayandhana
udal nadigina
aavi odingina
neela nariyin vaasal vandhu
Olam vittu azhuthana
aahn..ahnnn...

nariyum veliyil vandhathu
mazhiayil konjam nanaindhathu
neela saayam karanjathu
nariyin vaesham kalanjathu (hahaha)

neela saayam veLuthu pochu
dum dum dum
raja vezham kalanju pochu
dum dum dum



Gurumurthy,sumitra and priya followed the mortuary van carrying chandru's body into the porur crematorium. For security reasons all the crematoriums in Chennai were booked in advance for the cremation of chandru but only gurumurthy and dhana knew where it was going to be actually done. Policemen in plainclothes had been monitoring the porur crematorium and the other sites for the past three days and had arrested a few people who were acting suspiciously around the crematoriums. They had been whisked away and placed in separate jail cells in puzhal central jail.

Dhana had already arrived in an old Hyundai santro car and had parked unnoticed in the far end of the crematorium. There were a couple of other cars parked here and there and every vehicle held special commando officers who were watching their boss with eagle eyes.

The minute chandru's body was bought into the crematorium and gurumurthy's vehicle had also followed in, the gates to the crematorium were shut and locked and police officers stood guard in such a protective and fierce manner that all stragglers and passerbys gave it a wide berth.
Dhana dressed in a white kurta and jeans walked up to the van and gave a shoulder to the body as it was brought out. He and others slowly carried the remains and placed it on the altar where the final rites would be done.
Dhana went up to gurumurthy and hugged him please honor me by treating me like your son and thank you for allowing me to be here in your time of sorrow.'
Gurumurthy and sumitra thanked him and after the rites were done the body was placed on a tray and it slowly went into the chamber where fire would consume him and leave behind ashes.
Yes, in the end a life, a soul nay all lives are consumed by fire and death and then there is nothing but memories and tales. Songs can be sung, tales can be told but the dead stay dead and they never ever return.
Gurumurthy stood as memories of his son who had been the world to him washed over him and slowly he collapsed and fainted as grief took over with a vengeance. Dhana lifted him effortlessly and placed him in the ambulance, that rushed in and one that had been waiting outside as a precaution taken by the police department.

vaazhvae maayam indha vaazhvae maayam
tharai meedhu kaanum yaavum thanneeril podum kolam
nilaikkaadhammaa...
yaarodu yaar vandhadhu? naam pogumbodhu
yaaradu yaar selvadhu?

yaaraarkku endha medaiyo ingae yaaraarkku enna veshamo
aadum varaik kootam varum aatam ninraal ottam vidum
thaayaalae vandhadhu theeyaalae vendhadhu
mey endru meniyai yaar sonadhu

pirandhaalum paalai ootruvaar inge irandhaalum paalai ootruvaar
undaavadhu rendaaladhaan oorpovadhu naalaaladhaan
karuvodu vandhadhu theruvodu povadhu
mey enru maeniyai yaar sonnadhu

naadagam vidum naeramdhaan uchchak kaatchi nadakkudhammaa
vaesham kalaikkavum oyvu edukkavum vaelai nerungadhammaa
paadhaigal pala maariyae vandha payanam mudiyudhammaa
thaay kondu vandhadhai thaalaatti vaiththadhai
noy kondu pogum naeramammaa