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Moosina Muthyalu !!!

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It’s been a while since I put my pen to paper. For years now, its been the keyboard and an empty word document ,with which I begin to write. Sometimes its about things that people ask me to and most times its what I find easy to develop on (Laziness!!!). However, it was different this time. I plugged on my ear phones and pressed the play button, as the song sunk into me. The words – the meaning and beneath it, the soul of the song! I found myself looking for a pen and paper almost immediately.   “Moosina Muthyalake” the song which inspired me to pen this post, describes the beauty of the Goddess from the eyes of the great poet Tallapakka Annamacharya fondly known as Annamayya. This poem has an interesting flow, describing the aptness of each adornment of the Goddess Alamelumanga/Lakshmi. What is beautiful is that it applies to any woman, seen through the eyes of an admirer. Unlike many of his compositions, Annamayya does not give away the gist of the poem in the first stan
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#3 - An ode to Kanmani and her Kalvan - Rahman's musical treat - Ok Kanmani

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The first text from a special person! Those butterflies in the stomach! You consciously or sub consciously want all their attention yet careful to take it all slow and before you even realize, the stranger becomes an acquaintance! The “neenga” becomes “nee” and then all that follows before it metamorphoses into a convivial companionship! You feel a certain sense of warmth, their presence in your life makes you feel your heart beat 100 times a minute (perhaps it does!) And before you realize, it hits you hard. The hardness with which it hits may vary but it hits you for sure. Yes, you!  It all starts when you look at the person for the first time and you instantly connect to them. Your heart goes like – damn how did I not meet this person so long! No – it’s not the looks that I am talking about! It could be anything! Smartness?  Voice? Something as small as the red bindi on her forehead? Sometimes it’s even the imperfections and for all you know it could just be her aura – I do
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An Ode to Ratnam - Rahman - Dil Se

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D il se/ Uyire  – Some movies are conceived  well ahead of their times and the makers show conviction in attempting something that has never been thought of before. While such films fail miserably in the box office, time and audience bestow a haloed nostalgia upon them for eons to come. Dil se is a deliciously layered dish topped with love in the backdrop of terrorism. The movie released in an era where romance was best imagined in international locations or on mustard fields and Ratnam gave it a completely new dimension One lead character – from the heart of India – its capital city and another from a politically – socially sidelined – literally and figuratively a cornered state – one of the 7 sisters – Assam, Ratnam pens their story which traverses through 7 stages of love, as referred to in Arabic literature - attraction, infatuation, love, reverence, worship, obsession, and death. How can one miss out the beauty of his trusted lieutenant and the embodiment of musi
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Pudhu Vellai Mazhai - An ode to love !

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This post is best read with the song playing in your mind or on your computer :-) The warmth of his skin tugged at her eyelids. He was leading her to a new path, a new experience, a new life and most importantly with him by her side. She could feel his breath on her neck. He was taking his hands away from her eyelids. They begged them to stay – her eyelids. They wanted the warmth of his skin – the tingling feeling! But what Roja – the 18 year old from Sundarapandiapuram saw next, was a sight to kill for! The sight of the snow clad mountains clearly excited the girl in her. The man who stood next to her excited the woman in her! Rishi!  She bit her lips as the snow bit her flesh. She looked at him with as much awe as she looked at the sight in front of her! இங்கு சொல்லாத இடம் கூடக் குளிர்கின்றது மனம் சூடான இடம் தேடி அலைகின்றது Rishi, the man who she hated, just days ago, Rishi who she wanted to stay away from days ago – broke the glass wall between
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Gowri kalyaanam vaibogame !

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Sri flipped open the pages of her diary, which she updates, quite regularly. Her gaze froze on the date and her lips curled, to reveal a crooked smile – her trademark! It was the 12 th of October, on her diary – the day she and Gautham, entered a bond of togetherness, a promise meant to be kept for life. It was the day of a wedding of elaborate elegance, the day they said yes, to each other! What impressed me was the way Sri narrated the rituals of a typical TamBrahm wedding! It sent visuals all across my mind. I could almost imagine every scene of what she narrated. All what seemed like rituals to me, made sense. It made absolute sense, as each portion seemed to strengthen the bond, they already had, for each other! They got married, the typical Tamil Brahmin way. The wedding rituals for a Tamil Iyer wedding was typically meant to last 5 days. But modern times have cropped the whole wedding to crisp 3 day grand celebration at a kalayana mandapam (wedding hall). With changin
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