Nanban

Movies are not something which I take my family often to. May be because my wife is not a big fan of movies or my son is too small to sit quiet for the entire movie time. I always think twice or thrice before I take my family to a movie.

I decided to take them out for a movie last weekend and had few valid reasons to it. I took them to "Nanban" a Shankar directed movie. I had confidence to take them to this movie because of the original version "3 Idiots" and heard Shankar did full justice to the original version in his remake of it. I also wanted to give my wife the experience of Sathyam which recently started operating from Brookfields, Coimbatore. Finally, offlate I had a feel that my son had grown up and started to understand things which made me feel that he also would enjoy his time there.

I blindly booked tickets online along with few snacks with a hope that my wife wouldn't be having any complaints about it :). As expected, when I informed her that we are going out for movie on Sunday morning, she was little upset that I booked it on the day of Pongal where she had other ideas of going to temple and keeping Pongal there. Since it is not the first time, it didn't take me much of time to convince her.

We reached Brookfields at 9AM and we had 30 mins to check in before the movie time. I took them directly to the Sathyam lobby as I know 30 mins wouldn't be enough for my wife if she starts checking at other shops. My son was too happy seeing a big lobby to play around (thank god I didn't take him to the game zone) and started to run around. I didn't want to hold him back as he was under my eyes throughout the entire lobby and wife started to look around since it was her first visit there.

We entered the movie hall around 09:20AM and occupied our seats. My son was not at all happy that he had to share the seat with me or my wife and immediately started crying. When I explained him that he is too small for a separate seat, he quickly understood and quietly occupied my lap (Kudos to my judgement about him!!!).

The movie went really good and I checked with my wife once in a while to make sure she liked the movie. Shankar did great justice to the original version and everyone did their part to their best. Siddheesh was very quiet throughout the first half and I had to check at times if he was sleeping which wasn't the case. Throughout the most part of the second half of the movie he was busy with all the snacks that I have ordered and I made sure both of them enjoyed the movie till the end.

Once he is done with all the snacks he started to walk down the stairs and come back and he was doing only that till the end of the movie. He also stared to dance in the steps during the last song and I couldn't control him. My wife was busy with the movie. I was happy that both of them were having a good time there.

When we came out of the hall after the movie, I asked my wife if she wanted to do some shopping for which she said "No" after giving a hard thought. I know she would be hungry and also would want to go home. I was very happy that both of them enjoyed their time and decided to take them for all the good movies which are going to come.

On the way back home, I asked my son whether he enjoyed the movie and asked him how was the movie. He responded back by singing "யாரு போல யாரு மச்சான் (Yaaru pola Yaaru machan)" (which is actually "En friend'a pola yaaru machan"). So you guys would also have know his feedback by now.

So confidently I moved to my wife and asked he how was the movie. Her response was -
"Movie was super and I liked it so much. But who asked you to order the snacks online, we would have bought something else and you didn't allow us for that saying the snacks will come to our place. Why is your taste going so weird" I actually had ordered for Popcorn, Ice-Cream and Fresh Juice and wondering what better could I have ordered for my wife & son.

Moral of the story: It is very easy to make a 3 year old kid happy than a 30 year old grown-up [which includes me too :)]. LOLzzz
 

Aussie... The nightmare!!!

Happy to start my new blog talking about Cricket, my favorite sport.

I had so many reasons to be eager for the India Vs Australia cricket series to start. Starting from Sachins 100th ton till the anticipation over winning the first series down under. Looking at the recent performances of the Aussies against SA & NZ, one would have thought this series would be the opportunity that we were looking for so many years to rule over the OZ nightmares.

But it was again proved that reality matters and what happened actually broke so many Indian cricket fans including me.

It was a known fact that the Indian team are slow starters when they tour out of the sub-continent and that was the talk going around when we lost the first test which I feel we had every chance of winning. The days which came after was expected to be heart warming but ended up heart breaking.

All of a sudden the failing Aussie batting seem to have gained a sudden confidence and the toothless bowling (that's how it was portrayed) got something to bite at. If someone was expecting the Indians to fight back in the second test, they just showed the back and no fight. It was a mere surrender and everyone had resigned from the winning idea or even from the idea to draw the test match. On the first day of the second test match when India folded to 191 the talks were only around the white wash. Lots of people said that was too early to write off, but the days came after seems to be on the way to 4-0 result.

Winning a test series down under is now out of the talk and discussion were around retaining Border-Gavaskar trophy until today. Seeing the pitch prepared at Perth, even the possibility of retaining the trophy looked slim however the Indian team insisted they are confident and have high hopes of turning things around.

It came the day it mattered, the first day of the Perth test. Until this day, the Aussies, at various instances had questioned the body language of the Indian team and have talked about how Indian team mentally goes down in tough situations. As expected, the players who represented the Indian team in various press meets denied their morale is down and kept insisting that they will bounce back on the bouncier pitch in the world.

The Indians showed today why the Aussies felt the Indian team is down and out. We clearly saw the Indian team had resigned from putting in any efforts to win a test match or even to draw. This time around, the Aussie bowlers showed us that they are hitting a dead snake. Eventually whatever did their bowlers do today, fetched them wickets and to make the matter worse, their opening stand had almost crossed the total first innings score what Indians could manage.

When people can talk about a white wash during the second match where Indians managed 191 runs in the first innings and ended up loosing, why can't they talk about it now where our team managed 30 runs less than their first innings score in Sydney.

David Warner, the Australian opener is 100% accurate in saying India already beaten. He had clearly killed them today by hitting the 4th fastest century in the test cricket. It was really amazing, on a pitch where he could score a humiliating fast century, none of our guys managed to reach a 50.

Being an ordinary fan who gets upset when India looses and gets excited when India wins, I wish the Indian Cricket Team, all the very best to try and draw this test match (which now needs a miracle and dramatic turn around)

See ya guys in the next post...