Seasonal Favorites – Songs

I always have some seasonal favorites of movie songs. I want to listen to it all the time and after few months, that feeling just goes away. Not sure whether everyone has that. To name a few, I loved “Pachaikiligal tholodu” from Indian, “Mudhalvane vane” from Mudhalvan, “Manjal veyyil maalaiyile” from Vettaiyadu vilaiyadu, “Po nee po” from 3, “Ennamo Edho” from Ko, “Mynaa mynaa nenjukulla” from Mynaa. Now the recent one is “Ayyayayo Anandhame” from the movie Kumki. I think the singers who sing the song also make the difference. Aalaap Raju was so good in Ennamo Edho and the starting instrumental music on that song was very very nice and I really really LOVE it. 

This new song “Ayyayayo Anandhame” from Kumki has been sung by Haricharan. He is awesome and if you listen to the first four lines he sang, you will fall in love with him J. It is really mesmerizing.

ayayayo aananthame
nenjukulle arambame

nooru koodi vaanavil
maari maari seruthe

kaadhal podum thuralil
thegam muzhgi poguthe

yeno oru aasai
va va kathai pesa
ayayayo..

And there is another song from Kumki which is sang by Magizhini Manimaaran. It is very similar to Jing Chikka from Mynaa, but the lyrics are very simple & nice and the voice is also fresh to hear.

kaiyalavu nenjathila..kadalavu aasa machan

alavu yethum illa..athuthaan kaadhal machan

naama joora mann mela seraa vittallum 

nenape pothum machan

Both the songs were written by Yugabharathi and I really love those lyrics. And I feel like the music director Imman was at his BEST! I watched the theatrical trailer of this movie at Star Vijay and was very impressed. I am really waiting to watch this movie. This movie got released in India today.

Please listen to these 2 songs if you want to feel the heaven for few minutes J.

http://www.in.com/music/album/kumki-tamil-94156.html

Speeding Ticket for the First Time

Still not sure whether to say “Got my speeding ticket for the first time”  or “Got my first speeding ticket”. The latter one kind of sounds that I might get more J. Hmm.. It was on Nov 26^th 2012 Monday and I left my office around 5 PM to pick up Satvika. I usually pick her up around 4:30 PM and it was already late. Also, it is becoming dark around 5 PM these days (winter time). The speed limit was 35 miles/hour on that road. I was waiting on red on a signal and once it is green, I wanted to be ahead from everybody else on the signal. I always do that on the signals even from the time I was riding my cute Blue Sunny during school days and my favorite Kinetic Honda during college days. I feel so good and happy when I do that J. I just think of the time when my best friend Annam and I met with an accident near Anna Nagar Rountana in Chennai when we tried to skip a orange signal. We both fell from her Kinetic Honda and got bruises. I know what we did was not right, but I still remember that incident. It just stuck on my mind.

Ok, back to where I left off. I did the same here on the signal and just passed it fast once it turned green. I went ahead of everybody, but did not realize that the cops car was coming on the opposite side since it was dark. But once I passed him, I realized that cops saw me. I slowed down, but he took a U turn and switched on his flashy “red & blue” lights. I stopped immediately. He came to me and said “Maam, you went too fast. Can I see your license, title and insurance cards?”. I gave him everything and asked him whether he could give me warning as this was the first time that I had been stopped. But he did not say anything, took my ids, wrote a ticket for $114 and came back. I asked him again for the warning instead of the ticket. But he gave the ticket to me and a pouch with all my cards and said “I reduced your fine from $160 to $114. Drive carefully”.  Not sure whether that was a Thanksgiving discount else his “Maasakadasi” problem that he needs to get more fine J.

In my 8.5 years of US driving experience, that was the first time I was stopped by an Cop. I am usually a careful & a sensible driver. But maybe, that day was not my day. After that I went to pick Satvika and I told her about this. She was very upset on hearing this as she still thinks that “Amma would not have done a mistake” J.

English Vinglish (2012) – Feel Good

I watched the movie “English Vinglish” couple of days ago. I felt it was cute and Sridevi was awesome. The guy who acted as her husband acted really well. He represented the typical Indian husband perfectly. The whole movie is about a emotional journey of a typical Indian wife. I really loved it and not sure how many would even appreciate or understand what the Indian wives go through. This movie was more about her English knowledge and how she is struggling to overcome it. But you can relate Sridevi’s emotions more than that. The new director Gauri Shinde did a decent job.

English Vinglish is really a Feel Good movie. If you are married & from India, do not miss to watch it!