Ash's Swear Words

Funny to hear the swear words (!) that Ashwath uses when he is in rage:

• amma poya: meaning, 'mom go away'; Guess it translates to 'Go to hell!'?
• onnum venaam: meaning, 'nothing needed'; translates to 'Don't bug me!'?
• azhu moonji appa: meaning, 'crybaby dad'; Guess there is not much to translate...
• amma kulika poya: meaning, 'go take bath'; translates to 'Don't show your face to me. Get away.'
• appa shave pannanum: meaning, 'dad, go n shave'; again translates to 'Don't show your face to me. Get away.'

I can figure that the bathe and shave is not literal, because he uses the swear phrase, with everyone: avva shave pannanum, amma shave pannanum, etc... And when gets really angry, he puts so much emphasis on the first syllable of the word 'po'ya that he literally sings a song, appa poooya! :-)

I am wondering how the expression of anger through words happens at such an early age! 

And the longer we keep the habit, the harder it gets to overcome it... I am learning a little late in life; but at least happy that I am learning!

Spotted on the road

Andru, Gandhi uzhaithaar naattukaaga.
Endru, naam uzhaikkirom Gandhi notukaaga!

roughly translated to


Then, Gandhi worked hard for the country, and now,
we work hard towards earning the Gandhi currency.

Kazhugu (2012) - My view and a brief review

Certainly, Kazhugu (2012) is a movie that falls along the lines of Sethu (1999), Pithamagan (2003), and Paruthiveeran (2007). Camaraderie, friendship, joviality, love, innocence, and vengeance and tragedy, are the emotions running along in full swing in all these movies. Not to mention the soulful music for the company of the empathetic viewers.

If I were to reverse-engineer and develop a hints-development structure of the story, it would be as follows:

establishing a setting - introducing the associates of the story - character sketching along with occupation - introducing the protagonist's love-interest - falling for each other - a casual but a serious or an unrelated happening related to the antagonist - protagonist's part in this happening - innocent or naive or daring decision by protagonist - serious and unexpected repercussion affecting protagonist - vengeance - tragedy.

Maybe, the sequence of two consecutive events can be interchanged and yet, the above structure holds good for all these movies.

Maybe there are other such movies that I have missed; but there is definite correlation and a lot more similarities in all these four movies. Of the four movies, Ilayaraja and Yuvan Shankar Raja (YSR) have composed music for two each, Ilayaraja for the former two movies in the timeline and YSR for the latter two. All these movies have taken a minimum of two years for production, from start of project to the finish. Each such movie has been released with a minimum gap of four years--long enough to avert making the theme a cliched or a stereotyped one. 

One distinct difference is with the title--the rest of the movies have the protagonist's name as the title, whereas here, it is the occupation that takes the main seat. In fact, it is a very apt name because the story revolves around the protagonist's occupation. Indeed, it is a beautiful analogy. The eagle (kazhugu) makes its survival on the carcass and here the protagonist makes his living with that of those who die from clifftops.

Though Kazhugu maybe flawed or has its weak-points at certain areas of film-making, and I am not sure if Kazhugu was a great commercial hit compared to the others, but it is still a laudable effort from the team.

A puzzle

A choice between W and D. What is the answer?