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Main hoon na, Snegidhiyae

Anu Malik and his ilk often blame the director and producer for making specific requests when their ‘inspired’ lifts are found out. What would have made Farah Khan or Shah Rukh Khan want Anu Malik to lift this Vidhyasagar tune for Main Hoon Na?

Snegidhiyae

 

Main Hoon Na

Ilaiyaraaja’s tribute to Bhimsen Joshi

 

Bhimsen Joshi:

 

 

Ilaiyaraja’s tribute:

Tuesday

The happiest man in Coimbatore


The happiest man in Coimbatore, originally uploaded by malluboy.

Here in Coimbatore
Lives a man with a smile
in his eyes
in his face
Early to rise
He gets his exercise
He eats healthy
He knows his job
He owns his house
He has savings
His children are settled
This man with the smile
is a tender coconut vendor
with a loyal clientele
and a steady job
He is his own master
with a plan to retire
three years from now
You might never get to know him
but there is this man
here in Coimbatore
a man with a smile

Pic and background story courtesy @malluboy (http://www.flickr.com/photos/22078948@N00/)

Friday

Scary times

R loves animals of all kinds. You will find a lot of small figurines spread across our home. Most of them will be discovered after you have either sat or stepped on them. This is not rare. Some of the animals are. Suck it up.

C has planned and created an Elephant costume for 2 year old R. Almost from the minute the costume got ready, R, who has not even seen it yet, wants to be Buzz Lightyear. C is giving me the darkest of looks for introducing Buzz into our lives. The case has been filed under its-all-your-fault folder volume 23.

Taking cue from Inception, I have been diligently planting the idea in R’s head that Buzz loves animals especially elephants. R now agrees to the unreliable fact that Buzz Lightyear’s favorite animal is the elephant. From a total loss, something has been salvaged. There might be a cute little tantrum but the elephant might just prevail. Given this little success in brain washing, it is a little puzzling why R wants to be a leopard as of this morning, the day of his Halloween parade at school. My frantic questions on why he wants to be a leopard have been dismissed with “I wanna be a leopard” retorts of increasing intensity. Will the leopard change its spots for once, in favor of an elephant’s spectacular grey hide?

Details at 10.