Pollachi - Vaalparai - Part1

I didn’t anticipate that it would happen now. Infact none of us predicted that. We were just carried out our day to day work in our office without even having a thought of that (well, it is in my case atleast). Things are keep on happening in the world around you even if you don’t notice. It happened just like that.

Well, What happened is the question?

So the answer is “Trisha has decided to get married…” (name changed due to confidential reasons :)). By using that name I can feel your eagerness who doesn’t know about her and anger as well who knows about her :). Anyway please don’t judge that the story is going to be about her marriage.

She has invited few of us one month prior to her marriage. Since it is in Pollachi near Coimbatore, the venue attracted us and we started showing interest to attend that marriage. And ofcourse she is one of our greatest team members and friends too - to not forget mentioning about that. We started planning about the trip. While in planning we came to know that couple of our vetty gang key members didn’t receive the invitation and hesitated in attending the marriage. Well, here we had a challenging situation to trigger some interest in them to join the trip. So, we decided to add another agenda in our trip.

And that agenda is VAALPAARAI.

So, everyone agreed for the trip now even the vetty group key members who didn’t receive their invitation. So the step-2 process is to take permissions for the leave. Couple of us struggled a lot to get their permissions since we are married. ;). We informed our managers for our planned leaves and applied it. Our managers are kind enough to accept our leave requests unlike our better halves (obviously it’s a joke :)). We planned to make the trip in 2 hatchback petrol cars (jazz and i20). Here our plan goes like this…. Start at Wednesday afternoon and reach Pollachi the same night. Thursday morning to attend the marriage and start to Vaalpaarai, should reach there by lunch. Rest of Thursday at rest, Friday to visit Athirapalli falls and Saturday morning to start back to Chennai. Step 3 plan is to book our stays. Bride promised us that she takes care of stay at Pollachi on Wednesday night. We have to book the stay at Vaalpaarai for 2 nights. We searched for some resorts and tea bungalows through internet. Nothing worked out but a resort we got it through just dial. Deepika Residency is the resort name. We called the contact person Kumaresan and registered our bookings and we paid 2000 as advance to confirm the bookings. The story is about 2 parts… one is pre trip and the second is on trip. Now we see the first part.

Once the trip was planned and confirmed all of us were bit excited. Bachelors were excited because they are going for a trip. Married men were excited because they are going for a bachelor’s trip. One guy was interested to join the trip from another team since it is the bachelor trip. Ofcourse he was married and a good friend of one of our vetty group key member. Only one of us was not excited and even not remembered about the trip till we started. That could be because he is a bachelor. One man got the permission from his better half just a week back the travel starts. Meanwhile I was busy in changing the batteries and car tyres to my jazz since it was already due and for the safe of co travelers in the long drive. We were discussing and planning about the trip /travel in our daily after lunch get-to-gethers. We were discussing about the route to reach Pollachi and finalised the route as follows. Chennai – Chengalpet – Villupuram – Ulundhurpet – Athur – Salem – Avinashi – Pollachi. Then we were discussing about the driver options where we had enough number of alternate drivers too. Some of our vetty group members who were not joining the trip were very irritated about our chats in the name of planning, but we don’t want to stop because of that, since it gave us the energy for rest of the day work. Yes ofcourse, it was a good motivation for most of us to carry out the work in office. Suddenly we got a doubt whether our cars would accommodate 5 members comfortably. Why doubt, let’s check practically. Few days we went to the parking area and just rehearsed our seating positions. I don’t know exactly what they concluded even the space is little bit constraint. We all were set to go, so no constraints. I have created a whatapp group named Pollachi, to do the instant planning. But I don’t see any important planning done there but shared few songs list for the travel. Car owners should take the responsibilities for creating the play lists. We had few sound check sessions in the lunch time. In the name of checking audio quality we have taken rests in the car. But I dint had any clue what would have happened if the sound quality test fails. All these happened just because of the excitement of the trip.

When we passed the days like this the calendar has already reached the travel date. Yes, that is Wednesday morning. We reached office with travel bags since we planned to start from office at lunch time. Couple of us were engaged in deadlines. So we planned to start as 2 batches. One has started around 1.30pm with 3 members. It has to pick up 2 persons on the way, one from Padur and another from tambaram. Another batch started at 3.30pm after they completed the tasks. I am the driver for the 2^nd batch. We had lunch just near Navalur and started at around 4.30pm. So, the long awaited journey started with wheat parota and egg kurma as delayed lunch.

We are here in the end of part – 1 – pre trip. Here comes the part – 2 - On trip. Lets wait for that for next release.

Athiri hills and Thoranai hills

Athiri hills near Coutrallam

After Sathuragiri, Vellingiri, Paravatamalai, we were searching for “Whats next?” then my spiritual partner / good friend named Mr. Raguraman did come with a place called Athiri hills which is situated near Alwarkurichi, Tirunelveli district. So after so many discussions, chats and conference calls with our spiritual group we decided to visit there in the month of December. Then we started @ 26^th evening around 6pm from Tambaram with having 2 cars for 6 people.

We have reached Coutrallam @ 4am on 27^th. We had a bath in Aintharuvi at that time which is unforgettable. It was too cold to take bath at 4am in December and it is too violent. Few people were sleeping there near the parking places and nobody was taking bath in the falls at that time. But after few hours we felt it was a wonderful experience which we never have.

After completed our bath we proceeded to “Thoranai malai” a Murugan temple in the hill which is 15 kms

steps leading to temple

from Coutrallam. We had a priest there who welcomed us in the foot hill and asked to climb and reach the temple and also asked us to take a bath in one of the sunai’s. We started climbing the hill @ around 6am. There are steps available to climb till the temple. Most of the steps are too steep and made us tired on just beginning itself. It was almost 1500 steps that we have to climb. I am not remembering the exact numbers it took 1hr for us to reach the temple though we were very slow.

Temple front view

The temple is situated just in midst of a rocky plain fully covered by iron grills. (Iron grills might have built to protect the temple from the monkeys). It is a very good treat to eyes to see the surroundings and the sceneries. Once we reached the temple the priest asked us to take a bath in the nearby sunai. But we told that we already taken a bath at Coutrallam. He insisted again to take a bath there since it would be really nice. We don’t find any issues to take a bath again in that sunai. We thought it would be again a good feel to take a bath in that place. We reached the nearby sunai and found a rope tied bucket near the sunai which is looked like a well. We have to use the bucket to take the water out and bath. Again it was a pleasant experience taking bath there.

On the way to temple with our spiritual group

Scenic views around

Waiting for chutney :)

After the second bath of the day we completed the pooja in the temple and started climbing down. We reached the foot hill by 9am and hot idlies were waiting for us. There is a lady who is serving the disciples directed by that priest and she made the idlies ready before we get down. We had 4 idlies with coconut chutney, which we felt like amirtham at that time.

After heavenly breakfast we started to Athiri hills which is near ambasamudram and 15 kms from there. We are almost running late and reached there by 10.30 or so. There was a old man again like a priest who took us to the temple which is 1.30 hrs walk from there. It is a reserved forest where the forest officers are very strict that we should not take plastics, cameras, liquor bottles etc. But it is required to protect our own mother nature from the nuisance people.

Way to reach Athiri Maharishi's temple

We started follow the old man in a single trail path. This forest has all the animals except lion. This is the tiger reserve forest “Kalakkad Mundanthurai Tiger reserve”. With all the “darr” fear inside us we started follow that old man. The way starts with the long view of “Kadana dam” and we walked along with the river way. It was really a beautiful sight with the backdrop of western ghats. On the way we reached a small river and decided to take a third bath for the day. Again it was a wonderful experience, the water is crystal clear and the fishes, stones are able to see just like we see through a glass. After the bath we again started walking through the forest and reached the temple. On the way we have seen a palli vaasal also. Afterall it is a heaven and no matter what god is there

The river where we took bath

and who are not. We are ready to worship whoever crosses us. That mindset will come automatically in such a place.

The temple is just in middle of the forest. To say exactly it was not mostly like a temple but a living place of

Temple front view

Athiri Maharishi with his wife Anusaya. It was exactly like a “Kudil” of some sages which has been converted as a temple afterwards. There is an idol for Korakkar sidhar also placed and believed that he had his tapas there. Even we could see the Vinayagar, Murugar idols available in the open space. Just to imagine how the life would have been there for just a couple in midst of a forest and doing the tapas and poojas. I believed that it is a heaven to lead a life there.

A nap under the tree in temple side

We had a small nap there since we all are tired due the last day’s long travel without much sleep. Afterwards we had curd rice which has been prepared by the priest there. Again it was really nice to have that in the forest where we were already in dead hungry.

We were started walking back to foot hill where we started @ around 3pm and reached by 4.30pm. The way is not so steep to climb. We can easily walk to the temple through the forest but with few steep climbings.

distant view of the kadana dam

We have started and visited the “Sivasailam temple” on the way to Ten Kasi, where the main diety is “Saila

Kasi Viswanathar temple gopuram

nathar”. It was a good temple and few hundred years old. Then we visited Ten Kasi, Kasi Viswanathar temple. It is the temple of beauty with its one of the huge gopurams in tamil nadu. We had a dinner there and stayed in Coutrallam where one of our friends booked a home kind of stay.

Morning we have planned to take an oil massage with a bath in Coutrallam main falls. We took an ayurvedic massage which costs for Rs.300 per person just near the falls. But in my opinion it was not so good but OK kind of. We had a bath in Coutrallam after the massage. It was really nice experience again. Only my spiritual partner was with me to visit nearby Kutrala nathar, the others were started in one car to pack up. It was a

Puliya marathadi lalakadai

nice and big temple and so beautiful. So many deities are there inside the temple where we visited one by one slowly. We were also supposed to go back to room and pack up things for starting back to Chennai since we are already running late. We started at around 11am from Coutrallam and we reached at 9pm at Tambaram.

On the way we planned to buy Milk kova in Srivilliputhur since it is famous for. We have found that "Puliya marathadi lalakadai" near the bus stand is the one where you can find the authentic Srivilliputhur milk kova.

Srivilliputhur temple gopuram  while returning

 Overall it was one of the most memorable trips in my travel diary. Yet to explore more heavenly places.

Thanks

MSK

Paradesi

We decided to go movie paradesi as one of our friends told that the movie is extraordinary. Fine, this is enough for us to decide for a movie outing. So we started from porur at 6pm from our friend’s house for a 6.40 pm movie scheduled in AGS, Villivakkam. Since it is a Saturday evening, we struck up in a huge traffic and managed to reach the theatre at almost 7pm. We are not happy that we lost almost the 20 mins of movie. But the “next seat man” told us that the movie started late and you would have lost not even 10 mins. That gave us some relief and started watching the movie with some great expectations. Naturally expectations are there for Bala movies and the round the world reviews added more in to it. Fine, I will get in to my opinion now towards the movie.

Movie sets to be in 1900AC. The movie starts (at the time we entered) happily with a marriage function. The villagers are gathered as a family for the function. In between Atharva’s periappa died which has been hidden by the villagers to get the “Nel soru” in the marriage, by not doing that they will miss the “nel soru” (and it is about their varumai, where I don’t accept since the village people will give preference for the people and too a death instead of a food, but bala managed to justify somehow by his screenplay). Vedhika, the heroin tries to tease Atharva as he seems to be a bit of “mentally retarded person”, she denies giving food to him, but he is very hungry and need it badly. This scene extends for 5 to 10 mins which irritated me much, but I don’t know why. Then I got convinced that even my two friends who accompanied me also got irritated by that scene. Finally she showed her love by giving food to frustrated Atharva. But here Atharva expressed his frustration well than us.

After this scene I wondered that nobody has cared about the “died periappa” rather the movie continued with Atharva/Vedhika love. I did not convince with this major hole in Bala’s direction. (Mentally retarded?) Atharva trying to make love with heroin where she rejects in the beginning and accepts finally in a half built house in middle of the thorn bushes (mullu kaadu). Heroin’s mother not accepting the lead’s combo and yelling at Atharva to forgot her daughter. (Her mother’s performance reminds me the Ambika character in Avan Ivan.) Atharva’s grandma is the only person who supports him. We should appreciate the performance (actually no performance, it was she lived that character easily) of his grandma. At some point even his grandma was shouting at him that he is not going for any job.

This time our hero is looking for a job outside his village and able to find one for cutting woods. A tea master who gives that job was beating our hero like anything as he sits on a bench. He is not supposed to sit on a bench since he came from some low caste. This scene especially pictured well and we able to feel the disaster faced by untouchables in that period. After completing his job of cutting hundreds of wood he was not given the payment, so he cries in front of the tea master to get the “coolie”. This is where the new character gets introduced as “Kangaani” who is searching for people to work in tea estates owned (taken should be the right word) by the britishers.

Kangaani is in Salur Village where he is convincing the villagers with the sweet words that they could work with him and can earn more money to lead a better life. People were convinced and felt happy by his words and decided to go their and work with them to earn more money. Some people were going with their families and some left. From here the movie travels most with songs and distressing moments of the migrating people.

People started travelling to their new work place and they travel for 48 days by just walking. Here, while they start their journey there is a background song “Oh! Sengaade” which showing us how sad they are leaving their living place. Here I would like to compare the song with situation comes in the film “Kannathil Muthamittal – Vidai kodu engal naade” the people are forced to migrate from their native, so the song was matching that situation very well. Coming to this movie, people are volunteered to migrate for better living and I don’t see the need of the core sadness in that song. The song was like making us to feel the sadness which was totally miserable.

While travelling, an old man was fallen down due to probably de-hydration. But I wondered how other people leaving that old man in the middle of the way (almost a pottakkaadu) without making an attempt to give him water or try to save him. The villagers are almost should be the victim’s relations where his wife only seems to be shed tears for him. And later the people harshly taking that lady with them and leaving that old man just like that.

Now the movie set to revolve just in a tea estate where they realize that the Kangaani is the villain and exploiting the people’s soul to their best. Newly married lady (karuthakanni) is getting raped by the britisher, half of the people were dying due to the fatal disease, hero’s leg vein has been cut as he tried to escape, people were not given their payments, Dhanshika also died in a disease and Karuthakanni as well. Hopeless people spending their life time in tea estates without seeing their families and relations. Doctors are arriving to medicate the people but they are trying to convert them as Christians rather doing treatments. Everything is going against the slave people and there is no hope even for us that they will rejuvenate. Finally due to man power shortage another set of people brought in by Kangaani in which hero’s wife and their son gets in to trap. Atharva was crying (kadhari kadhari) by seeing his family there and the film ends as the title appearing “a film by bala”.

The film has been well portrayed how the people were exploited to their core without recognizing them as a human. By seeing that movie we feel how lucky we are since we are leading a comfortable life.

In my opinion the entire movie could be a good documentary rather than a movie, where I disagree that it is a good movie rather could be a good documentary. If it is a life of such people Bala missed to show the other side of their part which could be their happiest moments. The characters in the movie are crying their best from the beginning to the end which fails us to feel for them. Songs are also a major drawback as the singers also crying for them with old sad musics.

I don’t accept this as Bala’s best movie as saying by most, it could be a best documentary directed by Bala.

MSK

An abandoned child

She was very good to me and so me as well. She was with me always in my life. My journey, my good, my bad everything she knows. Who is that she?

Many of my friends would aware that I have adapted a child at 2003 and she was my part of life afterwards. I have taken her to more social events, rather I would say she had taken me to so many places. Few of my friends were moved with her and said me that she is brilliant, she is cute and she is great. It is very bad part that she fell on sick after few years as she is getting older too. I have consulted and medicated with so many doctors but it doesn't helped us. She has undergone with some surgeries too in between. But her health goes worse than ever.

So I am planning to abandon her with most pain in my heart. My worries are how she feels on me if I do so. But I don’t have another option as of now other than doing this.

But the good thing is that I am adapting a new child again to make another journey. I know the same things will repeat again, but I need her for my journey to be better.

Guys! Yes, I have booked a new Pulsar 150 again.

Parenthood

There are so many moments in our life which makes us delight. On those one of the most beautiful moments in our life is Parenthood. Most of us are gifted to experience these nice moments.

Though it is the good feeling for father becoming a parent, it is the mother who flourishes a lot in many ways. Mother is a feeling that she is turning to be a full woman. She has unloaded the load which she was carrying for almost 10 months. She has got a big bless for her lot of sacrifices, patience, tolerance of unbearable pain, fear and so many. Hence she has become a mother so as she is.

She has to be very careful on her food selection from the day 1 of her conceive. It is because the baby inside her womb should not get affected. So she eats most of the food which she doesn’t liked a most. Her inner organs is not stable in the routine process as she doesn’t able to take the food regularly in the early pregnancies. After managing a couple of months without maintaining a normal diet it gets settled to have some normal food. Even then she avoids most of her favorite items like, chocolates, ice creams etc for her baby’s health. She takes lots of fruits till she gets bored to that. She is not able to attend her relative’s functions, friend’s marriages, regular outings and even office works because she should not travel for the baby’s safety. She has to take lot of injections, medicines just to avoid infections and to develop immunity for her baby. Whatever she eats it is for her baby also. She loses her so well maintained physical structure, health, energy. She takes a kind of spice called saffron (kunkuma poo) for her baby’s complexion.

A man facilitates her for all these periods. He gives his full support to her from eating the food till she sleeps. He gets everything that she wants. He gives a moral support to her to complete this project with successful delivery. He holds her hand while walking. He carries all the things with him to give a free hand to her. His shoulders are always ready for her to get rest. He gives her strength. He virtually / mentally carries the baby with him always till the woman does so. Fortunately or unfortunately a poor man can do only this.

So, after a lot of pains and a long waiting a mother gives birth to the baby. A great achievement happens with the re-birth of a mother along with baby. It’s a great feel for that father too for his long wait in his life and as well in the hospital’s corridor. He is again gets busy with the hospital formalities after birth and till the discharge. The parents think that they have reached the climax and everything will go smooth from now onwards and they can take a break for a while. But the life won’t leave you like that…. J

There is something waits for you to look upon.

The next step of parenthood is nurturing the baby.

A mother not getting relaxed after this but a father can do a little or more a little. A mother starts to learn, how to feed an infant. It’s a new experience to her. She doesn’t know even how to hold her child. Slowly she starts knowing everything. A mother has to feed her baby for every 2 hours even in the night time. She lost her sleep almost for first 6 months. Still she maintains her diet for her baby’s health. Whatever she eats it reflects in her baby’s health. So she has to be very careful on selecting her diet. Once a mother stops her breast feeding pace by pace, baby starts eating some semi solid / solid foods. By the time the baby grows. So many delightful moments for parents there too when the baby starts responding to us, turning around, crawling a bit, walking, making sounds, calling us as “amma / appa” etc.,

So parent’s world is taking a entire shift towards their child. They work for their child, cooks for their child, play with their child and forget most of their other activities. Parents literally lost their own world and entering in to their child’s. They start financial planning for their child’s future. Parents hold their child’s hands forever to ensure that the child is safe. The child also grows without facing an issue till it sees the outside world. Parents answer any number of times to their child’s question, they make them everything to understand. They give knowledge. They give wealth. They give strength. They give love. They give extraordinary care.

Parent looks for a best school for their child’s education. They are trying to give everything best as they can do.

I used some words to try to explain the parent’s nature way.

But I am sure that these words were not enough to describe their love, affection, care, sacrifices, tears, patience, tolerance and so many things that they shown towards their baby. And I am sure that there are no enough words also in all the languages.

Whatever the parents character to be… a father may be a bad citizen or a mother may has a cruel mind or both are may be the sadists, or whatever are they in their characters, whether good or bad, they are parents. A parent doesn’t forget to do their duties for their children. They don’t forget to give their love. They don’t forget to give you the best that you need. They give everything to you as much as they can. They never forget to forgive you in so many ways. Parents are parents.

Parents love would not change if days pass by. They love their children the same amount even they are getting old. They love their children the same amount even their children are married.

So it’s the child’s time to repay the amount of unchanged love to their parents. At the time of aged day’s parents requires that child’s love irrespective of their character. A father may be a bad citizen or a mother may be a cruel minded or both are may be the sadists, or whatever are they in their characters, whether they are good or bad, they are parents. A child’s responsibility and duty to repay the entire amount of love and care to their parents irrespective of parent’s character.

It’s also everyone’s responsibility to help or support our brothers, sisters, husbands, wives, relatives to do their duties to their parents, to love their parents, to hold their parent’s hands forever till the end and to take care of them with every care.

We all have different parents, but in their love, affection, caring their children all the parents is same. It is our duty too to treat every parent as our parents. There is nothing we loose by accepting other’s parent as our parents. If we do so, there is nothing we loose if we get scolded by them. There is nothing we loose if they want to prove their intelligence to us. There is nothing we loose by losing to them.

Please don’t restrict your love to your own parents, offer your love to every human beings who are in the parent’s age. Please show the care to them also as you shows it to your parents.

Please don’t show your anger to them, don’t walk with ego with them, and even don’t mind their intended mistakes.

After all they are also parents.

Love all. Serve all. J

MSK

Thirupaachi - Part2???

Velayudham – everybody is telling like it is thirupaachi part 2. But I won’t accept it. Director has done much in this film, I don’t let anybody say like this. But it is a part 2 movie of the films like thirupaachi, all vijaykanth movies who fights against Pakistan terrorists, vijay’s all earlier movies.

To be said in a single line it is a 2^nd part of bakery (lollu sabha of pokiri) (fight na fight e va??? Dance podu.. dance na dance va we want sentiment…)

There are so many new twists and story lines in this movie. Let’s see one by one.

Movie starts with the Pakistan terrorists targeting Chennai to collapse, as a different approach (very new concept in film industry) a politician supports it and helping terrorists to execute it.

Velayudham, is the man who can solve our problems in city – is the sentence believed by Chennai people. As a different approach he is the man who is solving all their issues just by fighting bad guys.(manishan evlo peru vandhaalum salikkama sanda poduran)

As a different approach, Hansika and Genilia are used for all the songs. Evlo than thalapathy makkalukkaaga sanda mattume poduvaar, oru relaxation vendaamaa???)

The first try / attempt by the tamil film industry and vijay – thangachi sentiment, vijay is doing everything for his thangachi.. You will feel pity while terrorists killing his sister. (idha vida vijay character a indha padathula pazhi vaanga mudiyaathu – avvalavu neram nammala azha vecha vijay mudhal dhadavaya azhuvaaru…) after that he takes revenge on us by killing all the terrorists who are the reasons for his sister’s murder. (yaaro senja thappukku appaavi makkala yaen pazhi vaangareenga??)

In his last movies he jumped from the building to railway bridge, this time he will jump from a railway bridge to train to attack the terrorists in the train. He stops the train single handedly (nambunga pa… spiderman mattum idhellam panna ukkaandhu paakareenga illa???) by applying break and save the train from hitting a big gas plant and avoid a major gas tragedy.

He got impressed in a video game something will be called like assassin it seems, and wearing that dress for a change while he fights with terrorists. It’s almost like spiderman wears his dress when trying to save the people. A different approach on his costumes when fighting.

Another innovative thinking is all the Pakistan terrorists talking in tamil.

I am just stop mentioning with these new innovations in tamil industry and particularly in his(Vijay) film. Rest of the movie you watch it to get a real punch.

Santhanam is the only aarudhal in the movie, but unfortunately he is not the hero and he comes in very few county scenes. Hansika also give some aarudhal to us and she too comes in few scenes. Vijay is the only torture in the movie and again unfortunately he is almost in all the frames, since he is the hero.

Another comedy is all the Pakistan terrorists will come and fight with Vijay and nobody will carry atleast deepavali thuppakki. Pakistan terrorists avlo kevalama va poitaanga??? If they happen to see this movie real la ve there is a serious threat to tamilnadu.

Positives:

Ore kadhaya ve vechu 20 – 25 padam pannanumna… needs a separate talent. In that part Vijay rocks.

Negatives:

Velayudham full movie (except santhanam part)

Tragedy:

Velayudhatha naan paathadhu

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Conclusion:

Don’t conclude that it was a review.. idhu adi pattavanin adi manasu vali..

MSK

Are you safe on wheels?? - Engeyum Eppodhum...

Hi

After Mr. Sivaraman’s update and few more positive comments in FB about Engeyum Eppodhum, planned to watch it. So, we booked in Rakki theatre for evening show and we (myself and Uma) watched it today. As per the comments posted by others, the movie is good.

I don’t want to make it as a formal movie review. But would like to share some experience. (message a vechu oru message a sollalaamnu...)

Movie throws a message on road safety with a mild, good love story. How you should drive your vehicle on road and particularly on highways. Its like you should drive slow for your safety and others safety as well.

Two buses (SETC and a private bus) starts simultaneously from Trichy and Chennai respectively. When the bus is on almost in a high speed an untied thorpolin cover from a van is thrown away by wind and it fallen on the bus and it hides the road view from the driver. The driver doesnt know whats happening on the road for few seconds and he loses control over the bus. It collides with the opposite bus. Lead actors are in the bus and they are becoming the victims. Who survives and who dies is the climax.

I have a similar close experience recently. I was travelling to Bangalore from Chennai on last Monday. We(entire family) have started here at 3pm and driving in NH4. It was heavy rain while we nearing Ranipet. One government bus was running in front of me with 50 – 60Kmph.  I was going behind that bus for almost 5 – 6 Kms without overtaking as there was a rain. Rain slowed down and I was decided to overtake that bus, hence accelerated my car from 50 to 60 and 70Kmph. While trying to taking him on right there was water stagnated in the right side of the road which I didn’t observe. On the half way through the bus was running on those water and it started spitting on my car. Inspite my wiper is in fast mode nothing is visible for me for atleast 10 secs. I tried to apply break and reducing the speed without tilting the steering. Once I got the visibility I ensured, by god’s grace we are on the right track.

I just scared on that moment where I don’t have visibility of the road itself when I am on 60 – 70 Kmph on a highway. I thanked god later that nothing has happened to us. When I am watching the accident part in that movie my experience just crossed my mind.

So, the moral of the story is whoever having cars / whoever lending cars from others, please drive slowly and safely on highway roads. I agree that if something has to happen then it will happen for sure, but we can also be careful on certain things and can avoid certain things.

MSK