Read it with Rasheeda

Assalamualaikum my dear reader friends!! Today I've made up my mind to emerge with my version of observations on this OTT superhit Soorarai Pottru ... The movie had been making quite an impressive ramp walk even before it was released on the silver screen... This movie about an angry young man namely "Nedumaaran" (Soorya) is more about flying ambitions than just a caricature of Rowthiram ! The movie has got all the ingredients of what is synonymous to be 'Mani Ratnam' to us... I was wonder struck later to discover that this phenomenal product is the making of a director-screenplay writer, Sudha Kongara Prasad,  who used to be once an associate director with Mani Ratnam. Hats off to Sudha for making such a spellbinding entertainer!! Nedumaaran is an epitome of characters from Mani Ratnam movies like Guru, Yuva, etc. On the other hand, "Bommi" (Aparna Balamurali) reminds me of many 90's female actors like Madhubala, Shobana, and even Jyothika, at times...

Assalamu Alaikum dear reader friends..! The recent tremors in the society, here in Tamil Nadu, does leave us--the citizens of India, in a distressful blind-spot. When brothers and sisters of our society bleed to death, we sit here in front of our idiot boxes, tuning into various possible channels to find something new about those vengeful corporate hoaxes.It really is a heart-wrenching disaster, when you can't help but just be one among the silent-observers of this murderous mayhem. We never know the origins or the undercurrents associated with this STERLITE CONSPIRACY that has been a harbinger of all this chaos, recently.. Yet, the consequent killings that had to yield more than ten innocent lives does leave an incurable scar, on our social as well as our cultural history. It is our cultural CREEDS or the belief systems, that's being challenged in this situation today. We, as the underestimated lot, the CROODS who need to refine our thought processes towards our creeds,...