Ujjayinee, the \u2018Saturday night party-kku
polam\u2019 singer, will make her acting debut in
\u2018Sa Boo Thri\u2019. And, if it isn\u2019t already obvious,
she will be singing her own songs too\u00bbPage 10

Drop in for a quick bite at
Sri Monisha Fast Foods in
Triplicane to see an entire
family engaged in
different chores.

ine years ago when R. Yuv- araj, a manager with Tamil Nadu Minerals, retired the

\ufb01rst option that crossed his mind was to start a small ea- tery. And that was the beginning of Sri Monisha Fast Foods on Venkatachalapathi Street in Trip- licane. The joint serves home- made South Indian delicacies

and is run by sexagenarian Yuv- araj and his entire family. While his wife Y. Saraswathi takes care of the kitchen, his son and son- in-law take care of the service section.

\u201cPost-retirement I found this an easy option as the food busi- ness could be started with mini- mum capital,\u201d says Yuvaraj. \u201cI couldn\u2019t manage alone, so I roped in my son and son-in-law. They both are graduates and

were employed in private sectors but quit to devote themselves full-time to this venture.\u201d

The eatout only opens for breakfast (7 a.m. to 10.30 a.m.) and dinner (7 to 10.30 p.m.). It, however, makes up its afternoon business from its second outlet and coffee shop on Big Street, where variety rice is served from 11.30 a.m. to 2 p.m. This is a kai- yendhi bhavan, so customers are expected to hold their plates in their hands. The difference, though, is the fact that this is an indoor restaurant, not a roadside cart. Takeaway is also available.

What we like about this eat out is the hygienic environment, plus the food is much cheaper. The joint is also equipped with an in- dustrial version of Aquaguard.

\u201cPongal, chappathi and parotta are the fast-moving items,\u201d says Yuvaraj, adding, \u201cWe cater to around 700 customers per day. We charge 60 per cent of the ac- tual cost of other hotels and pro- vide hygienic home food. This is our USP which brings us many customers.\u201d\u25a0

Too Good for Critics is a weekly
column to celebrate Namma
Chennai\u2019s \u2018Kaiyendi Bhavans\u2019 and
small eateries. If you can think of a
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M.S. Swaminathan, Member of Parliament, B.S. Raghavan,
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scalating cases of chain-snatching incidents in the city have put the city police on the hot seat. While police are working hard to curb the crime,

Conventional methods of robbing on the pretext of enquiring about an address and snatching the chain and zipping away on two-wheelers are pass\u00e9.

On June 6, 40-year-old Bhuvaneshwari of Thiruvalluvar Nagar in Kodungaiyur had gone to her relative\u2019s house a few streets away.

While she was walking back home around 7.30 p.m., a motorcycle with two men wearing helmets halted a few metres

The rider of the vehicle put on the high beam of the headlights, temporarily blind- ing Bhuvaneshwari. In the meantime, the pillion rider snatched her gold chain weighing 6.5 sovereigns and the duo rode away quickly.

Bhuvaneshwari lodged a complaint with the Kodungaiyur police, who are now in- vestigating the incident.

Police sources say cases of blinding women with high-beam lights and robbing them of their gold chains have occurred in T. Nagar, Teynampet, Anna Nagar and Ve- lachery in the last two months.

Facilitating these crimes are halogen lamps \ufb01tted on motorcycle headlights, which are capable of blinding a victim for a few seconds when the light hits the face.

\u201cThese lights have very powerful beams compared to the regular ones that come \ufb01tted on the two-wheelers.

The whitish blue high beam from these lights can blind the human eye for close to \ufb01ve seconds,\u201d said Muneer Basha, an auto- mobile spare parts dealer on Harris Road, Pudupet.

Traf\ufb01c police personnel have been di- rected to apprehend motorcycles \ufb01tted with halogen lamps and extra powerful headlights and do a background check on the rider, police sources add.

Some culprits have started to use autor- ickshaws for the crime and the case of a 41-year-old homemaker being robbed of her 4.5 sovereign gold chain is an example. Pondy Bazaar police identi\ufb01ed the victim as Madhavi Rao, a resident of Pondy Ba- zaar who was heading for work around 9 a.m. on June 4. \u201cAn unidenti\ufb01ed autorick- shaw driver who was pretending to be working on the vehicle snatched the vic-

Similarly, Julia Shifa (34) of Ashtalaksh- mi Koil Street in Velachery was robbed of her 5.5 sovereign gold chain by two men in an autorickshaw when she was returning from work near Velachery.

Police say vehicles used for crime mostly \ufb02aunt fake registration plates, making in- vestigation dif\ufb01cult.

In many chain-snatching cases in the city involving the theft of gold chains worth three sovereigns and above, police suspect that the culprits have used X cut- ting pliers to cut the gold chains with ease. An example was the recent theft of a wom- an\u2019s 10 sovereign gold chain in Anna Na- gar, where the victim didn\u2019t even realise that the chain was removed off her neck before the culprits bagged the chain.\u25a0

The rider of the vehicle
put on the high beam of
the headlights, temporarily
blinding Bhuvaneshwari. In
the meantime, the pillion
rider snatched her gold
chain weighing 6.5
sovereigns and the duo
rode away quickly.