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(Note: All the characters are real but the descriptions are from my perspective.. No offence meant to anybody)...
First let me introduce you the characters..
Nanbargal
Neja Peyar Thunai Peyar
1. Murthy Director, NRI (Nattupuram Return I… ; Nallavan Return Illichavayan)
2. Murali Omni Owner / Photographer
3. Sanmathi Bomb blaster, Dhavani Hero
4. Saravanan (MP) Mounam Paeseadhae / PM (Punnagai mannan)
5. Brijesh Captain / swamiji
6. Joshi Thalai, producer
Now onwards, characters are called by their thunai peyar
Omni Owner (Big B, not Amitabh Bachchan, my Big brother... always ready for an explanation)
Dahvani Hero (the macho man... sleeping king.. bandal baas, "bomb"astic man )
Thalai / Producer (Jo) ‐ He is from chennai, The city chennai speaks for him.. Always ready with questions (but don't
expect any answers from him).
Captain / Swamiji ‐ Bhai saab ‐ Our good Bhai saab with unparalleled josh.. Too focussed on driving and the number
game (chobis.. 24... 164, 163). Always wants to confirm the route.
Note of caution: Hero and Captain make an excellent pair for starting a debate or an argument over nothing. Just
like the universe started from nothingness, they can start the discussions/argument from nothing. At times they can be
(pre‐) judgemental..
MP ‐ Always has smile on his face. To make things simple, he drives smiles for miles. Claims to be a reserved person.
Director / NRI ‐ always trying not to be myself. Ppl can better explain about me.
27/10/2007 Saturday 3:15 AM (Kamala nagar)
3.15 AM: An alarm stuck from Captain’s room, Thalai got awakened. Captain gave ring to Omni Owner & Bomb blaster.
Omni owner came to captains room, asking him to come down stairs. Both captian and thalai were confused why omni
owner was calling him down. Later when captain went down he came to know that omni owner is making extra cushion
for the shock absorbers by calling captain. Knowing this captain suggested omni owner to wait until Dhavani Hero comes,
which will help them to have more safety.
3.45 AM: dhavani hero arrives.
4:30 AM
Director awakened by a whisper in the adjacent room... he try to ignore and wrap his bed sheet and suddenly remember
about the journey to jog falls (to shoot there). Quickly he got up and the voice in the next room get clearer.. Captain and
dhavani hero are saying very very politely to director’s uncle.. director step into the room, his uncle sees him and greets
him.. Omni owner is staring staring obscurely at an object fixedly with his head bowed down... Now director understand
the scene that is being enacted there.. they are all trying to convince his uncle for the trip…
Finally we get a nod and land up in the car (Omni).. uncle comes out and says that we cannot take that car b/c it has to
be given for service... somehow we were successfull in persuading him...
First the first time in Director’s life.... director meet’s Producer wearing a sweater (since Producer was staying with
Captain, Director thought he is from North India) and try to strike a conversation in English.. Producer starts speaking in
Tamil... director is taken aback and ask him his native place and where is residing currently..
After dumping our luggage we push ourselves into the vehicle. Uncle gives direction to Captain to lead the team safely
and come back to pavilion safely
Omni Owner calls up MP and finds out if he is ready.. Captain starts on the music songs of sholay.
We go to MP's place and wait for sometime to receive him. MP arrives, he gets introduced to Thalai.
Our Journey Starts ..
A call to Director’s mobile : director is narrating the scene on phone – “ we have catched the bus which is leading to
shimoga, our car is on the roof of the bus ☺ ☺ ☺, the bus is stopped for breakfast”
The first "pit" stop is in tumkur for our break‐fast (plate idly and tea).. Exceptional case of bomb blaster.. n number of
idlies, coffee, banana and not to forget the peanuts (which he tricked us)...
There was a discussion whether to drive on petrol or Gas (There was a limit on how much we can drive by gas).. The
petrol tank capacity was just 5 ltrs.. so every 50 kms we decided to refill until we reach Shimoga...
After this so called intelligent discussion, we decided that we have cover a solid 150 kms at a stretch.. But nature has its
own play which we cannot avoid.. so had to take a break for pissing...
Journey continues…
Director speaks his experiences of shooting in foreign countries (UK / US / bla.. bla.. bla..), here bloomed the title (NRI –
can name it as you like…)
finally we touched shimoga.. now there was a discussion whether Gas might be available in shimoga.. enquired a auto
driver and fortunately there was Gas refill station.. And how we found out the station was a different story altogether (i
will have restrain myself into all those details, else it might become novel in its own rights)..
After refilling we took "quick" lunch break... and headed towards sagara and from there to Jog falls..
In due course of journey, the photographer gave a pose…
Entering Jog Falls
Seeing the falls ("not much water"), Director was bit disappointed.. the reason being that he had lot of excitement and he
had built this excitement from past 2 ‐ 3 months to make better scene for his film.. But fine thats how life goes... thought
of making the most of it.. we decided that we will go down the falls and have a swim. Stocked all our towels, underwears
and shorts into the bag headed for the steep climb down... Dhavani hero was the first to start the journey inspite of all
the kiddish instructions from omni owner.. Two always in front of Dhavani Hero so that we can keep him in
control(doesn’t remove the dhavani of the public women who have come to see the jog falls)... But dhavani hero has his
own plans..
We reached there and after stripping off our clothes (ofcourse with vest, shorts)... got into the water to have swim. What
a swim it was !!!! amazing..
As soon as director saw the water, he wanted to swim the entire width and breath of the falls and feel the water falling
high from the mountain top.. so that he can enact the same to the dhavani hero before shooting the scene. But being a
"so called responsible" person(knowing the deeds of dhavani hero, and not to take risks in his first film), first director
made sure that it was a stagnant water and not many rocks in between.. After careful scrutiny, director ventured into the
water and swam, dived and thoroughly enjoyed (shouting, cheering and taking photos).. during that time there was a big
bomb blast and we found the dhavani hero coming out from there with full of smiles (as he had a great relief), the
persons affected producer and captain.
The photographer was discussing the places were to shoot with the director, finally on screen it looked like both the
photographer and the director were praying Allah.
We climbed up taking lot of breaks in between with omni owner coming with a logic of how to do the trek.. (as his shock
absorbers we very strong ☺)and there was one person who after this climb... had got gyaan and became a saint
(swamji).. it is none other than our own Bhai saab Captain.. We thought he had transformmed into a swamji..
Our next destination was Honnavar.. stay there in a lodge and head for Murudeswar early in the morning... The road was
pathetic and to add to the misery the head lights were gone all of a sudden.. Switch on the parking light and started doing
the methodical research.. , meanwhile thalai was searching the torch light, and as usual dhavai hero was searching for
some big stones ( in dark with his mini torch) to keep behind the tyres of the vehicle. We were checking if the filament of
the bulb was fine and then search for the fuse.. finding the fuse to be fine.. we though we will use the passing by vehicle
as a escort and reach Honnavar. thankfully there was a road roller who escorted us to honnavar (not to mention @ 10
kms/hr).. Before entering honnavar there was a car garage.. stopped there and found that the actual problem was that
the bulb were fused and we had checked the wrong fuse (Courtesy: MP and dhavani hero).. Now a call came to the
director over his mobile, he narrated the present scene “ we were coming in train with the car put in the baggage van.
Suddenly the train got derailed and we found that the wheels got punchured. We are in the carrage putting joint to the
punchured tyre”
Finally reached Honnavar and the search of the "best among worst" lodge started.. found one and dumped our luggage in
the lodge and our next obvious task was to refuel our stomach.. we got some new recipe in the hotel with lot of enquiries
with the server.. i got my "neeru" (water) dosa, anything after that was bonus for me... here MP found a new dish, he
asked the waiter for the name of it, as the waiter explained what it was, only the MP noded his head as we other five
couldn’t understand what it was, we were silent. After the waiter went that side, we asked the MP what it is? The MP
cooly said “ who knows it, since he was saying something I was just nodding my head”. It seems parliament house also
works the same way as it occurs with our MP☺
We hurried back to the lodge and slept like dead log.. ppl were telling that director was snoring (who cares as long as
director don't hear the snore..hahaha).
28/10/2007 Sunday 4:40 AM
Thalai wakes up the director telling me that he has finished his morning chores.. director rush to the toilet and freshen
up.. In the meantime captain was trying to find a cup of tea (for an obvious reason)..
In the next room MP, Photographer & dhavani hero are ready.. finally we check out and enter the car to head towards Idi
Gunji ganesh temple.....
After the darshan, we had a wonderful breakfast session with some persuasion from the innerself. Initially we thought of
having only tea but once captain ordered the kara bath and kesari bath.. and as we follow the captains rule, after that
there was no stopping... We had to literally stop dhavani hero from finishing everything.. ( think all kannada hero’s are
like him, go to places only to eat)
Not to forget the friendship between Producer and the dog.. Unlike "Anbe Sivam" where the dog accompanies the hero,
here the poor dog is ditched by Producer... (other wise the director will not get a chance to direct a single film)
We reach Murudeshwar and finish off the darshan with some photo sessions in between. Dhavani Hero wants to take a
Boat cruise in the sea, so we go to the beach and unfortunately there is no way the boat is going to start until he fills all
the seats (which director don't think would have happened at all). So we dive into the beach and have fun chasing,
playing a game... Now comes the best part.. Photo shoot.. with the stunning photo of Masculine Dhavani Hero & the
Feminine Captain ☺ (these photos are censored)
In mean time MP was all set to make his image to the public on his new party flag as below.
We had to rush to Kolluru mokambiga since the temple closes by 1:30 pm and "ofcourse not to forget" the lunch by 2:00
PM.. We drop the plan of going to Bhatkal beach due ot shortage of time..
We had the Devi's darshan just in time and had the lunch as well. (not to forget Producer’s trick)... And it is the time to
return back home..
This started with a heated discussion about which route to take for our return journey.. With one set of ppl preffering
Agumbe, Sringeri, Hassan route and another group of ppl preferring the onward journey route (shimoga) so that we refill
the gas there.. Finally we decided that we will be going via Shimoga (the only reason being that we can refill the gas
inspite of the pathetic roads there).. With our experts drivers buckled up, we started and me getting the back seat..
Oh god, the journey towards hosa nagara... director won't forget.. lot of curves and ups and downs.. i had got an head‐
ache..
Now knowing the tense mood of the director, the producer asks the director the story line, the director discusses about
the film, it had scenes as which limelighted the image of dhavani hero. And in this process director had to be ragged
literrally by producer (showing the true color of chennai in this instance)..
Finally director after completing the climax pushed dhavani hero to his favourite last seat (director hopes hero was a
back bencher at school and college)...
later the discussions were about Magic, Monsoon and me finally able to tell a story...
29.10.2007 Monday 2:30 AM ‐ We reached the pavilion.
NOTE: ALL PHOTOS AND VIDEO CLIPS ARE WITH THE HERO IN CD
Moral of the story: …. TO BE FILLED UP