Apr 12, 2008

Moments of Bliss - 12 ::: madhoo's connecting abilities

Dear Gowri
Some thing light in this posting after two long postings that I made until now and to sign off for the day.....
I had purchased a DVD during last week which had 4 films of kamal....I compusively grabbed it as it contained avvai shanmugi, anbe sivam, thenali AND thevar magan....Madhoo is yet to see the last one and we hid the DVD till thursday as she had her exams....
Yesterday night after I reached home from virugambakkam, we started off with Devar Maghan roughly around 10.30 PM, with madhoo as usual on my lap when she watches movies AND Anoo deciding to go to sleep after a long day at the Registrar office...(I still dont understand why she came all the way for 50 + 50 km...it was not at all needed...just that she wanted to come...strange world.....there is no point of seeing any greatness when I mechanically put the thumb impression in a cheap priced notebook which I doubt may not even last for two more years.....and for this moment we waited outside the "esteemed" office for more than 5 hours....Hm.....)
Now, the film started and I gave the normal instruction that I used to give her...just to see intently without any questions OR turning towards me so that she will not miss the next frame...Like every time , she nodded in acceptance when I told that she may actually get the answer for the question in th next frame itself....and got assured that I will explain her some thing if the same is warranted myself...putting PAUSE to the movie....and for this I dont need her prompt...
Though it may appear silly, I ensure that every cinema watching becomes a YOGA for me and I crave that it should happen to the people who see any cinema along with me..... and this is not about one's grasping ability....!! For that matter, I am yet to taste the breadth of this cinema field and know that there are lot of wonderful world class films that I have not seen until now..but thats later...now its time for ...THththevar Maghan....
While I was looking at Madhoo once a while, ensuring that she is watching the film intently and enjoying it, the first metric of her involvement was revealed when she managed to see the whole of the film without batting her eyelid....(she had promised to tell me that she will let know if she felt sleepy and we can always see the balance portion on the next day)... I found that her head was nodding unconsciously with lips bit curved up with a smile during the song "inji iduppazhagaa..." enjoying revathy's pranks on music at the end of first two lines of the song...
Two more instances when she made a remark to me during the film made me really blissful and reverential to God about the gift he has offered to us....
In the particular scene when Kamal decides to stay back in the village, She turned towards me telling that Nasser had done a good thing (breaking the dam bund with explosives)... I could not understand her initially...but she clarified that she tells so as only because of this gory incident, Kamal makes an important decidions.....
The second instance was just before the Inji iduppazhagaa..song....when Revathy meekly submits to Kamal's instruction...She told me abruptly that "revathy has become like Kamal"....When I sought for explanation, she told me that "like how kamal used to be respectful to his father in earlier scene, revathy is doing the same now to Kamal...."...
I was delighted to see how she understand the film by connecting things....and gave her a word of caution in the last scene that Nasser's head will be chopped off and asked her to close her eyes if she wants....Some how she took it quite easily (!!!) and watched Kamal;s last piece of action....from getting surrendered AND getting into the train after falling at the feets of his chittappa and chinnamma.... (During this scene, I normally get reminded about Dharmaputra's respect to Diruthirashtra in Mahabaratha...after the gory battle with Kauravas...literally killing every one of their hunderd sons....)
I could see that her eyes were bit moist at the end of the last scene and she smiled at me without any word.....and that was enough for me to respond...
Both of us went to sleep and started snoring within few minutes.....hugging each other....
nalla appa .... nalla ponnu....RIGHT ??
subhamasthu...
suchoo

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