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No, Not me, I don’t like to be tagged as a Desi, I rather be called as an Indian or a Tamilan.
This entire Desi tag thing started after I watched three so called Desi Films. Flavors, Quarter Life Crisis and American Chai. Thanga Mudila. I never cared to watch these Desi movies or the so called Indian made English films. But then don’t know after landing here in US, wanted to have a look at these films and see what they tried to convey around.
Total Pethal, please friends don’t get carried away by the culture that is shown in these films. This is what not what you see in reality.. Chumma I got bored, again and again in all films I saw, how to woo women, how to date, how girls behave, what’s their mentality… Hayo Mudila.. Can’t they think of any other concept to revolve around. There are more things in life. And if people start trying out the ideas told in the films, serupu adi than minjum… Yappa Evalo ideas, but one thing may be the life portrayed in the films might be possible in a US college life, anyway I am not pretty sure of that since I didn’t do my post graduation here and neither planning to do in US or rather neither planning to do Post Graduation at all ( Oh no, Jagan a year back all ur posts were related to CAT, Gmat, EPPO enga pochu, Vayasu adichi mamu ). Valkai Payanam Padikalamnu eruken. :D
In all the above desi films the common thread is relation ship between a boy and a girl, parent mentality of United States, Bench concept in IT ( wow , I like that), dating, living together, indian community parties etc etc:- but one thing either no sense or non sense these movies are kinda good to kill time.
But out of the three, best is Flavors, want to kill time for 2 hours, definitely Flavors fit the bill. I would advise people coming to US, to choose a city and not get stuck in a place like what I am. This place is like erode or salem more greener wider and cleaner. I haven’t seen a building not more than 2 storey’s. I dreamed of fast cars, big building, well lighted streets in the night, but the place I am right now is ejactly the opposite. Then one thing why the heck everything is cold out here. Ask whatever by default it will cold, cold coffee, ice lemon tea, green tea etc:-, everything served very cold. As such the places go to single digit temperatures, but still these fellows drink everything cold. Nammala Mudila… everybody ask me, “machi whats hot there” , reply goes like” Dai enga ellame cold thanda nothing hot” :D
Aana onnu ,after coming here, I never touched cold water, only Hot water bath, even for hand washing and gargling too only Hot water, pongada neenagallum unga cold conceptum…
Traffic – LOL.. it’s a big joke here. If people get caught in 3-4 continuous signals then it’s a bad day for them and it’s a big traffic for them. Namma ooru OMR la evangala drive panna sollanum.. Appo theriyum real trafficna ennane.. Yarukita..
But I haven’t seen anybody using horns till date. WOW.
One thing which I like here is any stranger on road if they see you they will definitely greet you “ Hi, How are you doing “ initially I was confused, I would standing on road, a stranger comes and ask “hi, how are you doing”, I will be about to reply him but then he crosses me and goes, I was puzzled then another lady came and she too did the same “Hi , how are you doing”, I replied “doing good” and then she went away, and then another person came, same thing again and then he too went away.
I will be about to tell something but then they will go away.
//Dai enga vaada enkita oru kelvi kittila, olunga pathil ketutu po.
Then I realized after some point of time that, we have to reply him back again with the same “hi, how are you doing” ..uuusshhh… Funny world.
Swades..Right Film at a wrong point of time, seems like Fate wanted me to watch this film after I leave my mother land. As such I missed home and after watching the movie, I felt more. This has been in my wait list for a long time. I don’t know some how the opportunity to watch this film prolonged. And at last gotcha. Yeh Jo Des Hai Tera , I have been glued to this song from the day I watched this; Rahman at one of his best. Those flashes of images which pass by shah rukh memories really brought back home in front of eyes.; everyday I don’t know I see that video. I felt Dekho Na, the hindi version of baba kichu kichu was awesome. . Definitely a film to be watched.
This entire Desi tag thing started after I watched three so called Desi Films. Flavors, Quarter Life Crisis and American Chai. Thanga Mudila. I never cared to watch these Desi movies or the so called Indian made English films. But then don’t know after landing here in US, wanted to have a look at these films and see what they tried to convey around.
Total Pethal, please friends don’t get carried away by the culture that is shown in these films. This is what not what you see in reality.. Chumma I got bored, again and again in all films I saw, how to woo women, how to date, how girls behave, what’s their mentality… Hayo Mudila.. Can’t they think of any other concept to revolve around. There are more things in life. And if people start trying out the ideas told in the films, serupu adi than minjum… Yappa Evalo ideas, but one thing may be the life portrayed in the films might be possible in a US college life, anyway I am not pretty sure of that since I didn’t do my post graduation here and neither planning to do in US or rather neither planning to do Post Graduation at all ( Oh no, Jagan a year back all ur posts were related to CAT, Gmat, EPPO enga pochu, Vayasu adichi mamu ). Valkai Payanam Padikalamnu eruken. :D
In all the above desi films the common thread is relation ship between a boy and a girl, parent mentality of United States, Bench concept in IT ( wow , I like that), dating, living together, indian community parties etc etc:- but one thing either no sense or non sense these movies are kinda good to kill time.
But out of the three, best is Flavors, want to kill time for 2 hours, definitely Flavors fit the bill. I would advise people coming to US, to choose a city and not get stuck in a place like what I am. This place is like erode or salem more greener wider and cleaner. I haven’t seen a building not more than 2 storey’s. I dreamed of fast cars, big building, well lighted streets in the night, but the place I am right now is ejactly the opposite. Then one thing why the heck everything is cold out here. Ask whatever by default it will cold, cold coffee, ice lemon tea, green tea etc:-, everything served very cold. As such the places go to single digit temperatures, but still these fellows drink everything cold. Nammala Mudila… everybody ask me, “machi whats hot there” , reply goes like” Dai enga ellame cold thanda nothing hot” :D
Aana onnu ,after coming here, I never touched cold water, only Hot water bath, even for hand washing and gargling too only Hot water, pongada neenagallum unga cold conceptum…
Traffic – LOL.. it’s a big joke here. If people get caught in 3-4 continuous signals then it’s a bad day for them and it’s a big traffic for them. Namma ooru OMR la evangala drive panna sollanum.. Appo theriyum real trafficna ennane.. Yarukita..
But I haven’t seen anybody using horns till date. WOW.
One thing which I like here is any stranger on road if they see you they will definitely greet you “ Hi, How are you doing “ initially I was confused, I would standing on road, a stranger comes and ask “hi, how are you doing”, I will be about to reply him but then he crosses me and goes, I was puzzled then another lady came and she too did the same “Hi , how are you doing”, I replied “doing good” and then she went away, and then another person came, same thing again and then he too went away.
I will be about to tell something but then they will go away.
//Dai enga vaada enkita oru kelvi kittila, olunga pathil ketutu po.
Then I realized after some point of time that, we have to reply him back again with the same “hi, how are you doing” ..uuusshhh… Funny world.
Swades..Right Film at a wrong point of time, seems like Fate wanted me to watch this film after I leave my mother land. As such I missed home and after watching the movie, I felt more. This has been in my wait list for a long time. I don’t know some how the opportunity to watch this film prolonged. And at last gotcha. Yeh Jo Des Hai Tera , I have been glued to this song from the day I watched this; Rahman at one of his best. Those flashes of images which pass by shah rukh memories really brought back home in front of eyes.; everyday I don’t know I see that video. I felt Dekho Na, the hindi version of baba kichu kichu was awesome. . Definitely a film to be watched.
The most funniest thing that is happening is for me here is the kind of shifts that I am put in office. I juggle between shifts, 2 days night shift, holiday again then afternoon shift, evening shifts, again holiday, then day and the process continues differently in the next week. So enga comedy ennana I forget or rather puzzled when should I be brushing my teeth, sometimes I brush thrice a day, I come home early morning see my roomies brushing and I do it, I goto bed and wake up in the evening, brush again and then as well brush in the morning before we goto office in the morning , I brush again in the night before going to office. But sometime I never brush at all. There have been instances where I brush thrice a day and also 2 days without brushing, I simply don’t get the knack of it . Let me stop here Sunday night shift ends and I am leaving for the day.
