Iruvar

I happen to see the Tamil movie Iruvar (Duo) today. The subtitle was really helpful as I cannot understand Tamil that well. I had heard many things about the movie but all of them came false. I think the movie is not only good but its excellent. Though the director claims it to be a fictitious , one can easily relate it to MGR and Karunanidhi. In Hindi, when you have a political drama its either pre-independence one or just relating to a single incident. It seems that there hasn't been a politician worth mentioning after the independence. In Iruvar the story spans a lifetime of the protogonist and antagonist with relation to each other, films and politics. I must emphasis that it was one of the best films Aishwarya Rai has done. All thanks to the maestro himself. The music composition is very good but the best I liked was Narugumaiye (may have spelled incorrectly). The song picturisation, the lyrics and the music was quite remarkable.
The story quite holds good even in contempory political scenario. One may identify Nasser character in phase with Bal Thackeray, Uddhav to Prakash Raj and Mohanlal to Raj Thackeray. The movie takes a quite an entirely new direction in political drama. It doen't show who is right or wrong, nor does it preach. It just goes through the lives of the two political figures.

NEW YEAR: Funny thing to start with.

Myself and my brother went to a computer shop to buy a TFT monitor. It took us an hour or so and we ended up by buying a Samsung TFT. Also my brother chose to buy a flash drive and other computer peripherals for his office. We had a good chat with the salesperson and the Manager of the shop. It was 2nd Jan and still the New Year hangover was not over. The salesperson handed over the receipt of the purchase. We inturn wished him a very happy new year. On the stairway we wished the same to the manager who was attending his mobile. I was very much thrilled to have the TFT. After walking for about 15 min or so my brother asked me the 15 grand(rupees ofcourse) question: "Did we pay the money?" He then put his hand in the pocket to show me those 20 red bucks which he hadn't opened. Yes we hadn't paid the money. Worse, when we went back to the shop the salesperson still didn't knew that he had forgotten to take the money. He was quite lucky that the Manager was not there. My brother handed over him the money. But I couldn't find the embarassment or the thankfulness on his face. I expected him to be either be embarassed or thanking us for walking all the way back to hand over the money. Maybe he won't be so lucky next time.