Hectic yet fun republic day week

The Friday before the Republic Day week, was my first niece's 2nd birthday. So I was there in my home town to celebrate it. Its already 2 years. Wow!!! time just flies by doesn't. And she is more talkative and very very naughty now. Boy, to control her you need extra energy @ times. She is very smart and very very observant. She learns quickly by observing, but is very adamant. She will do things only when she feels like doing it. For e.g. she tells numbers from 1 to 10 in English, but she wont tell when you ask her. She will tell it when she is playing. She should really feel it to tell it. Its good in a way , but bad in certain ways :) Whatever she has more growing up to do. She will change in another year or so especially when she goes to play school. Let us wait and watch.

She was very happy about one fact of her Birthday. She got all of them singing her fav song "Happy day to you.. mee god bless " :) (that is how she sings that song) That has become one of her rhymes now apart from the other tamil, english and malayalam rhymes. Thanks to her , I learnt a few malayalam rhymes too :)
Had a blast that day. Then on Sunday we traveled to Pazhani for my nephew's mottai scheduled on Monday. Paavam azhagaa irundha paiyana mottai adichu azha vachu.. ippo avan kannadiye paaka maatengaraan. We were back by Monday afternoon after the mottai. My nephew is again very cute and smart, but as usual very adamant. No one should say anything harsh or even say "yei" loudly to him. avlodhaan.. adicha maadhiri azhuvaan.. but these two kids gel well along. My niece is so affectionate to him and he is yet to grow to reciprocate it. But he gives a very cute smile when he sees me.

And my second niece is yet to recognize people. She is just 2 months old. When I go to my home town, I really love being with these kids. They reciprocate my love and that makes me more happy. My niece is almost with me all the time and my nephew, when he is there, is always playing with me. I always have my hands full with them. Its really really fun to watch kids grow. There is so much to learn from them and they bring out both the best and worst in us :) trust me. 

Mounaguru - silently successful

There is a line in the movie "naan thunai illa nizhalaatam..." (I am like a lonely shadow...), that is how the main protagonist in the movie is. Somehow he is always mistaken and he ends up being alone and sometime lonely too. With very down to earth dialogues and slow and steady approach, it does enthrall you in a different way. It doesn't have any comedy track, doesn't have more than 3 songs (I wonder why the first song was there..but it was a good one), doesn't have any big stunts.. but still I felt something after seeing it, in a positive way though. When the hero says "oru dharava mental hospitalla irundhutu vandhaa ulagam eppadi paakumnu theriyumaa.. .. ... eppoda ivan kal edhuthu erivaane paapaanga".. I felt really very bad, because that is how the world works. If a person has done something wrong to someone and the mistake is well known,  he is inevitably seen as a bad person by all, irrespective of the nature of the mistake or the gravity of it or the impact it has on others. This movie has its own set of twits and turns and how the knot gets untangled (or is this the right word?) is well scripted. It is a good movie and :) in the end a politically correct one too :) How so many issues (right from saving the face of a dept to a jealous co student's actions to not stirring up a interstate issue due to a foul play by a set of people) play a role in someone's life for no mistake of his, is very well portrayed and directed. There are quite a few very very good one-liners.

Arulnidhi has done his job very well, except that he could have a laughed / even smiled a bit in the single romantic song. He is sort of stiff even in that, except for one or two shots. I wonder why I didnt hear the Anamika song in the movie. The songs were not a speed breaker and adding one more romantic song would have been a spoilsport, but still I prefer seeing that song in the movie just for the sake of its lyrics and singer Karthik.

After a very prominent part in Vaagai sooda vaa, Iniya's role is not a great one here. But the movie is hero oriented so its ok. She does her part well enough.

It is definitely a very good effort (Kudos to the director and team) to see such a dramatic action movie, which ends well and at the end he becomes the real mouna guru (he is the guru of the people who are always silent aka deaf and dumb)