MARYAN (2013) | Dhanush | Parvathy Menon | Bharat Bala | A R Rehman - My View

MARYAN - A Tamil Movie released in 2013

First I want to thank my friend Srinivas Mummadi for recommending this movie to me. I completely forgot the reason why he had recommended this movie to me.

Now this is how I felt and what I thought from the beginning of the movie till the end. 

Story: 

Well the story is easily relatable to a lot of real time situations, where a few Indian or other national citizens got kidnapped by rebels in Africa for ransom money either from the company they go to work there or from the country they belong from. I don't remember watching a lot of films which are made from real stories, this did feel that way, at the same time without missing basic necessity of adding songs and romance that we as Indian citizen love to have in most of the films. It is surely a movie you wouldn't feel bad watching if you like emotions.

Actors:

Dhanush played the male lead in this film. He plays the role of a fisherman who leaves his hometown to Africa for work. His performance as usual has developed a lot and is a very well established actor in the film industry. His experience in acting can also make us feel that he really is a fisherman. His acting in some scenarios of the film were really worth commendable. I have become his fan frankly not from any of his Tamil films, but from his Hindi debut Raanjhanaa.

Parvathy Menon, she is the reason why I decided to write about this film in my own blog. My mind was blowing at the end of the film for the performance she has given. Even for a second as long as she was on the screen I didn't feel that she was acting. I felt as if she was a real character and I was watching about her. For me Parvathy stole the whole show for the emotions and variations she has shown in the emotion till the end of the film. You have to watch this film for her emotional roller coaster at least. 

Then I started to search about her on Google and then I really got a shock. Well it might not be a shock for everyone, but it was my lack of knowledge about her previous works though I had the chance of watching one of them. I had Bangalore Days, which I am sure most have you have already watched it, but my lack of knowledge was that Paravthy Menon is the same female who played the role of RJ Sarah. She always was thinking about who is the female who played the role of RJ in the film but never did take the effort of doing the research. Now thanks to Maryan, I did my research and found that she is the same female. The shock I was talking about was because there is no comparison to the look she carried in Bangalore days and in Maryan. Finally, we have a versatile actress. By giving that statement I don't mean others are not, just got connected to her more than others that's all.

Music:

The music for this film was given by the India's proudest and favorite music director, A R Rehman. Frankly I like his music but not a big fan, I loved the BGM and music he has given to this movie which is also the reason for me to get connected to everything in this movie. 

Director:

Bharat Bala, I would challenge everyone to go and search about him in Google. After watching this movie I couldn't believe. It is one thing to be a feature film director and then another thing to be a ad film / music video director. He has made only movie in 2004 in English. Comes back to make Maryan in Tamil. It was a beauty, his vision was easily seen in the movie and he made sure his vision was captured as he was imagining. Awesome job sir. Really loved the fisherman scenarios and scenes more than usual. 

Overall:
A must watch it if you love emotions, if not for that watch it for PARVATHY MENON's acting.

Rate: 7/10

Written by Sashank K

My Niece, Her First Coffee Experiment and Me

Today was another day in my life so far where I felt special, for being my niece's Guinea Pig.

Yes you read it right, GUINEA PIG.

I am not sure how many uncles and aunties out there get a chance to become human testing device for their Nephews and Nieces, but I am one proud one.

What was the whole thing all about?

Well my niece who is just 9 years young, suddenly got an idea to make and serve either coffee or tea to someone, me being her best friend who was around she came to me directly asked me "Would you like to have some coffee or tea". 

Immediately without any second thought I said ya sure anything is OK dear. I just had coffee 45 minutes before that.

She went into kitchen and didn't want me to see how she was making it, and as it is dangerous for a kid to be alone in kitchen, I requested my wife to be her monitor. Yes monitor those are the kind of words we need to speak to make a kid agree

Now she doesn't know anything about making coffee or tea except that there is something called powder and black liquid they use to make coffee or tea first her hunt started for them and successfully got what she wanted of course with a little help of the monitor

So I was trying to peep in sometimes to prepare my tummy with whatever was about to come, at the same time with full confidence in my niece's choice and her experiment.

Realizing that now it's time to heat some milk and she is not allowed to do that, she requests her monitor to heat the milk for her and just before the heating started she came running out of kitchen to see if she can ask everyone for some coffee or tea.

She asked everyone and as they all had just an hour ago, they all rejected her offer. Then I went to her and explained her not to ask anyone as they were all not allowed to drink more than once in the evening.

Well I didn't want to give anyone else the chance to share of being a guinea pig along with me (well both in a good sense and a bad sense).   
Now the heating of the milk was over and the monitor pours the milk in the cup and my niece mixes the coffee well along with half a spoon of sugar. 

To server it like a professional she gets a small plate throws in some biscuits on to the side with the cup of coffee and the spoon used to mix in the cup as well. 

Just like a professional she brings it to me and says "Sashank Mama (Uncle), here is your coffee. ENJOY!!!". First I looked at the colour of coffee and checked it as nice. Then I told her I don't eat biscuits, she looked at me and said what good is a coffee without a biscuit and I am suppose to eat it. 

Immediately I understood that there was no escape for me and I have to have one. I picked up a biscuit and she wanted to take a snap of me eating it. She picks up my wife's new phone Micromax Canvas 2.2 A114, without anyone teaching her how to use the camera she takes a snap. "CLICK".

Next instructions given to me was to mix the coffee again before drinking, and proof again was snapped "CLICK". Now what I asked. 
That was it, it was the moment of truth. The time to drink the coffee had come and I had lifted the cup put it near my lips and without any doubt had my first sip and............

 

It turned to be one of the best coffee I ever had, it was just a little too sweet for me but WOW really the first coffee she made and I became a happy guinea pig.

Now I know where to go for a good cup of coffee may be only after a few years when I grow old. 

THANK YOU MY DEAR NIECE, this post is dedicated to you from me and hope once you grow older and have access to internet and this post is still there you stumble across it.

LOVE YOU, FROM ONE OF YOUR FAVORITE MAMA

-Sashank K

A BAD SLEEP IS WORSE THAN A HANGOVER

Well trust me it's true and if you have experienced both then you know that I am making sense and not nonsense.

Well I don't have to talk about my hangover experiences.

I had too many to talk about. So lets keep that topic aside. About the bad sleep, I had a few but nothing as bad as this time.

On Saturday night I worked till late night as usual till 1:30AM and was about to go to sleep when my brother messages on Whatsapp offering me to finance for an Android Phone as a B'Day gift for my wife on her B'day which is coming soon. By the way my brother just stay in the next room.

So now my hunt for a good budgeted Android phone started at 1:40AM and was looking at different companies and different options at the same time I was thinking that I had to wake up early the next day to drop my wife on her weekend class in the morning.

Finally zeroed on 2 models LG L5 / MICROMAX A92 and go to see my brother who is in the next room, who was helping me and discussing till then on FB was sound asleep

and then I look at the clock and its 3:05AM. OMG !!!

Now with very less time to sleep I crashed on the bed, and decided to finalise on which one to purchase the next day. By the time I slept it must have been around 3:30AM.

I was zzzzzzzzzzzzz and not even a 30 minutes later, I hear someone banging the door shouting "AMMA! NENU PANDU NI" repeatedly for almost 10 mins I got irritated to see that it was our neighbours and for our bad luck their main door is very close to our bedroom window.

Well after which I went to ZZZZZZZZZZZ mode again and 10 mins later the aunty who stay just below our house started yelling "NARASIMHAAAA" "NARASIMHAAAA" thats the name our caretaker. It was his job to turn the motor on for drinking water and he was sound asleep and aunty's yelling had created sound for my sleep.

Then after 15 mins I went to sleep again it was almost 5:00AM if I am not wrong, this time I was zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz till I dont remember when my wife started waking me up almost 10 times till I finally woke up with a huge headache worse than a hangover at 8:45AM. It was not her mistake to wake me up as her intention was just to make sure that I have my morning coffee before I go drop her. Well finally I go and drop her and came back. 

I couldn't sleep. Then my aunt and granny came home and asked me to help her out with scanning a couple of documents, so did that and then gave my system to my aunt so that she can send the documents to someone and immediately give me the system back. But it was taking longer than usual, so I lied on my bed and was playing CANDY CRUSH and suddenly ZZZZZZZZZZZ....... I think it was around 11:30AM and suddenly woke up at 1:30PM with alot of disturbances around and this time ended up with even worse headache. It was worse than migraine and worse then hangover for sure. 

That's when I felt I would rather have a hangover than this bad sleep headache.

SO YOU BETTER HAVE A PROPER SLEEP EVERY DAY OTHERWISE IT IS GOING TO BE A SHITTY DAY, NEXT DAY.

Finally here it is my personal blog.....WOOOOHOOOO ! ! !

I have waited really very long to start my personal blog. 

Woooohooo, finally created Mind Speaks Louder.

Well this blog is going to be my personal blog where I would be sharing a lot of my exciting and boring thoughts about many different things that happen in my life and I am open for any kind of feedback and suggestions from anyone.

This is not a lecture blog, this is not to teach anyone any sort of a lesson. If you want to argue with me about anything, you should check this photo of mine which will show you the violent side of me.

HA HA HA JUST KIDDING.

No I am not a lonely bird who has no one to talk to and that is why I have created this blog to talk to you all. In fact I have got the best life partner of my life who listens to every thing I have to say too. As you can see how forcefully she was giving a smile for a photo. 

I have created this to spill my thoughts into this blog. Well to everyone, welcome to my blog and let me try my best to make this more interesting and less boring cause I know how it feels to get bored reading pages and pages of nonsense, or no sense text. I say that with no personal target on anyone, please spare me if anyone is hurt with those words. 

But I mean it.

Hoping that you would also have as much fun in reading and following my blog as much as I would have in pouring out my mind here.

- Sashank K