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The Generation Gap!

Discussion in 'Cheeniya's Senile Ramblings' started by Cheeniya, Mar 6, 2007.

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  1. Jan 18, 2009 #21
    Cheeniya

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    Dear Viji
    You have now transported me back to my school days. We lived in a house that was right opposite Star Talkies in Triplicane High Road in Chennai. The lowest ticket used to be just 30 paise! ( Naale Mukkal Anna!) It was here that I saw some famous movies like Madhumati, Naya Daur, Kaagaz ke Pool, Sitaron Se Aage, Kath Putli etc. Being in a predominantly Muslim locality, this theatre screened only Hindi movies. There were the days when advance booking facility was not in vogue. We had to go early and stand in the queue that normally wound through narrow passages. The lower the ticket price, the greater would be the physical suffering in making our way through the queue!

    Oh, I really miss those days!
    Sri
     
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  2. Jan 18, 2009 #22
    Cheeniya

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    Dear Usha
    We all know that boiling milk overflowing indicates prosperity on the Pongal Day. On other days, it can be symbolic of both good and bad depending on what is the situation in the movie at that particular moment. While the cat lapping up the spilled milk can only indicate the loss of virginity of the heroine or her friend or whoever, overflowing milk may signify a hundred things. Now that you have raised this point, I would try to compile a list of incidents that may be signified by the overflowing milk!
    Sri
     
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  3. Jan 18, 2009 #23
    Cheeniya

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    Dear Padma
    My favourites were Guru Dutt, Ashok Kumar and Dilip Kumar. Guru Dutt's films like Pyasa, Kaagaz ke pool etc are immortal classics and his films reflected a bit of his life. We had people like SD Burman to give the most appropriate music for such poignant films.
    Dev Anand does not belong to this class at all. He can be compared to Madhavan now!

    Guide was more successful thanks to Waheeda and SD Burman than to Dev Anand. I never liked his lateral movements particularly in song sequences!

    I have certainly changed with the times relishing Dhanush and Prashant now!
    Sri
     
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  4. Jan 18, 2009 #24
    Cheeniya

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    Dear Veda
    This sounds like the synopsis of a thesis that you propose to submit to the University for your Doctorate! I agree with every point that you have made. While the general complaint about the Idiot Box is that it has robbed us of the art of conversation, it is nice to see you coming in its defence calling it the focal point of all family gatherings.

    All the TV channels are now obsessed with dance competitions. There is going to be one dance competition for the senior audience and I intend giving my name! My grand daughter has promised to coach me how to go out crying buckets when I lose in the first round!
    Sri
     
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  5. Jan 24, 2009 #25
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    Ha ha Cheeniya sir,

    I am coughing profusely now...No no, not because of the frailities of old age...but the effect of reading your blog and the resulting laughter which turned into a cough...one which will give complex to Appa Doraiswamy!!

    I am a bit suspicious about your liking those old movies, especially the overly dramatic ones where the oil lamp goes off (!) just before the intermission and where the garland hangs on appa's photo...:)

    Well, those highly emotional and dramatic films were never my cup of T and I too have reacted like your grandson, 'why doesn't he take some cough medicine??!'
    If there is one thing which vexed me about Tamil films, it was the exaggerated drama. Give me a Kadhalikka Neramillai and I will be there!

    So, please don't blame the young kids...It surely was the appa's fault!

    L, Kamla
     
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  6. Jan 25, 2009 #26
    Cheeniya

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    Dear Kamla
    In the good old days, my mother religiously used to make us drink Castor oil twice a year as a time tested method of cleaning the bowels. The damn thing was administered with some equally awful stuff like 'Soora Thaavarai Kashayam' to enhance the castor oil's effect in cleaning the most inaccessible parts of our bowels! We used to rebel against it being pushed down our throat which would put to shame the greatest rebellions of history. Finally, my mum would make us drink it by pointing out to us of the rosy future that lay ahead of this ritual when we could eat the best of things in the world without a worry in the world.

    The tear jerkers are like that dreaded castor oil. They make us enjoy the lighter side of life a lot more than before!
    Sri
     
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  7. Jan 25, 2009 #27
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    My dear Sri!

    Another of your gems of course. I have been bloG-bustering for a few years now and "I have travelled far and I have travelled wide" (that was Belafonte), but you are the first person (and I am sure the last one too) that I have bumped into with whom I think I have been able to establish an almost perfet wave length. Whenever I read you, I feel we were classmates all through our school, college and university days!! In other words, we can laugh and cry together. We can lament about the golden past together. :cheers

    Coming back to your lovely post on generation gap, it reminded me of a hapless Bollywood comedian (for the life of me, I can't recall his name), who invariably ended up pantless in his underwears, much to the mirth of the audience of yore.

    When I contemplate about the poor guy in my advanced age today, I can't help pitying him. See, here was a professional, someone with a family and children may be, whose wife might have packed his lunch for him, whose children bid him bye bye when he was on his way to work.

    And then the work assigned to him at his 'office' simply consisted of shedding his pants!!

    What was this? Tragedy or comedy? I can't settle. He comes back home and his little son asks him: Why are you so late today dad? And he answers: I couldn't take off my pants quickly enough and they had to shoot the scene several times! Or, may be: I got into an argument with the producer that he made me take off my pants three times, but paid me what he pays for taking it off only once! Big Laugh

    A common variant of the same act was the trapeeze number in circus shows every winter. Quite invariably, a circus clown used to climb up to the platform and start swinging. At one point, during his return trip to the platform, the athlete standing there would miss the clowns legs and catch on to the hem of his baggy trousers instead, thereby throwing him all the way down to the net in his underwears.

    I remember how much I used to enjoy this particular act. I enjoyed it so much that I would wait impatiently for it to happen each time my parents took me to a show! But, once again, when I think of the poor guy today, I can't help asking the same question that I asked about the celluloid comedian.

    The children, the wife ... would be identified as close relatives of a guy whose professional skill lay in getting rid of his pants!!

    Same for your cough specialist I suppose.

    Wonderful post, once again.

    Give ME more of your fascinating ramblings. Note the use of ME. It was deliberate. :thumbsup

    oj
     
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  8. Jan 25, 2009 #28
    Cheeniya

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    Dear oj
    I'll say cheers to that heart-warming toast of yours!
    The feeling is mutual. In fact it is so mutual that many might even mistake us to be members of Mutual Admiration Society!

    Kolkatta is a great favourite of mine. As an Executive of SBI, I have travelled through the length and breadth of Bengal. For nearly a year, I have stayed in Komala Vilas in Rash Behari Avenue which was more like a suburb of Chennai. For several years, I could hardly shake off my memory of Kolkatta or the breathtakingly beautiful girls of that great city. I can see you wondering about my digging into my nostalgic past. All I merely wish to say is that if you are not likely to make it to Chennai ever, I wouldn't mind a trip to your great city for a meeting with you.

    The actor that you have talked about is the brother-in-law of Raj Kapoor and the brother of Premnath. Rajendra Nath was his name who died last February. In every film that he acted, he got himself stripped of his pants without exception. The other thing that he was famous for was riding a donkey straddling it facing its backside! He could be easily identified with his thick-rimmed glasses in all his films. He was invariably in love with the heroine and getting snubbed by her all the time!

    You are on the dot about the circus clowns. I too have laughed at their antics till my stomach ached! That was an age when virtually everything was a comedy for us. It is sad how age destroys our ability to laugh at the simplest of fun!
    Sri
     
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  9. Jan 26, 2009 #29
    jaijui0

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    hello cheeniya ,:)
    ha ha I think kids of today have become insensitive .. so much is being thrown at them .the TV serials , MTV etc etc that they have become impervious to emotions this is sad ..
    very well written and expressed ..your family sounds like fun :)
    jaijui
     
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  10. Jan 26, 2009 #30
    Cheeniya

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    Dear jaijui
    You are right about the modern kids. Perhaps it is also good that they are not overly sensitive like the older generation. After all, they have to face a life that will not be as smooth as the one I faced! Too much emotions may weaken a person considerably and he may become unfit to compete in the rat race of today.
    Yes my family is fun. I kake sure it is!
    Sri
     
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