‘A dosa that almost ate me’ or ‘The Great Kovai Surprise ’

It was beyond all my imaginations. None of those wildest surrealistic dreams of mine,  took me to anything closer to this, (Exaggerating: Never mind) which just happened in a yummier, crispier and filling manner.
  This part of Tamil Nadu was new to me though I stayed years together in other parts of it. I never imagined, a city, where most of the people spoke my language, just few miles away from my state; could give me this shock on the breakfast table.
I was driving to cochin from Bangalore and hungry like hell when  stepped into this Place in Coimbatore. Having skipped the dinner previous night,  I didn't had to think twice for placing my order for my favourite ‘Paper plain Dosa’ for a crispy and filling breakfast. I kept smiling while the waiter tried to warn me that it could be slightly bigger than what i probably imagined. At the least,  I should have realised when they placed two banana leaves instead of the regular single. 

 
    (my mother in law giving me an emotional support; sharing the question marks)


It took two waiters to bring it to my table, ensuring it would not even have the slightest damage possible,before their privileged guest touched it. The whole scene started to turn bit of embarrassing to me,when I could feel some eyes were turning to our table, probably to see, how this silly looking guy was going to devour that huge piece of edible wonder.

                              (Anandhas, Coimbatore where I had my Dosa Surprise! )

The Curse of being on ‘Bench’

You belong to the big community of IT folks and you call yourself a Software Engineer. Though most of us know what we do, and what we did so far, or even what ever we aspire to do in the future cannot even come closer to the word ‘Engineering’ , we still prefer to call our self an Engineer. I think, I am a modern IT clerk who loves the engineering side of his big clerical side of work.That's the ‘You’ and ‘I’ about that.

And here goes the ‘Bench’ Part and the main part of this post.(‘growing roots part’)

(How bored a human being can get at. ??  (double question mark points to a massive blunder in chess.) (that's a bracket inside bracket thought: the ‘inception’ perspective))

‘Bench’ (you are a resource doing nothing or unbilled) changes everything. One fine day you realise you don't need to go to your work place, you got all the freedom in the world, and most importantly you are all yours for the whole day. The Possibilities are huge. Consider the following.Browse for an interesting movie with the cheapest ticket in your city from the ‘Now Running’ website and find another ‘doing nothing’ pal of yours to go with. Find out a musical concert (even if you don't  understand the very word ‘Music’) or the latest art exhibition in the town (who cares the ‘Art’ when the need of the day is to kill time) and hit them. Recollect all your plans related to your hobbies which you preferred to  bury with in the rustic walls of your collective unconscious. Say, you go and take chess coaching from some one who is ready to teach even a moron like you and prepare yourself for a rated tournament which is to be started in the coming month. Another idea is to start blogging for yourself and read it yourself when you have lot of time. Try moving around your home with a handy camera to capture those breath taking picturesque like the sewage line behind your kitchen or a crow sitting on the fence or a dusty train which goes on the track near your home. Just imagine, what an uproar you may create by uploading such magnificent visuals mixed with Beethoven or Bach into YouTube. Thus the possibilities of a bench day are amazingly rich and interesting.
Unfortunately, in most of the cases Reality doesn't get along very well with the pretty side of potentiality.  You being a bencher realize the next morning that, all the crows and fences, the train, the sewage, (Even if they are mixed with Beethoven, Mozart or Bach) , the art exhibitions(or the visuals of somebody’s well kept inhibitions), those cheaply bought tickets of some contemporary crap, cease to be appealing to you and you are deserted with all your insecurities and all your disturbing emptiness what those gurus call ‘nothingness’ and you observe deep mourning watching silently that all your hobbies and pastime fantasies dying so fast before your eyes.
Coming Soon: ‘Nothingness: Myth or a reality? The Bench Side:’

Khosla Ka Ghosla

When you have amazingly gifted actors like Anupam Kher,Boman Irani,Vinay Pathak and Ranvir Shorey donning super realisitic roles, that definitely leads to a great comic entertainment. Yes thats true that no one probably had heard of Diwakar Banerjy before this 2006 flick of his, but this made him an interesting story teller grabbing some national awards as well.
 The movie starts with a pre-dawn Nightmare which Mr.Khosla usually gets, follows with his funny gargling which irritates other members of his family. The Laugh riot starts right there, which would remain through out the movie, still making sure they dont deviate from the main stroy.  With no parallel comic lines, no slap sticks, no unwanted characters,  the story just unfolds into a great feel good experience.

 Kher beautifully portrays the regular Indian middle class gentle man, closing to his retirement from the government service, who is trapped in the web of middle class worries and strict morality.  Boman Irani, was just perfect in the role of Land Mafia lord Mr. Khurana, with an apt body language.After all he has got this mastery of dwelling into such moulds as we have already seen in movies like, '3 Idiots', 'Darna Mana hai' and 'Munnabhai MBBS'.

Tara Sharma probably had the worst voice a female lead can probably have in a regular bollywood setup, but this time, it just sounded perfect.  Every single character, especially the entire Khurana coccus were a feast to watch.

    Khosla Ka Ghosla is definitely a good movie experience especially for all those who dealt with land brockers and dealers atleast once in their life.