College - oru Comedy - Pilot Episode 1 (part 2)

Parts 2 and 3

Warning: read part 1 first

Location: Palani Hostel Room 111. First floor la centre room. Adhanga, namma room. 6 PM.


Naanum Suresh um room la enter aanom. Enaku kilinja shirt pocket. Avanuku shirt eh kilinjadu. Adu varaikm vittatha paathu paduthu kedanda Ramesh 'deeaaaiii' nu iluthu raagam paadi elundu ukkaandan.

Suresh enna paathu, 'College serndu karumam 6 hours thaan aagudu. Adukulla oru palla kaanom. Cha' nu veruthu sonaan. Naan avana pidichu room la irunda oru chair la ukara vechen. First floor eh kilinja sattai yaaru nu paka kooditu irundudu. Room ah close pani lock panitu naanum single bed la sarinjen.

Kanna moodina udane ramesh chuma ilaama sonaan, 'Ennada veladringala? neenga paata vandhu thoongaringa? Enna vitutu engayo godha la erangittu adha patthi solla kooda matingala?'

Suresh gaandaitaan. 'Pal ila nu kooda paaka maten. kadichu vechiruven' nu sonaan. adukapram enna aachu theriyadu. thoongiten. sorry. mayangiten.


9 PM.

Elundu ukaanda Ramesh biscuit packet vangi vechrundaan,

'Mess Idli weight da. Seri nu moonu perukum biscuit packet vangitu vanduten' nu sonaan. Suresh inum mayakathila irundaan.

'nala irundaa idli ye sapda vendyadu thaane?'

'Weight nu literal ah sonen.'

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'Adha eduthu un thalai la ongi adicha uyir poidum. avalo weight.'

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'Pinna enna da... Elupina kooda madikama rendu perukum apdi oru thookam? Ennaya kadha ketu pakathu room pasanga savadikaranga.'

'Seri, avangalayum koopdu. Yaar nu papom. Oreydiya solidalam. Aprom Suresh mugathla konjam thanni thelichu vidu. Mayakam theliyum.'

'Edhu Mayakamaaa?'

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Pakathu room pasanga Annamalai, Bhagirathan and Parameswaran. Parameswaran oor lendu varumbodhe 2 kilo bakkada elarukum edthutu vandurukan. Adula minjina rendu moonu piece ah thinnute naanum Suresh um kadha sollitrundom.

'Wow', adhu Ramesh, 'Girls hostel edhira maram, aduku keela oru bench. Romantic da.'

'Full ah kelu' nu sonen. Seri nu aarvama ketanga.

Suresh than kadha solitu irundan. 'Naanga rendu perum irundoma, apo 'excuse me' nu oru koral.'

Ramesh: mela solu.

Suresh: Paatha, adhu oru kanaadi pota kandraavi.

Ramesh: Ponnaa?

Suresh: Illa da. oru sodabutti paya.

Ramesh: Adhaana paathen. Neeyavadu, ponnungala yaavadu, thitradavadu...

Baghirathan um oru sodabutti.

Baghi: Ipo kanaadi potavanga mela unaku enna gaandu?

Suresh: Sorry brother. Elar mela elam ila. Andha aravekkaadu mela mattum thaan enakku total kaduppu. Continuing, college sernda anaiku Girls hostel ngara kovil edhira irukaradu kooda theriyama avan ena ketaan theryumaa? Aduku total Opposite direction la thoorama irunda building ah kaati adhaane main building, anga thana first year ku class edupanga nu ketaan.

Ramesh: Aravekkaadu noothula oru vaartha da.

Suresh: (acknowledge pannitu) aduku idho irukaane puniyavaan, vaaya vechitu chuma ilama ketta vaarthai la ye thititaan. kadiyaagi avanum poitaan.

Me: Control pana mudiyala da.

Ramesh: I can understand. But andha madri aarvakolaaru elam ketta vaartha pesinavan elam jenma edhiri nu suthuvanga. pathuka.

Baghi: Vidu vidu. Aprom?

Suresh: Aprom enna, apdiye andha classroom vecha building pakam poyi, naduvula irunda roundana la irundavan ta edo discussion nadathinaan. anga irunda naalu pera kootitu anda paya inga vandaan.

Paramu: Sodabutti um ah?

Suresh: Illa. avan angaye roundana pakam mutti potutrundaan. apove ushar aagirukanum.

Me: Andha ^#%$( edayo keezha potu kannu theriyama theditrundanu nenachen.

Bhagi: Seniors oh?

Me: Aama.

Suresh: Vandaanga. Oruthan en kan la irunda ray ban ah edthu potukitan.Inoruthan anda gap la oru ara vitaan.

Me: Naan immediate ah spot ah gaali pana pathen. Moonavadu irundavan en shirt pocket ah pudichan. Pocket la onum ila da paradesi nu mind la strike aachu. pichitu poiten. evanum thorathala.

Suresh: Avan size ah pathu orey oruthan pudika ponaan. Ess agitaan. enna moonu per valachitanga. Oru anju nimisham adichtu, first year epdi nadandukanum nu anda sodabutti ya pathu kathuka nu solitu marupadiyum poitanga.

Me: Aprom naan thaan avanga pogara varaikm olinju irundutu aprom ivana allitu vanden.

Suresh: thanks machi. aprom onnu sola maranduten. Unna naalaiku roundana ku kootitu vara sonanga.

Me: Ha ha.

Suresh: Serious ah.

Me: Dei.

Suresh: Illa na enna hostel pugundu adipenu solirukanga...

Me: Enna koduma sir idhu.

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Episode 2 link

College - oru Comedy - Pilot Episode (part 1)

- A totally imaginary serial(many posts coming up) experience you can (hopefully) relate to. Proceed if you understand thamizh (tamil). First person narration purely a matter of storytelling and does not mean it relates to me.

Adu oru Social network illaada kaalam.

'CIT kedachruku machi. Range brand name. School thaan oru waste ah poachu. College la paaru, epdi kalakaren nu. coimbatore full ah azhagana ponnunga than. adula oruthiku koodava pudikama poidum nammala? ' nu en friend ta sonen.

Avan apovey sonaan. Adukkelaam oru macham venum da Siva nu. Aana andha time, en nambikai aarvathula dance aadina kaalam. Avana nambaama vaazhkai la ye podaada cooling glass elam vangitu college vandu sernden. Appa amma kooda college main building munaadi foto eduthutu ooruku anupi vechen. ‘kadai la poyi kilinja jeans ah vaangina nu mattum therinjudu…’ nu normal aana kural la warn pannitu kelambinanga amma.

School la kooda padicha rendu pasanga than room mates. ‘Hostel la yen da cooling glass ah potu savadikara?’ nu Ramesh(one room mate) ketaan. ‘Inime appadi thaan’ nu nayagan madri dialog vitutu girls hostel enda pakam nu pakalam nu yartayum solama kelambinen. Oru direction ah paathu nadanden. Onnu ragging irukaa ilaya nu theriyala. Rendu indha pakam ponaa than warden office. Kandipa seniors yarum iruka matanga. Moonu cooling glass potutu poitrunden. Mind voice la ‘kandukondaen kandukondaen’.

Apdiye ponaa ponunga density adhigama irukara oru area vandudu. Oru gate. Aduku oru watchman. Thaandina rendu building. College ku ularaye gate pota adhu girls hostel ah thaan irukum nu mudivu panen. Anga ukaandu site adika location iruka nu apdiye paathaa, pakka location. Oru maram. Aduku keela park la elam irukara bench. Adula already oruthan irundaan. Vera yaaru, namma second room mate Suresh.

‘Vaa da machi. Nee varalaye nu than paathen’ nu thalli ukaandan. Avan potutrundadu ray-ban glass. En mokka cooler mottha value eh 30 Rs thaan. First velayaa adha kalatti pant pocket la potutu avan pakathula settle aanen.

Episode 1 Part 2 here

Rain-Iron-y

“Look here, Maadasamy”, said Marimuthu, the headmaster of the village school, “till date I have given you close to 10000 bucks in bits and pieces. You don’t seem to be getting anywhere near repaying it. What’s worse is that you are asking for more! You are over 50 now, how can I trust that you’ll return my money?”

“Sir, the astrologer said there’ll be rains this year. One harvest is enough to repay your entire loan, sir. I don’t know what to do for today. I also haven’t heard from my son who went to Bangalore on his friend’s promise of a job. I am not beg…(corrected himself) asking for my luxury, sir. I don’t have any money for our next meal. Please arrange 500 rupees for this month, sir. Please have a heart. It will rain in another month. I’ll return the entire money in two months… Please have pity on me.”

“Stop it, Madasamy. My answer’s going to be the same however you may rephrase it”, said Marimuthu. After a second’s silence, “I can understand your situation. But how can I give you when I don’t have any money myself? Here, take this fifty for today. Give it to Meenatchi. Please don’t expect anything else from me…”

A second of silence. The headmaster continued, “I’ll post a letter to Velu. I am not sure about you, but I have huge faith in Velu. He got the first rank in the entire village in his eighth standard. His only dream in life is to give you and his mother a comfortable life. Don’t let your mind wander. I have to start now…got a class in ten minutes.”

The astrologer has predicted heavy showers for the year. He had said the same last year too, but apart from the daily tears in Meenatchi’s eyes, he had not seen any other source of water. All crops were destroyed…the capital went with it. He had to take further loans to repay the initial ones. A lot more loans followed, to invest this year in the field and for daily expenses. Even the government turned him down, as he already had huge outstanding debts. He did not have any faith in the astrologer’s promise of a rain, but it did help him get all the loans till now. He smiled to himself as he thought of that.

A tear in his eye, a smile on his face. He cursed the rain with all his heart.

He decided to hand over the money to Meenatchi and take the pesticides he’d bought to the field. There were no crops to protect there. Why then, did he need the pesticide?
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“I argued a whole day with Baapa to get this done for you without a deposit, because you are from our village.” Muhammad said on the first day he gave out the books.

He had told Velu over a letter that it was the easiest thing in Bangalore to earn 100 bucks. He started from his village based only on that. His father’s honour mattered more to him than his studies, like it would to any loving son, but till date, after everything he’d been through, all he could save was 500 rupees… Velu was part of an illegal industry where bestselling books were reprinted locally for cheap money and sold on the streets.

Today, he couldn’t sell anything. It was raining continuously, and he could not spread out the books anywhere. He cursed himself for not being able to save a lot.

He cursed the rain with all his heart.

Irony.