Funny Side Up

I was watching a Tamil movie last night – a mind-numbing senseless one where people wear parti-colored-clothes and run around, and a guaranteed mood-lifter. So Tamil-mass-flicks are all about “punch dialogues”, yes? The Hero (ahem!) is generally an auto-rickshaw guy who can lift his own auto with his own pinky (Hail! Hail!). The heroine, is irrelevant and shows up in rain-songs. The music director, well, is deaf. Its good fun, you start of with a villian – the meanest chap, ugliest and the one that never brushes his teeth, crosses words, arms and lorries with a hero – virtuous, hilarious, and never-before-born type. Hero outwits villian, first in words, then in lorries and arms. Entry heroine in between – with 3-4 songs, some feet-tappers from the streets. Gimme pop corn and i will watch again. If only to learn up some useful slang. (i picked up “capemari”). Hail mindless movies. I will watch you, if only to escape too-much-sense, for a while. Deal, capemari?