The trend for today is to dress up in a Halloween style during Halloween. Happily, only the front benchers are dressed up like that. You can’t understand?
Who will go to IT firms? Engineers or toppers in the class with “concerned” parents, who would ask their wards to take the first benches rather than occupying the precious back bench, the Antarctic, which is meant for explorers like the back benchers to explore.
Obviously the front benchers, who were well-disciplined, always in perfect uniform with every strand of hair at its perfect place, now look like how we were in the school with nails not clipped, ribbon always out of a bow, kajal that has come down by rubbing the eyes after a luxurious digital nap…(computer class).
Though they work in India, they assume themselves to be on-site. Quoting a kollywood version of a halloween movie, “Ganga, Chandramukhiya ninna. Ganga Chandramukhiya thanna ninaicha. Ganga Chandramukhiya maruna.” Ganga stood like Chandramukhi; ganga assumed herself to be Chandramukhi and Ganga finally became Chandramuhi. Initially, these employees speak and work like Americans, they assume themselves to be Americans by eating burgers and pizzas and finally become Americans by celebrating Halloween more than celebrating Christmas. Happily I can see the pretty them in a month with their pretty Santa caps.
Why to bother about the treatment of Ghost overseas? We will discuss the somewhat pathetic treatment of ghosts in Indian Cinemas, especially Tamil Cinema.
There are exponents in shooting and acting in ‘Pei’ (ghost) films, where the pei comes with a reason like Casper. The exponent in pei movies is Raghava Lawrence, a choreographer and an actor, who took to direction with his series of pei padams. The movies are highly moralistic, which is not to be blamed. He is a secular person, who detects the presence of the pei with a Hindu saint, drives the pei out with the help of a Muslim ‘bai’ and in the third part, involves a Christian Priest to chase the pei out. But he offers one of the best moral science lectures to the audience.
Not only Lawrence’s movies but also some movies like Hello Naan Pei Pesaren, where the pei is in the phone; Sangili Bungili Kadhava Thora, pei safeguarding a house; Saravanan Irukka Bayamen, a ghost becomes a love guru; and Petromax, peigal trying to retain a house to themselves.
Dhillukku Dhuttu, is a movie about a ghost, which guards a girl. The ghost has a historical connections with the saving of a Kerala Princess from a lusty English “Lord” sorry sorry coloniser. The Yakshi saves the girl by beating up someone, who tries to stalk and embarrass a girl. The movie, Mohini is also about a pei drives away a man, who tries to exploit a girl by shooting obscene images. At least, let us have such a pei or yakshi to save girls from the pombala weakness pudicha evil spirits that try to exploit the girls. Please pei save us from these…. (mmmm….what to say) pombala weakness pudicha evil spirits.
Adhagapattadhu Mahajanangale, what I try to explain is that the nilamais of Tamil peigal are comparitively very sensible and are well designed.
Frankly speaking, the dead are our guarding souls. They are not to be afraid of but for some number of movies that portray the dead bodies as a matter of fright. The dead bodies are basically fertilizers that can make the land fertile. Though the day of Halloween is meant to ward off ghosts, my IT fraternity dress up as ghosts. Can’t you dress up as saints? O but still they can frighten the ghosts with their make-up…. not only on Halloween day….. A similar make-over is done on the heroine of Hello Naan Pei Pesaren, with dark lipstick on the lips, smudged Kajal and heavily applied powder. With this make-over itself, you must know that India is not lesser in anyway than the so-called “Developed Countries”.
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