Sunday, August 05, 2007
There are buffalos on my street
Cows on the street are cliche in India, but it is still magic to encounter them in special conditions. Last friday, I was riding back home by nite as I saw five dark profiles of buffalos roaming on the street. No reaction as the bike passed by. They were just standing as if they had always been there. How they came here? Were would they disappear at dawn?
That's the picture of my production team that organized a wonderfull so called "Team pic-nic" during the july 14th week-end. I am yet to collect all the names of the magic places we have been to.
With the Rs. 1000 given by the company, we spent 3 great days at the border of Kerala and Tamil-Nadu, starting from Erode (reached by night train), moving to Perambikulam natural park where we saw elephants moving fallen tree trunks from the road, then to a dam where so many movies where supposed to have been shot, then some waterfalls to refresh ("tigerfalls") and at last a kind of small Niagara falls, whose name I forgot. As you can see the guideline of that trip was water : lakes, falls, dams. Indians are crazy about it.
Look at their eyes when they hear about a waterfall!!! From on stop to the next the week-end was rich in movies (of course the buses were fully equiped with DVD and powerfull sound system...) : we started with "Gilli" (starring Vijay, playing a champion of Kabodi, a violent indian game where each player has to cross a line defended by 5 opponents. Songs excellent!), then "Sandakozhi" (also a good guy fighting against bad guys in longi and big knives), "Gemini" (starring Vikram with rickshaw falling on the side everytime he sees his lover), "Captain Prabakaran" (starring Vijaykant, fighting a sandal wood smuggler and the corrupted system behind him, shot close to the last falls we visited). I simply doubled my tamil movies culture in within 3 days...
By the way last thursday I "met" Shreya. Not long, one minute of talk between two doors in the lobby of a big hotel of the city. Yes, Shreya, the main female role of last Rajinikant's hit movie (see last post). Only a few seconds to get the confirmation "Are you ...?", express my admiration for her last movie performance and go. So happy I was able to recognize her whereas an indian friend was denying she was it. But was it worth starting this spot conversation, meant to be without continuation, between so distant worlds? I am still wondering...
That's the picture of my production team that organized a wonderfull so called "Team pic-nic" during the july 14th week-end. I am yet to collect all the names of the magic places we have been to.With the Rs. 1000 given by the company, we spent 3 great days at the border of Kerala and Tamil-Nadu, starting from Erode (reached by night train), moving to Perambikulam natural park where we saw elephants moving fallen tree trunks from the road, then to a dam where so many movies where supposed to have been shot, then some waterfalls to refresh ("tigerfalls") and at last a kind of small Niagara falls, whose name I forgot. As you can see the guideline of that trip was water : lakes, falls, dams. Indians are crazy about it.
Look at their eyes when they hear about a waterfall!!! From on stop to the next the week-end was rich in movies (of course the buses were fully equiped with DVD and powerfull sound system...) : we started with "Gilli" (starring Vijay, playing a champion of Kabodi, a violent indian game where each player has to cross a line defended by 5 opponents. Songs excellent!), then "Sandakozhi" (also a good guy fighting against bad guys in longi and big knives), "Gemini" (starring Vikram with rickshaw falling on the side everytime he sees his lover), "Captain Prabakaran" (starring Vijaykant, fighting a sandal wood smuggler and the corrupted system behind him, shot close to the last falls we visited). I simply doubled my tamil movies culture in within 3 days...By the way last thursday I "met" Shreya. Not long, one minute of talk between two doors in the lobby of a big hotel of the city. Yes, Shreya, the main female role of last Rajinikant's hit movie (see last post). Only a few seconds to get the confirmation "Are you ...?", express my admiration for her last movie performance and go. So happy I was able to recognize her whereas an indian friend was denying she was it. But was it worth starting this spot conversation, meant to be without continuation, between so distant worlds? I am still wondering...
