Coimbatore Trip

I was to travel to Coimbatore by Nilgiri Express, which was to leave Chennai Central at 9pm. Gokul and myself had planned to go by the cheaper mode of transportation – bus – for which we needed to reach Vadapalani stand by 7:30.

I left office at 5:30 and reached home, only to be greeted by the secretary who was complaining about the non-payment of maintenance work undertaken before I shifted the flats. I told him about my inability to make the house owner pay, and assured him that I will remind him again to make the payments as soon as possible. The things were going smoothly until he said, “Pay the money or we will shut down water and electricity!!” I lost my cool at that very precise moment. Here was one guy who was asking me to pay up for things that I was not aware of and on top of that he was threatening to cut my water and power supply. I started shouting at him, which he promptly shouted back. The things went on for 10 minutes, till there was no solution in sight and we left cursing each other.

Thanks to the argument, I was getting late. I packed in a hurry and there were no major incidences for the day. We boarded the train at 8:45. Had dinner at Saravana Bhavan, which again left both our stomachs and pockets empty.

Reached Coimbatore at 4:30am the next day. We were to wait for another set of friends who were arriving from Bangalore by Island Express. They arrived at 5:10am and we (6 of us) left for a hotel booked for us.

The Muhurtam was between 6am and 7:30am, which meant that we had very little time to get ready and reach the Mandapam. Luckily 2 rooms were arranged for us, and we managed to reach the mandapam just before the Thali tying ceremony took place.

We had breakfast, and left the place at 10am. Since we had a whole day lying ahead of us and no other way of spending it, we decided to go for a movie. We went for a movie titled “Terindum Teriyamalum”. I did not like the movie a bit, but since there was no other option, I watched it.

The movie is about a guy, who stays in Nagercoil. He comes to Chennai to pursue his engineering. While in Nagercoil, he accidentally gets a glimpse of the heroine with whom he is unable to talk. After coming to Chennai he happens to meet her and the love story goes on. Parallel to this is the story of the don in Chennai, Adishanksran (Prakashraj). Their stories intersect at times, like both of them meeting at the temple and the girl getting caught in the crossfire between Adi and his rival gangs. Most of Adi’s fights are carried by his right hand and foster son Kutty (Arya).

Infuriated that his love is injured, our hero becomes the witness, much to the displeasure of Adi and his foster son. Adi does not harm our hero since he thinks that the guy is too young and he can be talked to. Nearing the intermission, Adi learns that the hero is his own son, born from his wife Lakshmi, who left him due to his violent life. Lakshmi commits suicide after the child is born.

The rest of the story revolves around how Prakashraj and Arya go around convincing our hero that they love him and want him back in their lives. There is also the character of the city police commissioner who plans to get both of them eliminated from the city for their increasing crime rate. Finally all’s well that ends well, the hero goes back to his father and brother and in this process also getting his lady love.

The film may be remembered for the bit of comedy in the second half as well as the heroine who looked very sexy.

After the movie, we went to one of our friend, Lakshmikanth’s house. Had a great lunch there. We even enjoyed a breezy siesta (The house was in an open area and was very breezy).

We left for the hotel at 6, where we took rest till it was time for us to leave for our trip back to Chennai. We were to return by Cheran Express.

I reached the flats a bit late, owing to the late arrival by train and the bus journey from station to my flats. I reached office half an hour late, and had to skip breakfast.

Today I need to go and book my tickets for the Bangalore trip for the weekend.