Ponniyin Selvan Fever

It was the time when I was enjoying my days here at Chennai by doing a lot of things without dedication which was very clear in my disciple like I used to wake up only by morning 10am and sleep late at night by chatting or Facebook’ing. I tried many fields that had ample opening for BE graduates they were banking for Probationary Officer and Clerical, the next was in the field of Radio jockey and production manager. Then last was my hobby of photography to change to an professional photography I had to spend more but never mind my parents were with me for whatever I did my dad used to say that he had to apply for 100 companies and finally the 101th company was ONGC. Now he is the Deputy superintend Officer and has a career for 22+ years at ONGC a government concern.

My thoughts would even move towards film making where I was simply making short stories out of a 3-1/2 hr movie where I had to edit or cut all the nonsense part so that it will turn to a short movie like if you remove the songs from a full length movie you can save 25 minutes keeping 5 songs and each 5 minutes which a tradition that being followed in movies now a days. At this point of time while I was browsing through the pages of behind woods a web portal for all kollywood buzz, I came across an article stating “Mani to take Ponniyin Selvan “. I was so much buzzed??????, because I knew from my dad who has three collection of Kalki’s Ponniyin Selvan and takes a challenge to finish all the three parts whenever he comes off his duty. So I knew it’s going to be a challenge for Mani to take that movie but up to this point I never knew what Ponniyin Selvan is and who the characters the story was revolving around were. By this time I was still searching for a job after I had left my previous concern Sutherland Global Services for DELL L2 process and it’s been 3-4 months I’m home without a job and my pot belly growing bigger and bigger.

Ok let’s come back to the Ponniyin Selvan part while I was once preparing for an interview/test I discussed that what was published on that web page was it true regarding Mani Ratnam’s?? To my surprise my friend said he has already purchased the book and has finished it in a month’s time. The book consists of 5 parts once who is adorned reader takes a maximum of 36-38 hours to finish the complete novel. No doubt that he finished it in a month but the only difficulty I will face was he read the book in Tamil where as Tamil for me was like giving a flower  garland to a monkey???., So what I did was, I went to Landmark a known outlet for all types of books and materials and asked the keeper whether they had the mighty Ponniyin Selvan full collection in English? The keeper said he will make a note of the order and once it arrives he will give a ring and I can make a purchase, this made me feel better that the book had been published in English so people who don’t know Tamil need not worry there is an English translated version of it. Then it was by Feb 1^st week I purchased the Ponniyin Selvan complete collection (Like father like son) and placed in my cupboard. Everyone who used to visit the house will see the book and say great you have taken good step to read it but I never had a mind to go through or to check what exactly was in it.

It was almost 2 months from the Date of purchase that the book was laying on the rack, now I had joined NIIT studying JAVA web component and development, I had to travel for 4 hrs by bus sitting idly, so my brain worked here I dusted the 1^st part of Ponniyin Selvan “The First Floods” a green colored book. Now as of today I have finished the book it took me 16+ hours. As everyone from Tamilnadu say I too confirm that there is something in this book, if you have time then buy the set or at least lend it from a library or a friend and go through it you will find it interesting.

It now that Mani Ratnam has planned to take this novel  to a motion picture  it’s now a fever among all the youngsters like me and my friend, may be its just a profit for the book sellers or making the fan base high for Mani it’s all this that Ponniyin Selvan rocks….