Vanakkam Doctor !

………The evening in Park hotel Bar was more than what we thought life in Chennai would be for those upper middle class and higher income Chennaites. We bumped into few sports icons of our age, notably Dennis Lillie, the maverick Australian pace man and few popular faces of Kollywood and Mollywood. The bar was very noisy though and the techno stuff was mostly crap and was in high decibels. However the birds were extremely good looking of all sorts, including svelte escorts accompanying, funny weird looking, Thoppai Thannivalas! Most of the birds were either smoking or high on their vodka cocktails, with very skinny and skimmed dresses, a delight to browse, after few a whiskies!! We were also joined later in the evening by Saravanan, Napaa and our talented maverick Prabakar for few pints. The chaps were slogging their way, tidying up the last few bits in the venue with T Karthi, who had apparently swallowed quite few shots and went for an early, quite lie in. However, we narrowly missed th...

Well, it’s going to be a lengthy one unlike others and another in the pipeline too. It was a surrealistic experience and bliss, especially as a born again bachelor in Chennai, the city I love. I mean the build up to the reunion party and the days spent looking forward to it. I would like to thank our friendly organisers and our dear old friends for making it a successful and a memorable one. On the flip side there were none, however, in future it would be better, if we have it over two days rather than one!! Well, we planned the trip very impromptu (me and Chandru), during the Wales holidays around the New Year eve. And there we were few weeks later, cruising over the Alps, gulf, Arabian and Indian Peninsula, eventually landing in Chennai’s airport on Saturday night of 23rd Jan. I am glad and hope Chandru too, that we made the trip. Well, coming to the crunch, I have been christened again. The name is Balu Mahendra! The infamous fellow, who had made memorable movies like “ Moodu Pani”,...