Harish Palaniappan's

The other day I was taking a shot at my private golf course and one of my men came and said that police had foiled our attempt to transport some drugs. I had to only smile and tell him that I always knew somebody was an informer within our men...and he brushed away saying every one of us is loyal and why would they do it. Making a strong stroke I said I know who it was, and just shot the ball into the head of one of the men. He.. fell.. down.. dead.

And life went on like this, with all the responsibility of taking care of every problem in the business and having an eye on everybody and everything around me. Then the police in India seemed to know that I was in kaula lumpur and came searching for me. Now,.. I have the additional pressure of dealing with them also. And that's not all. A girl, a sister of another man on my team I had to kill sometime because he wanted to quit working with me,... was here to take revenge of me. She posed everyway like she wanted to work with me, and I knew something was different. but what I didnt know was she was that guy's sister. beautiful sister he had he never told me.. otherwise i could have spared him.

All this, and there was the interval. I stopped being DON for a while and came and caught up with the Q to get something to eat.

Once back again,
I was back to taking all the responsibility of handling the tough life of being the DON .. but of course from the comfort of a leathered cushion seat, in a well air-conditioned hall.

Coming out of the hall, I realized (you might have already) that I imagined myself as DON enjoying the movie. not a 'too good' movie, but it did catch my senses enough for me to get the feeling of being inside the movie, not just inside the [movie] hall. Shah rukh khan fan, if you are, you would also probably imagine the same.

Coming out of such movies, I have always wondered how advanced and exciting the world is from inside the movie hall.. and when you come out... it is the usual Chennai, India.. and everyone looks and feels ...the 'same old people' of chennai.

I have felt like being in London, new york, vietnam.. you name it. I have lived the life, many great actors only get to act. Sometimes even lived the life of roles portrayed by actresses ..like i was in 'million dollar baby'. 'Crash' was one movie where i lived many lifes within one hour and 50 mins.. And I enjoyed killing all those wrong doers while watching tamil movie 'Anniyan', and I was elected chief minister in 'Muthalvan'.

Many times I have felt that what we see on some movies.. 'some movies' .. become reality after 10 years or like they say in the next decade/generation. I could easily relate to life I saw in movies, local tamil movies that came between 1995- 2000... as existing in chennai today. This includes 'Muthalvan', where people today, the younger cream of people of ages 20-40 are clearly thinking in terms of what was communicated in the movie long back... todays cream of people understand that a political evolution is required to move the quality of life here..to move forward.

So, while I hope to get into another life this weekend... lets hope there are more good movies talking realisitic ways of improving quality of life, reducing corruption, etc.,... so that switching to live them in the next decade is a possibility which will improve life then.