You know what we don’t have enough of on this blog? Wicked Tamil music videos. Our new guest blogger has written about buying a car:
Lavanya and I enter a car dealership, excited, dreaming shiny new cars – after all, first cars are bought just once. A salesman greets us at the door – a younger, taller Dennis Farina.
“Hi, welcome to our dealership. I am John.” (or Jacob, or some such name)
He then offers his hand to Lavanya.
“Hi John. I am Lavanya.”
” ‘cuse me?”
“Laa-van-yaa”
“Oh, ok.” Turns to me. And duly shakes my hand, almost squishing it. Wincing, I mouth, “Karthik.”
“Sorry?”
“Car – thick, like a car that is fat.”
A little pondering. “Ummm… Can I call you Bob?”
We left.
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p>On ‘Inglish‘:
There is English, and then there is Inglish. An obsequious version of the language, fawningly humble, filled with “the sames” and “above saids.” Where two words are always better than one, and how good you are is judged by the length of your, ahem, words. Where you shave “visages,” and are never angry: you just express “disapprobation.”You use words straight out of obsolete thesauri, and send emails like this:
I would prefer to humbly submit my sincere apologies to all of (sic) for the unexpected but long delay in posting the minutes of the XI Meeting of < . . .> held on Sunday, April 24, 2005 at Chennai in the < . . .>, before beginning to pen the same.
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p>And on how easy lyric writers have it in Tamil movies:
All that is required to be a successful lyricist is… the metaphor, the simile and the names of ancient works of Tamil literature… Imagine Ravi saying “Let me put my sword into your scabbard” to Shriya. That would drive the censors into apoplexy… But on the other hand, a lyricist can effortlessly slip in stuff like that in a song and no one will blink.Let our bodies unite
like a sword and a scabbardOr you could say,
Let me be the Thriukkural
to your Kurunthokaiwhere Thirukkural and Kurunthokai are the names of literary works. Naturally, the names chosen here are random. You could put Silappadhikaram instead of Thirukkural and no one would care. In this case, people will call this gibberish literature and even try to slip a few awards to you. Yes, that’s how easy it is.
Please welcome Karthik of Etcetera, your source for Tamil film snarkicism and truthiness.
YAY! i heart karthik!!!! this is going to be AWESOME!
LOVE IT!!!! Keep em coming.
Sinnathambi!! How great to see you here!
When I saw that Karthik was going to be the guest blogger at SM, my overworked mind started hatching schemes for possible bar stories and how I could pass myself as him (or pass his posts as mine, its a joke people)
And then I see the link to the videos, so there goes my plan.
And Karthik, keep them coming.
And SM, If I am still single in a years time, I might just refer my attorney to this post (the videos acctually) and sue you guys ;-).
So.Flo Reprezent! Good luck Karthik!
HAHAHearty laugh! Welcome!
Thanks all. Hopefully, I’ll have some fun and you all will leave unscathed. It’s just a month.
Is it just me, or does that first Tamil song sound like the lovechild of Crazy Frog and MIA? :p (oddly enough, both are featured here this week, although the frog has gone Indian)
SO excited so have Karthik guest blogging! On your Snark, get set, go!
looking forward to your posts! by the way, the rendakka song is soo addictive. haha:-)
w00t! Welcome aboard!
Manish, here is another video that I thought was … intresting.
I can’t stop watching to that Rantaka video… it’s addicting. If all Tamil women are that gorgeous, I gotta go back to Tamil Nadu…. 🙂 BTW, can anyone tell me the lyrics? Tamil to me is like Hindi is to almost all my friends.
You asked for it, so don’t blame me. Original Lyrics here.
Oh Raven haired beauty, Sweet sugary throaty Polished Rice Teethy, Fishy eyed sweetie, Oh.
Here the lyricist presumably got drunk and inserts a completely random phrase. Randakka, Randakka, Randakka.
By the way, the girl in the video – Sada – hails from Bombay I am told.