PARASAKTHY

Recently Kalaignar TV aired a Tamil movie Parasakthy ,penned by the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, on his 87th birth day. This was the first movie for the great actor Sivaji Ganesan.Nobody can say that this was his first movie. With his delivery of difficult and lengthy dialogues of Kalaignar perfectly and forcefully, he became an instant success in the film Industry. Especially his dialogues in the court scene,are even now , being appreciated and imitated . This film came in 1950's and directed by Krishnan Panju. Incidently these directors directed the 125th film of Sivaji Ganesan. Worth watching this movie

JAZZ PIANIST

Silent fingers jazz pianist Hank Jones died at 91 in New York. He belonged to Jazz's golden era and played with Ella Fitzgerald,Charlie "Bird" Parker and Benny Goodman. He accompanied Marilyn Monroe when she sang "Happy Birthday Mr.President" to John F Kennedy

An Incident-2

When I was studying in Gopalapuram School during 1960's, Kanchi Periavaal came to Gopalapuram and stayed in a devotee's house for about a week. At that time there was an announcement that Periavaal will give a silver coin to everyone who who has completed writing of 10000 Sri Rama Jayam. Myself and my elder sister completed the writing and went to collect the coin. We were standing in a queue. When my turn came I gave the note book and collected the coin. However my sister had a problem. They said that the book did not contain 10000 namas. She started crying. Periavaal,who was watching the incident called the concerned person and told him to give her the coin. He then said to the person that the intention is not the numbers but to appreciate the devotion and sincerity. How great he was. Even today we used to think about it.

An Incident

When Sri Sankarachariar of Kanchi matt was staying in Gopalapuram in Chennai during 1960's he used to visit all the streets in Gopalapuram.One day he came to Sadasiva Iyer street,where we were staying. As soon he reached our house, he asked his people to stop. He approached our father,who was standing outside our house,to see him. He enquired about his native place, working company and familiy members. After spending out 10 minutes he blessed all of us. It was a great moment for us. Even today I used to wonder how a Great Man stopped in front of our house and blessed all of us.