Down South

Down South:

After living in Bangalore for more than 8 years. Below are things which I observed and experienced. There is no right or wrong here, if you don’t agree; let’s agree to disagree.

1. Rates of Tea and coffee are same. And no one complains. Might be due to very little dominance of tea drinking community

2. Pronunciation of ‘H’ (eich) is ‘Hech’; including english teachers; due to mother tongue influence (I guess)

3. After looking at regional politician’s posters you may think that it came straight from Police Wanted list. But, frankly everywhere the situation is same in our county

4. Auto drivers are as rude as anywhere in the county. Irrespective whether they are communicating with locals or non-locals, absolutely no discrimination from their side

5. You will find posters of auto drivers next to rickshaw stand along with local MLA and auto drivers watching their snap with pride.

6. Traffic in this metro is as chaotic as any other metro city. But before you make think traffic in your city is bad and undisciplined, please make your judgment after experiencing Bangalore traffic. It is said that a common excuse to coming late is heavy traffic and it goes very well. I have seen vehicle coming from wrong direction in fly-over. Lane cutting is hobby over here. Driving the vehicle from wrong direction gives instant orgasm to drivers.

7. House owners are a totally different community over here. With slight provocation an angry man gets into fight, similarly they need any small reason to increase the rent. Some actual examples being; approach road to their house is being tar-ed or re-tar-ed, new mall comes near to their house etc.

8. Everything above AP is north. So if you are from Maharashtra or Delhi or W.Bengal, all are referred as north Indians.

9. To write about film industry you can write a big book. I will limit myself to some:

Actors here have some flimsy name in front of their name; like Golden Star, Stylist Star and Challenging star. It is said that these names have been given to them by their fans. People here think that only few (read as one and only Rajnikant) can be called as Superstar, so rest of stars has to take with these crazy names. As if, if you don’t have anything before Star, you are not considered as star. Funny no!

Talking about stars you have to be careful not to hurt anyone’s emotional sentiments. As the topic is very sensitive and often results in verbal fights.

It is strange to see educated and foreign return techies still loves and adores their favorite actors and follow their stupid style. Answer may be lies in Conditioning. 

Actors (except few like Kamal Haasan) here are more concerned about their hair style, costume and dance steps rather than going into skin of the character.

If you cannot dance, sorry you don’t have place in this industry. If you can’t act, well…….

Most of the heroines here are from north and they enjoy their stint here.

If you wonder how Rajnikant’s and other famous star’s movie becomes a blockbuster and runs for several weeks. The reason is people watch the movies more than once. In fact one time watching a movie is not considered as true watching. So fans watch it more than 4-5 times (I am modest here).

It is believed that during screening of Rajni’s movie, fans pause the film in cinema when his name in the titles come and even performs aarti.

Getting the movie ticket (of Rajni’s movie) in initial days of release is talk of the town and moment to cherish and celebrate.

-Shashank