Visit to Chennai & around..

I had to visit to office in Chennai after my return to Toronto to complete the TOI formalities and handover my responsibilities to new PM designate. Bhavana & Chibi planned to visit me over the weekend of April 13-17 and we had good fun. The guest house is pretty new one and had excellent facilities like a resort... We spent good amount of time doing shopping since we had buy some jewellery and dresses.. We also decided to visit Saravana Bhavan & Murugan Idli shop for lunch while we were shopping..

One of the days we planned to visit Mahabalipuram and the beach.. It was good to see the great rock carvings by the erstwhile Pallava kings. We visitied the five rathas, Shore temple and few other caves too.. Shibani enjoyed walking on the beach while the waves swept her feet..



We decided to drop visiting Pondicherry and do it later sometime when we have few friends with us..

Mungaru Male..

We decided to watch some movie [Sunday 08, April 2007] since it's been a long time we had watched a movie in the theatre.. Yes, for a change it is a kannada movie which we heard was doin' good and was running almost 100 days and still house full.. Shibani didn't want to sit in the theatre for that long and opted not to join us.. So, it was just both of us and went to nearby theatre to watch the movie.. Needless to say, we didn't get the tickets since they were all sold out in the morning itself.. I decided to shell out 5$ for two tickets (cheap isn't it compared to us/canadian movies) and got the balcony tickets for the first show.

Now, coming to movie.. I should say we made a good decision of watch a entertaining kannada movie after a long time..The film is mostly shot in the rainy season in the Karnataka's visually stunning Malnad area. The film rocks because of the fantastic photography. One could see the Jog falls in it's majestic splendour from different views/angles including the top view.. The music is pretty good and then there is energetic artist Ganesh ( of Comedy Time) whose television work has already rewarded him with a big fan following. This is supported by veterans like Anantnag, Jai Jagdish..