A STRENUOUS TRIP TO SAMANAR PADUGAI – PART-3

  

Self timer snap :)


Railings that badly need a Reinforcement :(



                                                                                                                                           we started  clicking snaps all over with the cameras we  brought J “Majority of the Humans love taking and posing for  photographs aint  it ?? infact I love photographs J because I have read that “Photos and memories will never ever change despite people in the photos and their characters change J in the midst of the rocks there was a huge tree J suddenly we moved from jainism to Buddhism and personified it as the “Bodh @ budd gaya “ and were cracking jokes as if we were enlightened by then J Vicky and vijayan went even higher for seeing stupas over there. Me ,bala and navanee cudn move an inch further as were thirsty to the core L we sat down talking happily J for a change the disguise in the blessing there was that we could spot numerous broken beer bottles all over L which spoiled the serenity and the beauty of that place L The disgusting fact is that people started using this beautiful tourist spot as a spot for boozing L it’s a wake up call for the archaeological department and  department of tourism in tamil nadu  to protect our “ENCHANTING TAMILNADU AND INCREDIBLE INDIA “ J We started crawling up without slippers for better grip and friction … thanks to the auto timer option in the camera which  captured all 5 of us by itself inside its frame J finally with utmost joy and enthusiasm we started moving down with the help of the railings again J The railings already had few cracks to it L The railings badly need a reinforcement and a renovation now…  Finally we came down with the same spirit with which we went up J we badly needed litres of water all together to lessen our thirst and finally we reduced our thirst to some extent and got  back to life only after drinking two bottles of bovonto all together J The “SAMANAR PADUGAI TRIP “ was indeed a strenuous trip but nevertheless it gave us  the most cherishable and memorable trekking experience in our life time J  meet u all in ma next trip guys J happy reading J 



A Happy Four :) Myself,Navanee,Vjn and Vicky :)



A STRENUOUS TRIP TO SAMANAR PADUGAI – PART-2



An Overview of Madurai from Samanar padugai


Sculptures carved over there :)




 Sabarees was called by his parents and so he couldn make it up to the hills with us. He got down near Apollo hospital signal and we went on to reach the hills. In the down hills there was a beautiful temple Which had Sculptures of marvelous statues in it. Opposite to the temple there was pond which was full of lotus. We saw a Boy Fishing in that pond. Suddenly we wanted that to be photographed by vicky’s fuji film 14mp or bala’s nokia 5mp but unfortunately the zoom couldn go that long in both the devices and we managed to get only a blurred image of the boy who was fishing. We started off walking to the hills on that scorching noon at around 1.35 pm. We were walking with the help of railings on both the sides which aided us by providing its grip to walk on the steep hills .. thanks to the Archaeological department without which we would not have got these railings installed .. the pathway was quite steep and inclined and we found it quite difficult to walk on further despite we continued with sheer perseverance and wit to reach the top of the hill which no one of us have ever visited before. After some 10 minutes of walk we had climbed some 100 steps with the help of those railings… The steps were beautifully carved on the rocks of the hills I wonder how they did that with such an ease… in between we had a short 10 to 15 meters distance which had to be covered without those steps… we found It quite hard infact I found it very difficult to move on those wonky pathway as I was deprived of sleep the previous night and as I was driving the car for some few hours with an ailing leg trouble L alas we reached the halfway mark were we had a stunning visual treat at an height of some 200 meters above land level a very long truck which was travelling in the nearby bypass road seemed as though it was a toy truck which could be very easily held in our palm J finally we reached the destined place for which started off J there was a huge rock which had been protected with a fence made of iron rods behind which you could see some mind blowing artistic sculptures of sages belonging to Jainism … there was a small region beneath those sculptures filled with stagnant water all over which had became the habitat for few frogs and fishes J
 

A STRENUOUS TRIP TO SAMANAR PADUGAI :) JULY 16 :) PART-1

This was an unexpected and an extempore trip all together.We were all travelling from Sivagangai to Madurai in the morning from Sathish's house with the recently serviced maruthi 800 of my aunt .

We include Myself, Bala,Navanee,Vicky,Vijayan and sabarees. After some 55 minutes of a slow and steady drive we reached the outskirts of madurai in that mildly breezy and rainy afternoon :) Suddenly bala was asking me if we could go to that samanar padugai near naagamalai pudukkottai as we reached madurai bit earlier than the scheduled time ... within a blink i agreed and all the others came to a consensus for that short trip on the trot ... we started moving through the busy city of madurai on that suddenly changed scorchy afternoon which was breezy quite before ... We were having a bumpy ride all throughout our trip despite riding in the so called "National highways" :) Alas with the help of an Auto Driver we traced and spotted out the correct route to the hills despite the deviation we had initially :) The road that diverged to the hills from the highways was rickety to the core and the car wheels started wobbling badly as we neared the hills. A Sudden Speed Breaker hit our car's chassis badly which sounded like the chassis being thrashed by a hammer :( My heart beats rose as high as it could and I had a wonky feel after hitting the chassis hard :( The chassis and the silencer were quite newly fixed spending some 4k just a month before :( It took me few seconds to regain ma conscious and strength after it was hit badly :) Later I pulled some energy out and continued to drive ... finally we spotted the down hills just a few hundred metres away. After a sharp curve around a banyan tree we reached the down hills of samanar padugai... astonishingly the place was deserted and there were only a handful of humans visible... (contd... in PART 2)

DEIVATHIRUMAGAL - MA VERDICT :)

This is ma first post in ma blog :) jus to see how it works :) I jus dont wanna reveal the plot and break the suspense of many souls who are desperate enough to watch it badly :) Director Vijay has penned down a script sorry photo copied the script :P from the holly wood block buster "I AM SAM "!! but neverthless he never agrees it :( he jus says he took the casting alone :) GV .Prakash the "so called second hero of the movie" has done a fabulous job unless u hear an old robin  hood cartoon's music :) but neverthless his BGM at the slog was indeed breezy and stupendous :) Obviously vikram does and gives his best as usual :) vikram is a better actor than sean penn no issues here :) GV could even tell that the songs are his inspirations and not copied ones but when an inspiration or the ripping off gets this much response then think about the original score which was done ages back with no boasting and  commercial kick off  :) Despite all these controversies his music made us cry :) Hats off to the original score and GV's shuffle at the edge :) baby sara was the cutie pie of the movie :) she plunders your heart in many ocassions as kids usually does :) there comes in director vijay's touch :) Dialogues played a vital role in the movie vijay has given his best here :) Anushka does a character role here this proves her acting potential rather than her glamour potential :) santhanam is at his very best :) his timing in this movie were exquisite :) Hats off to director Vijay for giving a very decent movie despite having two most gorgeous heroines :) Amla paul does her role to perfection :) 
GV : THINK MUSIC was the label i guess but i reckon u never would have thought tamilians
to be this brilliant to have found the original score jus like that :)
VJ  : may it be a rehash or remake but this fellow deserves a standing ovation for making us cry :)
FINAL VERDICT : MAY IT BE A COPY OR REHASH OR REMAKE BUT STILL           
DEIVATHIRUMAGAL IS WORTH A DOZEN WATCH  :)