I am an Indian. But I speak Tamil

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This is just not a post...But an eye opener (for people like me) living in Berica and others living "abroad" ......

Thus begins my soga kathai....

Dasavatharam release.....

I was excited...not about Kamal ..(I wana be heard loud....) but about seeing a tamil movie in the theater.....

I like flocks of people...rather I hate watching/doing things in thin groups.....

So I talk to my akka and athimber on the day before the release.....my akka is all greens and not just her but her friends also........

So we end up gathering a strength of 8 people and decide to go to Dasa on friday night.....
So I being the so called chinne ponnu of the group was assigned/volunteered to get the tickets....

As am in Berica I go online and book the tickets for Dasa......get me I booked tickets for $104...

So friday comes...I get bad reviews for Dasa but with undented spirits I join my sis's family to go the movie....

there we go and get the tickets using the online receipt and go to the movie...my sis's friends were late...so my athimber said we (him me and my nephew) would go and "put seats"...

so we give the rest of the tickets to my sis and we go and stand in a "line" no u dint read it wrong...it was really a line to enter the theatre...

that is when the bulb burns "blonk blonk"...athimber asks...."ene Harini elarum gulte le pesarale...ene panine"...
the color drains from my face..."athimber nan online le pakarche Dasavatharam than potu irunthuthu language ethuvum podele.."

athims: "Ene ma???#$%^&* "

"athimber irungo nan poi manager kite ene language kekeren..."

seri nu I run to the manager of the theatre...

"Hi there..could you tell me what language this movie is in...."

she stumbles a bit.....its an Indian movie...

"I know its Indian...but what language is it in????????????"

she fumbles--stumbles---then chews the word out..." ttee-le-ggu..."

pochuda.....nan ssathanu ninaichen........
I run to my sis scared to face my athimber....akka ipdi gulte version ka ithu.......
my nephew and sis laugh like hell...
I stand there looking for a place to hide me/my embarrassment

Then my athimber comes...."chonen olyo ---gulte mathri irukunu....."

I went and hid behind my sis.....

No wait the big story is yet to come...

This is when all the friends arrive....
I felt very very bad about making them drive 40 mins to realise that I booked it for the gulte version....

But they were all sporty enough to laugh...they sat down and laughed and laughed abt the comedy of errors......then I went to my athimber and he said..."kavale padathe...epdi irunthalum enaku Kamal padam pidikathu...unakage than vanthen.."
This lifted my spirits.....
So my athimber and his friend went home to watch American Gangster..my nephew Hareesh and his friend Pawan went to the movie Hulk in the same theater...and me and my sis and her friends went to Sex and the city...I think that was the biggest of all mistakes....since I was "Chinne ponnu" and was sitting with my sis I was asked to sleep if possible...so 45 minutes of no story line just trash movie I slept....

Then I woke up when the curtains were drawn and came home to end an interesting day...that was really interesting with a turn of events in its own style...

The next day I face my athimber and he says."...Kavele padathe nan une azhachindu poren Dasavatharam....."

So moral of this kathai:- Never book a ticket online for any Indian movie without checking its language...because though "I am Indian, I speak Tamil" ........