Pursuit for a villain's name
--->This article might have content that is not exactly in good taste.
It happened a fortnight ago when we were driving to Atlantic City. As we were casually talking about a lot of irrelevant issues, the topic shifted to tamil cinema villains. We went ahead trying to appreciate different villains from AnandRaj to Senthaamarai and I thought of a villain...
That particular moment decided the topic of discussion for the rest of our journey. It was responsible for
a)4 ISD calls to India
b) waking up atleast 3 people who were in deep sleep.
c) calling up parents, uncles, aunts etc.
It lasted till we reached Atlantic city, stopped abruptly and started again on our way back. We were all sleep deprived (and money deprived.. we lost a lot except the pro gambler in our group who as usual won, in a different game though) and this was the topic which kept us wide awake.
Frankly, I had no idea about the villain's name. I was actually reminded of him 3-4 days before this whole journey was planned. So when someone was trying to guess Senthaamarai's name, I thought they were talking about this guy and thats how it all started.
Let me call him - X for now.
My clue to the group was... "dei, avanukku karumpulli-semmpulli kuthi, kazhuthaila ethuvaaanga da".Period..
Translated... He has a scene where "they will paint black and red dots all over him and shave his head and get him on to a donkey..."... This initiated a rather debatable thought process amongst the rest. I hardly knew any movies in which he had acted but that one scene had such an impact on me. One guy in the group convinced me he was the villain for Chinna Gounder(CG). I did not remember the face of the villain from CG and hence I believed it.
The other clues I gave include... "There is an inherent sarcasm in the way he speaks. He is thin. He has never worn pants(meaning only dhoti). Never spoken a word in english. Never involves in violence - he is the person who breeds enmity between best pals, brothers, cousins.. He is more of a Shakuni....(More of a 'strat'-villain)"
We all struggled. And then there was this other guy(for those who understand-babul), who suddenly realized who it was. The crucial clue being - Karumpulli semmpuli !. But he could only guess X as well as I could. We both exactly knew whom we were talking about. We had no idea about even a single movie he had acted in. We had no idea of the protagonists in any of his films. But we knew we were talking about the same guy. (I cant help but laugh even as I type this, when I m reminded of the joy I felt when I realized that one more guy knew this villain.)
Amidst discussions, we arrived at AC and the topic changed because Babul was under extraordinary pressure to attend a nature's call. We gambled(, lost, gave up and ) returned. On the way back the topic caught on.
Babul started mimicking the guy very well. He had no idea of the name though. I called up two of my friends in India who were basically confused about why I was calling them up after 1 year and asking them about a villain about whom I hardly knew anything. Babul called 3 of his friends and each of his friends asked his/her roomies too. The pro-gambler called up his friends in California at 10 am EDT on a saturday. !, his mom !!, his friends in India. We tried to tell them to google for X.(we had no idea about the search string though.... and we were pretty sure he wont be on google.). The other guy called his sister and this was truly turning out to be a multithreaded search.
But we were improving...nailing it to the same guy in the end. We all knew him. We all had seen his films. But we had no idea about any of these films except for the fact that X was the villain. We also were very proud that we would have been the first and the last people in the world to discuss X on the way to NJ from AC.
Then came the crucial clue by the Benjamin(motta) of our group. He was sure that this guy acted in this movie called - Aruvadai Naal. He was supposed to be Prabhu's dad in the movie.
We could not wait to get home to search for him on google.
We reached home and rushed to turn on the laptops. A lot of our search strings were useless returning hardly anything. Incidentally, Chinna Gounder's villain is Salim Ghouse who has a wiki page as well and ss quite famous, but he was not whom we were looking for.
Search strings included(but were not limited to):
a) Karum pulli semm puli villain
b) Tamil villain sarcastic voice
c) Villain Aruvadai Naal.
None of these strings gave us satisfactory results, though C) gave us some interesting hints. This guy was also the villain of Sarvam - a mid 90s horror film in tamil which was made quite decently. He was also the villain in Gabtain starring - Ezhai Jaathi. I had not seen sarvam and I had no idea about the veracity of the info. But I have seen Ezhai jaathi. (Seeing Ezhai Jaathi was the biggest mistake I did in the first half of my childhood I think.). But I was still clueless :-(. Another problem that we had when googling was because of this new movie - Sarvam . All google results relating to search string - Sarvam were about this new movie.
And then came the crucial hit on google. I do not know about the "punniyavaan" who posted this. But for him we would have gone nuts trying to figure out who the guy was. I leave it to the readers to see the link below and also enjoy his legendary dialogue...
Jayapradha says in elai jaathi:”...nan elaigalukaaaga padu pada poren…”…
legendary reply from X: "nee appurama paadupadu…ipa en koooda padu..”
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahaha.....
http://www.lazygeek.net/2009/04/who-is-the-best-baddie
