AN IMAGINATION ON - MY PADMASHREE - -> Dr. Kamal Hassan -: An Interview into Hollywood.

1) Do you know to Sing ?- - > Oh yes, i think -I can - - I have done a couple of numbers and they are good, I feel. 

2) Do you know anything about music ? - -> Oh yeah, I do.. I have worked with one of the finest musicians of all time. So, you know, The impact is more on me since I have watched for many of his composing sessions sitting with him. 

3) Ok Next - Do you know to Direct movies ?-  > Yes - i have done a few , but i finally understood that my movies were way far ahead of times and many brains are so immature to understand that.  And instead spoke ill about my deliveries. 

4) What is your exp on Producing movies ? - -> HMM.. yes.. I know how to budget every single entity for a movie and I have a production Banner for myself.. 

5) Can you dance well, ?? - -> Oh . you see, I'm a choreographer by profession - As a matter of fact, both Western and Classical. SO, i can do that as well. 

6) Do you know to lyric a song or a situation? - -> I can show you a few and you might surely like them. 

7) OK, Next  -> Do you speak any other language other than Tamil?? - Oh no- -No -  I just know, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada Plus - Hindi and Bengali. And, yes English of course... 

8) Good, So, you Know to act?  - -> Well, thats like asking me if I know how to breathe. Its something that you dont do it or stop it consciously. It just fills a large part of yourself in a day. So, is my acting in me.. 

9) What is that you admire about yourself ? I'm a Tamilian - OH no - Thamizan to be more specific. 

10) What's your biggest strength? - My fans, My loved ones. 

11) What's your biggest Threat? - My State - My country - The politicians. 

12) Who is your inspiration? Al, De Niro, Morgan??? - - What?? No - There was a man named Nagesh - he was my Godfather. No Al, Pal, ... 

13) OH, you think you can get Oscars someday ? Oscar ?? What shit is that ?- Have never heard that before.. Is that a name of a chocolate or something and why should I get it?? 

14) Well, What's your name ?? - My name is Padmashree Dr. Kamal Hassan  and people back home call me Ulaga Naayagan or Aaandavar hassan. 

15) What is that you DON'T KNOW to do? - - I don't know to lie or I'm not a hypocrite. i do what i feel is right and I do it not caring what the society thinks about me. I'm completely straight fwd. 

- A Fan, Mahesh Pallavoor  

Have you felt this before?

Life is hard – real hard -Incredibly hard – When u stand up, you are gonna be shut back down. When you are down, you are sure to be stamped. Yeah. You will plummet down, you will get hard-pressed, chocked, and you will stumble & stagger. But every time that happens,you need to get back on your feet as fast as you can. No matter how many ever times it happens. You fail more often than you win. It’s up to you to puff up your chest, Stretch your neck and face all the difficult. The nasty ,the mean, the unfair . You want more than you have now. Then, prove it. You wanna be heard the best in there – The get out there and earn it. Once you do that, you will know exactly whereyou wanna be and you will never give up pushing yourself up until you get there. At the end of the day, success is all what everybody wants. So come on- get out on top. Run faster. Dream bigger. Aim higher. Reach your love. Touch it. Kiss it and Taste it. Live better than you ever have before. Do it for you and prove it to yourself. Sign the success with your name. Only yours..!!..

Dear SACHIN: Your weapon becomes a BAT now. – By Mahesh Pallavoor

April 2011. It was the world cup final against SL. All we had were a team of 10 players, ONE GOD and a billion prayers. And there, we won the world cup. A memorable one. Yes. It was. It really was to every Sachin fan especially.

Retirement is never easy. Not for anyone who has done something for decades. Be it a clerk at a government organization or a corporate employee, retirement is never an easy entity in life to digest so easily. It’s not just about the paycheck that you get at the end of the month. It’s something more. And something that is so painful.

I can sense the amount of heaviness in your heart, Sachin. 

You don’t just retire from this game/sport called CRICKET; you retire from a mammoth portion of something that has occupied and took the most of you and your very living for the past 24 years. The morning alarms won’t mean any training sessions anymore. The fun of the team bus and the happenings of the dressing room will become memories in a jiffy. The Indian squad without your name on it will take enough time of yours to digest and get used to not seeing it. It will be hard for you to sit back to watch every single match that India plays without you and those vulnerable moments when you might feel that your presence right there could have made some changes but you just cant help anymore except to sit and watch. 

And FINALLY, not walking onto the field anymore with the entire crowd of 15k people at the stadium and trillions of fans all around the world roaring & chanting your name (Sachinnnn..........Sachinnnn........ sACHINNNN... Sachinnnn...)  contemplating you as their GOD who can erupt the adrenaline rush as they see you walk down to bat with your weapon every single time whether you score or not. And every fan from every corner of this world, shouting at the top of the voice when you punish the bowlers at boundaries.

Sachin – You have not just lived your dream for the past 24 years. You have carried the dreams of a billion people every time you walk onto the field to bat. Time might stop you from playing. But there will be generations that will speak about you as one of the greatest sportsmen ever lived.  EVER. Your weapon becomes BAT now. Yes. The weapon that has punished so many bowlers mercilessly becomes a BAT now. Dear master, someday when you feel so down missing the game, just look at your bat and you can hear the echo of billions of fans still shouting your name on that.

Thanks You, Sachin. Thank you so much for the wonderful memories you have given me. You mean a lot to me. And I don’t know what I can give you in return for all those precious moments, when you ran for 24 years carrying the nation on your shoulders. You might be 40 today, but to us you remain as the same 17 year old kid who has faced some top class bowlers like Waqar, Marshall, Akram, Mcgrath, Warne, Lee, Walsh, Amborse etc. The same old kid who has shared the pitch space from the days of Kapil Dev and now till Pujara.

Oh, my. .. They way you run between the wickets with your 1.5 kg bat, Goshh.. is there another man on this planet who can do this??? I’m gonna miss that big time.

Sachin, may God give you all good health to you & your family and keep you happy.

So, no more bunking classes or offices, No more crowd standing outside the streets watching you play, no more life, no more CRICKET & no more Sachin. 

And now critics can search for a new job. They will be jobless.

Lastly, A game called CRICKET retires from SPORTS. Now, it’s a period for the word GOD in cricket.

Love you Sachin. Love you so much. 

Mahesh Pallavoor