The obvious & the unknown: This article is a prologue to this page and it is ridiculously large. U can catch the blogger bragging left, right & centre. [better be prepared]
The Etymology to the term 'MalayalaPadams' has to do a lot over a phenomena called 'Posters' and it dates back to the good old days when the blogger was 14 and rode bicycle to school... The road to school had this traffic signal which was right across a big broad public wall.
And this particular wall, like every other typical-South-Indian-public-wall was littered by a mysterious Indian cow which had this rare talent of shitting perfectly spherical dung balls up against the wall (sometimes as high as - 7 feet from the ground). Atleast a hundred of them exactly spaced just one inch from the other!!
This extra-talented cow graciously spared little space in the wall which were leveraged to put up Paper-Posters of now-running B grade movies aka SaamiPadam aka MatterPadam aka MalayaPadam. As a result, no man stranded on the t(e)r(i)a(ffic) signal got impatient to see the red traffic light go off. Instead one could easily catch these men with their eyes glued at the posters and their mouths O.Ogling at the women featuring the posters. These paper posters were a result of cinema theaters named 'Midland' and 'kalpana' which rendered social-service to a whole lot of men in Salem (the city - this blogger grew up in) by screening all 'B'ig Malayalam flicks. Typically a 'Malayala Padam' would run for 2-3 days and would be replaced by another. "Mayakka", "Antharangam Antharangam", "Kajurago kogai", "I love you teacher" are a few names this blogger could remember from right on top of his head ;p. Everytime a new movie were to be screened, a new poster used to be put up in that wall. . The blogger was an eminent poster-watcher himself ;p. And with his schooling days coming to an end, his long and funny association with the posters came to an end... Ah the good old days!
Fast forward 5 years..... the blogger was warming a chair in an IT org as a (so called) software engineer in Mumbai... bicycle-riding & poster-watching had already become a thing of past.
Just to escape mundane coding, this blogger nominated to attend a meeting which was aimed at finding volunteers for fun@work typo activities... The meeting room developed junk over junk as people seemed to be so determined ONLY to brainstorm silly ideas... having realized the hopelessness of the forum, this blogger decided to reap the maximum galatta out of the meet... so he broke loose by purposefully suggesting extremely ridiculous ideas,.. and to his own horror - the person chairing the meeting found the insanities suggested by the blogger interesting and in no time the blogger was asked to implement an event he had suggested... Poor blogger had to promote it all by himself...
Such event promotions needed to have posters put up. Having run out of options the blogger himself content-wrote a poster... Contrary to the blogger's own expectations, it so happened that none of the target audience complained of 'crappy-writing'. Infact, many of them appreciated it (wat the heck???!!!??) Eventually, the blogger was thrust with the extra job of content writing event promotion posters. Neither he knew nor his colleagues knew he could write until pieces of text appreciating the posters started dropping by his mail box... The blogger is featuring a few of them below with the sole intent of impressing his girl friend (kindly adjust ;p)
For the blogger, who is a crazy person, craving to do new&different bizzare stuff all the time - this content writer stint gave enough new things to be occupied with. Had this not being there - the blogger's workplace might well have succumbed him to boredom. Since this came close to a life saver, the blogger feels the need for these posters to be put up at his webspace.. Hence the posters below.
P.S: Utilization of the term 'MalayalaPadams' for no correct reason here is solely pun intended. Cheta/Chechi - No offence meant!
The Etymology to the term 'MalayalaPadams' has to do a lot over a phenomena called 'Posters' and it dates back to the good old days when the blogger was 14 and rode bicycle to school... The road to school had this traffic signal which was right across a big broad public wall.
And this particular wall, like every other typical-South-Indian-public-wall was littered by a mysterious Indian cow which had this rare talent of shitting perfectly spherical dung balls up against the wall (sometimes as high as - 7 feet from the ground). Atleast a hundred of them exactly spaced just one inch from the other!!
This extra-talented cow graciously spared little space in the wall which were leveraged to put up Paper-Posters of now-running B grade movies aka SaamiPadam aka MatterPadam aka MalayaPadam. As a result, no man stranded on the t(e)r(i)a(ffic) signal got impatient to see the red traffic light go off. Instead one could easily catch these men with their eyes glued at the posters and their mouths O.Ogling at the women featuring the posters. These paper posters were a result of cinema theaters named 'Midland' and 'kalpana' which rendered social-service to a whole lot of men in Salem (the city - this blogger grew up in) by screening all 'B'ig Malayalam flicks. Typically a 'Malayala Padam' would run for 2-3 days and would be replaced by another. "Mayakka", "Antharangam Antharangam", "Kajurago kogai", "I love you teacher" are a few names this blogger could remember from right on top of his head ;p. Everytime a new movie were to be screened, a new poster used to be put up in that wall. . The blogger was an eminent poster-watcher himself ;p. And with his schooling days coming to an end, his long and funny association with the posters came to an end... Ah the good old days!
Fast forward 5 years..... the blogger was warming a chair in an IT org as a (so called) software engineer in Mumbai... bicycle-riding & poster-watching had already become a thing of past.
Just to escape mundane coding, this blogger nominated to attend a meeting which was aimed at finding volunteers for fun@work typo activities... The meeting room developed junk over junk as people seemed to be so determined ONLY to brainstorm silly ideas... having realized the hopelessness of the forum, this blogger decided to reap the maximum galatta out of the meet... so he broke loose by purposefully suggesting extremely ridiculous ideas,.. and to his own horror - the person chairing the meeting found the insanities suggested by the blogger interesting and in no time the blogger was asked to implement an event he had suggested... Poor blogger had to promote it all by himself...
Such event promotions needed to have posters put up. Having run out of options the blogger himself content-wrote a poster... Contrary to the blogger's own expectations, it so happened that none of the target audience complained of 'crappy-writing'. Infact, many of them appreciated it (wat the heck???!!!??) Eventually, the blogger was thrust with the extra job of content writing event promotion posters. Neither he knew nor his colleagues knew he could write until pieces of text appreciating the posters started dropping by his mail box... The blogger is featuring a few of them below with the sole intent of impressing his girl friend (kindly adjust ;p)
“Imteyaz - You are Jewel in the crown; your creativity is very much appreciated and we value your creativity”
“Your creative flair in writing is well known and you should keep going with this; the more you indulge the better it becomes by the day. You are the right kind of editor on our NL panel. We are really proud to have you in this project.Keep it coming….”
“Your mailers have changed the way announcements are made in this Mumbai based development center and we are glad you are part of this project.”
"You are now known globally. You have been so brilliant that I have received compliments from around about the amazing job that you are doing”
For the blogger, who is a crazy person, craving to do new&different bizzare stuff all the time - this content writer stint gave enough new things to be occupied with. Had this not being there - the blogger's workplace might well have succumbed him to boredom. Since this came close to a life saver, the blogger feels the need for these posters to be put up at his webspace.. Hence the posters below.
P.S: Utilization of the term 'MalayalaPadams' for no correct reason here is solely pun intended. Cheta/Chechi - No offence meant!
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