Pongal has just passed with an extended weekend. Convenience takes a front seat when it comes to celebrating a festival, performing a religious ritual or even doing simple things like buying grocery here. There's nothing that is not prevalent here or not available here. For instance, plantain leaves are avaialble here, but there's hardly any practice of kanu on Kanum pongal. Driving winter, bad weather, long drive even to buy a can of milk! And btw, even if I do the kanu on a silver foil, who is going to have it?? Forget about crows, there are no birds AT ALL during winter here!! Going to temple has become a monthly, quarterly activity! Sometimes I wonder how to break-even with what we had learnt and what we are trying to achieve here.. compromising on a lot of things in pretense of leading a life of comfort. These festival days are the break-even points. Atleast the one thing that we haven't been missing so far is good food on special occasions! Sweet and hot Pongal, carrot kheer, Poli, vada, morekuzhambu and more.. Life is complete ;-)
With that Pongal menu, here comes two more songs on my jukebox. Andhi mazhai is an old Tamil song from Kamalhasan's 100th movie.. The other one is a mix of languages.. And not many of us know that the Harris number "Ondra Renda" was only a remake of his own song "Dil ko Tumse Pyaar hua" in the movie "RHTDM" released two years before "Kaaka Kaaka", and that film was also a remake of the movie "Minnale" music scored by his own self.. hee hee! Hope that wasn't confusing! Check out both the versions on my jukebox.
Here's the video of the Hindi song, with some variations w.r.t the Tamil version:
