Last week Sunday my friend Siva, who recently joined HCL Technologies gave party to me and another friend of him at Mayajaal. Mayajaal is a high-end multiplex complex located in Chennai on the East Coast Road. That was also my first time traveled in ECR and I was bit curious about it since ECR has the reputation of one of the finest road network in Tamilnadu connecting Chennai and Pondicherry. It helps people to their reach their destination quickly and hassle free which is a odd one considering the usual potholed and bitter curves all along Indian roads [though conditions are improving, it's so slow that by that time roads are re-laid well in India, western countries would get some fantastic new road technologies and we will again get into the cycle of catch-up with them... :( ].
Okay enough India bashing... Mayajaal is in Kannathur locality in ECR. While going to Mayajaal we
pit stopped by the VGP theme park to click few pictures....
Me in front of VGP's cement Soldier's placed all along its compound wall...
my friend Siva who is the benefactor of that day
(informally, he can also be called as the
E of the day;
E in Tamil is short form for 'Eli-cha-vayan' and in English roughly its equivalent to 'biggest fool')
After this short stopover we finally reached Mayajaal around 4PM and took the ticket for the 7.30PM movie show. Well I can easily say we took the ticket for the actor Surya's movie Vel, but it was not that easy decision it was. Mayajaal has six screens playing three Tamil movies and rest Hindi, and in that we almost had violent fight over which Tamil movie to go among Surya's Vel, Vijay's ATM and new actor Prithivi's some movie(forgot the name)... The fight was between which movie to go among ATM and Vel... It went on so hot that one of my friend has decided to commit suicide(name not disclosed at that guy will and willing parties can contact me to know it) in protest if we goto Vijay's ATM movie... The guy claims it was so terrible that instead of going and seeing the movie and then dying inside the movie hall, the guy said he is ready to die instantly.... Hmmm.. in order to avoid the big mishap we decided to goto Vel [even this movie is equal killer like ATM, but relatively it will have less impact over our life]. We thanked the 'decision making tree' concept that we were taught of and it helped us here to make wise decision with almost zero -ve impact over anyone.
We had some good 3 hours time in our hand and we are set to move around the multiplex compound...
Mayajaal's view from its entry point...
Of course as you expected, this is my picture and I would like to put a point forward to all visitors that though I'm trying to avoid interruptions to the users and solely concentrating on the subject, but nothing comes free so there will be my pictures among other pictures to promote myself, please bear with it... I'm following the principles of Google which has whole array of services comes with a tag of ad.... likewise my promotion plan.... after all I'm open source programmer so I'm open in my intentions... got it???
Interior of Mayajaal... A nice floor...
A closer look at the cover area...
Again an equivalent to Ad.. Its none other than Karthikeyan Ramchel...
A big restaurant....
Me and my friend Siva's friend Saravana Kumar
(now the link Siva has been removed and we ourself has become friends)
Saravanan and Siva
(I request my audience to bear with the Siva's look... He always wore a rough and tough freedom fighter look since he is named after a freedom fighter Subramania Siva...)
Shops floor in Mayajaal...
Sun has gone down... But our show has not started yet... But who wasted time... A click in the steps in late evening...
Another close shot....
Lights are on.. but our shows??? not yet....
And
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finally
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Huray... our long awaited turn has came and we were inside the film hall...
In the screen is the movie starring actor Surya...
Another scene in the movie when there was emotional fight going on between the dual act Surya...
A devastated villain... who always fails in his mission to defeat, defame hero... so he is venting his anger over his sub ordinates who as usual got thrashed by the hero...
A video clip from the movie...
When the movie was over, the time was almost 11 and we know we wont be getting anything if we wait further... so decided to finish the dinner here at this modest roadside hotel...
We were waiting so long to catch the bus... even the busiest road network was wearing deserted look at that time... bus came only around 1AM and completely exhausted...
No bus??? Tomorrow Monday, have to reach office fresh?? We had so much worries... but this guy has who cares mode set on and always after the food items... this time a banana...
