Superman Anna !!!

People who have enjoyed my previous 2 writeup's have some how or other been in a position where they could relate with the context of the whole thing, this one however i am not sure if any of you (unless u have been dragged by me into it) have found urself in.
Well to set up the premise let me tell u one thing that i did my Btech from VIT Vellore which meant that I had to stay in vellore, Tamil Nadu for 4 years(minimum) to graduate.[Detailed posts of VIT will be put up when permissions of copyright is brought from my various friends (i am quite afraid of being dragged to court for defamation cases)]
So there I was with my dad at the university gates, he thanking god that i had gotten admission into an engineering institute (happy that the college (and not him) would have to bear with me for the next 4 yrs ) and I praying to god that there be theatre's in this god forsaken town (ya thats right I was more concerned about the theatres than ragging, hostel life and the Engineering Course itself ). Already on my way to the college from the railway station I had caught a glimpse of a theatre [a glimpse because the poster was one of those kinds which u would stare at with friends making detailed analysis comprehending the inner meanings (none whatsoever the director intended in putting on the poster {two girls and a guy in compromising positions!!!(i wonder what inner meaning the director could put in between them ...)}) and when with your parents u would act as if it never existed even if it were as big as the theatre screen itself and u were standing a foot away from it ]. India is a hypocritical nation, love is one subject where we have only theory classes and no practicals (nor are we allowed to watch other people practice).
[Now there is only one thing that makes my knees wobble and mouth drool(no its not porn , if i wanted to watch that i would prefer quality NA flicks than some tamil sleazefest). I am crazy about english movies in general, crazy here may be an understatement because sometimes i just cant wait for the movies to be released. If a hyped movie is supposed to release on friday, i start getting goosebumps from thursday itself and if they are based on comic superheroes that would be the thursday of the earlier week.]
The next day as soon as dad left, we a group of 4-5 ppl went out to explore the town, came to know that Bruce Almighty was playing in vishnu theatre and went for the movie. The movie was a shitty one (nowhere close to Jim Carrey's earlier works) but I was ecstatic (for 18 yrs i had lived in Bokaro, Jharkhand. People there where hardly intrested in watching movies in theatre when they could watch the same in the comfort of their homes which explained the pathetic conditions of the theatres there. They never used to play english movies there). One reason i was excited about shifting south was that there were more possibilities of watching english movies on bigger screens. The movie buff in me didnt know that Bruce Almighty was the last english movie that i was gonna watch in vellore. No i didnt die the next day neither did Vishnu Theatre close down. The truth was to dawn upon me next week...

Terminator 3 posters were all over town , somehow i couldnt find terminator written anywhere on the posters instead i could only see scribblings in a scripture unknown to me ( i convinced myself that it must be publicity gimmick and the language of the future robots). Ya right !!(language of future robots)! i was that dumb those days[i dont know how much improvement/damage the IT virus has done to this pentium -1]. There is nothing in this world (maybe something alien can one day come close) that can match Arnold, who has just launched a rocket missile on Kristanna Loken and in wooden expression smirks and says "Enna Rascala !! Mind it...". Ya i sat through a whole english movie and didnt hear any english word except maybe "robot" and "machine". Instead i was bombarded with tamil slangs whenever Arnie was angry.

They dont release English movies in English in Tamil Nadu except Chennai ... This is meant to be a reward to the tamilians for being such movie fanatics that the Govt feels they should listen to Arnie n Sly converse in their own native language. A win win situation for all since movies dubbed in tamil attract the local crowds and increase ticket sales. Only that no one gives a shit about guys like us. Thank god they dont dub tamil movie in english in Tamil Nadu itself for global crowd otherwise we would be torchered to death with dialogues like this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2U8YR5VdUs

Adaptation is the cumulative effect, while each mutation is random... I soon started adapting to the new environment variables, I took XYZ a namesake tamilian from chennai who has been in UAE his entire life as my translator to the movies, a guy who couldnt differentiate between a thambi (younger brother) and a thendi(rascal,loafer)...
and then a string of movies followed...
Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid in which Morris Chestnut breaks into a jingle of "Apdi pode pode pode" on his boat. The hunters will become the hunted , was suppossed to be the tagline ...
The Day After Tomorrow : An epic tamil venture about global warming..
And the biggest of all ...
I watched 'The Matrix Revolutions' which was the much-anticipated conclusion to the Wachowski Brothers' cultic sci-fi trilogy, whose previous entries were 'The Matrix' and 'The Matrix Reloaded. The matrix trilogy was a mindgame, completely mental. It was an examination of reality, both real reality (if there is such a distinction) and percieved reality, and all that happens in your head. Now to emphasize the situation i found myself in trying to make sense of the movie when i couldn't even remotely make sense of the dialogues itself, i am including 2 links here where the various fans have tried to interpret the movie and the ending.
http://www.thematrix101.com/contrib/rev_theories.php
http://www.thematrix101.com/revolutions/meaning.php

There have been times in vellore when i have been in a theatre watching Kangaroo Jack [this was in english , guess they realized no one (not even tamilians) would watch it even if they dubbed in tamil ] with only one other guy in the balcony along with me, where we both helped the guy load the projector with the reel [he insisted that we put in the advertisement reels before the movie reel even though we tried convincing him that no matter what, we will never end up buying the saries from the ads] and then help the old guy to the balcony seat and make it to the centre of the theatre hall before intermission, when its again time to change the projector reel.

Superman Returns was probably the last time i saw an english movie dubbed in tamil. Somehow the whole movie going experience is elevated to an unmatched level when common man looks at the sky and shouts "Superman Anna vanthuttaanya vanthuttaan ".(superman bro has returned). Makes u feel that much more closer to superman as if he is ur own elder brother. The only thing i dont approve of is changing character names, no matter however minor the role is, Lex Luthor's dog was called subramanian (i am not trying to create controversies here if there are any superstars in south with the same name, and before i start getting hate mails from his fans I would tell them to go grab a copy of Superman Returns dubbed in tamil and validate the aforementioned fact) [by the way if u think that the dog was not so important, the dog had lines in the movie (he barked!!!) unlike Kal Penn who didnt speak a word through out the movie]
Well whatever might be the case, 4 yrs in vellore has certainly helped me add to my skill set, which now includes watching silent movies or movies in languages i cant make head and tail of (without sub titles off course). It also has made me appreciate the virtue called patience.
Writing this post on the eve of the release of "The Incredible Hulk", I thank god that i will be hearing Edward Nortan yell "HULK SMASH" and not "HULK udaichuruvaen" in a rage while tearing apart the New York City.