His Poem, His Life...!!

Have you ever dropped your jaw at a meaningful and an earth-shattering Tamil song, at its lyrics specifically? Or have you ever mumbled at it saying, “wow, what a lyrics, man!?” Well, then here’s the master-mind, the always young at heart, vibrant and the most endowed lyricist India has ever seen, Vairamuthu.

“The poet in me wasn’t born from nothingness; an impulse which was there when I was ten years old made me write until now.”- says Vairamuthu, the maker of nearly 6000 songs including the latest hits from Raavan and Enthiran. Poets like Bharathidasan, Kannadasan and Kalaignar instigated his love for the language Tamil and poems. Writing poems would be a hobby for some, but for him poem is neither a job nor a hobby but rather, his life, itself. If rap and jazz can shake your body, his lyrics sodden in wide meanings and great lexis can shake your mind!

“If a song of mine is enjoyed by illiterate or deprived people, then that song is the best, I would say. If they can enjoy it and understand it, that is when the poet in me acquires the ultimate contentment rather than any awards or accolades can do” – says he, in bliss. “Sometimes I don’t find enough words to articulate the ideas I have in my mind. But sometimes, some words accidentally come to the tip of my fingers which would be exact for the idea that I had in my mind and that is when the rhymester or the lyricist in me becomes complete; when words and thoughts meet together!”- He asserted.

If you ask him how he can write songs like “Usire poguthey”… and “Kadhal anukkal” even at the age of 50s, then he would say, “Body’s age and mind’s age doesn’t have any relation. My heart is still in the 20s, the college-goer who passionately looks at love, relationships and everything around. I keep observing the youngsters, their trends, their attitude, and almost everything which helps me to write for the present generation.”

“I am in search of a bigger and better ship to sail smooth, to cover wider distances, to catch larger fishes and to go to the depths to find pearls in the ocean of music; and when I find all that is when the lyricist in me will attain the ultimate triumph” – says the five times national award winning lyricist.

Poems have been his life for over 40 years; it has given him fame, opportunities, exposure and bliss. And that has made his life itself into a poem, embraced with love, compassion, peace and eternal euphoria…!!

Nagarjuna; an actor and beyond…!

‘Simplicity personified’ could be the best word used to describe Nagarjuna, the south Indian film luminary. Thanks to the economic recession that happened subsequently on his completion of Automobile Engineering from Louisiana University in the year 1985, the reason why he couldn’t find a job and he came back to India to join his Dad Nageshwara Rao’s film fraternity. With his first film, Vikram, he proved to be an amazing actor which resulted in hundreds of opportunities knocking at his door and he became the south Indian Idol in no time even to those who have never watched a single film of Nagarjuna.

Actors tend to confine themselves with their fame and stardom but, Nagarjuna isn’t just an actor. Beyond, an automobile engineer, he is a business person who runs hotels and many other business organizations, he works for the reinforcement of HIV/AIDS victims through the TeachAIDS campaign initiated by the Stanford University. Besides all these, he works for the Blue Cross of Hyderabad which takes care of thousands of abandoned animals in the city. “To satisfy the actor in me, I work with good roles that comes my way, but to satisfy the human being in me, I think the best way is to give care and compassion to the suffering and the down-trodden inhabitants living around me”, says Nagarjuna with his experience in acting over hundreds of films and winning many state and national awards.

Nagarjuna who is planning to a start media school in South India is looking forward to bring more number of talented youngsters to the industry in order to avoid the same old actors dealing with young roles. “I would rather stop acting completely than acting in super action and thriller movies hereafter because am very well aware that my age is 52 and if I deal with such roles it will take me nowhere”, he added. “Thought provoking and thematic movies as in the Malayalam film industry which hardly comes to the limelight should be made examples of by the other languages in order to save themselves from continuous box-office failures”, he asserted.

More than awards or accolades what can make Nagarjuna happy would be just a text message or an E-mail from someone who loves him and his movies or activities sitting in some corner of the world. “It gives me immense pleasure and nothing in the world can refuel or empower me as much as it does”, he says in bliss. Always propagating quality cinema with clean entertainment, Nagarjuna yearns to make good movies, which would not only rise above the typical commercial movies but also enhance our heritage, rich tradition and family values.

His new bilingual movie Payanam which has come out under the Prakash Raj productions that talk about a flight hijack story continues to make waves in theatres across South India.