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Soorarai Pottru- Sky high dreams

Introduction-How soorarai pottru. In the year 2003, Director Ms.Sudha kongara’s family (Arnd 12-13 ppl) was readying to leave for a holiday to Shimla. When the family was planning to book train tkts, Sudha’s sister-in-law read in Internet that a man from Bangalore was selling flight tkts for Re.1. She managed to book two 1 Re tkts and rest at Rs.500. In the year 2010, Sudha made her debut as director with movie called Drohi followed by quite a few films. One day she saw a tv programme on business tycoons that featured Capt GR Gopinath (Retd), the same person who helped her family fly to Shimla. Ten years later, now in 2020 Sudha roped in actor Suriya to make sorrarai potru which is incidentally the story on Gopinath’s life. Suriya as Nedumaaran Rajangam. Suriya’s brilliant performance in the movie has indeed touched many hearts of movie buffs. He has played the role of capt.gopinath as nedumaaran, son of a school teacher who hails from a rural village called sholavandhan near Madur...

My first cricket coach

The introduction: During the Summer of 1998 (just before the famous sandstorm in Sharjah during Ind vs Aus match), when I was 13, I wanted to join a cricket academy & professionally equip myself. After I requested my father, He took me to Vivekananda college ground where I saw a fair & handsome man with black coolers Overseeing many boys in his coaching camp. He was none other than Late.Mr. Vakkadai Biksheswaran Chandrasekhar  Who is shortly called as VB from whom I was getting coached for around 2 months. I still remember our first meeting. He asked some basic info and Off I was directly enrolled in the academy. Half the circle inside the ground.. Coaching camp used to start around 3:30 Pm and it went on for Arnd 3 hrs every day. I used to cycle from my home with sunscreen applied over nose and cheeks like (SA fast bowler Allan Donald). Coaching will begin with warms ups, 3 rounds of running around the ground (Day:1- I still remember that I ran half circle inside the groun...