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C M Y MAMBALAM K TIMES The Neighbourhood Newspaper for T. Nagar & Mambalam www.mambalamtimes.in Vol. 21, No. 44 1085th Issue : March 26 - April 1, 2016 FREE Page 2 March 26 - April 1, 2016 MAMBALAM TIMES C M Y T. NAGAR BAZAAR K POLYWOOD Loft cover, Pooja Shelf, Cupboard, 5% - 10% Showcase, Discount Modern Kitchen, upto Apr. 1 False Ceiling, Painting VISWA ENTERPRISES VADAPALANI 98400 18492, 6537 9721 www.viswadecorators.com, E-mail: [email protected] REQUEST TO READERS! Please help us to serve you better! Mambalam Times is being delivered free at every doorstep in this neighbourhood week after week. If our delivery This space costs boy skips your house or flat in any week, Rs. 500 only. please call 98409 70091 between 10.30 a.m and 5 p.m on week days to enable us to take effective and immediate remedial action. March 26 - April 1, 2016 Page 3 MAMBALAM TIMES C M Y Ugaadhi ‘Vadu Manga’ attracts Rama Navami celebrations in K celebrations in residents Ayodhya Mandapam till April 24 Vani Mahal on Under the auspices of Sri japam will be held from 6 a.m Friday Rama Samaj, the 63rd year on April 6 to 6 p.m on April 7. By Our Staff Reporter Rama Navami celebrations Eminent Carnatic music- World Telugu Federation began on March 25 and will ians will give performances at (113, G. N. Chetty Road, T. continue till April 24 in 6.30 p.m daily from April 16. Nagar) will celebrate ‘Ugaadhi’ Ayodhya Mandapam, 47, Arya Hanumath prabhavam will at 5 p.m on Friday, April 1 in Gowda Road, West Mam- take place on April 24. balam. Ph: 2489 3077. All are welcome. Vani Mahal, G. N. Chetty Road, Sri Chaturvedhaa paara- T. Nagar. yanam will be performed from Rohini Sastry and Ashwini 3 p.m to 5 p.m and from 6 p.m Sastry will perform ‘Pan- to 7 p.m from March 26 to April changa Sravanam’ at 5.10 p.m 4. followed by ‘Sangeeta Vallaba Ganapathi pooja Vibhavari’ at 5.40 p.m by and pradhosha pooja will be Kuldeep M. Pai and Soorya performed on April 5. Gayathri. Akhanda Sri Rama nama Mandali Buddha Prasad By Our Staff Reporter Kumar (Vendor, Station (Deputy Speaker, Andhra ‘Vadu Manga’ has arrived in Road, West Mambalam) said West Mambalam and is at- that the small mangoes come Pradesh Assembly) will be the tracting many residents who from Madurai and Andhra Chief Guest. make delicious pickles with Pradesh. Prices start at Rs. All are welcome. them. 150 a kg. Resident felicitated for multilingual skills By Our Staff Reporter her pupils range from students S. Jaya (resident of 85/36, to film personalities to profes- Burkitt Road, T. Nagar) was sionals. She is regularly invited felicitated for her multilingual by corporate and multi-na- skills by Tamilnadu tional companies to teach Udavikkarm Association Hindi to their staff in Chennai (Ashok Nagar) and Deenaiya and other southern States. Charitable Trust on March 19 She also conducts free tai- in a function held in Alandur as loring classes for housewives part of Women’s Day celebra- and offers free tuition for Cor- tions. poration and Government Jaya is fluent (speak, read school students during week- and write) in more than ten ends. languages including Tamil, tilingual skills into her profes- Many of her students have English, Hindi, Telugu, sion. scored centums in board ex- Kannada, Malayalam, San- She teaches languages and ams. skrit and Marathi. Jaya’s contact number is She has converted her mul- Free tailoring course 95519 41475. from April 4 By Our Staff Reporter Smart Skills Fashion Technology Industrial School, in association Ministry of Textiles, will conduct a free tailoring course from Monday, April 4 in its centre in 36, Arya Gowda Road, West Mam- balam and in its Ashok Nagar center. Anyone in the age group of 18 to 35 years can attend the course. The last date for registration is Thursday, March 31. For more details, contact Smart Skills in 98412 00016, 99412 00019. Page 4 March 26 - April 1, 2016 MAMBALAM TIMES C M Y Resident donates Roads not relaid properly in West CIT Nagar K TAMIL CINEMA 75 - 50000 to ‘Balanethra’ project By Our Staff Reporter A LOOK BACK A number of roads in West By Our Staff CIT Nagar were re-laid with By RANDOR GUY Reporter concrete recently. N. C. VASANTHAKOKILAM - 3 Lakshmi The new road surface, which ‘Venuganam’ had in its cast, besides NCV, noted artistes like Ramasun- is almost 4 inches thick, has K. Sarangapani, V. V. Satagopan (the well known Carnatic daram (a not been laid properly. musician who enjoyed movie stardom for a brief while), Kulathu resident of The sides of the roads have Mani, A. Sakunthala (later Mrs. P. U. Chinnappa), S. M. Subbaiah Kamalabai not been tapered causing prob- and M. V. Mani. It was made at the Central Studios, Coimbatore lems for residents who find it which played a significant role in the history of Indian cinema. Street, T. Nagar) has donated difficult to take out their ve- Vasanthakokilam sang songs in ragasManirangu, Hindustani Rs.50,000 to Gurupriya Vi- Naattai, Senjurutti, Behag, Kapi and Jonpuri(the song, its lyrics sion Research Foundation (a hicles. 2-wheeler riders are and tune were of the famous ‘Eppo varuvaaro’, duly adapted to wing of Radhatri Nethralaya, likely to lose their balance suit the film!) T. Nagar) for its ‘Balanethra’ while riding close to the road With her patron and life-guide Sachi losing his hold in the project under which free cata- edges. There are 4 inch deep movie world and not getting films to make, Vasanthakokilam ract/eye correction surgeries furrows in the middle of the realized that she would not get heroine roles any more. Besides, are performed on infants born road at spots where there are her career as performing Carnatic musician began to take off and to parents from poor and eco- openings to sewage manholes Sachi concentrated in promoting her as a competitor to MS. nomically weak background. as these have not been raised the road sides for pedestrians ans are hence forced to walk Whatever MS did, NCV too did. When MS cut discs of Hindi to the new road level. songs, which was in fashion during the 1940’s, NCV followed suit! Lakshmi made the donation are dirt paths and uneven in a on the road thereby risking 2-foot wide spaces left at While the music was tunefully melodious, her accent and pronun- in memory of her parents. number of places. Pedestri- their lives. ciation of Hindi were atrocious! However her discs of Carnatic music sold well and spread her fame. Damaged ‘share auto’ lying ‘Nungu’ arrives in city However she did not give up the movies. By now she was well into her thirties. Generally Brahmin and other Indian middle on Patro Salai class women of that era did not bother to take care of their figure and form, and NCV was no exception! The familiar middle age- spread began to creep over her! Sachi realized that now she could only play supporting roles. One such role came to her in that memorable movie of 1944, ‘Haridas’ featuring the first superstar of South Indian cinema, singing star, and icon of early Tamil cinema, a legend in his lifetime, M. K. Thyagaraja Bhagavathar and the oomph girl her day, T. R. Rajakumari in lead roles. NCV was cast as MKT’s wife. Produced by the well known producers of 1930-1940s, the Madurai-based Rayal Talkie Dis- tributors, the film was directed by the multi-lingual filmmaker Sundar Rao Nadkarni and shot at Central Studios, Coimbatore. Others in the cast included N. S. Krishnan, T. A. Mathuram, ‘Pulimoottai’ Ramaswamy, T. E. Krishnamachari and M. M. Radhabai. A folk myth tale of sinner-turning-saint, ‘Haridas’ was a musical extravaganza and became a super hit. Indeed, to this day, it holds the unbroken record for the longest run at a single cinema theater by a non-Hindi, regional language film in India. ‘Nungu’ has started to arrive They are selling the fruit at It ran for 116 weeks at Broadway Cinema, Madras, and wit- in the city. Vendors, mostly Rs. 5 a piece. nessed three consecutive Deepawali festivals, 1944-1945-1946! A dilapidated Tata Magic Nagar for several months. from Achirapakkam, were Vendors are also seen near The reason was its music. The lyrics and music were by the van which once saw service as A damaged and unused gar- seen selling the fruit on the T. Nagar bus terminus and legendary icon of Carnatic music and cult figure, Papanasam bage bin, and construction th other spots in the neigh- Sivan, and the orchestration and background music score were a ‘share autorickshaw”, has pavement of 11 Avenue, near th done by the noted film composer G. Ramanathan and also S. M. been lying on the road margin debris have also been dumped its junction with 7 Avenue bourhood. The photo was Subbaiah Naidu. Many songs of ‘Haridas’ became hits. NCV sang of A. P. Patro Salai, K. K. at the spot. (Ashok Nagar). taken on March 24. songs in Bilahari (‘Kadhiravan Udayam kandu’, a popular one), Suddha Dhanyasi (‘Kannaa Vaa Mani Vannaa Vaa’, also a Resident’s Thieves target urinals on roads Two on bike snatch popular song), a Hindi film-based tune(‘Enadhu manam thulli’) permanent water 5-sovereign chain and Mayamaalava Gowla (‘Enathuyir naathan’). She also sang a duet with MKT (Vasantha Rudhu Mana Mohaname) which fell booth for public from woman rather flat! By Our Staff Reporter A 32-year-old woman, who In 1940 M.