Hai! Start Meesic!

Sun Music has GOT to be the funniest Tamil channel around, with all due respect to the dedicated comedy channels that should stake their claim to that award.

Here's just 2 of the MANY reasons why -

1. The SMS stream: This could have been a standalone program in itself. Just way too hilarious. If you were watching any random show on Sun Music for 2 minutes, here's a sample of what the line of SMSes would look like (there's a message which says you should type your name message and send it to 57676 (or whatever is the number)):

Senthil: Hai dear

Uma: Miss u da chellam ilango

Sethu: This song for thala ajit fans

57676: suvetha

Saravana: Good night sun music

Guna: I love Suvetha. Hai.

Murugesan: Hai to all doctor vijay fans.

2. The Conversation: The host looks like he's been picked right off the streets, and then dumped into a pair of torn jeans, had his hair colored pink on one side, with a "layer cut" on the other side, and then given a crash course of how to exchange completely useless pleasantries irrespective of what the person at the other end of the line is saying. The girl looks like she was born with a smile, and has a minor disorder which involves moving her head to one or the other side after every 5 seconds, not knowing where to keep her hands, so keeping them everywhere at the same time. These conversations when people call in are downright hilarious. Sample this:

Host - Hello, Kaall pannadhuku romba nandri, unga per sollunga?

Caller - Madam, naa kaaraikudilirundhu Muthuraj pesarenunga.

Host - (with a 100W smile on her lips looking at the camera) vaNakkam Muthuraj, sollunga, enna pannikitu irukeenga?

Caller - Perisaa onnum pannaleenga. Summa dhaan kakkoos poyitrukenunga.

Host - (completely not having heard what he said) Oh apdeengalaa. Okay, epdi poyikitruku-nga?

Caller - Inaiku konjam koLa koLa-nu dhaanga poyitruku. Nethu raathiri sothula konjam ennai jaasthi pottaainga. Adhula konjam upset aairuchu-nga.

Host - (again, in a world of her own) Oho. Haha. Okay-nga. Sun Music neyargaluku vera edhaachum solla virumbureengalaa?

Caller - Neenga romba nallaa pesareenga-nga. Unga purokraamu eppo vanthaalum naanga enga veetla vidaama paathuruvonga. Enaku thala paatu edhaachum podunga.

Host - (going back to her script) - Saringa, kaall pannadhukku romba nandri, ungalukaaga oru super saang vanthukitruku, paathu enCHAAI pannunga.

And then, promtply a completely random song featuring the talents of Barath and Tamanna starts off. Thus ending the comedy, and taking entertainment to a new level altogether.

An Unreal News Report

(heavily inspired by Faking News founded by my IIMA batchmate Softy)

Chennai, Apr 1 -

Chennai witnessed a grand spectacle yesterday, as the final match of the first-of-its-kind World Wrestling Federation championship of the Carnatic classical music world was hosted at the Congress grounds in the late hours of the night.

The cheer-maamis in their madisaars went wild to the "Aigiri Nandhini" remix, kicking off the pre-event show that was aptly titled Punch-a-Ratna, hosted by the heavily devoted Shri. Neyveli Santhanagopalan, who was incomprehensible to the listeners for the most part, with frequent references to the lord's various names, often lapsing into a dream of "Thathom Thalaangu Thathom" as he tried to enthuse the Mridangam artistes who formed "the band".

The match itself was all set to start, and the defending champion walked in, even as the lights dimmed, and his theme song started off. Thengaai Srinivasan would have aptly summarized his theme song as "Aarokanathula Shanmukapriyava pudichi, Arakkonathula Kharaharapriya-va midhichi, valadhu kaadhula Haripriya-va kadichi yedadhu kaadhula Sripriya-va idichi, thodaiyila roopaga thaaLatha potaa anga vara theme music yaarodadhu...?" - the answer was of course obviously Madurai TN Seshagopalan, as the defending champion strode onto the arena, to shrieks of ecstasy from his vast legion of fans, all of whom were smearing vibhooti on their faces and bodies to get into the groove as their punch hitter walked in majestically.

Even while the arena was getting used to the presence of Shri. TNS, the loudspeaker suddenly shook as the piercing theme song of the challenger rang out, with a deafening "Brahmam Okateeeee.....", which sent even the most sober of Mylapore maamaas into rapturous dancing, complete with tamarind leaves held by the tongue to make the "lululululululu" sound, which seemed to intimidate the great TNS ever so slightly. As the superfit and superhit Sudha Stunt Raghunathan ran into the arena, all lights were on her, as TNS looked on, reduced to a mere bystander inspite of the Thisra jaathi araMatya thaaLa alankaaram that he had just demonstrated in the boxing ring...

(This will not be continued, as the author suddenly realized he needs to wake up before sunrise tomorrow to go to work, and also partly because he did not want to get into the gory details of the fight that ensued. As Ravi Shastri would say, let us just say Music was the big winner).