Sesame Balls
A confection whose taste defies classification. Prepared once a year for grandfather's remembrance feast. It easily trumps rationality and makes a sufficient case for upholding tradition.
Collection of Scattered Thoughts on தில்லானா மோகனாம்பாள்
Have blog, will archive. What follows is from a clutch of posts written at various points in time about ThillAnA MohanAmbAL - in my opinion, one of the most thoroughly enjoyable films with a distinctly homegrown aesthetic. Due to the nature of the post, you can expect all kinds of unevenness and abruptness, which the content shall hopefully compel you to bear with. Plunge..
Dhevasams trump rationality in any case :-) Yendha kaakaada namma kollu thaatha - andankaakava, sadhaa kaava ? "Sesame Balls" sounds lame somehow. Well inglees has its limitations ... Hmm this calls for a separate post altogether.
ReplyDeleteLame it is. Guilty as charged. Post soon.
ReplyDeleteMore than the translation, classifying the taste was the bigger stumper.
Oh no, I didn't mean to imply that your post was lame. It's just that Yellurundai scores on the Nuch factor - the salivation starts even before the final syllable is completed. Deficiency of Inglees like I said ... This is a trivial example of what was being discussed a few posts back about how translations tend to dilute ...
ReplyDeleteGot that. I meant guilty of attempting a translation which was fated to be lame.
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