Krishna, my husband, loves to spend his spare time improving his photography skills. Many of our travels are planned around photography opportunities, in fact we could say we attend many of our own self-directed photo-safaris! Travelling with such a passionate photographer puts a spin on tourism and adventuring out that even in typical tourist areas puts us 'off the beaten path.'
This year, one of our wonderful, mysterious, mystical trips landed us in Kanchipuram, town of one thousand temples in South India. Spending just over a day is not enough, we understand, but within this short time, my wonderful friends of course showered their love and care on us showing us the best hospitality in Kanchipuram, taking us to several temples and areas of sari weavers. Of one of the hundreds of photos taken, Krishna was moved to submit the below photo of VaikunthaPerumal temple. This wonderful temple is a unique offering. Inside the prayer area (grabhagraha), there is a place behind the gods where people can crawl around the back of the gods to circle the temple. I did not do this, though other women in saris ahead of us did prove their skill in sari wearing by crawling in that space. Krishna did it and mentioned was one of the most interesting temple experiences to date. Because I myself could not crawl behind, this temple of course leaves more mystical impressions on me.
In the photo below, my friend and I are walking through the open hallways of this rock-carved temple.
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This was a popular movie out when I lived in India between 1999-2001. My friend told me Parthen Rasithen in Tamil means "I saw and I enjoyed."
The actors in this movie are Prashanth, Laila and Simran.
Kaddai Kala- This song has a fast, almost folk-song like beat with some guitar tones! See the part around the three minute mark, the 'broom dance'. My friend told me they won some award for this dance. I quite like that move! The bridges you see in the sequence were newly built at that time, in India, called flyovers!
Parthen Rasithen - Hero Prashanth and heroine Laila fall in love by happening upon the same bus route everyday!
Yenakkena Yerkanave
Poove Punnagai Kattu
Thank you for spending time on my blog! tags: Prashanth, Laila and Simran, Yugendran,Reshmi, Sonunigam , Vasundhra Das, Srinivas, Unnikrishnan, Harini, Bharathwaj
Jennifer Kumar About Me E-mail Me I created this blog to share with you my favorite Tamil film songs, collect Tamil lyrics with English subtitles and to highlight Tamil culture as shown through some film songs.
