Muthan Muthlaha Paartha Pothu

Author: Ramani Chandran

Year: 2010

Genre: Romance

Summary:

I started this book last night and finished it in one go, this alone should tell you how much I enjoyed the book. As with most of Ramanichandran amma's fans, I like her old books more than the new ones.

The main reason I enjoyed it was it starts off like one of my most favourite books by her, Kaathirukiraen Rajakumara, with the hero, Kathiravan, and heroine, Surabi, meeting when they were both young at a resort.  Surabi is in her teens (15) from a wealthy family, and is there for the holidays with her parent, brother and cousins. Whereas Kathiravan is there with his sister and niece, Elilarasi (also Surabi’s age) and he works as the mechanic on the resort. Surabi’s cousins in their adolescent years is awed by Kathiravan’s looks and is disappointed that he doesn’t even look up at them, consider it an insult to their beauty.  Through Elilarasi, who is impressed by their style and mannerisms, they try to learn about Kathiravan. One day Surabi and her cousins were waiting for the driver to come to take them shopping, they spot Kathiravan working and try to make him notice them by teasing him, and he accidently scratches himself with rusted metal. Concerned for his health, Surabi asks his sister later that day if he got mediation for the wound and learns that he just washed it, because he can’t afford the medication costs and also learns more about his past life. Feeling sorry for him, she grabs some medication from the first aid kid in their car and goes to find him, and finds him in the mechanic shed sleeping. As he may get tetanus from the scratch she tries puts some medication on his wound without waking him. She almost succeeds but he wakes and yells at her, stating that this is the typical behaviour of a rich, spoiled girl, scared that he might hurt her, she runs back to her room but she is not sure why he yelled at her like that. For the remainder of the holidays she avoids him. Eight years later she meets him again in a completely different atmosphere, and realizes that she had not forgotten him and loves him. Unlike other stories her parents are not opposed to the marriage but something else stands in the way. The rest of the story is about whether Surabi defeats the obstacle that stands in the way.

As I mentioned before, I think I like this story because it reminds me so much of Kaathirukiraen Rajakumara, that being said it only has slight resemblances to it and main story is different from the previous one. I certainly liked this one more than her last two books Kaatrinilay aval thendral and Kathalil oruvanai Kai pidithean.

TI

My first MS novel: Unnodu Oru Naal

Author: Muthulakshmi Raghavan

Genre: Romance

Summary:

Our hero, Hariharan, is from a very wealthy family, he runs his own successful business both is India as well abroad. His parents fix marriage for him with a modern girl (Theeba) from a family of equal status. Hariharan is fond of the Indian culture and does not like Theeba's love for the western culture, so he tells his father to stop the wedding, but the father goes ahead with the engagement even in the absence of the groom. Upset by his father’s action our hero decides to visit his friend in the country side for some peace of mind for a few days and leaves without telling his father.

Sowmiya, is born into a very orthodox family in a village and is loved by her parents and two elder brothers. She is completing her final year and is home for the study break. The wives of her two brothers, who are jealous of her beauty and pampering, try to arrange marriage with Sowmi and their respective cousin brothers, who are up to no good. A competition arises of who she will marry when both cousin brothers are invited for lunch at Sowmiya’s house on the same day without the permission of her parents, before things get out of control Sowmiya’s ‘murrai maaman’ Paraman, shows up and states that as long as he is alive no one else is to marry Sowmi. He also states that IF he is to give up Sowmi to another groom then he must be more intelligent, wealthy and good hearted then he is! Upset that their plans were ruined by Paraman, both of Sowmi’s sister-in laws tell their cousin-brothers to kidnap Sowmi and marry her when she leaves for school the next day. Sowmi manages to escape from them and run into Hariharan.

 The rest of the of story is about the encounter between Hariharan and Sowmiya and how the one day that they spend together changes their lives.

My View: I thought this book was well written, I really liked the village slang that was used in this book, it also takes us into the intimacy and innocence of villagers, which I enjoyed most. It was well written; I thought it was more like Uma Balakumar’s books then Ramani Chandran’s.

Please let me know if anyone has read this book or recommend any other books by this Author.

Introduction

Hi,
I wanted somewhere where I can express my passion for reading, somewhere I can post a summary of all the books that I am currently reading as well as share my views on the current book, and this was born...
A short introduction about me, I am currently living in Toronto Canada, and I love reading, I read both Tamil and English novels, the Genre, that I enjoy are mystery and romance. My favorite Tamil authors are Ramani Chandran, Uma Balakumar, Chithra Bala, etc..
On this blog I will be posting summary of the books that I read and my views on it, this is going to be somewhere I can come back to when I want to re-read a book.
Hope you find it somewhat useful and feel free to share you thoughts.

Thamil Illakiya (TI)