Saturday, January 29, 2005

Sri ``Vasool'' Ram M.S., M.S. (Part 2)

Apart from K7 in late 1999/early 2000s, MS was without doubt the most popular guy in our batch. Most of his tales are legendary and worth recounting.

Why was he called Vasool?

The was named so because of our beloved sidekick Hari. Remember him from K7 episode?
Hari had a friend Lenin, named presumably after the Soviet leader. In the first year, when MS was going to his home in Delhi on a vacation, Lenin asked MS to buy few shirts for him. It was understood that the money would be paid once Lenin gets the shirts. But Lenin fluffed his lines prompting an unprecedented rage from the normal cool MS. Enraged MS chased Lenin and his close buddy Hari around G block like a mad man. This reminded people of ஈட்டிக்காரன் (money lender) and he was named Vasool.

What is his biggest claim to fame?

MS தமிழ் (Tamil), a language of his own. I thought he was doing தமிழ் (Tamil) a disservice till Udit Narayan and co. gave the language a totally different dimension.

The feature of his language was the twist to well known phrases. A sampling is given below. If you know of some more please put it down in comments. Thanks.

கப்பல் மானம் ஏறிடிச்சு
யானைக்கு மடி சறுக்கும்

Only Machi has twisted any language to a greater comic effect. Sample this, ''Face your wash'' instead of ''Wash your face ''.

(contd.)

5 comments:

saranyan r said...

If Sait had been our country's Finanace Minister, we would have had a surplus budget :-)

Me said...

Came thro Lee's page.

Wondering why everyone calls you Anand Sir??

ammani said...

Very interesting. Will have to come back to read all your recollections

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