JOURNEY DOWN MEMORY LANE - 685

RECALLING ONE MORE MEMORY OF VK PURAM COATS COLONY    



                            

Anyone associated with the Madura Coats VK Puram colony , I am pretty sure  will agree with me when I say that it was by far one of  the Best Years of their Life spent in this Colony  . One would not be wrong to call it almost a  Heaven on Earth.  

I will Leave the Work Related Life which was equally fulfilling for another day and another time .

The scenic and picturesque  bounty of the place  apart , what remains finely etched in memory are the many evenings spent celebrating the various Festive Seasons . Be it the  Diwali , Onam , Christmas or New Year Celebrations  . Anytime was a fine time for   all the Residents of the colony to  get  together and  have a jolly good time. Months without  with some Celebrations or Meet for some happy occasion were few and far in between. 

The memory and  visit of various Drama Troupes. especially the Crazy Mohan shows will stay on for ever .

The TUG OF WAR GAME in one such Celebrations comes to mind,  Yours truely ,all of 55 Kgs, Captaining a side against  a team led by my good friend George Jacob , 6 foot more than something and one who could give a Sumo Wrestler a run for his money will stay on in my memory. The result of the match was of no consequence , we all had a jolly good and gala time. 

The stand out feature was the bi- monthly screening of Tamil, English and Hindi Movies at the Colony Club Open Air Theater . What started off originally as a 16 mm Projector slowly Graduated  first to the 35 mm and finally to be the Cinemascope Projector . The film Rolls after the  last show screening at the local Theaters would find their way to the colony Club . All the latest and  Blockbuster Movies of the day  in all the languages would be screened here . 

Simultaneous screening of the Movie at the Local Theater  and at the Colony Club was also a feature sometimes where the film rolls were transhipped from either place without a hazzle and without any break in screening of the movies at either place as if by Magic .  ( Huge film Rolls or Reels were in use then , (  DIgital formats came much later ) . Gandhi , Slumdog Millionaire , Titanic , Juraissic Park to name only a few English Movies  were all screened this way .

Here is where the expertise of Ambasamudram Krishna Theater Operator Palani and Coats Electrician Alfred who were a common feature for the smooth Screening of these Movies  come to the mind  .

The Cholay  Puri or Parotta during the Interval was the highlight.  The kids simply loved it . The ladies looked forward to it as the dinner for the  family was well and truely taken care . The gents finally had something nice to munch !!! . This is not to belittle in any way the culinary skills of the ladies in the colony . They were masters in the art which manifested itself during the various other get togethers .

       GREAT DAYS AND FOND                                MEMORIES 

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