Dravidian Otaku

  The Days of Being Wild In the third semester of college, I had a fight with one of my roommates. I had lost my father in the second semester of college. It was a hard time for me and my family. The only thing that I had with me at that time were my friends. It may sound cringe, but the truth is, I needed to forget it all. I never wanted my friends to feel sympathy towards me. At that age, and especially in my 3rd semester, to avoid my gloom, I started acting weirdly. More like a cracked guy at times. By doing so, no one would feel sympathy towards me right? On the other hand, they would get irritated at me or would see me as funny and laugh with me right? - This was the kind of justification I told myself. Thinking about it now makes me laugh so hard and embarrassed. Ha! But why am I writing this now? There’s a reason for it. At the end of 3rd semester, one of my roommates took advantage of me. In that sense, he showed his superiority towards me. I don’t know why h

  The month that I had enjoyed a lot!  I both loved and hated  September 2021 to the extremes.  In August of 2020, we had a reunion and after that, me and my friends had a lot of fun time together. But the amount of fun I had this time brings me so much compared to the other get-togethers. It brings me so much delight by even thinking about it. It was the time when one of my college mates invited us to his new house ceremony. At first I had my doubts. Because our class girls would come to this function. And it would be impossible for us to BE US!!! I had the same issue in February 2021 when me and my friends attended one of my class girl’s weddings. I don’t even want to think about it now.  But! This time, I am not alone. With me, I have my Go4 guys. NSK and Shot were coming with me (except pangu). So, I had company alright. But what happened was a totally different kind of experience. It came as a total surprise for us.  Most of the function, I was sitting and

Time to go full on OTAKU MODE!!! Ahhhh!!! The days of preparing for the interviews were over! It was finally time to have some fun.  Reading Manga is fun! Reading a fighting manga is double the fun!! And reading a gory fighting manga is triple the fun!!! So, I picked up Attack on Titan to read. Attack on Titan is more of a political manga than a fighting manga. Since it had a lot of mysteries, it made it even more enjoyable for reading the manga. When you have a lot of mysteries, then it will build you double the amount of expectations. And TBH, this manga didn’t live up to its expectations. Especially the climax. I hated the climax to the core. It was a disappointment. I know. It was not a great treat for my boredom. I thought that the companies would give more work to the people who are in their notice period. But it didn’t happen for me at all. The only work I had was to give KT to the newly joined people. And here and there, I had prepared and appeared for other int

NOI – A Short Film by Naveen Selvakumar In June 26, I watched a Japanese film called One Cut of the Dead (2017) It’s a movie about a director who directs a zombie movie in an abandoned building. But there is one problem. They have to shoot the movie in a single take, without any cut. While they were shooting, real zombies started to attack them and the movie was about the events that had happened before and after the zombie attack. It was an excellent movie. The hero of the movie (who played as a director) and the director of our short film, Naveen Selva Kumar (NSK) look exactly the same. Both look wise and skill wise.  It all started in the mid of July. 16th of July to be exact. I was planning on watching two Malayalam movies that weekend when NSK sent me a script and asked me to read it. The next day, I watched Nayattu (2021) and Malik (2021)  Both movies brought a lot of controversies. Nayattu dealt with making Dalit as bad guys (not explicitly) and Malik de

  Marvel to the rescue   June came. Half of 2021 got over. After my call with Uzumaki, I applied for a bunch of companies. But I couldn’t be able to get myself to prepare for the interviews. The JAVA that I worked in my project few months ago felt like years and I couldn’t be able to think like a coder does. As a result, I started procrastinating again. But this time, I didn’t want to waste sitting idly and staring at the walls like I did for the most of May. I didn’t want to read any more books too. So, I planned to resume watching Brooklyn 99 (I stopped watching it since it spoiled me the death of Cedric Greggory from Harry Potter) as I finished reading the Harry Potter series. It was finally June and I started watching the MCU movies in the release order starting from Iron Man. And weirdly I started preparing myself for the interviews. Somehow, I decided that being in IBM would never be helpful for me and watching MCU movies stabilized me from all those frustratio