My latest friend!

G, who manages the parking lot at the railway station here, is my latest friend.

In ten minutes of conversation, he astonished me with his wisdom. I was taking my pal's bike from the station parking stand when I noticed this guy reading an Ajith fans' book. Immediately, the question popped out of my mouth - "Tamizh a?"

G - "Yes. But I was born and grew up here."

Me - "So what do u do now? I noticed you were reading a cinema book. Do you watch movies?"

G - "Yes, some. In Hindi, I watch Big B movies. In Malayalam, Mohanlal and Mammooty. In Tamil, I watch 'ONLY' Rajni, Kamal, Ajith, Vijay, Simbu, Dhanush movies..." and added - "am a die-hard Ajith fan."

He went on praising his 'thalaivar' Ajith - on the movies he's doing. Seems Ajith is doing three movies at the same time now; "look, my thalaivar is acting in three movies at the same time! He's finished half of 'Godfather', and in the same time doing 'Tirupathi' and one more movie."

And then the dreaded question came. He asked me who my thalai was.

I know that speaking to an Ajith fan is really tough... If I say my thalaivar is Ajith, I would be lying. And if I said he wasn't, only God knows what a hard-core fan can do.

I took the easy way out - "Kamal," I said. I know that almost everybody here appreciates Kamal, and G seemed satisfied.

Parted from him after making him promise to call me for first-day first-show thala movie. Hope he does.