Awesome Threesome..

"Hey.. adhu engalluku reserved"..

Kumar was referring to himself ,Vinod & Vignesh. They were the last benchers in my class( Plus one & Plus two). They simply would not let anyone else occupy those positions.The 'havoc' they created during school days were truly amazing.

Vinod was the shortest among the three. His favorite teacher was MKG (physics) though he had never attended her class. The fights between MKG & Vinod rite in the middle of the corridor would evoke instant laughter.Like this one..
MKG:- Why are you in colour dress?
Vinod:- What bothers u ?
MKG :- Ippadi pesina , Seeviduven..
Vinod:- Naan kuda thaan seeviduven... He took out a small comb from his pocket and started combing his hair... (You must have seen MKG's Face..)

I still remember his birthday during class XII.Kumar , Myself and Vinod were late to school. The prayer had already began.After the prayer , the PT master Mr JD(His name is Ramdoss.. we changed it as Jollu Das.. & hence JD) was noting down the names of the late comers. As usual I was not wearing my shoes.He saw it and asked me to go home. It was then Vinod took out his packet of chocolates and showed it to him. Sir ... "Ungalluku chocolate vaanga poi thaan sir late ayiduchu..Inthanga sir.. Eduthukonaga sir...".. JD took two... "Sir.. naalu anchy edunga sir... ".. He took out the chocolates and said.."Inimella late a varaadinga da.. Ponga.."
Sir shoes... ?? -- 'parava illa da.. Nalaiku pottutu va.."... We were allowed inside..(We learnt the art of bribing way back)...

Kumar was probably the best movie critic around that time for me personally and for our class as a whole. One had to just ask an opinion about the latest release.. If he says ..Trash it.. We would .. If he says Watch it .. We would... Probably Kumar was even more known for his snide comments.It comes with such terrific timing that would even invoke instant laughter to the person being attacked.When the entire class got promoted to class XII. He gave us a treat... The reason he told was "Enga kudumbathiliye naan daan tha romba padichiruken.."..Now he is doing MBA.

He is also known for the 'bulbs' he receives .Vikram's Saamy had released and Trisha was a sensation. We were discussing about her and someone said she studied at 'Ethiraj' College. Kumar(With Sheer Ignorace)said..."naan kuda antha college thaan padikallamnu irukken".. You can imagine what happened next..

He once explained the meaning of DIMS kattai..(after that Jothika song became famous).. Though I dont remember the exact words he used.. The examples he showed still remains fresh. He would take us to every class in school and show a girl who looked like DIMS kattai..He would put marks to girls and even the school's best could not cross 5 on 10. When quizzed.. He would say.. "The quality is reducing day by day.."

R Vignesh(R) stayed along with his aunt who was also a teacher at our school. He was the most silent among the three or deemed to be so.Vignesh did not opt for maths and took tamil instead. Kumar left maths in middle of class XI (after a chapter called complex numbers) and took Tamil.So he accompanied 'R' to the tamil class.

The tamil class had about 10 students consisting of 3 girls from biology group. The three girls were Aruna,Aparna and Nithya.. Aruna and Aparna were identical twins.One cannot differentiate between them.Probably the most terrific achievement of 'Kumar' in tamil class was finding out who was 'Aparna' and who was 'Aruna'. The pervert in him had noticed some physical 'attributes' of them for easy identification.Many boys who had crushes on those two girls came to Kumar for help for identifying who's who?. He however did not share the secret with all.

'R' however was not bothered about the twins. His focus remained with the person who always accompanied the twins.Yes.... He had a serious crush on Nithya..He would write poems (which were unbearable)all day in his notebook. He would follow her incognito to all the places she went.One and a half years he had remained silent and he proposed to her sometime during the middle of class XII. She said some bad words to him and rejected him outright.He was dejected. We all went to his home to 'console' him.

After consoling him for nearly two hours, he became sort of OK..He switched on the Radio...The song playing was.. "Pani vizhum malar vanam... Un paarvai oru varam..... ... Inivarum munivarum.. thadumaraarum thanimaram...ey ey..inivarum munivarum... thadumaarum.. ".... We were all listening to it. The song finished.
The Radio Jockey then spoke... " Ippodu neenga ketta paadal idaipetra thiraipadam 'Ninaivellam Nithya'..."..
All of us except 'R' burst out laughing... He broke the Radio..

"Machan.. English teacher engala paarthu edho kettai vaarthaila thitraanga da.. Onnume Puriyala... " - Kumar and Vinod were explaining to me.
"What did she say??" - I asked.
"Edho sonnanga da.. Mustardna kadugu thane.??. Engala Mustardnu sonnanga da.."

I was wondering why would one call them as 'Mustard'.I approached our English teacher and asked her what she had commented on them.She said since they three were roaming together always , she had commented'Three Musketeers'.

That in a way sums up Kumar , Vinod and R.. The Awesome threesome...!!!