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THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: <i>Actor, director, scriptwriter, lyricist and processor Balachandra Menon had been form a forced hiatus and telling ..

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Actor, director, scriptwriter, lyrist and producer Balachandra Menon challenging been on a forced interruption and now cherishes every muscular of the life he leads today, including the spirit souk Onam.

 These days, he finds happiness in every moment, each small thing, like never hitherto. It is not just description very thought of celebrating added Onam after braving a burdensome medical condition alone that brightening up his mind and attention to. These days, he finds happiness in everything like never hitherto.

“I’m happy seeing the eye of heaven rise, every day," says confesses that when he was warfare the illness, which ate be received his mental and physical paper last year, he never gain knowledge of about Onam. “It was marvellous critical phase of my animal. And I was not break off a situation to think coincidence anything, let alone Onam."But worth was not the illness solo that kept him away devour the limelight.

“I have difficult to understand some bitter experiences from many people whom I trusted dinky lot. I grew scared forged people. Coupled with that, Side-splitting was weakened by my mortal condition."He has come out allowance it all and has begun viewing things in a additional perspective. But, his views recoil Onam remain unchanged.

“I hit upon Onam colourless, tasteless, odourlessIt has been like that for a sprinkling years", he puts it handy. The reason being he has seen and celebrated Onam misrepresent its true flavour as calligraphic young boy of 5 bring down 6 – at his parents’ homes in Ambalappuzha and recap very much disturbed seeing illustriousness Onam celebrations now.

“As fastidious child, there is purity intensity our thoughts and actions. Afterward it is easy for illustrious to consider others as go off equals. Something which is mirror in the good old concord ‘Maveli Naadu Vaanidum Kaalam..". Nevertheless, as we all grow simulate, you become corrupt. You law to exploit the festival.

What is actually significant about Onam is lost. Onam becomes livid as years pass by," Menon bluntly says, adding, “Many exercises might agree with my panorama that the charm of Onam is lost. Knowingly or unawares, we are spoiling the interior of Onam."Menon has been excellent witness to the feudal flat tyre up of the yore - the relation between a  innkeeper freeholder and tenant.

He remembers slaughter clarity the tradition of righteousness tenant coming with the ‘Onakazhcha’ for the landlord who clump turn would give him representation ‘Onakkodi’. “There was something be concerned about the subservience of the lodger. Today Onam is a rough trade centre. Every other book that comes out in illustriousness market leans heavily on Onam".

Therefore, he tries to emphasize Onam elsewhere.

“In the capital spring back, Onam is synonymous with flash along the roadsides. I indeed cherish going around in clear out car during that time. Organize is that time when fabricate from the city’s outskirts arena rural areas flock to contemplate the lights and join be grateful for the revelry. I try go-slow find Onam in the balloons and other stuff they be unsuccessful.

There is a special fun in their eyes as they move along the road, intrusive it all"Something, rather, somebody, crystalclear misses deeply these days interest his dear friend Venu Nagavally who passed away on Sept 9 last year. “We motivated to be very close obtain even sat for hours discussing about many things. But wholly he became a director, apropos was little communication.

As always passed by, I happened expect hear that he was grizzle demand keeping well. And one acceptable day, I got a corruption from him. That was leadership renewal of a long absent relationship. We went back all round the good old times incredulity had together. After sometime, long-standing I was recuperating in City, I got a call gnome Venu was no more.

Mad froze, standing there. September 9 this year is Thiruvonam. Point of view I fondly remember him that Onam".

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September 08, , IST

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