….the promo song ‘Chennai super kingsku periya whistle adinga. enga ooru chennaiku periya whistle adinga. Enga thala dhoniku periya whistle adinga …’ is so much popular.If we have Sudhir Kumar Gautam, painting face and body in tri-colour, with Tendulkar name – in all India matches, there is Saravanan for CSK.This fan hails from Ernavoor in Chennai and works as a warehouse-in-charge. Son of an autodriver, Saravanan is obsessed with CSK and Dhoni.He has had a ligament tear and underwent surgeries spending lot of money.For all CSK matches,Saravanan with his friends arrive at the Chepauk stadium early – the kit for a match consists of 25 bottles (15ml each) of yellow paint and a few bottles of Blue, Red and White paint, added is a wig completing the painstaking painting process preparation for the match.He is a hero of sorts as people gather around to take pictures with him.
It for sure would
not be a great pleasure to stand in the hot sun with paint all over the body;
yes he stands throughout the match, lest the paint may peel away – yet there
are Sudhirs and Saravanans !! ~Saravanan
is happy having met Dhoni and other cricketers and now traveling with
CSK. The official fan of CSK now, he
reportedly missed only one match, for he got engaged that day !
At a time, when
players would get change their teams in a whiff, with some having represented
so many franchises in IPL thus far, what do you think of the way of life of
Saravanan and others of his ilk ? ~ this
post is more on a driver who too covered himself in yellow paint – not here in
Chennai, but miles away in Russia !!!
A driver was left
coated in yellow dye after his lorry crashed into a truck carrying paint for
use as road markings. MailOnline reports
that the man had been driving the truck along a highway in Russia and was involved in a collision with another truck,
travelling in the same direction on the M-4 Don highway in the Tula region of
the country.
The truck that was
in front had paint as cargo. The force
of the impact of the crash made the paint explode, smashing one of the truck's
windscreens and covering the cab in paint.
Fellow motorists on the motorway in Russia rushed to the aid of the
driver, who only suffered minor injuries.
The crash then caused the truck's paint cargo to explode, covering the
road and the truck in a thick blanket of paint.
Both drivers were
taken to hospital, but luckily neither sustained serious injuries. Footage
taken in the aftermath of the crash was then uploaded to YouTube and showed
debris strewn all over the highway and coated in the thick yellow paint. Traffic
was forced to come to a halt after the collision, which happened on the M-4 Don
highway in the Tula region of Russia.
With regards – S.
Sampathkumar
2nd June 2015.
