Tunes from childhood

Standing outside the ESM building, i was chatting with Balaji ji . His phone started ringing. It was some familiar tune but i could'nt really place it. I did'nt give it much thought. He said,"You know this tune?". It was the theme of Hercule poirot serial which used to come long time back. A faint glimmer of recognition passed through my mind. Balaji has loads of such long forgotten things. Street hawk theme music. And, slowly we drifted into one discussion after another about the long forgotten serials. Long forgotten for me. Balaji remembered them vividly. Street Hawk. I used to love it. Cool bike with loads of weapons. The car-bike chase sequence. The countdown before he touches the 300 mph limit. Neat. Then came Giant Robot. i did'nt know/remember it being a jap comic; i used to go for tuition at around that time. My bro and I used to go late just because we could'nt afford to miss it. Surprisingly, i remember the ending still. Giant Robot going and hitting the asteroid with the bad guy.

Then, we talked about the great indian mythologies. Mahabharata was the best. Ramayana was good. I used to love the battle scenes. Now, some of them look funny.When i went to India, last december, i had a chance to catch up on some ramayana. The way the send their arrows up in the air and wait there standing tapping their left foot, the surprised look when one of your arrows disappears and the back ground music (Balaji did a hilarious imitation of this). Then, there was this ridiculous serial called Shri Krishna. The krishna in B.R.Chopra's was so good, it made other krishna's look like idiots. You remember the other serial Sri Krishna? remember how pathetic that krishna looked. And, then there was chandrakanta, mid way they realised that the serial had nothing to do with chandrakantha or her story. And a bunch of others.