I always think the eyes see what they want to see, the ears hear what they want to hear and mouth says what it wants to! 🙂
Many might have heard about the movie “Annapoorani” that was recently pulled off from Netflix. No, I am not going to talk about whether it was good to pull the movie off from Netflix or not! 🙂
Yes, I did see the movie. For anybody who didn’t hear about the movie, it was about a chef named Annapoorani (played by Nayanthara) who was from a pure vegetarian family and how she overcomes many difficulties to become a great chef.
Throughout the entire movie, I only saw my mother. How? My mother was the purest of pure vegetarian too. She cooked with utmost love and the hands of my mother that cooked for us was just divine. She loved to cook and feed the entire family. I have had so many lovely homemade and healthy dishes and I had them everyday continuously for the last 2 years of her life. There is nobody who can cook like her and the love and the emotion that went into making of the simplest of foods cannot be described! 🙂 In some strange way, I felt it was just something that she had to do before she left us.
Since my father and we both children were non-vegetarian, she did her level best to cook non-vegetarian food too. Now, there are many couples who exist like this and it is quite an adjustment in cooking and eating habits living that way. Just like in the movie, it was quite a difficult task for her to adjust with the smell of cooking chicken, mutton and egg. We did do the taste test for her and the salt and spice was perfect all the time. My father used to tell his friends that my mother used to make non-vegetarian dishes and it was “untouched by hand” 🙂
However, she never ever tasted non-vegetarian food or ate it at all. I know that thought would have grossed her out! (no offense to anybody, it is just that many vegetarians might feel that way looking at non-vegetarian food)
Now, looking at the other side of coin…I am a person who never liked to cook! 🙂 Cooking is just a chore for me(at least I have a cook now :)) So, me and my mother were a good match with my mother’s divine…. and my reluctant hands ! 🙂
In the battle of whether the movie had to be banned or not, I could only only see this. For me, my mother will always be my “Annapoorani” and her cooking and her taste will forever be unmatched….