North of a Southern City called Chennai...

I am not a fan of this part of chennai – until yesterday. We were in Central and we had to kill time after Satz had left for BLR. With our Band Of Brothers broken all of a sudden, a quite walk along the beach was more than welcome to Me n Bala. With Govi leading the way, we headed into the north Chennai – where I had gone only once in my entire life – a year back – when Me Tyaga and Satz decided to drive down till Pulicat Lake on a boring Saturday afternoon. And we hated the place even when we crossed the dirty uneven rally type roads into the Highway for Andhra. With the harbor around the smell was so irritating!!!

And I was back again in the same road after a year this time with Bala n Govi. After losing the right way and a bit of asking around we finally parked our bikes behind the ship building yards in the Fishing Harbor, Ennore. The walk along the embankment was nothing more than ordinary. It was still bright, windy and I was looking for something different in the place. When we reached the end of the road into the sea… we stood there facing the opposite end of the embankment making an artificial harbor.

Apparently that was the spot where the famous PROPOSAL – DISCUSSION scene of the movie Khaaka Khaaka happened. But we 3 were alone – no Maya n No Anbuselvan either. When I was beginning to wonder what is this place is famous about… the mood began to set in…


The sun was going down leaving out golden streaks spreading everywhere. The Shipyard looked smashing!!! The ship – marked – OCEAN RESEARCH VEHICLE (Never knew such things existed in India!!!) slowly crossed us from the harbor and disappeared into the Bay of Bengal. An evening spent admiring the nature in this part of Chennai!!! I had never seen such a beautiful evening sky anywhere else. The trip was worth it!!!

The Ocean research vehicle