Statutory of Mynahs - ஒரு மைனா மைனா குருவி மனசார பாடுது

It is a standard template in tinseldom – Hero portrayed as poor, protector of poor but is actually is a rich man !  

In 1990s  Rajnikant was seen as a saviour who would jump into politics  and protect the State – some even say that he had a great chance in 1996 – but his formula has been simple, create hype, act, make money, chase more money.  In this movie, Rajni is a collie in a factory – a hard worker ! – he is masquadered by villains to act in the place of a foreign returned rich peron.  Rajini acts but wants to run away knowing the truth – later he discovers that he is the actual heir to the vast property !! his father had been killed by those 3 brothers – and .. ..  he avenges ! – then he says he is happy living as a coolie and foregoes all wealth !!

 

Not any post on Cinema but a song from that movie that is the subject matter of this post – the Mynah bird – have never seen so many of them flying together !! 

Away from the concrete jungles of madness, the spring, the dawn chorus sounds different. In the dark hours before sunrise, little birds  whistles, chips, hoots, and trills with deafening birdsongs.  We know and can identify Vultures, Crows, Pigeons, Parrots, Mynahs, Woodpeckers, Kingfishers, Cranes and the like -  boisterous and energetic than in past years, all singing raucously at the same time, like a poetry slam where everyone’s reading at once. Birds fly, fish swim – the  age at which birds fledge, or begin to fly, varies widely from species to species. Without knowing species, it is impossible to say how long it will take a bird to fly after hatching. Within species, the capability generally develops within a short window common to all young.   

In 1760 the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson included a description of the common myna in his Ornithology based on a specimen that he mistakenly believed had been collected in the Philippines. He used the French name Le merle des Philippines and the Latin Merula Philippensis.  Although Brisson coined Latin names, these do not conform to the binominal system and are not recognised by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature.  When in 1766 the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus updated his Systema Naturae for the twelfth edition, he added 240 species that had been previously described by Brisson.  One of these was the common mynah.  

The myna  is a bird of the starling family (Sturnidae). This is a group of passerine birds which are native to southern Asia, especially India, Pakistan & Bangladesh. They have been introduced into many countries and in Australia,  the common myna which is  regarded as an invasive species.   An omnivorous open woodland bird with a strong territorial instinct, the myna has adapted extremely well to urban environments. The range of the common myna is increasing at such a rapid rate that in 2000 the IUCN Species Survival Commission declared it one of the world's most invasive species.  

Common mynas are believed to pair for life. They breed through much of the year depending on the location, building their nest in a hole in a tree or wall. They breed from sea-level to 3000 m in the Himalayas.  

ஒரு மைனா மைனா குருவி மனசார பாடுது

மாயங்கள் காட்டுது ஹூய் ஹூய்

அது நைசா நைசா தழுவி நதி போல

ஆடுது ஜோடியை கூடுது ஹூய் ஹூய்

மெல்ல காதலிக்க எங்கெங்கோ சுற்றி தான் வந்த மான்கள்

மன்னன் பூங்குளத்தில் ஒன்றல்ல ரெண்டல்ல வண்ண மீன்கள்  

இசைஞானி இளையராஜாவின் இன்னிசையில் மனோ, சித்ரா குரல்களில் - 1993ல் பி. வாசு இயக்கத்தில் - ரஜனிகாந்த் ரோஜா நடித்த படம் 'உழைப்பாளி'.  விநியோகஸ்தர்கள் சங்கம் ரஜினியின் திரைப்படங்களை வெளியிட தடை விதித்ததால் விநியோகஸ்தர்கள் யாருமே இந்த படத்தை வாங்க முன்வரவில்லை. எனவே படத்தை வெளியிடுவதில் சிக்கல் ஏற்பட்டது.

 

Read somewhere that the group of mynahs, the collective noun of Myna birds is : Bazaar, fragrane, local and .. .. statutory of Mynahs.
 
Interesting !
 
With regards – S Sampathkumar
17.2.2024