உனக்கு மட்டும் உனக்கு மட்டும் ரகசியம் சொல்வேன் ~ Sabrina !!

Secrets are best passed on by women by shouting !   ~  parakeets at my terrace !

 

உனக்கு மட்டும் உனக்கு மட்டும் ரகசியம் சொல்வேன்

அந்த ரகசியத்தை ஒருவருக்கும் சொல்லி விடாதே.

எனக்கு மட்டும் எனக்கு மட்டும் சொந்தம் அல்லவா?

எங்கள் இருவருக்கும் இயற்கை தந்த பந்தம் அல்லவா?

 

 ஒரு இளம்பெண் ஒரு பொம்மையிடம் தன் மனதில் உள்ள காதலை வெளிப்படுத்தும் பாடல் இது.. 

Sabrina Fairchild is the young daughter of the Larrabee family's chauffeur, Thomas Fairchild, and has been in love with David Larrabee all her life. David, a three-times-married, non-working playboy, has never paid romantic attention to Sabrina. Since she has lived for years on the Larrabee estate in Long Island with her father, to David she is still a child.  Eavesdropping on a party at the mansion the night before she is to leave to attend the Le Cordon Bleu cooking school in Paris, Sabrina watches, follows, and listens as David entices yet another woman into a dark and vacant indoor tennis court. Distraught, she leaves her father a suicide note and then starts all eight cars in the closed garage in order to kill herself. She is passing out from the fumes when Linus, David's older brother, opens the door, discovers her and carries her back to her quarters above the garage when she does pass out.  

                   The film opens with voice-over narration, spoken by Audrey Hepburn as her character, “Sabrina.” According to a Mar 1953 DV news item, Paramount paid $75,000 for the rights to Samuel Taylor’s play, prior to its first production.  The film opened in New York and Los Angeles in Sept 1954  and was number one at the US box office for two weeks.  Bosley Crowther, writing for The New York Times on its original release, lauded the film, thinking it, "in our wistful estimation, the most delightful comedy-romance in years". Crowther also offered praise to Audrey Hepburn's performance, declaring "she is wonderful in it — a young lady of extraordinary range of sensitive and moving expressions within such a frail and slender frame"   

In this photo – the tongue of a Parrot is visible !  Parrots use their tongue to carefully select, hold, and manipulate food items, including seeds, nuts, and fruits, allowing them to remove outer shells and access the insides.  Parrots possess a highly dexterous, fleshy tongue, often described as a "second hand," that plays a crucial role in their feeding, vocalization, and even social interactions. This remarkable tongue structure, which may include a small bone for added strength and flexibility, allows them to manipulate food, explore their environment, and mimic human speech.  

The song at the start is from ‘Mana Panthal’ – sung by P Susheela, lyrics of Kaviyarasu Kannadhasan, music of Viswanathan Ramamoorthy.   This  Tamil-language romance film, directed by V. N. Reddy, produced by T. R. Ramanna and written by Thuraiyur K. Moorthy, was released in 1961 starring -  S. S. Rajendran, S. A. Ashokan, B. Saroja Devi and E. V. Saroja and others.  The film was simultaneously made in Telugu as Intiki Deepam Illale; both versions are based on the American film Sabrina (1954; based on Samuel A. Taylor's 1953 play Sabrina Fair).

 

Sabrina (Sabrina Fair/La Vie en Rose in the United Kingdom) is a 1954 American romantic comedy-drama film produced and directed by Billy Wilder, from a screenplay he co-wrote with Samuel Taylor and Ernest Lehman, based on Taylor's 1953 play Sabrina Fair.  The movie starred  Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn, and William Holden. This was Wilder's last film released by Paramount Pictures, ending a 12-year business relationship between him and the company. In 2002, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". 

Interesting !
 
Regards – S Sampathkumar
14.6.2025