Gubera! 💓

 

Gubera! 💓

 

‘Ulagathin Thalai Sirandha Sol, Seyal,’ said Sivakarthikeyan, before the word ‘‘Intermission’’ came up on the screen. Once it came on the screen, Abishek and I knew, that our friend was going to take the Vishwaroopam of, an accountant. He collected the money we both had, and started to do some calculations. He didn’t have one percent of guilt, of holding on a person (Me!) who has the urgency of using the restroom, since the 47th minute of the film. He cooly counted the cash, looked at all the brouchures, and asked me to choose and all. I would've happily chosen restroom, over Panneer Tikka Roll. He saw me doing that Naagini dance and decided to use the restroom first. Yeahhh! I won!

How peaceful it was! But, no, it didn't end well. These boys called me out, and I came out with a terror on my face. They took a candid of me, like Ajithkumar opening his Jeep door, but here, instead of a Jeep door, there was the restroom door. This all happened in 2017, and am sure he changed at least three phones since then. But still, he keeps my photo safe and secure, than Google.

Our hero. En Thalaivan! 

Gubera, Gubera Prabu. Yes, no, not James Bond and all. He’s like a Fevibond, people will easily stick with him. For his character and humor sense! He's that soft and good man. I have him with me, since LKG. We’re thick since then.

All jokes apart, he’s the finest person I’ve seen. Many times, I have felt lucky having him as my friend. Looks like an overdose knows, Its fine but. Being an ardent fan of Kamal Hassan, he’s also a great performer. A Tiktoker. No not the cringe type. While I was happy that ‘cringe videos’ in TikTok are no more, I took a moment to feel for the loss of his talent’s showcase. But whatever happens, he will get an opportunity somewhere someday!

Starting to aspire the profession of a dance master, he trained himself for it. He used to admire the fast steps of Prabhu Deva and would groove like him. Yeah, I was jealous of him, because, pretty back from 2012’s, he’s been doing well in dance. I had no talent then, and now. I got to know he is training, through his parents only! Wait, did I tell you about them?

Sometime between 2011 and 2012, I visited his home for the first time. For our parents, it was a stupid 3rd standard peoples’ meet. For us, it was like a never-dreamt-dream come true! It was the first time I was visiting a friend’s home. Excitement overloaded, I sprang out and Hugged Gubera! My parents ensured that I was in their safe hands, and left. I was like, wow, no one to stop us! We were already in cloud nine!

After MGR, he's the only person applying lipstick!

We were allocated a room with a potato PC and window AC! What a rhyming la! Anyway, back to the topic, we played Vice City. As we were provided with the privacy we haven’t expected, it went fun. So, as per rules, I criticized Gubera as much as I could, in front of his parents! I made up my own diet rules all of a sudden, just to hear his mother say that he doesn’t have any control over food. (I feel ashamed today, as I look like STR and he looks like Harish Kalyan. So body shaming is wrong!)

The period when he was STR and I was... No, I'm not telling it.

From there, we started to find reasons to meet over often. We did projects together and rehearsed for dramas. We once met to make a model of Kundrathur Murugan Kovil, and we managed was to pile up, uneven sheets of thermocol, and staple them together. His amma paid and bought a model for our project! We organised a film going together with friends. We had immense fun. He started to call me out for movies. The core gang would be me, Gubera and Abishek. And, fun fact. Even a cow and calf can be seperated, but seperating Abishek and Gubera is like a mission impossible. Even Tom Cruise will struggle for sure.

These all around 2-3 years ago! People change know! Yes, people change. I don't have contact with most of my old friends. But, Gubera and family don’t come under that ‘people’ then. They’re family for me. Family don't forget and leave you, know? After years, I visited their house, to see Gubera and his family having the same love for me!

He changed his school went away for years and came back. But the year he was back, I left school. Sounds tragic, right. Yes, but that’s what happened! We haven’t been in the same school for some years, but we still managed to keep our friendship up. But still, sometimes, I keep thinking about our past. I hope he would never forget me after he becomes a great person. He'll become a good doctor one day. Yeah, I can hear you. No, he isn't going to perform or dance in operation theatre. He's preparing for NEET. He also does stupid things at times, like aspiring to become a dancer but choosing Pure Science, but that doesn’t make him stupid on the whole.

What raa! I'm saying he’s my friend and my lifeline, and all! Isn’t he allowed to reserve some stupidity for him? ❤