Merry Go Round

Sri MGR Year 97, 30th September, Tuesday

Merry Go Round or Carousel is a amusement ride often witnessed in temple functions and exhibitions in India. The merry-go-round we see in our temple functions were very small in size and can only accommodate children. 

The merry-go-round have cars or rockets designed as seat for the children. In cases of cars we can see the name of famous heroes and heroines of the time. 

Long ago when I was a kid maybe in the year 1980 or 1981 I think, I enjoyed the merry-go-round, the mount is shaped as a car, in my car the name of the Hero and Heroine written was “Kamal - Sridevi”. And other three cars had “Sivaji - Vanishri”, “Rajni - Sripriya” and the last one was “MGR - Latha”.

Recently happened to see one merry-go-round, all the names in the car have changed but not our Puratchi Thalaivar MGR. The other pairs given are Vijay, Ajith and Dhanush. Below is the image I had captured showing the pair for the car is “MGR and Manjula”.

A carousel showing the name of the Hero MGR. His name lives in many formats. Another fact the short form of merry-go-round is MGR.

MGR Temple 2

Sri MGR Year 97, 8th September, Monday

MGR Devotee Kalaivanan had constructed our Puratchi Thalaivar MGR Temple in Naththamedu near Thiruninravur. The temple was consecrated on 15th August 2011.

This year MGR’s mother Sathyabama idol was consecrated in MGR temple. A program was done by Koppiyam and was telecasted in Raj TV recently. They had showed from the start how the temple was built and the background details.

Naththamedu village people had given dedicated support to the temple, Kalaivanan mentions this fact and people of all caste and creed comes to the temple for MGR’s blessings.

  

Below is the link from Raj TV channel. They have disabled certain options in Youtube. Click the link below.

MGR Temple link

You can also download this episode using youtube downloader the size of the file is 139 MB.

Every year MGR devotees take on foot pilgrimage from MGR resting place to Naththamedu MGR temple.

MGR Cars

Sri MGR Year 97, 24th August, Sunday

Vintage car rally in Chennai is organised yearly with parading of old cars which were plying the Chennai roads 60 years back. Much importance were given to the cars used by the then celebrities.

The vintage car rally was flagged off from Don Bosco School, Egmore, today (24.8.2014).

Our beloved Leader Puratchi Thalaivar MGR had used Dodge car in later 50s and early 60s.

 

The image to the left is the Dodge Kingsway 1957 model car used by MGR and to the right is the Ambassador car in late 70s having the registration number TMX 4777 (kept in MGR memorial, the car used by the Chief Minister MGR 1977 – 1987).

The Dodge Kingsway 1957 model image was shared by MGR Devotee Sailesh Basu.

MGR Temple

Sri MGR Year 97, 20th August, Wednesday

MGR Devotee Kalaivannan had constructed a temple for Puratchi Thalaivar MGR in Nathamedu (நத்தமேடு), Thiruninravur. The temple was consecrated on 15th August 2011.

Every year August 15th day was celebrated by MGR devotees by visiting MGR temple. This year is the 4th year of the celebration.

On this special occasion in the MGR temple they have consecrated MGR’s mother idol for worship. The images were shared by MGR Devotee Kalaivannan.

Above images shows MGR Devotee Kalaivannan and his wife Shanthi performing pooja to MGR’s mother Sathyabama idol. And below that image is Sathyabama idol.

Image inside sanctum sanctorum with MGR idols and to the left of the idol is the sofa and foot rest regularly used by our God MGR. 14 types of ritual bathing (abhishekam) was done for MGR idol and free food was given to 500 persons.