Balegara chennaiah

Those who are familiar with kannada & kannada old songs would have definitely heard "Balegaara Chennaiah baagiLige bandihenu" atleast once. This song has featured even in Mysore Mallige, a famous kannada Movie. It is one of the song very close to my heart.

Balegaara in simple terms is a Bangle seller. He comes with loads of bangles covered in clothes & roams around the street. Who ever stops him, would pay him the money & get the bangles from him. Bangle seller would put bangles to ladies' hands & walk to the next house/street...

Last weekend since my daugther was not well, I had taken her to doctor accompanied by my niece along with my dearest mom & my sister was driving us to doctor. After meeting the doctor, when we were heading back home, we saw Balegaara Chennaiah (yes, even Now!!!!!)...Well, I don't know if he was chennaiah or not, but the 1st name that occurs to any one who has heard this song & see balegaara is by default, balegaara chennaiah. So it really slipped my mind to even ask him name. I am really hoping his name is Chennaiah :)

Well, we saw him on the way in the car & immediately both me & sister said Balegaara chennaiah instantaneously... Immediately we decided to buy the bangles from him. While we were making this decision, we saw that the balegaara had walked away quite a distance. So we decided to chase him. My sister asked my niece if she wanted any bangles from him. She was not very keen on it. Inspite of that we decided to go ahead & get bangles from him, though we never wear bangles :) It was the reflex action that made us chase him. Well, after some try we managed to get hold of our Balegara. First we asked my niece to have the pleasure of having the bangles. She chose to have pink bangles & then it was my sisters turn to wear the bangles. After a quick thinking she decided to go for the blue bangles, so that it matches the recent saree that she bought. Both my little darling Niece & my sister got 2 dozen each (1 dozen for 1 hand).. I only decided to get 1/2 dozen, as I know it hurts my daugther when I carry her. I hardly have worn bangle all my life & I know it would g waste. But Balegaara said MUTAYDHE (one who is married) should never say NO to bangles. When he said that I decided to get only 1/2 dozen bangle... That way, I neither waste the bangles nor NOT SAY NO to bangles.

What we did was something different & definitely a good feeling. On the way back home, our mind was pondering about good old days Balegaara Chennaiah :)