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"Upbeat Rock music"
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Summer has arrived, to fight with the heat we seek cold places
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during that time first thing come to our mind is
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Kodaikanal or Ooty, which we visited many times so
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for a change we will visit a different place where we and nature will connect
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and if you think like me this video is for you
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yes, we need a real time adventure to visit this place
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like thrilling jeep ride, you won’t have network connection
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friendly friends and campstay during drizzle
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also you will witness amazing sun rise
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we'll see a beautiful place filled with such things
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just leave your busy things and join me in this beautiful summer vacation
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let's start now!
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"upbeat music"
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so now the current place we're in is suriya nelli
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we'll look about the tea plantation and tea leaves harvesting
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then we'll travel to Kolukkumalai in jeep
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you can use your own vehicle but it’s hard so
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we'll use jeep ride to safely reach camp sight
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this place behind me is the main office of Kolukkumalai
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they will arrange jeep ride and other facilities
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we'll ask them in detail about facilities
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so brother's name is Pandiaraj, he was in touch with me for a long time
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I planned to visit this place and Kolukkumalai for a long time so I enquired him about that
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and asked him about, what are the plan you have?
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we saw many tea plantation things, other than that what are the things you have?
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- our plant is the 2nd highest plant in the world
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- and specifically this one is the only organic one
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- this is 8500 ft high from sea level and to see sunrise from the peak will be nice
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- we have many foreign visitors, we're at TN and Kerala border
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- this has full offroad route, so jeep is the only suitable vehicle
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- car is useless on this path,
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- May is the best time for the visit, you’ll get peace and can do trekking
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I hope I'll have the same feel, - for sure !
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now time is almost 1 in the noon
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so we'll enjoy the hiking with this flow
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let's try the offroading bro?, - yeah sure
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brother's name is Rajan and he is the driver here for 15 years
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you may get shocked to hear about his qualifications, he is a B.com graduate
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he was discontinued, but it’s a big thing here
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their family left their home town and came here since when british started the tea estate
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so we'll travel with brother for the offroad, will you drive us safe? - we'll travel safe and suprebly
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"Pleasant music"
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the place we're going to enter is a private peoperty so
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they asked our details like address and numbers for safety reasons
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so no other issues, we’ll continue our ride because in 1 hour
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it will be raining here as per driver says
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"Pleasant music"
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I understand why they named it as Kolukku malai, it's shaking that much!
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brother says that it's just the teasing
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main things are yet to start but we're already tired
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"Pleasant music"
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wondering why I'm coming from here?
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Jeep driver told me that this place is nice to drop off
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and enjoy the view then we can resume
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I'm surrounded by tea plants only, it looks like can harvest and
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boil them to make tea, it's that much fresh
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and in my opposite there is one tea factory
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many ladies are working there, we saw when we have been there
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this is xtreme off road and he gave the be aware signal also
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so jeep driver is on the top so
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we'll walk between the plants and will get back to the jeep
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oh where is the vehicle ? did they left us ?!
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ladies are working here, we may think it's a easy job from a distance
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but look at the landscape it has many ups and downs
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so working here is a tough task
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if you want man vs wild experience
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come here and you'll get that for sure, brother is following me actually
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I'm decided to walk now
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our camp spot is 3 km from here
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"calm music"
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I feel like I'm travelling to another world
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we reached the camp site almost, when we reached this Kolukkumalai tea estate
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we where covered by mist and it's hard to see any objects from this jeep
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it's like the warm welcome we get here
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"calm music"
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when we reached the camp side it was so much of crowd and
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we can see a view spot called pulipaarai, you can enjoy top view from there and also maggie from this canteen
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people are enjoying that here, there is one oldest tea factory here in whole India
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people are chilling after the tour
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they have this small playground setting for kids
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I got a different feel after a long time
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just now they gave the tea, in 30 seconds
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it got chiilled, I can see the steam but not hot
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the coffee and tea we get here are made from the raw material they produced here
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all are First grade quality
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with light brown colour and excellent taste
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so it's a must try
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- why are you here with a bag?
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I ran from my home, they scolded me that I'm wandering too much!
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so I left my home with my baggage
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I want to stay with you in your tent for 1 month to think about my future
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can you give me shelter ? - for sure!
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"upbeat music"
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bro opened this and showed the view
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let me show you in close
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after that ride, this feel relaxing to sit and enjoy the view
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they gave this mat to prevent small injuries due to rough surfaces
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and sleeping bag, actually now itself is too cold
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I think it will be freezing moving forward and unless I remove my shoes it won’t be an issue
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otherwise my legs will get freezed,
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this place is so neat and 5 people can sleep here
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with average body height and tall people like me will reduce that number to three
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this one is that much spacious and after you
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travelled and spent a night you can get a beautiful view of the sunrise
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I don’t know if I'm lucky as fog will happen here regularly
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it will be foggy on every random 5 minutes here and there, so let’s see
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I hope we will see in the morning
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he took us to the nearby sunset view and
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I witness the sun slowly hiding itself in the mist
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during that evening time I heard songs playing from a village situated in foothill, that’s a unique vibe
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and I mentioned the morning sunrise right?
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he showed the nearby mountain which is the spot to see the sunrise
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that place is like the place showed in a GOD comedy skit of Vadivelu
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did you remember that comedy? - that spot is 7500 ft high
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- that mountain is 8500 ft high and called as Meesa puli malai
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I heard about that place, did people go there?
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- they're not allowed from here, it's from Munar's side
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the height scale increases in the times of 7k..8k..9k...
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I went to the kitchen and enquired master about the dinner
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that time he was busy in chopping onions, tomatoes
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I also took part in the cooking to help him
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"calm music"
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"everyone are welcomed here always"
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"calm music"
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time is 7-8 in the evening and rain is also pouring outside
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I'm so much hungry now
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I came here to ask for the time of the dinner
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he is specially cooking dinner for us
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he is born and brought up here and living here for 55 years
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Right now he is cooking
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chicken and it's boiling there
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I also help in preparing this dish with spices and chicken
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thanks brother, his name is...[UNKNOWN WORD]
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Don’t forget it, if you visit here he will be the one who cooks for you
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after a long day ride, had a filling dinner
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had camp sleep under the stars
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the important thing is the awe looking sunrise here and the peak we're going to is the highest peak here
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it's almost 8000 ft high same as our expectations
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"calm music"
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a beautiful sun rise will happen at early mroning 6.10
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you can't miss the sunrise and sunset here at Kolukkumalai
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the cloud bed will
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enhance the look,
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from campsite we're doing a small hiking for 30-40 minutes
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so a superb view is visible now itself
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the path is slightly dark and wet so we're using this light
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way is also slippery, in very short time it will be beautiful to see as sunrise time is almost here
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so almost 50-70 jeeps will come here with tourists for sunrise
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thank God!, we can see so many jeeps when we left from there
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we're lucky to start earlier than them
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I'm so excited to see sunrise, how about you?
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"Pleasant music"
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you may ask why so much of hype for a sun rise but
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it's a never seen before sunrise and a rare sight to see
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"upbeat music"
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it looks beautiful isn’t it ?
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this sunrise spot is 2km from our camp spot
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Bro said this spot is in border of Kerala and TN
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so I placed my both feet in different territories
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they have this indication of stone carving
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they have this stone called puli paarai
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at 5.30 60-70 jeeps have arrived
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I'm lucky to enjoy this view alone
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after 30 minutes it was covered by mist
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my wish in this trip fullfilled, the one who brought me here is
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this brother only, he took the care of me for the whole time
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actually there was a 30 minutes power cut in night
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during that time he provided backup power to charge our equipments
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I may slept without any knowledge but he woke up us in the time
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if not for him, I would have missed the sunrise as it was so foggy quickly
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Thanks brother, he will take care of you like me
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thank you so much brother
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A beautiful trip with wonderful camp stay
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if you visit Kolukkumalai make sure to visit here and it will be more nice experience than this video
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These people are also amazing, I mentioned the details of the stay in the description
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if you have visited this place already, kindly mention that in the comment section
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and I'll be going a long ride on my Vespa
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I need your support for that, don’t forget to share and watch my videos
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do like and I'll meet you in another video
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till then stay tune guys, I'm your Sailendhiran signing off
