On a lazy sunday...

Woke up on a lazy sunday morning. The clock struck 10am. 1/4th of my day was over without even doing anything. After performing all the early morning rites, I finally settled down on my sofa only to find out that there was no electricity and my house was running on an inverter. What a way to start. Me and my wife had plans to watch a movie on saturday, but my lazy self refused to move out of the house and so today I had to make efforts to get out of the house and entertain the wife. So we had breakfast, got ready and were ready to go out by 1pm.

While in the car, I realised that I had forgotten to check the movie schedules and had no idea whether there would be a show running. Ofcourse I never thought about the tickets as I firmly believe that when you want to see a movie with all your heart, the whole universe stands behind you to ensure that you succeed in doing so. This is a line I have been using for quite some time, but later I learnt that it has been used in a contorted fashion in one of Shahrukh khan's movies. No issues, I have used his dialogues many times too. Anyway, we reached the multiplex and I told my wife to go check if tickets are available, I will be waiting outside and wont park the car if we dont get the tickets. So I parked in front of a mechanics workshop while she went to check. Poor mechanic kept hoping there was something wrong with my car and kept looking eagerly in my direction. I could sense that, but I kept looking straight. Then I got a call. No, it wasn't the call from GOD like it happens in the movie 'Hello', but it was from my wife. She told me that for the movie 'Fashion', only the first row tockets were available, so should she take them. I'm the sort of person who can watch a movie standing if the need arises, so I told her in a most reluctant tone, that if thats all thats available, lets take it, no point going back home after coming so far. Since she had managed to get the tickets, I decided to go and park the car in the multiplex parking lot. They charged me a whopping 40 bucks, thats daylight robbery. Anyway, after parking the car, I came out and my wife told me that she had managed to get front row tickets to 'Golmaal Returns'. I couldnt believe the horror. Why 'Golmaal Returns'?? and that too front row seats? She said she got confused at the ticket window as people all around her were murmuring 'Golmaal Returns' and 'Fashion' and when the person at the counter asked her, she blurted out "Two tickets for Golmaal Returns please". Damn, I was hoping to see 'Fashion' and here I was standing with 2 tickets of 'Golmaal Returns'. I was hoping none of my friends saw me watching that movie. But I consoled myself thinking that since they were front row tickets, the hall is full, so the movie must be good. At the back of my mind, I knew the movie is crap from all the reviews I had read last week. But what about 'Fashion'? I convinced my wife that we should watch that as well and so she got back into line and bought 2 tickets for the 6:15 show. Now I was happy, we were finally on the way to doing something useful today.


We had about 45 mins before the show started. We decided to do what most people do to kill time. We walked into the mall next to the multiplex. There is a big Odyssey book store inside. We walked around in the store for 15-20 mins and then came out after buying cello tape :) Thats right, cello tape, the thin strip of sticky plastic that is used when wrapping fancy paper on gifts. I would say it was a good buy. Next is what? Here I am not referring to the samsung ad by aamir khan, but it was a self answering question which meant, what do we do for lunch? The unanimous vote was that we have one vada pav at the roadside tapri on the other side of the mall. The food there is better than the one we get inside the mall, and cheaper too. After eating we headed straight for Hall No. 5, the biggest one among the 5 screens. There was a huge crowd waiting to get in. I was just hoping the movie was half as good as I didnt want a headache before the start of the next movie. Clock struck 2:30, the gates to heaven opened and we walked in. There was no problem in finding the seats as we had the best seats of all, front row seats.


Movie started with a song. I would have sung it if there was some way to add voice to the blog, but for now please excuse me. There was one gag after another and thats all there was in the movie. I was just waiting to understand the plot or the basic premise of the movie, sadly I failed. But I must admit, there was some laughing moments and to tell the truth (I know its hard to digest), I didnt get bored. It was an average movie. I had not liked the first 'Golmaal' and I kept wondering why did this 'Golmaal Return'. Movie ended, we got out and had masala dosas for lunch. Still 40 mins to kill, so what do we do? We walk into the mall next door again. My wife is tempted to go inside the stores, but I hold her back and convince her to window shop instead. Those of you who are married, will agree with me that this is not an easy thing to do. After a short while we were back in the multiplex waiting for the gates of hall No. 3 to open. I was hoping someone wasnt keeping tabs on me. They would have found me suspicious, after all who in his sane mind watches 'Golmaal Return' and then actually returns to watch another movie. But I am a patient man. We took our seats, this time in the 7th row. This was a 3 hour movie, but I didnt mind as it was supposed to be good. The movie turned out to be good and it was paisa vasool as I would term it in my bambaiya hindi. It was 9:15pm when we came out of the multiplex.

The grand finale of the evening was still left. What about dinner? we looked at each other. We had to decide between chinese and pizza and so we decided to have a sizzler instead. Walked into Kobe Sizzlers and ordered the sizzling chicken with pepper sauce. Service was not that great and so after eating we left without tipping the sad looking waiter. Maybe he had seen 'Golmaal Returns' earlier in the day. After a 15 min drive we reached home, ready to crash into bed. It was going to be a monday morning the next day and I would actually have to go to office, and work too. I would much rather watch 'Karzzz'. Zzzzzzzzz