Sunday, August 12, 2007

One evening at the multiplex…

When three guys, tired of their regular grind at a b-school, feel like a break, this is what they do..

Bala, muni and I go out for a movie coz it’s a Tuesday and more importantly, we’re all free together. Tuesdays are special here, coz Hutch gives an offer to all its sincere customers, whereby you can get one free ticket with the purchase of one silver class ticket at Fame Adlabs, one of the most expensive multiplexes here. Getting a ticket for half price there is almost the same as buying a regular ticket anywhere else. But since we’ve never been there before and because Hutch has decided to honour our loyalty to them, we decided to make use of the offer and go for a movie.

So we land up at Fame and we see 2 lines. One with 3-4 people and the other snaking its way almost to the vehicle entrance of the multiplex. We ask the guard and he tells us that the really long line is the one for Hutch customers. Guess there are a lot of smart people like us here who are loyal customers to Hutch. Anyway, we stand in the line and that’s when we notice a board that says, on Tuesdays Hutch gives its one plus one offer and on all other days, Fame give a buy 2 and get 1 free offer. Since we were anyway 3 in number, it would have worked out to the same thing. The whole Tuesday plan seemed quite foolish all of a sudden.

Anyway, we continued to stand in the line and we were just trying to figure out what movie to watch. After a lot of haranguing, we came down to a movie and that seemed to be the only one worth watching there. But it was due to start in 5 minutes.

The extremely long Hutch line took such a long time, that by the time we reached the counter, we were over 20 minutes late into the movie. Suddenly, all 3 of us lost interest in watching the movie. We were anyway late, and we could get the same deal on any other day even without being loyal Hutch customers.

But since we had anyway stood in the line for such a long time, we decided to make the most of it and on reaching the counter, with an absolutely straight face I ask the usher, ‘can I have 3 tickets to the da vinci code please?’ usher is totally confused. He checks his system and says that movie isn’t running. Bala tells him that the posters are put up outside. Usher gets confused and confers with another fellow usher. Both of them are totally confused now. Bala and I continue to insisnt on da vinci code tickets only, as we are extremely loyal Hutch customers and also spent the last half an hour standing in the queue. Usher is trying his best to convince us that the movie isn’t running, and finally when people behind us realized what we were upto and started yelling at us, we decided to call in quits and left the place.

Man, what a good laugh we had. And since we saved 200 bucks by not getting the discounted ticket at Fame, we decided to put the money to good use and went to an Italian restaurant very originally called Little Italy. But the place was awesome not because they had Cobra beers or good food or even a live band performing, but because there were real live Italians sitting on the table next to us looking as beautiful as a European could possibly look. 4 super pretty girls and one negligible guy. All 3 of us with 3 Cobras down just couldn’t take our eyes off of them.

Finally, when we realized we cant possibly spend any more cash there and that we has really overstayed our welcome, we decided to leave and go to our good old friendly neighbourhood multiplex called Fun Republic and watched a fun movie called Woh Lamhe and the recent convert to Hindi movies, bala, decided to convert back after watching that movie coz he’s never ever gonna go for another hindi film after this!
But overall, good, unadulterated fun at Bombay..

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