Cliched dialogues, sleazy jokes, weird choreography, despicable action scenes, the same ol story and yet.. it was all worth it! Now before you go ahead and label my taste and this post as a movie review I'd like to tell you a little story...
It was the fall of 2002. Only a few months to the board exams, which meant end of high school! Like most, we were boys raging to become MEN. And that's when we decided to take our first step into manhood.. well not exactly.. 'We watched an 'A' rated film'!( pffft! i know...)
The Indian remake of The Reservoir Dogs was showing at cinemas that winter and it became a unanimous choice.(Still clueless.. why the hell was it rated 'A'!). The fellow who was supposed to get those tickets turned out to be a cheapskate. He let the balcony seats pass and got us tickets to the 'STALL' in the bargain saving us 10 freaking bucks per head. Some deal, huh?! But hey! I'm not complaining... if he had not done what he did, i wouldn't have been blogging this!
The STALL: It came into existence a few thousand years ago in the Ancient Greek theaters. The 'Stall' was a medium to separate the Masses from the Classes. Back in 90's and early y2k it had become a bit of a nightmare for the niche movie goer. The place smelled weired, the chairs were rickety, the audience - Shady, and by the end of it all, you were sure to get a stiff neck if you know what i mean...
As we walked into that wretched place,there were a few glances at first.. but the attention soon moved to the skimpily clad women on the screen as the movie began. Of us six stooges who were supposed to enter this mayhem one wiseguy decided to give the movie a pass. Lucky B*$t#rd! I thought... My cheap buddy here who got us the tickets showed his supremely elegent talent once again and managed to sell the extra ticket to an old timer who was now sitting besides me...
Generaly.. I don't freak out around old people and i was pretty cool till the old timer got all worked up about a joke where the hero walks up to the sidekick, places a freakin dynamite on his head and says "Bata.. agar tere sar pe bomb rakha to pehle kya phatega!?"
Lewd whistling and sarcastic comments were the order of the day. I'm not sure who i felt more pity for.. my cheapskate pal who i thought would enjoy it the most but had a splitting headache by half time or the chap sitting on the left of the freak old timer, who had brought his entire family for a pleasant movie outing... yes! his entire family...
We din't come out of that theater disappointed that day.. Some of us were smiling at the end of it, some of us were not. But one thing was sure.. We were never gonna experience anything like that ever again.
Until last week..
We were in a stall of sorts, but the chairs weren't rickety, neither was the air weired, the audience seemed descent.. but still, somehow it brought back all those memories. This time however we were one with the level of the entertainment being dished out... :P
Couldn't be just the movie... I think it's the people who you watch it with that makes the difference..
Yes! They were the same set of individuals who once walked into that god forsaken theater 8 years back. Though not all of them.. but all that mattered. As they say "You're only as good as the people once around you".
Thanks ya'll for making this movie a degrading, low down and cheap scale entertaining experience!
P.S Anybody out here up for DeshDrohi 2? when does it hit the screens?! ;)
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