One fine Sunday !!!

Friends,
As you know I work in Hyderabad and my hometown, Nanded is just 6 hours journey from here, I go home quite frequently. Usually I go there every alternate weekend. And this incident happened on my last tour home. I started on the Friday evening from here and reached home at 3 AM. (I don't take that train always). Anyways, I had a good Saturday, spent the whole day at home. Thank God at least Dhanu was there then. It would have been a very boring weekend otherwise. I am not a very homely guy that spends whole day at home! At least for twice/thrice I go out.
And that Saturday, me and Dhanu, while having a Tea, decided to go for a movie next day. As it had been quite long that I didn't watch a movie in theater, I agreed. (After Waseem left Hyderabad, I haven't gone to a theater). And so, we also thought of going for a show that starts at 11:30 AM, so that I get enough time to rest at home after the show.

Sunday morning, out of sheer curiosity, that of a 15 year old boy, we kicked off the bike and went to Shyam Theatre. It was around 11 in the morning. It was to play the movie Kidnap. As we reached there, my dear friend reminded me that there is no cooling system in that theatre. I hate the humidity that occurs in a room, crowded by people with no cooling. I just said NO and started a long way to Ganesh theatre. As we reached that one, nobody except a group of 5-6 people was seen there. As we scanned the posters on the display, understood that some Telugu movie was on the screen at noon. Disappointed, we decided to go to Jyoti Cinema, now a Big Cinema. If you have been to Nanded, you might know that now-a-days renovation work is at its fullest speed in Nanded for a very grand celebration of Sikh community scheduled in this month. So, going from Ganesh to Jyoti, we thought of taking a short-cut road. To my horror, the road we took was closed for the ongoing fly-over construction and still as Dhanu guided, we took my small-sized 100cc Suzuki across the Rail track!!! while crossing the track, my bike started making furious sounds and I doubted that the Petrol in the bike is over. Luckily, after crossing the track and finding way through the crowd (which also had taken the short-cut way across the rail-track) for around 200 meters, we got ourselves on to the main road. Hussshhh.. was the only expression on our faces. All through this funny, furious travel, we reached the Jyoti cinema... The funniest part of the journey was we reached a theatre closest to our houses after travelling across almost half of the city.
This Jyoti theatre is now arguably the best in the city. It was 12 in the noon and we found two movies to be played at 12:30. We selected Drona over a Marathi movie since Drona has a better star-cast than the Marathi movie! We bought the tickets of Drona and to kill time we had a tea in the resto next to the theatre.
And when the movie started, to my horror, it was so boring.. that I felt sleepy in just half an hour.. So stupid concept in this age! We both could not bear that out of the world stupidity and in the interval, after spending 100 bugs on the popcorn and cold-drink.. we went back in when the show resumed, only to decide that we would not see it to the climax. Dhanu suggested that we shall go to Kidnap!
So at 2 PM, we, again took the Morcha to Shyam theatre.. To the boredom we faced already, my bike added another fun :). The clutch wire broke down when we were about to reach the Theatre. I tried to run the bike on the third gear (that’s when the clutch wire broke) as long as possible, desperate to reach the theatre, but in vain!! Result, we had to push the bike for 10 minutes up to theatre..
My patience was well tested that day. We bought the tickets and entered the movie. Horribly hot and humid conditions in the hall. I think the owner of the theatre must be one of the most cold-blooded animal on this planet. I have seen a number of movies in that theatre in the college days (like Saajan chale sasural, Khamoshi, and the one more boring flick, Mela!!!). And the setup of that theatre is not a single bit changed even today in around 10-15 years. The most const thing I have ever seen!!! By the time the movie was finished, all my clothes were wet!! My body was sweating as if I have had two Crocins at once.
After coming out of the theatre, to our luck, we found a mechanic near the theatre. (Needless to say, we had to push the bike to the mechanic!!).
This was how my wonderful weekend plan of movie ended at around 6 PM, with having seen one and a half films!!! And then and there itself, I decided not go for a movie in my dear motherland. Not at least in Shyam!!