Honeymoon Travels Inc.

I rarely watch movies in a Hall. It's expensive to start with, and most movies are available on the internet soon after they release. In fact English movies are available long before they release! Add my short concentration span to that, and watching movies in a Hall is a really bad idea. Off late though, I thought maybe I should give it a shot. So, week before last, I met up with college buddies to see Eklavya. I did realize that it was not a good idea to watch a movie before Nikhat Kazmi or likes had a go at it. I agree they can be biased, but they are mostly right. So, I really enjoyed the Pizza that night. Only the Pizza, and maybe even my little nap inside the hall, a first btw.

Last week I got a call from a colleague, asking if I would join a bunch of guys from office to watch 'Honeymoon Travels Inc.' Frankly, the most interesting thing that happened during the movie was 'the spill'. Gauri, a tall lanky geek from office, who is possibly the only one alive capable of 'Digitally Signing' PDF documents manually, using only Vim and his head, came back after the intermission with a tray full of snacks and drinks. While he was trying to tiptoe past me, I offered to help him a little by picking up one of the glasses. (I'm not a 'bhukkad'; if you've seen Gauri, you will also impulsively want to relieve him of all his burdens, maybe even his watch..) Now, this selfless action of mine was probably interpreted as sheer greediness by the specters of PVR Spice, because they came and tipped the glass a bit too much, and before I knew it, I was sitting in a puddle of Pepsi! I had trouble even getting up! I did manage to stand up, tilt the seat and drain the puddle, but the seat was still wet, and so was I, and sticky!

We were so disgusted with the movie, that we started whistling, and laughing hysterically at the sad jokes. Then, a long sticky walk back to office, another hour of trying to dry off in office, and finally back home at 2.

Today, I was flipping through channels at home, and I saw an advt. of Honeymoon Travels. I don't know why I stopped flipping, but I did, only to see a flash at the end of the advt. "Running Successfully All Over". My Foot! The fact that I had to sit through half the movie in wet sticky trousers takes noting away from its rotten quality. Absurd!