Nightout at Lokhandwala
me : Hey Reddy, can you quickly complete that review in another 30 minutes ? I need to check-in the changes before i leave today
me : Pat, did you create the investigation report and upload it ?
Pat : yeah ... done .. I have started working on the new bug already
me : Good .. Raj, how far have you reached ?
tring tring .. tring tring ..
Raj : I think we need to [ tring tring ] change the implementation ...
tring tring ...
me : just hold on .. will take this call .. hi Niv .. how are u ? ... what ?? today ?? night show ?? dude ... its already 7pm !!! how will we get the tickets !!! ... its friday night !!! i have got to finish off so many things .. btw .. which movie ?? haha ... yeah, how does it matter !! .. 10 pm show ?? hmmm ... let me think for sometime ... no no .. wait ... count me in ... :) .. ok .. will start by 9 from here...
Thats how the plan for the night out originated. When I reached the theater, I found out that the other 2 of my friends who had pulled me in for the movie, were actually celebrating their temporary freedom from their wives who were out of town :D One of them was hell bent on seeing "Lokhandwala", and the other 2 of us were ready to just watch any movie. Since it was a friday night, It was impossible to even expect a ticket. The only hope was that it was the night when "Sivaji" got released !!! .. we were hoping that people would be too interested in Sivaji and we can get the tickets for other movies. But, I guess, almost all who came there had the same thoughts :p This got confirmed when no tickets were available for all the movies at the ticket counter. We decided to fall back on plan B. Just go out and eat at the food court. Surprisingly, the service was fast, and we finished eating in about 40 minutes. We gave the movie a final last shot and to our luck, with only few minutes left for the movie to start, we got the tickets for "Lokhandwala" !!!
We were hurrying to enter the movie hall, when our eyes chanced upon a known face. But, it was the height that puzzled us. Was he the one whom we were thinking he was ?? The hair style matched the posters we had seen him in, but definately not the height !!! After a good stare we realised that it really was our own "Uppi" , a Kannada movie actor better known as "Upendra" !!! Boy, what wonders can camera tricks do !!! When i saw him in his world class movie "A", he looked like he was atleast 6 feet tall. But only after seeing him in person, we found out that he was just about 5'6" in height.
We entered the movie hall talking about Uppi and were surprised to see that the movie was just about starting. We felt bad on missing the "comically" made so very funny commercial ads :D .. Given the backdrop of events based on which the movie is made, it was terribly sad to see the way it was made. The main shootout that happens covers only about 15 minutes of footage in the almost 100 minutes of the movie span, that too after adding the emotional drama of gangsters calling up home confessing their mistakes !!! now, how real is that ??
The movie definately tries to glorify the police and it does it in a good way, but could have taken some "inspiration" from Die Hard kinda movies and concentrated more on the planning aspects of the shootout itself. It was funny how Sanjay Dutt disposes off the bullet proof jacket as an unnecessary garment when the whole police force of about 100 officers is all wearing it religiously. The gory scenes make the movie a bit more harsh. And I have no idea why a movie based on such a serious event should have songs !!! Are the publishers so paranoid that the movie wont sell without songs ? They should be really paranoid now with the utter failure of the songs themselves .. they neither fit into the story, nor do they avoid people from leaving the movie halls for a quick smoke.
Well, after the movie, we ventured out back home on empty lanes filled with pockets of ever vigilant dogs who thankfully stayed away from showing their skills at running along our bikes. It had been years since I reached back home at 2am !!! Just the thought of entering home at that time, drove me down the memory lane .. to the good old college days of living life as if there was nothing like a "watch" ever invented .....
me : Pat, did you create the investigation report and upload it ?
Pat : yeah ... done .. I have started working on the new bug already
me : Good .. Raj, how far have you reached ?
tring tring .. tring tring ..
Raj : I think we need to [ tring tring ] change the implementation ...
tring tring ...
me : just hold on .. will take this call .. hi Niv .. how are u ? ... what ?? today ?? night show ?? dude ... its already 7pm !!! how will we get the tickets !!! ... its friday night !!! i have got to finish off so many things .. btw .. which movie ?? haha ... yeah, how does it matter !! .. 10 pm show ?? hmmm ... let me think for sometime ... no no .. wait ... count me in ... :) .. ok .. will start by 9 from here...
Thats how the plan for the night out originated. When I reached the theater, I found out that the other 2 of my friends who had pulled me in for the movie, were actually celebrating their temporary freedom from their wives who were out of town :D One of them was hell bent on seeing "Lokhandwala", and the other 2 of us were ready to just watch any movie. Since it was a friday night, It was impossible to even expect a ticket. The only hope was that it was the night when "Sivaji" got released !!! .. we were hoping that people would be too interested in Sivaji and we can get the tickets for other movies. But, I guess, almost all who came there had the same thoughts :p This got confirmed when no tickets were available for all the movies at the ticket counter. We decided to fall back on plan B. Just go out and eat at the food court. Surprisingly, the service was fast, and we finished eating in about 40 minutes. We gave the movie a final last shot and to our luck, with only few minutes left for the movie to start, we got the tickets for "Lokhandwala" !!!
We were hurrying to enter the movie hall, when our eyes chanced upon a known face. But, it was the height that puzzled us. Was he the one whom we were thinking he was ?? The hair style matched the posters we had seen him in, but definately not the height !!! After a good stare we realised that it really was our own "Uppi" , a Kannada movie actor better known as "Upendra" !!! Boy, what wonders can camera tricks do !!! When i saw him in his world class movie "A", he looked like he was atleast 6 feet tall. But only after seeing him in person, we found out that he was just about 5'6" in height.
We entered the movie hall talking about Uppi and were surprised to see that the movie was just about starting. We felt bad on missing the "comically" made so very funny commercial ads :D .. Given the backdrop of events based on which the movie is made, it was terribly sad to see the way it was made. The main shootout that happens covers only about 15 minutes of footage in the almost 100 minutes of the movie span, that too after adding the emotional drama of gangsters calling up home confessing their mistakes !!! now, how real is that ??
The movie definately tries to glorify the police and it does it in a good way, but could have taken some "inspiration" from Die Hard kinda movies and concentrated more on the planning aspects of the shootout itself. It was funny how Sanjay Dutt disposes off the bullet proof jacket as an unnecessary garment when the whole police force of about 100 officers is all wearing it religiously. The gory scenes make the movie a bit more harsh. And I have no idea why a movie based on such a serious event should have songs !!! Are the publishers so paranoid that the movie wont sell without songs ? They should be really paranoid now with the utter failure of the songs themselves .. they neither fit into the story, nor do they avoid people from leaving the movie halls for a quick smoke.
Well, after the movie, we ventured out back home on empty lanes filled with pockets of ever vigilant dogs who thankfully stayed away from showing their skills at running along our bikes. It had been years since I reached back home at 2am !!! Just the thought of entering home at that time, drove me down the memory lane .. to the good old college days of living life as if there was nothing like a "watch" ever invented .....