After having had two pegs of old monk rum, we ended up sitting in the theatre with nobody else in our row, and due to our state of inebriation, couldn’t contain our laughter even for the stupidest of things, including a Fame Cinemas ad where some celebrity was talking about the ‘popcorn served was superb’. The National Anthem, as always was awarded due respect and sung with omnipresent gusto that evinces itself towards all things that reflect one’s patriotism.
I have been to theatres where I have been irritated like crazy by unsavoury characters who spoke noisily, passed comments, laughed randomly and generally acted like fools.
Today, it was payback time. I was one of those people.
However, unfortunately, I don’t think I inflicted it on the same set of people who’d previously ruined my movie-going experience. Consider it akin to college ragging, where someone else pays for someone else’s antics.
There was one time during the movie when the lady behind me asked me to stop rocking my chair so hard because I was hitting her leg. I guess I couldn’t help the fact that the movie had some incredibly funny gags, state of inebriation notwithstanding.
*Potential Spoiler Alert (of sorts)*
One of the rounds which the participants shortlisted to shake George W Bush’s hands had to undergo was to identify some personalities related directly or indirectly to America, and on being showed a picture of Osama Bin Laden, one of them said ‘Shri Shri?’.
*End of Potential Spoiler Alert (of sorts)*
I thought the movie was quite hilarious, though it did get a bit boring at the end. But masterful depiction of the whole spectrum of feelings displayed by the cast in the movie, that vacillated between being hardcore Amerophiles to those who grudgingly accepted its role on the world stage with appropriate doses of cynicism is what made it worth the watch.
While it was indeed ‘raunchy’ as was described to me by a friend of mine, it was definitely more value for money than Ghajini, for sure.
