Monday, August 11, 2008

The Dark Knight , a distant dream..........




OK....this is anni's first ever blog...spare him for his mistakes(do write your comments)....
DARK KNIGHT got released a month ago and as a movie buff anni wanted to see it really badly. But guess what?? even though it was his holidays he couldnt find time to go to this movie. Anni was going to Raman Research Institute, where he was supposed to get some experience on matlab and communication systems. No, he did well in neither coz he basically lacked the mathematical depth it required. So, you can guess that he went there to get his math right. Once when anni was at RRI, he got a call from one of his friends ani rao ,invitin for THE DARK KNIGHT. Anni said, "illa maga nange thumba kelsa ide. Ill be late to home if its a 4:30pm show...blahblah" basically he was doing nothing more than trying to act busy. Ani rao calls anni back after the movie n explains all the aspects of the movie which made it earn 5stars by almost every movie reviewer. Anni gets mad at himself for missing such an oppurtunity, and he couldnt even share it with ani rao at tht time coz invitation was given.

The very next day(tuesday) anni gets a msg from karthik asking whether they could plan for dark knght. Anni gets restless, hes so excited, he says yes without a question(he asks few questions like which theatre, who all etc). Okay, so, its all planned for thursday of that week, its goin to be PVR or INOX. Its wednesday evening and anni gets another msg from karthik that plan's been postponed due to some unavoidable reasons. Phew, u can imagine his state now. Gets angry at his fate. Afterall it was his only chance of going to a movie that summer(there is a 1 movie per vacation at theatre rule at his house). Naaaaaa, anni isnt a kid who breaks rules. So his daily routine goes on undisturbed and unaltered. That saturday, his cousin bro goes to a trip to some place near coorg for 2days. Most of anni's friends have gone to some place with their friends, and guess what???this guy cant even go to a movie. Hes really unhappy with himself. On monday he receives another msg from karthik saying that the plan is fixed for saturday. Again anni is all excited about all this, goin to some mall walkin around there in A/C corridors etc etc.

It was friday afternoon when some 5 or 6 low intensity bomb blasts occured in bangalore of which one was near PVR(not a good sign). Anni himself cancelled the plan even though it was going to get cancelled coz all malls were closed next day. Anni's guide at RRI was out of station for two weeks and still he couldnt goto a movie coz his friends were busy. On 11/08/08 he got a msg. Anni had no hopes this time as dark knight was removed frm most of the theatres (mummy 3 was released). Yes, the msg was again from Mr.Karthik for the same movie. They discussed the movie timings n all and found that only the 7 pm show was available in the remaining theatres which would easily cost them more than Rs.150. Boooooom the plan was cancelled. A sad ending indeed for a boy whos a movie buff. Anni now thinks that theres some defensive charm laid on the dark knight against him and is planning for another movie, still planning.......

8 comments:

Anand said...

Very Nice.....Amazing!

Karthik Wildchild Rao said...

Awesome work!
-Karthik

Custos said...

I think this guy writes awesome...i like the third person singular version, the story has a spin on a rather mundane subject of going to the movies. Furthermore, this writing style can grip the reader's attention, especially knowing that Anni is starting...
Keep the blogs coming Dude :)

Rashmi Prabhanjan said...

pleasant one :)
looking forward to more of these from ur universe

Unknown said...

Hmmmmmmmm....i think this guy is gonna b next chetan bhaghat......keep
up the gud wrk....

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Unknown said...

nice, straight-forward and an excellent take on such a subject which all have been thru but dont blog...Damn all of them!
Way to go Anni Mahashay!

Custos said...

I am reminded of J & H :-))
The article on Rental vs movie is cool...i wish 2 c fewer characters but w/ the same fervor. The topic is bloody contemporary and truly reflects the inner conflict on this raging topic...keep it coming dude