WTF

I cannot recall the last time I managed to wake up on the weekend at 1 without having had a party the previous night. So, here I was, giving stupefying glances at my watch, wishing it might as well have been half a day more before I woke up. I realized that it was the excess water I had before dozing off that shook my brains out of the sleep. The absence of any food in the house had already decided for me my next action for the day and since I wasnt in any mood what-so-ever to come back anytime soon, we left with a few other plans in store. After the brunch I finally managed to get myself the much awaited wristwatch I needed and then proceeded to watch the movie. The initial plan being any-goddammed-movie changed to harry potter which, due to unavailability resulted in us getting into guzarish. Ok, first things first. It was the strangest start of any movie I have been, EVER. To be precise, there were these two commercials on the screen, which I have no idea were even there, or for that matter were even made.
The first one starts with a huge banner saying 'Start reading' or something similar to that. Basically it alluded that one should read books. It was a bit surprising at first, but the thought of this turning into something worthy kept me watching, also, like I had any other choice. The next scene is some teenage girl reading a newspaper and a voice in the background saying 'lagta hai inhe samachar patra padhna accha lagta hai'. The girl keeps turning the pages at an alarming rate and within seconds, puts the thing down, looking pretty disinterested. The voice says 'to inki roochi isme nahi hai'. The girl walks into another room and picks up a few magazines lying there one by one and zooms past the pages, again nothing seems to hold her interest in them. The voice continues 'hume laga tha inhe patrikayen padhna accha lagta hoga, par inhe to ye bhi pasand nahi hai' in a netural, non-judgmental tone. The girl trods into another room and picks up some text book, and again the voice begins 'accha, to inhe apne vishay me roochi hai, aur ye khali vo hi kitaben padhti hai'. To his disappointment, the girl puts that one down too lackadaisically and walks away. Next scene shows her gallivanting around with her colleagues at a snack shop. The voice, now apparently disappointed, continues 'kya yeh samay ka uchit upyog hai. kya iss se humare bhavishya ko kuch fayada hoga. kitabon me dunia bhar ka gyan hota hai aur hume ye apna na chaiye......' and then he starts going on and on about the merits of reading books over fooling around and all this while showing clips of some dumbass looking chicks just staring at dictionaries. It took me and my friend a while to come back to our senses after what we had just witnessed. The one question that we asked each other was, why the bloody hell is this being shown in a cinema hall? Then it occurred to me.I am in gujrat and it would be better for me to just close my mind to any kind of analysis to this sort of input. But I really cant help wondering even now about the absurdness of that. Thats something you tell a 3 year old kid and the video, the same 3 year old could make a better one once he is told the importance of reading books. Yes, thats how bad it was.
Moving one, the next one was about some pan masala. We have all seen advertisements about that particular product and I think we can all recall distinctly that all those only and only talk about the wonderful taste and quality of their respective products. But not this one, no. This one ACTUALLY talked about the health merits of eating a pan masala. The ceo looking guy scoops a spoonful of it in his trap and exclaims enthusiastically that this is what you wanted and this is what we delivered. This thing stands out in taste and has been made from some herbs and stuff which ensures that your breath stays fresh and you experience a everlasting taste, without, in any way, harming your body. And he goes on with this for about half a minute and then they repeat the ad which helped me to become absolutely sure of what I had just heard. I cant actually compare the ludicrousness of this and the one discussed earlier but this was something I had never seen before.
Anyways, after this, thankfully, the movie started. The first 15 minutes were more than sufficient to to realize that this wasnt something I was looking for. It was a piece of good acting, that I have to admit but it was wrapped around a story in which people were weeping, whining, dying in a very sombre environment. So after a couple of hours we were glad to come out and in desperate need for some good-old-senseless-action-with-special-effects and nothing better than harry potter seemed to match the need. Only to find out that the rest of the shows for the evening were sold out.
Came out, and it was raining. In any normal place, one can observe at least half a dozen rickshaws outside any multiplex or a mall and when it rains usually the number increases because of the rise in demand, or in worse case, at least remains the same. It was un-fucking-believable that there wasnt a single one of those outside that supposedly one of the biggest multiplexes in baroda. We had to wait for about 20 minutes to get one. Again I cursed this place a million times and was glad to be back home. After the awesome day, there was no enthusiasm left for going out for dinner and hence a banana and a pack of peanuts it was. Really hoping to get a better, not-in-baroda weekend next time around but all depends on how this weeks goes. May the force be with me :P