I never knew I was such a movie buff

11 november 2007:

Its Diwali time.. Time for celebrations..family reunions.. Good food, crackers and fun time.. And here I am in chennai so far away from my family n friends and missing all the festival fun time.

I was all alone in Chennai during the Diwali holidays.. I thought I should make good use of my holidays. Two bollywood block buster movies had released.. Om shanti Om starring the bollywood badshah King khan and Saawariya again an another over hyped movie of Sanjay Leela bhansali fame. I decided to watch both the movies :)

Plans for the movies were made.. but then there was a problem.. There were no tickets available for any show of these movies on the weekends.. I was very dissapointed .. But then I still dint give up.. I thought I should give a try once more.. The first show for Saawariya movie was at 9 AM and Om shanti om was at 10 30AM.

I decided to watch these movies in the Inox.. which is in the city centre mall.. My plan was if in case I dont happen to watch any of these movies then I can spend some time in the shopping mall n return back.. With all hopes I went off to sleep on friday night.

Saturday morning 5 AM.
I get up from sleep (so early) and then decide whether to watch the movie or not.. What if I go at 8 45 am only to find that there are no tickets available at all ??What if i end up not gettin tickets for any of the movie. With all these thoughts i was pretty much reluctant to get up from bed.. Then finally at 6 o clk i decided i should go to the multiplex and give it a shot..

I get all ready and take 3 buses to reach the multiplex. I reached there around 8 40 AM and I stood in the line infront of the ticket counter. There were no tickets available tats wat the board read :( .. I stil waited.. The person standin in front of me in the queue had come there to watch a latest tamil movie.. And to his bad luck there were no tickets available and the counter boy says there is only one ticket available for 'Om shanti Om .. afternoon 3 0 clk show.. This rings the bells in my ear. I was praying God that let him not take that ticket and let me buy that ticket for myself.. But then I heard that guy asking to book the OSO ticket for himself.. I was a lil sad.. At the same time.. To my surprise ..my good luck.. there was this middle aged man who was shouting 'Does anybody require Saawariya movie ticket? 9AM show?? ' I jus jumped out of the queue and went to that fellow and said yes I need the tickets.. :) N i was like for which show is this? He said 9AM.. I was like are u sure the tickets are for this morning 9 o clk show? He said yes mam.. here u go with ur tickets :) I was so happy so happy.. After all, my efforts of getting up at 5 AM dint go wasted... With all smiles on my face I entered the cinema hall..

Suddenly it struck to me that I should enquire if that OSO ticket was still available. I go out and go to the ticket counter and ask him if they had any tickets for OSO movie for that day ... N to my surprise there was one ticket available for 3 PM show.. My happiness knew no bounds then.. My plan was very well executed.. I happily purchased those tickets, bot some popcorns and eneterd the cinema hall again..

Saawariya movie.. It was god damn so boring for the initial 1 hr.. So many songs. Finally after 2 hrs the movie came to an end.. It was only 11 30 AM. I still had 3.5 hrs left to watch the second movie. So I decided to roam around the mall.. The mall was really good.. Good crowd.. Nice shops.. Well maintained.. I went around all the shops .. tried so many clothes.. though I knew I wouldnt be buying them.. I was never so slow at shoppin.. but then that day I was..

After visiting al the shops in the mall I checked the time.. It was only 12 45 PM.. I still had a lot of free time.. I decided to have lunch and then I went to Landmarks. In landmark, I picked up a book written by some IIMB student and started readin it.... I almost completed 120 pages of the book and then I went happily to watch the OSO movie..

It was fun watching this movie.. I even made a new friend there.. She was a pretty girl who had come with her family. Aftr the movie was over we bid Bye to each other n walked to our own destinations.. I reached home around 9PM.. and by this time i was dead tired..

Uffff I never knew I was such a movie buff to watch 2 movies in a theatre without prior booking of tickets and watching them alone as well..

:):):)