This
memorable incident happened quite a few years ago and it gave us such real indelible
heartprints, to be etched and latched onto our hearts, for, I guess, forever!
One fine Saturday, around
seven of us - friends and colleagues - decided to rev up the ensuing
weekend, by hitting the multiplex Mayajaal that adorns the pleasant scenic highway, to
indulge ourselves on an unwindy-weekendy getaway of sorts – that came with the
added bonus of a movie’s delight, - a movie that was supposed to cap up our
weekend sojourn!
It
was a bit of an impish oversight on our part that we had blissfully ‘forgotten’
to tell an ‘unsuspecting duo’ amongst our lot, that it was a scary movie at
that!
After
some wonderful refreshments that came our way with a cuppa coffee to top ‘em
all, we all made a beeline to our respective seats at this particular screen, where
we soon became quite busy amongst ourselves, discussing the pros and cons on the ‘about-to-be-screened-movie’.
The
unsuspecting duo who had been ‘erroneously’ kept in the dark about the movie’s
genre were Dr. SSJ and Prof. Lukey boyyy!
The
lights all around us were soon turned off, and we quite soon adjusted ourselves
onto our seats, lounging at times, for that added comfort, until at long last, the
silver screen saw some sheen and shine with some dashing display of
advertisements.
Very
soon, the long awaited movie was projected onto the screen, when one of the
two, (who were kept in the dark on the movie) quietly sneaks by my side and
asks,
‘What is this movie really about?’
I,
for once, not wanting to get the suspense lost this soon on this pavapetta
unsuspecting buddy, just tell him, reassuring him that it would be an amazing and
a memorable movie!
After
having his anxiety assuaged a wee bit, he went back into his 'lounge-mode' to relish
and to enjoy the sumptuous treat of the movie on offer right there in front of
him, on a platter!
Some
fifteen minutes into the movie, and there comes up the first in a huge
succession of horror scenes that zoomed past the silver screen and
right into the eyes and the hearts of the unsuspecting duo! π
This
literally shoulda sent a shiver down the spine of one of our folks, who, from thence on, started nudging me, with all his might, to part with the genre of the movie, yet again!
One of us was about to tell him on the genre, when just then, as destiny woulda firmly and steadily contrived it, an
impish colleague prances forward and interrupts the ‘spillbeans’ with such a
genial smile and a cordial grin on his face that was meant to cheer up the latter's sinking spirits!
He now gently assuages the lubby-tubby heart of our
unsuspecting duo, assuring him that the movie was one of the finest to come by in recent
times, and that it would be such a joyous treat to watch!
But unfortunately, again, as his quota of bad luck would have it, even before he could finish with his ‘comforting
words,’ yet another scary shot sashayed itself straight from the screen and swainggg
into the kutty little heart of this unsuspecting pavapetta friend of ours!
Our 'unsuspecting friend,' by now, had started getting the suspicions – one by one!
And this time, our ‘unsuspecting friend’ seemed very highly impervious to any
kinda persuasion! He had resolved to himself to make a way out of this scary
mess, albeit with some reasonable excuse at that, not willing to be seen as a
chicken-hearted, or in the words of Wodehouse, a lily-livered guy!
So he
now chanced upon a wonderful idea!
Taking
out his mobile phone - from off his slashed trouser pocket, and
feigning an urgent call, to the utter surprise of us all, he quietly and
subtly, with such grace and eloquence, makes his way out of the scary-screen-hall,
nay theatre hall!
Now,
it was the turn of Lukey boyyy, the second in line amongst the unsuspecting
duo, to take out his mobile phone and keep it with such firm grit and rigid proximity
to his ears, and with a feigned seriousness to top it all up, he ambles up the
aisle and is soon lost out of sight to us all!
Now
the rest of us were just staring into each other, at the ‘metatheatre’ that was being
enacted by our own folks, right in front of us!
Then
we decided that, we should forget for some little time, on the duo, and focus
instead on the movie at hand, in the interest of the movie and its amazing
director!
But
that was not ‘all’s well that ends well!’
Very
soon, yet another friend pops up quietly from off his seat, and again, like his
‘predecessors,’ pranking a call, a ‘serious’ call at that, he too is soon lost out
of sight, to the movie within!
There
were intermittent shrieks of maddening laughter throughout the entire course of the scary movie!
Shrieks that whizzed past the theatre hall, shrieks that were meant to
elegantly and skillfully hide the fear-factor that was menacingly glaring at
them all, and manifested itself as ‘laughter of the wildest proportions’!
Now,
it was, I should confess, my turn to make my way quietly out, as, the movie was
really getting quite scarier by the scenes, at least to my perception!
The
porch and the lobby to the outside of this screen now looked a mini Forest of
Arden at that!
Four
of us on the outside, and three on the inside!
It
was intermission time now, and the three from within, came proud and haughty,
with an unassuming air high on their ‘unfettered’ spirits, and looked down on
us, their ‘lily-livered’ folks!
We
gracefully accepted to our ‘defeat’ and asked the trio to continue watching the
movie till the very end, to their heart’s utmost satisfaction, while we indulged
ourselves on some good food in the meantime!
The
final bell that happened soon after, signaled the end of the movie, and the ‘triumphant
trio’ came out and joined us all with such sense of achievement radiating on their
proud faces!
We
appreciated them profusely on braving all the odds and for having sustained
themselves till the last shot of the last scene, for the entire duration of the
movie!
The
‘triumphant trio’ accepted our figurative garlands with gusto, and late into
the evening, when we all packed our way back to our cars, I, for once, was really
hyper-curious about one particular buddy from among the ‘triumphant trio’ who had
managed to stay back all through the entire length of the screening of the scary
movie!
Therefore,
once we all got into our respective cars, I opened up on the question that was
troubling me all along!
‘Buddy,
how did you even manage to sit through the entire duration of this scary movie?’
I ask him, with such intense curiosity writ large on my face.
With an impish grin on his face, he says,
‘Simple sir! ‘I just shut my
eyes as tight as could be, whenever there’s a scary scene popping out from the screen! As
simple as that!’
An uproarious laughter-riot followed his reply, the rest of us being real-wonder-amazed at his
amazing ‘gallantry skills,’ and for showing such ‘exemplary fortitude’ and ‘mettle’,
by not seeking to 'wriggle out' of the situation, but putting on a brave face even
in such a situation as this, his precarious predicament!
He
really had us all there! π
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