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Yay!! my Eureka moment!!
Finally I realised how I can use the photoblogging feature that I had activated!!

So, here’s one of my most favorite photographs!

Ajab Din Ki Ghazab Kahani…

I can be sure now that there is actually someone who cares to read my blog posts! The reason being, as I was bragging about Chennai being like an oven in  my last post…. the rains have finally arrived here and it has become really cooler now!   Google is showing that the current tmperature in Chennai is 24 degree Celsius… I am thinking its lower than that though… but still… after being used to the normal weather conditions over here… 24 is really very cool!

 

Ok, so to start with my adventures for the day…. I will just give a prelude to the upcoming events! I haven’t watched any latest movie in a theatre since Kaminey and it has been more than 2 months now…. and yes! 2 months is really a long time for me to stay away from a  theatre! So, finally a new movie ‘Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani’ (APKGK) was releasing on this friday and as it was raining and my college server has gone down, I can’t sit in college and sitting in my room is very boring too! One of my friends, Varun was with me yesterday so I asked him whether we go to the movie, but taking a ticket costing Rs.120 was a bad idea, so we cancelled the idea.

 

And just for the information, in Chennai, there is this very wierd rule about movie tickets… its like, if you go for the ticket early morning somewhere from 6am-9am, in any theatre, the first row seats can be booked for Rs.10 only! ….YES!!…Rs.10!… considering the fact that even a Samosa-Pav costs Rs.7 these days (fact contributed by one of my friends named Punit Shenoy!), a movie for Rs.10 is a frickin-great deal!

 

Thinking about this, we later planned of going to INOX at Chennai Citi Centre early morning the next day and get ourselves tickets for Rs.10! By the way, its not always necessary to stay in line early morning for Rs.10, if you have some contacts, you can get the same tickets later during the day at a bit higher price of Rs.30-50 per ticket! But, as I lost my ‘contacts’ recently after not being there much often, we thought of rather going early morning and getting ourselves the tickets ‘legally!’ And later Saurabh also agreed on joining us for the morning trip. So everything was planned and I have very good experiences with most of my recent plans being uber-flop!   Anyways, I was waiting for this one now!

 

Saturday, 7th Nov ‘09 morning 5:15am:

Varun calls me to wake me up and I somehow manage to get up and recieve the call (big achievement as I had slept at nearly about 3am being busy playing Audiosurf! ) I later call Saurabh and unbelievably he too gets up! (yeah, and FYI, Saurabh has a reputation of usually getting up after 12pm!) After waking him up, I go back to sleep again!

About 5.45am:

Varun comes and rings my doorbell at 5.30 and is finally successfull in waking me up. I brush my teeth and we leave.

Outside, its raining from past afternoon and everything is damn wet and cool outside. Equipped with our raincoats, we both need a coffee first and wait for Saurabh to come. Saurabh arrives at our meeting spot (without any kind of protection against rain! ) And we start walking from Triplicane to Citi Centre in continuous drizzle!

About 6.15am:

Reached Citi Centre with our hands shivering in cold water! The queue has already started for the tickets and we go and join in. Waiting for our turn, thinking….“Humara number kab aayega!” There is some crowd at that place and mostly it can be seen clearly the crowd is mainly of the ‘contacts’ I was talking about!

As our turn comes, we were opting for a 12.30pm show but as all the tickets were already gone, we had to opt for a 9.10am show instead. Finally got the tickets for 9.10am show for APKGK!

About 7.15am:

We succeeded in getting the tickets for the early morning show and now had a question of where to go to pass the time. Thought of going back to our respective rooms and coming back but then we would have to run back in a hurry so we decided to stay there and pass time.

About 8.45am:

Waiting in the lobby for the movie to start. We were actually surprised at the number of people who had turned up for the morning show. I would rather be sleeping than attending a early morning 9am movie show for a ticket worth Rs.120! So here we were, amidst a group of movie goers who had turned up all ready and fresh and we were there without having a bath, in our raincoats! (and Saurabh was all wet in the rain!)

About 9.15am:

The movie starts. Sat throughout the movie with my windcheater on as it was very cold in there in the AC and we had just come back from roaming around in rain.

About the movie, yeah.. it was sort of time pass. Some  places were very boring and extended for no reason and a few of the gags and jokes were fun to watch. Anyways, whatever the case, KATRINA KAIF was looking gorgeous than ever… and that was enough reason for me to watch the movie!

About 12pm:

Come out from the movie hall and Citi Centre finally after feeling all-out-of-place over there.

We were waiting some time for a bus but later thought of going back walking as we were already wet in the rain and didn’t care much about clothes getting dirty or anything else! So started walking back to Triplicane from Citi Centre.

Reached the Marina Beach and thought of going to the beach now!

About 12.45pm:

On Marina Beach, Varun and Saurabh were having fun in the waves and I was the carry-bag for their valuables as I opted to stay out of the waves!

The best thing was that even though it was about 1.00pm in afternoon, the weather seemed like it was just early morning 7am or so!

About 1.30pm:

Finally after this long trip, we were back to our respective rooms….. all drenched! Super-tired from the long walk from morning 5.30am, we finally come back.

 

So, this was it..!!

Our early morning crazy trip to the movie was over at last.

It would surely be one of my most memorable movie-going experiences for sure!!

 

PS: And yeah, by the way, the total money spent on this adventure was only Rs.15 per head!

 

Moral of the story:

Just like the beautiful Asin says in every Mirinda advertisement, “Life mein thodi pagalpanti bhi jaruri hai!!”

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