Chapter 14, Rangeela movie...!

                                             

Ranjith uncle was in kottayam as Mary chechi’s due date was very near. One night after dinner at around 9 pm, the landphone started ringing and vinay’s mother attended it. while over the phone, she got excited and gradually her tone got elevated. Vinay and nisha were in their room and their father was reading a book in his bedroom. A few minutes later, vinay’s mother and father instructed their children to get ready to go for a movie.

Vinay doesn’t like going out especially with his father. His father would start behaving as if he is preparing the family to go out for a war. He would come up with so many annoying statements and comments and then he would make the entire family run around unwantedly.

A few disturbing and harassing comments of vinay’s father in the entire travel process woulde be as below;

·         “We need to get ready as early as possible. I don’t want any last moment hurry burry”. By badluck, if anything goes wrong, he could keep cribbing about it and he would dump the entire mistakes upon vinay’s mother.

·         Why are you wearing such a lousy clothes? Don’t you have anything good?”He would make vinay to dress up a number of times as a punishment.How can kids get good clothes by themselves? They are completely dependent on their parents. If a father finds his own kid's clothes lousy, it's his responsibility to get good clothes for the kid rather harrasing him on his dressing sense.

·         “Why cant’ someone remind me to wash the car yesterday? The car is dirty and how can I take this out?” The comment would have been said 2-3 hours prior to the travel. Then what is the need of getting annoyed? Just grab the hose and wash the car.

·         “Please remind me to stop at a petrol bunk (vinay’s family is not supposed to say “PETROL PUMP” as it’s a bad English according to the NRI father) and also remind me to check the air fillings in the tyres”. And if they forget to remind him, then that’s the end of the world.

·         “I don’t want anyone to sleep inside the car. Keep talking and be active”. Vinay and nisha used to wonder how their mother sits in the front seat beside their horrendous father. Poor mother would sit in the front seat like a slave and would paste a fake smile on her face throughtout the travel thinking that it would please her unconvincing husband. If he is so unsatisfied with his family, then for what reason he got married and made two children as well”.

·         “Hey, you! Drive properly…..you asshole” he would scream at people if they are not driving as per his rule. Vinay’s helpless mother whose mind would be wandering for various topics for a conversation would take this opportunity to embark a meaningless conversation that lasts for few seconds. She would also start complaing about their driving skill and would give a default statement which was, “how can they drive like that!” In fact, vinay’s father was a pathetic driver compared to Ranjith uncle. Vinay would always end up in a bad head ache after his driving stops at the destination.

·         “Vinay, talk something in english”. Here comes his trademark statement. Whatever vinay’s father does, it starts in ENGLISH and ends in ENGLISH. Oh god! Give a break.

Basically, vinay’s father was a fussy guy. And the most depressing part was that, vinay’s mother would lose her presence of mind when ever he raises his voice. She would then start behaving like a zombie. Even vinay also would turn into a half zombie. Nisha managed to tackle the situation.

Let’s come back to the movie plan.

“We are going to sreekala theatre. It’s nearby”. Vinay’s father announced.

” For rangeela? Hindi movie? There will be a huge rush for sure. It’s too late and we will not get tickets also”. Nisha replied at one stretch.

“Get the newspaper and check the timing. Fast”. Vinay’s father gave an order.

Nisha quickly grabbed the newspaper and said,” movie already started. Second show was at 9:15pm and now its 9:20pm”.

She went through the newspaper again and after few seconds she said surprisingly,” wait, there is a third show which is at night 12 in sreekala theatre itself. And it’s written only for today. Especially, because of saraswathi temple festival”.

Mother snatched the newspaper from her and checked once again.

” It’s correct. There is a third show at night 12. But who will go for a third show? We are not going anyway.” She said.

“That’s ok. We can go. It will be fun and more over there is reason to go. I mean we are happy about ranji and we need to celebrate ourselves”. Father said.

” what happened to uncle?” vinay and nisha asked together.

“Mary chechi got a baby girl and ranjith uncle became a father”. Mother replied.

” When?” Vinay asked out of curiosity.

“At night 8 o’clock and he had called sometime before and told to inform you guys”. Mother replied.

“We should leave at sharp 11 and be ready by that time. No idea how’s the crowd gonna be.” Vinay’s father said.

Everyone left in the car at 11 pm and once they reached the theatre vinay could see a huge crowd had gathered outside the gate. Few guys even climbed the wall and sat there munching ground nuts like monkeys sitting on trees. The crowd was impatiently waiting for the second show to get over.Vinay and family waited outside in the car. Vinay could see only 2 more ladies outside the theatre who were standing with their husbands. By 11:30pm the movie got over and after 15 minutes the vehicles were allowed to park inside. By that time vinay and nisha had got 4 tickets for the balcony row. The theatre was jampacked with crazy and over excited young guys. Vinay still remember how the crowd went crazy by howling and by screaming when the actress of the movie ran through the beach in a swimming suit in the middle of a song.

Once the movie was over vinay’s mother and nisha faced difficulty in reaching the car and she said to vinay in between, “ were your father was so crazy to take your mother and sister for such a movie and that too at midnight?”Vinay didn’t understand anything.