The weekend that was.....

My bike traveled around 120kms this weekend. Which means that I enjoyed this weekend as well as tanned a lot due to the over exposure to the Chennai sun.

Ganesh had come over for the weekend and he was put up along with me. On Saturday, we started our day with breakfast at Mylapore Karpagambal Mess. Imagine traveling all the way from KK Nagar to Mylapore for breakfast!!!! But the effort was worth it, the food that is served there is delicious. We were joined by another friend Santhosh. After that we went straight to Satyam Cine complex and booked tickets for My wife’s murder at 1:30pm and Sarkar at 10:15pm. My wife’s Murder was the latest release and since it was from the stables of Ram Gopal Varma, we decided to give it a try. Ganesh had not watch Sarkar and since I liked the movie a lot I decided to watch it again with him.

After booking the tickets we went from there to CMBT to book Ganesh’s return tickets to Bangalore. The to and fro journey was tiring in the hot sun. Watched My Wife’s Murder. It was a good movie – though not many might agree with me – the story was plain and simple, the acting was good, and there was no masala in it.

The story revolves around Ravi Patvardhan (Anil Kapoor), who works as an editor and whose family life is in shambles, due to his very nagging wife Sheela (Suchitra Krishnamurthy). She suspects him of having an affair with his assistant Reena (Nandana Sen). One day, Ravi is stretched to his limits by Sheela that he hits and she dies after banging her head on the edge of her bed. Ravi is initially inclined to call the police and report the matter, but he thinks about his children who might be left alone after he is reprimanded by the police, so he decides to hide the fact, and dumps the body in a far off place.

The body is retrieved and soon the long arm of the law gets to the bottom of the case, thanks to the dedicated police inspector whose role is played by Boman Irani. Overall the movie is good, and Jijy does a decent job of his first film. The movie ends with Ravi being released on bail since the murder was not intentional, but I think they forgot that tampering the evidence or abetting such actions are criminal offenses. Anyways at the end of the movie, I was pretty much satisfied.

After roaming around in Spensers and meeting a few friends. We went to Central station to meet one of our friend who was on his way to Mangalore after a week with his parents. He called us to the station, telling that he had lot of eatables from home, so we went and hogged in the station.

Sunday was more eventful. Got up late, and hence could not make it to Karpagambal Mess, so had breakfast at Vasantha Bhavan itself. Reached Santhosh’s house by 12:30pm. I tried a new route to reach his home and ended up spending some 30 minutes extra on the road. Another friend APRKR had joined us by then. We decided to watch The Fantastic Four in the evening, and we decided to watch it in Woodlands Symphony. So we left from his home at 1:30 and headed straight to Ponnuswamy Hotel in Royapettah. Tasted Pigeon for the first time – it was good.

After eating to our stomach’s full we went to a juice center and started drinking juices. We would have ended up drinking some 4-5 variety of juices, and we were amazed to realize the capacity of our stomachs. After the juice we went to Woodlands – only to realize that the theater was playing the Tamil version of The Fantastic Four. We dropped the plan and returned to Santhosh’s house. We were so tired after the traveling and eating that all of us slept off and got up in the evening. After getting up we headed straight to the juice centers to hog on some fruits that we missed.

Ganesh left in the night, and I was back to being lonely again.

My travel plans for next month has changed yet again. I am going home on 3rd and 4th. Onam trip has been rescheduled. Now I will be leaving on 13th night instead of 14th and will return on 19th morning.

I hope this schedule does not change.