Do deewane shahar mein

JBR picked me up in his car. The boy has a car and a driver!! He's living it up. He's the regional head of sales, he is in charge of sales in seven states and gets to appoint his own distributors and other people.

Anyway, we went right away to Prasad IMAX and then to another multiplex in seach of a movie. The parking situation being what is it - horrible - it makes more sense to go to a multiplex than a regular theatre, park, find out there are no tickets, and then take your car out and then park at a second theatre. Instead we just went to the theatre, and picked the movie playing next and watched it. It happened to be a piece of crap called "1971" - it was about the plights of the POWs from the 1971 war languishing in Pakistani jails, but aside from its message, it was just a very long and very boring and very stupid movie. After that we went to visit another of my friends from a really long time ago called Arun Harnoon. I hadn't seen Arun in close to eight years. He's now married, and has an year-old son. His father gave me a very unique compliment when he talked to me. He said I have a "very good voice" and that I should put it to good use. I thought he was being sarcastic (because I have a loud voice) but he was serious. Cool!

We ate at a S. Indian veggie buffet before we went to watch our second movie for the night - Okkadunnadu, a relatively unique movie with a different story. I've always said that I'd rather watch a bad Telugu movie than a "good" Hindi movie and my philosophy was give affirmation in the choice of these two movies. A word on the buffet. I don't know if this is the case in all the buffets in here but it was very weird watching the people behave around the food. In short, the human traffic around the food was very much like the vehicular traffic in the city. Very chaotic and disorganized, but everyone is completely in control. People were eating right at the buffet table after getting their food. There was no line - I don't mean that in the sense that people were rushing to get their food, but that people were just headed right for their food regardless of who else was already there, and without regard for bumping into people or the risk for spilling the food.

(Coming up - a look at HiTec city and the arrival of the guests.)