Yesterday when I had gone to a PCO booth to make some calls, the fellow asked me a very strange question. "Saab, ek baat batao( Sir, tell me one thing), saadhu logon ko bhook kyun nahin lagti? (why don't saints feel hungry?)" Now what on earth had that to do with either me or the phone? Things can get really weird at times. And these are the times when you feel that THE DIRECTOR needs to focus more on scripts and avoid such glitches. Maybe these are some strange sequences HE chips in to serve for the surprise element. All efforts to make one masala film. Oh did I tell you about this interesting guy that I met the other day? Well am not kidding. I keep meeting strange people. A fluoroscent blue Tshirt and matchingblue lenses. A set of a dozen bracelets. And a plethora of rings of all possible materials, enough to make Mogambo envious. Beefy built, beery paunch. No it aint any fictional character am talking about. It is the physiological description of a characteristic fella I met. Now let me take you through the entire tale. I was cycling down the street in my campus when I passed a stray dog. Oh by the way I was in pursuit of STRAINED dogs( the stray, but trained ones) for auditioning purposes concerning an Advertisement film. I came back to look for that dog but quite to my surprise found a biped human washing a cloth piece at exactly the same place. I asked him if he had seen a dog there. He asked me the reason for my uncommon curiosity. He told me that his son-in-law has a dog and has many friends who pet dogs. So I said "great let's go and see". He took me to his house. I went there and I saw a scary bitch German Shepherd. I wasn't exactly looking for branded breeds. Anyway, the lady there told me that her husband is in the film industry and supplies all sorts of animals too. So I took down his number. I called him up and lo!! there he goes, all english and stylish accent. ANyway he promised me variety of dogs and called me to his place. So as discussed I reached his place the next day. i was waiting for him when I see one scary sight!! A blue ball, rather a giant blue ball, rolling on an enfield. We shake hands, and enter his house. He starts his music system, and tells us to chill. "Everything I do..." says Bryan. And lo there goes th blue devil repeating the lines after Bryan. Impressive. Then all of a sudden he tells us " I come from a very good family. Am here because I did love marriage. My sister works in saudi, and my dad works in the US." Ok. Agreed. Then he takes us to meet his friends who apparently have well bred dogs. So we take off. We are sitting in this green maruti 800 with stickers covering up every inch of the dashboard. "Dhadaam" there he goes bang against a parked vehicle. Then on it was a roll....(contd.)
