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Life gives us so many moments to laugh….. sometimes on ourselves, sometimes on friends, and at times people we don’t even know. Sharing one such incident happened recently.

Two weeks back, my friend and I went to a liquor shop on Saturday evening to pick some beer. This shop is on the busiest road in my area and is generally very crowded on weekends. The shop has a fashion college in close proximity and is quite natural to find the students hanging out on this road or buying liquor from this shop. So as we reached the shop looking at the huge crowd I choose to wait outside- on bike as I was driving - and asked my friend to bring beer. When returned, he was all smiling shamelessly. I followed suit when I got to know what just happened inside the shop. In his words,

There was so much of rush that he couldn’t reach till counter to place his order. Before him in the queue, there were two pretty girls, mostly from the same fashion college, mulling over wine bottles of different brands. They seemed confused on what to pick. To us seeing girls picking liquor is quite common site but these two just couldn’t decide what they wanted. Then one of them called her boyfriend to seek help about the brand selection. She probably didn’t quite catch the name and handed over the cell to the man at counter and asked “bhaiya, ye cell pe jo maang rahe hai wahi de do hame”. The man took the cell, listened and then returned to the girl with a mischievous smile. He said “wo to kiss maang rahe hai”. With this, all nearby faces turned toward the girl whose face was pink by embarrassment. Though the girls took control of the situation immediately and placed an order, the moment was really hilarious.

We laughed out loud. It was such a funny incident that I couldn’t hold myself to share this. Hope you could imagine what that boyfriend would have got to deal with later.

Es raat ki subah nahi - II

Catch the first part here

After the initial hiccups they reached Mukul’s home where Mukul in his trademark style was pretending to hold an anguish face for them. They met him, and as decided, shown some respect to his anger for self defense. They were happy that they reached before shailendra and now he is the one who will be the “torch bearer”. They waited for Mukul in porch, just then Shailendra called for status update while he was on way. They asked him to hurry up. Mukul appeared in groom’s dress and joined the gang who by the time was ready with their arsenals to bless him. Once he was standing with the gang they all were having a gala time with the divine leg pulling session. Shalindra joined in the meantime and finished his quota of divinity. It was time for Baraat to leave Mukul’s place and to reach the point from where it was supposed to march ahead.
Our heroes somehow got a car and bumped-in, trying hard to manage their ass inside it. Thankfully this ride wasn’t long enough to intensify their pain; but they ran for fag as soon as the car dropped them at the destination. They got charged up with masala coke and “the mrit sanjeevani” (cigarette) and joined Baraat for which they were supposed to be the show stopper.

And they didn’t disappoint either; right from bhangra to old classics, and then break dance to “snake dance” they danced on every form and on every song the band played. Seeing their extreme enthusiasm and strange wildness no one had a doubt that they were not drunk. They danced and danced till last breath of energy during that short while which was merely 200 meter away from the point where baraat stated. It took around an hour to cover the stretch and Baraat approached its destination; and like sunlight fading at dusk our heros disappered. Leveraging this known opportunity they went in a corner away from sight of junta to have their mrit sanjeevani again.
All this while there was one common friend missing which they all have promised to meet soon. They appeared in baarat again which was being greeted. They discussed the possibility of meeting this common friend asap. Few of them wanted to invite this common friend in baraat as well but there was a lack of consensus. But now they all wanted to celebrate Mukul’s wedding in a grand way with this friend. So they all left the wedding for a local plash hotel which was decided as the venue to celebrate. They set down on hotel’s bar (if you are still guessing…yes Daru was their common friend), ordered and then toasted for Mukul and his marriage. As tonight Mukul was priority, they ordered only 2-3 drinks after that and then decided to leave. Another sutta session and then our boys, who were in elegant attires, were waving to autos standing in front of that plash hotel.

to be continued....

Es raat ki subhah nahi

"Gaadi Roko" Amit was shouting at top of his voice. Sandeep went a step ahead and stood in the middle of road to grab attention on any passing by vehicle. This otherwise plash and busy road was never unfriendly or unknown; atleast to Shailendra and Amit as this was their home town, but then it was 2:00 am in a cold December night. Rishabh lit up a cigarette while obliging the road divider; Shailendra asked Sandeep to stop the heroic which according to him could lead to an unpleasant sight. With the last fag an auto appears from the other side of road and they all waved together at their rescuer.
With a sigh of relief they jumped inside the auto and asked the driver to take them to any hotel where they can get a room for the night. As the driver pulled the kick they all felt the thump of engine and one just kicked inside, but decided to glue to the silence of night.
Oh yes…if you wondering who these people are… let me introduce the characters: Shailendra, Amit, Rishabh and Sandeep. Shailendra and Amit were locals while Sandeep was from nearby town. Rishabh was having his first encounter with the city which he wouldn’t count among good ones. They all reached this city for their friend Mukul’s wedding.
Flashback…..
“Where are you guys….when are you reaching…why the hell you guys came here if you are not with me” Mukul was shouting on the poor Rishabh who happened to pick up the call. “We are waiting for Amit, he is taking bath” was Rishabh’s quick reply - this was one of the moment where Rishabh’s spontaneity came handy. Anyway after a while Amit appeared with food (to show that he didn’t took all this time in bath) and got the unhappy note Mukul left for all. He called Shailendra and asked to pre-pone the time they were scheduled to meet. Sandeep had earlier suggested meeting at CCD and then to join Baraat from there instead of going to Mukul’s place which, seemed a nice idea to all. So after Mukul’s alarming call they decided to reach Mukul’s place at earliest and informed Shailendra their revised plan.


To be continued.......