Friendships day is meant to be spent with your close friends (Although I often say I don't celebrate such days; but sometimes I do feel we could do with a little celebration). You often don't get time to celebrate some days and when you have bought a new house and are on the verge of shifting you hardly find any time. I was at the house getting things done - the dining table and centre table were to arrive while the plumber had to do some work and we were waiting for the electrician. I had anticipated work to get over by 2 PM and thought of going for a movie with Manas. But as plans often end up the work got delayed by a good few hours. I asked Manas if he could come to my house and he was there at around 5 PM. The work here was also winding up. So we left for The Great India Place (TGIP) in Noida.
We bought tickets for the movie 'Love Aaj Kal'. The seats we got were corner seats of first row (probabaly the last available tickets). Imagine paying 165 bucks for the front row seats; that too when the movie was some 2 hours away and you had nothing to do in those 2 hours. We went to Barista to have something to eat and drink. Then we strolled through TGIP walking around talking. Finally some 30 minutes before 8:10 PM (the movie start time) we decided to head towards the hall and maybe find some seat as the legs had started aching. We couldn't find any place to sit and kept standing and watching people around. We saw a drunk girl being escorted by her friends. The girl was moving zigzag, couldn't walk or stand still as her friends' expressions changed from smile to anger to concern.
Finally went inside and there too was no place to sit (we hadn't entered our audi yet). As the start time was nearing the crowd was increasing. It was 8:10 and still the doors weren't opened. The crowd had become very large (as you expect for a houseful show). People started getting impatient; one aunty caught hold of a staff and threatened her that if the movie doesn't start in another 5 minutes money has to be refunded. The dumb-stuck staff somehow managed to escape her.
Finally the doors opened and we entered. We had meanwhile got ourselves Nachos and Pepsi. The Nachos had two sauces - salsa and cheese. Manas eats only cheese sauce while I take only salsa; so we exchanged the sauces each having two of his favourite. (Now that's called understanding :)). The movie started and it was an okay movie (rather better than okay it was good - Manas might disagree though). It brought back some old memories (not anything so serious though :P).
After the movie we went to get something to eat. Manas wanted donut while I wanted something to drink. He got his donut while I got a Litchi shake. He didn't like the donut while the Litchi shake was ok. We had called Deepak and he said he would be comming. We called him again and he said he wouldn't be able to make it. He had to drop his friends at the station and didn't feel like comming to Noida after that (He has this habit of not turning up but when he does turn up its lot more than fun). So it was the two of us only. We went to Atta and found a place which was open at around 12 midnight. I had called up a couple of friends to get the location and finally we reached it. There we ordered something both of us like - Maggi. After finishing it he dropped me at my home and went to his home.
Two friends - one movie - Maggi in the open at midnight - some old memories and some future talk - what could be better on a friendship day?
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