Movie-Sickness

Today, finally I managed to watch a Hindi movie completely. After a long, long time.  One of the TV channels had put up many of the movies on their website for which they have satellite rights. While watching movie on TV channels, those ad breaks always made me switch that channel making those breaks permanent ones from the movie. This time I took a resolution that come what may I would watch this movie fully. After all I also need to go through this fitness test once in a while. So even though there were self-initiated breaks and pauses I could finish watching the 2.5 hour movie by 6+ hours. Yes, I succeeded but that left me with a movie sickness. I needed something challenging to rejuvenate myself.

This is not the first time I had this sort of sickness, there were many occasions in the past. Luckily I had some after-movie-opportunities to get over with this terrible hang-over.

We had gone for a movie in one of the multiplexes in the city. While searching for a car parking slot I started climbing one level after another. Though it was just 3 PM, since it was a bit dark on the ramp way, I decided to switch on the headlights of the car. The additional light helped me also reading better the display “parking full” in each level. At last I reached at the roof top, with no option to go up further. And I managed to park the car in some space available there. As we got out we could not do anything else but just enjoy the panoramic view of the city around us. The enjoyment for me in that reasonably broader sunlight was such that I failed to hear the warning beep came from my car as I locked it, to alert me that headlights were still on !

The movie was with the same old formula, hero-heroin-villain combination. The hero looked determined to catch hold of the villain and finish him from the very beginning of the movie. He looked stiff and no emotions what so ever on his face. Heroin didn’t have much role in the movie except to dream of singing and dancing around the hero once in a while till the villain arrived. Finally the villain did arrive towards the interval time, good enough time for my half dead battery in the car to breathe its last, though I was not at all aware of that development. 

Though the hero was in a hurry to kill the villain before the cops arrived, it took almost another hour for him to end that mission. He had to kill the villain inch by inch, right?  Needless to say, once I got out of the hall I had a severe head ache, I was feverish – and all other symptoms that could have easily pointed towards a potential attack by modern day H1N1 virus. 

Once we were back on the rooftop, I didn’t have energy to look around the beauty of the city again. I just got into the car and tried to start the car. Then only I realised that the battery was fully drained out and no life was left in it for ignition to work. All my movie-sickness disappeared, adrenalin pumped in, I had to act on something challenging. I knew the trick of starting the car, me on the wheel while others pushing the car, there were enough people on rooftop to push the car but I felt that would be too risky. If pushing becomes a little harder (there was every chance that those guys would push in an uncontrolled manner – they were also likely to be in a bad mood like me after the movie, more over it was not their car) , the car would plunge in to the ground, several floors below – adding one more dead item in the car – myself fully dead with no hope of getting recharged unlike the battery. In the absence of availability of jump start cables, I was on a challenging mission. To locate the service guys who would come with a spare battery and rekindle my dead battery. It took several hours for me to use my persuasion skills before I could hit the road, but at least it helped me to recover from the movie-sickness.

Coming back to my today’s sick situation, it was no different. I needed to do something adventurous to get over with the hang-over. It is not going to happen by accident, I need to create one. Going out in the car could be a good option; of course definitely not for a movie after parking on the rooftop, I don’t have courage to watch another movie. But I can just drive around with no purpose, my old battery and even much older car can definitely pose one or two challenges on the way. But the car was not there, taken by my son for his adventurous weekend outing. Another option could be to discuss plans for the coming week with my wife, but that would be too risky. So I decided to settle down in front of the laptop computer and do a bit less adventurous but equally challenging task – blog! Let me confess, I am much relieved now. No traces of the after-movie sickness in me.

Have a good weekend. Do remember to watch only a good movie, in case!