I always tell Moti not to bring much
eatables to my room else I will become fluffy like her and Sheeni needs to
carry needle always with him to poke me and blast me to make me normal! We the
three guys, Sheeni, Moti and myself, watch movies together and I can’t
recollect when we started watching and became fan of non-linear movies. We
believed Nolan is the Father of film Industry. And not to specify it won’t be fun watching
movie without eatables.
‘Sheeni, which is the movie of this
week?’, I enquired.
“Cloud Atlas’, he replied showing me
the DVD cover.
‘Non-linear??’ Moti and I asked
simultaneously.
‘Ever I brought any linear movie? I
don’t give a damn to other genre’, Sheeni replied and touched the foot of Nolan, a poster which I pasted on my room wall. He went on, ‘But it’s not Nolan’s’. Moti and I got depressed. ‘But I have
read the reviews. It says we won’t understand the movie in one go, need to
watch it twice or thrice’.
We started laughing.
‘We had understood Nolan’s in one
go, what this shit can has. Are the reviewers dumb? I will watch the movie
for the first 20 minutes and can tell the full story. It won’t be a hard
nut’,
Moti was over confident. She had
already finished 2 chips covers and was planning on my share of pizza. She is faster. For my stomach’s sake (!),
I sat at corner and placed Sheeni in middle, beside Moti. Nodded her,
signalling to take Sheeni’s share, he won’t mind.
I turned to Sheeni,’ Play CA’.
‘What’s CA?’ he enquired.
‘CLOUD ATLAS!’, I guffawed. Sheeni
got irritated. ‘Don’t make too much short cuts you MoFu, GFY’.
I like when Sheeni get irritated. Looked at Moti, she had finished Sheeni’s pizza too! She is 3G Zoo-Zoo.
Vodafone may be ‘launching’ her soon. Of
course, defying gravity!
Movie started and first 20 minutes
got over. We all were glued to the screen. None was removing their eyes from
screen. I was shocked to see Moti had not eaten anything since the start of
movie.
’20 minutes over, guess the story’,
I asked Moti patting on her head.
She was dumb struck. She pinched
herself to check, is she dreaming? Interlink of past, present, future and damn
technology had confused her.
‘Dude, I guess they have mixed many
Hollywood trailers and made as a movie’, she was tensed and horrified. This was
happening first time. She had stopped eating to concentrate more on movie and
she had no clue of what was happening in movie. Rather better to say none of us
had a clue.
Sheeni got irritated,’ Shhh...
Dialogues are not audible. Keep quite’.
‘I even not understanding the
visuals, leave audio’, I scratched my head and without permission played the
DVD from beginning. ‘A fresh start’, I said monotonously and nobody objected! It was like doctor advised pizza and I
offered pizza too! Everyone wanted to start the movie from beginning but nobody said just
because of attitude.
Thirty minutes passed and still we
had not a clue of what was happening in the movie. Moti had thrown all the
eatables at corner and covered herself with the bed-sheet and cautiously
watching the movie as if she gonna get into the movie.
Sheeni had tears in his eyes due to
pronged watching without blinking his eyes. He has leaned totally towards the
laptop screen, listening to every single word and if it was not audible he used
to rewind and play.
One hour got over, still I did not get even a bit of clue what was going
on, only some scenes were showed which were mutually exclusive. Past present future ki ma behan kar di thi
usme. But Moti and Sheeni were in same position as if they understand it
clearly.
I stooped front and checked the
remaining time of the movie. 'Why you check the time often?', Sheeni's
irritated tone beamed. Moti too nodded! I thought I am the only idiot sitting
without understanding the movie. Still 2 hours more! I saw through corner of my
eyes, they too were seeing the time left through corner of their eyes and our eyes
connected and they suddenly turned to the screen. Then I got to know, everyone
had the same thought in their mind,’
STILL TWO HOURS!! I need to sit here for next two hours and watch some scenes
which are bouncing like anything over my head’. But none spoke. Ego matters boss.
I laughed at us remembering what Moti
had told before the start of movie, telling the whole story by just watching
the first 20 minutes.
I went to pee and came back. ‘Shall
I rewind it from where you missed?’, Sheeni asked me keeping the cursor on
rewind button.
‘Hell, will I understand anything
from that part?’ I asked Sheeni, trying to make the atmosphere easy.
‘Negative’, he nodded and
grinned.
Moti was back with eatables, she had
last her interest in movie. ‘I have seen this scene in one trailer’, she
murmured with pop corn in her mouth. She still believed that this is not a
movie but just a mixture of some trailers! God
save CA!!
I looked at Moti and she too was looking
at me. We grinned. We completely had lost interest in movie but we can’t leave the
room or change the movie because we had ‘movie-pact’ that no one leaves the
room without watching the complete movie except for toilets!
I had written the pact and pasted it
below the Nolan’s poster. Screw me.
Time scrolled but Sheeni did not change his position, he was sitting front of us and Moti and I, both were resting our back to wall. Moti and I quarreled
for the last piece of pizza, place to keep leg, pillow fight and even for the more silly
things. We thought it was the better option than facing the bouncing balls.
When we got bored of fights too, I stooped front to check the remaining time,
30 minutes!
I got irritated and turned to Sheeni
to tell him to change the movie and screw the pact. But hell broke, to my
amusement, MuFu, GFY was sleeping
with his mouth open! I showed that to Moti. She got irritated and kicked him.
Both started laughing. ‘Crap. We were watching the movie ((!) I looked at her
and winked) just because you were watching but you..,’ I too kicked him.
‘Dude what shall I do? No meaning in
the scenes. Which is past, present and future in the movie? It’s not non-linear
but curvy-linear or say, hyperbola. Who said watching movie is fun? I got doubt
about my existence while watching this movie. Sorry not movie, mixture of
trailers!’, Sheeni blurted out. And all broke to laughter.
Till date neither we watched it
again nor we understood a bit of the CA.
P.S: Remembering the faces really
eases out the movie. BOL! (best of luck) :P
