Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Encountered


Jab tak rahega Samose mein aaloo , tera rahoonga oo meri shaaloo !!

Scene : Inside an Auto , with some *beautiful* music being played . The driver uncle jee has an awesome selection of the best songs ever produced by the bollywood movies!

So Anish and me were sitting in this auto rickshaw, going to Bandstand that happened to be near The Taj Land’s End. Beautiful place ! But , anyway , our hired three-wheeler got stuck in a signal cum traffic jam. So while we were simply sitting and talking about the beautiful rains and the awesome mausam , a eunuch happened to come to the auto , and peeped in from the side where I was sitting . Though uber-ly scared coz of its mere presence and the tsunami of the claps nd slaps, I didn’t react. And shedding money was definitely out of question . I had just made up my mind this way when I turned towards Anish, who had already taken his wallet out . I gave him this aye-tu-mard-ke-naam-pe-kalank look and asked him to keep the money back inside his wallet. Surprisingly, the eunuch (who I think was a man) saw me do this and yelled at me for the same . The auto-driver entertained by all of this, soon cleared his preferences nd came to our rescue and asked the unwelcomed visitor to leave. But as expected, the visitor was in no mood to move. Instead, he said something which was beyond the capacity of our understanding, and soon Anish, me and driver uncle found out that our auto was surrounded by 3 more people from the eunuch’s tribe . Now that was scary, at least for someone like me . The scene 45 seconds later was somewhat like this, the entire auto was filled with claps from all sides. Poor driver uncle jee, he too was attacked . After some time, when they understood that they’re just not going get richer in any way, they chose to have fun with us (I know we should never assume stuff , as it just makes an ass out of u and me, but I still did assume that they were fooling with us). Anyway , one of them, put his fatherly hand on Anish’s head and told him to give something to the needy (clearly pointing towards itself , but obvious) so that in return he gets a good career, with a heavy salary and that he gets to marry the lady soon. My eyes popped out when I heard that , nd so did Anish’s. Damn , the entire eunuch clan present there had already assumed me to be Anish’s lady-love !! Eeeehh . I couldn’t help myself, and neither could Anish , and so, we burst out laughing . The eunuchs amused by our reactions, got all the more excited and began showering the *young couple* with all the love of the world. Things began to get outta control when the supposedly head eunuch came from nowhere and very firmly and seriously asked ‘my man’ to give them something as a mark of gratitude , and thank god for having bought such a beautiful lady into his life . I really froze when I heard the head say that !! But before I could even react , and Anish could laugh at me in front of them for that , driver jee changed the gears and began to move , the traffic had cleared a bit and the signal had just turned green .

Kisi disco mein jayen , kissi hotel mein khayein , koi dekh le na hume yahan , kahin ghoom ke aayen hum . Aanh Aahn . Chalo Ishq ladaye , chalo ishq ladayen , chalo ishq ladayen Sanam !! Aanh Aahn .