Minutes of Madness - 06

“So, the phone call ended that way? I doubt” she said with more suspicion.

“How long you want me to stay in a bathroom and speak in a hissing voice!?” I said and just smiled hiding back most things that happened that night.

“I guess you would have stayed up all night!” she said.

“All night?? Mad or What? Next day was a big day!” I sounded little more enthusiastic and continued.

31^st August 2011

I woke up little early which became a practice after my early morning driving classes. But today a little heavy heart with a thought ‘you still have 24 hours’. I know the certainty but it’s always a classic act that your heart doesn’t understand the reality. I just wanted to keep my thoughts clear and far away from what we call as ‘reality’. 

A change of mind was what I expected and it was evitable with lots of tweets early morning with huge expectations over ‘Mankatha’- The Ajith starrer movie which was due releasing that day. I was a huge fan of Ajith – as a person and as an actor and so booked tickets for the movie. It was the most awkward decision to skip Eid Biryani for the sake of movie but managed to complete the Biryani lunch and be on theatre perfectly by 1:45 PM. The show was delayed by nearly 2 hours and we were waiting at the gate till 4’O clock. Till then lots of debates over ‘Ajith or Vijay’ – insult Suriya in between, Jayalalitha’s 100 days record as CM, and so on.

The movie was a heroic flick and was not like usual Tamil movies. I was really happy that it satisfied most audience in theatre irrespective of hero favourite audience. I was crazy behind those dialogues Ajith uttered in that movie with a majestic laugh sequence. Varun was among those who accompanied to the movie. He was my only friend during first year, later distanced, came close and did that many often. We don’t fight or so, but he would be busy and I won’t disturb either but will always be together!

Varun was quite complex in character may be coz he was brought up as a single child. He won’t usually care for people and feelings but quite attached with me. He puts up all his awkward character into single word ‘possessiveness’. When we just started to part to our houses, it was nearly 7:00 PM. I and Hydar crossed the road for our bus and Varun suddenly called me, in fact shouted from the other side of the road, “Meet you at the marriage tomorrow da…” 

I turned towards him, little frustrated with those words. In fact I dint even remember about her for the past 6 hours or so but suddenly he reminded me of that. A little upset but managed well and said “Ha… Ha… You enjoy dude! Am planning for yet another show tomorrow morning – Mankatha da!”

Minute of Madness!