Sabarish

It was Sharath’s birthday last week, but he wasn’t in station to treat us. So this weekend we got our treat from him! Ghana, Sunil, Sharath, Ranganath and myself had a great action packed day today!

Ranga, Sunil, Sharath and Ghana

The day started late as usual for me. Sunil called and tried to wake me up at 7 AM, but failed to do so, as I went back to sleep! Finally (after many phone calls and scoldings) I left home at some 11 AM and picked up Ghana, on the way, at MG road. We went to Sunil’s house and picked him up and went to Sharath’s house. Ranga joined us at Sharath’s house and then we all proceeded to this Go-Karting place on Mysore Road, about 5 kms after RV College.

We had good fun karting. The track and karts were awesome. The rate was also reasonable – Rs. 100 for 6 laps. We paid 200 bucks and went for 12 laps.

Me karting!

Sharath and Sunil had booked tickets for Rang De Basanti 4 PM show at Innovative Multiplex in Marathahalli. It was almost 2 PM and we decided it was time to move on to lunch from the karting place, if we wanted to reach the theatre (which was some 40 odd kms away) in time.

At a rajasthani dhaba

Thanks to Ghana’s recommendation, we went to some Rajasthani hotel in Rajarajeshwari Nagar, and had nice parathas. Time was running out and it was well past 3:00 when we left the hotel and we still had a long way to go!

Drove back to Sharath’s house, from where Sharath and Ranga got their bikes. We lost hopes of reaching the mulitplex in time as we only had about 35 minutes for the show to start. After some frustratingly long traffic signals and maniacal driving by me, and touching 120+ kmph in my car, we finally reached the multiplex at around 4:05 PM.

We (Ghana and myself) literally ran from the car park to the theatre, where Ranga, Sunil and Sharath had reached on the bikes. Luckily the show hadn’t started as yet! We bought our cool drinks and settled down for Rang De Basanti.

And, what a movie it was! I really enjoyed the movie. Although the first half was kinda vague and was going too many places at the same time the second half was awesome and what a dramatic climax it had! A great movie, with awesome cinematography and good performances by everyone. Check out two contrasting reviews of the movie here and here.

Ghana, Sunil, me and Ranga

We returned home after the movie around 8 PM. But it was not the end of my evening. My apartment association was celebrating their annual day and so they had arranged a musical night followed by dinner.

Tomorrow we are planning on going for some concert at Palace grounds, for which Sunil has got the passes!