My in-laws had come in, so I thought I’ll take them around the Chennai city. Since the time available was less, I had to go for something short and sweet.

Though I was not sure of the layout of chennai city myself, keeping my trust with the rickshaw walas and the police men, I set out to the Sathyam theatres in Royapettah. Me and my brother in-law being a movie bluff (because when ever we meet we end up talking about movies, actors and upcoming trends in the movie industry), I thought a movie experience at the Sathya theatre would be the best gift I could give him for tonite.

We were late..hurray! All tickets sold out. People selling tickets in black (meaning unauthorised reselling of tickets) lurking around, people who already got the tickets rushing to the entrances with a feeling of nothing less than “I am the king of the world, my wifes the queen, and my kid the prince.”. This was the situation precisely when I reached the Sathyam complex.

Immediately some “black ticketeers” guessing the frustration from our faces, pitched their marketing mantra – “Tickets?? Rendu irukuu” (Want ticket? I have two for sale.)

The tickets at Sathyam was higher than the other theatres in the city, and I have no problem whatsoever paying that ‘cos the theatre and the ambience is worth it. Keeping that in mind and my old “black ticket” vendors experience from Cochin and Trivandrum, I guessed in my mind that these guys are going to rip me off a cool 900 rupees atleast for three tickets. (Normal rate – 120, Black rate – 300×3=900 total)

Let me honest with this, I was taken aback when the guys handed over me the ticket for the same price!!!! Can you believe that? I thought, “Man..Chennai truly rocks!” I’ve been collecting things from whereever possible to add to the liking of Chennai, and this was the latest one – Black tickets (meaning? refer above lines) available for the same price at the Sathyam theatre complex!

So without no delay, we grabbed three tickets and rushed in the theatre. After the regular 113 jewellers advertisements, the movie started – Bheema! In my mind I had framed an image of Sarkar + Sathya + some tamil style romance + Wire supported fighting. And that was almost what it was. The movie was a total bore.

A masala movie that it was, I had left my brains at home, but that did not help either. I had to try my best to keep awake, but the songs in between placed wisely to put the second show viewers to sleep, did the trick! I fell asleep in between only to wake up to all that fight sequence noise. I somehow felt the director placed the songs and fight scenes very well that it was intended to – put you asleep – wake you up – put you asleep – wake you up – kind of a sequence.

The most astonishing/mind blowing/surprising/stupid/insane/weird/bizzare thing in the whole movie was that Vikram (the actor) who was gunned down by 12(not less anyway) pistols, lying dead with holes on his body making it look strikingly similar to a fishing net, actually wriggles – get’s up -and shouts before he again falls down – to a final collapse!For a moment I got confused, was it a dream, was i asleep or did it actually happen? Truly – “death defying!!”.