Sunday, 11th Jan, when I park my car in front of the Cine Complex,Bhubaneswar (Sriya,Stuti & Swati) at about 9.30 AM, I felt that I will get the ticket today definitely.But, alas !! all tickets of Balcony & DC had been sold out - only the tickets of Night Show left.Now-a-days, as I feared about the Naxal, I don’t prefer for the night shows.Practically speaking, is it possible that all the tickets were sold within 1 hour as the the counter generally opens at about 8.30Am. Then, why there is the system of advance booking ?
As , I had returned consucatively for three Sundays, I decided to see the movie in the matine show.When, I went there at about 2pm, there is the raj of ticket blackers.The tickets are sold just like hot cakes - DC is not available.The rate of Balcony Rs.40 , the blackers sold them at Rs100.
As the tickets are computerised, the blackers bought them in the bounch of 3 or 5.What they actually did- they collected three or five people at a time and sold the tickets in a group.
After moving here and there, finally I decided to buy 2.My blacker gave away the ticket, but the ticket has 5 seat no.When I asked him, he infirmed that 3 had already gone into the hall.Fine ..
How is it possible - as the ticket is in my hand ?When I enquired regarding this, I knew that the ticket had two parts - one part should be kept with the audience and another should be retained by the ticket collector at the door or entrance of the hall.Again, how other three people entered into ? Then, the other three people has one part and another I have.
What you think now ? Don’t you think that there is good connection between the staffs and blackers ?If not, then there shouldn’t be any blackers.
Again - why there is the system of advance booking ?
That’s why, my motto is - ‘Ghajini - Raj of Ticket Blackers’
In yesterday’s installment of Samaj, there was a small news item which indicated a big trend. A certain shop owner in Cuttack, who was an avowed Amir Khan fan, bought more souls for his master by offering free Ghajini haircuts to all and sundry. Bollywood always had a huge impact on the state’s youth and that is not what I wish to discuss here. I don’t claim to be any smarter than the tens of youths who patiently waited in a line for hours to get the bald pate.
I intend to disclose the real inspiration behind the great Ghajini story here. I am sure there many out there who are privy to the secret but it’s me who has decided to play the party pooper. Lately, a few critics have also pointed out that both Ghajini and its Telugu predecessor have been inspired by a brilliant hollywood flick ‘Memento’. The movie was released back in the year 2000. So, all debates about which came first are silenced.
The movie has the now-famous Christopher Nolan (of the Dark Knight fame) as its director. The extremely talented and highly under-exploited Guy Pearce plays the male lead. There are just three characters in the whole film. Yes, just three. The whole movie was made with the idea of you-blink-andyou-miss. The film progressed through a patchwork of black-and-white and color, tumbling the story back and forth. All I have to say is the movie is a never-miss and I have seen it three times and loved it all the more each time.
As per the bollywood version of Ghajini, I have not seen it so far and can’t say how wonderfully it is made. However, I am not playing a movie critique here but I inted to bring more stuff like this in this section “Did You Notice?”
Hello everyone!
This is one of the first blogs I am posting and I hate to sound so run down. After all, beginnings are supposed to be exciting. Unable to sort the issue myself, I am here to narrate the whole story to you.
Unhappy with the services of any internet service provider, I settled for connection from each, i.e. both BSNL and Ortel. Two connections, two blinking modems and the power to banish the slower one at will made me feel like a King. However, god doesn’t tolerate pride, nor do the ISPs. As I started working on the blog, having set myself a timeline, I realised the biggest pain in the god-given-anatomy would not be my laziness but the errant internet connection.
For hours in the afternoon, I could finish praying to the whole panorama of Hindu gods before even the lightest page would open. On other days, there were no false dreams. The connections were down and would remain so for long hours. Hoping and fearing that something was wrong with my set-up, I walked into a near-by cafe in Rasulgarh to find that not only all connections were down, they were down everywhere.
After a lot of troubleshooting at my end, I contacted the BSNL SDO, who I must agree was very helpful, gifted me with a brand new modem. Now, I am neither thankless nor an eternal, hopeless crib. But, i wonder with such internet infrastructure, how ready are we to be claimants of being the next best destination of IT?
However, I will not sit judge on an issue of such magnitude. Let me know, as an Oriya netizen, how your experience has been with the ISPs here.
