The longest movie of my life - Part 1

“Vettayadu Vilayadu “!!! No … this is not a code. This is the name of the latest Kamal Hasan tamil flick. As my apartment mate Vijay tells me, it means “Hunt and Play”. No, I have not lost my senses and I accept that I watched this entire movie that too in a theatre and believe me I watched the whole movie and there were no subtitles being shown.

Story goes like this, I shifted to this new apartment where two of my roommates are tamilians and are die hard Kamal Hasan fans. They asked my friend Ratnaker whom I will be replacing in the apartment and in office and in many other senses, to join them in the movie and he being a telugu guy doesn’t understand tamil asked me to join them. But we are talking about buddyship here, being together in good and bed ..oops .. bad times although we didn’t understand each other’s native language. We (me and Ratnaker) thought that there will be subtitles in English in the movie and we will be able to comprehend the movie. The tickets were booked online in jiffy.

Movie was supposed to be screened at a theatre in Waukegan , a suburb of Chicago. The show was supposed to start at 22:00 Military time. I drove my car to that place with Ratnaker helping me with directions. Vijay was so much excited; it looked as if he is going to get laid for the first time. We reached the theatre at 21:45 and came to know previous play of the same movie that was scheduled at 19:00 was not screened and it will take some time before the movie could start.

To be continued……