Its wonderful to recognise that certain fragrance takes you back to the time when it had been with you. Its kinda weird but a proven fact. First few days to this unknown dungeon i was all i had with me. Every one had gone to home for vacation and I and other two Bhutan guys were only people left in a 150 room capacity 'ancient' place. Even the two lakshsweep guys were planning to move to some place. But finally they were there.
Why i did not go home? Well is that a trick question, hhmmmm i decided to experiment that it. That is a good enough reason.
Winter days with 5 day vacation.
Day 1: Bhutani Guys; Understanding Bhutani Culture
Bhutani guys and I were not able to communicate even basic things. They dont speak hindi and english with half clipped accent was far too incomprehensible. I made a wrong start already by calling a bare chested cossak wearing old guy a faggot. He came out to be their KING. Hail the King! Bhutan in 2004 was still ruled by King. Later Nidup, very much of looks like jugal hansraj in that crappy movie mohabattein, tried to show me his photo album. Very exotic pics, that was the only thing i could bear with him that too for good 2 hours. Later that too got messed up when i could not make out who were his sisters, cousins and mother. They all looked the same. His mother got married with his father when she was 13 and took up the cause of serving the commandment of king to generate at least 6 kids. They obliged and Nidup was the last fruit of his parents hard work, he explained it to me without any expression at all. I thought it may be a joke and laughed for complete 5 minutes. So photos were outta question now.
Day 2 : Playing Cards with Lakhsdweep guys
It happend that sandy( Almost has a black bear type personality with an exception of penguin type skin) tried to chip in while we were having tea in the bed. Sandy is such a gentleman he would do just anything to make people enjoy his company. I immediately liked that guy and he's been a good friend just before he went back to laksdweep to support his father's small boat company. He's offered me to come over there when possible. Although he was not able to get the attention of the girl who named him sandy in the first place but i think he made a decent accept. Any ways, we walked for an hour to get playing cards. By the time we went to the shop we gelled quite nicely. His sea trip and local food description were exotic. So though we bought cards we never played because we found somthing else which was more interesting. Ya it was evening and i had identified a marriage cermony party. Sandy loves food and i love thrill so we planned to get in there. Sandy was very reluctant to get in first. Then i aksed him a very cleched but effective question which has worked 99 percent of time for me.
" Do you trust me Sandy?" I asked
" No dude!" he replied
I guess he was in the other 1 percent.
Still i got him convinced somehow and there we were inside. I guess it was in the compound of Surya Hotel where this function was happening but i grossly underestimated the situation as it turned out to be a private b'day party with only 60-70 people on the board. We cant even come outside now as we had already shaken hands with people at the gate.
Day 3: Swades
Now even the laksdweep and Bhutani were out of the hostel. This was the testing day. In the morning i was enjoying radio. It was Mohd. Rafi special, i remember, so there were famous tracks- maine poocha chand se and the likes. Awesome music. Then ate something while reading the newspaper. I saw swadesh was running in madhumilan and i was curious about aushotosh gowarikar and he didnt disappoint. SRK's best performance and Gayatri Joshi though lacked maturity of a seasoned actor but her casting did justice to the role as her looks definitely suited to the role. Her frigid acting actually did compliment the attitude of the character played. The romantic scenes were simple and warm. My personal like was their argumentation in the kitchen.
In the night i was bit soggy of the weird voices accross the long corridors. Then i used the earphones, played some music and slept.
Woke up early and did a lot of chatting with Dashrath- the guard and decided to pack the backs.
5 days cut short to 3 but still i got what i needed- exclusivity.
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