Shammi: Chal chal Jaldi chal?
Ram: par kahan?
Hari: neeche. got some crackers. Lets boom boom.
It was 11 in the night, not an odd hour for the idea of bursting crackers to burst up in a bachelor's heart but definitely an odd hour to implement the idea. But time is the last thing these three guys have information of. The most difficult question they find is - What is the date today? Shammi thinks that its 10 in the evening, which he does not consider an odd hour to burst crackers. Ram knows that its 11 in night and yes, the thought of old people sleeping and dreaming of being young again, of children listening to their mother's loris and of couples doing whatever they are supposed to do at this time comes to his mind but he simply scoffs off the thought because its Diwali (though Diwali is yet 2 days away). And Hari, he simply does not care a damn about time or society.
So, the three of them walk down to the society's garden.
Shammi: Where is Machis?
Hari drags the cigarette as if its a respirator in the oxygen deprived world and then holds it high in his hands.
Hari: Do You really need a machis to burst a cracker?
Shammi: hmm. not actually.
Hari takes a cracker from Ram. Places it in the middle of the garden surrounded by buildings. Lights the cracker with his cigarette. Runs away. Ram closes his ears as someone closes when he knows that something wrong is getting in there. Shammi takes the cigarette from Hari and drags while waiting for the cracker to burst.
cracker: BOOOOM!!!!
Ram: wao that was powerful.
Shammi: yep. my turn.
again, shammi takes the cracker. places in the middle. lights it with a cigarette. All three wait. And then, Boom.
Ram: not that powerful.
Hari was the most excited. Shammi a little less.So, a thought comes to Ram's mind - maybe the way crackers burst is somehow linked with the inner excitement of the person bursting the cracker. Such thoughts, though they mean nothing, always keep Ram in a while loop. Maybe thats why he is always a little absent minded.
Ram: Let me check my excitement level.
Hari: what?
Ram: I mean, its my turn now.
again, Ram takes the cracker. places in the middle. lights it with a cigarette. All three wait. And then, Fusssss.
Shammi: Ohh. bad luck.
Ram(murmerring): or maybe i am the cool type.
again. Hari goes. Shammi goes. Ram goes. BOOOOOM...BOOOM...FUSSS...
VOICE1: you have any idea What the Fuck are You three crazy shits doing at this point of time??
Ram finds this voice louder than the BOOM of cracker. May be because he did not close his ears to this voice.
Ram: waoo. that was rude.
VOICE1: Do you know what time is it?
Ohh the most difficult question.
Shammi: Why? its 10.
attempted this time. But wrong answer, so must be given negative marks.
VOICE1: and YOU BACHELORS think that you can do anything at this time. YOU BACHELORS does not have any civil sense. YOU BACHELORS have destroyed the peace of many societies. I will see how YOU BACHELORS stay in this society.
A door of some flat opens and a family comes out rubbing their eyes to watch the Drama.
Though a little rudely, everything was fine in what VOICE1 said, except YOU BACHELORS. Now this is something that irritates every bachelor. What can a bachelor do about his being bachelor. Marry? No, he cant marry at 23. Live in?? No, VOICE1 kind of people think it to be amoral or something and moreover there are not enough girls for every bachelor boy to have a live in with, and thats because the VOICE1's generation was obsessed with baby boys. So the only alternative for a bachelor is to be content with his bachelor life. But ironically, youth does not favor contentment. So it hurts like a knife when somebody, specially of VOICE1's generation, says YOU BACHELORS.
Ram: Everything you say is right but only if you had said it a little politely.
VOICE1: Politeness!!! Now, YOU BACHELORS will show me what politeness is?
A door of some other flat opens and one more family comes out rubbing their eyes to watch the Drama.
Shammi: of course. why not?
VOICE1: you people do not have any respect for the elder people,like me, and you will teach me politeness.
A door of one more flat opens and one more family comes out rubbing their eyes to watch the Drama.
Now this was getting too much. So, Shammi comes in form.
Shammi: why should I respect you? Just because you were born 40 years before I was born, or because you have wasted more years of your life than I have wasted, or because you have seen more obscenities of this world than I have seen or just because you have been so rude to us. Why?? Respect does not come by age. You have to earn it. We guys here may not have earned your respect. The way you talk with us shows it. But we guys do have dignity. And we are not going to take a single offensive word from anybody.
VOICE1: So, you want me to be sorry for what I said.
Hari: No. We just want you to be a little polite. If you would have said "guys its too late for crackers. you may be disturbing somebody." we would have gone home without saying a word or maybe who knows we could have apologized too.
VOICE2(VOICE1's son.MARRIED): You three Jack asses. You know its illegal to burst crackers after 10. If you burst one more cracker I will call the cops.
COPPPPPS....two doors open this time and two more families come out.
Shammi: Call whoever you want to call.But you people, with your loud voice, have disturbed more people here than our four crackers. [two crackers by Ram were FUSSss..]
Now some guys come down in the garden and start settling the matter.
anonymous voice: leave it Bhattacharya ji. Its Diwali. I know them they are nice people. Ho jata hai kabhi kabhi.
anonymous voice: leave it yaar. Lets go home. Bhattacharya is a crazy irritating man.
Ram noticed the crowd. All of them were with THE BACHELORS. And Ram feels as if he and his friends have won the argumnet. So, he thinks maybe to win the crowd is more important than to win the argument. So, Ram gets stuck in a switch-case statement here considering all the possible advantages and disadvantages of winning the crowd.
NEXT DAY: EVENING: In the same garden
VOICE3: Hi Shammi. I noticed you last night. You really had a point. I am really impressed.
Shammi: really. never seen you before.
VOICE3: ohh. I live there. I am Mr. Bhattacharya's daughter. I liked your way and soo.. and soo and the conversation went on...
Shammi comes home.
Shammi: guess what happened today.
Ram: a beautiful girl approached you.
Shammi: yaa. But guess who?
Ram:Bhattacharya's daughter.
Shammi:yep. But how do you know.
Ram(smugly):huhu!!winning crowd is definitely more important.
Ram: par kahan?
Hari: neeche. got some crackers. Lets boom boom.
It was 11 in the night, not an odd hour for the idea of bursting crackers to burst up in a bachelor's heart but definitely an odd hour to implement the idea. But time is the last thing these three guys have information of. The most difficult question they find is - What is the date today? Shammi thinks that its 10 in the evening, which he does not consider an odd hour to burst crackers. Ram knows that its 11 in night and yes, the thought of old people sleeping and dreaming of being young again, of children listening to their mother's loris and of couples doing whatever they are supposed to do at this time comes to his mind but he simply scoffs off the thought because its Diwali (though Diwali is yet 2 days away). And Hari, he simply does not care a damn about time or society.
So, the three of them walk down to the society's garden.
Shammi: Where is Machis?
Hari drags the cigarette as if its a respirator in the oxygen deprived world and then holds it high in his hands.
Hari: Do You really need a machis to burst a cracker?
Shammi: hmm. not actually.
Hari takes a cracker from Ram. Places it in the middle of the garden surrounded by buildings. Lights the cracker with his cigarette. Runs away. Ram closes his ears as someone closes when he knows that something wrong is getting in there. Shammi takes the cigarette from Hari and drags while waiting for the cracker to burst.
cracker: BOOOOM!!!!
Ram: wao that was powerful.
Shammi: yep. my turn.
again, shammi takes the cracker. places in the middle. lights it with a cigarette. All three wait. And then, Boom.
Ram: not that powerful.
Hari was the most excited. Shammi a little less.So, a thought comes to Ram's mind - maybe the way crackers burst is somehow linked with the inner excitement of the person bursting the cracker. Such thoughts, though they mean nothing, always keep Ram in a while loop. Maybe thats why he is always a little absent minded.
Ram: Let me check my excitement level.
Hari: what?
Ram: I mean, its my turn now.
again, Ram takes the cracker. places in the middle. lights it with a cigarette. All three wait. And then, Fusssss.
Shammi: Ohh. bad luck.
Ram(murmerring): or maybe i am the cool type.
again. Hari goes. Shammi goes. Ram goes. BOOOOOM...BOOOM...FUSSS...
VOICE1: you have any idea What the Fuck are You three crazy shits doing at this point of time??
Ram finds this voice louder than the BOOM of cracker. May be because he did not close his ears to this voice.
Ram: waoo. that was rude.
VOICE1: Do you know what time is it?
Ohh the most difficult question.
Shammi: Why? its 10.
attempted this time. But wrong answer, so must be given negative marks.
VOICE1: and YOU BACHELORS think that you can do anything at this time. YOU BACHELORS does not have any civil sense. YOU BACHELORS have destroyed the peace of many societies. I will see how YOU BACHELORS stay in this society.
A door of some flat opens and a family comes out rubbing their eyes to watch the Drama.
Though a little rudely, everything was fine in what VOICE1 said, except YOU BACHELORS. Now this is something that irritates every bachelor. What can a bachelor do about his being bachelor. Marry? No, he cant marry at 23. Live in?? No, VOICE1 kind of people think it to be amoral or something and moreover there are not enough girls for every bachelor boy to have a live in with, and thats because the VOICE1's generation was obsessed with baby boys. So the only alternative for a bachelor is to be content with his bachelor life. But ironically, youth does not favor contentment. So it hurts like a knife when somebody, specially of VOICE1's generation, says YOU BACHELORS.
Ram: Everything you say is right but only if you had said it a little politely.
VOICE1: Politeness!!! Now, YOU BACHELORS will show me what politeness is?
A door of some other flat opens and one more family comes out rubbing their eyes to watch the Drama.
Shammi: of course. why not?
VOICE1: you people do not have any respect for the elder people,like me, and you will teach me politeness.
A door of one more flat opens and one more family comes out rubbing their eyes to watch the Drama.
Now this was getting too much. So, Shammi comes in form.
Shammi: why should I respect you? Just because you were born 40 years before I was born, or because you have wasted more years of your life than I have wasted, or because you have seen more obscenities of this world than I have seen or just because you have been so rude to us. Why?? Respect does not come by age. You have to earn it. We guys here may not have earned your respect. The way you talk with us shows it. But we guys do have dignity. And we are not going to take a single offensive word from anybody.
VOICE1: So, you want me to be sorry for what I said.
Hari: No. We just want you to be a little polite. If you would have said "guys its too late for crackers. you may be disturbing somebody." we would have gone home without saying a word or maybe who knows we could have apologized too.
VOICE2(VOICE1's son.MARRIED): You three Jack asses. You know its illegal to burst crackers after 10. If you burst one more cracker I will call the cops.
COPPPPPS....two doors open this time and two more families come out.
Shammi: Call whoever you want to call.But you people, with your loud voice, have disturbed more people here than our four crackers. [two crackers by Ram were FUSSss..]
Now some guys come down in the garden and start settling the matter.
anonymous voice: leave it Bhattacharya ji. Its Diwali. I know them they are nice people. Ho jata hai kabhi kabhi.
anonymous voice: leave it yaar. Lets go home. Bhattacharya is a crazy irritating man.
Ram noticed the crowd. All of them were with THE BACHELORS. And Ram feels as if he and his friends have won the argumnet. So, he thinks maybe to win the crowd is more important than to win the argument. So, Ram gets stuck in a switch-case statement here considering all the possible advantages and disadvantages of winning the crowd.
NEXT DAY: EVENING: In the same garden
VOICE3: Hi Shammi. I noticed you last night. You really had a point. I am really impressed.
Shammi: really. never seen you before.
VOICE3: ohh. I live there. I am Mr. Bhattacharya's daughter. I liked your way and soo.. and soo and the conversation went on...
Shammi comes home.
Shammi: guess what happened today.
Ram: a beautiful girl approached you.
Shammi: yaa. But guess who?
Ram:Bhattacharya's daughter.
Shammi:yep. But how do you know.
Ram(smugly):huhu!!winning crowd is definitely more important.
