Tees Maar Khan

Normal people pay and watch a film they want to watch. Not us. We pay for the film we want to watch and watch another we don’t want to watch. Why? Because we love to laugh at ourselves. And secondly, today’s the day to be holly-jolly.
Merry Christmas everybody!
But Sunita-ji was livid. So was Santosh-ji. How could Yusuf-bhai unilaterally decide for everybody to go for Tees Maar Khan when he had collected money for Band Baajaa Baaraat? Grover-sah’b took a refund for the tickets he had booked for his family. What nobody had reckoned was that Band Baaja Baaraat had already run its course in the past four weeks and had been pulled off from most theatres yesterday. Even more surprising was that Tees Maar Khan, the latest Akshay Kumar-Katrina Kaif starrer had opened to virtually empty theatres.
So on Christmas Day, the “baaraat” jingled all the way to 24 Karat, a run down multiplex at Jogeshwari on S.V.Road. Like last time, Zayan and Shayan had come with their parents and grand-mom, Razia Khan; Sitaram-ji was with his wife; Nazma Sayed had brought her grand-daughter; Yusuf-bhai was with wife and grandson… With family members and kids scampering around, the Group of 22 looked a merry bunch of movie buffs out to make the most of a holiday.
It was just that we were at a wrong place on a right day for the wrong reason. For Tees Maar Khan was a pain. The cornball comedy on a demented conman (and his dumb-looking foil) staging a great train robbery was so over-the-top that our earlier two outings, Dabangg and Golmaal-3 look like Oscar winners now. Even the much-hyped 'Shiela ki jawani' item number was a washout – a disappointment. Nothing at all made sense. Yusuf-bhai simply held his head in exasperation and muttered aloud: “Puk gaya!”
Bose too couldn’t take the onslaught for long and did his own version of TMK. He slunk out in the darkness midway through the movie and returned after two hours, his head properly shorn. He had “utilized” the time by having a haircut at the barber’s close to the theatre!
Merry Christmas, once again to ALL -- and Monthi Serrao, in particular.