Movie Time

Shekhawat announces tomorrow's movie outing

After a gap of nearly six years, we are witnessing another major revival in the Club – movie outings. Tomorrow, a group of 20-odd members is expected to converge at a nearby cineplex for the morning show of the latest Aamir Khan-starrer, Dangal – a semi-biographical film on an ageing wrestler who coaches his daughters to become world class wrestling champs.
The movie is supposed to be inspired by the lives of the Phogat family from Haryana – Mahavir Singh and his two daughters, Geeta and Babita. However, were it not for Aamir Khan in the lead and positive reviews in the press, it is unlikely any of us would have cared to watch “a wrestling film” together.

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Moreover, some members like Santosh Tyagi, Siba Prasad Maitra, Geeta Latte and Fahmida Khan have already seen the film by themselves and are all praise for it.
Significantly, the last time we had gone for a movie outing was for the comedy, Yamla Pagla Deewana, in 2011. Prior to that, there had been many such outings for potboilers like Tees Maar Khan, Dabangg, Golmaal 3 and so on. Thereafter, it all came to a halt -- for a very peculiar reason.
In December 2011, a movie called Dirty Picture (starring Vidya Balan) was released. Like Dangal, it was a quasi-biographical feature – based on the life of southern sex siren, Silk Smitha. Everybody in the Club was interested, but nobody said so in as many words -- what with salacious scenes from the film playing 24x7 on TV and suggestive posters plastered around town. And then, with an unambiguous title like Dirty Picture!
The ladies in the Club made it known that they would not be caught dead watching the movie in the company of gents. The men in the Club, in their impatience, watched the film individually – only to be “found out” in dark auditoriums and loos. The ladies broke into groups on the basis of age… and in the end, nobody got left out. Everybody saw Dirty Picture. But oddly enough nobody was prepared to admit it. That was enough to raise a cloud of suspicion and eventually, cost the group its unity. Since then, movie outings have been suspended!
Dilip Babani:
Dangal is a very nice movie. All must see it. An Aamir Khan movie is always the best.
Siba Prasad Maitra:
In our club, the ladies are more in number. After they see Geeta and Babita fight the boys so well in Dangal, all male members in the club will have to be extra careful from day after tomorrow. The ladies would have learnt wrestling from the movie by then. Ha ha ha!
Bihari Milwani (from San Francisco):
Good news! In the new year, insurance companies will reduce the premium for male members of our club. We will have a lot of lady bodyguards after they watch Dangal.