Another Movie

Poster of Hindi Medium

As it is, heat and humidity have been playing spoilsport with us for long. If that were not enough, the IPL cricket final last night robbed us of yet another major chunk of our regular attendance for the exercises. Many like Arun Patil, Kiran Prakash and Bijoy Gupta, who stayed awake watching the match on TV well past midnight, either came late or did not show up in the morning. Yusuf Rassiwala could not keep his eyes open beyond 11:00 pm and learnt

Cash collection for booking tomorrow's morning show

about the match results only after coming to the Garden today. He is a supporter of Mumbai Indians and was mighty pleased that his team won the final – by one run and lifted the IPL Cup.
Somehow, none of that mattered this morning as a new movie release, Hindi Medium hijacked the attention of everyone present. It comes close on the heels of Baahubali-2 – a wildly high-voltage, record breaking blockbuster from which the Club is yet to recover.

Banoo Apa steps in the middle to conduct today's exercises

A dozen-odd members had gone for that show on May 11 (see post).
This time around, the number is likely to be higher. Nahid Khan, who rarely goes for a movie outing from the Club, jumped at the mention of Hindi Medium. So did her namesake, Nahid Siddiqui. Even Gupta, known to have slept through the entire screening of Baahubali-2, signed up for the morning show tomorrow. So did Shekhawat, notorious as he is for refusing to follow any story line of any movie. And then there were our regular cine addicts – Santosh Tyagi, Bhaswati Bose, Rukhsana Khan, Banoo Apa and so on.
Hindi Medium is billed as a ‘situational comedy’, revolving around a couple desperate to get their three-year-old daughter admitted in a so-called English medium school. With Irrfan Khan and Saba Qamar in the lead, the film is said to be a remake of a recent Malayalam superhit, Salt Mango Tree (also made in Bengali as Ramdhanu).
In Maharashtra, Hindi Medium has been declared ‘tax free’.
Bihari Milwani:
Tickets for the movie will be given to only those who come in time for exercises in the morning and stay on till end of the birthday celebration of Nahid Siddiqui.
Lt Col Angad Singh (retd):
With a birthday party scheduled, people will certainly crowd around.