Movie Outing

Santosh Tyagi

Call it love for cinema or consolation for a picnic gone sour (ref post of August 16), our movie mavens were back in action today. After exactly three months to the day (ref post of May 22), they ganged up and trooped out to watch the newest potboiler in town,

Bareilly Ki Barfi poster

Bareilly Ki Barfi.
The last film they had watched together from the Club was the Irrfan Khan-Saba Qamar starrer, Hindi Medium, on May 22, 2017.
Today’s movie outing was prompted by another reason, though somewhat altruistic. It was apparently the only way to lure Santosh Tyagi back to her morning routine in the Garden. She has just been through an angiography at Belle Vue, which has put her in the clear on a suspected heart complication. But that had scarcely lifted her spirits as she continued to suffer from symptoms of acute depression. In fact, the angiography was done after medical tests confirmed that nothing was wrong with her and yet,

Our movie mavens plan for today's morning show

her BP had to shoot up to an alarming 250/100.
Santosh admits that by herself, she “thinks” too much and requires some diversion to keep herself "mentally busy". She also realizes that staying cooped up at home 24x7 wasn’t doing her any good. So for the last couple of months or so, she kept assuring us daily (on phone) that she intends to start her exercises at the Garden as before. But somehow, she would change her mind the following day just before stepping out of her house. It was only the lure of the movie today that drew her out. “No matter how many people join, I shall go for Bareilly Ki Barfi,” she said with some enthusiasm yesterday.
Starring Kriti Sanon, Rajkumar Rao and Ayushmann Khurrana, the movie is billed as a romantic comedy revolving around a spirited small town girl caught between two guys – one, who she believes to have authored a book bearing a close resemblance with her life and the other, the real author. It was presumably an enjoyable watch.

Karun Sharma:
Good decision by Santosh-ji. Seeing Bareilly Ki Barfi was really a good idea. It does not require too much of an effort to be happy.

Lt Col Angad Singh (retd):
Bareilly ki Barfi is certainly romantic. But how much romance it shows is better observed by the cine-goers. I am to note that our old colleague Santosh-ji had come to the Garden to enjoy the movie. She must have felt good. Wishing her good health and long life.

Bihari Milwani:
'Banoo Apa ki Chai' is tastier than 'Bareilly Ki Barfi'!