Screwball Comedy

Yusuf Rassiwala

Today Yusuf Rassiwala declared that he’d be joining the Club's ‘winter exodus’ (ref post of October 28) on November 4. Like the others, he is all set to leave town. He plans to return after a week.
Nothing alarming about this, but for the fact that we would be missing Yusuf R for the period of his absence.
What has however, stirred a hornets’ nest was his suggestion that we all gang up and go for the latest box-office hit in town, Golmaal Again. He had watched it with his family and was all praise for the screwball comedy featuring Ajay Devgn, Parineeti Chopra, Arshad Warsi, Tushaar Kapoor, Tabu, etc.
A movie outing is always welcome in the Club and has unfailingly evoked enthusiastic response since the time

Gupta and Shekhawat are determined to go for the movie

Yusuf R introduced the practice four years back. Accordingly Santosh Tyagi, Nahid Khan, Rukhsana Khan and a few others jumped at the Golmaal idea, but piped down upon realizing that with many members away, there would be no fun going on this outing. Besides, who would do the organising bit?
Shekhawat and Bijoy Gupta however, did not give up easily. Shekhawat, in particular, kept chirping like a child, “Golmaal dekhni hai” (Got to see Golmaal) and with Gupta, equally insistent and demanding “Leh chalo” (Take me also), things boiled down to these ‘arch rivals’ being the only ones left for the movie.
Nahid warned never to send the two together as “they would end up fighting with each other in the hall” throughout the movie. But both were still adamant. Somehow, Gupta holds on to the belief that with no female accompanying them, Shekhawat would behave himself. And Shekhawat is assured that Gupta would inevitably snore through the film. “The moment he finds his seat in the hall, he will doze off,” Shekhawat predicted confidently.
How this 'real life' screwball comedy plays out remains to be seen.