Dream Analysis

Bijoy Gupta (ext left) analyses Shekhawat's (in white T-shirt) dream

Yesterday’s cloudy spell followed by droplets of rain had raised our hopes for a pre-monsoon shower and the air generally cooling down in the Garden. After all, neighboring Karnataka and parts of Kerala have just experienced a bout of unseasonal rain. But here in Mumbai, things are quite the reverse. If anything, the morning has turned even more muggy and sunny.
Given this dull and distressful situation, it was again left to Bijoy Gupta and Shekhawat to lighten the atmosphere by providing some entertainment during the exercises. As regular readers of this blog would know, these two are absolutely incorrigible in taking digs at one another, regardless of Arun Patil’s efforts to rein them in. But then, today’s episode had a little twist.
Before any of us arrived in the Garden, Shekhawat had committed the blunder of confiding in Gupta of having seen the Raazi heroine, Alia Bhatt (ref post of May 26) in his dream last night. Gupta, in all sincerity, had advised him not to make much of dreams as they rarely translate into reality. “A dream remains a dream and it is better left that way,” he consoled Shekhawat.
But somehow word was out and after the exercises Dilip Babani proclaimed that early morning dreams generally turn out to be true. Shekhawat revealed that the actress had indeed appeared in his dreams at 4:00 in the morning. “In that case, your dream is sure to come true," said Gupta, jumping into the conversation. "You are destined to meet Alia Bhatt.”
Then, with a mischievous wink, he turned towards us: “Shekhawat did not disclose what his dream was about. Alia Bhatt had landed a tight slap on his face!”

Lt Col Angad Singh (retd):
Apparently Shekhawat has been day dreaming. The sultry weather, coupled with scant attendance, is having an effect on all. Good show. Do keep laughing.

Bihari Milwani:
I too had a dream early morning. I saw Alia Bhatt waking up Shekhawat-ji with a kiss and asking him to dance with her.