Pot on Boil

Shekhawat (back to camera) broaches the movie idea

One of the basics of corporate management is that complacency must never set in in an organisation. Keep the pot constantly on the boil – even if it were to lead to chaos and confusion. For that is where the secret to loyalty, bonding and efficiency lies.
We try to follow this principle in our Club. There is always some activity or the other in the works to ensure that the churn continues and members stay invested. So after the series of Eid parties, the Independence Day celebration and before that, the Golden Valley picnic, we are now looking for a new activity to engage everybody – before complacency sets in.
Shekhawat today (at Kiran Prakash’s bidding) brought up the subject of a movie outing. The last movie we had gone together was last month – for Sanju (ref post of July 24). The one before that was Raazi, on June 25. So this month’s movie is now due – just that nobody is finding anything “good” among current releases.
But Shekhawat is undeterred. “Long time we have not gone for a movie,” he broached. “Why don’t we watch Gold? Or maybe, Mulk (Banoo Apa wanted to go for this)… Or whatever you say. Just decide upon something.”
Bijoy Gupta, as always, torpedoed the idea and demanded a lunch party at China Gate. “Gold is not China Gate,” he heckled Shekhawat, who incidentally, is expecting a huge raise in his monthly pension. “You had promised us breakfast, lunch and dinner, remember? Now you want to be done with some stupid movie!”
The pot is now on the boil. Watch this space.

Bihari Milwani:
But why does Gupta-ji want to go to China Gate? That is a movie almost 20 years old -- having been released on November 27, 1998. Gold is definitely a good movie. Everyone must go.