Winter is Here

Plotting for today's movie outing

Looks like winter is setting in. Yesterday’s stifling heat was replaced by a perceptible drop in temperature this morning, the Garden awash in mellow sunshine and fresh dew. The benches were still wet when we arrived. Nobody complained of breathlessness, stickiness or fatigue during the exercises. The air smelt good, like we were already into cooler times.
The weather being so pleasant, it came as no surprise for Bhaswati Bose, Santosh Tyagi, Banoo Apa, Nahid Khan and other movie buffs

Andhadhun: Movie poster

to be planning an outing today for the Ayushman Khurrana – Radhika Apte starrer, Andhadhun. As usual, the recommendation came from Siba Prasad Maitra who

Shekhawat

has watched the film and was full of praise for it.
Based on The Piano Tuner, a well-acclaimed French short film, Andhadhun is billed as a “black comedy thriller” and is about a blind pianist drawn into a series of mysterious events and having to report a crime he never actually witnessed. For the Club, the movie outing comes almost a month after viewing the comedy-thriller, Stree (ref post of September 25).
Meanwhile, news comes in from Rajasthan with Shekhawat informing that he has dropped his plans of visiting Mathura-Vrindavan and Ayodhya with an entourage from his village. He has had an enjoyable Dussehra with family and friends and is recuperating fast from the surgery he underwent before leaving Mumbai.
“I do not want to risk my health at this stage,” he explained. “My relatives have also advised me against going on a pilgrimage this time around and that I should rather take rest indoors. Maybe, next year I shall set out. For the moment though, my tickets to Mumbai are booked for November 4 and I should be in the Garden a couple of days later.”

Lt Col Angad Singh (rtd):
It is good to know that Shekhawat has dropped the idea to go to Mathura-Vrindavan. Health takes priority and visits to religious places become secondary. As a senior citizen, one should be more concerned about health rather than other issues.