During my two years at ISI I wasn’t one of the most popular
people in the campus. The main reason was I used to keep mostly to myself. #introvertalert Apart from D, most of my
ISIan friends came into my life long after we had all left the campus for good.
P is one such friend. However, for past few years P has been busy completing
his PhD in the land of Donald Trump and he is back in Calcutta after a long time.
So the month of March has been the month of reunion for us. And we have been
going on movie dates back to back. First Split, then Logan. Then last week it
was Skull Island. The original plan was to spend an entire day together doing
crazy stuff. But somehow we couldn’t manage to do that and we only got to spend
half the day together. Lunch at Biker’s Cafe, movie, and then coffee at Chai
Break before heading for home.
Skull Island is a good movie. Giant CGI gorilla and lizards are
tearing apart at each other while a non-Marvel version of Tom Hiddleston is
chasing them with gun in hand and that killer accent on mouth that kept me
fidgeting in my seat the entire duration. The casting of the movie is pretty amazing.
So are the action sequences, especially if watched on giant 3D screen. Except
that there is nothing much to talk about the movie.
I had never been to Biker’s Cafe before. We actually wanted
to try out a place outside Forum. Situated just across the road opposite Forum,
it is a quaint, little biker’s den themed cafe with a separate hookah lounge. P
ordered white rum on the rocks while I chose a detoxifying watermelon juice. Well,
sometimes I too pretend to behave like a responsible adult. I had already had
exceeded my quota of healthy amount of alcohol for the month. For lunch we
ordered Grilled Jerk Chicken with Honey Mustard Sandwich and Hungarian Style
Grilled fish.
There is one weird thing about P and I. We both are hardcore
meme addicts. Most of the time we converse in meme language and in almost
everything we discover a meme reference. So, me drinking watermelon juice and
boiled vegetables became ‘when you drink a glass of juice and feel healthy af’
and the scene where the girl (Brie Larson) in the story is looking emotionally
at Kong while the hero (Tom Hiddleston) sitting by her side became ‘your girl
and the guy she told you not to worry about’. It’s thug life after all.
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