A Walk to Remember

A brief intorduction of the characters
Danish: 6 foot 4 inches tall....often mistaken as being a foreigner due to his skin and hair colour....many people of our batch still believe that he is DASA entry and not a JEE qualifier from Udaipur, Rajisthan...infact this general perception has led him to belive that India is not meant for him...you see it is quite difficult to breathe the oxygen of the upper layers of the atmosphere and look at people from so high above....
Sumit and Pushkal : 5 foot 5-6 inches..these dwarf had a constant habbit of exploiting the rare species of Danish's breed...they are found to be testing his patience, distracting and irritating him through there verbal comments and long walks...

7 pm evening time; three people at 18/1-Kalabagan Lane, Tollygunj, Kolkata
Danish: Chalna Movie dekhne chalte hai
Pushkal : Kya karega jakar, aram se ghar par rehte hai
Sumit : Arrey chalte hai pass mein to hai
Pushkal: Chalo
Danish was already ready. Sumit and Pushkal slipped into something that was more presentable to go outstide. The trio walked through the Kalabagan Lane to reach Prince Anwar Shah road. About 40-50 m walk and they reached the Naveena hall. Shit, they had already seen the movie. What now ? A quick discussion. They were targeting the tickets of 9 pm show. Closest halls were Menuka and Malancha. However, both were in opposite directions from Naveena. We were not considering a hall displaying Bengali and Bojpuri movies somewhere in between. The bright beautiful minds of Pushkal and Sumit concluded that as we had a lot of time we would go by walking. Danish was new to this walking and exploring agenda. So the three missionaries set off. However, Sumit was even smarter. Why go to main road, travel along it and then travel back in the same direction where we are. Pushkal aptly chose the lane to walk into. They took a lane going in the direction of Menuka. Why not, Pushkal and Sumit had been exploring places like that only. Taking unknown lanes and reaching the destination. It’s another story that they once reached a place at midnight in a water filled road where someone warned them not to go right otherwise there was a possibility of their being robbed of their belongings. Anyway, they set out to reach Menuka through a non-conventional way and to find a shorter way compared to the conventional one. They had time in their hand. Pushkal led the way. They went left and right, from one lane to another. However, with every turn things looked more puzzled than before. Half an hour walk and Danish was boiling. He wanted to get some of these two dwarfs. Nature has its own way dealing with things. As Danish was gearing up to scold Pushkal and Sumit, a group of boys from the basti they were crossing said “Is he a foreigner”. This seemed to calm down Danish a bit. Pushkal replied, “He is from Rajasthan”. Anyways the three gems of TMILL were following the leads provided by people they met at regular distance. An hour passed and they were still nowhere. They found themselves crossing a railway siding. Confused, the logical adaptations to their walk given by Pushkal were making things worse. Nevertheless, there were people who were somehow consoling them that Menuka was not far away. After one and a half hour of walk, they finally reached the main road leading to Menuka. The three warriors were tired. These three musketeers had walked from all kind of road and even crossed bridges, railway siding, kacha, pakka roads, seen from the best of houses to slumps and finally they were near their destination. They reached Menuka hall. Danish had taken out some money from a nearby ATM for the purpose. Well this was a hard journey to see a movie. To their disappointment, it was not the same movie mentioned in the site. It was now showing “Aaja Nachle”. Who is going to see a dance program of Madhuri Dixit for 2 hrs or more. Probably now the they took the most judgemental decision “Take a taxi and back home”