Impact of a movie on our psyche
It was 2 at night and raining very heavily. We(myself and my friend,who was driving his bike) were returning after catching the premiere show of Sarkar, a movie inspired by The Godfather. We had reached his house and from his house it was almost 4km, if not more, to mine. So that would mean a distance of more than 8km if he were to drop me home and return.
Till his house from the cinema, we were reminiscing the moments of the film, some brutal, some dramatic. This was not the first time we were returning at 2 in the night, but because of this movie, I think, the ride back home through dark and deserted alleys did feel eerie.
At his house, we waved to a rickshaw who stopped a good 20 yards ahead with the rickshaw driver waving his hands towards us. When we reached him, he gave us a good look and reasoned that at this time of the night you only find dacoits,gundas or drunkards.
I was half way through in the rickshaw when my cell phone started to vibrate(I had changed the mode to vibration to avoid disturbance while in the cinema and had forgot to revert back). With the vibration sound, I hurriedly started tracing my phone in my pockets. Hearing that, the rickshaw driver shouted at me "What's goin on?" with an expression really frightening. On the phone was my friend. The driver was more interested in what I was talking rather than driving. My friend just wanted to check up on me as to how the driver was. I exercised utmost caution in what I was saying giving the impression to the driver that I was talking on a subject which had no relation to him. I desperately wanted to reach my colony, where I could find some security guards outside the gate.
Finally, we reached the colony gate. Mostly all would take the cab till the apartment. I just wanted to get rid of him in presence of the security guards. While he was leaving, he called me and uttered,"I am returning from the cinema after watching Sarkar. I think its the effect of the movie, I am characterizing every person to be a gunda. So I was behaving like an eccentric". With this, he left.
I immediately called up my friend to tell about the incident where both were frightened by each other, just because the movie had changed the way we perceived situations. Although this effect was short-lived, very short-lived, but surely its presence did not give a very comfortable feeling.
Till his house from the cinema, we were reminiscing the moments of the film, some brutal, some dramatic. This was not the first time we were returning at 2 in the night, but because of this movie, I think, the ride back home through dark and deserted alleys did feel eerie.
At his house, we waved to a rickshaw who stopped a good 20 yards ahead with the rickshaw driver waving his hands towards us. When we reached him, he gave us a good look and reasoned that at this time of the night you only find dacoits,gundas or drunkards.
I was half way through in the rickshaw when my cell phone started to vibrate(I had changed the mode to vibration to avoid disturbance while in the cinema and had forgot to revert back). With the vibration sound, I hurriedly started tracing my phone in my pockets. Hearing that, the rickshaw driver shouted at me "What's goin on?" with an expression really frightening. On the phone was my friend. The driver was more interested in what I was talking rather than driving. My friend just wanted to check up on me as to how the driver was. I exercised utmost caution in what I was saying giving the impression to the driver that I was talking on a subject which had no relation to him. I desperately wanted to reach my colony, where I could find some security guards outside the gate.
Finally, we reached the colony gate. Mostly all would take the cab till the apartment. I just wanted to get rid of him in presence of the security guards. While he was leaving, he called me and uttered,"I am returning from the cinema after watching Sarkar. I think its the effect of the movie, I am characterizing every person to be a gunda. So I was behaving like an eccentric". With this, he left.
I immediately called up my friend to tell about the incident where both were frightened by each other, just because the movie had changed the way we perceived situations. Although this effect was short-lived, very short-lived, but surely its presence did not give a very comfortable feeling.
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