Well…not quite. We decided to visit the local cinema, Ranjit Talkies, with our new friend Sandra (from Calgary, Canada whom we’d previously befriended over chai at Krishna’s tea stall). Unfortunately for Sandra there was a choice of just one movie, the Amir Khan production Dhobi Ghat which is more of an international film with a distinct absence of the show stopping tunes, head wobbling or fight scenes that she’d been expecting. Despite this we bought our tickets and headed to the screen with just three other punters. The film trailers started promptly enough, but a group of workmen had decided that this was an appropriate time to remove the staging just in front of the screen. Fortunately through the shadowy figures and shouting we were able to catch a glimpse of this year’s Indian summer blockbuster, Delhi Belly. Obviously, when three westeners are watching a film in Hindi, we are pretty much playing catch up from the opening credits, but maybe if the usher hadn’t waited until a crucial plot moment 2o minutes into the film to shine a torch into our faces and check our tickets, we would maybe have been in with a chance of following the story. But by the time the power cut happened half way through and with a jittery projector swallowing up whole scenes at random, it become more like a game of Give us a Clue.
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| An action sequence from the powercut section |
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