Today I experienced Friday night at the movies, Indian style. At around 10pm Ashutosh picked me up and we headed to a mall that I haven’t been to. It was amazing. It had five floors and was very big. The cinema was on the top floor. We were scanned and searched three times before we actually got into the cinema. Ashutosh’s cousin was manager of the cinema and gave us tickets. The movie was 2012. The movie had just started when we arrived but we hadn’t missed much. Maybe one minute, possibly less. Its quite a different experience going to a movie in India. The crowd are very interactive. They like to clap when the good bits come on laugh where it gets cringe worthy. One area where they laughed was when an Indian spoke in Indian. I asked Ashutosh why. He said the Indian was speaking with an English accent. The audience were quite vocal when the boy and girl nearly kissed, but even more so when they did. It was hilarious just listening to the crowd reaction. Oh, and they had intermission. Yep, intermission. I really needed to go to the bathroom, but when I saw hundreds of strapping lads heading out, I thought, hmmm, standing room only, I’ll wait.
So going to the movies for the first time in India was an extremely funny experience. Movie wasn’t to bad either. (Would be kinda good if the American gave up on script writing though. I’m sure they only have one script. They have plenty of actors, so they swap them around and they swap the FX team around from time to time.)
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