It seems like the last couple Fridays that Swathi, her relatives and I try to go out and do something we’re really looking forward to, it doesn’t pan out:
We were going to go to Fun World but the park and surrounding businesses due to riots in the area. Earlier that day people had thrown pork at a mosque and as we were driving through, there were still riot police, crowds, burn marks in the concrete and broken windows. At least we ended up going to see Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na, though.
When we finally got around to going out to Commercial Street for some serious shopping, that was the day of the bombings in Bangalore so that, in addition to the rain, cut our day short. This time around, we couldn't just go see a movie since even the cinemas were closed as having large crowds in one place would be kind of dangerous. At least that day I got to make a stop at a nice clothing store where I got some tops and salwar-kameez sets and last week I finished getting my dose of shopping on Commercial Street.
Last Friday didn’t seem to favor us, either. It was considered an inauspicious day on account of the solar eclipse so many local businesses were closed and there were few people out in the streets. Even the family driver didn’t want to eat his lunch while the eclipse was occurring, although it was so cloudy that day that I couldn’t tell when it was happening, anyway. At least on the way to an uncle’s house there was little traffic since the eclipse had just happened. Later that night we went out to see Kismat Konnection, but all the theaters we tried weren’t showing it anymore- our only options were the latest Mummy film or ‘Ugly Aur Pagli’ which didn’t get rave reviews. Sure, the eclipse didn’t have anything to do with our failed attempt this time, but we thought it was cruel irony that while ‘kismat’ means ‘destiny’ or ‘fate’, going out to see this movie on such an inauspicious day just wasn’t working out for us!
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