Resonance of a Saturday...

......................... Trip to Ramoji Film City.................................

All 7 of us..Started on our bikes..Me on Hondactive along with one of my friends.....

After 3 n half years back to driving..... Early hours of the day.... Clean roads...Zero Traffic( this is more important for a pleasant day in Cities like Hyderbad) ...

Going on through one route to the other, picking up friends ..... Altogether in the group of 7 friends..everyone is unique with their own style...so let me give them some releavant names..

(1)Raju...Mr. Sharukh khan.... With Dilwale Dulhaniya Lejaaynge filmi ishtyle dressing :)

(2) Appi.....Mr.John Abrham... Becomes a rocking dude whenever he comes to see a girl

(3)Bala.....Mr.Rajesh Khanna...always cool and confused..as he is the only Non Telugu guy of our batch..always trying hard to decipher our conversations....and succeding often

(4)Devi.....Ms.Sridevi of Yester year films...with a cool smile and composed approach.....but always busy with her photo sessions

(5)Prashanthi......Baby Shamili..as she is younger of all us ....

(6) Murali...Mr. RJ (Radio Jacky)...always with Headphones...with broken tamil and hindi (Ofcourse thats what is more important for RJ's ..isinit it??? )

Trip started with a kind of bike racing....On the clean roads in 80 speed....uhhhh.....chilled air...pleasant breeze...snow.....enjoying all this, one bike missed the route and crossed the Ramoji Film city and went atleast 5kms ahead..giving a deaf ear to the screams of friends asking to stop.....

after 5 kms found themselves lost :( and that bike is mine with Ms.Sridevi along with me.... okay done..came back to RFC accompanied by Mr.Rajesh khanna who came back in search of the lost bike..... As soon as we are back.

.got to see Mr.Sharukh khan standing infront of RFC on his bike along with RJ murali with his headphones...Smiling at us...and winking simultaneously ...which meant.."Hey you people lost the race"....

hmm somehow managed to taunt him in return by saying...we lost the way because of you...you and that Rajesh khanna were not seen for along time so we thought still there is way to go.. :)

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Entered into RFC with 300 rs of ticket per head..... Started with a SUN FOUNTAIN.... Quite a peice of ART :)...

Got into a bus which took us to a trip showing all the places wherein almost all filmi shootings are done....

Dhaba of Rang dhe Basanthi

Dance sequences places for most of the films from A grade to C Grade....films...

Streets which seen back from the bus look like a National Highway sometimes...and like Ooty and kodaikanal roads from some other angles...

Replica of Kacheguda Railway station.. and back to which Rajiv Gandhi International Airport replica will be found...

Central Jail ..and types of jails starting from Local jails to Theehar jails :)

The Guide in that Bus was the NO 1 comedian of this trip...bichaaraa...tried max to crack jokes....but what can make the listeners laugh is his attempt to crack a joke..rather than his cracked joke :)

The beautiful part was the Street which looked like LONDON...houses and streets filled with London living style and the funniest part is ..back to those buildings, the constructions were a replica to a indian rural village.....

All with plaster of paris ofcourse.....

Our No1 comedian dropped us at the replica of Kacheguda Railway station..asking us to go anywhere to any place including Mumbai, Delhi, Or USA for that matter..but be back in 5 mins....

What a bad joke..Ofcourse he is a Mr.PJ ( poor joker).

Got down at Kacheguda...getting suprised with the exact replica.....

Rajesh khanna was along with me...Sharukh khan was staring at the boards....John Abhraham was going behind a girl.....

Sridevi and Baby Shamili indulged in photo session...taking a photograph before AC Couch made of plaster of paris.....

With alot of chips and Melody choclates got back into the bus ..ofcourse along with Mr.PJ

On the way to another stopping point , got to see some more pretty well intresting pillars and carvings on them...which were already shown in alot of films...Hero n heroine running behind each other..singing songs and rotating round those pillars....

Got down from tht bus ..bidding a long bye to Mr.PJ by giving him back all our Melody choclates( Wrappers) and got into another bus which promised us to take to HAWA MAHAL......

haa..Hawa mahal ..this name reminds me of my childhood days...wherein Delhi Radio station..always at nites used to telecast a prg by the name "Hawa Mahal" with all Old Hindi songs.....

Memorizing all those ..got down and found a Mahal..which ofcourse was a Hawa Mahal..( As nothing is there except Hawa all around).....

Nothing much to look at.. So we too joined Sridevi and Baby Shamili for the photo session

Later on started in search of someother beautiful places and stopped at a GUFA... standing in a long queue waiting eagerly to check whats there intresting inside....

That was a replica of a yester years GUFA's with all the carvings which are worth watching as all are made with plaster of paris with Wooden sticks inside....and ofcourse an interesting LORD Buddha sculpture in lavender colored lighting...John Abrham took some snaps with the Female carvings ( as Carvings cant deny as if females ,which was happening with him from long time)

After the photo sessions...came back to another place and boarded a bus to someother place whose name i dont remember... There are alot of shows going on there...

feeling Hungry..."Bhayangaramaa pasikidhi"...still started with one show , when entered..its more like a Fairy land...with all small small dolls dressed well like barbie girls....

We were just waiting in the queue to get onto a so called small cute train ... getting into which the journey is set.... we were taken round that indoor closed fairy land..touching all the places which were partitioned and designed so that each partioned place represented a country and its culture... ....few of which include…..

Paris with alot of Fashinoable attires......Newyork with Racings and Gamblings..and ofcourse India with all the cute dolls in sarees and Movie Heros faces waxed on the top of the walls..... It was simply a FAIRY LAND of the fairy tales.....

A gud design indeed

Next show was ”Movie Magic”….Felt bored to get into this as there is another long queue… standing there in the crowd for a long time waiting them to open the doors…. Tired of standing for so long…thought of having fun for a while to reenergize ourselves and to save us from our hunger… Asked our confused Rajesh khanna to whistle for no reason…

So he whistled making the place around a DTS theater…with Sharukh and RJ accompanying.. some other strangers from the crowd whistled back as a answer….Situation Sounded like a kuku eager to sing back when it’s imitated by humans….

So this fun went on for few more mins till the so called Anchor(?) came and started telling that he is going to direct a film and he wanted a heroine from the crowd as its purely heroine oriented film..

a chashme waali..went ahead and the doors were opened for all to enter into the theater where in we all were made sit as if in a opera, witnessing the Movie making process over there…He asked that girl to sit on a thaangaaa ( as They are going to reshoot 30 yrs older SHOLAY ) who is named obviously basanthi..

She is asked to imitate Hemamalini …Then they had shown it on the screen how it will be mixed and turned to show it on to the screen…..by doing the mixing of sounds, background visuals etc…

May not be able to pen down everything….but it was a nice technical experience to know the movie making phenomenon …as its always good to know new things..

All the hungry bees…… rushed to the Biryani plates….As it tasted well because of the running rats inside the stomach….

Reenergized and set to a tour which turned to be the more exciting part…. Got into a small boat kind of Ride…

4 in each boat( no water ofcourse..just a kind of boats )..….

Our boat had Rajesh khanna and Sharukh khan infront of us…

me and Sridevi in the second row…

The other boat infront of us ..carrying the weight of Mr. RJ and John Abhrham..The Cool(?) dude…..( Baby shamili didn’t dare to come and felt more comfortable to watch it that ride it)

As the ride started …enjoyed it to the core …because of the screams and cries of Rajesh khanna….. this babumushaayar was crying to the core…..

usually looks like a body builder….but at that moment was looking like a kid of 2 yrs crying on seeing a Karan johar ( Horror) film….

At one end….the boat is sinking because of the bumps and jumps ..which made sridevi literally fall on me…and pushing myself hard to hold her and at the same time struggling hard with the jaw pain because of the continuous laughter on seeing rajesh khanna….

That ride came to an end with the highest scream of Rajesh khanna……

Holding all the enjoyment and sensing all the resonance of the screams and laughter’s …we set our way to few other rides which we saved for the evening….

On the way back ..Sridevi and Sharukh were involved in few photo sessions.. and for the convinence of such Rajesh meenon’s ..Ramoji Film city management made sure to keep the photographs of Monalisa with no face..so that people can complete the pic with their faces…..

Sridevi and baby shamili as Monalisa’s

And

Sharukh , John Abrham dude as Most Wanted ( an other set up similar to Monalisa..with body..without face).. had the photo session…

After this long break..went and got into a RANGER ride ..which was a real fun with 360 degrees of movement swing of Ranger…

I don’t think I can laugh more than that at any point …. Laughed to the max possible extent on seeing the face of all the friends screaming and crying … and poor Rajesh khanna crying in TAMIL…..

This was a real wonderful exciting ride….which of course turned John Abrham into Brahmanandam by making him shout “Aapandrooooooy”

An other last ride…..

which actually kids were getting into..and into which we didn’t mind to get in…

Small cars of a capacity of 2 people…turning some seriously crazy turns…..This time ..again the poor victim Rajesh khanna sir..screamed to the core and got him self come down in very next few seconds…was silent and closed his eyes till the end….

Got down and had a bottle of water…and started cursing the people who designed those rides………..

Rajesh khanna sir…kabhi kabhi action scenes bhi karna padtha hai………………………………………..

Ended the trip by coming back to the parking slot and getting on to the bikes…

very tired physically..but well energized mentally…..

Though the place was a ok kind of one…Presence of all the friends around made it more enjoyable…

Parting at the meeting points..John found it hard saying a bye….

the sequence went on like this

Rajesh khanna to John: ok dude ..bye …give me a call when you have reached back safely along with baby shamili

John Dude: sure buddies.. Bye

Sharukh khan: bye john

RJ: Bye John

Me: John ..bye…..

Sridevi: bye John Abrham sir….

John: Bye bye bye…

Oh noooooooooo….whats this…only bye but no movement,….. chal haaaaattt… go away man…anyways we need to see your face back again tomorrow at work……

Somehow people managed to complete the BYE show and went off holding all the resonance of the Saturday……

Fun to be at places with people who are really fun to be with….

This needs to be thought aloud as obviously I need to come back one day to read this and feel this Trip