Sunday, May 6, 2007

Hunt for the Black Spider..


The hunt began on Friday night at Gold Adlabs Pune. Sudesh, Neeraj and Myself had plans of going for a movie. The movie that we wanted to go for was Spider-Man 3, but to our disappointment we couldn't get tickets because the show was house full. I wanted to book tickets for the Saturday show but Sudesh vetoed against it [:-(].

Saturday afternoon we decided to try our luck at E-Square but again the show was running house full. Hoping to get tickets we traveled to Inox, but even there we were disappointed. But even after so many setbacks we did not give up hope. I tried calling a few friends (Yves, Gayle, Fritz, Abhimanyu) to get the number of Gold Adlabs. I got one number which Fritz found on the Adlabs site but it was a wrong number. Finally we managed to get the number from a newspaper but after calling we found out that every show on Saturday was house full and not just Saturday even the shows on Sunday were house full. Now this was the height of bad luck.

We were heading back home after booking a bus ticket from the station area when we saw a Spider-Man 3 poster at the Alankar theater which is close to the Pune station। Since Alankar is mostly never crowded we decided to check if any tickets were available। And to our amazement we got tickets. Finally after hunting for so long we had finally managed to get tickets. Even the tickets were very cheap compared to the Multiplex rates. We paid just 40 bucks for balcony seats. Things had just started going our way when Neeraj observed the poster properly. 'Spider-Man 3 Kashmakash' was written in big bold Hindi letters. We were so excited when we had seen the poster earlier that we had forgotten to check whether the movie was English or the Hindi dubbed version. But we had already booked the tickets and had no other work to do so decided to watch the Hindi version.

As far as the movie is considered it was great. The special effects are great. Besides you get to see Spidey in his black suit which looks too cool. Plus there are 3 villians (Green goblin, Sandman and Venom) in the movie. As Abhimanyu pointed out to me things do get a bit Bollywoodish in the second half with all the crying but its bearable. Overall its a good to watch movie.

So what if the seats were not as comfortable as compared to Inox or Adlabs. What happened if there was paan spit on the seat that Sudesh was going to sit on. Even though the fans (Pankha) in the theater were adding some extra sound to the movie soundtrack it was a different experience compared to the usual Multiplex experience. It was something different that we tried in Pune and it was fun.

By the way I am planning to go for the English version of the movie next weekend wit Abhimanyu.

PS: Abhimanyu you should try going for the Hindi dubbed version of the movie [:-)].

Over and out..

2 comments:

fritzdsouza said...

hahahahahaha
hindi version of spiderman 3
hahahahahahahaha
and if u can take abhimanyu for the hindi one my hats off to you :)
but overall i am surprised that you liked the movie :(

Anonymous said...

sandman n venom n green goblin's son aka new goblin. see imdb :)

whats your favourite dialogue from the hindi version? :D