It was 2nd September,2009. Yup , my second
birthday @ pune. The day had all the ingredient of a typical Bollywood movie. It
had fun, party, get-togethers, celebration, villains, friends, police, songs, dance,
drinks, comedy, suspense etc etc.
The day began like another ordinary birthday where I woke up
early, had my morning run, took a bath and went to the nearby temple to seek
blessings. After returning back, I had my breakfast. Last night, my friends came
at midnight to wish me. I planned to throw them a treat at my own place instead
of going to an outside restaurant. I made the list of the guest, planned the menu,
bought the ingredients and briefed my cook about the things he was supposed to
make. I also planned some interesting games for the day which will keep us
busy. The music system was already installed if anyone wanted to shake a leg.
The second year had just started, so I didn’t know much of
the new people so most of the guest was the friends from my first year. I called
them to double check their availability. Most of them will be coming.
Me and Kaushal went for shopping that evening to buy the
drinks, paper plates, glass and sweets. We decorated the room a little. I was
all busy since 5 pm. Cook did a nice job. He made a non-veg and a veg dish to
cater the entire crowd. By 7 pm, people started coming in. Music was running in
the background while we all chatted.
It was all going very smooth until that terrible incident.
Someone from us, proposed an idea of switching of the light
and dancing on the beats. Initially it was slow. But then people started making
request of high beats songs and raised the volume a little. We all danced like
there is no tomorrow. We were all sweating but then, nobody wanted to stop. We made
the place more of a dance club. We forgot that we were staying at a residential
apartment where they hung boards like “Dogs and bachelors not allowed”.
More people came in and they too joined the dance party. Occasionally
I advised people to not make a lot of noise and it can have it repercussions
but then boys will be boys, right? Everyone was flowing and the most interesting
thing was, none of us were drunk.
Someone from the group made a request for playing “Jila top
lage li” ..a famous Bhojpuri song. It was close to 10. This was supposed to be
the last song after which we were all supposed to stop for dinner. Everyone wanted to make the best of
the last song. We danced, we jumped and we howled. Unknowingly we were making
noise which was crossing the limiting decibel for the zone. Between the beats, I
heard a noise similar to the doorbell. I thought some more of our friends would
be there at the door. I lowered the music a little and then went to check. I peeped
through the door. I saw some 6 to 7 people outside. I came running and stopped
the music. I told everyone that some strange people are at the door. So no one
should make a noise and everyone should stay indoors while we are talking. I
and devoo went to the door.
We opened it. We had no clue what was about to
come.
The gentleman started howling. He looked more furious and
angry than gabbar from sholay. He made some valid points too that boards of the
students were about to start, there were old people residing etc etc mostly in Marathi
which we picked a little. I called our Marathi friend to talk to them hoping
the Marathi will help us as Hindi was making them hate us more. We made a
counter argument that we were informed that we can party till 10 pm and it had
not crossed that. One of the guy told that he was calling the cops as you guys
have been disturbing them a lot since evening. One of the guys entered the room
to check if we had liquors also. When he saw some empty glass and cold drinks
he made a judgment that we all were drunk. The wet-sweaty clothes on our body
didn’t helped. One of them called our owner and informed them about all this.
She too got furious.
We were all asked to vacate the room or they will call the
police and get us all arrested. We panicked. I moved in and told everyone to leave
for now. Very quietly people marched downstairs. The gentlemen e raised an
eyebrow by seeing the attendance. They were all in very bad mood. Maybe they
had quarrel with their bosses, or their wives or their girlfriend. They were
not ready to listen to us. We also thought, it was not the right time and we
should not argue much. The politics of Mr.Raj thackrey was also active then and
we didn’t wanted to be there at the headline news. They locked the room and
took the key. All of us moved toward our owner’s flat.
It was close to 11. Four of us went to have a meeting with
the owner. We couldn’t raise our eyes. We knew we did a mistake. See was still
nice to us. We felt a little consoled. After 20 mins of talk we came down. Boys
were waiting for us. Around 10-15 of us were sitting on the footpath near Shristi
apartment at d.p road trying to think what just happened. There was an awkward silent.
We all looked at each other and started laughing. Discussing the way some of us
danced. Suddenly the tense mood got transformed to a fun mood. We all knew that we are into some serious
trouble, but somehow after such a beautiful evening we couldn’t be sad.
We all made a walk to Akolkar apartment which was half a
kilometer away. We got hungry. I realized that our whole food is still there at
the apartment, the chickens, the cakes, the sweets, the drinks….the cold drinks
actually and it was all locked.
But then came the rescuer. Kaushal informed that he have an
extra pair of keys for the lock. Now someone will have to volunteer and bring
back the stuffs. Being a birthday boy nominated me by default. I and devoo took
the mission – GHAR WAPASI
We took Akolkar bike and drove all the way back. We made
sure we make minimum noise and so he parked the bike 100 meter away. We slowly
walked all the way. We moved like a cat on the stairs. We were almost there. I slowly
put the key and opened the door. We packed all the stuffs and moved down in
similar fashion. Now and then I feel someone is coming and we got scared of
being caught but eventually we made it.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!! Time to celebrate again.
The clock was touching almost 2. We all were enjoying my
birthday treat watching the t.v. We all chatted and then fell asleep.
The coming days were difficult for us. We were given a
notice to vacate the room in a month. The apartment came out with a new rule to
not lend a room to a bachelor. Because of us, another bachelors living
downstairs also suffered .We moved in to a new and better apartment ,closer to
our college, which gave some new stories to our life.
The day was unforgettable to all of us who attending the
party !! People witnessing the events were:
Arvind,Kaushal,Devoo,Rohit,Aniket, Anurag Agr and Lall,
Akolkar, Moti, Anshul,Pratik,Abhijeet
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