This was another interesting day. So, N,E,A,R and me decided to go for a movie. It was a random plan to watch Delhi 6 at Cinemax. I wasnt so excited about the movie as i had heard very mixed feedback of the same. So, we started from ISB, one of the batchmate gave us lift in his car till Cinemax. As usual after too many plans, we finally reached the place 5 mins after movie started. (I so live this thing about getting late for movies. )
AB, NO, i dont like him but then its ok. Movie was a good entertainer. I liked the simple concept and message in it. Most of the characters in movie acted very well, i particularly liked the work of Inspector, i think he was very very original. I liked the coverage of old delhi and i just cant let go of Jalebi's advertisement in movie. Good, somethings well projected and lots left behind.
Real fun started when me and N declared that we needed to eat something. It was 9 PM and we thought we will eat something in the food court, when A talked about this Dhaba near Hitech city. The place is Nihaal Dhaba and speciality is "PARANTHA". Ok, no one was interested in the exotic Bleu or Jalpenos food. Eone wanted the parantha and lassi. Chalo, lets go.
9:30 PM A starts negotiating with an auto wala and since he walks away, the auto wala sends him a flying kiss much to our surprise, we all laugh out loud and we manage to pataofy an autowala. Chalo Bhaiya, 5 log hi hai. :D So, 3 of us in back seat and 2 people infront with autowala and not to miss the old hindi song in auto,"Tu mujhe kabool, mein to tujhe kabool." Ok, so our sawari moves to Hi tech city, we had a great laugh at auto ride and we discussed operations and economics to justify this. Auto wala turned out to be a friendly guy and A took this opportunity to know his business model. So, if you thought 5 was a large number, the auto wala can manage to carry 12 people in his auto. Talk about capacity utilization, books know nothing, all your formulae and analysis can not come up with this. This is called real business.
So, we get down at crossing and walk by a unconstructed road to reach Nihaal dhaba. This was as busy as any big hotel, long queue and then i see this young 13-14 year old guy with pride of having a job and confidence of knowing his work coming to us. He showed us a table. Time for parantha, lassi, slice, Maaza and anything that you can think of. The food was cheap and good and bill was what we pay for one visit to our stupid cafeteria in ISB. We all felt good that there are places which are affordable and logical even today.
We were so full that we decided to walk. Our long walk started from the Gachibowli intersection. Mid way we decided to walk to a tapri to have tea shots (Yes, the size of the cup is just like that of Vodka shots). Now, this turned out to be a long walk for tea. All of us were almost half dead till we discovered the tapri infront of microsoft office. This was quite some distance. Had the shots and headed back to ISB.
One of the wildest and most original outings till date. Nothing luxurious about it. It just brought me back to some facts in life i used to think about. 12-13 years old guys employed in these hotels, out of school, serving us food. Small hotels which have a unique market segment to cater too. They are unbeatable and they actually have no competition. Aunty on counter who sits since ages and years. Maaza and Slice may not be cool, but people still love to have a sip of it. This is my India and this is what i missed so much during my stay in UK. Even if there are no luxuries, you can relate to people around and you know there is always a Nihaal dhaaba which will exist even if the whole world comes down. Its business model is very simple, its woven around what simple Indian loves, irrespective of whereever he goes and whatever he does. (I know i am getting emotional about paranthas and the dhabe wala had put 500 gms of butter in it, so all the more. ). :)
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