"Zeher Khurani Giroh Se Saawdhaan" screamed a warning written in bold letters inside the bus...It was hard to miss it.. especially if u were sitting on the front seat ... It was March end and I was going to Rishikesh with friends....
Zeher Khurani..... Dramatic scenes started flashing though my mind... Our bus rambling along a deserted highway..... fields on both sides.... Suddenly the bus driver sees a barricade on the road.. The bus screeches to halt.. In no time men apear from the fields brandishing their swords..... Turbans on their head...Red tikka on their forehead.... They kick open the door and swarm into the bus..... shouting Zeher Khurani Zindabad!!!! Kali Maiyya ki Jai !!!!
Off goes the head of the driver in one swish of the Sword.. The conductor also meets the same fate...then their Sardar points the tip of his sword on the chin of a pot bellied Seth and shouts "Tum Logon Ke Paas Jo bhi Kimti Saaman hai de do"..
Wow! The trip promised nothing less than a bollywood potboiler of the 80s.. but much to my dismay the journey was as boring as ever..... except probably that brief moment of panic when the police chaps came to check luggage... I thought they would discover our booze and confiscate it... fortunately no such thing happened...
Anyways later I found out about the Zeher Khurani Giroh.. They are a group of people who specialise in drugging people and running away with their valuables.. Baah! We live in such an boring world...
Zeher Khurani..... Dramatic scenes started flashing though my mind... Our bus rambling along a deserted highway..... fields on both sides.... Suddenly the bus driver sees a barricade on the road.. The bus screeches to halt.. In no time men apear from the fields brandishing their swords..... Turbans on their head...Red tikka on their forehead.... They kick open the door and swarm into the bus..... shouting Zeher Khurani Zindabad!!!! Kali Maiyya ki Jai !!!!
Off goes the head of the driver in one swish of the Sword.. The conductor also meets the same fate...then their Sardar points the tip of his sword on the chin of a pot bellied Seth and shouts "Tum Logon Ke Paas Jo bhi Kimti Saaman hai de do"..
Wow! The trip promised nothing less than a bollywood potboiler of the 80s.. but much to my dismay the journey was as boring as ever..... except probably that brief moment of panic when the police chaps came to check luggage... I thought they would discover our booze and confiscate it... fortunately no such thing happened...
Anyways later I found out about the Zeher Khurani Giroh.. They are a group of people who specialise in drugging people and running away with their valuables.. Baah! We live in such an boring world...
2 comments:
Were you dreaming or watching 'Mr. and Mrs. Iyer'?
well yeah.. pretty similar plot.. just that Konkana Sen wasn't sitting besides me...
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