Of Himess bhai and improbable missions.

People are often curious about my Himesh obsession. And here’s the story: many many years back, when I was down and out, and gloomy and depressed and suicidal and all those things that naiveté of youth brings upon you, I thought I needed to get away. So I was put on an airplane on this side, and picked up on the other side by a friend. The friend tried and tried, and despite all the efforts, like the princess in that story, I didn’t smile. Lists were made, jokes were told, anecdotes related to, food fed, tea had — still, I didn’t smile. It was an impossible mission to get me out of my gloomy mood.

Then the miracle happened. Waking up on that grey gloomy potentially smile-less day, I switched on the TV, and there He was, in all his bearded + capped glory, to my shock, stretching the limits of his nasal chords, singing in english, “Love you unconditionally…”, punching it with a very punjabi “..Soniye.” It cracked me up, and crack me up it did.  I laughed till I cried, by which time, the song was playing again, and I laughed again. And didn’t cry any more.

So in an odd way, I owe Himess Bhai my life.

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A little while back, I had the chance to watch ‘Aap Kaa Surroor – The Moviee – The Real Luv Story’. I watched all of 15 minutes, but it cracked me up. The climax itself is one of those improbable missions straight from WLiiA. It’s almost like a sketch comedy, which takes all of two minutes. Picture this:

“I found this card in the killer’s pocket.”
“Ruby-Khurana combine?”
“You know what that means? It means the killer is either Ruby or Khurana” [#noshitsherlock!]
“Yes, the fact that you were meeting Nadia (deceased) only two people knew – Ruby and Khurana”
“Yes, but my gut feeling says, it can’t be Ruby.”

Talks to self “Ruby, I need your help”

Random shuffling of papers.

“See these loan papers. He needed a loan. Now we know he had a motive.”

Ruby enters with more papers proving motive. Obviously it proves nothing but motive, hence she never reported it to anyone.

“Ruby, we need the murder weapon. Only that will prove my innocence.”
“I saw him putting it inside the safe. But I don’t have the code to the safe”

Himess goes ahead and opens the safe by remembering the tune from somewhere (?) and punching the touchtone of the same.

“Oh look, murder weapon”

That’s how my friends, you solve a case.
Do me a favour and watch the scene where Mallika Aunty, all fishlips and accent, both bangkok originals, peels the scarf from her neck, hands it over to Himess, and says “Wait Himess, don’t touch the evidence.” [Whole thing starts around the 2:00 minute mark]

No, leave it, do yourself a favour and watch the WLiiA I linked above.

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