Whoa, what a week that was in Mumbai! As you all know, we participated in the MTV Taking Pole Position and as part of it, we were asked by the MTV officials to record two hour footage of our journey. We had to shoot our entire journey on our handy cam. Four of us - AD, Jagan, Sammy, and Sunil went together to the airport and AB joined us later.
Well, we were not allowed to take videos inside the airport. But we started shooting anyway because it’s a once in a lifetime chance. Jagan was the cameraman for the day. We were going through the security checking and due to excess luggage problem, Jagan had to go deal with it and the camera was passed onto AD. While shooting, AD felt someone tapping his shoulders and when he turned he was shocked to see an AK47 facing him. It was as if the whole world crumbled in front of his eyes. He was taken to the chief security officer. And lo here comes the second comic event of the day. None of us knew Hindi and the chief didn’t know English. And then comes Superman... Jagan (jaggu bhai) to the rescue. He apologized and told that he would delete the last security checking footage. After that, we paid a hefty fee for the excess 27kgs and moved on.
We were done with the checking and were ready to board the flight. Since this was AD’s first flight, we fed him scary stories while waiting in the lounge. At the same time we continued to shoot. The flight was announced, we got into the bus, found that it was a small flight, a propeller. We continued nagging AD by telling that something might go wrong during the flight and as expected we continued shooting while boarding the flight.
Just then, a heavenly figure walked towards us in slow motion as we gasped for air, mesmerized by the beauty. The air hostess then asked us not to take the video of the crew and we were crushed. Being a Kingfisher Red flight we were not served food. We flew till Bangalore starving, bored and heartbroken.
After landing in Bangalore, we had an hour’s break and we boarded our next flight towards Mumbai. Fortunately, here we were served with food. The Non-Veg got over after the fortunate Sammy’s turn, which left the rest of us without any option other than veg (shudder).No offence but the veg food here plopped and slobbered. Out of courtesy, Sammy offered his chicken to us and we grabbed the coming opportunity without any delay. It was like piranhas on a fresh kill.
We landed MUMBAI airport at 8pm. And while taking the luggage Mr. Vasanth, the coordinator of the show, called us and informed us of the shooting with the hidden cameras while departed from the airport. It was a really special moment for us and we felt like true rock stars. We got into the car with Mr. Vasanth and another lady official. On the way they questioned us about our flight, Metallica and little other random stuff. At last we reached our hotel. They had made the arrangements for us in a huge suite. We had five more bands in the same floor. To taste the flavour of Mumbai, we got fresh and stepped out into the city looking for the famed Bade Miya’s, Mocha and a bit of beer.
