I missed seeing
Someone Like You at
Sterling. The show was to start at 10:45PM. At 10:30PM,
four of us were deciding on a go/no-go for Rs.200 in black.
We figured, having come all this way, may as well go for it, and hunted for the chap. Not to
be found. In the meantime, there's another offer for Rs. 250. We spend a while over it.
Finally, yes, it's probably worth it. We go hunt for him again. The guy says wait, and wanders
around trying to buy tickets. That's crazy! But we waited. By which time it was 10:45, and the
market rates rose to Rs. 300, and only two tickets were available.
Xavier told me that the Titanic once sold for Rs. 500 a ticket. I would've thought there
was something seriously wrong here, except that I'm the kind of guy that would probably
pay something like that for a movie. Anyway, we walked back to
Just Around The Corner, discussing why the theatres weren't taking
the margins of the black-ticket sellers, decided it was a governance issue (as the manager was
probably taking a cut anyway), got drenched in the rain, and still couldn't figure out who
the blonde poster at Just Around The Corner was.