is the name of a kannada movie, by shankar nag, which sorta immortalized and elevated the status of an auto driver, his hard ships, his big aortic pump (heart) etc etc
In the past week, I've had the fortune of traveling in an auto, with some rather colourful drivers manning the wheel...
1. One guy asked me a "onnendaaf" fare (one and a half for those who haven't cracked it yet). When I protested, he said "en saar neev software novre hing and bittre?" and shaved off 10 bucks on the condition that we'd both (me n the auto driver) smoke a cigarette together!
2. At 10 pm in the night after a rather hilarious play, bro sis in law n I catch an auto. All's fine till we encounter some traffic cops with breath analyzers. At this point somebody (dont remember who) ponders about the mechanics of this exercise of catching alcoholic drivers... And the driver gives us his glimpses of drunk driving episodes that he's seen in his illustrious career!
He tells us about this drunk guy at 11 pm in gandhi bazaar who takes his brand new shiny white tata indica and drives it neither on the left nor the right but straight OVER the median on the road...of course 'under the influence'! ;)
So a few guys on the spot, including our beloved auto driver, rush to the spot to help him...But our elated indica guy is, apparently, talking about "making the car fly" over the median and onto the road...With a smile on his face...
At this point our auto driver in the role of narrator, is excited and leaves no details unmentioned...He goes on to use some expletives with my sis in law right there in the auto! funny :D
The indica was rescued, btw...
(Some) Auto drivers rock!
2 comments:
Expletives indeed.
To put it mildly he thought all the arrogance of rich drunken kids manifests due to their fatty posteriors (:D)...he also gave a peak into some ultra-colloquial dialogue that night involving gaali garoch that Deepthi never really caught (whew)...quite a ride.
I met one auto driver who after ascertaining that I was still unmarried, went on to describe what kind of girl I should look for, how qualified she should be, which are the professions she could be involved in, how the man should always dominate or else the mrriage is doomed etc etc.
Bitti advice!
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