THE GENERATION GAP
“We didn’t have generation gap; we had a generation Grand
Canyon!”
- Mary Brave Bird
:
I called up a friend of mine, yesterday, to
wish him on his 49th birthday. This friend loves to enjoy life to
the fullest – good food, good drinks, good friends and all that keeps him
young.
“So, 49 Not Out?” I teased him, “my wife and
I will be watching ‘102 Not Out’, today.”
“That must be a good movie,” my friend
exclaimed, “Do tell me how you liked it.”
“Did you watch any movie, lately?” I asked
my friend.
“Don’t ask me that!” my friend quickly said.
“Why, what happened?” I was curious.
“My kids ‘forced’ me to take them to watch
‘Avengers: Infinity War’,” my friend said, “I slept through the entire movie!”
I laughed loudly!
“For
once I was convinced, that the generation gap actually exists,” my friend
concluded.
Exactly two years ago, one late night, my
wife and I wanted to watch the Marathi blockbuster ‘Sairat’ at a multiplex in
Raghuleela Mall, Vashi. The movie was running houseful even after several
weeks. That night, too, we were disappointed as the show was sold out. We did
not want to come back without watching a movie. So, instinctively I bought the
tickets for ‘Captain America: Civil War’ and rushed into the theatre…
“What is the movie all about?” my wife kept
asking me, whole we were rushing…
“I don’t know,” I pacified her, “must be about
American civil war… Rush… Rush! “
By the time we occupied our seats, one-fourth
of the movie was already over… People – mostly young crowd - were cheering and
ecstatic… and, my wife and I did not know, till the end, what was going on!
“You said it was about American civil war,
right?” my wife was very angry with me…
The night, somehow, passed…
The next day, when our young son learnt
about our misadventure, he had a good time, at our expense!
This was the reason why I laughed loudly,
yesterday, when my friend narrated to me his own experience while watching the
‘Avengers: Infinity War’.
A couple of days ago, knowing well how she
would react, I had asked my wife, “Do you want to watch ‘Avengers’?
I did not wait for my wife’s response!
Thus, both of us decided to watch ‘102 Not
Out’, last noon. We both loved it, and I am going to tell to my friend, too,
about it…
However, I am going to caution my friend:
“Buddy, don’t take your young ones along… They may sleep through the entire
movie.”
But, it’s a good movie, just as the Avengers
movies are, you see!
Yes, I agree with my friend, that the generation
gap does exist. But, Mary Brave Bird put it in a grand way when she said, “We
didn’t have generation gap; we had a generation Grand Canyon!”
GERALD D’CUNHA
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