Surviving Christmas…

On Christmas Eve switching on the TV here in this rustic hotel at a mainland UP town surprised me with the caption “Surviving Christmas”. Yes, this was the name of a movie scheduled to be streamed on Star Movies that time. From the morning I wasn’t feeling great, both as it was a holiday with nothing to do on list and I had not seen faces of many people except waiters. Names of actors were struggling for their part on the screen to be displayed…I caught Ben Affleck and an actress whose name I can’t remember right now. It has always been difficult to watch movies on a TV channel for me, thanks to ever increasing space and time given for promotional advertisements. For a hardcore movie buff like me it feels really bad and many a times it creates funny sequences. It seems that movie has been sandwiched between multilayered advertisements. But yeah Economics is economics …who else can better understand this than me after having a tryst with this subject for the past seven years. Movie started with Ben (Hero) proposing her GF for a first class Fiji trip on Christmas. But, she refused citing the reasons that Christmas was a family festival and she got to celebrate it with her family .Surprisingly, she also advised poor Ben to do the same with his family. But had the hero got a family back home to celebrate …where was the reason to go to Fiji dude…Now on the Christmas eve he was all alone deserted by her GF thinking what to do. One of his colleagues advised him to go to the best place he enjoyed in his life till then and refresh the memories. He went to his childhood home which was now inhabited by a middle class family consisting of a father ,mom, son and a daughter…see chhota parivar khushiyan apar….but happiness was limited here as they were surviving on a tight budget for their day to day needs.
Nevertheless, he bargained with the family to let him celebrate Christmas with it for a dont know why $250,000 hehehe…apne yehan koi free mein bhi nahi aata…anyways…so the day cocluded with action packed moments, romantic twists n turns, awkward situations blah blah…. And yeah Ben got a companion for lifetime…No prize for guesses.
And this ended my christmas on a happy note..i must say the movie was really good and refreshing.
PS – Watching this movie once won’t be a bad idea…moreover I ‘m here to reinsure ;-)