100days, 47centers, 5dead

This post is not about swine flu as the title might suggest. Wanted to share something interesting which came up in recent converstations ..

Sometime last week we were going to mehdipatnam. In the bus, samar, prashanth and me, we were discussing some general stuff. Our conversation moved into expressing our awe on the number of deaths or let me put it as the "counts" reported after YSR death .. it was then this statement came from prashanth ..
"Arey these days when they are reporting movie news they say .. 100 days .. 47 theaters .. 5 dead!". We all burst into laughter. It was something very unusual. The 5 dead is the count of number of fans who died on various occasions like first day stampede, 50 days celebrations etc! We were surprised the way human lives were reduced to mere counts and the way the success of the movie has this as a parameter. So,a movie has got more value than the lives of those people in the current society !!

Yet another funny statement was from a traffic constable. When prashanth was stopped by a traffic police, the police asked for the documents and prashanth had everything except for an insurance. So, when prashanth was waiting to hear an amount from him, the traffic police says "iste yabhai ... raste 400!". It seems he had to try a lot to control his laughter (I would not have). The interesting thing here is, the way the constable has without any hesitation and with a lot of comfort communicated his deal with a very filmy dialog! :-) ...