Meeting THE BOSS!

Speaking of stars in the previous post, its time to speak about the Superstar.

Last Wednesday, I happened to miss the college bus and reached college late by 9 am along with my friend Hemnath. I found several vans which I immediately recognized as Film service vehicles. I asked my friend Hemnath what shooting is going on. He said it is the much hyped Enthiran (Robot) starring the superstar Rajinikanth and Aishwarya Rai and directed by Shankar. I thought the film shooting held at my college premises ended during the pongal holidays but Hemnath confirmed that it did not and it was postponed to that day.

After attending the next two classes, several of my classmates left after the lunch to catch a glimpse of the superstar. I didn't want to miss the extended afternoon class that day but only when I read message from one of my classmate Lokesh that he has already got autograph from the Superstar himself, I got frustrated. Almost the entire class started to the auditorium, where the shooting was held, after the class got over.

The superstar had come out for lunch and he was inside the caravan. A small crowd of final years were there as the other batches had classes going on. It was said that the superstar would come out by 2:30. The time was still 1:45. I decided to wait rather than going home. I didn't know what the crowd was doing as I was speaking to my friends over the phone. At that time, one of my classmates came and asked for any paper or notebook to get autograph. I lended my notebook to get autograph for her and for me too.

Then suddenly the tension in the crowd arose and only then I came to know that the Superstar had signed yet another set of autographs for the eagerly awaiting fans from inside of the caravan. Mine had still not gone inside the caravan. We waited for few more minutes when the security asked us all to move away. We all went back when I heard a loud cheering sound from the surrounding college mates. I immediately knew the reason and turned around to see the Superstar himself.

To describe his character style in one word, it was COOL. He looked as young as a thirty year old guy and he smiled and waved at us as he moved towards the auditorium through the back door. My friend ABC tried to take a snapshot of the superstar but the security found the camera mobile in his hands before he could even think of the word 'click'. He snatched the mobile and examined it before giving it back to him.

The entire students galloped in joy and headed to the main entrance to catch yet another glimpse of the Superstar. One of the few foreigners, who had possibly come for the shoot, was taking a video shoot of the craze of the students when they moved up and down at every chance they could get to see what is happening inside the auditorium. But luck didn't favour them as many of them left in vain. Luck didn't favour me too as my classmate didn't manage to get autograph as it had got late for the superstar for the shoot.

Although the security was tight and strict about the camera rules, someone had managed to take a photo of the superstar and it was even leaked and published in a recent edition of a newspaper. It shows how people are well and good to get into others' privacy and also news agencies' desperation to get a copy of a hot news.