Badashah Lodge, owned by and named after its owner, Badashah -- a "bahubali" Ex-MLA of Bihar Legislative council, is known for its discipline within the hostel and involvement in gang-wars outside hostel, is the residence of more than 200 students including plus two as well as university students. I spent my two year of plus-two there, as It was at walking distance from my college - St. Xavier's college, Ranchi. I am just sharing an incident here, which is still alive in my memories, even after more than six years. Here we go.
It was Independence day, after hoisting the flag in hostel, we planned to go for cinema. Of course we were planning for afternoon show, as we are not allowed to leave hostel after 7 pm. It was Friday, and movie had just released. I was little more excited to go to very first day of show. More than ninety lodge-mates, including seniors and few juniors, agreed to go together. It was not easy to get so many tickets on very first day. Show was supposed to start at 2 pm. Some of us decided to go little early around 1.00 pm to book tickets; rest of people could come later as cinema hall was at walking distance from our Lodge. I decided to go with seniors at 1.00 pm. I got scared after watching a long queue in front of ticket counter. It was virtually impossible for us to get tickets. But something happened, very cruel and sare-aam gundagardi, which made it possible.
My classmates, holding lather belts in their hand, followed three seniors with hockey sticks, entered the cinema hall from the front gate; They started dispersing people and finally they reached to the ticket counter. Most of people got terrified and flew away from queue, but some groups opposed and they end-up bleeding. They got tickets. Some thing happened after that which was unexpected. Some localites brought their gang for taking revenge. They were more than 50. We dispersed very quickly and tried to vanish in crowd. Now It was our turn to bleed.
Fortunately I got successful in disappearing in crowd, but, some seniors got caught, and I end-up being a silent observer of their misfortune. Once news reached our hostel, after few minutes, hundreds of lodge-mates reached theater for rescue. After seeing such crowd with hockey sticks, localites backed off and most of them flew away. Afternoon show was canceled by administrators and that left us frustrated and we end-up damaging every thing we came across in cinema hall including chairs, windows, posters etc. Polish was called and we holed up in our hostel.
Police reached our hostel, but, they were not allowed to enter inside hostel as Lodge owner was a Ex-MLA. They can not enter without taking his permission. They returned back. After 1-2 days of inspection, owner expelled few guys from hostel, and police cash was suppressed. Most of other culprits including me enjoyed the safe haven inside hostel. After that incident, I kept myself aloof from such activities.
It was Independence day, after hoisting the flag in hostel, we planned to go for cinema. Of course we were planning for afternoon show, as we are not allowed to leave hostel after 7 pm. It was Friday, and movie had just released. I was little more excited to go to very first day of show. More than ninety lodge-mates, including seniors and few juniors, agreed to go together. It was not easy to get so many tickets on very first day. Show was supposed to start at 2 pm. Some of us decided to go little early around 1.00 pm to book tickets; rest of people could come later as cinema hall was at walking distance from our Lodge. I decided to go with seniors at 1.00 pm. I got scared after watching a long queue in front of ticket counter. It was virtually impossible for us to get tickets. But something happened, very cruel and sare-aam gundagardi, which made it possible.
My classmates, holding lather belts in their hand, followed three seniors with hockey sticks, entered the cinema hall from the front gate; They started dispersing people and finally they reached to the ticket counter. Most of people got terrified and flew away from queue, but some groups opposed and they end-up bleeding. They got tickets. Some thing happened after that which was unexpected. Some localites brought their gang for taking revenge. They were more than 50. We dispersed very quickly and tried to vanish in crowd. Now It was our turn to bleed.
Fortunately I got successful in disappearing in crowd, but, some seniors got caught, and I end-up being a silent observer of their misfortune. Once news reached our hostel, after few minutes, hundreds of lodge-mates reached theater for rescue. After seeing such crowd with hockey sticks, localites backed off and most of them flew away. Afternoon show was canceled by administrators and that left us frustrated and we end-up damaging every thing we came across in cinema hall including chairs, windows, posters etc. Polish was called and we holed up in our hostel.
Police reached our hostel, but, they were not allowed to enter inside hostel as Lodge owner was a Ex-MLA. They can not enter without taking his permission. They returned back. After 1-2 days of inspection, owner expelled few guys from hostel, and police cash was suppressed. Most of other culprits including me enjoyed the safe haven inside hostel. After that incident, I kept myself aloof from such activities.
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