Recollecting those days at CEK(College of Engineering Kidangoor).
The star of the story is Dhaneesh alias Dhairan.
I don't remember in which semester we were in then. 6,7 or 8? It does not matter. From 6th sem onwards I started staying with Rajumon n co at Punnathura. The rented house we stayed there was located in the middle of a rubber estate, a kinda forest!!
Though it was a small place, Punnathura had everything needed for common people. Church, temple, Meenachil river, Ladies Hostel(We called it Bhargaveenilayam), Shaap(Toddy shop) etc etc. But we didn't like the hotels there. So we liked going to Kidangoor or Maanthaadi junction for dinner.
We used to catch the bus 'Nandikesh' at 7 pm from Punnathura. Then we either bought parcel or quickly finished our dinner to get the same bus returning at 7.45 pm.
Our star Dhairan was staying at Maanthaadi junction with other friends as a PG. Most of the days we guys(non PG guys) too had food from his PG home and stayed there many nights.
This guy used to come with us to Punnathura and used to stay with us once in a while.
One night, Rajumon and I bought parcel from Maanthaadi junction and were waiting for the bus to come.
At 7.45pm. We saw the bus coming and then saw this Dhairan running towards us. He then told us that he too would be coming with us. We immediately hid our parcel. I think I hid my parcel in the pants pocket.
That was the first thing I did upon seeing him coming towards us.
While returning to Punnathura in the bus, I was imagining Dhairan finishing the porotta and beef. We would have bought more porottas and beef, had he informed us earlier. For Dhairan, this kind of parcel is simply nothing. And he didn't have any such formalities and would simply clean the plate alone. So we were in dilemma.
We didn't tell him any words like food, dinner, parcel, etc. Dhairan might have thought that we had our dinner from the hotel itself.
We reached room around 8pm. Dhairan straight away occupied Sunu's room and started studying.
Rajumon and I felt the danger of taking out the parcel then. We decided to open the parcel only after hearing Dhairan snoring.
We too opened a few books and started learning. 9,10,11. clock ticked.. This guy was not sleeping. We visited Dhairan every 30 minutes. At 11pm, I was saying 'onnu poyi kidannurangu penne' inspired by the Priyadarshan movie 'Kilukkam'. There is a similar scene in that Mohanlal-Jagathy starred movie.
Mohanlal& Jagathy decides to open the parcel(porotta and chicken) after Revathy sleeps. But she is not sleeping. Then Jagathy says 'onnu poyi kidannurangu penne' means 'please go to bed'. The climax of this scene is interesting. After ensuring Revathy slept, the duo removed their blanket and crawled to kitchen only to watch Revathy finishing the parcel food. Rajumon and I recollected this scene and were just saying this dialogue to Dhairan. But Dhairan took another book and started solving some programming examples.
Time passed midnight.. 12.30, 1'o clock.. No hope. Finally at 1.30am, we decided to take the risk. We came out of the house, moved to the back side, opened our parcels, stuffed the porotta with beef, put it in the mouth and tried to swallow it like a python does with a rooster. We were able to finish the food within no time. That was the first time in my life eating food with that much pace. Oh, what a huge relief that made. I drank some water after that to just push the porotta down from the throat. I still don't know at what time Dhairan slept that night. Till now, Dhairan is unaware of this story. I have not told him this. Whenever I watch that comody scene on TV, I do remember Dhairan and this story..
