Rats III: Dark of the Room

This is the third part in the series:

Rats Part I http://bit.ly/ozm3K5

Rats Part II: Revenge of the Fallen http://bit.ly/pmjuMi

Rats Part III: Dark of the room

Note: There was a delay in the principal photography of this episode due to the high signing amount demanded by the RAF (Rats Artistic Fraternity) owing to the success of the first two installments of the trilogy. Taking inspiration from a certain Baba and following the latest fad they staged a protest outside the production house with a fast till death signboard taking center-stage.  Luckily, we got a sponsor to fund our project in the nick of time. Although we had to use an extensive promotional campaign for the new fairness product in the movie we are thankful to “XXX talcum powder” company for bringing the project back on track.  Being faced by such unforeseen  circumstances the release date had to be postponed by 2 weeks. The delay is regretted but we have done it bigger and better this time.

July 17^th Most of the hostelites have left the premises. Two of us, me and Ganesh (my roomie), are left stranded in this monolithic building with all the laughter and joy drained out of it. There happens to be an unidentified being which makes a fleeting appearance around 7pm  and then at 11pm in the hostel corridors. The contours of this being’s body makes it difficult to determine its gender. The only description that I can give of this creature is that it has a white ghostly appearance with a strong nauseating smell of perfume emanating from its body every time it passes by our room at the above mentioned time. We dread not to come at its sight for fear of being shocked by one of nature’s freak. I am not talking about the rat here. Weirder living things happen to inhabit this place.

I pondered whether my roommate’s godly name i.e. Ganesh had something to do with the rats being frequent visitors to our room. According to mythology the rat was the vehicle of Lord Ganesh but now the mortal counterparts of the rat were making life hell on earth for the mortal Ganesh (why am I dragged into this).  I was frantically searching for my kidnapped `mouse`. Pulling out things from the cupboard and my bags, the room had become a mess, but no sign of the device. Next was my roomie’s cupboard. We opened the safe in the cupboard and found out pieces of biscuits strewn all over. They were living here!  A little more searching and I got my kidnapped mouse back, the rats had hidden it in the cupboard itself. Now, it was getting on our nerves and there was only one choice: vacate Room 208. We shifted our belongings to the adjacent room 209 which was purported to be free of the menace. Our new abode seemed to be a peaceful place compared to the terror we had gone through the past month.

July 19^th We heard the clicking sound of the levers being drawn back in the lock. The door creaked open, I went out of my room into the corridor to see where the familiar noise came from. The silhouette of the strange creature (the one I mentioned at the beginning) started approaching me from the darkness. It’s hands were like sledgehammers and the familiar smell permeated the air. This time I stood there to have a look. The face pierced itself from a white fog.  It had the face of a man, the hands were like, as if ,the upper part of the hammerhead shark had been transplanted into its place. The upper torso had muscles ripping out of the tortured T-shirt.  When the picture became clear It turned out that the exotic creature was my colleague. He had dumbbells in his hand and was going to the gym. I later realized that he used to wear T-shirts one size too short to create the illusion of Arnold Schwarzeneggar. It seemed like he had taken a bath in truckloads of talcum powder which explains the smell and the ghostly look. .  I can understand our nation’s fascination with the fair skin going by the sales of the ubiquitous fairness creams but powder, come on man, that is so not done. He waved at me with a squeaky hello on his way to the gym. I waved back at him with a confused look.

The sound made by footsteps diverted my attention to the adjacent door. Two guys entered Room 208. It was too late of me to warn them of what lies in store for them. The chase begins all over again. No room for escape for the new entrants.

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Premiere of Rats III: Dark of the room

   

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