9th November
2004
Minneapolis
We call
ourselves Thotti gang and Co, 15 of us- Subash, Sai Ravi, Praveen,
Ravi, Arun, Dayakar and family, Srujay and family, Pappineni and
family, bandi and family; traveled from Rochester, which is about
90 miles away.
Outside
temperature here were close to below freezing, you cannot standout
for more than 5 minutes, even the bravest wouldn't dare going out,
but when it is a Chiru movie even mission-impossible becomes
possible.
Words cannot
describe the atmosphere in the theater. It was the first time that
a Telugu movie was screened twice on the same day back to back,
and yet 3/4 of the theater was full on both the shows. It was
festive mood in every corner of the theater, for one moment it
reminded me of India; dancing, blowing whistles and throwing
balloons to every age defying dance move that Chiru does.
It might sound
exaggerated else where, but not here, not in Minneapolis,
Minnesota. Only few occasions tend to bring out the kind of energy
and enthusiasm which we saw today. People traveled from as far as
200 miles to watch this movie.
We specially
wanted to thank Sankar Bandi for the blast of a time we had and
making this possible.
Thanks in
advance,
Ravi Square,Subhash,Sai,Praveen,Sujay,Dayakar,Arun |