drunk model in Trishur

After a colleague’s marriage, went around Trishur along with a driver and Sathya and Navendu in the evening.

Visited the beach to watch the sunset.

I wandered around a bit further down the beach on my own with my camera. Here it was completely desolate except for an occasional passerby. I saw an eagle effortlessly floating around and spent the next 15 mins trying to get it in the right frame. Three chaps were walking past, and one who seemed to have noticed me came to me and said something to me in Malayalam. I didnt expect he was saying anything pleasant as he was speaking angrily swaying to and fro with a bottle in his hand. So I replied in Kannada saying I didnt understand him and he was about to go away and leave me alone when I said something in Hindi… oh oh he knew Hindi… and he started again in Hindi this time a bit angrier… “why do you want to take pictures of birds and trees… take picture of us, we are here!!” Then looked back and noticed that two more people who had been with him had long gone, and corrected himself “I am here, take a picture of me!!”.

Well I had a digital camera and nothing to lose taking a picture, but was annoyed (and almost amused, but not too much considering that there was nobody else around) that I was being forced to do something so I just said no forget it. Then he started getting more and more agitated. Finally I said
ok stand here… and he started giving a pose, I took 20 steps away, poor fellow waited for me to click, but after I kept on walking away he found out he was getting conned and started running (as best as he could) after me and confronted me again. Oh well… The evening had been too good to get into a quarrel, I called my friends for moral support but they were loitering around quite far away. I weighed the options of throwing him into the water to wake him up from his stupor, and just getting it over with, then finally
took a picture. But he wasnt convinced, and I had to switch on the flash for his highness’ complete satisfaction. Though he was still angry about something he staggered away. Later due to acute shortage of memory – (Trishur was really beautiful) had to delete his picture 🙂

[Not sure about the exact date]