Scene is that of a cinema hall, well occupied, for two reasons, (a) the movie being premiered stars two really big stars as the lead couple and is touted to be the movie of the year (b) around forty little kids, aged between four and six are there with their teachers for an outing.

So, the movie I am talking about is Fanaa, a movie released in 2006, a romantic crime story (who doesn’t love that?)

So, the kids are generally well-behaved and the adults there are enjoying the movie as well, surprised how the kids are quiet and not being, you know, annoying little pieces of shit (I love kids but they can be that).

But this is just the starting. Almost half an hour into the movie, a little girl starts giving her commentary on the movie, much to the horror of her teachers and a little annoyance but more amusement on part of the movie goers.

Let me enlighten you with a few gems she showered upon the audience along with the scene description:

• She’s blind, that’s why she likes him; the guy is not hot at all when the blind heroine is shown falling in love with the hero.
• No, no, stop the movie. My friends are scared when she may have been scared at a not so scary scene.
• How stupid are these people? How didn’t they realise he killed her father? And how does the fat man float down the river in a perfectly rectangular block of ice? related to the murder of the heroine’s father by the hero.
• He killed her father. How does he love her then? baffled at the scene where it is portrayed he loves the heroine yet.
• I knew it. He isn’t just not hot enough to be a hero but a terrorist. Kill him! (to adults nearby) when it is revealed he is a terrorist.
• Why do all romantic movies have to be so sappy and similar? at the love songs they danced to.
• And the one that made the adults laugh the most, for how long will they keep on just holding hands? (implying she’s waiting for something more to happen). No kiddo! Cute, little innocent babies don’t say that.

I not only laugh and cringe over it to this day but also wonder how was it that none of the teachers scolded or took away the seven year old me from there.

Well, I really was as strange when I was a kid.