"Anand climbed the steps and went towards his room. The hostel was a beautiful, well maintained building in the Kaprigudda locality. It was especially built for the new batch of students away from the seniors so that they could escape ragging. Anand had his room on the first floor. He opened the lock on the door and entered. Switching on the lights he looked back on hearing someone coming. It was his roommate Praveen.

“ Where were you? I was searching for you after I woke up from my afternoon nap. I thought we could go to the temple” said Praveen.

“ I went to the temple. And then I went to the river” said Anand.

“Oh! Ok, well at least you should have woken me up,” complained Praveen. Anand shrugged his shoulders.

“Hey did you know today they are bringing the cassettes for the first time? The inauguration is going to be in the TV room. It’s going to be fun,” said Praveen.

“ Who wants fun?” a voice said from the corridor. It was Arora who had his room just opposite to theirs. He was a paunchy fellow with a pendulum belly.

Arora came into their room and looked at Praveen. “ Hey Praveen you want fun? I could give you a lot of fun” said he as he winked and moved towards Praveen.

“ Thanks but no thanks,” said Praveen smiling “ I will prefer that fun with a girl and not boys.”

Anand laughed. The sexual jokes and tease-talk episodes were becoming something Anand was having fun in watching. He especially liked Arora for his spontaneous humor and sportive attitude. It was a rare day in which laughter and rivalry was not heard from Anand’s room. The verbal fights, of Praveen and Arora, laced with sexual teasing used to happen in a regular basis.

“ Hey its here! Come fast everyone!” a voice shouted from the corridor.

The three guys ran out towards the TV room. It was a momentous occasion in the history of the newly built hostel. The first pornographic movie! It was decided by the students that every Saturday there would be a screening of two pornographic movies. One movie was supposed to be that of a regional language and the other movie in English.

“ Why don’t we bring both movies of English only” one student had asked. “The models are so beautiful with well shaped bodies.”

“ Regional language movies carry more realistic exposures. In an English pornographic movie the stripping appears to be staged. But in the regional language movie it appears very realistic. It is very easy to get aroused” The student who answered appeared to be an expert porno movie reviewer. All the others had accepted his suggestion without dissent. It was decided that every Saturday night they would screen these movies. Today was the first Saturday night.

The TV room was jam-packed. Every bench and corner was occupied to the inch. It looked like an India-Pakistan cricket match audience. There were shouts of jubilation, of triumph and expectation. For many it was the first time they were being exposed to a pornographic film.

“ Victory to porn! Long live sex!” someone shouted. Everyone followed the chorus in unison. It was like a festival. Anand had never seen a blue movie before and so was also wondering as to what it would be like.

Sethi a boy from Delhi stood up and held up his hands to silence the eager mob.

“ Friends, today is a momentous occasion in our hostel lives,” he said. “ We are going to watch a blue film! Our names will be written in golden letters in the annals of our hostel lore, as we were the pioneers of such in this building. Let everyone congratulate us for the great achievement and let us make haste in watching the movie as soon as possible. During the movie, catcalls, shouts and comments are welcome. Have a nice time.”

He sat down to thunderous applause. The applause intensified to sheer frenzy as he took out the cassette and played it in the VCR.

The room became absolutely silent as the first visual came on the screen. It showed a woman having a bath and a man working in the garden peaking into the bathroom through a hole in the wall. The movie progressed to how the woman comes out after the bath and the man enters her room and starts seducing her. The whole room watched mesmerized. Every face in the room was colored with anticipation and curiosity. Every one was rooting for the man to ‘just do it’. Suddenly the room erupted into shouts and whistles ten minutes afterwards.

“Victory to porn! Long live sex!” “ Victory to porn! Long live sex!” The shouts continued intermittently for a whole one-hour.

Anand came out of the room after half an hour. He had watched enough and his curiosity was satisfied. But he was surprised that it was not stimulating but instead was more repulsive. He had enjoyed adult movies before but the blue movie surprisingly had left a bad taste in his mouth. It was he felt, rather crude.

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