Flight-time stories with B'wood stars - Page 2

Within a minute, Moushumi walked up to me, and with a lovely smile made a request, "Please give one drink to Babu no, she is very thirsty." She inadvertently changed her poor husband's gender and I didn't have the heart to correct a small grammatical error by such a pretty and glamorous celebrity. I immediately agreed "Okay, I will serve him the drink, though unofficially, but you will have to pay for it in dollars."

She slid a little closer towards me, looking directly into my eyes, and with a childlike innocence said "We don't have any dollars", finishing off her request with a grin. I decided to pay for the drink from my own pocket, which I thought was a very small price to pay for the lascivious looks aimed at me by the beautiful lady. Babu accepted the drink with a humble and grateful smile, Moushumi returned to her seat, and we returned to our work.

She spent most of her time in the galley chatting with us, in fact once when I was bending to cut open a bar seal, she suddenly called out "Manu , do you like this job ?"  I was surprised; I said "How did you know my name?"

"I asked him!" She said pointing to a very feminine looking air-hostess who was standing nearby. The poor girl was too embarrassed to react. I somehow suppressed my desire to laugh at her constant changing of gender. Moushumi then came close to me, caught my hand, entwined all her fingers into mine, and whispered sexily into my ear, "Manu do me one more favor na, give 'Babu' another drink no!" All this flirtatious behavior and the close proximity of her body to mine, was making me weak in the knees. To say that I wasn't enjoying her amorous teasing would be a white lie! But I had a job to do, so i told her "I am sorry, after this drink I will be unable to serve you anymore drinks as I have to close and seal the bar before we land.

She flashed a beaming smile again, and squeezing my hand she said, "Why don't you come and meet me when you are in Bombay, here's my phone number." She handed me a piece of paper and quickly added, "And when you call up, if my servant picks up the phone, ask for 'INDU', because that is my real name. Only then he will call me."

I don't know why, but I had a somewhat uncanny feeling that Moushumi's servant was a female!🤣

Hemaji grinned and said in a typical south Indian accent "I daunt want the full bautall, becaase anybaady who drinks full bautall of toebassco will go maaadd".😆

It became obvious as to why she had not opened her mouth for so long!🤣

With a polite "excuse me" to the pax seated two rows behind her, I rushed to Hemaji's seat and saw that her face had changed color. She seemed to have swallowed a little bomb of sorts and something that looked suspiciously like smoke was emanating from her ears!

"Take this soup away, this is vairy straang TOE-BASSS-COE !" she cried

Dia was accompanied on this flight by her mother, who like many other 'star-moms' was protective, possessive and the sheltering kind.  While Dia herself had very little or no make-up on her lovely face, the mother's face was full of many-many layers of it.

They were both seated in the middle row of the club-class and I first caught sight of them when Dia's mother was tugging at her daughter's seatbelt to check if it were fastened tightly. She then carefully placed a pillow in the small of Dia's back and only then proceeded to recline into her own seat.

A hostess holding a juice tray approached the ladies and asked "Fresh Orange or Pineapple juice ma'am?" "Don't you have fresh Pomegranate juice?" asked mom. "No ma'am, we have only these two" said the hostess. Dia intervened, "Mom! It doesn't matter, I'll have the orange juice". "No, I told you, orange is not good for your throat, have a glass of water at room temperature instead" Then turning to the air-hostess she added "I hope you have an aquaguard on this aeroplane, my daughter drinks aquaguard water only!"😆

The baffled hostess replied "No ma'am, we don't have an aquaguard, but we carry bottled mineral water"

Mom very contemptuously allowed her embarrassed daughter to drink the mineral water.😛

Around the same time, the flight purser was distributing GUCCI give-away bags, one each to every club-class pax. The thrilled mom grabbed her bag, "Can I have one more?' she asked. "MOM!" shouted Dia. Seeing the uncormfortable look on her daughter's face, mom quickly told the purser "Its okay! I don't want another one."🤣

Dia looked at him thoughtfully and said, 'I haven't acted with Shahrukh yet', she suddenly added with a lot of zeal, 'but I will be doing a special appearance in his new movie (Om Shanti Om)soon!'

Just as the conversation was becoming interesting, Dia's 'mom' walked into the galley and chidingly said to her, "Don't waste your time here, take some rest now, you know that you are shooting in Bombay tomorrow". Dia returned to her seat and rested a while.😆

When the lunch service started it was impossible to offer any food item to Dia without the express permission of her specifically caring 'mom', who kept insisting that her dear daughter stick to vegetarian food. So much so that the delicious fish chowder soup,whose rich aroma had already luredDia back in the galley, was not permitted to be served to her. Poor Dia had to make do with the Cream of Vegetable soup instead!

When the hors d'oeuvres (starters) trolley was rolled into the cabin, the hostess turned the vegetarian side towards them and told Dia "we have Broccolli, stuffed asparagus and avocado". Before Dia could even take a peek at the delicacies, 'Mom' interrupted "No, no, no non-veg! I told you earlier." The poor hostess somehow convinced mom that all the afore-mentioned food items were one hundred percent vegetarian, whereas for the non-veg pax we had the very special Prawn Cocktail .

Both mother and daughter looked cravingly at the tempting Prawn Cocktail, but let go off it very reluctantly. Two food trolleys later, when the dessert trolley  came out, they had a similar longing for the Soan Halwa, but that too passed off from under their noses.🤣

Finally, a fed-up and embarrassed Dia curled up into a blanket and fell asleep. Once 'Mom' was convinced that Dia was in fact asleep, she made her move.