Oddan On a Shoestring

DWDB : 17

Last night we had a very cheap and very entertaining night on the town in Oddanchatram (Oddan for short). We had Brota and Curry from a nice veg restaurant across the road for the grand total of 17 rupee (Rs.17 = AU50cents - all you can eat too!). Then we went to the cinema again, this time to see an 'action' movie, for Rs.20 (60cents). So a delicious all you can eat meal and a 3.5 hour movie set us back less than a buck fifty. (AFTERTHOUGHT: Kev and I also had barber shaves that day at our 'local' - we've been going a few times since - for the ridiculously low price of Rs.15 (50c). So a shave, dinner and a movie for two bucks! Sweeeeet)

The movie we saw (don't ask me what it was called, but it had a guy called 'The Boss' in it...thats all we could figure out) was better than the last one, but to almost the same formula (still in Hindu, dubbed in Tamil). The dance scenes were amazing, and there had obviously been some serious rupees spent on this one. Once again, the fair damsel in distress was won over by some seriously good dancing scenes with 100+ dancers and a few awesome fight scenes. If only it were that easy!

Spent the day in surgery today, saw some toe amputations which were pretty cool. Off to a mountain station about an hour away tomorrow for one of the hospital's 'village clinics'.