27th April - visit to Siddhivinayak Temple,Dadar

The plan to go to the temple was for the 26th.I had already made plans and also told my friends about it.I had also planned to go to the 'Gomantak hotel' in dadar itself for lunch after visiting the temple. But then a few of my friends said that they were busy on Saturday,so i had to shift my plans to sunday.But on Sunday i had some impact day work in andheri in the morning, so could go only in the afternoon.

On sunday, only gautam agreed to come with me to the temple.We met at the andheri St and went to dadar.We already had our lunch,and we went about in search of the temple.As we were new to dadar we decided to walk it out to the temple by asking directions, so that we can see around the place.It took us around 20 mins to reach the temple.

The temple has a lot of security at the entrance.We had to go through the security check while entering.The temple was crowded with people being pushed ahead.Also there was hardly any place to sit calmly like we can in Goa.We managed to find a place to sit and then chatted for a while.Then we left to go in search of Gomantak Hotel.

I knew that Gomantak Hotel, the plaza cineme and Shivaji Mandir(a theater for marathi plays), were all close by.So we decided to see where exactly they were. So from the Siddhivinayak temple we again walked towards the NC kelkar road where these were located. Finally we reached there, and we realised that the place was very near from the dadar station.one thing to remember for the next time
we come there.

The Gomantak Hotel was closed (maybe a goan hotel needs to be closd on sunday to prove its goan :)).But atleast now we know where it is. Chris had called and told that they were purchasing tickets for the film 'Tashan' for the 9 pm show in Bandra.I declined to come as i would be late returning home.So we decided to go to the shivaji mandir nearby to see if there were any plays at that time.So that we can watch the play and then return in time for the film-Gautam was going for it.There we were told that shows are only at 3pm.(another thing to remember for the next time).So we just hanged around for a while there and then went in search for food.It took us a while to find a decent place.We had our dinner and set out for Bandra.There i showed gautam the way to the theater and i returned back home.