Start-ups have a Ka-ball-i'

You can’t not see it — the Kabali craze has taken over the country, with companies even announcing a holiday on July 22 so that their employees can watch the Rajinikanth starrer in peace (if they’re able to get hold of tickets, that is). And the city’s start-ups aren’t far behind — a bus full of them will be a part of a community trip being organised.

Starting from Hitec City, the bus will be stickered with posters of the film and packed with start-up employees wearing official merchandise, all of it organised by start-ups — including organic popcorn.

Progress Software’s Ramesh Loganathan says that while   outings like this are organised often, Rajini’s presence is what’s making this one all the more exciting.

The queue outside Prasads Imax, for the tickets of Kabali was so long, even memes were made out of it

“Personally, I am a huge fan of Rajinikanth. I am going to watch the movie twice — once with the start-ups in the morning and again in the afternoon with my company, since we’ve booked a whole theatre for ourselves,” he says, adding, “For the others... it’s probably a really fun thing for all the start-ups to go together, as they do things like this often — and of course watching a Rajinikanth movie first-day-first-show has its own charm!”

Reports had also claimed that start-ups were declaring a holiday on the day, with one of them — Froogal — confirming to Deccan Chronicle that they were one of them.

“In the office itself 90 per cent of us had tickets and had to apply for leave, so it just made sense,” COO Kalyaan Pragallapati says, and adds, “We’re getting our own Kabali tee shirts printed, watching the movie at a theatre close by and then spending the day as a team together. Since most of the people in our office are going nuts about the movie.”

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