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| ME & MY CAR - Kunal Vijaykar | |||
| Review all variants of Honda City | |||
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“I’m quite a safe driver but get distracted easily.” It’s
an instantly recognizable face — he’s the guy with cucumber
slices over his eyes, whose screen wife covered his ears while he changed
channels, who hissed in horror at the thought of antiseptic. Kunal Vijaykar,
theatre artiste, character actor, funnyman, adman, painter and all-round
relaxed guy. He’s also the owner of a superbly maintained old-shape
Honda City 1.5; “the better one,” he says. And he’s
extremely proud of the car, which he bought after a brace of Esteems.
“I’m actually a big fan of the Esteem; the Honda City had
been launched by the time I bought my second one, but the top-of-the-line
Esteem, with power windows and everything, was cheaper than the base Honda
City, so I didn’t bother with it.” Kunal confesses he isn’t as much of a car guy though, and generally dislikes driving, especially in Mumbai, except at night, when it’s empty and looks quite pretty. The longest trips he’s made are to Pune along the Expressway, and even then, he prefers to take it easy. He’d taken a trip to Pune with fellow actor (and Me & My Car star) Boman Irani, and went along with him and a pack of kids to a go-kart track. While Boman and the kids did their best to melt the wheels, Kunal ambled around the track, one hand on the wheel, the other cuddling a cigarette, till Boman started hopping in fury, calling Kunal “a disgrace, who should not be allowed to drive.” Plus, he claims to know nothing about how cars work, and is worried because any wily garage mechanic can take him for a ride. His main automotive talent, he says, lies in back-seat driving. Technically it’s front-seat driving, because he hates the rear, saying “I get really hassled if I can’t see the road. I’m always heckling my chauffeur, till one day he complained that I was starting to scare him.” And this has increased since he had a terrible accident, while being driven around at night in a friend’s Skoda. The Skoda went into a lamp-post, and the airbags kept the driver and front passenger safe, but Kunal broke his hip, and was out of action for four months. “Ever since then, I get really nervous when other people are driving. I believe I’m quite a safe driver; the only problem is that I get quite distracted,” he says, popping his eyes out, “especially when I see a pretty girl on the road.” But never mind how he drives, I just hope he takes the cucumber slices off. |
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