<img style="float: left;" title="Rahul da Cunha" src="http://images.mid-day.com/images/images/2025/jun/Rahul_e.jpg" alt="Rahul da Cunha" width="200" height="69" />I heard a sound coming from outside my window. &nbsp;Looking out, I saw Lobo Lobo, my cable <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/technology/article/india-s-it-sector-hiring-grows-by-16-pc-in-april-tech-talent-in-demand-report-23538840" target="_blank" rel="none noopener">tech </a>guy, hanging onto my ledge for dear life&hellip;


&ldquo;Hey men duffer Dikuna men, help no, udder wise I&rsquo;ll toh fall!&rdquo; he yelled, breathlessly.
As I lifted him into my house, wondering why he was so heavy, I realised he was wearing a white astronaut&rsquo;s outfit.
&ldquo;Lobo Lobo&hellip; hmmmm, cool outfit.&rdquo;
&ldquo;I knew you&rsquo;d aks men, so here goes, see Boss, I want to become an astronaut.&rdquo;
&ldquo;Hmmm, but how does one just become an astronaut?&rdquo;&nbsp;
&ldquo; I donnn know, Dikuna men, so I am experimenting &nbsp;&ndash; but dat wassisane Sukh, Shook sumtinng&hellip;??&rdquo;
&ldquo;Shambanshu Shukla?&rdquo;
&ldquo;Yeah dat only, him only, if he can achieve dis, den why not me, I want to go wid him on his next space mission, represent de nation.&rdquo;
&ldquo;And what makes you feel you are a worthy person to accompany him, as an Axion 4 Crew member?&rdquo;
&ldquo;See men, I have all de credentials&hellip; Basically, you need de courage and bindaas-giri to go into space &mdash; &nbsp;and I am solid bindaas &mdash; &nbsp;in my younger days, I was a stunt man&hellip;&rdquo;
&ldquo;What??&rdquo; I asked, incredulous.
&ldquo;No jokes men, God promise,&rdquo; he said, I&rsquo;m solid derring men, I can do all all type stunts, I can jump troo fire, and can drive de car and do all all flips and turns and all &mdash; &nbsp;arrrey, my dad befoe me, he was de stunt double foe all de big daddies in de 70s movies, all Garam Dharam, Big B, Shotgun Sinha. Now in de 90s I was stunt and body double for all dose Aamir movies, &nbsp;I was his<a href="https://www.mid-day.com/entertainment/bollywood-news/photo/Darsheel-Safary-Heres-what-the-23-year-old-Taare-Zameen-Par-actor-is-upto-80967/6" target="_blank" rel="none noopener"> Taare Zameen Par</a> stunt double, I could fly high in de sky, and do anyting on de ground, he aksed me if I wanted to be de stunt man, in dis new none onie, dat &lsquo;Sitaare&rsquo; one. Den I have one small room, where I do all dese space experiments, also holding my breat, and also I have a trampoline, where I do all dis jumping-wumping, you know in de space, dere is all dat <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/mumbai/mumbai-crime-news/article/thane-man-gets-10-year-ri-for-rape-as-court-relies-on-sterling-quality-of-girls-testimony-23580751" target="_blank" rel="none noopener">gravity </a>&mdash; &nbsp;you &lsquo;ave to know how to float, na? I have made one rocket for myself, and on Sundays I go into de rocket and I lift off in de sky&hellip; solid fun becomes! Of cuss sometimes I just crash land and fall on de ground.&rdquo; &ldquo;Ouch,&rdquo; I said.
&ldquo;No no men, all in a day&rsquo;s work, Dikuna men, but chalo men, I&rsquo;m going back to ISS.&rdquo;
&lsquo;Wow&hellip; you&rsquo;re going to The <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/news/world-news/article/axiom-4-mission-shubhanshu-shukla-scripts-history-becomes-first-indian-to-reach-international-space-station-23578919" target="_blank" rel="none noopener">International Space Station</a>, that&rsquo;s amazing. How, Lobo Lobo?&rdquo;
&ldquo;No no chhe men, not dat ISS, dis is my ISS, I have many ISS.&rdquo;
&ldquo;Such as?&rdquo; I asked.
&ldquo;First, my lunch&hellip; &lsquo;I Sannas Sorpotel&rsquo;, den after &lsquo;I Susegado Siesta&rsquo;, got it men, ISS?&rdquo; he concluded.
Rahul daCunha is an adman, theatre director/playwright, filmmaker. Reach him at rahul.dacunha@mid-day.com
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“Yeah dat only, him only, if he can achieve dis, den why not me, I want to go wid him on his next space mission, represent de nation”

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