Yuvraj keeps date with his admirer!

“Fourteen long years. That’s my association with the country! Now, I wish I die here only,” Patil, who coaches the Kenyan National team says.

Ah, then, he talks about his love. “Wild life”, he says, “can make me going for ages. I don’t want anything else, just give me a life in the forests.”

Now, Patil is planning to write his second book and, you’ve guessed it right, “On my wild-life fascination”. Friend and Mumbai-mate Ravi Shastri asks him what all will he pen down and Patil smiles: “It’s secretive. Read it when it’s written.”

You hesitantly ask him for a drive down to the forest and Patil is game. “When, today? No, not today. I have come here to see my friend Yograj Singh’s son, Yuvraj bat. Maybe tomorrow. Okay, certainly.” MOVIEMAGIC: IF you have guts to drive in the evening, be sure to touch down at the open-air Drive-In theatres, on the outskirts of Nairobi. Taking the Forest Road towards the airport, which can be really nasty locals say, there is a sumptuous feast of all-Hindi movies at the Fox’s. The show starts around seven and one can park one’s car right in front of the huge screen and the Fox’s hospitality includes food and drinks. There is another such theatre, Bellview on the Ruarka Road but Fox’s continues to be a huge favourite among the local Indians, mostly expatriates from Gujarat and Punjab.

“Evenings are generally free so for at least three days a week we are at the Fox’s,” says Hiresh Shah, who came from Rajkot four years ago, now runs a handicrafts showroom in the heart of the city and doesn’t think he would like to go back to his motherland. “When I came here, I thought I will go back after two years. Initially, I would be hit by homesickness but I made some friends here. Then, I got married here and as my business flourished, it became as comfortable as back home,” Shah, who also has a one-year-old daughter, says.

Other than watching movies, Shah last watched Dil Pe Mat Le Yaar, he is fond of cooking. “Only Gujarati food though.”