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Sajid Khan
I am hurt. I'm confused. I'm angry. I'm surprised. I'm depressed. I'm also thinking that what a dramatic month this has been, since Diwali. I'm not saying that I lost in cards during Diwali -- I don't gamble and I can bet 5:1 odds on that!
No, let's get back to what I was talking about -- the many things that happened in this dramatic month. First, the Salman Khan fiasco. If he is guilty, then the law will punish him. But if he is not guilty then let us not make such a hue and cry about some dead animals. Don't hate me yet, guys, let me explain. I love animals. I hate shikars and shikaris. The very idea of someone hunting down an innocent defenceless animal, shooting it, killing it and feeling macho about it, is disgusting.
But at the same time, let us get our priorities right. This topic of the Salman Shikar has been on the tip of everyone's tongues. No news channel, magazine, newspaper or regular, gossip social circle, has left this topic untouched, undiscussed or without a new point of view. How comenobody talks about the killing of innocent people in the city everyday? Surely human beings are almost as important as animals? Why is no sanstha or some activist group staging a dharna or morcha or having meetings about this? How come no one talks about this in parties, pubs or other social gatherings? Come on man, here you have human beings being killed every day, gutted down worse than animals. You have women being mugged and attacked in local trains and disabled for the rest of their lives. But nobody wants to talk about that. Everybody only wants to talk about the poor bucks. Why? Because a star like Salman Khan is involved in the controversy.
Don't get me wrong, my friends, like you I love animals. BUT NOT ABOVE HUMAN BEINGS. So, isn't it time we got our priorities just a little bit right?NOW to move on to lighter things -- and I don't mean my wallet. The Salman Khan controversy very easily put out of the limelight another controversy which has been going on for a longer time -- Bill Clinton andMonica bhabhi. While in our Parliament House everyone is wondering about what to do about the women's bill, over there, in the White House, everyone is wondering what to with Bill's women.
Shift focus: Onions, onions, onions. Onions have become so expensive that someone asked for police protection because he had bought 10 kg of onions. Kaando(n) ki mehengaye ke is daur mein jawan beta marte huye boodhe baap ko yeh bhi nahin keh sakta hai ki main tumhari laash ko kaand(h)a doonga.And finally, justice has prevailed. Satya (which everyone who has seen the film will agree is such a bad film) is not being sent to the Oscar's as India's entry for best foreign film. Instead, the film which is going is the cinema classic, heart touching, marvellous gem of a fantabulously excellent, historically monumental, muscially, technically, wonderous landmark in movie making (pardon my German) which will have every Hollywood star, director and major studio producer getting up in the aisles for a standing ovation -- JEANS,(the Prashant-Aishwarya Rai classic). It's a good thing they didn't send it last year. Titanic would have surely lost.
Sajid Khan says, "Just one thing folks, at the Oscars the dress code is formal only. No jeans allowed."
Copyright © 1998 Indian Express Newspapers (Bombay) Ltd.
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