The height of arrogance. If the Deputy CM of Maharashtra offers urine to the drought hit farmers – even his apology was not visible on his arrogant face – another NCP minister seems as haughty…
R R Patil, the Home Minister wants his car (state-owned and with lal batti) directly reach the aircarfts! No frisking, and of course no walking on the tarmac for any minister (Sushil Kumar Shinde is driven in airport car up to the aircraft) unless it is during ‘once in five years begging for the votes’ and no security checks!
This is ridiculous in a State where the former Home Ministers, belonging to the same NCP with home he shares the surname – Padamsingh Patil – is charged with murder! Patil was produced in a judicial court in Panvel yesterday and has been remanded to CBI custody till June 14.
The CBI have in their possession confession of an accused in the case against Patil. As always happens in case of VIPs charged with serious crimes, besides denials, the defence also is raising the issue of the health of the minister.
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Saw ‘Bombay Talkies’.
Bollywood folks are notorious for sneaking in their agenda whenever they have an opportunity and taking the industry colleagues for a jolly ride.
Celebration of 100 years provided this opportunity to Karan Johar and company.
Here is the official agenda: to glorify the magic of films.
Here is the unstated agenda:
1. To project gay angst. Karan’s film.
2. To curry favours with Katrina Kaif. For this Zoya Akhtar has blatantly glorified Katrina as an inspiring symbol, an angel and messenger for the children. Yeh alag baat hai ke the message is the same old one: follow your dream.
3. To pacify and glorify Amitabh Bachchan. Nothing wrong with it except that it is Anurag Kashyap doing it. He had a public spat with Bachchan and won over the Bachchan with this eulogy. Ye alag baat hai ke the writer of the original story has dragged him to court for stealing his story.
4. To cut down Salman Khan, Kajol and Ajay Devgn to size by not including them in the title song and by avoiding any mention of the three. This way Karan Johar is currying favours with Shah Rukh Khan who hates the ground Salman and Ajay walk. Kajal, though might have opted out to show her support for husband Ajay Devgn.
5. Now that Bal Thackeray is no more, to quietly bring Bombay back in the vocabulary.
6. To rename Bollywood (which appears mocking the 100 year old industry) Bombay Talkies. I had once suggested replacing this silly name with Bombay. But industry folks were scared. I suggested Bombay as Hollywoodland was the name of the city where they started making movies. The film industry there was named Hollywood. Here the Bombay film industry had been named Bollywood, Bengali as Tollywood ( ref: Tollygung), Madras industry as Mollywood and Lahore industry as Lollywood. It is as if wood = films.
But Bollywood has stuck and it’d be difficult to rename it…
As for the 4 story-movie, the only story worth watching is Dibakar Bannerjee’s. You can skip the rest.
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