Jayalalithaa Jayaram, the Chief Minister of Tamilnadu has sued Cyrus Broacha.
I am really surprised that Cyrus Broacha, who has written 3759 humour pieces, done 2314 stand-up shows and has spoofed all the politicians in the country including Jayalalithaa didn’t know that the politicians today don’t have a sense of humor. They can abuse, shout, burp, talk (with or without topic), digress, fart, threaten, assault, rape, murder, make promises, make tall promises, accept bribes…But they can’t laugh at themselves. He stupidly thought that she would laugh at his jokes. Or perhaps, he thought she doesn’t know English! Or may be Cyrus believed that, like his book (I forget the name), his show CNN’s IBN’s ‘The Week that wasn’t’ too isn’t!
But his ‘The Week that wasn’t’ is.
And while there are some Chief Ministers who aren’t much good at English, Jayalalithaa isn’t one of them.
Cyrus should have known that they censored Shankar’s cartoons about Jawaharlal Nehru and Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar. Of course, Nehru didn’t have any problem with the cartoon. Nor did Babasaheb Ambedkar sue Shankar. In fact, they laughed with him. They even gave awards to Shankar.
But the operative word – like I have written in the very first sentence of this blog – is today.
Those were the times…
Piloo Mody would crack jokes in parliament and dirty jokes outside parliament.
R. K. Laxman would draw a balding man who everyone knew was Jawaharlal Nehru. Nehru would ask R K Laxman to send him the original cartoon, get it framed and hang it on the walls of Teenmurti.
Bal Thackeray – he wasn’t Hindu Hridya-samrat Balasaheb Thackeray then – would draw cartoons of a woman with a long beak like nose and call her Indira.
Perhaps because the newspapers were read by literate people and parliamentarians – at least some of them – were intellectuals.
Perhaps, like The Week that wasn’t’, those times weren’t… or those people weren’t…
I don’t know how qualified is Cyrus in the matter but he calls himself love guru and dishes free advice to people in his column.
I am a controversy guru – having been sued by 19 actresses and 4 actors – and offer advice, in fact several advices, to Cyrus. all free.
1. Do another spoof of Jayalalithaa. The trouble is the same whether you appear in one defamation case or two.
2. Appear in the court. You will get a date. Do a spoof of the judge.
3. The judge will prosecute you for defaming him and the contempt of court. You will have four cases. The trouble is the same – whether you have three defamation cases and one contempt of court case.
4. Like the politicians, film stars too don’t have sense of humor. Start with a spoof of Salman Khan and at the rate of 6 heroes and 24 heroines – yes, that is the ratio – you will have 30 more defamation cases filed against you.
5. By then you will be so famous that Markandya Katju will step in, ask for a pardon for you.
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