Sunday, January 25, 2009
Ab tak Dakan…
Abby Baby was someone I grew up loving and aping his roles portrayed in movies. Like any awed fan in my days mouthing his dialogues was like hip. Imitating his style was the in thing. Thanx to the generation I grew up in we were always on the crest of innovation; like sometimes I wonder how to explain to my 9 year old what is a telex machine or a telegram. So from the 2 black and white channels with one of the programmes being ‘Amchi Mati Amchi Manse’, we Manse graduated to color televisions to cable tv to dish tv and now iPtv.Through all this metermophsis in technology, Abby Baby was rocking through all of it. Hits after hits used to have women getting the excitement fits. The dude broke thru ‘Zanjeer’, smashed the ‘Deewar’, terrified as ‘Don’ and in-between did crap as ‘Ajooba’, but proved he was the dark horse in ‘Kalia’, fired the screen in ‘Sholay’, and ‘Naseeb’ (destiny) favored him to him being titled as the ‘Shahenshah’ of the film industry.
This humpty dumpty one day had a great fall not just on the sets of ‘Coolie’ but just falling to any levels to be in the lime light. The guy would endorse anything from soft drinks to chocolates, and was like a struggling movie aspirant making his way through modeling. Did some crap of starting an Organisation to corporatise the film industry, and the thing just went ‘Boom’ coincidentally a name of his movie where till date no one knows what he was doing in it. Somewhere down the line dabbled with politics and made a mess of himself and then was alleged to be involved in the ‘Bofors scam’, and the guy did not know what was hitting from where, with the maximum hitting on his rear which was the target of political parties, and anyone pull the star down and tear him apart.
Baby’s ‘Silsila’ (events) went on through the good the bad the ugly, and the baby was an old baggy suddenly. Tried to do roles one third of his age and started making a bigger ass of him. Why was he doing this? Couldn’t he gracefully hang his boots than hanging himself professionally? I guess it was the desire to be the ‘Crorepati’ and fame can be a big delusion which fades like all things in life. The old man tried treading his ‘Agnipath’ and was burning himself to such a level that once in six months he had to be carted to a hospital. The guy would do anything for money and fame. To the extent to prove he has both, would make press statements that he pays the highest income tax. Trying so hard ki ‘Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna’ to the Industry and stuck on like a leech.
What proved he was a complete ass, was his recent blog on ‘Slumdog Millionaire’, where he claimed “Slumdog Millionaire projects India as a Third World, dirty under belly developing nation and causes pain and disgust among nationalists and patriots. It's just that the Slumdog Millionaire idea authored by an Indian and conceived and cinematically put together by a Westerner, gets creative Globe recognition." What have your movies portrayed Mr. Bachhan, that in India to be rich and to survive you need to resort to crime; that India has an underbelly of dacoits; police can be purchased; used an English coin to toss heads or tails as if India had no currency; in personal life got a status of an NRI to avoid taxes; and what are all the white women doing in your movies who you dance with? So you too need to resort to foreign skin just to save your skin. Just because in ‘Slumdog Millionaire’, you were not offered the role, which ideally should have been yours, went to Anil Kapoor.
Now that ‘Slumdog Millionaire” would be a nomination entry into Oscars, Mr. Bacchan wants to educate us that we should not be obsessed with the Oscars, as it is no entity to prove the superiority of movies made in India. Dude, Indian’s obsession towards you is fading, so please fade with grace, before your movies on TV will be labelled as ‘Ab tak Dakan’
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Baba loved the initial part of the write up as it inspired was witty, filmy, stylishly Bollywood but above all it gave me a sense of the 80's coming alive and I was happy.
The latter part was mean scrupulous demeaning and overtly critical. I am not saying the write wasn't the truth but rather you added yourself to that bogus group of self inducted critics that feel its their right to defame, demonize and surgically dissect a persons trails in life and that didn't fit in. All in all enjoyed the write and also detected the villain there in. Well done. I presume that Grammy or a noble is on its way. Love ya
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The latter part was mean scrupulous demeaning and overtly critical. I am not saying the write wasn't the truth but rather you added yourself to that bogus group of self inducted critics that feel its their right to defame, demonize and surgically dissect a persons trails in life and that didn't fit in. All in all enjoyed the write and also detected the villain there in. Well done. I presume that Grammy or a noble is on its way. Love ya
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