E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: Ajji was reading Vijaya Karnataka.
Suddenly, she flung the paper in disgust.
Her face, a seething crimson, resembled a cross between Vidhu Vinod Chopra at the press meet over Mooru Mutthaaalaru aka 3 Idiots, and Kumara Sangakkara at the Ferozshah Kotla grounds after being hit above you know what by a round missile.
“What’s the matter? The New Year has just started. More or less everybody has resolved to be good and nice in 2010. You have already broken your resolution in 10 days!” I asked.
“Yeno anyaya idu! The price of thogari bele (tur dal) is Rs 105 a kilo. ‘Super’ togari bele, the one without rubbish, is at Rs 109 a kilo. And nobody, just nobody, neither the ‘polticiansu’ nor the TV and paper peopleusu are raising hell over this. What is the matter with our country?” Ajji demanded to know.
She was as distraught as Angelo Mathews walking back to the pavilion after getting run out at 99.
“Ajji! In spite of the recession all over the world, our economist-turned-prime minister is happy our GDP has grown at 7% in the year gone by. Next year he feels we will bounce back to our regular 9% growth rate. That is what our President Pratibha Patil also said sometime back.”
“Some years back, Vajpayee government almost got thrown out because they couldn’t control the price of onions. Earlier, whenever the price of rice or wheat went up, Mrinal Gore would descend on the streets of Bombay and bang the thali as a mark of protest. The admiring public called her ‘Thaliwali’ because she fought for them. What would our Rashtrapatiji know about the thogari bele or its price? She doesn’t buy these things and cook any more as she is busy flying Sukhois and cruising in Navy fleets.”
“Ajji! She is showing what a woman of her age can do.”
“I salute her. But who is raising a voice against price rise? ‘Polticiansu’ are busy with Telangana fasts. Where is the BJP these days? I haven’t seen them for ages except when they fight among themselves which is promptly shown on TV. Are there Leftists left in our country any more or have they all fled to China? As far as TV is concerned, all of them without exception are busy with Ruchika’s molestation as if it happened yesterday! Sure, you must catch and punish the guilty, but that is not going to happen because you show it over and over again after 19 years! Allow courts to do their job.”
“The TV networks are just making sure the issue remains in the public eye.”
“I am all for catching and punishing the guilty kano. But tell me, who is going to protect us from chain-snatchers and terrorists etc?’ Ajji suddenly changed the topic.
“As if you don’t know that? It’s the police!”
“I too thought like that! But aren’t they busy attending New Year parties thrown by underworld netas! Police are dancing to the tunes of bhai log! What is happening, Rama Rama? Beli-ne yeddu hola maithya-idiyallo!!”
“Ajji! That happened in Bombay. We don’t have to worry about it.”
“Why not? Wasn’t Bombay the place the terrorists bombed the hotels, shot people in the railway station and the pub just a year back? If the police are doing tango with the ‘bhais’ some of whom are friends with terrorists, what is our national security coming to? No wonder, nobody saw Headley come in and go all over the country, attend Bollywood parties while planning the Bombay siege. You know what that means..?”
“Yenajji?”
“Namma deshana Shivane kapadbeku antha ankondidde. Eega anisutthe, avangu swalpa kashtaane!! Even God can’t save us at this rate.”
Tags: 3 Idiots, Angelo Mathews, Atal Behari Vajpayee, China, Churumuri, Feroshah Kotla, Ferozshah Kotla, Headley, Kumara Sangakkara, Mrinal Gore, Pratibha Patil, Rama, Ruchika, Sans Serif, Shiva, Telangana, Underworld, Vidhu Vinod Chopra
9 January 2010 at 11:28 am
Nice one. It is disgusting – the amount of time and space that 3 idiots is getting. Sickening to say the least.
9 January 2010 at 2:22 pm
3 idiots – why is it popular
1. A farter Tamilian-portrayed as South Indian is shown as one who compromises and mugs up everything; while a Muslim Madhavan who starts and ends with Saala is shown to ogle his friends’ sister and loving wild life photography showing Muslims are fit for it only even after getting into most prestigious institution; Sharman is shown like a poor Bihari who doesn’t even have any proper clothes and falls off to commit suicide to save his friend while he can’t even get 2500 (his father’s salary) even in these days of employment guarantee scheme; The hero Ranchod aka Vangdu is the one hero at every shot. Topper , Scientist, Friend….etc etc everything along with God.
2. Dangling male organs in tight briefs in many shots of ragging. Madhavan and Sharman’s shown while Aamir refuses his circumcised one. This is greatest crowd(female) puller.
3. Aamir’s name Ranchod – just replacing R with B will give most used Delhi word for ‘Dude’. This I think is greatest crowd(male)puller.
4. Pencil and Pen joke of America and Russia revisited.
5. Chethan Bhagat and Hirani’s fight among media is just a publicity gimmick to get cheap publicity. This was even done when Ghajini and Rab ne was released between porn star and kulla star.
6. Peeing in front of professor’s house and anyone.
7. It seems while peeing is not disgrace but farting is.
8. Gynaecology and Aamir using vacuum cleaner to operate – most disgusting one -which started with Salaam Namaste where Bachchan’s Bachcha performs it is one continuing trend in Bollywood towards a porn identity.
9. Kareena Kapoor has no scope to open her inners but is happy to see the male porn and telling that nose and kiss story.
10. Some chinese connections and last scene with china kids also peeing towards them so that the DVD can be translated and shown what Indians are.
11. A trend started of commenting about Sharman’s mother comparing her to mother teresa can be easily picked up by any kid who would be Aamir’s fan from TZP without knowing the muslim divorced one after two kids in real life.
It seems the north and south divide can be easily picked up and depiction of cheap fun like this will always start a chain of such unwatchable and disgusting habits in daily news. Out and out one more dirty movie. Obviously it has made more money than Ghajini in 10 days as per Aamir’s statement!!!
If Kareena was stripped and raped somewhere in middle I can assure it would have made money in 2 days.
We call it fillum industry business.
12 January 2010 at 10:27 am
@Anna,
Interesting….
13 January 2010 at 12:29 pm
smart ajji.. :)