Tag: Shahrukh Khan

  • Three Gentlemen Or Three Idiots Of Dadri ?

    India is one country, where under the garb of Freedom of Speech one can get away with any thing, even murder, literally if your additional qualification is that you belong to a minority community, meaning not a Hindu!

    Salman Khan, Shah Khan and AmirKhan.jpg Salman Khan, Shah Khan and AmirKhan.

    Dilip Kumar.jpg Dilip Kumar.

    And if you are a tinsel God, your word is the Bible, even if you have just touched the shadows of an educational institution.

    You can air your views that were a  part of bed room talk between a husband and wife.

    I have ceased writing on these issues for quite some time as they are trivial , it seemed to me.

    But the recent non sensical discussion on Intolerance in India forces me write for leaving these gentlemen’s statements uncontested makes them bolder and as Goebbels dictum goes, the more audacious the lie, more likely that it will be believed.

    I read an article in the Tamizhaka Arasiyal , a Tamil Political bi weekly from Chennai which answers most of the issues raised by Amir Khan on intolerance in India.

    The article was titled Three Idiots.

    His statement that the present situation in India made his wife wonder whether India is a safer place live and whether they should consider relocating.

    The article is well  written and I am writing  this article based on the Tamil Article.

    It is difficult to catch the flavour of the original nor the force of the article in English.

    I shall  attempt.

    ‘ I am worried about the future of our children’

    Said Kiran Rao Mohammad  Amir Hussein  Khan, wife of the Tinsel town Hero Amir Khan.

     

    This, the 50-year-old actor disclosed in the Goenka Award function, alluding to the recent ‘incidents’ in India, which to him and his wife was a cause for concern.

     

    While no body can deny the right of Mr.Khan to express his views in a country like India,a democracy, it is what he left unsaid is more pungent  that is bound have an impact on people who treat him as a demi God.

    He could have stated that the recent incidents had hurt him,

    Stray incidents are blown out of proportions,

    In a vast country with over 23 languages and different practices, these small issues are bound to be and these should be condemned,

    Or he could have said, as another legend of actor, Kamal Hassan did ( who normally takes shot at Hinduism in his movies ,though carefully skirting around Islam or Christianity), that beef eating is a matter of personal choice.

    But the great Khan said neither.

    Well, one can not expect anything better from one who has just touched the shadow of an educational institution!

    He had not said as to which of these incidents had directly ‘threatened ‘ his child’s future. he could/should have.

     

    An honest Man would have.

    One who had a taken a Movie PK where Hindu Gods were insulted, where Lord Shiva was portrayed as hiding behind a Toilet should pause.

    Had he portrayed Gods of other Religions even in a slightly satirical fashion, especially Prophet, would he be alive today?

     

    Mind you, this movie was released by the Censor Board of India, when the much maligned Hindutva Party, BJP is in power!

    When  some objected to the portrayal of Hindu Gods in PK thus, it was Hindus who raised their voice against this.

    Does he remember that One Yousuf Khan had to change his name to a Hindu name so that he could be accepted by the masses.

    He was the Legendary Dilip Kumar!

    Which party was in power then?

    Definitely not BJP

     

    He could have expressed his concern about the incidents .

    .No. he did not.

    How could one who was appointed as the Ambassador was Clean India drive, Swach Bharat, by the same BJP Government?

    Was he not threatened then?

    Was he not concerned when his Hindu bashing movie raked in 300 Crore at the Box Office?

    How come he had a heart to sow the seeds of poison among the Muslims of India, I am talking of normal Muslims, who partake food, functions and even in Temple festivals?

     

    The irony is that Khan’s first wife Reena and his second wife Kiran Rao are Hindus.

    Had he been in Saudi, Pakistan, can his wives call themselves this way, mixing up Hindu and Muslim names?

    Well, if you have deicided to move away from India, which is intolerant, you could have, to liberal regimes like Saudi Arabia or Pakistan.

    Saudi Arabia, where people are killed in the name of Law and Order in Public or by terrorists,

    Pakistan where one does not know when the next attack would come.

    Or To Europe or USA where Islamophobia is ranging, where in the US there is, on an average one Public shooting a Day in this year, or where a Black child was shot dead for carrying a Knife!

    Despite these incidents in the US, US citizens did not consider moving away from the US,

    Instead, they have made Obama, a Muslim as their President.

    In India we revere Dr. Zakir Husssian, Abdul Kalam, Fakhruddin Alil Ahmed former Presidents of India,Nawab of Pataudi,Azharuddin, Bismiilah Khan, Mammotty,Shah Rukh Khan, Amir Khan, Salman Khan ,

    We see them as Indians, and not merely as Muslims!

    Well, if you are an Indian by heat these thoughts would not even crossed your mind.

    If you had a bed room discussion, better keep it there.

    India may not be filthy rich .

    It  has economic inequalities.

    Its roads are not clean.

    Might be there have been instances of the sort he mentioned here and there.

    Should we not correct them?

    Does it mean that one think of running away?

    One does not change Fathers because one’s is not as handsome as the neighbour’s.

     

    Did Amir Khan about the ruckus created by Muslims during the release of Kamal Hassan’s film Viswaroopam , where a scene was objected to by an unruly crowd?

     

    Mr.Khan, if you do not like Narendra Modi, you may attack his policies( Amir Khan earlier stated he did not like Modi or his policies), as Shatrughan Sinha, a BJP big wig does.

    But nobody bothers Shatrughan for he does not promote Sedition and spoils religious harmony.

    You need the claps of Indians , their money and at the slightest possible excuse you want to run away?

    We have another gentleman in Shah Rukh Khan who said that India is sliding back to Dark Ages( TV interview)

    Being secular has become dangerous.

    He has not been able to practice his religion Islam in India.

    How?

    As  when he entered into a brawl with women and cricket staff at the IPL, pitch drunk?

    Islam promotes Drinking and public brawl?

    Part of practicing your religion?

    When Shah Rukh Khan was questioned by Income Tax for irregularities in his Club Kolkatta Knight Riders, Modi is blamed for targeting Shah Rukh!

    Salman Khan,

    A guy who killed people sleeping on the footpath by his drunken driving and changed his version so much that one thinks the  Car was driving itself!

    His movies were banned in Pakistan.

    Bajrangi Bhaijaan for making reference to the terrorist Hafiz Sayed!

     

    How come these gentlemen kept quite when,

    Pakistan army butchered Bangladeshis in 1971?

    When Professor Joseph’s Hand was cut off in Kerala by Muslims?

    Subsequent to Dadri episode Mr. Poojary was killed in Public in Mangalore?

    When Snapdeal apps was uninstalled by over 100000 people, Amir Khan says he has no intention of leaving India!

    These guys, sensitive, socially conscious?

    Three Idiots’

    Translated from Tamizhaka Arasiyal dated 2/12/2015

  • Bollywood Films’ Barbs South “Madrasi’-Time To Mature.

    Perception and depiction of the South Indians in Bollywood Films is obnoxious and disgusting.

    This started from form Mehmood‘s’ Padosan‘ portrayal of a South India.

    For the North Indians, it looks, any one South of Nagpur is a’ Madrasi’

    Seem to be blissfully unaware that there are four States, Karnataka,Andhra and Kerala which, while sharing a common bond with Tamil nadu, have distinct and varied Culture, or is this attitude deliberate?

    This makes one eye the North Indians with suspicions from the South.

    Often it is noticed, be it Film Fare awards or Top Political Forums, one gets the impression that the South is tolerated and addressed condescendingly.

    True, South Indian Films . especially the tamil Films, portray the north Indians as ‘Nimabalki, Nambalki tamil’ though I know many North Indians who know Tamil literature better than South Indians and Tamils in particular.

    While the barb by the South sounds immature and fails to evoke laughter, the North’s depiction is insulting

    Times of India has produced a good article on this.

    Mehmood ridiculing South Indians, Padosan.jpg.
    Mehmood ridiculing South Indians, Padosan.

    Excerpt.

    “He flashes a gaudy lungi, while she drips melodrama, all the while emitting suggestive sounds that starts with a throaty ‘aiyyayo’ and ends in a guttural ‘um’. Makers of upcoming Hindi movie ‘Aiyyaa’ insist that the song ‘Dream-um Wake up-um’ is a tribute to south Indian cinema, and is just a quirky piece in the wacky north-south love story. We have to wait till October 12 to verify that. But internet is already awash with accusations that the song is yet another instance of stereotyping of south Indians, one more ‘aiyyo-amma’ Madrasi cliche from ‘insensitive’ northies.

    To add to the confusion, right before the song starts, Rani Mukherjee’s Marathi mulgi says she prefers darkskinned people to fairskinned ones. If Malayalam star Prithviraj Sukumaran is indeed the tall, dark, handsome hero of the movie, then it will be a departure from the idli-loving, sambar-slurping, conservative Madrasis that Bollywood churns out for laughs. What started with the antics of Mehmood’s oily Masterji in ‘Padosan’ (1968), continue, whether it is Omi Vaidya’s sly Chatur Ramalingam in ‘3 Idiots’ or Shah Rukh Khan‘s timid Shekhar Subramanium who gleefully mixes noodles with curd in ‘Ra.One’.

    “Any south Indian will find Mehmood’s characterisation insulting,” says Mohan Raman, film historian and actor. He took care that his Seshadri manager in Ranbir Kapoor-movie ‘Ajab Prem Ki Gasab Kahani’ didn’t become ridiculous but hinted at his outsider status…

    It is the ‘north-Indian’ gaze that causes the problem, says actor Satish Shah, whose Iyer father in ‘Ra.One’ was quite similar to a stand-up he did for the 1980s sitcom ‘Yeh Jo Hai Zindagi‘. “People of all four states are still Madrasis to many. Probably, Mehmood’s popular character must have set the wrong example,” says Shah. And, yes, he wouldn’t have played the Iyer if not for his equation with Shah Rukh Khan. “I was uncomfortable. As I don’t know the languages, I repeated whatever small words they asked me to say,” he says.

    What is an occupational hazard to veteran artists like Shah, are created by those who have nothing new to say, says director Dibakar Banerjee. He created a smart IAS officer, T A Krishnan, in ‘Shanghai’ (2012) after referring books and talking to civil servants. Banerjee topped it with extensive language coaching for actor Abhay Deol to ensure that he never went anywhere near a ‘Tamilian‘ act. “If filmmakers derive material from other films they have seen, then they will end up using stock stereotypes,” he says.

    That said, every stereotype has a kernel of truth and ‘Padosan’ is a comedy that used characters from that time effectively. “In Matunga, you could find a conservative music teacher like Mehmood’s Masterji in the 60s,” he says. The same goes for Kishore Kumar’s music composer or Sunil Dutt’s village yokel and the outrageous Quick Gun Murugan character and its Tamil western created for trendy Channel V in the late 90s.

    At the core of all stereotypes is a way of defining the other. “In the pre-information society, where communities lived in relative isolation, the other is seen as a threat or considered funny because you don’t understand their customs and language,” says Banerjee. So the ‘idli-dosa’ eating Tamilian is a creation of Hindi-speaking people just like the ‘oye oye’ Sardarji of south Indians. Tamil movies have stock Hindi-speaking characters who are mostly aggressive moneylender marwaris. “Those characters have now come down as they are not relevant,” says Mohan Raman. In fact, one of the first mainstream Hindi movies to break the Madrasi stereotype was K Balachander’s ‘Ek Duje Ke Liye‘ (1981). “Kamal Haasan sir nailed it when he says ‘Hinthi’ and not Hindi. It is very realistic,” says Kartik Krishnan, assistant director and writer in Bollywood, a Tamilian from Delhi.

    The exceptions that film-lovers like Krishnan cheer on include ‘Dil Se’ (1998), ‘Company’ (2002), ‘Mr and Mrs Iyer’ (2002), ‘Yuva’ (2004) and ‘Shanghai’ (2012). “When I first heard Mohanlal talk with a Mallu accent in ‘Company’, I cringed. But despite the slightly irritating delivery, his performance grew on me,” he says. Barring a few, most of the realistic portrayals have come in movies directed by south Indians, be it Mani Ratnam or Ram Gopal Varma. But you don’t necessarily need south Indians to put an end to such ethnic stereotypes. Sachin Kundalkar, who is debuting in Bollywood with ‘Aiyyaa’ says south Indian men are hot. “I am a pucca Maharashtrian. I have seen women around me admiringly looking at south Indian men for their humbleness and intellectual aura. That is what my film is about,” he say”

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  • Poonam Pandey KKR Stripping Twitter Comments

    PR job or plain crazy?

    Imagine her children’s reaction,if she ever gets married,when they see this!

    Hope they don’t outpace their mom!

     

    Poonam Pandey Strips
    Poonam Strips for KKR

    “A day after Shah Rukh Khan‘s Kolkata Knight Riders won the IPL finale against Chennai Super Kings (May 27), Poonam Pandey fulfilled her strip promise and was soon trending worldwide on Twitter. Today, the world is at peace but the starlet is still at number four in India trends.

    Angry Bombay Girl (@shadymumbai): Dear Poonam Pandey …so Much Hype and Thats all what u show ??? Even Tushaar Kapoor showed more Skin Than That in His Beach Picture.
    Rofl Indian (@Roflindian): Dear Poonam Pandey, my worry is not that you’re making a total cheapo of yourself, but that you’re making a total Orkut of Twitter.

    Rajneesh Kapoor (@MrMrRajneesh): If Viswannathan Anand wins the World Championship, Poonam Pandey promises to show the Mating Positions.

    Doctor at large (@doctoratlarge): Just when you thought nothing could be cheaper than the Indian rupee, Poonam Pandey proves you wrong.

    Comedy Central India (@ComedyCentralIn): Each time you read a Poonam Pandey tweet, you kill a few brain cells.

    Faking News (@fakingnews): Dear Poonam Pandey, petrol ke daam badhe hain, kapdo ke nahi!

    The Weird King (@rixabh): You can’t be more jobless than Poonam Pandey.

    Tauseef Ahmad (@tauseefa75): poonam pandey har kisi ke jasan me samil ho jati hai……aur wo nde ho kar manati hai………

    Mayank (@Moosza): Q. What do u call Poonam Pandey dressed in a salwar? A. Impossible ! LOL@iPoonampandey 🙂

    Ankit Jain (@indiantweeter): Poonam Pandey is doing what our ancestors did , when they lived in Jungle

    Angry Bombay Girl (@shadymumbai): Difference between Poonam Pandey and Sunny LeoneSame Difference between Dollar and Rupee 1:56 #justsaying

    http://www.hindustantimes.com/Entertainment/Tabloid/Poonam-Pandey-Butt-of-jokes-on-Twitter/Article1-862843.aspx

  • Wine,Wealth,Women,Casting Couch and IPL

    People seem to be surprised at the scandals rocking the IPL.

    Indian Premier League
    Indian Premier League (Photo credit: Ashwin John)

    First of this year is IPL match fixing.

    Bookie Sonu Yogendra Jalan alias Malad has told the crime branch that he paid Rs 10 crore to a Sri Lankan cricket player for fixing a match. He also mentioned that some Indian cricketers were also involved in match fixing, sources said.

    He along with Devendra Kothari alias Bhaiyyaji, were arrested by the city crime branch on Thursday. They are believed to be a part of a bigger international cricket betting racket, crime branch officials said.

    The property cell of Mumbai crime branch on Thursday raided a building at Lokhandwala in Kandivli and busted a major cricket betting racket. Police arrested Kothari, Jalan and two others and seized two laptops, voice recorders, computers, 25 mobile phones and cash of Rs 5.18 lakh. All the accused were booked under prevention of gambling act and were remanded to police custody. ”

    http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/cricket/ipl-2012/tale-spin/Bookie-claims-he-paid-Sri-Lanka-cricketer-Rs-10-crore-to-fix-IPL-match/articleshow/13277641.cms

    “CHENNAI: Adding to the IPL action this season, a TV channel on Monday claimed to have conducted a sting operation that exposes “murky deals” among players, organisers and team-owners in the lucrative tournament. The channel, India TV, alleges that many players have confessed on hidden camera that they receive much more – by way of under-the-table payment – than what is actually bid for them at IPL auctions.
    The channel also claims that spot-fixing exists in the IPL, first-class matches are fixed, and women are used to rig matches. Big names in Indian cricket and an international player, who is captain of an IPL team, are involved in fixing, alleges the channel.
    In response, the BCCI has said that stringent action will be taken if the channel’s claim is found to be true. BCCI chief N Srinivasan says: “We need to have the tape; the moment we see it, whoever be the player, we will take strict action.”
    The channel claims that cricketers in rival teams have jointly fixed the outcome of matches – a particular bowler offering deliveries easy to hit and fielders dropping catches even as the ‘partner in crime’ in the opposition goes on a scoring spree.”

    Then, Shah Rukh Khan spat.

    Again Luke Pomersbach molesting an American woman.

    “Stung by a spot-fixing TV expose on Monday and left red-faced by the Shah Rukh Khan spat on Wednesday, IPL’s week of ignominy was complete when Team Bangalore’s Aussie recruit Luke Pomersbachwas arrested in Delhi on Friday for allegedly molesting an American woman and beating up her Indian fiance after a late-night party at the team hotel to celebrate the team’s victory against Delhi the previous evening.

    The 28-year-old American had reportedly come to Delhi with her Mumbai-based fiance Sahil Peerzada for the match. She alleged that Pomersbach, 27, who had been spending time with the couple at the party, came to their room and molested her in Peerzada’s presence.

    In her FIR, she said, “During the party, he (Luke) was trying to come close to me. Later, he befriended with my fiance (Sahil) and came in our room for having drinks,”

    Siddharth Mallya’s Comment”the girl…is saying he hit her fiance…what a load of ….. s…, she was all over me and asked for me a bbm pin’

    In the earlier editions of IPL we had a Guy swindling money and asking CBI to come to England at his cost to quiz him,Richard Gere publicly misbehaving with Shilpa Shetty, a black girl sent home,Shashi Tharoor being forced to resign, Franchisee revolting against BCCI,N.Srinivasan, present Chief of BCCI facing conflict of interest,allegations of trying to organize parallel IPL abroad,drunken brawls…..what have you?

    Look at the composition of the event .

    Liquor barons,Gutka Kings,Film Stars, Political Power, vulgar exhibition f money,cheer leaders,an euphemism for …?, one should be surprised only if things are above board and decent.

  • Drunk Shah Rukh Khan Abuses, Banned for Life from Wankhede?

    Shah Rukh Khan who is a very good PRO did a bad PR job for himself.

    He reportedly abused the security guards and the MCA officials using choicest words.

    He was also drunk , it was reported.

    Shah Rukh Khan denied he was drunk.”It is wrong to say that I was under the influence of alcohol. I was not drunk, only misbehaved when I was provoked. Security officers bullied me,” SRK said.”

    Look at what an ACP, Maharastra has to say on this.

    Iqbal Sheikh, Mumbai assistant commissioner of police (ACP), confirmed on Thursday that film star and Kolkata Knight Riders‘ owner Shah Rukh Khan was in a drunken state when he was involved in a late on Wednesday night brawl at the Wankhede Stadium.

    Shah Rukh was drunk. He was smelling of alcohol but he was not drinking at the Wankhede stadium. But it is not an offence. He was also abusing and threatening the MCA (Mumbai Cricket Association) and BCCI ( Board of Control for Cricket in India) officials,” said Sheikh, who had to intervene Wednesday night to prevent the incident from turning ugly.

    Shah Rukh got into a brawl with MCA and BCCI officials after his team defeated Mumbai Indians in an Indian Premier League (IPL) match Wednesday night. Shah Rukh and his entourage, comprising Morani brothers, wanted to celebrate after the presentation ceremony but he was not allowed to do so. What irked Shah Rukh was that MCA officials switched off the flood lights.

    Sheikh, who is also member of the MCA managing committee, was present at the ground on match duty and had to rush to prevent the situation from turning ugly.

    “I took him out and separated him because the incident was turning ugly. While being taken away he was showering abuses on MCA and BCCI officials. We are investigating the matter,”

     http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/cricket/ipl-2012/tale-spin/Shah-Rukh-was-drunk-but-thats-not-a-crime-Mumbai-ACP/articleshow/13209275.cms

    An ACP saying that being Drunk in Public is no Crime!

    Fan of SRK?

    Any one who watches IPL matches can vouch that SRK is drunk when he visits he venues of the matches, by looking at the stupid grin that is the trade mark of Drunks.

    In his reply Shah Rukh Khan said that ‘he would do it again’

    He added that the security people manhandled his children and that he used abusive language as well.

    Mahaashtra CM and MCA Chairman Vilas rao Deshmukh ststed that action would be taken by the MCA .

    In the mean while, Mumbai Police have called Shah Rukh Khan for an enquiry to-day.

    These Super Stars, take the filmi dialogues and what is written by the media about them seriously and believe that they are above us ordinary mortals and therefore above the Law.

    Time that they are shown their position,that is they are entertainers on par with any other entertainer,like a road side one and nothing more.

    The difference is that these Stars are paid more than what they deserve , thanks to commercialism!