Monday 6 August 2007

Munnabhai

Saturday night... Sajal's room... A mumbaikar putting intro... My name is...blah blah blah.... 'I feel bad for Sanjay dutt'... In a moment, both of us recovered from our leaning postures and well..sat in attention. 'Why do you feel bad for him?'... 'because he got a 6 years term and that when he had already served a good amount of time on the wrong side of those bars and another person, with similar charges, got only 4 years'... 'Who told you that?'... 'The Idiot box which is getting more idiotic by the day' ...

That was just one incident... There are, I'm sure, others like him who also feel bad for Munnabhai. For them it doesn't matter what his crime was and how much of the punishment he deserved and in a good no, they don't even know the details. they feel bad just because the media paints a sorry picture through the TV and people, as idiotic as the box itself, can't think for themselves. He is found guilty and he is punished, simple as that. His crime was hiding the RDX used for the blasts which crippled the very spirit of the city, and giving India its 1st taste of urban terror. Think I've made my point... Adios...

3 comments:

amrit said...

Point made. But I guess it's just human to get senti at times for your fav actors. Somewhere inside we always know what's right and what's wrong.

Anonymous said...

i hope it stops at feeling sorry and not emulating!!

Ashtung said...

@ amrit: well i'm not sure everyone does... certainly not that freshie...but t=yes we do tend to feel sorry anyway...

@anon. : Emulate???? well that'll be going too far..