Idiotic Promotion

Our friend (not a great friend of some bollywood colleagues) Aamir Khan is up to his antics again.

This time, in order to promote his film THREE IDIOTS (he being one of them - why did he not perform all the three idiots himself? One wonders.) he is visitng various places in India with a dress change tactic.

The tactic is obviously not intended to hide his identity or his idiosyncracy at all. In fact, he is going out of his way to make sure that media is made aware of all his moves and his visits to various places is given good coverage.

No wonder, his arch adversary Khan Shahrukh is not amused and is passing snide remarks against Khan Aamir. Other rivals may just be waiting for the right opportunity to give him a jab here or a jab there.

The media, like the fools they sometimes appear to be, eagerly gobble up such opportunities and give him free publicity, just to fill up their own time slots. One suspects that media must be charging him normal advertisement rates.

Judging by the manner in which our public also rushes to see such movies simply based on idiotic publicity stunts, Aamir Khan and the likes of him laugh all the way to the bank.

Let us hope that the public will become wiser and more mature, unlike those who indulge in such stunts only to fool the people.

Khamosh!

As everyone in Bollywood wants to say his or her two bits worth on issues which they do not understand, two of the Bollywood characters have praised Rahul who for all intents and purposes is considered by most people to be rather dim but propped up by some good professional media management by his party.

Some time back, Shatrughan Sinha, belonging to another political party BJP, sang praises of Rahul. In doing so, he deeply embarrassed the party that made him a Member of Parliament.


Khamosh raho!

This is what happens when people with exaggerated notions of their own importance try to outreach themselves.

A few days back, Jaya Prada, who was lucky enough to be elected under the SP banner due to the efforts of Amar Singh, although no one in the party thinks much of her, also said that she likes Rahul and showed confidendce in him. It is likely that she might have said these words as proxy for Amar Singh because the latter is desperate to get into the good books of Congress Party inspite of being give a hard kicks earlier several times. Incidentally, Jaya Prada is the same lady who visited a flood sricken area in a boat recently and when the boat started rocking, was seen weeping and saying "hoooo hooooo hoooo hoooo" by millions on the TV.



It is clearly evident that at least Bollywood film stars do not have what it takes to become good politicians...Amitabh, Jaya Bachhan, Govinda, and now these two.

Why cannot they find some other worthwhile pursuits and make way for genuine persons to become members who can make genuine contribution as members of parliament?

Then again, having seen the caliber of other MPs, who are equally bad, let these two continue to make fools of themselves and their parties.

Big Bachha

It is very difficult to understand what Amitabh, regarded as a superstar once upon a time, is trying to prove.

He has been appearing more and more on TV advertisements promoting all sorts of useless products. It is not clear whether his goal in life at this stage is to earn fame or money by appearing in such advertisements.

Now the news comes that he is going to act as the "Boss" in a stupid reality show on the TV called Big Boss which tries to present cheap excitement to the viewers by showing imbecile fights amongst the participants, some foul speech, some titillation etc. etc.



Perhaps, Amitabh needs to do all this for money. On the other hand, it is more than likely that he is entering his second childhood at the same time trying to appear very mature. Another possibility that cannot be ruled out is that seeing his son and daughter-in-law getting so much popularity, and his wife also being in politics, he does not want to be left behind and fade into ignominy and wants to remain in the public eye in any way possible even resorting to cheap gimmicks. Even his writings in his Blog increasingly look like meaningless ramblings of a teen keen to show writing abilities. Perhaps, he should take now seriously to twitter.

More and more, he is being his true self and behaving like a real Big B (Big Bachha).

As far as the movie industry is concerned, there are some like Dilip Kumar and Dev Anand who would like to live a dignified life in their twilight years whereas some like Amitabh, rather than doing something useful for the society, indulge in frivolities, pursuing activities that do not matter. It is true that men considered to be role models are after all merely men of straw.

One thing is sure as far as Amitabh, the angry young man of yesteryears is concerned:

He is neither young nor does his anger, if there is any left, make any difference to the public in this day and age which belongs to Akshaykumar, Shahrukh, Aamir, Salman, Saif and other Khans.