Indian - “OLD” World Order

Continued from Reading the “True Media story"

But the following day, SRK quite smartly rubbished the reports that he was trying to promote his upcoming movie 'My Name is Khan' by blowing his detention issue out of proportion. And our media reported that with equal vigor. That was quite a smart piece of news reporting!! It is like the classic case – 'Close your eyes and don’t see a white elephant'. It is more than likely that you would see one. Now that the whole publicity stunt has gone boom - SRK and his media friends come up with a new trick. Go on a "publicity" spree - saying this is not ‘MY NAME IS KHAN’ publicity. Aise bol bolke ho gayi na publicity. Any publicity is good publicity. SRK is definitely the “desi” Edward Bernays, to understand this thing - even before our PR gurus would have!!

Amidst this entire finger pointing towards US, we forget that they will go to any extent to secure their country. Period. And I see no problems in that. In fact, it is better if we do that as well. The problem is not with US, it with us.

I remember reading my history texts about Napoleon Bonaparte. He was a guy who was slightly unsure of himself. So, would wage a war against every small nation. Just to make sure that he is influential enough. And sadly it led to his downfall. SRK is falling prey to the same syndrome. But there is a larger syndrome that we all have fallen to - servile attitude to the VIP culture. It all stems from the colonial and royalty mindset that we have been used to. Not for decades - but for centuries. Its so ironic that while we see some serious media crap about young politicians in parliament (it hardly changes anything, I would say most of them are nothing better than IPL cheer leaders for political parties), almost all of the new faces in the parliament – and most of the so-called Rahul-baba-youth-brigade are from political dynasties. Just like Industrialists enthrone their sons and daughters to become future CEO, there is a superb transition going on with the political system. Not to forget our Bollywood clans.

I remember a dialogue from Krantiveer where Nana Patekar says, “Barso se gulami karne ke aadat hai tum logon ko. Pehle raja maharajaon ki. Fir Angrezon ki. Aur ab yeh neta aur goondon ki”. So true. Perhaps he forgot to add film stars to that list. Now I get why. SRK was not exactly a ‘Bollywood Badshah’ then.

Go to YouTube and just type – New World Order Theories. You will see a whole-lot of conspiracy theories claiming how an esoteric group of people aspire to control the whole world. But we rarely do we see the Indian - “OLD” World Order that is staring right in front of us. A distinguished coterie of politicians, industrialists and film stars rule us – financially, emotionally. There is only one '–lly' left to our control. And we are pretty good at that. But Sanjay Gandhi almost ruined that as well.

While I write all the crap above, one sincere SRK fan writes this on TOI – “It was shocking to hear all that I think, U.S should for sure apologize and if they don’t then we should also do the same with Americans and especially their celebs. Why should we always behave like a weak and forgiving country and take non-sense from everybody especially the US, why do we take their big daddy behavior always. Guys please react - it’s high time…” The passion is gripping. I have no words to say. No comments on this. I am out of my pseudo-intellectual mind limits. Tongue tied.

But all said and done. When I write this crap - all that I am doing is add to the negative SRK publicity - which very well adds to the MNIK publicity. SRK knows this game all too well!

Reading the “True Media story”

Disclaimer: I see people blogging excessively these days on SRK issue…so it’s now trivial…or some would say fashionable to write on SRK ….but I would take up this chance to do some serious introspection :P
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Few Bollywood bomb-shells possess brains!! So is the case with Neha Dhupia. But she once gave a statement that would definitely be the one she would remembered for -“Only sex and SRK sell”. I guess she meant in the usual jai-jai-SRK way. But I had to wait so long to get the true meaning: D. Perhaps, unfortunately the super-star got high on his own dose this time.

Our high handed VIP culture was way too much on display for the past six decades of Indian independence. But perhaps as people we have been trained to fawn at our seniors. College juniors must respect seniors. Ragging is nothing but PDP (Personality Development Program). All this gives rise to the classic Masonic pyramid structure in the society. The SRK episode is the latest one in the never-ending list of examples.

"What happened to Kalam was atrocious as he is a national leader. What happened with me is nothing in comparison to that," he said…..good at least he understands that…then just look how APJ Kalam reacted and how our Bollywood Badshah reacts!!

“But this time it was a bit too much. I have travelled to other countries. I never faced any problem in the UK where I am treated like a state guest. They escort me to the car”, says SRK. Obviously, he is the unquestioned, unparalleled (and all the other UN’s in English) demi –GOD in India. And moreover – Badshah - King Khan. Now com’on - If Napoleon Bonaparte goes to one of his territories, wouldn’t he get a rousing welcome? What’s the harm in such expectations? But the true problem is with the US constitution. It says, “All men are equal”. Isn’t it too much to expect people to have the read the visiting country’s constitution? SRK – I stand by you. You rightly deserve an escort in US as well.

"I told them I was a movie star and had recently visited the country for the shooting of my film. Nothing seemed to convince the immigration officer…” SRK says. How in the world is the security officer concerned whether he was a film star or not. No further comments. Reader should be smart enough to understand this. (Instead dumb enough – Pun intended!!)

SRK apparently called up Rajiv Shukla. Indeed, why are friends for? Don’t they say – A friend in need, is a friend indeed. Rajiv Shukla and the Congress would definitely be “treated” with a special screening of MNIK. I don’t see the Congress reacting so fast to the problems in India - or the ones faced by the Indian students in Australia. The APJ Kalam episode was supposed to be an eye-opener for all of us. But still people would affirm that respect to a former President – one of the very few non-political Indian Presidents – is important. And SRK had to come up with this tamasha. I understand there is lot at stake (he has co-produced the movie MNIK). But there is no reason why he has to even think of such a preposterous and stupid idea. He outshines us all – doing his own version of Rakhi Sawant and Emraan Hashmi.

And when this whole episode comes up - PC comes up & tweets ( I hate that term !!) and says how she is terribly upset at this!! But why PC? Oops…dint I forget that Kaminey was just released - Chalo some free publicity for Kaminey. And the Kaminey marketing team doesn’t have to scratch their heads on this!!

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