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!
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