Security checks

Now after Prez. Kalam its SRKs turn. Are Indians overreacting?

If yes, its high time they should react. What Srk has to say about this whole drama is just that The US needs to be more warm and quick with its procedures. They just cannot pick anyone called "Khan" and detain him, this certainly is religious profiling in the name of security checks.

What if Dr. Kalam didn't react or mr. Bachchan had been detained for security checks many times, the idea is not to create al ist of "who is the most modest of them all". Its just that since SRK could pull the strings of Indian Administration , he did that. So would many other commoners do if they could help it. Perhaps the list of humble VIPs who didn't utter a word, or went to press like simpering puppies is what makes them VIPs. At least Sharukh acted real and complained about what he didn't feel was right.

Now, what i am writing is not a well researched content neither I am citing examples of 'who said what', its just an out burst of my thoughts about the present politico-socio scenario.

This we have to admit that those in power tend to reign others lives. Just because America is a strong economy, they cannot monopolize the world with their rules. Its not that Indians are too used of VIP treatment, its that Americans can not look beyond America.

Profiling, religious, provincial, educational and many other categories can be added to it, is rampant in every walk of life. But when it come to the question of social equality personal believes have to take a back seat. Just because people with brown skin and Khan name come from a third world country ignorant limey Americans cannot follow their whims.

I remember, on my first visit to The US of A. , I met an 'educated' girl who thought Indians have no idea about gadgets which can wash clothes just because to me they were 'washing machines' and to them 'washers'.

Now comes the news that Shahrukh was detained because of his suspicious hosts/ event managers in USA. What ever the reason, his detention has reopened the can of worms which at least now, should startle Indian diplomats as well as common people to stand up, notice and decide about as to how rest of the world sees them and treats them.

why i loved/hated Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi.

I am a die hard fan of Shaharukh .Isn't this reason enough to rate the movie with five stars .


Suri ji-( a common man couldn't get more special when played by SRK), a polite, non-descript employee of Punjab Power Corporation finds himself married to a girl, he fell in love with at first sight. But the the new bride nurtures no rosy dreams of their life together. She cannot love him though is ready to play a dutiful wife, cleaning, cooking and packing homemade lunch for SRK's office.The wife is well looked after, introduced to the man's social circle with respect, taken out for movies and secretly loved too.

Isn't this a story which resonates with any middle class family, where marriage just means running a household efficiently. There is no manifestation of love in words or even actions. Suri leaves a note along with a rose bud for his wife but promptly removes it on a second thought. Aren't most husband's scared of telling their wives that, "dear you make my heart quip?" Believe me, this is true, no surveys required for this.

This new age husband, Suri, has no wish to dominate his wife. He respects all her decisions including that of living in separate rooms, amongst others.Wife expresses her wish to join a happening dance class in the town, and the encouragement comes in the form of fees money. Here too Suri ji shies away from exhibiting any interest in his wife's pursuits. Allowing her to follow her heart is 'love' enough.

Now comes the twist: shy, laid back , reluctant as the hero is, there is a flip side to his otherwise somber stance. Suri too wants to throw caution to the winds and yearns to gyrate along with his wife. Disguised as a yuppie he too joins the dance class and as god has already willed, is paired with his wife. And gosh!!! wife is unable to recognize her husband. Call it "bollywood ishtyle" but this is a perfect symbolic representation of real situation. Don't we all fail to appreciate what is so easily available to us, acknowledge which is so obvious.

Raj avtaar of Suri ji is all what a young wife could have asked for, she has all his attention and admiration. Unaware of her husband's love(as Suri ji never dares to express it) Channi even contemplates staring life afresh with Raj. Suri ji too is adamant on being admired and accepted the way he is, wearing trainers with formals, sporting moustache, downcast eyes and minimal words. ...... Why? Oh! Why?... why can't he tell his wife what he feels? Is it shameful to be shamelessly in love with your own wedded partner when as an admirer he can write
" I love you" all over the town.

This evident,visible, un-mistakable parallel which the film draws with any Indian marriage makes it watchable. The movie is an anecdote, a romantic drama, where hero has fight his own alter-ego to woe his love. The strife between the hero and the "hero" is the simulation of usual issues in any marriage, be it arranged by parents or by the partners themselves.

Still the bond, moral, social and legal , which is conferred by marriage, holds two persons so dissimilar in attitude together, forever.

tujhme rab dhikta hai, yaara mein kya karoon...