Hope you all had a fantastic Eid and went for first day first show. Bhai is acting his age and being human. Come on folks, he is not romancing a teenager or behaving like a dude. The new 50s is rocking for women, but glad to see the Bollywood Khans taking a step back.
The absolute high point in this unfolding drama is giving due credit to Dr Manmohan Singh and by god, I need to learn how to network by flying kites from Sallu. I loved to cut the manja excitedly, a lot like how he did, in his younger days. It is now that he has learnt the knack of operating smoothly. Just to give credit where it’s due, I want this film to touch the Rs 100cr-slab.
Else this man, that man, pad man, toilet man, tailor man and pro-government films had been boring the hell out of me. Speaking of mature actors, look at Tabu. It’s taboo to even think every passing year makes this woman look older. She has been raising the benchmark of maturity, just looking smashing, with smashing acting prowess to boot. I’d like to be partial here and state, the Jack of this pack is, without doubt, our dear Jackie. He has matured like fine wine in a vintage bottle. Nice to see him onscreen, from time to time.
Speaking of Bollywood, some sidekick, wannabe who is more famous for seeing a Rahul Mahajan — okay, now there too, I would say, come again, who? Payal Rohatgi has been abundantly abuzz on Twitter. This social medium, I tell you, lures one in just like Abhimanyu was, into the chakravyuh (vicious circle). Once in, it’s practically impossible to get out. So, the woman decides to speak on everything, from glorifying Sati to giving out half-baked information on Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj. This is unpardonable, even for ill-informed wannabes.
Then there was the matter of the tweet on Bapu. Tempted to believe it was sarcasm lost in translation but microblog left me with macro question. Why delete the truth of one’s innermost being? A late Sahitya Akademi veteran had once said, best to express in one's mother tongue or the language one is most fluent in, or lapse into poetic silence. And, suiting action to word, refrained from composing in Bengali or French, two languages he had mastered.
A birdie chirped, there was a round-table discussion on anti-pollution and some hard decisions were needed for Mumbai. Four politicians with differing ideologies smoothly set aside differences and sang the same tune. Moreover, the circle of life was complete when a young cub, who can barely roar, was moderated by the person he has blocked virtually. In real life, he was at her mercy. Like I said at the beginning, social media is a chakravyuh, the skill lies in tackling it tactfully.
Hope you are keeping tabs until the last ball of the last over. World Cup cricket just got better with Pakistan winning a match. The bets are getting interesting, even as some tears are being shed for that gorgeous, tear-drop shaped island called Sri Lanka.
-Revolver Ranee
