{"id":994,"date":"2007-08-06T16:55:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-06T11:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sumankumar.com\/blog\/archives\/994"},"modified":"2007-08-06T16:55:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-06T11:25:00","slug":"bollywood-and-melodrama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sumankumar.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/bollywood-and-melodrama\/","title":{"rendered":"Bollywood and Melodrama"},"content":{"rendered":"

“The way they are running polls and interviews, romanticising the prisoner, is ridiculous. Why isn\u2019t Bollywood shedding tears for the victims of the bomb blasts?”
— Ujwal Nikam, Public Prosecutor, 1993 Mumbai Blasts case<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I don’t get it. What were these morons thinking? That melodrama will win over the judiciary? I am ashamed that the dearth of real-life heroes should come back and bite us like this: we glorify and make these Bollywood twerps into real heroes. I some times think that media regulation is actually a good idea in this country. TV channels, especially, went on overdrive, romanticizing the whole Sanjay Dutt story. Every convict in this country has a mother, probably a sister and a spouse too… the fact that Sanjay Dutt has family is not fucking good enough for me to sympathize with him and condone his crime. He is a great star all right, that does not mean he can get away with his rather stupid misadventure (crime?) <\/p>\n

There is the other argument that Sanjay Dutt did a lot of social work blah-blah. No matter how much ‘good’ work a criminal does after committing the crime, it will never undo the crime and its effect. So that is not even an argument. <\/p>\n

I request the courts to do us all a favor and deport those monkeys that make statements like ‘Sanju baba has suffered a lot, he has haemmoroids.’ Or ‘Sanju Baba had a tough divorce’<\/p>\n

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“The way they are running polls and interviews, romanticising the prisoner, is ridiculous. Why isn\u2019t Bollywood shedding tears for the victims of the bomb blasts?”— Ujwal Nikam, Public Prosecutor, 1993 Mumbai Blasts case. I don’t get it. What were these morons thinking? That melodrama will win over the judiciary? 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