Shhh..Halt. Sue. Ban. Crush.

Finally, it’s Padmavat and not Padmavati!

I was hoping that the letters would go on receding if the objections continued. Then, it would come down to Padmav and then might be Padma. And then SLB could sue Balki for copyright that he copied 90% of SLB’s film title. Balki just added ‘n’ and made a Padman out of it. Oh! Balki, SLB fans would have protested and your film also could be halted. By the way if Padma was reduced to Pad or further to Pa, don’t forget Balki has already claimed the title - Pa. So, he could have been sued once more.

Shhh..Halt. Sue. Ban. Crush.

Well god bless R. Balki, one of the finest filmmakers, who fortunately haven’t seen any such bans on his films. Wish it would be the same case with SLB who always likes to land in controversies. I think Bhansali must be brain storming with his team before picking up a subject for his films and then must be selecting the ones that is the most controversial of the lot. Deepika and Ranveer like to play the characters that are supposedly historic and SLB likes to play with the characters.

I don’t think he would even consider a script that is plain, simple, message driven and entertaining. Potential of controversy must have been a base eligibility for a subject to be made into a film by SLB. He’s a seasoned one by now. He has this habit of modifying history. There are people who make the history and some who change it. Bhansali along with his opponents fall on the latter category and many will share their quality in our country.

Shhh..Halt. Sue. Ban. Crush.

The government must be seriously thinking of keeping two history books in the school courses - one that is supposedly original and another that is modified or interpreted (for the intellectuals and the fools). And the second book could be like an open source operating system. Anyone can go on adding, editing and modifying as per their desire. People in our country have already distributed the claims of the gods, kings and saints among themselves. And if someone tries to speak against their will?

Shhh..Halt. Sue. Ban. Crush.

By the way, we have an addition to the league of oral scientists. Oral is nothing to do with the organ mouth here. It’s about the tongue dangles inside their mouths which they use absence of thoughts. Real scientists give their lifetime to a single discovery and here we have this new kind who keep on discovering new theories at the drop of a hat (or topis?) Dear Darvin, you were wrong. We were not evolved from monkeys. But we are the ones even now.

That is why we go on aping the cap sellers even today. We halt, sue, ban or crush anything if they tell us. We are told to believe that our prides and faiths are so vulnerable that they can be hurt by anything and everything. We don’t even bother to recheck or even know the fact. We follow our cap merchants blindly. We are still the apes or we are going back to become one. There must be time somewhere we were still human. Sadly, not now.

Shhh..Halt. Sue. Ban. Crush.

Let’s hope the newest outing of SLB - Padmavat - turns out to be different than his habit. But all we can do is to hope. He’s even altered the proverb now, Jaisi bharni, waisi karni.

Shhh..Halt. Sue. Ban. Crush.