ashmi, (A.K.A. Serial Kisser)You are welcome to reach down to your religious root when you find it convenient.
You are welcome to show off your latest moustache and goatie and enjoy the limelight given that your recent movies aren’t a super-duper hit thanks to Akshay Kumar’s brigade of movies and Rakhi Sawant beating you to the Oomph factor.
You are welcome to conveniently forget the millions of rupees you have made on account of your ‘kissing’ talent on screen thanks to many Hindu, Christian and Muslim fans who imagined themselves in your boots while you lip-locked dozens of heroines.
You are welcome to reveal to the world that you have been a pious Muslim and even secular since you have a Hindu wife and Christian convert mother.
But Mr. Hashmi, you are NOT welcome to play the ‘Sympathy’ card or ‘Minority’ card after enjoying being a ‘loved’ celebrity for a decade now. Have you gone 'insane' like the former cricket captain Mohd. Azharuddin who too pulled out the Minority card when he cried of being victimized few years ago?
You are NOT welcome to grab headlines over an issue as trivial as not being able to get a house in Mumbai. Didn’t Shahrukh Khan and Salman Khan get mansions of their own worth millions?
You are NOT welcome to assume that the housing society in Mumbai didn’t sell you flat because of your surname. Instead it could’ve been because you are a film star like Shiney Ahuja who shamed his family and neighbours by turning out to be a rapist. Perhaps that’s the reason why any responsible landlord is demanding a character certificate (not that you need one!)
You are NOT welcome to divide your fans’ faith between being a ‘Serial Kisser’ and a ‘Muslim Star who didn’t get a flat as easily as his star status’.
You are NOT welcome to toy with public’s emotions and try to seed seeds of ‘Hindu-Muslim divide’ among the millions of fans of Bollywood stars, because they don’t see Bollywood stars as anything less than Gods and Goddesses, leave alone see them as Hindus or Muslims.
So while you are enjoying your 30 minutes of fame on TV even in the absence of a steamy kissing scene, try doing what Obama did. Take a bottle of beer and sit down with the flat owner who you have accused of being biased. Do try and search in your past if you have discriminated others for their religion background? If not help yourself to another glass.
After all, a chilled beer is the next best thing after a kiss and make up.
Yours Truly,
an Indian.
PS: And while you are at it, try figuring out how it would've been if a 'Muslim' fanatic group took up cudgels brandishing your kissing scenes as unIslamic or a cleric issuing a Fatwa against you for having kissed, drink beer and pray to other gods.
Note to readers not familiar with Mr. Hashmi: Emraan Hashmi is a Bollywood star more on him at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/04/emraan-hashmi-bollywood-s_n_250899.html
3 comments:
I had same sentiments when I read about this incident. Very well put and written.
Thanks Malovika for saying things that some of uis cant muster up the guts to.
It really isn't about the religion with him. He comes across as such a perv in his movies that I empathise with his landlord.
Having said that ... I know real people who do face similar challenges but not him.
No Sir. Not acceptable.
Well put! The jerk and his stupid uncle are such a pain.
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