One Cuckoo flew over Bollywood nest

For past few weeks, gone thru many news n articles on Rajnikant after release of his Endhiran (tamil) dubbed Robo (hindi) movie, some speculating that a new box office records is on its way, how SRK & Hrithik are expanding their budget for RA1 and Krishh2 to match the sfx of this movie and some other waggish stories. But the thing I am waiting for is, the new Rajni jokes in the famous - What Rajni cant’ nobody can series. Some like - The Bermuda Triangle used to be the Bermuda Square, until Rajnikanth kicked one of the corners off. Rajnikanth's every step creates a mini whirlwind, Hurricane Katrina was the result of a morning jog. Superb ! I guess, only Santa Singh-Banta Singh surpass him in that field and it’s a moot point to even discuss the comparison though some of it may be bemoaned by Rajni’s die-hard fans, still the sheer genius of ppl coming up with such soaring imagination is admirable.

There are certain items in print that I don’t agree with. Thru my days in Tamilnadu and whatever part of the state I’ve toured, I’ve never seen any temple for Rajnikant. I know and have met many die-hard fans of his, but no one has time or are brain-sick enuf to construct a temple. The huge garlands and aarthi to his cut-outs on movie release is south-indian style of welcoming home a hero from a long stay away, since he accepts a movie once in 2-3 yrs or so. It’s surely an idiocy to even comment that people in general treat him like real God and worship and other craps.

When western media made whimsical comments on Aamir Khan being 45 yr old  enacting as a fresh 18-yr Engg student in 3 Idiots or memory loss hero in Ghajani, no wonder why their counterparts in India wud spare 60-yr Shivaji Rao Gaikwad flexing his mannerism. Last time, with the same charm, he took the NDTV entertainer of the year award, apparently given by the same media. Wud he, this year too ??

Contrary to the funny series, there are many things which Rajni can and others cant apart from his unrivaled fees, having 60 shows of his movie in one single day in all the screens of a multiplex, the most striking which cant be matched with any actor anywhere in world is his ability to refund back his fees to producers and distributors if his movie is not a blockbuster let alone a hit.

When a friend from Dubai struggling in queue for first show at 7:30 am morning at  Grand Cinema - Hyatt Galleria tweeted that car parking collections from the theatres featuring Endihiran wud surpass the box office collections of Anjana-Anjani, I cud not stop laughing on the capitalist at heart to take notice of Superstar. Unfortunately, in Phuket there are no theatres which show Indian movies, neither Hindi nor Tamil. Thru an acquaintance, I’ve got a DVD of the movie dubbed in Thai. No clue how much I wud understand the lingo, but quite eager to know what exactly he says in Thai while bashing the villains like fruitcakes. Maybe, I cud steamroll some of it in my office on my staff with a piqued intolerance oozing from my gaze and ending the dialogue with the Thai equivalent of ‘Mind it’ !