Wake up- Gandhiji !

     Few days back, on 2nd oct 2009 was the 140th birth anniversary of Gandhiji.
     India got up as usual and so did Mumbai. Many in a mood to enjoy the long weekend. Well, thats what the day meant for most of us, get up late, have a lazy breakfast and then - some movie by afternoon, especially when a well marketed movie of one bollywood's biggest producers is lined up for release - yup- wake up sid !
     The movie is actually pretty cool- decent acting, good screenplay and the débutante director does a pretty good job to strike a cord with the audience- except - for one major error - or rather a blunder - the movie actually calls the city if Mumbai as - 'Bombay'. And for the obvious reasons of violating one of the top agendas of Mumbai's top safeguarding political party, chaos spreads round the city as well as many other cities in the state as political passionate morally charged workers threaten to close down theaters showcasing the movie with such a heinous mistake. They can go to any levels to safeguard the respect for their city, even if that means carelessly threatening local people and destroying property that ironically belongs to Mumbaites ! But at the core, arent they right for rightly spotting the error and taking a stand - even if that means disruption of peace in the city- which can be understood as a sacrifice that has to be offered for any noble act.
        After all, taking the process through the proper legal channel, suing the producer and filing an FIR would take so long that by that time the entire country would have fallen prey to the grave mistake made by the movie makers. Well a little violence definitely seems to be the way to get things done and stand for the right  in a country that ironically got its freedom in a perfectly opposite manner ! Well we did vouch for this freedom didnt we - degrade in morality and law = increase in freedom of expression.
     K Jo walked down and apologized, well, rightly for him, again, taking the path of the law would take too long, especially when he has so much money riding behind the movie and he would already be done with producing 2 more movies by the time the court moves its - well you know what. Rightly, he apologizes and agrees to add a disclaimer taking responsibility for the error. Well, thinking of it, all this could have been done in a more personal manner - Mr R calls up K Jo and barges at him for the error, K Jo apologizes and adds the disclaimer. Wastage of property, tense moments, fear amongst the common man, allocation of police forces, unlimited amount of worthless aired news, all this would have been avoided and the birthday boy would have been more than happy. Well not with  the elections coming up in 15 days. No Way ! But if this is the way things start happening, what would the large force of self proclaimed moral police do - and worse, who would stand for them and threaten the owner if they get fired !!
       A spoiled brat wakes up when he is thrown into the world with all his resources cut out- self realization. Wonder what it takes for a country to wake up to its true self. And did we forget- it was Gandhijis 140th bday anniversary on that day. Well thats the only joining news we had on a day full of BREAKING News!