Political potboiler starring Anna Hazare, Arvind Kejriwal, RaGa and Preet Bharara. For those who thought the drama of desi life, all our ishkiyaon-dishkiyaon as Sanjay Leela Bhansali's blockbuster Raam-Leela quips, thrives only in Bollywood, think again. Our netas beat our abhinetas anytime, their posturing making 70 mm look small!
Indeed,star-studded antics surrounding unveiling of the Lokpal Bill 46 years after a nation awoke to its destiny,as Jawaharlal Nehru put it, and smelt the coffee tops any filmi plot.
Just flashback to the beginning of the movie,sorry,movement for an anti-corruption Lokpal Bill, when satyagrahi superhero Anna Hazare lay fasting for corruption-free times.
As Anna portrayed the strong, starving type, we heard deep thoughts from second fiddle Arvind Kejriwal soon assuming a starring role as Annas leading laddie. Emulating comic filmi villains, Congress ground its teeth and hissed invective. But Anna-Arvind soldiered on like Bollywood's Karan-Arjun, till Parliament gave Anna a lunch break and pondered the Lokpal.
This was the cue for the dramatic duo to joyously yodel Ye dosti! Right Wrong.Like Bollywood,politics makes and breaks strange bedfellows.Zoom to today and youll find Anna amidst a bitter split with Arvind Kejriwal since the latter launched his Aam Aadmi Party and gave Delhi a sweep. Dost dost na raha, muttered
Anna,launching his new fast as a solitary star.The climax a Lokpal Bill passed with the spotlight on Anna, Arvind put in the shade.
Perhaps thats why Arvind looks slightly forlorn these days,despite all the partying with aam admis. He plaintively said that like Celine Dion, his heart will go on and on for Anna but crores are being spent to keep the two apart.Talk to the hand,retorts Anna, who is seemingly found a new love Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi whose exhorting apparently pushed through the doddering Lokpal faster than you could gasp R... Rajkumar!
Hard-hearted folks say Rahuls only feeling the polls pinch but Anna isnt known for such lowly thoughts.In fact,he gracefully penned Rahul a loving note while Congress leaders sang hazaar carols for Hazare once feared like Jaws,now cuddled like Santa Clause.
But sidestepping such dramatics,sensible types mull who will be Lokpal now With our angry young, old and middle aged men trying other colourful roles, who will focus entirely on the dull work of fighting vice Here's a suggestion why not super-zealot US Attorney Preet Bharara for Lokpal Associated with slaying ogres real or pretended frequently of his own ethnicity Bharara could handcuff India into his worldview, decorated with 50 stars and stripes and 50 shades of grey too. With his zeal,well be rendered transparent even before you can murmur, strip me baby,one more time.
Given Bhararas dramatics, well move fast from emotional raas-leelas to Dabangg-like times. Only hitch Bharara will need to overcome his irrational but quite compelling fear of having all his cavities searched the moment he steps on Indian soil.
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