Tuesday, February 20, 2007

Big B for President

The Samajwadi Party wants Amitabh Bachan to be President of India and in view of our Parliament's obsession with all things filmy it does look a distinct possibility.

The swearing in ceremony would be so much fun if Amitabh were to come dressed in in his Shahenshah outfit (black boots,black suit,black gloves,silver chains).I bet President Musharraf would be left squirming in his seat if Big B were to pepper his oath with dialogues like
Rishtey mein hum tumhare baap lagtein hain,Naam hai Shahenshah.To wind up proceedings we could have a rendition of Kajra re by the first family.

What bothers me is the type of signal our leaders are trying to send to the populace.If Abdul Kalam inspired a generation of young Indians to expand the frontiers of science ,Amitabh Bachan with his latest release Gia Nishabdwould inspire a generation of grandpas to bust their pensions on harleys and leather jackets.

While we are on the subject of bollywood and politics why leave out Shilpa Shetty.Her dignity in the face of racial abuse to win the Big Brother show (for a paltry sum of 3.5 crores)will be rememberd by the future generation of Indians as an act of defiance comparable with Gandhiji's refusal to vacate his seat on a train in South Africa.

As she has already proved her mettle in the foreign relations department, with even Tony Blair swooning over her, we could have her as the Minister of Exernal Affairs.Mebbe the well endowed Ms Shetty could bamboozle the tough talking Prez Musharraf to chill over the Kashmir issue.

Hmm...I wish I had taken up acting instead of engineering:(

6 comments:

Hitchhiker said...

Somehow I feel Big B with his charisma and his clean record (supposedly) would be better than any of the charming murderers, rapists or the like ..So if twas a competition between them and him, I would obviously vote for him

But, he obviously ranks lower than any politician who has done a fair amount of ground-level work. But I doubt how many of the latter we would get...

csy0182 said...

@laina.. don't forget big B did indeed venture into politics in the early 90's. He crashed and burned. Let's hope the experience will do him good if he does follow jake's expectations..

What happened to ABCD corp anyway?

jakethesnake said...

children,lets not fight..let Big B do whatever he wants to do..i just wish APJ would get an extension

Anurag said...

people....i want to stand for president...please support me (n get me some more support :o))

bout shilpa shetty....no comments.....uska up bihar ke gaane ke baad hum unka pankha ban gaya hoon :o)

Sachin R K said...

@jakethesnake - lol :)))

I dont think the issue is whether APJ will get an extension or not. The question is whether he wants to continue. Seems he is more interested in taking up teaching. Though , like yourself, I feel he is the best qualified.

jakethesnake said...

@anurag-You could increase ur chances if u moved to bollywood.

@sachin-Thanks for dropping by!:)We are so short of good people,wish we could have multiple clones of him:-(.Its just amazing that someone could be so powerful,yet so down to earth.I envy those students who get to study under him.