Just saying – A contrarian view

I disagree. More often than not, I disagree with the views of those around me (not in general, but in a particular area of my life). Do I disagree to get attention? Do I disagree to irritate them? Much as they might like to believe that is the real reason, the boring truth is, they’re not important enough for me to go through all that trouble.

I like Ajay Devgn and Sunny Deol. I think they’re both hot. I like Uday Chopra, I think he seems like a sweet guy. I love Govinda. I have seen very few do comedy as well as him and I think he’s very endearing. In fact, I think he is a good actor, period (cue movies like Khuddar, Jaisi Karni Waisi Bharni and Shikari, but I’m guessing they haven’t watched any of them). I think Abhishek Bachchan is a fabulous actor. I just wish he’d choose his movies more wisely. They think he looks like a ‘mali’ and can’t act to save his life. In fact, they don’t like any of them. That’s fine. Completely. But do I really need to justify time and again why I like them? Maybe it’s because I had a different kind of exposure growing up. Or maybe my head is just screwed on the wrong way. Either way, why does it matter if I disagree? It doesn’t make me contrarian. Incidentally, if they rolled down the tinted glass windows of their air-conditioned cars, they’d realise I am not the one whose views differ. They need to just step out of the car, and look around them, look at the rest of India — the real India — and I think they will have their answer. Because, as a professor never tired of reminding us, “The three per cent English speakers in this country are not the real India. You are not the real India.”

So when a filmmaker makes a mindless comedy, it’s not for them. When a certain director makes movie which are about ‘loving your parents’ and people actually appreciate it (including me, of course), they shouldn’t be mortified. When someone makes a movie and casts Govinda in it, it is not for them. It is for people like me.

Oh, I also am a propagator of Communism for India and they disagree. But that’s a topic for another day.