I mean someone in my family, someone from the invested in buying that?! Why?
Why? But, why? I blamed it on the marriage, how that had ruined her I added that to my, 101 reasons why it was good to be Single But I needed to understand her , give her the benefit of doubt even.
So I asked the question very slowly, D i d y o u a c t u a l l y s p e n d 3 5 0 R u p e e s a n d g o t o a s h o p a n d v o l u n t a r I l y b u y t h a t ? ? ?
? ? ?
The cousin tells me, almost too quickly , Oh-you-know-how-A-is-an-SRK-fan? So I thought, why not! At least it gets him to eat with lesser fuss Now bright kid that my nephew A is, I have never thought he could really tell the difference between his SRK versus Salman versus Aamir versus Blah.
To him Shahrukh Khan is a generic name for anything, which goofs, dances and cries on his TV. I have seen him look at just about anyone who gets featured on TV and yell, Sharrrrrrrrrruuuuuuuuukkkkkkkkkkkkhhhhhhhhh . He will look at me part triumphantly for having displayed his genius and part questioningly for confirmation that he indeed has got it right (never mind that I didn t ask him in the first place).
As the indulgent Aunt I just nod and in some way contribute to his delusions that SRK is indeed omnipresent. Anyway coming back to my shock, I am then thinking, this cousin must be a closet Shahrukh Khan fan. That could be the only possible explanation to this.
After all she could have got something featuring AB Baby and told nephew, there that is SRK (I mean if parents can tell their children about bathroom monsters, this is a milder lie). And I don t think the nephew would have refused to eat the meal! But no, she has to go and buy the, Inner-Outer World of SRK .
What is the big deal you might ask? After all he is or whatever other epitaph he is conferred with! But it does get me into a firmly self-referential mode!
I have noticed more often than not, I encounter people who hate him! I would go so far to say that anybody, with whom I have had a in the last 10 years, hates SRK. Not only does one hate him, they love to hate him as well loving to hate people is a strange thing.
There are lots of people who fall in that category. These include people we work with, sometimes family, sometimes Bloggers, but more often than not celebrities. Dislike for celebrities is after all okay.
You won t go to hell for it or so I think at any rate! I did a quick poll in office for a with Shahrukh Khan to see if I just seem to be intuitively attracted to SRK bashers, or was it mere co-incidence? But yes sir, everyone at my work-place also hates SRK!
He hams so much! He is so full of himself! He forever plays only himself, how awful is that!
He is so metro-sexual, Bah! How could he have agreed to float around with rose petals in a bathtub? Belch!
No, he doesn t seem to be liked very much Not to say he doesn t have fans. Obviously he has of them, after all there must be some explanation of all the success that he has managed??
!! And given his star stature, one must conclude I know very few people in this world after all!
:) Which is not a bad thing after all, considering the difficulty that I have managing this number of people? But you know how it becomes cool almost to dislike something and some people. Yet, it is okay to actually like Govinda and such like people it s like they are so uncool so it is almost cool to like them.
Though, this quest for uncool people is usually only restricted to Indian celebrities. I mean, tell someone you like Britney Spears or Backstreet Boys you will get banished from the planet. I think, we all love the underdog.
We all love rags to riches. We all at a fundamental level - love fairytales. Which is why we love to watch movies like and , which is so uplifting as a story.
This is why we like M S Dhoni and Irfan Pathan. And which is why Saurav da evokes very mixed responses; after all he is boy with impeccable English accent from Prezi College (I think), so one is not supposed to feel sorry for him. And it really wasn t his performance on the field as much as him being treated shabbily by a bunch of selectors that got the entire nation backing him (the same people, who were crying for his blood some weeks back!
). Yes, he was the victim and he rose splendidly from that, and news-starved 24-hour news channels beamed that as headlines! So it would seem that the mighty are loved only if they exhibit that they are not infallible!
:) And I think that is one of the biggest reasons why I have never liked incredibly successful actors like SRK and Ash Rai. Because they are not the under-dog. And also there are so many people to love them in this planet; I don t want to add to that list.
Now I like a whole bunch of really terrible actors, because I think it appeals to either the maternal side in me or the more voyeuristic aspirational liking for Toy Boys. But that is only in my choice of cinematic men I must add quickly, lest the proponents of Indian culture descend upon me! This is why I have never thought much of SRK: He is not a terrible actor, so I don t feel sorry for him in that maternal way He is not pretty enough to be Toy Boy He is posh Delhi boy with great pedigree (St Columbus, Jamia Millia, etc.
), so what is the big deal about his success! And I can t even be patronizing about him! He made it to the cover of Time and National Geographic, so he is no under-dog He is primarily a hero of the Diaspora population and that is his calling in life These are perhaps all of the reasons why he appeals to an entirely different generation of women, much older or much younger than me, while I and my friends mostly snort derisively when he appears with smug smile, sashaying down the streets of Manhattan.
So with much trepidation and amusement I did watch the over three hour s saga of the man behind the star.
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