Passion for Cinema
Hindustan Times i thought was a prestigious newspaper.. every newspaper resorts to yellow journalism and it’s fine.. they all write gossip to sell their paper.. they will write about A having an affair with B , and add everybody’s denial to it and it’s still fine.. we all know it’s gossip.. but hindustan times gives a lot of freedom to it’s journalists to settle personal scores and it’s sad.. shame to the Bhartiya lady who owns it..
yesterday in their gossip “under honey’s hat” page, they wrote ..

DHOOMRAPAAN MACHALE..under which they wrote that the trailors of No Smoking were pulled off because they went whoosh over the audience’s head, and i laughed , thinking the purpose of the trailor probably went over madhu moti or whoever the fuck honey is.. but then how do you explain to them that tne purpose of the trailor is to create curiosity and not meant to be understood but you can’t explain and there is no need to.. so you let it pass..

then today i got a call from another newspaper asking me if my trailors were pulled off for the same reason and i said

do you seriously believe it

yes

well.. isn’t that a good thing.. makes people curious..

but your own producers pulled it out

ha.. HAAA.. (i laughed).. why would or should they when they love it.. when more than seventy percent people who saw it loved it.. when cinemax and some more theatres are still playing it..

but someone told me..

who told you..

i can’t say that..

well you want me to reply then tell me who told you..

and he said “Madhu Moti”..

who is Madhu Moti my friend..

HE/SHE IS FROM HINDUSTAN TIMES,

so you are not hindustan times so why would she call you and tell you that..

i don’t know..
so sir mr. journalist why don’t you ask “Madhu Moti” about the details..

and i hung up the phone..that was in the evening and then i got another call from another paper asking the same question at midnight just before i sat down on my laptop.. and this time it was on a sms and so i replied via sms.. and then one of my friend journalist called me and asked me the same question and now i was aghast .. what a silly thing to believe..have the journos run out of stories.. and he named the same lady.. now i don’t know the lady, and i don’t know her source.. but my conspiracy theory mind started looking for answers and voila .. another call and same question..
and this time it’s a lady and on my asking why do you ask that?

she replies,”that’s the buzz..”

well, who gave you the buzz..

Khalid mohammad..

Why would he say that?

I don’t know, he told my friend and she told me..

she?

yeah

who is she ?

I can’t tell you but she works with Khalid..

Well, that’s it.. i don’t know who is right and who is wrong.. who is lying and who speaks the truth.. but “mera detective dimag ek hi baat kah raha hai” ..(to quote from Dhamaal).. woh hai ki MR. KHAMKHAH MOHAMMAD wants revenge.. for what.. i can guess if the reason is me..but what a silly rumour to spread.. Pratim Da kya bolte ho?