The Indian film industry has been targeted again, by the now-uber-so-famous Anbumani Ramadoss who happens to be a cabinet minister in The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. According to the minister there should be no smoking and drinking scenes in a movie. In response to that, the creative people say that this means there will be no creativity freedom, I say, there is no kind of freedom left anyway.
Ramadoss thinks, that he’ll be protecting the ‘Youngistaanies’ of this country and no on-screen smoking/drinking will not make them wanna smoke/drink. Er, Mr.Ramadoss, I won’t tear my shirt on the road if SRK does, so why would I smoke if he does? So you saw Mr.Khan smoke in a cricket match, it’s his cigarette man. As far as I remember, cigarettes are legal to buy and to smoke if one is above 18, and there is no sign on cricket stadiums saying ‘No Smoking’ It’s a public place, he can smoke wherever the hell he wants too, as long as there is sign telling him not too.
Oh and Ramadoss doesn’t stop here, he says ‘role-models’ shouldn’t be endorsing junk food, like fastfood chains and chip brands. Okay, wait, so why don’t we ban the ‘role-models’ to stop endorsing mobile phone’s too? Because if somebody sees them talking on the cell-phone, they will want to, too and then they might get cancer :)
Ramadoss then says that he wants to ‘protect’ both the urban and the rural people by banning on screen drinking/smoking and fast-food endorsing, because the people don’t know whats right or wrong, and they get swayed easily, right? I don’t really remember seeing Shah Rukh Khan, burn himself with his dead husband, but thats still happening right?
So according to him, the government doesn’t want people to be drunk? Then why the hell are there more taxes on light-alcohol like beer super high? I mean that doesn’t even make sense does it? It’s as ridiculous as President Bush’s comment, you know, the oil-prices-are-rising-due-to-India-and-China. We don’t even have oil, dude, we import are oil! WTF?!
You know it seems so weird, after shining so much, we as a country are moving into this safe-shell, we don’t want to be exposed to true things, we don’t want to be seen, we just want to move back to our ‘roots’, you know where the sati and the dowry prevailed. The ‘Indian culture’ comes in between of every step we take, to move ahead, instead of evolving, I guess we are de-evolving. For example the IPL’s cheerleaders controversy, we can’t see some white people shake their booties and show off their body? Can the ministers be that jealous because they are fat and still have man-boobies? Or are they jealous because they can’t sleep with them and they have to go home and sleep with their wives? Or, and this is just a guess – We can’t stand anything which is not Indian. If Ms.Sawant was stripping in front of everyone, the ministers would drool over their LCD’s. From being un-developed we are becoming developed, in opposite world <_<
So smoking is bad for health and so is eating junk-food, but if you think it’s so bad, ban them, and don’t make the ‘we’ are a democratic country argument, because it isn’t gonna work. Like China, banned half of the Internet you can ban smoking. But you won’t, because you generate a lot of revenue from it, and seriously nobody would cut a goose which gives a golden egg, right? (You here = the government)
PS – The picture was drawn by me XD

May 7, 2008 at 5:25 pm
Love the picture and some pwnage lines here and there, overall a good post, your blog got updated after a long time though >.<
May 7, 2008 at 7:48 pm
The picture cracks me up. XD
And yup, I agree with your viewpoint. Pretty cool post. :)
May 7, 2008 at 9:02 pm
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May 7, 2008 at 10:27 pm
I am baffled :P
May 8, 2008 at 7:57 pm
Long post, not a bad one though, I enjoyed reading it and obviously could relate to your ideology, and I see change again on your blog >.<
May 9, 2008 at 6:01 pm
xD
a sign saying no smoking zone wouldn’t stop SRK or anybody else for that matter from smoking anyway.
Politicians themselves are heavy drinkers. Remember Atal Bihari Vajpayee the ex PM? he doesn’t meet anyone after 8 or 10PM cos he that’s his drinking time. Anyway when they don’t ban the airlines from serving heavy liquor in a 2hr long flight why would they ever ban it in the country. Its all about the golden eggs :)
May 9, 2008 at 8:33 pm
Have you improved … or do you fucking pwn now. XD
Amazing post. :)
May 10, 2008 at 4:35 pm
@ Falak, if I have improved the blog-hits would go up and not down :P
@Shel : I don’t think Mr.Khan will smoke in a hospital or in a petrol pump :P Oh not only that, they offer liquor to a minor in flights too :P
@Shrai : Change is inevitable. Thanks for the comment though
@Tom : Now that was obvious XD
@Queen : Yay, you agree :P
@Punit : Yeah, I have been suffering from this neck pain and shit, anyhoo It’ll be updated soon, and then won’t be updated for another week, reason being I might leave town.
May 13, 2008 at 3:00 am
Mr.Khan would surely try his best to smoke in the hospital or the petrol pump. Probably get some outa bounds balcony opened for his smoking purposes.
May 13, 2008 at 5:06 pm
Because he is rich XD
June 19, 2008 at 6:21 am
Somehow i missed the point. Probably lost in translation :) Anyway … nice blog to visit.
cheers, Sponge.
October 15, 2008 at 10:26 pm
I hate ban smoking in public place, god will curse these ppl
June 29, 2009 at 12:24 am
You said something about culture. I would like to add a point to it. Culture is a thing which is required to progress. I really don’t see what’s wrong with change. If we want to go back to our ‘roots’ so bad, we might as well go back to the prehistoric age and start living in a jungle or something.
Another thing. though I don’t know if it’s directly related to the blog. Culture should ever be forced. Maybe someone doesn’t want to follow the ‘traditional’ culture, what’s wrong with that? Is it his fault that he was born with it? everyone has (or should have) a choice.
By the way, nice work. I read your blog a couple of times before too, but was too lazy to write any comments .