Mollycoddling Shiv Sena

It is a wonder that a small fringe party could take a mega city on ransom that too for decades, even the splinter groups has found its footing. I am amazed. Any ordinary person on the street if he or she breaks the law they have to pay instantly (last month I parked my vehicle in no parking zone- it was new sign I haven’t seen before, ended up shelling out 300Rs. Definitely not a small amount of money). And here they do all kinds of nonsense but seem to get away quite blatantly. That brings into question whether it is all not arranged with each party aware of its role and share?

Clearly police is politicized and nothing has been done by successive governments, maybe judiciary could do something about it. The executive seem to have failed the people consistently over the years for their personal gains and using state machinery for this purpose. The police need to professionally handle these law breakers without any bias or favor, strictly following the rule of the land. With the system like this it doesn’t look like it is going to happen. It is about accruing power never mind people pay for it heavily.

At this stage it seems that it helps the ruling party to pit splinter groups against each other and try to gain from these. Law and machinery therefore becomes mute testament to these violations. MNS’s growth can be traced to these soft handling by state government. Shiv sena looks like the major gainer again since they have made the kind of voices which most people seem to agree with and I will not be surprised if they win elections or become vicious in its pursuit. This is how societies get polarized, narrow short term gains for politicians. I fail to understand how Bal Thackery is a free man after all that he done and doing over years. He should very well be in jail. This blogger believes that any politician or person in authority who plays with the life of people should be arrested and kept behind bar as a social menace. I don’t give much about Babri demolition, but I am very concerned about what happened in Mumbai riots. Incompetent Liberhan (with an attitude to match) took twenty years, wonder what happened to Srikrishna commission. Shouldn’t there be a time limit for these commissions?. This blogger strongly believes commissions should be brought into the ambit of judiciary.

Normally fringe groups and its lumpen actions should be ignored but the compulsion of 24x7 news channels see to it that these are blown up exaggerated and repeated hundreds of times across hundreds of channels around the country, with screamers taking sides looking for their share (for small time ambitious people this a huge PR chance- to show how evolved peace loving they are). Most importantly the cameras are always present when these small skirmishes happen (must say sometimes end up instigating behavior that wouldn’t have happened otherwise, it becomes a play for wider audience), it surprises me always how camera reaches before cops?

Clearly Shiv Sena and other fringe groups are good for socio-political elite, they are fighting for their share. It is a synergic relation at the expense of people. They differ quite viciously in media, and goons take it out the remaining on the street. Politicians work out their agenda while media gets their bite. It is win-win situation for people at the top. It is people on the street who generally suffer. It is loss for them that too something they are not much bothered about, nothing to do with. People at the top are divided quite viciously for their own selfish reason (for smallest of action the benefits are huge in here) and common people become pawn. But the fact is ignoring these small skirmishes will embolden lumpen elements to go for bigger intrusion into law.

There is a question on why a big actor or big budget movie is targeted? Simple it is maximum publicity at minimum cost!!. You don’t have to be Newton for that!. Media loves these and there is no way they are going to miss it (ask any peddler worth his or her salt they will tell you how they make people buy things with few lines from these actors even mardon wali cream!!). This is ready made masala, TRP busting situation. So the fringe group leaders also get chance to speak to wider audience and increasingly selfish and cruder breed that is watching -of course they will agree to these. So there haven’t we got it right without any election campaign expense?. That is marketing strategy at desultory ease. Producers of movie are also looking for controversy after all that is the easiest publicity than jumping from one studio to another to malls and god knows what thamasha to make people watch their movie. Some even manufacture controversy. Even today when they were talking about Shiv Sena they were trying to promote their yet to be released movie. Showing clips of movie as people discuss. It is called maximizing the opportunity.

Apart from these there are also these clever breed who make a living out of using small time opportunities, they exist in fault lines very cleverly calibrating their moves. They are the one who want to play victims in this melee. Their whole life depends on it. Haven’t faced much problems in life they crave to represent the needy, a vicarious sense of victim hood. This is an easy career if you have access to money and power. Playing the saviors. Now these people have their butt close to the fringe group so even an accidental kick is a godsend. They howl and create hoopla and lo we have victims. They therefore actively instigate fringe groups. The problem is that they work very closely with market media and so make it precarious for common people. The more divided the people, more troubled the situation, better for them. It is about pushing their ass around powerful people. They have an eye firmly on people who matter and what they can accrue from the situation. It is a stampede.

So there everybody stands to gain. I too enjoy watching exclusive pictures “first time in any channel”, hypocrite leaders showing their fake emotions, amazingly irresponsible media telling the goons- who moon walk as politicians, to be civil. Quite entertaining, it is good for digestion. So far so good but the hitch here is if law is broken then they have to be punished. And yes police force should be depoliticized. Maybe judiciary can take this up.

Condolences: Cochin Haneefa was one of popular actor in Malayalam- Tamil movies, he expertised in comic roles (he also directed few movies). Comedy is one of the difficult things to do (put some glycerine you can cry, Chinese rope trick and muscles for heroes...that makes comedians exact actors!), it needs timing that should instantly click with the audience and you have to be innovative all the time. There are some masters in this field Jagathy (in Malayalam), Vivek (Tamil), late Mahmood (in Hindi), Woody Allen (English)…to name few. The list is quite long maybe some other time. Cochin Hanifa I came to know when kireedom was released “hydros” was a very popular character (there was this fellow in college whom we called hydros!!), he did it to perfection. Haneefa expertised in comedy through dialogue delivery, the way it was spoken, delivered and nuances associated with it. He was a class act.