Thursday, May 17, 2012

How long will we continue to pamper the “Bad-Shah” of Bollywood?


                                               

Shahrukh again lands himself into another controversy by getting into an ugly brawl with security Guards and Mumbai cricket Association officials at Wankhede stadium.As per official reports, he abused and physically assaulted security guards and MCA officials, when they were simply performing their duty and were merely preventing Shahrukh to enter the Ground after his team had beaten Mumbai Indians. Reportedly at the time of the scuffle, Shahrukh was also “drunk”.

This is not the first time, he has tried to violate some rule and this is not the first time he has abused, manhandled and misbehaved with people. Just a couple of weeks ago, Shah Rukh was summoned by a Jaipur court for smoking during an IPL match. In January 2012, SRK slapped filmmaker Farah Khan's husband at a party.Few years ago, he had physically assaulted Amar Singh in Dubai as Amar Singh was showing his annoyance to organizers for being not enough respectful towards Amitabh Bacchan.In fact, he followed up his rude behavior towards Amar Singh , when he made fun of weakness of Amar Singh  for women publically in a Film awards function. However, he still got away with ire of Amar Singh, a very powerful politician during that period. Probably, as a senior leader of Samajwadi party, he  didn’t want to antagonize minority vote-bank of his party. Only a few years ago, he fought and had angry exchanges with another Khan(Salman Khan) of his size, stature and temperament. This time, however, he had to bite the bullet as his khan-power was neutralized by another firebrand khan. The unholy saga of his anger and arrogance is endless. In fact, King Khan of Bollywood has so high estimate of himself that if he has to undergo a routine security check up in US, he would let whole world know about it as if he is really a “badshah” and deserves a badshah kind of treatment in every part of the world.

Now look at the response of people towards him for his intemperate behaviour.  Politicians, probably, are aware that he is an iconic symbol for his community and hence they all like to pamper him. Probably for this reason only, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad Yadav after the ugly brawl backed Kolkata Knight Riders co-owner Shah Rukh Khan saying the media is not aware of the Bollywood actor's version of the matter.Other politicians cum cricket officials like Vilas Rao Deshmukh and Rajiv Shukla refuse to discuss the incident and probably are willing to get him away with very light punishment for his violent behaviour. Even Mamata Banerjee is also supporting him. Similarly, film personalities/film journalists have again come out in full support of “Bad-shah”of Bollywood.Probably they are too scared of overwhelming influence of this King of Bollywood and by criticizing him they don’t want to invite his wrath and put their careers into jeopardy. For the same reason, even after being slapped by Shahrukh, Sirish Kunder  along with his wife Farah and brother-in-law Sajid Khan went to Shahrukh’s residence, apologized and bought peace with him.Even social activists and Media personalities remain either tightlipped or seem to be supporting him as by criticizing him for his unseemly behavior, they don’t want to lose their secular credentials.


How long will it go?Just because he is super star and “his name is Khan”, we dare not speak against him and pamper him endlessly.