I am not a great fan of Mahesh Bhatt’s ideology and his thought process. On many occasions I have not agreed to his views. As he adds years to his life, I feel he keeps making irrational statements. But, this is one time when I empathize with him. He, and his family, have become the latest victims of the typical shortcut to two minutes of fame.
Some unknown party in Gujrat, vandalized a theatre that was playing a Mahesh Bhatt movie – Tum Mile. Reason? Well, the party (MGP) claims that Rahul Bhatt (Mahesh Bhatt’s son) is a traitor and he is hand in gloves with David Headley – the accused terrorist for plotting the Mumbai carnage on 26th November 2008.
Time and again we have seen such parties, like MGP, trying to get some amount of fame by creating ruckus over any issue that might have a hint of igniting any passion in India. In this case, MGP is trying to evoke nationalism and get some visibility.
However, there are multiple things wrong here:
1. There is no conclusion that Rahul Bhatt was an associate of David Headley, hence there is absolutely no way someone can start accusing him, or his family
2. From whatever transcripts of David Headley’s emails have been released, all references to Rahul Bhatt seem like a code word to refer to Mumbai
3. Vandalising theatres and other property is an un-tolerable offence, a clear criminal act
4. As the Bhatt’s put it, there are so many important people who couldn’t figure out that David Headley was a terrorist – Pritish Nandy (promoter of Moksh Gym where David Headley was a member), Indian embassy that provided visa to David Headley, the people who let out office space to him, and so on. If no one is blaming them, why single out Rahul Bhatt?
There can be lot of arguments on this issue. Bottom line is that no one has the right to destroy any property and commit acts of vandalism. These people bring shame to our country! My head hangs in shame!
That is well said. For a country which prides in the fact that it used non-violence to attain freedom, we have suck really low. Time and again we see that a group of people can "punish" anybody before even before they are proved guilty in the court of law. Sadly these acts cant even be termed as vigilantism. This is just a group of selfish people trying to create trouble for everybody so that they get the coverage on TV, newsprint and blogosphere( So I guess you and me are helping their cause ;) ) .
ReplyDeleteVarious governments have failed to deal with such instances with iron hand thereby encouraging. I am sure that if I put together 25 odd people and go around attacking theatres and hotels, the policemen are going stand there as mute spectators and not do anything. Media will reach there before police reinforcements and my picture will be all over the media. Another new bright star in the horizon.
Oops!! In my comment, I dont know how sunk became suck. "N" and "C" are not even close to each other on the keyboard. Guess am tired. Need to go home.
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