Heck of a movie

               A person decides to make a movie on the catastrophe happened in the US nine years back . The movie is about 9/11 attacks and terrorist involved. A movie in which the protagonist suffers from Asperger syndrome . A movie which shows some kind of journey of that ‘sufferer’ to achieve his love.

                A movie which is constantly being bombarded to the people through various modes of communication. The protagonist of the film, otherwise an owner of a money minting machine called the KKR in real life, makes a statement on the ‘neighbours’. This favorism towards the unhealthy neighbours creates a furor in the nation (certain segments of the society). A party takes a charge on the protagonist – claiming to be the sole Indians around. The protagonist doesn’t deter of his ego, is not ready to take his words back. The party adds fuel to the fire- calls for a ban on the movie of the protagonist. Protagonist adamant on his stance, and refuses to apologize. He asks for added security, for himself, his family, his house, his partners etc. The city police have no other job than to ‘safeguard’ bunch of these attention seekers.

                The politics of the entire nation focuses on the release of this movie. The chief minister himself expresses desire to see the movie. Orders from the central ruling government for smooth functioning of the movie release. The party opposing the same increases the stand against the release. Thousands of police are deployed over the week for the motion picture. Like an emergency, holidays for several policemen get cancelled.


                 The protagonist is bathing in all the attention created due to this, refuses to budge. Rather than being present in the city which matters the most, escapes to Berlin to promote the opening of the same movie there, one major reason for that – foreign distribution is more important. Starts tweeting from there to gain public support. Makes statements of his Indianness , blah blah blah. Fights continue back home, hundreds of sainiks are kept ‘under control’. Letters to the multiplexes are issued by the party to withhold the screening. Multiplex owners get into a fix.


                 12th February 2010, marks the highlight in the history of Indian television broadcasting. Only one news makes ‘breaking news’ the whole day. Radio, newspapers, internet focuses on this issue. A country of more than a billion has only one subject to be exposed to the whole day, and most of the week before. Nothing else in the country is as important as the safe release of the movie, making headlines all over.


                 This is nothing but the way we are being fooled, by the politicians, by these so called protagonists, by the media, by playing all sorts of gimmicks for undue publicity of the movie. Is the movie that worth to grip the entire nation .The protagonist and the makers will bask in this excessive publicity the movie has generated.


                 A movie made about foreign land, foreign locations. A comment made about unfriendly people, lands the people of the nation into trouble, unnecessary fights internally making the nation vulnerable.


All of this just for the heck of a movie?