Q5. Will the attacks on your loyalty to Maharashtra compel you to alienate yourself from doing things for your home state, UP? And will you now try harder to do more visible social work in Maharashtra? Say, opening a school for girls out here?
ANS5.Accusations and insinuations are not going to make me change the course of my conscience. I shall do what I want to do and what I feel needs to be done ; whether it is in Maharashtra, or UP or Bihar or Punjab or Bengal or TamilNadu or any part of the Country. The people of this country have loved and given unbounded affection to my family and me. I am equal in the eyes of the entire nation and no one should stipulate what I must do or not. My sense of fairness and fortitude is not up for scrutiny.
suprem court has ordered indian can stay any where in in india the court order need detail for staying what is required a home? is all this people stying in mumbai has house/home? court must give directive about it
D. Goel,afternoon,5.10pm,Tuesday,April 8th ,2008. No doubt Raj Thackeray is making a Mountain of a Mole -Hill.the UP-ean Mochi ,and Dhobi or taxidriver or palledar, Hamal has as much right to slog and breathe and save his coppers in Brihan Mumbai as the great Maratha Manus / Manausi.Bachchan has just dared the Hammal led protests with dour steely resolve to live on in Amche Mumbai. This is his Right as much as of Sharad Pawar/Thackerays or millions of our dear countrymen from South ,East. West or North. We must grow out of hatred and jealousy of those who make it.After-all for one Amitabh the super-star there are are hundreds of coolies, truck-drivers,cleaners,Dudhwalas Ayas , and Cha-walas who serve the great crowds of Parel, Kurla, Marine lines,and milling crowds on the express highways from Borivili to Central or Maharaj Chatrapati Terminals day-in and day -out.Would Mumbaikars could run its services without all these hamals , Ayas ,Dhobis, or Durbans and street-corner unglamorous groceries and Pav-Bhaji stands at Chowpatty Sea-Scape?D Goel
RE:Bachchan's Riposte to Raj Thackeray...
by prince on Apr 09, 2008 10:57 AM Permalink
don't put the term mochi or dhobi here, if UP cm mayawati reads or heard this she will make your life hell and bring you on your knees.
Q4. The latest Saamna piece comparing your situation with Rajnikanth must have hurt too. Although Bal Thackeray issued a clarification, the damage was done.
ANS4. I feel honoured that I have a friend in Rajnikant and even more honoured that, despite my insignificance, I am brought into comparison with him. Bala Saheb has been a father figure to us and shall remain so, ever. In my growing up years my parents taught me that 'when elders speak, the young listen quietly'. I quietly accept whatever my elder or his outfit has expressed.
Q3. Do you accept the fact that you are one, paying the price of your enormous popularity and two, are a victim of desperate communal politics that has been unleashed by the MNS. You have been turned into the mascot of communal hatred without you enrolling for the job!
ANS3.I do not accept what you insinuate, simply because I am illiterate about these aspects. You and your ilk, who are the keepers of this nation, are more educated than I am, to address this
In interest of india we require all the people to get united as Indians but to win elections: divide hindu muslims -BJP divide marathi and non marathi -Raj Sena divide hindis in different castes like SC St OBC - castiest parties like mayawati, mulayam lalu, paswans divide on basis of aryan and dravidians and noth and south india - karunanidhis
divide on basis of capitalist and communists - leftists
give extra fascilities to a particular community for his votes specially muslims ans terrorists----------------------congress.
send your own sons and daughters in english mediam schools and make doctors engineers
teach people marathis and culture and keep them tied to marathi and keep them as fools and make them watchmans and peuns and unemployed so that they will vote in name of marathi
RE:side effect of democracy
by manoj on Apr 08, 2008 05:39 PM Permalink
I am prime Minister and have more than 500 cabinate ministers in team and we oppose short minded tapporis.
RE:side effect of democracy
by ranjan singh on Apr 08, 2008 05:48 PM Permalink
So what if u r Engg??? does that means u & ur group of 1000 Engg. are most brainy in this world???? Or does that mean that what ever u think is right??? If that is so...then Hitler had more than 10000 Engineers...........
RE:side effect of democracy
by manoj on Apr 08, 2008 05:43 PM Permalink
you would have become software engineer either by cheating or bribing some one because the type of thoughts you have shows that you have not read the sylaabus of evolution of humans. You can be called as literate eneducated.
RE:side effect of democracy
by Quacker Oats on Apr 08, 2008 05:33 PM Permalink
Rajni is true Indian. Amitabh is true Indian. Politicians have no issues left but attacking these personalities. We the citizens should chase these politicians out thru our votes. they have no other issues left. they will discover newer ways to spread hate. they spread HATE let us UNITE and spread LOVE. JAI BHARAT!!! JAI BIHAR !!! JAI MAHARASHTRA !!! JAI KARNATAKA !!! JAI TAMILNADU !!!
RE:side effect of democracy
by manoj on Apr 08, 2008 05:35 PM Permalink
amitabh is doing his job of acting very well for last 30 years. Raj thakre is failure in shivsena and can not win enough seats ever to form governments and therefore uncredible and unpredictable. similarly nana patekar is failure in film industry who gives one hit in lifetime. these are unsatisfied people who are failures themselves .
Q2. Must be depressing and hurtful. To be made to feel like an outsider in a city where you have spent a lifetime in. Goons have been chucking beer bottles inside your premises.
ANS2. I shall feel depressed and hurt if I have betrayed my conscience. Nothing else. I am not an outsider by any stretch of imagination. This land is my land as much as it is of every other citizen of our beloved country. I came to Mumbai in 1968 to pursue a vocation. I did not need a visa to come here. I have made this city my home for the last 40 years. I bought my first car here, and my own house. I met and married my wife in this city and both my children were born here. Both my children were married in this city from that same house. My two grand children were born in this city. My Father and my Mother spent their last years in Mumbai and died here. They were put to flames here and their ashes have mingled with the earth of this city. This city gave me name and fame beyond anything that I may have deserved or hoped for. I am not leaving this city and going anywhere !! Let them chuck a thousand bottles. Let them burn my effigies and conduct morchas in front of my house. Let them blacken my film posters and stop the screening of my films. Let them attack me with stones and lathis or whatever else is there in their arsenal. Let them abuse me in the print and electronic media. Let them implicate me in false cases. I am not budging !!
What a pity situation we are into..today our msot of the loved respected idols and legends are facing political cosnpiracy and harrassment. be it Lrod Rama being mocked by Karunanidhi kind of disgruntled. be it Amitabh being harrassed by Congress gandhi family and their servents like raj tahckray. or be it Rajnikanth today facing all sorts of abuse due to hogankal issue... this is new India whose legends are today being harrassed by handful jokers who stand nowhere before these legends! this is a reflection of a country which is becoming restless and surrendering to goondas.
RE:RE:RE:Politics undermining the age long legends of this nation.
by atul kumar on Apr 08, 2008 05:37 PM Permalink
for god sake pleeeees please add also SANIA harrased by maulvies.
Q1. I guess you are feeling these days much like a section of the Muslim community is often made to feel in this nation: Keep providing proof that you care for Mumbai and Maharashtra.
ANS1. Firstly, the premise of your query is something that I do not contribute to or believe in. I am also therefore, not qualified to address it in the manner you put it. So can we just remain with my part as an individual and not attempt to grind two stones in one stroke. Secondly, I have said it before and shall say it again, that I shall conduct myself, a proud citizen of this country, according to, the Law of the land and its Courts, the Constitution and my conscience. Courts, Constitution and Conscience, my three C's !! Nothing and no one shall find a place, even remotely, into these honourable portals. Every individual in a free society has the freedom of expression and speech. And I honour and respect that. But those that question me and my deeds or non deeds, need to know a simple fact. I am a public figure, not a public official. I am not a democratically elected representative of the people, neither do I hold any Government public office. I am answerable ONLY to the three C's and nothing else. People have the right to question me, as they do and must. But they do not have the right to demand proof for any activity of mine, particularly when they themselves are not eligible for such a misguided, heedless and a totally inappropriate, task.
RE:NRI BigB in Bofors scandal
by Murli on Apr 08, 2008 05:25 PM Permalink
R u metnally ill or still staying in VP singh era? Do you know that it's only Amitabh Bachchan who has been cleared of Bofors issue while rajiv gandhi still not cleared from it? It was supreme court who gave Amitabh a clin cheat and in entire enquiry not a single thing was foudn against Amitabh except Vp singh's statement???? your kinds of idiots are here enough to fuel fire and hatred in this nation and misgude people..AZZhole.
