God save the world from Mahesh Bhatt

It is not difficult to find people who have an opinion on everything under the sun. We see and hear them all the time. While we might find their attitude irritating, we begin to ignore them after a while. But one man who has made a living out of commenting on situations that are strictly not his domain is Mahesh Bhatt. When he proclaimed retirement after making Zakhm, many of us thought that we had lost a good director. Not that his last few films bear testimony to his skills as a story teller but his earlier movies like Saaransh, Daddy, Arth, Naam etc were all good films. It was a career well ended, I thought after I saw Zakhm.

But I was mistaken. Not only did he start producing really bad films in his bid to promote bold cinema but also reaffirmed my belief that the Hindi film industry is highly nepotistic when he began to shamelessly promote his utterly untalented family members- his daughter whose career as an actress is best not mentioned and is by far, one of the most disastrous in Hindi film history, his nephew who looks like his life is a hangover and apart from earning the title of "Kissing King", has not done much and his wife, who was once not a bad actress but is terribly unskillful as a director....They are different from the other so called camps in the Hindi film industry in so much as that its all in the family!

Another post retirement hobby that Mr. Mahesh Bhatt has taken up is the really smooth job of saving the world, not by doing anything but just speaking out on just about everything. This is a free country, alright but does freedom means licensed display of idiocy... If it is, then, we'll have to live with him and his verbosity!....

He recently commented on how Om Puri should not accept the OBE because he was in disagreement with Britain's participation in the Iraq war... Just because he does not win awards anymore, thanks to the excellent rip off cinema he creates or helps create, does not mean that Om Puri should stop accepting awards. What a pseud??

He comments on all possible social issues in the media and they immediately become news but I am yet to see him volunteer at the ground for a social cause, be it for the tsunami relief or the floods in Mumbai (he criticised the govt. for not doing enough) unless it is a glitzy glam charity fund raising event where there will be a respectable presence of media persons and he can just shoot off his mouth...

It feels really bad to see a one time good film maker voluntarily driving down the path of insanity! Why he does what he does? I am yet to understand whether these unmindful remarks is for publicity or the poor man just does not seem to have enough to do....Just relax..Do some yoga-shoga or go to the mountains for a really long vacation...Do anything but please don't talk!

But, his careless talk has inspired a number of spoofs on television..They're just too funny....At least someone is gaining from his stupidity!

Anyway, enough of Bhatt bashing but I did find a few interesting allies in this small movement of mine to request some people who misuse their fame to bore the general junta like this.. Here are the links...

1. http://www.madhoo.com/archives/003086.php

2. http://www.rediff.com/movies/2005/aug/11sab.htm