Sanju and Sidhu
As the title suggests this one is about finding a commonality to what’s transpired in their lives.
Both have had ‘happening’ lives, both have played to the public gallery and both got booked for crimes and got away cheap.
Sanju was always the spoilt kid one who was stupid but never a criminal. Public perception saw him as one whose reel and real lives were inexplicably intertwined and he seemed to lead a happier life on screen. Flanked by an idealist father and a darling of the nation mother there was no way that our ‘emotional’ nation could ever look at anything that Sanju did objectively. “Oh he’s has a bad childhood which is why, “oh he’s just naïve” are frequent arguments in his favor. So when he decided that he wanted to see how AK 47s looked, people said that he was just inquisitive. His march from doing Rocky to Gandhigiri was always etched in people’s minds like a fairy tale about the spoilt son who returned home cleansed and virtuous. “Dil ka saaf to har sazaa maaf” seemed to apply to him more often than not. No wonder that he got away with peanut punishment while others who did the same thing have got booked under TADA (including a poor65 year old woman). The judge also gave Sanju baba time so that he could ‘take care’ of his daughter’s education. When Sanju emerges from jail, there will be many more scripts waiting for him and he would have attained sainthood in the heart of foolish many.
Sidhu evolved from being a written off sardar to a much written about one. From tonking sixes to off spin to taking the whole nation with his word spin the master of the gab caught popular imagination. What made him a hero first were images of him going down the wicket pointing his bat at Aamir Sohail, the arch enemy. The Amritsari sardar loved the new aggressor in their midst, so what if he was bred in Patiala. Sidhu was on TV talking about kissing airhostesses and grass being for cows and very soon reached parliament too. It isn’t a surprise that he’s actually killed someone. He’s quite capable of doing that with his words if not with his actions. His immediate resignation from parliament was a master stroke, much like his clearing boundaries. He knew just when to step out and close an argument. No wonder he has the public by his side and much like Sanju, will emerge a martyr at the end of it all. The BJP is planning to field him in the next election against the current Punjab CM. Who said crime doesn’t pay
Both have had ‘happening’ lives, both have played to the public gallery and both got booked for crimes and got away cheap.
Sanju was always the spoilt kid one who was stupid but never a criminal. Public perception saw him as one whose reel and real lives were inexplicably intertwined and he seemed to lead a happier life on screen. Flanked by an idealist father and a darling of the nation mother there was no way that our ‘emotional’ nation could ever look at anything that Sanju did objectively. “Oh he’s has a bad childhood which is why, “oh he’s just naïve” are frequent arguments in his favor. So when he decided that he wanted to see how AK 47s looked, people said that he was just inquisitive. His march from doing Rocky to Gandhigiri was always etched in people’s minds like a fairy tale about the spoilt son who returned home cleansed and virtuous. “Dil ka saaf to har sazaa maaf” seemed to apply to him more often than not. No wonder that he got away with peanut punishment while others who did the same thing have got booked under TADA (including a poor65 year old woman). The judge also gave Sanju baba time so that he could ‘take care’ of his daughter’s education. When Sanju emerges from jail, there will be many more scripts waiting for him and he would have attained sainthood in the heart of foolish many.
Sidhu evolved from being a written off sardar to a much written about one. From tonking sixes to off spin to taking the whole nation with his word spin the master of the gab caught popular imagination. What made him a hero first were images of him going down the wicket pointing his bat at Aamir Sohail, the arch enemy. The Amritsari sardar loved the new aggressor in their midst, so what if he was bred in Patiala. Sidhu was on TV talking about kissing airhostesses and grass being for cows and very soon reached parliament too. It isn’t a surprise that he’s actually killed someone. He’s quite capable of doing that with his words if not with his actions. His immediate resignation from parliament was a master stroke, much like his clearing boundaries. He knew just when to step out and close an argument. No wonder he has the public by his side and much like Sanju, will emerge a martyr at the end of it all. The BJP is planning to field him in the next election against the current Punjab CM. Who said crime doesn’t pay
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