Kyunki celebrities face trauma too

If you live around the western suburbs in Bombay and have been wondering about that strange smell in the air, here it is the puzzle solved for you. It is because Mr. Big Bacchan has not had a bath for three days

Big B didn’t bathe for 3 days – says an authoritative source, viz. the Deccan Chronicle on their front page.

They in turn got it straight from the er, wife’s mouth – all the way from Delhi. She saw the fact that Mr. Bacchan has not been able to have a bath as the “collapse of administration in Mumbai”…

In the course of the conversation, she also made a careful mistake, taking care to correct herself immediately and make her meaning clear…

In her enthusiasm, Ms Bachchan referred to Mulayam Singh Yadav as the “Prime Minister of UP” but corrected herself immediately. “But, God willing, he will become Prime Minister of the country one day,” she said.

God save the country is all I can think of saying, apart from commiserating with the Bacchans.

However, others around me here in Madras do not share my sentiment – the water situation here is so bad I suspect many of them go without a bath for many days, and regularly at that…

And oh, the Bachhans also had another mini trauma in the house – Her son, actor Abhishek Bachchan, also had a tough time. “There was five feet of water in the house and my son had to balance a tray with some eatables and a bottle of water on his head to reach his grandmother, who was on the first floor of the house,” said Ms Bachchan. “Fortunately, he is a tall man,” she added wryly

Absolutely fortunately.

Also Sonia writes about another hmmm, celebrity’s ordeal carrying pastries high above his head. His misery was multiplied further by the fact that he was just returning from a manicure and pedicure from the parlour.

The rain gods have indeed been cruel – all I can hope and pray for now is for this celebrity to get another appointment double quick at his parlour, so some of his trauma is lessened…

Time and pedicure, the greatest healers…. Please join me in my prayers…

And all ToI bashers, look – ToI is not the only newspaper with well, unusual perspectives on what constitutes news and front page news. These two items I have linked to here are from Deccan Chronicle and Mumbai Mirror respectively.

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Dilip D’Souza went out for a walk and came back with this wallet box – This morning was the last straw. I’m switching, starting tomorrow. I encourage others to do the same. And more important, write to the Times to tell them exactly why you are doing it. Not email, but fax or post. Registered post.

Anyone remember the old Tamil song – kaatru vaanga ponaen oru kavidai vaangi vandaen (I went out to get some fresh air – and I got back some poetry) 🙂

Also remembered this old campaign started by a few popular bloggers a couple of years ago – Say No to! Media Slaughter (from Mahesh Shantaram’s blog filter coffee). Maybe it is time for another one now.

Spread the word around…