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Gulam Ali Par Gussa Aata Hai - Metro Beat
Ashok Row Kavi
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May 5, 1998
Title: Gulam Ali Par Gussa Aata Hai
Author: Ashok Row Kavi
Publication: Metro Beat
Date: May 5, 1998
If anyone of you wishes to read the height of hypocrisy, you must
read the great Yusuf Khan, alias Dilip Kumar, in the Indian
Express May 2 issue. In a piece titled incere Apologies, Khan
Saheb our very own Khan Saheb protests against the Sena
disruption of Gulam Ali's concert at the Juhu Centaur last
Sunday.
Yusuf Khan complains that several Indian delegations have
returned from Pakistan and "have come back praising their
hospitality, their affection". Now just a minute! Let's have some
points clear. Khan Saheb is fudging things shamelessly. Praise is
something else but even today the Indian Motion Pictures'
Producers' Association (IMPPA) will inform you if you care to ask
that Pakistan does not allow the commercial exhibition of Hindi,
or any other Indian films in that country.
Dilip Kumar Saheb, what a liar you are when you talk about Paki
generosity. Even your own movies cannot be shown in regular
commercial shows there.
Yusuf Khan, alias Dilip Kumar, was obviously given the 'Nishan-e-
Imtiaz' for doing a public relations' job for the Muslim
government of Pakistan. Instead of giving us lectures that "most
of the people want relationships to be smoothened because they
can't afford hostility. We have the same cultural ethos and the
same aspirations, the same morality We are like one people
divided into two by the cruel hand of time". This is pure and
simple rubbish. Not one intellectual from Pakistan accepts this
theory of Dilip Kumar. Not a single public figure in Pakistan
accepts that the two-nation theory was wrong.
In fact, the late Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, actually said that
"Pakistan should fight the cultural invasion from India." Of
course, this was after accepting lakhs from Indian producers for
giving some mediocre music for a film called Aur Pyra Ho Gaya.
These hypocrites play both sides, possibly because of the need of
being politically correct amongst us gullible Hindus.
Dilip Kumar, I would like to ask you just one question. If the
people of Pakistan want peace, what happened in Jammu recently
when more than a dozen Hindu families were butchered in cold
blood? Is that "wanting peace"? Is that "the same morality?" And
who the hell are you to advice "Why don't you ask the people of
Kashmir what they want?" With militants from Afghanistan, and
even Sudan and Algeria holding guns to their heads in Kashmir,
this Muslim gentleman sitting comfortably in Hindu India is
giving us lectures on democracy.
In fact, Dilip Kumar even wants the government to have talks with
Veerappan and Phoolan Devi, for Shiva's sake.
The hypocrisy of this "secular elite" deserves to be punctured by
the Bajrang Dal. In fact, as a Hindu, I would like to apologize
to Gulam Ali but only if he is prepared to go on record that the
policy of the government of Pakistan, in not allowing the
exhibition of Indian films and cultural shows, is wrong. We are
willing to apologise if Gulam Ali and others stand up for Indian
artistes like Lata and Asha to perform freely in Pakistan. But
then one cannot expect somebody who accepts the Nishan-e-Imtiaz
to point that out, can we?
In fact, it is time we had a consistent and cogent policy for
Pakistan because it is a country born out of hatred for Hindus.
Don't be fooled by this double-dealing Muslim has-been actor
Unlike Sunil Dutt, who made an effort at displaying his
secularism by protesting against the killing of Hindus in Jammu,
this Dilip Kumar Yusuf Khan, has no legitimate right to even talk
about the Gulam Ali incident. His reaction is in defence of a
fellow Muslim and has plainly nothing to do with cultural
freedom.
In fact it would be profitable and patriotic to demand how is
Gulam Ali paid? If there is no official trade allowed between
India and Pakistan, how are these fellows paid? Is it havala
rackets through the Gulf? Or are they paid in kind, like gold or
gems? That is the million rupee question. Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
used to accept payment only in dollars. How was he paid for
giving music in Hindi films? Why are people not asking these
plain bread and butter questions? Or is this Hindu maya-vaad in
another form?
What is most alarming is the rapid response from the secular
shouting brigade. In fact, one must note the infiltration of the
press by this lot. The very next day after the incident, Meher
Pestonji, had a letter protesting against the Sena in the Old
Lady of Boribunder This is the same woman who questioned the Sena
lawyer for having dared question the other secular icon, J B
D'Souza, in the Sri Krishna Commission - the very next day. What
professionalism!! What terrific speed!! Or is it the plain fact
that the resident editor is another Parsi called Dina Vakil, who
hates Hindus?
It's time to look at these new developing nexus in the press. The
Shiv Sena and Bajrang Dal have shown one way of dealing with
them. One sincerely hopes they are wrong. But God save us if
that's the only way. Reading the plain and simple lies of Dilip
Kumar makes me despair, for I may be wrong, very wrong!
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