The Rahul Gandhi script is straight from a Bollywood potboiler
FirstpostEven Salim-Javed could not have written a better script. But the son who always abhorred power and pelf, except for the odd Rs 1,600 crore castle in Nayi Dilli belonging to a defunct company started by his grandad, finds he can no longer contain his long-suppressed anger against his family’s murderers and the enemies of the poor. But the biggest fight is against Gabbar “NaMo”, the all-powerful bandit from the Badlands of Gujarat, a man whose name is whispered by mothers to scare little minority children and who is taking advantage of Mannu Dadu’s descent into bad ways to threaten the kingdom and the poor. So, as the screen displays “Intermission”, we are left with images of our Angry and Determined Young Man now willing to sacrifice his life, like his Granny and Dad, ready to fight both the Old Retainer gone bad and the Bigger Villain NaMo. Rahul’s Bollywood script is a journey in reverse: a real life politican widely written off as an incompetent, wants us to believe that what you have seen so far is the film, and what’s ahead is the real thing.
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