The stage is set. Festivities have begun. Little birds in Mumbai and Islamabad are singing sweet songs of joy.
All for a small price, sorry, donation. A meagre Rs 5 crore.
We all saw a smiling Karan Johar at MAMI. Gleeful that Ae Dil Hai Mushkil will now release without jhanjhat.
Lekin, aapko kya laga? KJo ne video banaya aur sab kuchh theek ho gaya?
GHANTA!
Maharashtra ke Chief Minister, Devendra Fadnavis ji ne sabha bulayi. Raj Thackeray and KJo were called over for some roundtable, MNS-Bollywood bhai-bhai talk. Raj, instead of asking for Simran ka haath, asked KJo to pay Rs 5 crore to the army fund as ‘prayashchit’.
Look boss, if you are trying to run a fund raising drive for the Indian army, that’s fine.
But what repentance, prayashchit?
Will Thackeray ask Modi to pay 5 crore for hugging Nawaz Sharif and attending his son’s wedding?
And who is Raj Thackeray? Someone who, along with his party, hasn’t been able to secure even a single seat in the state.
Why is Fadnavis ji turning him into an ‘ideal’, ‘responsible’ indian citizen whose views are sacrosanct?
MAMI pulled off the screening on the 1959 ‘Pakistani’ classic film Jago Hua Saavera. Now they are all hunky dory with ADHM. Kiran Rao didn’t want trouble for hubby’s Dangal, and Anupama Chopra, frankly, has never shopped at the ‘sense prevails’ section.
Mera Bharat mahaan, hum katwayenge Pakistanio ki challan!
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