Hi friends, I'm back! Sorry, last month's Brain Fry day couldn't turn up but you see, I was preoccupied with a lot of mishaps. What happened was that my driver was bitten by a dog. So, I had to go to the funeral ... of the dog. I am sure many of you can understand my problems. Ek to Mumbai ka traffic, upar se 14-injectionwallah driver. And as if things weren't bad enough, my friends -- to cheer me up -- decided to take me for a movie called Taal. Taal dekh ke hua mera bura haal. Mujhse badla lene ke liye mere doston ne chale the yeh chaal.Before the interval, I was turning blue. After the interval, I turned lal. But I don't blame the film I was very moved by the dog's death and the whole driver incident. So, I thought watching Taal would make me forget that incident for at least three hours. But guess what? The main character of the film turned out to be a dog!I don't want to make any bones about it but Aishwarya Rai in the film was simply wow and the dog was simply bow wowwow.
Taal is definitely not a bad film, but then neither is it a good film. What goes wrong with the film is that Subhash Ghai -- who is the king film-maker of the masses with his excellent understanding of commercial cinema has tried to make a classy young film ala Aditya Chopra and Karan Johar. And that is where the film goes wrong. But it definitely wasn't Subhash Ghai's fault.
It was my fault -- that I went to see the movie!
Now, if that wasn't bad enough, my friends who I am beginning to suspect, were celebrating the `Let's Torture Sajid Week' and took me to see another film called Kohram. Now, this movie should actually have been titled Bore-hams. Amitabh Bachchan and Nana Patekar's performances are so electrifying that you wish your seat were an electric chair. Mehul Kumar's sense of patriotic film-making is as good as Bill Clinton's sense of marital fidelity. I mean you have Nana Patekar trying to do a Will Smith `Jiggy'.
Now, that doesn't speak very highly of Mr Will Smith because ifyou have seen Wild Wild West, it looks like Will Smith was actually done by Nana Patekar. But after all, woh purani kahawath hai: Where there is a will, there is a nana.
I thought my week of woes was about to end but that was not to be. I had to actually sit and watch my new show called Sajid No 1 on Star Plus (every Monday) at 10.00 pm. Sheer torture but you'll enjoy it nevertheless. I mean if you can enjoy this column month after month, and I know you do, then I'm sure you can enjoy anything including Sajid No 1.
I thought this was a very strange week but it turned out to be a very strange month. Because of two bizarre incidents that occurred in my building. A young lady, Mrs Butch Cassidy got her labour pains while she was in the bathroom and delivered a healthy baby boy right there. So, all of us had to go to the party of Mrs Butch Cassidy and Sandaz Kid.
The other incident was even more bizarre. So bizarre that it is unlike anything I've seen or heard in my life. An 18-year-old girl wassitting on the terrace, drinking Coca Cola when a fly fell in her glass she threw the fly out, but discovered that the fly had actually left a small baby fly inside. The baby fly started calling her, `Maa'.
To that the girl said, `Shut up, I'm not your mother.' But the baby fly still insisted on calling her, `Maa.' Then the girl said, `How can I be your maa when I'm not even married. To that the baby fly turned around and said, `Magar mene teri coke se janam liya hai.'
Sajid Khan says actually mein pagal nahi hoon, mera dimag kharab hai.
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