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Pigs go in herds, the lion walks alone

I came across an interesting blog on the website of India’s one of the most popular news channel. I have almost forgotten the basic post but what followed later interested me the most. Let’s trace back a little to last month when “Sivaji” was the buzzword in Indian film industry, more specifically in the south. The film starred the demi-god of the tamil film industry, Rajnikant who has enjoyed divine status 100% of the times. The entire film kingdom and atmosphere was filled with all kinds of craze, hype, speculations, obsessions, and so on. And this is when the blogger, Anuradha Sengupta decided to go and take a first hand experience of the Rajni mania.

Now this Ms. Sengupta is not so much impressed with the boss (Sivaji – The Boss) and puts across here ‘personal’ (yes, I put that in quotes, as there were many among the commentators who did not know the definition of a blog) views about her experience. She humbly conveyed that she did not like Sivaji, while nowhere making a derogatory mention about Rajinikant’s film career or his personal life. And then started the Internet blog warfare with pro Rajni/Sivaji comments being bombarded on Ms. Sengupta. I really had a good time going through over 1000 comments that were posted in response to her blog and the style in which she replied to them collectively. The one that interested (and I had a hearty laugh on this) me the most was, not allowing Anuradha Sengupta to enter Chennai or something like “Anuradha, be careful and dare to you to Chennai”. This was Anuradha Sengutpa’s reply to such comments:

“Come on all of you who said I should shy away from visiting Chennai and other assorted places teeming with Sivaji fans - threatening bodyily harm - I didn't know goons and thugs were educated enough to be on the internet. Silly me I assumed if you were educated you wouldn't be a goon or a thug, atleast not the type who beats up people. Thought Bubble: Get real Anuradha, fascism doesn't exist only in Gujarat.”

There is more enjoyable text on the blog and the sequels to the blog. I won’t be able to summarize the entire thing here and ofcourse it would lose all its charm. Have a look at the complete text at - http://www.ibnlive.com/blogs/author/164/anuradhasengupta.html
 and you all will enjoy it.

Anuradha had began her blog with “Pigs go in herds, the lion walks alone” and yes she may have been a pig getting flocked to watch Sivaji, but she has also answered everyone through her blog like a lion (or a lioness). Cheers.

Psssst – I am a hardcore and loyal viewer of TV18 channels ;-)

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