Munnabhai MBBS is arguably one of the funniest Bollywood films I’ve seen. And one of my favorite Bollywood actors, Arshad Warsi, is in it! And no, I haven’t yet seen the new Munna Bhai, but I will!
But I’ve never been a huge fan of Sanjay Dutt’s acting or fashion sensibilities. Now I have another reason to sway away. He was recently convicted of his participation in the Mumbai bombings earlier this year. According to the BBC, he is the most controversial Bollywood star around. He has spent some time in jail for his involvement in the 1993 Mumbai blasts.
Now, this brings up a tricky situation for that space between the personal and the politic. I love most of his films, especially the recent ha-ha-laugh-til-you-hurt films but my stomach starts hurting a different way when I think of his complicity in the blasts designed to kill hundreds of people in strings of eyeblink moments.
But thats the essential rub of all the pieces of our lives. They’re filled with contradictions, of scattered remnants connected in some ways to someone being oppressed, having to die, somehow, somewhere.
He states that he’s some kind of chosen one. I wonder what kind of chosen one he’s trying to be.
