Journalist Jarnail Singh has finally done it which others have not dared to do in India or in the sub-continent so far. His lobbing a size eight Reebok shoe on the Home Minister P Chidambaram in protest against the clean-chit given to 1984 sikh riot accused Jagdish Tytler has made him an instant hero (like instant noodles) and also made him richer by Rs 2 lakhs (not to mention the great escape, thanks to Chidambaram's magnanimity or I should say political backlash in the times of Lok sabha elections).
Well, all that may be old news, there are certain exclusive earthshaking and trendsetting news at our hands which we would like to share.
1. Jarnail's audacious shoe lobbing has bagged him a two year contract with shoe maker Reebok as their official brand ambassador, removing Yuvraj Singh.
2. Looking at his heroic and celebrity stature after the shoe-gate (like slap-gate) incident, Sony television has decided to come up with a reality show where participants would be judged on their accuracy or their shoe-throwing ability since all the perpetrators of the act worldwide have so far missed their respective target.
3. Considering at the prospect of making their kids instant celebrities, parents in every household are persuading their wards to leave the ball (football, volleyball, tennis ball, ping pong ball and all sort of balls) and take to shoe and are asking them to practice the act at home, day in and day out, so that they can win the reality contest instantly once they are aired on primetime.
4. Also it has been learnt that all the stalwarts of the tinsel town are making a beeline outside Jarnail's house, to cast him as a lead actor in the film with the name, 'Shoeman millionaire'. It would be one of the high budget movies and many actors are already wooing the role, including Irfan Khan, who according to reports, has left the steeplechase role and is practising the shoe hurling act, to bag the role.
5. However, there are some business houses who are seriously looking at the act as a deviation from the normal usage of the shoe and so are considering to come up with a statutory warning in the shoe, reading, "Please use it for wearing only. Hurling,
lobbing or any kind of pyrotechnics with it can be harmful to health."
Note: The post should be taken in good spirit and in good humour and not as an activistic way of freedom of expression.
8 comments:
Heard Javed AKhtar is re-writing an old script for son Farhan's next venture featuring Jarnail Singh. The movie is tentatively titled "Shoe-Lay".
Oh and the management has decided not to allow anyone wearing shoes to the meetings...Its an insider's news!!!
gr8 stuff man very nice, very craetive.......jarnail singh wil b proud of u.....keep it up..........
hello anorak!
this is very amusing, because i too was thinking of writing a post on Jarnail singh... i remember writing a poem the day Bush got shoe-ed in iraq (but its in bengali so i don't think you'll get the joke :) )
and for this very funny post, u get a Jimmy Choo flung at u :)
and i wanted to thank you so much for going back to such an old post of mine and appreciating it (a bubble in a bus) .
it meant a lot to me. that post is one of my personal favourites.
Hey!! thanks a lot .... i really liked ur 'bubble' post...n i would hv surely uenjoyed ur bush post, coz i'm a bengali....keep walking!!!
it went like this:
'Jawar mookhe marlo jooto!
Accha okritogyo to!
Taraai sheshe chhetaaye thutu
Jaader jonyo korchi eto!"
:)
@tomojit : Jarnail singh wil b proud of u..indeed..well said :)
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