{"id":543,"date":"2012-07-02T08:03:44","date_gmt":"2012-07-02T08:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teekhapan.wordpress.com\/?p=543"},"modified":"2012-07-02T08:03:44","modified_gmt":"2012-07-02T08:03:44","slug":"will-rahul-say-mere-paas-ma-hai-or-will-manmohan-say-mogambo-khush-hua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vivekkaul.com\/2012\/07\/02\/will-rahul-say-mere-paas-ma-hai-or-will-manmohan-say-mogambo-khush-hua\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Rahul say \u201cMere Paas Ma Hai\u201d? Or will Manmohan say \u201cMogambo Khush Hua\u201d?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nVivek Kaul
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\nI remember reading an interview with Shekhar Kapur years back in which he described his experience with Javed Akhtar during the making of Mr India<\/em>.
\nWhen Akhtar first recited the line \u201cMogambo Khush Hua<\/em>\u201d to Kapur, he wasn\u2019t impressed. This was the main line of Mogambo, the villain of the movie. As Kapur recounts on his blog \u201cHmmm, I thought \u2013 there must be more to that.\u201d
\nBut Akhtar was convinced about the line. \u201cShekhar Sahib, when Kapil Dev hits a six over the grounds, people will shout Mogambo Khush Hua<\/em>, and when people play three card brag (teen patti) and if they get three aces, they will shout \u201cMogambo Khush Hua.\u201d \u201cYou trust me on that,\u201d Javed Akhtar assured me,\u201d writes Kapur on his blog.
\nKapur ran with what Akhtar told him and the rest as we all know is history. Mr India was a huge hit. Such was the power of the line that people started to use it during the course of regular conversation, whenever they felt happy about something. As Kapoor writes \u201cAnd some time later as I was watching Kapail Dev hit a six over the Sharjah grounds I saw a huge banner go up in the Indian supporters. It said : \u201cMogambo Khush Hua.<\/em>\u201d\u201d
\n\u201cMogambo Khush Hua<\/em>\u201d became one of the most famous one-liners that Hindi cinema had produced. But this wasn\u2019t the best one-liner that Akhtar ever wrote. His best one liner clearly has to be \u201cMere Paas Ma Hai<\/em>\u201d from the movie Deewar<\/em>. The line is simple yet so powerful.
\nDeewar<\/em> was released on January 1, 1975. Around six months later on June 25, 1975, Indira Gandhi, the then Prime Minister of India declared a state of emergency. During the 21 month period of emergency Indira\u2019s younger son Sanjay almost ran a parallel government along with his cronies. One of his major areas of concern was overpopulation and the government under his instructions forcefully carried vasectomies all over the country. This phenomenon got Atal Behari Vajpayee all worked up to write a poem titled \u201caao mardon na mard bano<\/em>\u201d. Those were the days.
\nSanjay Gandhi wouldn\u2019t have been able to force vasectomies on thousands of Indian men without the \u201clove\u201d and the \u201cbacking\u201d of his mother Indira Gandhi, who is said to have had a soft corner for her ill-tempered son. \u201cMere Paas Ma Hai<\/em>\u201d was a line written for Sanjay Gandhi rather than Ravi, the character played by Shashi Kapoor in Deewar<\/em> , who speaks the line in the movie. Chances are that if Deewar had been released six months later during the emergency, the line wouldn\u2019t have made it past the censor board.
\nIndia is at the same stage again. The love of a mother for her only son is holding the country back. The moves are already being made. Pranab Mukjerhee has been packed off to the Rashtrapati Bhavan. The next decision that is to be made is who will replace him at the Finance Ministry?
\nManmohan Singh, the Prime Minister, wants to run the ministry with his team of economists: Montek Singh Ahulwalia, the deputy chairman of the planning commission, C Rangarajan the Chairman of the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council and Kaushik Basu, the Chief Economic Adviser to the government of India. He is also hoping that Raghuham Rajan from the University of Chicago, a former Chief Economist at the IMF, to join the team.
\nBut will this be allowed to happen? The answer is no. Sonia Gandhi needs a politician as the minister of Finance. A politician who can like, P Chidambaram did, come up with schemes like the Rs 71,000 crore of farmers loans being waived off. A politician who can get the right to food act up and running.
\nA politician who can get onto a helicopter and drop bucket loads of money from it. Okay, not quite that. But a politician who can ensure that voters of this country have been bribed enough in the name of poverty and economic development, so that when Lok Sabha elections happen in 2014, they vote for the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) and the Congress. All this to ensure that Rahul baba takes over the reins of the world\u2019s biggest democracy.
\nThis means that the fiscal deficit of the government of India will continue to go up. The government will continue to borrow more and more. And interest rates are likely to remain high. Economic sense be dammed.
\nAnd in the next few months you might hear of an A K Antony or a Digvijay Singh or a Jairam Ramesh or a Kamal Nath or a Sushil Kumar Shinde or even the all guns blazing all the time, Kapil Sibbal, taking over as the finance minister of this country. The name doesn\u2019t really matter because none of them have voices or ideas of their own. Even if they did they have long been put on the backburner because all that matters now is that \u201cRahul Gandhi has to be made the PM\u201d.
\nManmohan Singh is the only person who can stop a seasoned Congress politician from taking over as the finance minister of India and limiting the serious damage to the Indian economy that would come with it. The good \u201cdoctor\u201d has got more and \u201cmuch\u201d more, than he would have ever bargained for. He can resist moves to appoint a politician as a finance minister by threatening to resign. That is one thing that the Congress won\u2019t be able to handle. It would set the cat among the pigeons.
\nIt\u2019s time for Singh to payback to the country for all that the country has given to him. But the question is will he be as docile as he has been and allow a mother\u2019s love for her son to takeover? Will Rahul Gandhi say \u201cMere Paas Ma Hai<\/em>\u201d? Or will Manmohan Singh by resisting a full time politician taking over the ministry of finance, give us, you, me and everybody else, an opportunity to say \u201cMogambo Khush Hua<\/em>\u201d.
\n(The article originally appeared on www.firstpost.com on July 2,2012. http:\/\/www.firstpost.com\/politics\/babalog-prophecy-why-akhilesh-wont-ever-transcend-mulayam-368232.html<\/a>)
\n(Vivek Kaul is a writer and can be reached at vivek.kaul@gmail.com) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Vivek Kaul I remember reading an interview with Shekhar Kapur years back in which he described his experience with Javed Akhtar during the making of Mr India. When Akhtar first recited the line \u201cMogambo Khush Hua\u201d to Kapur, he wasn\u2019t impressed. This was the main line of Mogambo, the villain of the movie. As Kapur … <\/p>\n

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