{"id":622,"date":"2006-02-28T12:55:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-28T12:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/2006\/02\/two-semi-related-items-that-led-to-much-hilarity\/"},"modified":"2006-02-28T12:55:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-28T12:55:00","slug":"two-semi-related-items-that-led-to-much-hilarity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/2006\/02\/two-semi-related-items-that-led-to-much-hilarity\/","title":{"rendered":"Two semi-related items that led to much hilarity"},"content":{"rendered":"

Item#1: Aamir Khan sues Filmfare for Rs 21 crores. For false quotes, using his picture without permission and tarnishing his image.<\/a> <\/p>\n

Which kind of makes sense, because when I saw this ad, as part of the campaign for public awareness about the Filmfare Awards 2006, I was like – “Wow, Aamir Khan has really<\/i> become media-friendly again, so much for principles.” The campaign had cheesy lines like Aamir saying “I incited a revolt to win her over” – a reference to Mangal Pandey, and Amitabh Bachhan saying “I started a parallel government to woo her.” – ditto Sarkar, and I am sure they did this for every one of the nominees in the awards this time.<\/p>\n

I hope Aamir persists with this, and gets the apology and<\/i> the money. <\/p>\n

Item#2: Himesh Reshammiya wins the Best Male Playback Singer for Aashiq Banaaya Apne<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n

That left me gaping like a …what was that species of fish again? Then there was this urge to laugh really hard and spam everyone on my YM list saying “Aashiq Banaaya Apne won! Jai Maata Di! Let’s rock!!!!” ( No, that’s not original, that’s Mr Reshammiya at some concert, inextricably linking Indian Idolatry and Rock music.) Right now, I will just hum “Jhalakkadikhalaajaa” at work, and infect everyone with the monotonousness of the tune yet again. <\/p>\n

That also gives me an idea for a new iPod – the Himesh Reshammiya commemorative iPod, which comes preloaded with The Man’s complete discography, and a pair of noseplugs, white of course, that you can wear and sing along to the Maestro’s tunes. Har har har.<\/p>\n

Er, did they just call this year’s Filmfares the “Fair One Filmfare Awards 2006”? Boy, that really redefines “irony”, doesn’t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Item#1: Aamir Khan sues Filmfare for Rs 21 crores. For false quotes, using his picture without permission and tarnishing his image. Which kind of makes sense, because when I saw this ad, as part of the campaign for public awareness about the Filmfare Awards 2006, I was like – “Wow, Aamir Khan has really become […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}