Thursday 14 May 2015

For you Salman ‘I kept Mum’

People from so called intellectual class gave statements, people who are confused about their own facebook status gave remarks and people who does not have opinion on anything expressed their views on the verdict...the verdict which made nation speak. People started discussion in offices, at public places and on whatsapp...lots of jokes were shared, much of criticism happened and media got all the masala for a week. And I kept MUM.

I kept mum when friends teased me for the love I have for you. I kept mum when public leg pulling happened. I kept mum on social media for few days when verdict was trending. I kept mum when people knowingly started criticizing you in front of me. I kept mum for really long...but now I want to speak up...I want to put my point in front of the whole world. I have my own logics to love you +Salman Khan and here I am putting them to invalidate any or all the verdicts that court could ever give –

· Salman Khan is not just a Hero, he is a Superstar and this stardom is not something that he has attained in a day. He has worked for it. There was a bad phase in his life when all the things went wrong just the way it happens with us ‘the common man’. Don’t tell me anything wrong never happened to you or you haven’t done anything wrong to anyone ever. Despite of all the wrong things, he has tried to move out of that phase and he succeeded in that. He has changed not only his behaviour but the way of life. Isn’t this the sign of a real hero? Swami Valmiki was a highway robber in his early life who used to kill people and then, rob them; but a sudden change in his personality made him write the epic ‘Ramayana’ and everyone started praising him. This is what happens. ‘To move on’ is the way of life and that’s what Salman did and I appreciate that he chose to move in a positive direction.

· Have you ever had alcohol? If your answer is ‘yes’, then tell me genuinely, how many of you have never drove after getting drunk? Every person who is a regular (or may be occasional) drunker has driven after having drinks and it is your luck that you have never met an accident. Isn’t it? In fact, there are thousands of accidents happening in the country every day but how many cases you have discussed or cared for? Answer is None! Then, why to make this accident a national issue. This is just an accident that could happen by anyone and that’s why I can’t stop loving my favourite star for this. What if some day your husband or father had to face the same situation? Will you leave them or start hating them for this?

· It is clearly stated that this case is ‘Hit and Run’ and ‘Unintentional’ do you understand the clear meaning of ‘gair iradatan hatya’. It means that he was not intending to kill. It is just an accident. Now, you will say that after hitting at least he should have stayed there to accept it. Tell me one thing, do you have guts to accept this if it happens with you? Nobody has. This is a spontaneous human nature to save oneself, so is there anything wrong in that? You don’t have guts to support a helpless girl being raped on a road with a fear of police case and you are expecting Salman Khan to stay back when case would be filed against himself and he would lose all his fame at the peak time of his career. Come on, be fair. I can’t be this unfair to the one I love.

· Last but not the least; we say law’s main purpose is to give justice to the victim. So tell me putting Salman Khan against bar would give justice to the family of deceased person or adoption of that family by Salman as his own would give justice to them? They have lost a life and they will be given with one. Or may be some decision which is in favour of that family and not just against Salman Khan. Punishment is given to kill the criminal inside and not the person and this delayed justice has already killed the old Salman in the new Salman Khan. He is no more the same person. He has been through that bad phase, learnt the lesson which life wanted to teach and grew as a better person who helps the poor and needy. I love this Salman Khan more than ever and will stand by his side because he is just a Human Being who has learnt to be Being Human.

I kept Mum for a long time because I wanted to know everyone’s opinion and how they change with time. Just a year back they were appreciating Salman Khan for ‘Kick’ and it has done business of over 150 crores and now they are criticizing him at every possible platform for the accident which happened a decade ago...

I love you Salman for whatever you are and my feelings won’t change with the verdict!