Aamir Khan’s day out!
It sounds so much like – Baby’s Day Out. 1994 movie. Here it’s not a baby though. It’s a big babo. For us, the Gujaratis, a baby is a baby – a girl. Chhokri. And babo is a boy. Chhokro. And you can still be addressed as babo and baby even after you have crossed the age limit of infancy. Even when you are a parent to a baby boy or a baby girl.
In the past, my parents would be asked – Tamari baby su kare che? (What does your daughter do?) And they would happily respond – Amari baby have baby nathi rahi. Paranva layak thai gai che. (She is no longer a small girl now. She is old enough for marriage.)
With time they had to change their answer.
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Kareena Kapoor Khan was spotted outside a salon in the city today! She looked stunning as always in her khaki baggy pants and a black T-back top, with a pair of expensive sunglasses.
We get such news on social media every day. And this made me ponder, what kind of news would be set floating on social media for an asocial person like me. Not antisocial, mind it.
NJ (that’s me) was spotted at a social function! She wore a Duchenne smile (which seemed fake) on her seemingly unapproachable face, with a pair of cat-eye glasses. While some of her fans considered the glasses made her look older, others considered it as a mark of an aspiring writer.
Fans gathered to click pictures of Kareena, blocking the way to her car. She couldn’t deny selfies with some of them.
So that her fewer fans, other than a few friends, can’t spot her in the multitude of people where most of the time she felt lost, NJ spotted an empty chair on the rear end of the 3rd row near a pedestal fan. In a futile attempt to reach to the spot unnoticed, she was eventually followed by a couple of her fans who prodded her into seemingly intelligent conversations with them. But the soft consonants and vowels uttered by her in between these conversations were shredded to pieces by the huge rotating blades of the fan.
And when she was not talking, she would be posing awkwardly for some pictures with them, since they supposedly wanted to keep some memories of her. The buzz was they might not see her again for a year or two. Or until her 50s.
There were selfie lovers too in the crowd. NJ had to give in to their persistent humble requests as well. Already trolled for her alleged snobbery, she wanted to refrain from any controversial actions, behaviour and comments. Last time her behaviour was misconstrued.
Click! Click! Spot on!
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Friend: Did you watch Mungerilal Ke Haseen Sapne when you were small?
Me: My dear friend, many a true word is spoken in jest.
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