This is Not a Joke on Humshakals

“Lehro kei saath toh koi bhi chal sakta hai, but asli stud voh hai jo lehro kei khilaaf jaaye”… or something like that…

That awesome Aamir Khan movie where he runs on train tracks

If rumours are to be believed, Sajid Khan’s Humshakals has set a new landmark in crappy cinema and etched its name forever in the hearts of all four people who saw the movie and the million others who confidently write posts/tweets ridiculing the movie.

While there’s no doubt about Sajid Khan’s lack of talent and his sheer caliber of delivering

one nonsensical film after another, matched only by Rohit Shetty’s products in terms of mindlessness and a phenomena that should be addressed as IQ lowerability (remember you heard it here), it is strangely fascinating to note how mob mentality works on social media and makes many otherwise completely rational and mature people act like school bullies so eager to get a piece of the latest victim.

Sajid Khan must be drawing inspiration from his version of Gandhi’s famous words, “first they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you rip-off few different Hollywood movies and make over 200 crores and say chal na, ga**d mara”

Quite honestly, I’m pretty sure Sajid Khan could not give lesser of a f**k about the internet jokes about him. Being rejected for Anil Kapoor by Juhi Chawla in that crow movie probably had a deep scarring impact on his psyche that psychologists just could not repair. But does he even need to worry? If past examples of utter disconnect between internet emotions and mass thinking is anything to go by, we all should be waiting for Humshakals to be branded a hit with a box office of 300 crores if not at least 272+.

Sajid must be feeling a lot better by the fact that not more than a couple of months back if anyone wrote anything remotely not anti-BJP on Social media, fifteen intellectuals jumped on you citing how Modi dines with Satan himself and you yourself are a closet minority-hating genocide-causing fanatic for even thinking that he does not. What subsequently followed was masses essentially showing the middle finger to netizens reflecting the popular emotion of, “ek do ko maara toh kya, dil ka toh saaf hai’.

Given that pictures such as above would certainly evoke some reaction from most, but it's somewhat interesting to note how confident most people seem while ridiculing the flavour of the week without the slightest bit of hesitation. Lack of complete knowledge has totally seized to be a deterrent before passing an opinion.The next week or two will tell us about the fate of the movie, but the poignant question of ‘will we the netizens be able to control our inner jananis?” seems to have been answered and unfortunately it’s a deafening “No”.