In India, when a Pak President comes to spend a holiday, it
is time for celebration. Mr. Musharraf was in India in 2005 and was visiting
Ajmer Sharif. I was in Pune. Girish, fiancé of my younger daughter was with me. The young
generation was puzzled with the stance taken by the Pak President. I told them
that that during pre-independence period, people of both the countries were
living together like a family. If any of
them wished to have a looksee of those good days, he must see the National Award
recipient Hindi feature film named “Garm Hawa” . They all agreed.
I went out with Girish
to the market place to get a compact disc on the above film. The shop owner was a middle aged Marathi
Manus. We asked him for a disc on the Hindi feature film “Garm Hawa”.
It took almost one Venus minute for him to speak up. For
those long moments, he was staring at me and my future son-in-law. And when he
spoke, it was with contempt , “ I do not keep hot films.” It took us another Mercury
minute or two to make him understand that the film was not a hot stuff but was
a story on partition of 1947.
We returned empty handed. While returning , Girish asked me as
to why he was so full of contempt. I had
to answer.
The shopkeeper might have visitors asking for porn films but
never a father and son together.
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