Kumar Bahukhandi
A journalist is treated as a VIP in the prison too reason being Jail authorities are aware that once he is out of Jail he will make things hairy for them ( Reveal what’s done inside the Jail )’ The news passionate would simply love this by those that do it the best, the 15th August celebration and who is gonna be Next Delhi CM are hot issues now a days’.
Often, people have a perception that journalists can be bought with a fistful of rupees. Other intoxicating stories swirling around say they can be bought for as little as a few bottles of booze. I say if you want to win over a journalist, lure him with a catchy description, a memorable epithet or an alliterative phrase and he would throw the money into the sea and smash that bottle because it is nifty names that make us open strangle. Whoever thought of the name Sunny Leone for a Porn Star and now Indian actress has to be a genius. The name has a bright like quality to it. It slips off the tongue like gossamer gab. Now, something like Piggy Chops(for Priyanka Chopra) and Kat (for Katrina Kaif) just do not fit as well.
It is intangible; some names tend to be just right while others, they do not have that indescribable perfect quality. Journalists responsible for thinking up headlines and writing captions in newspapers and magazines know there is nothing like a clever catchphrase. They dream of dayswhen they would have to give a headline for a news report stating that a man called Rex was caught one too many times with his pants down and a so called counselor was sleeping around men to maintain her standards . Imagine the glee with which they could dub her, Durex Rex and a con-seller.
Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee who was once caught is USA by a traffic cop when he called him I don’t know what Pie you are, but now you are my pie. That clever twist was ‘Atall-y delightful’. A certain film magazine used to give stars nicknames like Duggu for Hritik Roshan ; Abhishek Bachan’ is AB Baby andAshwariya Rai is Ash .
One dreams of someone called Mr Mistry shooting to fame (or notoriety) but the man should have a penchant for crisply ironed garments, so we could call him Istri Mistry. A Cyrus, I think has already been called Cyrus the Broacha . Now, one waits for somebody like a Hormuz to emerge who should own a company that makes flasks so that one could call him Hormuz the Thermos. Of such insanities are the sensationalist twists made of. So claim not that “patrakars” sell their souls for assorted freebies, We cannot be bought for money or love (one night stand) , unless we get a phrase that fits like a glove!
