Pakistan's Meera, missing from 'Mile Sur' video
Islamabad. 27 January 2010.
With the hurt of IPL-snub still fresh, Pakistani glitterati, sport-stars, and ex-army chiefs were shocked to find that the new video for India’s national integration song ‘Mile Sur Mera Tumhara’ didn’t feature a single Pakistani – dead or alive.”This is the stuff great insults are made of”, said an official press release from Pakistan’s External Affairs (East-Side) ministry.
The strongly-worded press note, printed on the back-side of India’s 26/11 dossier, went on to blame India for “this well-planned conspiracy.” An MEA spokesman, reading from the note, further added that -“if they had no intentions of involving any Pakistani in this video, why did they show so many Pakistanis in ‘Aman ki Asha’ then? Why did they casually show our ex-air chief in a ‘Save Girl Child’ campaign? This is a pin-holder in CBM balloon.”
The mood in Indian media was none different with many top opinion-makers including Suhel Seth and Madhu Kishwar coming out against this “obvious bias” by the ad agency that produced the video. “Shiamak Davar??!!”, screamed Suhel Seth, “What is he doing in the video? Couldn’t we have General Kiyani or Jemima Khan instead? Or Meera – she is a star at par with Deepika.” Seth’s co-panelist, Madhu Kishwar, was equally critical, and asked “If we can have the whole of Bollywood in IPL and the whole of Bollywood in ‘Mile sur’, then why is it wrong to demand Pakistan’s representation in both? What happened to celebrity-to-celebrity contact roadmap?”
Strong opinions, those
Indian minister and avid tweeter, Shashi Tharoor also called Pakistan’s hurt justified, and tweeted “whr is afridi zrdari amisha gul png? srk was good. salman ok. video good bt bad diplmacy. flying to vegas – life’s a gamble. @smkrishna #fun”.
Meanwhile, the latest leaks coming in from Pakistan suggest a strong diplomatic rebuttal. “We may issue a circular, barring all our diplomats from using Dabur Dant Manjan in the morning. See how Indian companies will suffer now!”, a source claimed.
The Daily Tamasha 
haha! Good job with the fake twitter screenshot. Kaise kiya? [or did athul make it? :P]
Also, I didn’t get why amisha and gul were mentioned in this. :-\
Also, good job with the Dabur dant manjan joke 😛
Photoshop seekh liya hai! Thoda bahut. 🙂
(Athul?? Didn’t get the joke here. sorry.)
Gul is his tweet-buddy, Amisha (rumored) muse. http://www.mid-day.com/entertainment/2009/oct/261009-ameesha-patel-lecture.htm
Thanks, for being the first to comment, yet again.
Meera has said that she is ready to forgive and forget, and is open to any offers in starring in “RGV ke Mile Sur”
Haha, I choked on my juice in the morning reading this! Still laughing about Dabur Dant Manjan 🙂
can’t stop giggling at the tweet “flying to vegas – life’s a gamble”
Nic post….
@PP
…but she has to ‘runn’ before she can reach RGV.
Bandhu,
Reading your blog after many days, wanted a desperate break from the terribly loaded schedule and what better place to visit …. full paisa vasool as always ….
the faux-tweet was amazing 🙂
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