Show Me The ( Black ) Money

DISCLAIMER : A political satire. Only for Indian audiences. Not for Nicholas Cage's fans ( if there are still any ). Also not for stuck-up people who think that Aamir Khan is a good actor.


"Show me the money", the famous line that Cuba Gooding Jr. made Tom Cruise scream in one of my favourite movies, Jerry Maguire. Somebody should sue them for stealing this dialogue from the streets, offices, dance bars and toilets of India. In India, if you want to get some work done in some public office everyone from the officer-in-charge to the mighty peon says, "Show me the money". If you ever jump a red light the traffic police guy says, "Show me the money". Hell, nowadays if you want to, like a good citizen, piss in a public restroom there is a guy sitting outside saying, "Show me the money". Try peeing now. ( By the way the last doesn't have anything to do with black money, just venting some of my daily frustration ).

Coming back to the topic, the above mentioned practices are the root cause for all the corruption in the country. When small things like making a domicile certificate( yup I am a student, how did you guess that ?) involve corruption then think about multi-billion dollar deals and the kind of 'kaala dhan' involved in them. Next question is naturally that where does all this money go ? The answer to that is the bank accounts of snow-capped Switzerland. The same Switzerland that in the minds of a common Bollywood loving Indian invokes the imagery of a middle aged actor romancing a woman his daughter's age, trying to fornicate with her to produce children his grandkids age. But I digress.  

In the recent times, there have been many a agitations to force the government, led by head of  the mute people foundation, to bring back this money into our country through diplomatic channels. ( Meaning : making more Bollywood movies there to promote their tourism industry).
One of the more significant movements of these has been the one started by Anna Hazare, his side-kick whose name I don't remember and a woman having the haircut that would at best suit a fifth standard boy. They protested for days and days in Delhi and when people were bored, they just vanished in thin air making them equivalents of Rakhi Sawant ( referencing her is the top way of making our blog famous ) . Talking about celebrities, Aamir Khan too jumped in on the bandwagon of fighting against evils of the society. The only difference between Aamir Khan and Anna Hazare is : One is an attention seeker at the end of his career trying to gain some brownie points by using patriotism of people and the other is, well, Aamir Khan. 

Coming back to the protests in Delhi. Even though they started with a lot of fire, but much like an average Nicholas Cage movie, they fizzed out towards the end, the same as a bottle of cold drink kept in the open for half an hour. By the way, if you watch all the movies Nicholas Cage has worked in on a trot, you may be sitting on a couch as long as those kids in How I Met Your Mother. Pardon me for the digression yet again.

So what are the solutions for this problem of black money you may ask ? Well, I have nothing on that and neither do our politicians. So, lets just forget about it and watch a Nicholas Cage movie. 

- The Geek