Dear Readers,
The AB-FAB AD's sequence has been very popular but is currently being discontinued.
The AB-FAB AD's sequence has been very popular but is currently being discontinued.
In its place will be tongue-in-cheek quotes for life from Dilbert.
For those who may not know Dilbert here’s a quick intro (courtesy Wikipedia).
Dilbert (first published April 16, 1989) is an American comic strip written and drawn by Scott Adams. Dilbert is known for its satirical office humor about a white-collar, micromanaged office featuring the engineer Dilbert as the title character. 
Dilbert has a rare condition characterized by an extreme intuition about all things mechanical and electrical (and utter social ineptitude). Although his ideas are typically sensible and occasionally even revolutionary, they are seldom carried out because of his powerlessness. He is easily frustrated by the incompetence of his co-workers (most often the Pointy-Haired Boss) and is often sarcastic and snide.
Dilbert lives with his pets, Dogbert and Ratbert. Dilbert often interacts with his co-workers, most commonly including Alice, Wally and Asok (the Indian who passed out of IIT).
He is currently single and has few friends as a result of his poor social skills, although he has been on many dates and was in a relationship with a woman named Liz for two years between 1994 and 1996. While he is frequently seen having dates with eligible women, the dates almost invariably end in disaster, usually in surreal and bizarre ways.
Dilbert treats the Pointy-Haired Boss like the plague and has very little loyalty towards him or the company.
Dilbert's mother appears once in a while in the comic. While apparently a great Scrabble player, she has been accused of cheating in many strips with "counterfeit vowels".
Dilbert appears in 2000 newspapers worldwide in 65 countries and 25 languages
Now back to more pressing matters :-)
At the recently concluded IIFA awards Priyanka Chopra got the Best Actress award for Fashion (as she has been with almost every other award).
Fair Enough.
Ashutosh Gowarikar then went up to receive the Best Director award for Jodha-Akbar. And created a firestorm.
The first thing he uttered after grabbing the mike was, 'Priyanka I Love you, but I don't know how you got the award for Best Actress when Aishwarya was also nominated in the same category for Jodhaa Akbar'.
A hush fell over the entire gathering but the crazy man continued to spout nonsense and added, "Maybe it is because you are very hard-working and she is a natural." Implying, of course that Priyanka wasn’t a natural actress.
To make the matters worse he said, "Jayaji (Bachachan and Aishwarya’s mom-in-law) was just asking me the same thing."
A horrified industry was shocked, not just at this man’s cheap and inappropriate remarks but also for dragging Jaya Bachchan into this mess.
But then the truth came out.
Ashutosh hadn’t dragged her, the crazy woman had practically orchestrated the whole drama.
Crazy-Jaya says: "First of all it is being presumed that Ashutosh unnecessarily mentioned my name regarding Aishwarya's omission from the awards. The fact is, I suggested he bring up the question on stage at IIFA. We were discussing why Aishwarya has not been given any award for 'Jodhaa Akbar' and I suggested Ashutosh bring up the matter. So when he mentioned my name, he wasn't doing anything wrong," she said.
Priyanka Chopra is a "good actress" but daughter-in-law Aishwarya Rai was more deserving of the best actress award for her work in Jodhaa Akbar, says Jaya Bachchan.
"For all I know she must be really good in Fashion. I haven't seen it. But I've seen Priyanka's work in Dostana and liked it. She's undoubtedly a good actress," said Jaya (clearly not able to detect the hypocrisy in her words) .
"I don't have any objection to her winning the award at IIFA. But I wonder why Aishwarya's fine performance was ignored. I think she richly deserved recognition for her work," she added.
Now ofcourse a couple of things stand out.
Nepotism is bad enough but Craziness?
Aishwarya wasn’t ignored. She was nominated. But maybe its not enough for the Bachchans as they feel they are above everyone else.
And as Crazy-Jaya herself says, she hasn’t watched Fashion. So how does she justify her comments?
Now the Bollywood awards are all a joke with just a semblance of fairness about them but this is taking things to new heights. Maybe too much time with that pimp Amar Singh is clouding Crazy-Jaya’s judgements.
Just makes me wonder who is crazier, Dilbert or The Bachchans? Cartoons or Humans?
Between Us.
Have a Nice weekend.
Ciao
Luv
Vish
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