The city renaming issue and this year’s mistake....!!

The title does not refer to the changing of city names by politicians as the reader might first like to think. The title actually refers to a disturbing trend that I noticed last year and this trend being on the rise, I am now forced to bring it to the notice of my fellow Bangaloreans. For some vague reason, there is a large section of Indian citizens who refer to Bangalore as Bangy. Why would someone like to call a city as if it is one’s pet? It’s only with great difficulty that I have forgiven the person who calls a laptop a “lappie”. But the inventor of the Bangy will have to pay dearly for this :-) I give respect to all cities that I know. I don’t go around calling Mumbai as Mumby or Kolkata as Kolky. I don’t mind if you call Bangalore/Bengaluru as BLR (which is the airline code) or SBC (the railways code). It still has a professional feel to it. Call it Bangy and it sounds like a coffee shop/pub. And every time it has been a lady who has called it Bangy. Guys never call it as Bangy.

Anyway now that I have raised awareness on this new issue, moving on to the next issue.

Every year there is a major mistake that I commit unwittingly. This year’s mistake is definitely worth a mention here. The mistake cost me about 250 Rs and the mistake was a watching a movie called Kuselan. There hasn’t been this forgettable a movie for a long time since a movie called Prem Qaidi (seen on TV and not in a cinema hall). Now Prem Qaidi was a Karishma Kapoor starrer (I think she was in school then) and had an actor called Harish, who is not necessarily the best actor that Bollywood has seen. Anyway, back to Kuselan. Cynics and diehard fans of Rajnikanth may question my knowledge of Tamil and my judgement of the movie. But in this case, no prior knowledge of Tamil was required. A bad movie like this easily crosses the language barrier. I demand that Mr. P. Vasu, the director of this movie should refund the ticket money to all the viewers. This is the only way he will be able to atone for this disaster of epic proportions.