How medical
science makes life better for you:
an example from Hindi movies
Of course, if I had a penny for every page I could write that had
this
title but had different examples, I would have enough money to
write
timepass pages all day long everyday of my life.
So what are we talking about here, you ask? Medical mishaps... medical
skwoo-wups, as Elmer Fudd would have said, in Hindi movies. Consider,
for
instance, this situation: Your parents
had three little children, and due to their misfortunes you were lost,
all three of you, twenty five or so years ago. In the process, your dad
is in jail, and your mom is blind. This of course is done so that there
will be no interruption for 25 years to the system's evolution. By
which
I mean that the three brothers are now growing up in different families
that also have to be from different religions (but not necessarily
from different cities), so that the whole Indian Secularity Theme can
be
overplayed.
Now, after 25 years, there is a perturbation to the system: your mom,
who is not only blind but sells flowers on a busy street, is run down
by
a car when she's trying to cross the street (where are the boy
scouts
when you need them, huh!). She lands up in hospital, thanks to both
your
brothers, who saw the accident, but don't know their sibling and their
mother exist.What happens?
This is what happens in Amar Akbar Anthony (speaking
of secularity!!!): Nirupa Roy, the essential mom of the 70s, 80s and
the
early 90s, is the blind mom, the two brothers are
Amitabh (Anthony)
and Vinod Khanna (Amar), and you are Rishi Kapoor (Akbar), in
the hospital only to take a sneak peek at your girlfriend, a
doctor (you
always had that thing for women in uniform... hehehe!), who happens to
be Nitu Singh.
What happens:
Rishi Kapoor comes in to visit Nitu Singh, and Nitu Singh mentions
that there is a "Boodhi Ma" (old lady) that needs blood cos
she lost a lot in an accident, and here comes the medical miracle
dialogue: ``Unka
khoon RH hai. Tumhara khoon bhi to RH hai, na? Tum khoon de do
unhein''
(Her blood type is RH. Your blood type is RH too, right? Give
her some blood)....
Of course, Rishi Kapoor has to say yes, because only then the three
brothers will donate blood to their mother, and in the process the main
credits will roll just as the brothers say their names out loud when
asked
for filing purposes...
Amar!
Akbar!
And Honey!
RH forever!