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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!
 
 

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