So we've had an eclectic group of fans writing in to Mishal:
Hum/tum and their flowers and their Bindiya/Basanti dolls
Farah the film buff
TWO LETTERS THIS TIME****
Now we have Mia, the scarred teen and wanna-be magician of Patil niwas AND
a letter about an unlikely conversation....
Dear Mishal,
You are such a great actor and I just love watching you on LTL.
You looked particularly fetching in that magic show sequence. Purely magical. But I had a sixth sense, what I like to call Mishi-sense...that something just did not look right in that scene. And it was only when that weirdo "magician" pulled out those flowers...and then BAMMM!, my mind made the connection. That kurta collar was "being shy". Kash mein magician thi, I would have pulled the flowers out of your kurta...ABRACADABRA! I bet you, unlike that strange magician on the show, I would have gotten a STANDING OVATION plus requests for an ENCORE!
When you appeared on the TV with your new look, I was like "my eyes, my eyes" as I tried to cover them. I could not believe it! It was like one of those fashion makeover shows but IN REVERSE...I thought you're supposed to end up looking good at the end! My mother totally disagreed, saying you now looked like a nice, proper Maharashtrian boy, and that girls of my age don't appreciate nice boys anymore...we only like disheveled, bad boys like that Ranbir Kapoor with shirts open up till here! Arre, this conversation was just soooo wrong on some many levels already...and then, she said IT. Forget my poor eyes, now it was my ears that would face another brutal sensory assault. My mother saying how your new look reminded her of my father when he first came to see her, how he looked like a "hero", how he was like Amitabh, and she was going to be his Jaya! OMG!
Me: But he's supposed to be a don, mami...not look like papa.
Mami: Don Fon...all those black kurtas, black pants. Arre, Don hai or Darth Vader? <Mom saw old Star Wars with me>
Me: Mami, he is not supposed to be average.
Mami: Arre, don't you know, "all men are average"?
Kash mein magician thi, I would have made myself disappear and wiped out all memory of this conversation. I've now resorted to watching the show online...alone. My mother and father -- Amitabh and Jaya--now watch the show together. And Abhishek complains non-stop about not being able to use my laptop.
Baap re baap, if this is your new look, I hope the COLORS people are not too stingy with the Air Conditioner on the set, like they are with letting the show tell its story. You poor thing.
But we love you regardless--nice clothes, bad clothes...no clothes. Does not matter because you are too fabulous!
With love,
Mia
LETTER #2
Dear Mishal,
I love you...you are such a great actor. I am writing this because I thought you would find it amusing, maybe weird. But I'll leave that to you.
I overheard a conversation recently after classes at college. I thought you might appreciate the humor of it all.....
Person 1: Did you see it?
Person 2: Kya?
Person 1: Dutta, na? LTL.
Person 2: Ha, dekha tha. Pata nahi yeh COLORS log kya sochte hai...koi baat nahi...Dutta to hai.
<laughter>
Person 5: Arre, aaj kal, bechara ko cover up karte hai aur kya? Long sleeve shirt, blazer...uska bal bhi simple bana diya.
Person 3 (Geeta): Shame hai, Mishal itna handsome lagraha tha kurta main.
Person 4 (Nitu): Bilkul bad-boy jaise....and woh earrings. Haiyee, haiyee....<fans herself>
Person 2: Nitu, teri baat hai...
Person 4 (Nitu): Sachi!
Person 1: Woh uski new and "improved" look hai. Naku ko impress karne ke liye. Naku likes colors. Aisa likha hua tha internet upar.
Person 2: Naku ko impress karne? Ab bechara Dutta ki haal dehko...plaid shirt, 1970s blazer. Why does he listen to her on fashion anyway...woh sara din sochti hai: Aaj, black soot lagau y na lagau, sachi baat batau y na batau, Baapa ka dimaag khau y na khau. Yeh ladki Bhau ko yedi banayegi...Baji ne sach bola tha.
Person 1 ....meri khubsoorati shaap hai...bak, bak, bak. Arre, look at me, I'm an apsara too and do I complain? <runs hand through hair>
<all laugh>
Person 3: Bilkul. Woh baat Mishal ne karni chaiye. He's so handsome, he should stand in front of the mirror and talk about his khubsoorati. Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the most lovely of them all?
Person 5: True...but that shirt and blazer, ab kya pehnayenge? Topee and muffler?
Person 4: Nahi...ab woh "typical" tie pehnega and "typical" banega...
Person 2: But he's a DOONNN. Shah-rukh wore such nice clothes when he was Don. I mean--itna paise hai--and he wears THAT? AS, uski mami, ne kuch bolna chaiye...maybe even pick out his clothes.
Person 3 (Geeta): That is Naku's job, na?
Person 5: Naku? Please! It's better if Dutta wears a kachi banayan (undershirt) and calls it a day.
Person 3 (Geeta): Or no shirt!
<laughter>
Person 2: Tera dimaag gutter se nikaal...
Person 3: (Geeta) Gutter se? Mera dimaag gutter main nahi hai. Mishal handsome hai, how is that my fault? Bolo...!
Person 4 (Nitu): True...
Person 3 (Geeta): Ek baar, I say how the shower scene was great and ab I am a dirty lady. Kitna emotion tha woh scene main! He was thinking so much! I had tears in my eyes.
Person 2: Tears of Joy that he was in the shower!
Person 3 (Geeta): Chi!
Person 2: Chi nothing! You liked it!
Person 3 (Geeta): Arre, I felt sad for him. And it was a great scene...so what if he is in the shower? I take a shower everyday...and without clothes on! I mean were they going to make Mishal take a shower with his kurta on?
Person 1: Now that would have been something...you would not have liked the scene then, Geeta.
<the rest nod>
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I overhear this and shake my head. Then I hear.....
"Hi, sweety. Come in, beti, and say hello to the aunties. We were just having our kitty party."
Even the aunties love you, Mishal. You're like a young stud.
Love,
Arti
Edited by gp00 - 14 years ago
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