Let me tell you, I am not a great movie buff. Infact, I have no patience to sit and watch a three hour long movie, even in a theatre. So, better you imagine, how watching an elongated drama that lasts about 4 and half hours with frequent interruptions on pay-channels must be an impossible task for me.

It was a weekend evening around one year back. Bored of my work I was scanning down the channels when I stopped for a while on the Star Movies. Movies was broadcasting Octopussy – an Indian adventure of James Bond (then Roger Moore) of the year 1983.

My curiosity made me start watching the movie. Kiran Bedi, who looked very young then was playing a role of enchantingly handsome Sikh, named “Gobinda”. As usual, this Bond flick had everything in it – adventure, violence, cold-war age gadgets and of course – for the first time, a saree-clad Bond girl Maud Adams who adeptly (adept, than all Indian women I know! )stripped it off in one scene to reveal her bikini figure and escapes from a terrace using saree as a rope! Intimidated though, I tolerated this scene.

Second scene sank my heart. Bond was being chased by goons. He’s safe in an auto-rickshaw but is escaping with a razor’s edge distance every time. Rickshaw passes through a crowded slum. All around this vehicle you see are semi-nude, limping, dying and hungry Indians. Bond needs to escape. Goons nearing to him, he carelessly tosses a loose bundle of notes into air and dying Indians rush to take it, all at once obstructing the goons. Bond indeed makes a smart escape! And I feel like killing this MI7 agent for sure!

Even in 1983, India was a nuclear power on its own. Indian defense personnel were and are nowhere less in real life valor than the legendry James Bond (remember Abdul Hamid?). Question is, WHY are we made at mockery of, ever and always, from the perspective of Caucasians? Why does Caucasian camera lens always, always and always crave to snap the misery, poverty and starvation in India?

With the recent Somnath Chaterjee, (Honorable Speaker of Loksabha) frisking incident it has been clear that Westerners have no respect whatsoever for the representatives of world’s largest democracy. For them, one-sixth “dark age” population of this world is not worth even thinking of! Frisking of our greatest diplomats, is in reality, stripping nude of 1 billion Indians! Be a rebel and PROTEST this act of superiority of ‘Gori Chamdi’ with a smell of Naziyish element. Else, for ages, we would be remembered as impotents!