Sunday, September 27, 2009

SRK Vs Mammootty….. Irfan Khan Vs Srinivasan….

Incomparable.. They are no equals to compare… Recently saw Billu Barber. SRK and IK have given their best shot… Is it so???... A bold NO will be the answer if you have seen the originals of this movie in Malayalam “Kadhaparayumbol”. Mammotty will scintillate your senses with his hysterics in the last 10 minutes; SRK’s goatee gimmicks made me laugh; and Irfan Khan’s face seems to be devoid of any emotions other than a blank awe. These people should be put in tuition classes under the masters of acting. They can select from a plethora of pioneers like; the lot of Amithabh, Om puri, Nasurudeen shah, Mohanlal, Thilakan……. Left blank for you to fill it up….

Pity on Priyadarsan; He has now become a copy master; who has excelled in the art of stealing comic scenes; and sequencing it in the most absurd ways. His brain is clogged with beauty babes so that he can’t be anymore creative at his work.

Sherlock Holmes on Paul M George Muthoot

I had been on a vacation in India; this September; when I chanced to meet Jabal; the old friend of ours whom the readers are already acquainted with; on a houseboat journey through the calm waters of The Lake Vembanad. We were talking about the new adventures of Sherlock Holmes and suddenly he narrated me the gruesome story and the mysteries which veiled the police enquiry into the murder of the young business man Paul M Muthoot. The story interested me by virtue of its unique nature; the celebrity status of the accused and the concocted police version of the events which led to the murder. I called Mr. Holmes; who was then goading away the boredom from inaction. I could sense his eagerness when he scented of the chance to twist his brain.

“Hellowa Watson; Thank you for bringing me work; but I doubt of my direct involvement; lest; I miss out the trial of the sensational BoA robbery”.

“Oh boy; I forgot”

“Never mind Watson; you know of my investigating ways; and you not a naive”. “You can help me; remember; approach the case systematically; don’t let anything miss out; get me all the information however minutely it s related to the case. Don’t forget to have a close look on any beneficiaries due to this death”

Reluctantly I took up the task and started off by collecting all the pieces of news which came up in the news papers. Then I met up with the witnesses and collected their account of the crime. I had opportunity to collect the string of incidents from the police as well. After a stint with the investigation I flew back and shared the information with Holmes.

After hearing my narration he suddenly got buried in deep thought. At occasions he noted down some points on his notebook; and after a while he broke the silence.

“Watson; you mentioned of a ladies bag and the identity cards of the famous goons found from the car”.

“Yes; rightly so; but the police omitted the bag from their official reports”.

“But; did you verify the truth”.

“I had chance to see a photograph taken through the rolled up window of the car; which shows clearly a ladies bag by the back seat”.

“Alright; but still ambiguities; Did you ascertain the amount of blood stains on the car.”

“Yes; it appeared to me as if it got spread from the stained hands; no stains from a pool of blood.”

“Okay; taken; but what did you say of your narration that the Endeavour car was parked on the side when the group of goons met with them. It’s foolish to stop by; when you are on a run after hitting down someone.”

“Out of sync”

He advised me to contact jabal and find out the service history of the Endeavour car and to find out from the local acquaintances of Mr. Muthoot about his relationship with any women of high social status. Holmes was forming various theories about the murder and this was evident from the amount of tobacco he was fuming out. It was apparent from his frowning that he was not convinced with some facts. Not so late; came the questions about the engagement; changed to marriage of the Home minister son; and the squeaky utterances from the party secretary against the media. He also questioned me about the rumors that the police had created evidence by implanting the “S” shaped dagger on the culprit’s house. After getting satisfactory reply from me; he asked me to check back on the leads which would have been collected by jabal. He then went out for an evening walk and told me that the case was closed unless for certain loose threads in his theory. When he returned I conveyed the leads given by jabal. He asked me to be ready by dinner to close this case. So I went all prepared with my note book to the dinner table.

He started by saying that case was very trivial unless for the efforts by the police to hide some related facts. The deceased had close relation with the celebrity goons Omprakash and Rajesh; and they casually visited him when they had been in kerala as part of their friend’s marriage; who happened to be the son of Home minister. A famous lady whose face was well known to the populace; due to her fame in local cinema; was part of the entourage. They enjoyed their time in the backwaters; the sea and in the resort rooms; where paul joined them. And in their journey on that ill-fated night in the ford endeavor the crew had stopped on their way to refresh in a petrol pump at the 4th mile on the AC road; where the local goons had a glimpse at the beauty on board. They started following the ford endeavour. But sensing that they were being followed; paul and party started panicking. In their effort to speed up they hit down a bike on their way; but soon later due to a glitch in the car the Endeavor got stopped on the way. This glitch was confirmed from the service records obtained by jabal; which says that the car was being serviced for overheating due to seepage of engine oil in the coolant. The service record also suggests that even though the problem was attended the cause was not rectified. This would explain the reason for the stoppage of the car midway. The gang of goons approached them and the abuses from the gang would have resulted in some sort of heated altercation; which resulted in the stabbing. All of them came to their senses and would have fled. Injured paul and the other person was taken to the hospital by paul’s driver who was following them. The lady got scared of the ugly publicity which this incident would bring and alerted “The influential” who then worked on the story to make an escape route for the lady. The influential then instructed the celebrity goons to escape with the lady. They started their run in the cooled off Endeavor car; but to be stopped again due to overheating almost 100 kms from the incident site. The influential orders the celebrity goons to drop in their identity cards so that the investigation officers would not dig deep into finding out the whereabouts of those in the car; but did all to hide the famous lady. But while hurrying out the lady forgot to take away her bag; which was later smuggled away by the influential person; and thus missing from the police records.

The case was closed here. But I wondered on how Holmes was so convinced. Holmes explained that if there was a conspiracy; they could have thousand other ways to kill him. And all these could have done with razor sharp perfection. No body would ever venture to kill someone with so many people or witnesses around. But here the murder was done on a highway with so many culprits around; which itself explains the lack of planning or conspiracy. And it was so evident that the full effort was to hide the ladies bag. The only difficulty was to explain for the uncharacteristic stoppage of the car after being on a run.

“But Holmes; you owe an explanation for the forged evidence of the “S” shaped dagger”

“This is very common; the investigators often get the confession from the culprits; when probe further on situational proofs; but this will not stand in the court of law; for which they try to retrieve the factual proofs or in its failure they themselves make these proofs. This is quite natural.”

“And who could be that “the influential” in your theory”

“He could be the one who is evidently the most upset; the one; who for no reason blames every other including media for this murder”

“Hmmm. Holmes; who could be that lady”

“Out of the little we know; it could be someone whose name or pet name starts with ”S” and probably the initial could also be “S”; we will leave these clue to the public to find out the rest”

“But what could be the motive behind this protectionism”

“Watson; All my concentration till day have been on crime and investigation; hence; I haven’t known a lady intimately”