Monday, April 03, 2006

Did Lata actually sang on a false note?

Lata Mangeshkar recently faxed statement stating she never made the comments on leaving Mumbai if the flyover is constructed. According to her, the statments in newspaperwere fabricated and she never had made such statements. 2-3 days back Mumbai Mirror, the paper in question, again highlighted the story on their cover page and inbetween the story mentioned that how Lata Mangeshkar had said repeatedly in hindi that "ab mumbai chodna padega". If this is actually what she has said, then there is indeed some problem in interpretation. The statement mentioned above sounds more of an after thought, something that perhaps in someway reflects helplesness about the fact that nothing can be done now. Yes, it has shades of emotional blackmail to it but what's important is that the statement in no way concludes to what's being highlighted in media that Lataji will leave mumbai if the flyover is built on peddar road. I think it's more of 2+2 = 22 being done by journalist here. If you read the actual statement as claimed by Mumbai Mirror, it doesn't highlight that Lata is threatning that if the flyover is built, I will leave Mumbai. While I do agree that emotional blackmail & focusing on the problems faced by celebrieites should be kept out in larger interest of the people, but I do feel that in this case, if Lataji had indeed made statement like that only as mentioned above, then the media has gone too far to 'sensationalize' an issue and spice up a burning and touchy issue just to create more news out of nothing. Something which Aamir Khan slammed recently.

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