So Sallu's in and Sanju's out. And when he did get out, our Baba gave one of his jaadu ki jhappi to a few guards he'd gotten to know in Yerwada Jail, who in turn got into deep trouble for being friendly with the star convict.
Sallu Bhai goes to jail in Jodhpur and his family goes to meet him. While other visitors are not permitted beyond a certain time limit, Katrina, Arbaaz and gang are allowed to go meet him at the 'jailor's discretion'. As a newspaper almost sympathetically quoted: "they had to wait for two hours before they got the permission."
I read these things and some questions keep cropping up. Would the relative of the convict in Sallu's next door cell have got the same privileges? Would the travails of an ordinary citizen booked under the arms act have got such a lot of news space? Would he or she have been able to garner so much public sympathy? I guess the answer to all these is a 'NO'
Being a celebrity sure has its ups and downs. I wonder how it feels when a private moment with family turns out to be a media circus (Sanju's homecoming) or what you ate in jail becomes news of national importance (Salman had gur for breakfast and all newspapers and news channels faithfully reported it).
Your haircut and stubble while serving a sentence become new fashion and the uniform you probably wore in jail is then auctioned off at record prices.
Well it sure pays to be a celebrity and a bad one at that...
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