2021

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"Hum tumhe marenge, aur zaroor marenge ... lekin woh bandook bhi hamari hogi, goli bhi hamari hogi aur waqt bhi hamara hoga."

Rajkumar as Thakur Rajeshwar Singh blasted out this dialogue in the 1991 movie SAUDAGAR
Fast forward 30 years.
Take today’s scenario.
You guessed right.
This dialogue is now Mankind’s reply to Covid 19
The ‘bandook‘ is the syringe and the ‘Goli’ is the vaccine.
The ‘Waqt’ had come.
It is —— 2021 !!
Since Covid 19 got down to ‘bat’ he has been hitting centuries in countries all over the world.
Daily death tolls in ‘century and more’ had shaken authorities and taken away loved ones.
It had brought humans to its knees and turned bustling metropolis to ghost towns.
As in SHOLAY, It had slowly and steadily become the Gabbar Singh of the world.
It is 2021 !!
It is time for the scientist to stand up to this terror with the help of the two vaccines - Pfizer jab and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine (like Thakur Baldev Singh with Jai and Veeru) and pass on the message through Kalia —-
“Jao ja ker kah do Covid 19 se, Duniya waalon ne paagal khasta kutton ke saamne roti daalna bandh kar diya hai”
Covid 19 will react blasting his dialogue at the three of them on return from the UK to the adda —-—
“Kitne vaccine the”
1st person--Sardar Do Vaccine the.
Covid 19 --Do Vaccine....shuor ke bachche !!!
O Do The, Aur tum teen !!
phir bhi wapas aa gaye? Khaali Haath?
Kya samajh kar aaye the?
Ke Sardar Bahat Khush hoga?
sabasi daiga, kyon! Dhikkar hain !!
Are o KHASI! Kitna inaam rakkhe hain
Sarkar hum par?
KHASI (coughing and answering) —----Pure pachas hazaar dollar.
Covid 19 --Suna? pure pachas hazaar.
Aur ye Inaam isi liye hain ke
Yahan se pachas pachas kos door gaon aur sheher mein jab bachcha ya budha din ya raat ko khastha hai, toh maa kehti hai bete sabun se haath dho lo .. dho lo nahi toh Coronavirus aa jayega"
Aur ye teen Haramzaade !!
Ye Covid 19 ka naam
Pura SABUN me milai diye?
Iska saza milegi, barabar milegi.
He shoots all three of them and all three are writhing dying breathless.
The Big Bad Boy now has an intuition — he knows the end is near.
Look at the United Kingdom.
They were responsible for the first authorisations of both the vaccines.
“Ab aayenge Maza
Khel mein bahut maza aayenga”
He roars out —-
Covid19 ke taap se tumhe ek hi aadmi bacha sakta hai, ek hi aadmi ... khud Covid19
They need to be punished.
He has to respond
So ———
He has mutated.
You can see the way he is changing his form and strain and hitting out more viciously.
Positive cases have now reached “pachas hazar” per day”
This is the sign of hopefully the last battles.
We need to be vigilant, restrained and responsible.
I will not say POSITIVE or PATIENT as it will be misconstrued.
All over the globe people from their homes rang in and counted down the new year.
As ‘Auld Lang Syne’ echoed across the air and Television waves millions of wishes and greetings of Hope and Happy 2021 flew across hitting Messenger, Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp accounts flooding the world with rays of a ‘NAYA DAUR’
An injured and cornered Covid19’s mutated strains are now spreading across the globe.
The whole world's eyes are on this battle.
They watch expectantly.
It will be the battle of the Century with 2021 going down in history as the year that Covid19 was restrained and defeated.
Amen !!
The final fight sequence starts with Covid 19 gathering a big breath in and then lashing out a macro sneeze.
2021 is quick as lightning to flick up his N95 face mask and visor.
Gently rubbing the sanitizer lotion on his hand he is ready for battle.
Exasperated Covid19 next takes a deep breath, followed by a compression of air in his lungs.
He then lets out a crackling burst as that air is forced out in a fraction of a second. It collects saliva and phlegm accompanied by gurgling sound at the throat as Covid 19 lets out a loud burst of coughs.
The various sized flying saliva droplets and particles are cleverly ducked by 2021 in a Shahrukh Khans ‘MAIN HOON NA’ - Matrix-style - backward bend.
Not perturbed Covid 19 makes his follow up move.
Dishoom
The punch by Covid 19 lands straight in 2021’s belly.
His visor and mask is knocked off by the jerked action
Now they start sparring each other with a few solid blows injuring and hurting each other. Blood has started to trickle from both their faces.
Dishoom
A solid punch lands in 2021’s face as Covid 19 powers this blow with all his might.
2021 reels back.
Dishoom
Straightening up, circling and in pain, he responds with a backhand slap on Covid19’s already bleeding face.
Dishoom Dishoom
They grapple with each other and come cascading the curved staircases to fall at its landing.
Dishoom
Lifting 2021 - Covid 19 hurtles him over a coffee table which collapses under the weight.
The blaring music in the background highlights the action and drama in the scene.
The blowing white silk curtains are quivering reflecting and accentuating the tension.
Dishoom Dishoom
Both bleeding and shaking now clasp each other and bang straight into the brick wall which caves in with the bricks giving way, flying and falling out individually around the fighting men.
Clearing themselves from the rubble both tired and staggering towards each other exchange dialogues.
Now the violins strum a dark timbre, and low pitch — a kind of emotional coding sound with a last desperate plea from Covid 19 to 2021 to join hands with him.
The showdown would probably be streaked with a scene and dialogue from DEEWAAR.
A beaten and bleeding Covid 19 pleads in a base octave: “Aaj mere paas parityakt building hai, khali property hai, unoccupied offices hai, beshumar bank balance hai, bhoot bangla hai, hanger me park kiya hua hawai jahaj hai, garage me park kiya hua gaadi hai..kya hai kya hai tumhare pass?"
The tense music floats and percussion of the drums sum it all.
The camera pans in the scene with a final closeup shot on 2021.
His left-hand wipes off the sweat and blood from his face as his right-hand clasps a SYRINGE.
A wavering, beaten up but very confident 2021 screams as he plunges for the final kill and replies:
"MERE PAAS VACCINE HAI."










Location: Bushey, UK

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