Heroes Reinvented!!!

Heinous Mumbai act is over. All seized symbolic monuments of financial prosperity of Mumbai have been freed and dead bodies of innocent people have been handed over to their loved ones. In essence, Mumbai is back to business like ever before, but with a difference this time.

I am talking about the Re-invented Heroes, the hitherto unsung heroes of India state. The heroes who have always worked whole-heartedly for the service of the nation, notwithstanding the nonchalance with which society has always reciprocated to them. I am talking of those armed forces, those National Security guards, those Marine commandos, and those para-military forces which have always served the nation when called.

If I have to find one good out of the entire gloom, this would be our Re-invented heroes.

When Mumbai was seething, there was no such hero whose body had 6 packs, there was no such larger-than-life person who has taken enough steroids to make his body best-fit for his upcoming movie, and there was no such hero who anchored dangerous acts of Indian celebrity girls on a newly launched channel. All these paper heroes were absent.

I couldn’t find any such hero there whom we all have grown up seeing fighting 10 villains at a time. The same hero writes in his blog that he couldn’t sleep whole night and had to keep a loaded gun under his pillow!!! And the irony of this nation is that such heroes have always been talked about, songs recited about, yagnas done for et al.

I failed to find even that hero who is very notorious to fight with co-stars and colleagues. And when he had a brawl with some colleague some time back at some birthday party, he was media’s darling. Where was that darling when Mumbai was seething!!! Was he hiding himself under his bed or what!!!

I couldn’t find even that hero who is our hero because he hits 4 sixes in an over, or because he is very aggressive on the field dancing like jokers after hitting a six. These were our heroes, the undeserving, much talked about heroes.

And then yesterday, I saw the real heroes. The heroes who didn’t have 6 packs, who mightn’t be having large mass appeal, and those who know that they would be unsung heroes again within weeks with a release of couple of movies of paper heroes, and sixes of other paper heroes. But for me, I had my heroes re-invented yesterday. The heroes who are so down to earth and so humble that everyone would wonder that these are the same heroes who carry those wits and courage to nip any enemy, and mind you, the real enemy, not the villains of silver screen.

In a way, this incident was an eye-opener for Indian public. Those politicians who talk all nonsense about nations’ integrity and patriotism were hiding, those movie stars who have those muscles and bodies (I don’t know for what) were nowhere visible at attacked sites, those stars who in movies have killed kidnappers and taken hostages back from kandhar in movies, the business people who always talk of nation were nowhere visible (probably afraid that a bullet might pass thro’ their heart also, the heart that carries all love for India!!!). Only people remembered at that time were these hitherto unsung heroes, those whom everyone knows as real heroes, but who, in our day-to-day hypocrisies, we all had forgotten.

India, this is not the day to get complacent again. And if you do, everyone can take my words for granted-we would be the worst and most cunning and selfish state in the world. This is the time to get up, stay united and stand up to high-five our real heroes. The heroes who die for nation, no matter what!!! These are the heroes who don’t have the luxury to take 10 re-shots to look more heroic in acts, these heroes don’t do any make ups on their faces, they also don’t have expensive clothes to wear, these heroes also don’t have pony-tails, these heroes also don’t marry the so-called most beautiful women of the world (as per media), and these heroes also don’t take steroids to show their fake and useless body to India public.

But these heroes have got that heart which beats for India cause. These heroes have got that chest that is ever ready to face a bullet on their heart, and these heroes have got that perfection that they really never need any re-shots in real life while killing villains. These heroes always look heroic in their acts, in their uniforms, their gait, their army hair-cut, and above all, in their zeal to serve mother India.

I salute these Re-invented heroes, and take the vow today not to forget the sacrifice this time. No more paper heroes, the time has arrived to sing songs of these lions. This is my humble homage and tribute to my Heroes. Jai Hind!!!!