<img style="float: left;" src="http://images.mid-day.com/images/images/2021/nov/Rahul-op_e.jpg" alt="Rahul Da Cunha" width="200" height="69" />Lobo Lobo, my cable TV guy came over annoyed. &ldquo;Hey Dikuna men, I have some deep concerns to share wid you.&rdquo;
&ldquo;I would expect nothing less Lobo Lobo, tell me!&rdquo;
&ldquo;Dikuna men, I want to lodge a complaint, a national complaint.&rdquo;
&ldquo;Lodge a complaint about what&hellip; and to whom?
&ldquo;I wish to share my grievances about dese Padma &nbsp;Shri and Padma Shrimati, Padma Bhushan, and Padma Vibhushan and Padma Bharat Bhushan and all dose Bhushan awards... every Tom, Dick and Karan is getting one&hellip; so I&rsquo;m aksing de query&hellip; why not I got one? Don&rsquo;t I also deserve for all de distinguished service I have given or no?&rdquo;
&lsquo;Uhm Lobo Lobo, excuse my ignorance and don&rsquo;t take it personally, but how are you eligible. Have you given&hellip; uhm distinguished service that has effected the country as a whole?&rdquo;
&ldquo;Of course I have definitely given more dan dat Karan Johar fellow who received dis year.&rdquo;
&ldquo;He has given distinguished service in films!&rdquo;
&ldquo;Yes, but what is de service he has offered&hellip; all dose rona-dhona-sona fillums, arrey if I didn&rsquo;t give my cable service, how he&rsquo;ll give his service, men&hellip; for people to watch dey have to avail of me na?&rdquo;
&ldquo;So have you come here to complain, Lobo Lobo, about how you should have been awarded a Padma Shri for distinguished service for having put up dish antennas?&rdquo;
&ldquo;Yes! But even if you take de criterion for dese awards I have fulfilled men! If you look at how peepuls speak to me, I have excelled in social service, de way I have to negotiate dere Alsatians and Rotweilers, I&rsquo;m expert in animal husbandry! &nbsp;Let me aks you to inform me wot is de reason dat dame&hellip; uhm&hellip; wochyoucall Rangana Cannot, why she got a Padma Shri... what distinguished service she&rsquo;s done men, tell me, excepting making dose all comments? She&rsquo;s toh all de time criticising peepul and tweeting and getting people irritated, and telling dat we din&rsquo;t get de freedom in 1947, but in 2014.&nbsp;
Chhe&hellip;okay I&rsquo;ll admit she&rsquo;s an ok ok actress, dat Jayalalita role she played and all, but if acting-shacting is de criteria dey should give to better actresses no? How about dat Pannu girl who got dat tappad&hellip; or even dis&hellip; Sherni one&hellip; who played Shakuntala men&hellip; and Alia But&hellip; dey all are more deserving isn&rsquo;t it?
And please to tell me why to give de Padma to dat Balaji lady&hellip; dat Jeetender fellow&rsquo;s daughter&hellip; she makes all dose KKK serials&hellip; dose boo hoo ones&hellip; Tum Kayko Saas Boo Hoo Tee&hellip; wot is de criterion men. Wot is so &lsquo;distinguished service&rsquo; about dese serials&hellip; who all watch men?&rdquo;
&ldquo;So you&rsquo;re point is what Lobo Lobo?&rdquo;
&ldquo;De main point I&rsquo;m making is I&rsquo;m tinking of beginning my own &lsquo;distinguished service awards&rsquo;.&rdquo;
&ldquo;What do you mean Lobo Lobo?&rdquo;
&ldquo;See men, I tink I&rsquo;m giving very distinguished service&hellip; you tink it is easy to go to home after home, all day, every day to have dese mad ungrateful peepuls yelling at me!
&lsquo;Hey technician, hamara Sun TV kidhar hai?&rsquo; Arrey I have to put up dese dish antennas, trough peeupls drying clothes and water pots. So I&rsquo;m beginning de Theo Lobo Awards for distinguished services in different areas. I wish to reward dese people who have to put up wid mad ungrateful yelling customers&rdquo;
&lsquo;Like&hellip; uhm what.&rdquo;
&ldquo;So dere is de Theo Lobo Award for Cable TV Repair, Theo Lobo Award for Air Conditioning service. Theo Lobo Awards for Car Repair and Theo Awards for Water Purifer Maintenance.&rdquo;
&ldquo;Right so who&rsquo;s getting the Theo Lobo Award for Cable TV repair this year?&rdquo;
&ldquo;My son, Ronaldo.&rdquo;
&ldquo;Uhm&hellip; giving the award to your own son. Isn&rsquo;t that a bit&hellip;&rdquo;
&ldquo;Arre wot men, it happens all de time, it is called nepotism&hellip; aaks Padma Shri winner, Karan Johar.&rdquo;
Rahul daCunha is an adman, theatre director/playwright, photographer and traveller. Reach him at rahul.dacunha@mid-day.com
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