Wrangler, Timberland, Brett & Sons, Or Woodlands – Which Shoe Flew Over Bush?
Posted: Wednesday, February 09, 2011
by Drunken Mystic
http://drunkenmystic.wordpress.com
We all haven’t forgotten the incident of the shoe which flew over U.S. President, George W. Bush, which became a talk of the world and an inspiration for many Indians. That one incident inspired Indians to throw shoes on the Members of the Indian Parliament ruling their respective constituencies when they were busy campaigning for the elections to bag votes so they could loot the country, which they have been doing since 1947 – the year of Indian independence.
For the first time, this incident got many of us Indians thinking that finally, we seem to draw some inspiration. I don’t know what kind of effect, is the Egyptian revolution going to have on the Indians. I have to be careful before I say anything at all otherwise they might turn me in for sedition, like the human rights activist Dr. Binayan Sen who was working with the tribal population of Chattisgarh, which is a naxal ridden area.
I just read the news this morning that Bollwood film maker Mr. Mahesh Bhatt is directing a stage play inspired by one of the first shoe throwers of the world, Muntadhar Al-Zaidi. The play is called, “The Last Salute”. The play focuses on the course of events which led to the shoe throwing incident and the prosecution which followed afterwards.
Mr. Mahesh Bhatt ironically, admires his courage and wants to bring it on stage. This isn’t the first time the film maker has been inspired by true life incidents. One of his earliest films like Arth = Meaning, which was made way back in 1982 was based on his own marital problems. Mr. Bhatt revealed that the Iraqi journalist had refused an invitation to Capitol Hill in 2003 just prior to the war. Mr. Bhatt and New Delhi based playwright Mr. Arvind Gaur who works with Asmita Theatre are working on the script together based on the book written by Al-Zaidi, “The Last Salute to President Bush”.
The play will include the main incidents like the shoe throwing, his arrest and torture by the security guards. Al-Zaidi has been invited for the first performance to New Delhi. He seems to be pretty happy that someone is inspired enough to enact his story on stage and he hoped to be present to watch it. There must something about the shoe which inspired Mahesh Bhatt to bring the incident on stage. Maybe later, there will be a movie on one of those shoes which flew over President Bush.
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Top-level comments on this article: (2 total)I think it's very funny that people were practicing throwing shoes! Frankly, I believe some politicians deserve it. Bush definitely did!Are you deliberately referring to "One flew over the cuckoo's nest"? !!Well, I didn't write it with the intention of referring to it. :-)I heard of the title, but didn't realize it was a movie. :P Thanks, I will watch it soon.
Bush deserved to have a shoe thrown at him, the only problem is it missed him.Ha ha ha! All of us who watched it wondered, how the hell did those miss his head. He ducked well.
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