ULTA-PULTA
Love triangles!
Jaspal Bhatti

TRIANGULAR love stories have been very popular on silver screen. From Raj Kapoor’s Sangam to Yash Chopra’s Silsila, every film has usually three main characters — two handsome heroes and one beautiful heroine.

If we create a parallel story in the politics of Punjab today we find that we have two heroes here as well. Capt Amarinder Singh, Prakash Singh Badal and a robust heroine Rajinder Kaur Bhattal. Again the story is a hit but the only difference is that all the three characters in our political film hate each other.

Badal is a man from the grassroots, Amarinder is ‘mehlon ka raja’ and Bhattl is ‘kheton ki rani’. Once Bhattal tied a rakhi on Amarinder’s wrist in the hope that he would protect her from the cases of corruption that had been made against her, but bhaiya did not maintain the sancitity of the rakhi bandhan and served her with court notices.

Agricultural Minister Bhattal had no choice but to sing a popular Punjabi song, "Tere kanat di rakhi Mundian hun mein nahion bendi" (I will no longer take care of your wheat fields).

Amarinder had to hate our second hero because he had promised to put Badal behind bars.

In the climax of the story, Badal might tie rakhi on Bhattal’s wrist. In case Bhattal succeeds in toppling Amarinder, Badal will expect some relief from his time-being sister. In that case Badal will be singing happily, "Talwandi ka, Tohra ka, sab ka kehua hai. Conress party mein, meri ek behna hai...!"

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