The BAD BAD Boyzzzz...

They say that ‘EVIL glorifies good’ – how true? How vain would goodness be without the prevalence of EVIL? Good and BAD are like the parallel rail tracks which have to be always together to keep the journey alive but can and should possibly never meet.

Goodness could be termed as the absence of EVIL, just as day, the absence of night (all right, I twisted it a bit here). Just imagine a world without EVIL, man that would suck! All would be fine and so uneventful (call it boring even) and there would be no greater glory or spotlight on the concept of goodness, not to mention the endless queues outside the gates of heaven if stories are to be believed that good guys reach heaven and the BAD ones…well you know where?

To start with take our very own Gods of any faith, isn’t there at least one story or fable that we would have heard to describe their triumph over EVIL, in fact they say that EVIL was the prime motive and reason why we were gifted with incarnations (not to mention the countless wars in name of religion and caste that came with it as bonus).

Our very own Bollywood and Hollywood heroes would be nowhere without the 'BAD BOYS'. How else would they win the hoots and whistles of the audience for their class dialogues, kicks, punches – all aimed on our FRIENDS; and that too spot on (effortlessly) - and all that’s expected of the VILLIAN is to put up a smile, take a gracious bow and say a Thank you for all the blows and bruises– SHEESH and we are supposed to be staying in a world of equanimity?

I remember how me, my bro and dad would sit together and watch in awe as TOM and the WILE E COYOTE would go to world’s end and leave no stone unturned in trying to catch their adversaries (I feel ashamed to even mention their names here) – I mean the COYOTE must have had a lifetime contract with ACME in showcasing their products with each one being different and for all the efforts put in what would the result be? The Roadrunner with its irritating “Beep-Beep” would just go through all the hurdles and obstacles as if they never existed and when our friend tried the same, SNAP and you know the rest. I mean what a waste of creativity!!

But on the positive side of things, they are undisputedly the best teachers for accepting failures with grace – I mean what better testimony to the saying “Try and try and you will succeed”. Our BOYS never seem to need any backing. Every time we have seen them fall, all they do is get up, dust off their failures and then come back with an even better and meaner plot spiced up with loads of creativity and fireworks. What a contrast to the good guys who every time upon failure, need a girlfriend to smooch up their morale or someone like an Aunt Mary to cough up a lecture of pep-up words to get the man alive and kicking again (the audience would have fallen asleep by then listening to her).

Last Saturday, me and Sangz were watching “The Dark Knight” (Sangz hated me for that) – the scene where the JOKER comes into the room filled with Dons with his proposal to kill the Batman much to their boo’s. He wins their curiosity by banging a stump of pencil onto the table promising them to make it vanish and he does it in style by banging one of the guys head onto it. And then with all evil gory when he proclaims “POOF – its gone” we all know that he is here to stay. Wow – what an entry. He won over me that moment and my Orkut profile now shows that I am a proud member of his community.

But then the battle is not lost yet – goodness now seems to be losing its charm by seeing a couple of its prized members deserting camp and joining hands with The Bad – with the emergence of characters such as ARYAN and LANGDA TYAGEE the focus and attention seems to be slowly shifting. Evil rocks and in style. 'AAG' may have been a disaster but AB finally had his longtime dream fulfilled of walking the shoes of the legendary Gabbar Singh…and we thought that people always wanted to tread the path of goodness. J.K.Rowling definetly needed a VOLDEMORT as a motivation to write seven parts of the famed series.

Lets look at our lives for a moment – don’t we glorify ourselves in front of others by spinning out endless episodes from our daily work lives to describe the trials and tortures gifted by our ‘MAN IN THE CABIN’ and how we braved them et al (without a scratch) – I mean don’t we use the ‘BAD GUY’ for becoming the centre of a gathering in winning their awe (and sometimes even sympathy)?

So lets all hear it for them – for their endless motivation, for their creativity, wit, sarcasm, style, selflessness (in gifting all the fame to the heroes), and everything else that I might possibly think of after having published this post. When I first hit upon this subject, I didn’t think that I would get to writing about it - I mean if the Ramayana required paper measuring to the seven lands and the ink of the seven oceans how much more would stories of the evil require?

THIS IS JUST THE BEGINNING…