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Quick Byte: Were Their Tweets Not Appearing Like Sorokin-Lite Dialogue?

Were their argumentative talks more like Sorkin-lite dialogue? Though they had expressed their respective views upon a Mughal monarch, they tried to link the fifth Great Mughal with Indian-ness. One said the Emperor was seventy-five per cent Indian as his veins also carried the Rajput blood. While another was not wholly agreed upon. Strangely enough, both belong to the same film fraternity. If Shahjehan was deriving inkling with Barack Obama for one film personality, it remains unacceptable to another identity known as a film-maker. Both are indulged in a Twitter tangle but it seems their reactions are benignly reflecting the contemporary political mood in the country. What was not fathomable to one was the sincerity of the Mughal ruler as his forefathers invaded India. The birth was not a criterion for accepting him as US ex-president Barack Obama as the filmmaker reactions hint at. The contention was that Obama was born in America and he got the opportunity to become the President of that country but the 17th-century monarch was still regarded as an invader, as lyricist Javed Akhtar tweets, adding that his mother and grandmother belong to the Rajput family. Contradicting his views, Bollywood filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri reiterated that there was a marked difference and called the veteran ‘wrong’. He tweeted, “Javed Saab, you are wrong here. Obama’s parents or forefathers did not invade the USA. Also, if you are equating Obama with Shahjahan, then Obama neither destroyed churches in the US nor did he convert Americans to his belief with the sword. Obama wasn’t a tyrant. It’s illogical logic.” Here, it is a little difficult to fathom why has this debate started? The monarch is buried at Agra’s Tajmahal which attracted even Barack Obama. If we equate the tweeter twist with the third film personality Aaron Sorkin, screenwriter, who layers his dialogue with rhythmic patterns, such as repetition and iambic meter. One obvious advantage of his fast-paced dialogue is that it is more jarring when there is a sudden pause in his characters’ conversation. Does their talk not rattling the needless idyll? 

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