Monica Bedi is released

And, as the TV news channels want us to believe, Monica Bedi is a celebrity; the fact that she is the former girlfriend of a dreaded mafia don has been conveniently skirted aside. It somehow seems they’re being paid to do so.

I woke up in the morning (one of those rare mornings when I slept at night and woke up in the morning). Alka switched on the TV to quickly catch up on some news and every channel was broadcasting the Monica Bedi release live.

She has been in the news ever since her association with Abu Salem surfaced, but what’s with all this frenzy? Are we having a Paris Hilton syndrome here? There are cameras in front of the jail, there are cameras in front of her house, and according to the latest updates from Alka (I’m in another room, working) they’ve got cameras even in her village in Punjab. I’m sure they’ve got people glued to their TV sets and it’s all a game about the TRPs.

Anyway, I think the real danger for Monica Bedi starts post-jail. She spilled some beans and that’s going to cost her. Although she wants to act in films, one really has to be a daring adventurer to cast her. There are many who bay for the blood of the don and his near and dear ones, and Monica Bedi was (is?) his near and dear one lock stock and barrel. Even Salem himself would try to knock her off as that’s how criminals work. It’s a quagmire and coming out of it is not as easy as it is being shown on the news channels.

So more than her film career, she should worry for her life, and should go somewhere she cannot be traced. She shouldn’t be swayed by all the attention being given to her. For the TV channels she’s merely a sensational news and for the average viewer she is merely a voyeuristic pleasure (and of course an eye-candy — even I find her attractive to look at). Everybody wants to see a pretty girl, a former actress who used to sleep with a dreaded don. People look at her father and feel good about the fact that they are not in his position.

Her family will be in great peril too, because even if she goes into hiding, the family members will be hounded for her whereabouts.

She was safer in the jail. The real troubles for Monica Bedi will start now.

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