Vilas Rao's Vilas(am)

Veekshanam Menon is amazed at the Leela Vilas of Vilas Rao the Deshmukh at The Taj.

First he brings a shooting party to a place where a great tragedy has occured. Then he goes on TV and says what the heck is wrong with that and then he says he has "offered" to quit "if" he is responsible.

Veekshanam does not have this liberty. He has to be correct everytime. and responsible. If he forgets to bring potatoes along with other vegetables , after being reminded by Smt. Veekshanam, he has to render an apology. He cant resign though.He has to face the music and the bleak prospect of a sullen Srimati at the dinner table- that is , if there is dinner at all. He wish he could be as suave as Vilasji and say to Smt . that there is nothing wrong in not bringing potatoes and then expect her to believe it.

Veekshanam has nothing against Ramuji though. Ramuji is an old friend. VK had done an item number in one of Ramuji's productions before he discovered Urmila. Even otherwise ,Ramuji , just like every other concerned Indian , just wanted to be at the scene.Soak in the terror. He will effectively communicate his feelings to the Indian multitude through a muti starrer named "RGV ka Bomb", which will, VK is sure, set fire in the Box Office.

Vilasji ,as VK knows very well, likes big life. He likes cinema award functions ( the last count has him attending atleast 12 in a year ) ,Marriages, Parties , Social Dos.. He doesn't like to be bothered about Tiffenwalas, bai's, blue,yellow and white collared shirtless workers or the breed collectively called the aam aadmi - Mango Man.

VK is not surprised at Vilasji's contention that the whole world is a Cinema and he , of course, is the master story teller.

Vilasji is a great actor. His son is the living testimony to the fact. It is a known fact that Vilasji outdid the nava rasa's by inventing a 10th one. VK had the good fortune of seeing it once. It has not yet been named. Some names doing the rounds are Vilas Ras, Ras Vilas ,VilRa..

Vilasji is in and out of Delhi meeting with something called as High Command . What ever happens, VK is sure that Vilasji will prevail.

Mango Man can go take a walk !