If Bollywood does something, can Kolliwood be
far behind ?
In the wee hours of Jan 10, 1999 at Lodhi
Colony, a BMW vehicle driven by powerful Nanda mowed down
six persons to death including 3 policemen – the driver reported was in an
inebriated condition. Recently,
the Supreme Court sentenced him two years of community service and asked him to
pay a fine of Rs 50 lakh, not to be jailed any longer.
You may not remember the actor, but perhaps
recall the film – Mani Ratnam’s comedy thriller ‘Thiruda Thiruda’ –
Anand. In 2000, the actor
was involved in drunk driving hit and run case, where he hit a police officer
who had tried to stop him. The police officer, Ramachandran, subsequently
succumbed to his injuries and the actor faced a murder charge. The actor
settled the family with damages, and was reported by the media during the
period to be in depression.
Only last month [i.e., July 12] a luxury sedan
mowed down a 70 year old woman – the vehicle was reportedly driven by Salman
Khan’s family driver and the car was owned by Salman’s brother, actor and producer
Arbaaz Khan. A death in
road accident and law of the land ‘Motor Vehicles Act’ prescribes
compensation. Salman
Khan is quoted as saying "The
accident happened by mistake. I spoke to my driver and he said when he was
driving, he saw something like a black polythene bag on the road, but it was
the lady who was completely in black. I would request everyone not to sleep on
the roas’. The Khan family
would pay any compensation as according to them, the lady had been disowned by
her family. Under
Which section of the Law, nobody seems to be asking.
When you deal with similar circumstances, you
become a Master in understanding Law and Salman Khan knows it better as in 2002
he ran his Land Cruiser over some pavement dwellers in Bandra,
Mumbai – people sleeping on road platform, cannot but be killed by such fancy
vehicles and arrogant drivers….The deceased and the injured were employees of
A1 Bakery and were sleeping outside American Express Bakery.
Theni is a district of Tamilnadu which has hilly
areas of Periyakulam, Uthamapalayam and Andipati and Cumbum valley. Theni District was formed by the
bifurcation from erstwhile Madurai District in July 1996. Many cinema personalities including
the great Maestro Illayaraja, director Bharathiraja and others hail from this
place. It is a location
haunted by cine directors and it is fashionable to have stories occurring
in Madurai
Yesterday, an actor by name Sri Ranjan @ Suresh,
lead actor in the film ‘Theni mavattam’ lost control of his car, hit a motorcycle as inspector
Anandan,50,of CIDs security branch,was about
to park the two-wheeler. The two people Anandan and Govardhan on the two
wheeler were thrown from the motorbike – one of them suffered serious head
injuries and the other
person was badly bruised. The car came to a halt only after impacting two
autorickshaws, one of which was parking. The drivers of the autorickshaws were
injured in the accident.
The actor reportedly was returning home after
shooting for a documentary film through the night and fell asleep at the wheel. Anna Square
Accidents are bad and the victims suffer – some
times, some who cause such grievous accidents appear to have immunity and
or above law
With regards – S. Sampathkumar .
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