OK, who here has seen ๐๐ข๐ด๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ข ๐๐ข๐ข๐ฏ ๐๐ข๐บ๐ฆ๐จ๐ช?
You know, Govinda, Karisma, Sanjay Dutt, Kader Khan ...
We have a โfamily movieโ tradition where weโve to watch a memberโs choice for the day. Recently, this led us to the 1999 film by David Dhawan. ๐๐ข๐ด๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ข ๐๐ข๐ข๐ฏ ๐๐ข๐บ๐ฆ๐จ๐ช is, I am informed, a โcomedyโ. I guess weโll take Wikipediaโs word for it. This is a film so bad it is good.
Anyway. The cast breaks into a cringe dance sequence. To a song by the combo of Anu Malik and Sameer Anjaan (๐ช๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆโ๐ด ๐ข ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ด๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ถ๐ด๐ช๐ค ๐ฅ๐ช๐ณ๐ฆ๐ค๐ต๐ฐ๐ณ - ๐ญ๐บ๐ณ๐ช๐ค๐ช๐ด๐ต ๐ฅ๐ถ๐ฐ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐๐ช๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ช ๐ค๐ช๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ข, ๐ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฌ๐ง๐ถ๐ญ๐ญ๐บ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ด๐ฑ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ฌ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฎ).
Kid 1 - โthese extras dancing behind Sanjay Dutt โฆ why do they all look so bad? Like theyโve just picked up anyone willing to come into the shot?โ
Kid 2 - โBut this is not true on the girlsโ side.โ
The extras behind Pooja Batra are well made-up, and have been blessed with a much better gene pool in the looks department than the male Extras.
โ๐๐ฉ๐ฐโ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆโ๐ด ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฌ๐ด?โ, you ask- fairly. After all, itโs not like people are routinely confusing me with SRK or Brad Pitt. But guys, thatโs not the point of this story. So what ๐๐ the point?
๐ง๐ต๐ถ๐: Sanjay Duttโs extras have been, I suspect, chosen with the ๐ด๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ค๐ช๐ง๐ช๐ค ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ณ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ด๐ฆ of making Dutt look handsome by comparison. Tough gig! Pooja Batra, on the other hand, is significantly more alluring. So her Extras can look pretty themselves without showing up their heroine.
In other words: ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ป๐ท๐ฎ๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐ฃ๐ผ๐ผ๐ท๐ฎ ๐๐ฎ๐๐ฟ๐ฎ ๐ฝ๐ฟ๐ผ๐๐ถ๐ฑ๐ฒ ๐ฎ ๐ฐ๐ฒ๐ถ๐น๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ ๐ต๐ผ๐ ๐ฎ๐๐๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐๐ถ๐๐ฒ ๐๐ต๐ฒ๐ถ๐ฟ ๐ฒ๐ ๐๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐ฎ๐น๐น๐ผ๐๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐๐ผ ๐น๐ผ๐ผ๐ธ!
Most workplaces are no different.
Leaders often form a ceiling on how smart or effective their team mates are allowed to be. You make a Tier 3 person a leader and sure enough they will build a Tier 3 team under them. The Tier 2 or Tier 1 talent there? Well either dumb yourself down to the bossโ level or ship out.
No leader will freely accept this, of course. Everyone has learnt to say โI like hiring people smarter than me โ. Or โMy job is to create such a great team that I am redundantโ. But I am yet to see a leader give up his bonus and ride into the sunset because he has successfully made himself redundant.
๐ง๐ถ๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐ฏ ๐น๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ ๐๐ถ๐น๐น ๐ฎ๐๐๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐๐ฎ๐ถ๐ป ๐ง๐ถ๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐ฏ ๐๐ฎ๐น๐ฒ๐ป๐. ๐๐ผ๐ฟ ๐ง๐ถ๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐ญ ๐๐ฎ๐น๐ฒ๐ป๐, ๐ด๐ฒ๐ ๐๐ผ๐บ๐ฒ ๐ง๐ถ๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐ญ ๐น๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐.
If your leader is a Sanjay Dutt, be prepared for what the chorus is going to look like.
Speaking of: Iโve been meaning to get the gang to watch ๐๐ฉ๐ถ๐ฑ๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐๐ฉ๐ถ๐ฑ๐ฌ๐ฆ. For the โฆ fifth time? But the wife demurs. โNot again!โ, she goes. Got to work on her.
As master lyricist Sameer Anjaan wrote:
เคเคฌ เคคเค เคฐเฅเค เฅเคเฅ, เคเฅเคเฅเคเฅ, เคเคฟเคฒเฅเคฒเคพเคเคเฅโฆ?
เคฆเคฟเคฒ เคเคนเคคเคพ เคนเฅ เคเค เคฆเคฟเคจ เคนเคธเฅเคจเคพโฆ
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