AFWAAON KA KROOR FAUJ EK BAAR PHIR HAAR GAYI SHAHENSHAH DILIP KUMAR NE UNKO AISE HARAAYA KI

If you think COVID is the only virus which is a cruel killer, you are terribly wrong. We have some human beings who are much more cruel and can “kill” only with the weapon of their wide and wicked tongue and their entirely sinister intentions. And the most dangerous among these “killers” are a strange species of humans who are called rumour mongers - Ali Peter John

These dirty rumour mongers have been like an army that has been “killing” celebrities and nowhere has this wild army worked more hard than in the world of Hindi films.

During this deadly period of COVID, they have spread rumours about the death of Amin Sayani, Tabassum, Mukesh Khanna, Prem Chopra, Paresh Rawal and some of the oldest actors like Chandrashekhar, Kamini Kaushal and Mala Sinha, but the worst attack this army had launched was when it worked overtime to spread the rumour about the death of the Shahenshah of acting, Dilip Kumar.

The rumours about his death have been making the rounds regularly ever since he has fallen a victim to multiple ailments, including the worst of them all, Alzheimir.

Rumours about he is dead have grown rampant during the last one year when he has been in and out of the hospital.

This time, Yusuf Khan was admitted to the Hinduja Hospital in Khar after he was found breathless and was rushed to the hospital where he was further diagnosed for water in the lungs and oxygen saturation and was placed on ventilator.

There were no signs of COVID but his doctors advised his wife, Saira Banu to keep him under observation.

He was to be discharged on Sunday, June 13. His doctor Dr. Jalil Parkar and Dr. Nitin Gokhale, who have been treating him for years, had said that nothing is seriously wrong with him and that he would be better once this period of treatment was over.

In the meanwhile, rumour about his death kept making the rounds all over, not only all over Mumbai, but across the country and even in the Gulf.

I myself received anxious calls from my friends who wanted to know if this rumours were true and leading it, the anxious admirer was Zain Hussain from Dubai who was satisfied only when I told him that all was well with his all time favourite actor.

The rumour took such an ugly shape that Saira Banu who has been with her Sahab from the time he has been in bed, had to call the media and convince them that nothing was wrong with her Sahab and that he would be going home in a few days.

It was her appeal to everyone not to believe in the rumours, especially the rumours spread on WhatsApp.

And with that master stroke, Saira Banu had “killed” all the rumours and made the rumour mongers lose face and be maimed for the time being.

But you never know when these coward rumour mongers will strike again and who their next victim will be.

SHARAM KARO AE INSAANON! ZINDAGI AUR MAUT, DONO TUMHARE HAATH MEIN NAHIN HAI. WHO UPAR WAALA SAB DEKH RAHA HAI… AGAR TUMNE AISA KAAM KIYA JO TUM KAR RAHE HO AUR TUMHE EK AJEEB SI KHUSHI MILTI HAI, TOH YAAD RAKHNA KI ISS JURM KI SAJA TUMHE ZAROOR MILEGI, ISSI ZAMEEN PAR KYUN KI TUM NARAK MEIN BHI JAANE KE KAABIL NAHI HO.