Subhash K Jha replies to the “Open Letter”
I received two emails from Subhash K Jha in response to this article I wrote few days ago
” Shame on you Mr Subhash K Jha : share the whisky with me”
Here’s mail no 1 I got from Mr Subhash K Jha -
Hey Karthik….you’re right.I deserve all the vilification on passionforcinema. But can I just say in my defence that I did mention very clearly that Srinivas spoke to Tarantino.? The only reason I didn’t mention the website is because I didn’t know the interview was off that site when I used those quotes.
Please accept my apology. And if you give me Srinivas’ email ID I’ll personally apologize to him.
As for all the hatemail calling me all those ugly names…all I can say is, thank you. I didn’t know I was so much loved by everyone including of course my dear friend Anurag Kashyap .
Warm regards
Subhash K Jha
Here’s mail no 2 I got from Mr Subhash K Jha -
It made me smile and sob to see so much venom being spewed on me. I smiled, because of the intensity of the responses(hats off to all the zealots who share a common passion for cinema on this blog). And I sobbed because of the tormenting twisted perverse lies put forward by everyone from fellow-journalists to filmmakers whose work I’ve had quibbles with.
Regarding my sexual orientation , I’m not gay and the sniggering references to Sammir Dattani are too corny to be disgusting because he’s like my son and someone whose talent I believe in. Is that wrong? As wrong as praising Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s or Mr Bachchan’s works? Or being their friend?
As for alcohol I don’t know what it tastes like. So the Black Label pun is not applicable, buddy.
Now coming to the crux..in my 18 years as a film journalist I’ve never once borrowed one line one phrase or one syntax from anyone’s article. In fact I’m constantly being vandallized by websites and papers all over the country. So Ajay, please keep your phoney holier-than-thou indignation in your effing pocket. Don’t let me open my mouth about what you are all about.
But I do owe Srinivas an apology . But not for vandalism. For sheer ignorance. Beyond the fact that the Tarantino quotes were Srinivas’ property(and that’s a fact that I stated prominently in my article) I had no clue where the interview came from . Only later did I discover that they were off a blog–a wonderful passionate blog.
I hope my explanation will appease all those who think this is an opportune moment to get even with me.
Thanks
Subhash K Jha
Anurag Kashyap
Abhay Deol
Dibakar Banerjee
Hansal Mehta
Khalid Mohamed
Kundan Shah
Anish Kuruvilla
Jaideep Verma
Manish Gupta
Navdeep Singh
Bhavani Iyer
D. Santosh
Onir
Ashvin Kumar
Ramu Ramanathan
Sudhir Mishra
Pankaj Advani
Revathy
Saurabh Shukla
Shilpa Shukla
Sujoy Ghosh
Suparn Verma
Santosh Sivan
Shashank Ghosh
Shivajee
Pavan Kaul
Partho Sen-Gupta
Prroshant Naryannan
Sam Langoria
Satish Kasetty
Too many holes in the letter.
“I had no clue where the interview came from” – Is this guy an idiot and thinks the rest of the world is too? Did Srinivas and Tarantino appear in his dream from where he took that “interview” (which is a conversation, someone please put some sense in this journalist)
Of course the conversation with QT must have come from somewhere… which is PFC where this idiot obviously sits on everyday to get his dose of original material he can copy from. How else do you explain his being hurt over so many people attacking him for this copying act? What other site or media is publishing readers’ anger of Jha’s copy act…
And there’s more to this… read this open email (is this an open letter season or what?) received from Shilpa Shetty’s publicist that is being emailed to everyone in the media:
—– Original Message —–
From: RIGHT PUBLICITY (A division of Dale Bhagwagar Media Group)
Sent: Saturday, May 12, 2007 3:58 AM
Subject: AN OPEN LETTER TO SUBHASH K. JHA
AN OPEN LETTER TO SUBHASH K. JHA
Dear Mr Subhash K. Jha,
This is in reference to your article talking about my clients Shiney Ahuja and Shilpa Shetty in ‘Mumbai Mirror’ dated May 10, 2007 and titled “Attention please!”.
Article Link
(a.) In the article you have stated, “Shiney Ahuja throws tantrums galore
Kartik, I highly appreciate your effort to be balanced in this whole incident and be so down to earth to present the other side of the story. Thank you!
Mr Jha,
What Anarkali had said to Empreror Akbar in Mughal-i-Azam,
“In tamam inayaton ke badle, Ye Kaneez, Shahanshah Jallauddin Mohd. Akbar ko apna khoon maaf kartee hai”
Does it fit?
But your reply to open letter does not throw any light, if you did not take it from PFC website then how did you get this interview?
liar liar liar!! this jhiar-jhiar-jhiar will never learn. i agree with badmash k jha. do check out this link, what shah rukh khan think about this real “badmash k jha”…fourth question from the top….
http://www.tehelka.com/story_main27.asp?filename=Ne100307_I_m_doing_FULL_CS.asp&id=3
but u guys at pfc rock!!! we got to know both sides of the story unlike mumbai mirror.
Totally filmi Email.
Now coming to the crux..in my 18 years as a film journalist I
oh boy! oh boy!……now that was some response from badmash .K.jha…..u have a fucking deadly sense of humour man(literally)….i was in splits throughout that long response…
thanx anyways
raaj
the question is where did he get that interview if not from PFC…..he just sidlined the crux of the matter in his reply….he’s a f*&& up guy now we all know.
oz uncle diplomacy? hmmmmmmm
“Balance” betelal Balance.
hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm i know:-\”
one simple question, mr.jha – assuming you are now aware of pfc and are reading it – how did you hear about srinivas and his *interview* with qt?
”baat nikli hai to doooor talak jayegi…” ;)
socha tha isi bahane ”famous’’subhash k jha se ‘dosti’ho jayegi…!!!
kya pata meri flop filmon ko HIT kara dein,
kya pata mere jaise mamooli independent filmmaker ko kisi super-star ka shooting dates dila den…
ab toh ek ‘film-fare’ki umeed bhi gayee..
tauba ab mera kya hoga…subhash k jha ne ignore kar diya…
aaaj pehli baar Anurag se jealous feel kar raha hoon…
apni chchiththi me mera bhi naam le lete,
”dost” na sahi ‘dushmani’ hi sahi…
:((
:d/
closing the comments on this. Mr. Jha has apologized and it’s time to close this chapter.
Oh Thank God!
Baaaaaap Reeeee!!!!
Give the man a break. Let time be the judge. Plagarism is rampant in Bollywood and why should journalists be left behind.
I happened to catch Indian Idol 3 show and 90% of the music or voice over are from AR Rahman. I wonder if producers of Indian Idol have acquired the rights from him or his labels. Talk about it..
It takes 2 to make a qarrel…
Yaha to puri baraat dulhe ki mmarne ke liye khadi hai, aur dulha gayab hai.
Achi siksha hai, jab duniya tumhari maare, chup baiton. Duniya chilla chilla ke chup ho jayegi.
Par mere doston, hum chup nahi baithege, jaha bhi haramkhor ka naam ayega, hum waha is article ka link daal ke kamine ki credibility ki maa bhen kar denge. Waise bhi kuch khaas bachi to nahi hai ;-)
Given the nature of the industry he ‘reports’ on, you’d forgive Sri Jha if he was merely a plagiarist. However, the crux of the issue is that he is a pretender, in fact, the ultimate wannabe. He doesn’t have any qualms about claiming proximity to stars, all and sundry – so Raveena Tandon is his ‘muhboli’ sister, Bachchan Sr talks candidly only to him, he is the ultimate confidante to Sushmita Sen. Why on earth he needs to project his personal equations – real or imagined – as the sole basis for his writings? Because he has no professional point of view? Or because his POV depends on how a star treats him? Or because he is so desperately seeking to redeem his ever-dwindling sense of self-esteem? Has anyone ever read a genuine film critique, or tracing of an actor’s career graph, or delving into an actor’s motivations… from Sri Jha’s ‘insightful’ articles. That’s my real problem with this man. Clutching on to his fragile, pathetic sense of self-worth, the only thing he has to feed his ‘readers’ is all the delusionary nonsense about how important he is in the lives of so many stars. SRK gave the perfect shut up call to this parasite. I don’t care whether he is gay or straight or plain impotent, nor do it concerns me whether he has tasted alcohol or has an innocent palate. What bothers me is that supposedly savvy publications fail to see through this blackmailing pretender. Shame on them for not having sacked him long ago. If they did, the only place left for Sri Jha would be the cyberspace, where he’d be exposed in no time (like we’ve seen here), and sent packing to lord over the hallucinatory world he creates so well for himself.
Mr. Jha, since ur career has ended why don’t u write a bunch of bad “sources” about stars to keep us entertained *roll eyes*
You are insane Jha
i agree entirely with rajeev. subhash is pathetic. he has no idea how much of a laughing stock he is when he claims proximity to all those stars. i’m truly surprised that leading newspapers continue to publish his crap unedited even though most are aware of his being on payrolls and using the press to settle personal scores. but with sonu nigam having blown his cover now, i think newspapers have finally seen sense, and the career of this family member of the bachchans, lata mangeshkar, raveena tandon, sanjay bhasali, sammir dattani etc etc etc is finally over.
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Mr Jha you are a sick homosexual – get in touch with Karan + Shahrukh + Salman + Manish Malhotra + Akshay Kumar + Shahid Kapoor + Tushaar Kapoor & the biggest gay focking couple of Bachan & Amar Singh – all you fokkers can fok each other. You all homosexual gay motha fokkin baastuurds
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Mr Jha – Apne wich ungli paa te phir us no ghumma Hai Hai Khusray mazaa aaya ya aur doon! Parkaso ! Chandni Raat thi oh teray ssath thi
tu us ke uper thawoh teray neechay thi maaadar choud woh teri apni hi maa thi
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Dear Mr Jha,You are a sick man – you need treatment – I think the only person who can help you is your self – so kindly do this world a favour …… The song below is for you Mr Jha – Apni Ungal apni gaand wich paMaazaa Aaayaaa na Gaandu Wich you a dogs death you homosexual asssehoooole
hey shahid
u r soooooooooooooooooooooo sexy. i luv u like hell
luv monika
Oh man, i see that Subhash K Jha has indeed become famous with all the passion for cinema u guyz have. ha ha. don’t finish yr breath so soon. i know one more media bigshot who is going to be exposed soon. get ready for more jaws to drop. cause this one’s a little bigger than Jha. sahi wqt ka intezaar karo. main hi sab bataaonga.
dalebhagwagarmediagroup@gmail.com
man fanboys turn up everywhere and start hurling abuses at everybody, don’t they? thank god nobody’s getting my e-mail anytime soon or i’d be inundated with crap for saying this! haha. seriously guys, u started this site for a passion for cinema, not to defend each other and become a cluster of swearing, spamming fan boys! jeez. get a grip. dude’s been here before u guys knew the spelling of cinema, give him a break.
shamoni8 @
looooool here comes the saviour for jha ji ,
dude’s been here before u guys knew the spelling of cinema, give him a break.
dude all we r trying is to give him a real break from his pathetic life. read b/w lines