Friday, October 10, 2008

Datukship(s) and Justification

Another wasteful Datukship and what contributions to the Malaysian society?

When the title used to be a honorific and given based on merits for their contribution to the country and people. But Malaysia has a dire situation of Datuk Here Datuk There!

Our only question was how is this justified?

If it was only based on number of box office hits and winning awards then how does that contribute to the well being and upgrading of Malaysian quality of life?

If it was to appease the Indian community, then again, the Melaka State Government got it wrong as there are many other issues at hand and is Ali Rustam looking upon Shah Rukh Khan to help in re-uniting the Indians?

Perhaps a Melaka Bollywood in the the pipeline? Or Melaka the "Hollywood" of Malaysia? IT's anybody's guess as to the justification as we cannot recall the beneficial contributions except that everytime a Shah Rukh Khan movie is being shown in the cinema, the audience is poorer by a few Ringgits whilst the actor's bank account gets better.

Would Jackie Chan, Chow Yuen Fatt or Steven Spielberg be in line for Datukship as well?

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