The League of Legends – Bobby Deol
The twenty seventh day of January, 1969. A day which shall be remembered across the globe for the public hangings of 9 Jews in Damascus and 14 spies in Baghdad. Some American Football aficionados may remember it as the historic day on which Chuck Noll was named as the head coach of the Pittsburg Steelers or as the hippies would remember it, the day on which Richard Nixon first danced to Jumma Chumma De De on the White House lawn for Muhammad Ali and Helen.
But the one incident which overshadows all the others like the Eagle from the Coldplay video was the spectacular transfer of Vijay Singh Deol from the uterus of Prakash Kaur into the hands of Dharmendra and subsequently into our world.
Vijay Singh Deol a.k.a Bobby Deol first graced this world with his presence on 27th January 1969. Nicknamed the Punjabi Hercules by the nurses of Nanavati Hospital, Bobby was a prodigious child. Rumour has it that, at the tender age of 8 hours, even with his brand new and barely functioning respiratory system, he could rap Eminem’s Superman with stunning ease.
Bobby’s rapid growth into a truly panty dropping human being was no surprise to his Jamnabhai Narsee School classmates. He was a champion left winger for the school at the age of 8, a world class Snooker player and also marginally fell short of representing India at the Kho Kho World Cup held in Cambodia in 1978 due to his overwhelming heroin addiction. Not many know that Abhishek Bachchan was our captain in that particular tournament and achieved a glorious 8th place for India.
It is said that if not for his heroin and rooh-afza addiction, Bobby Deol would have scaled such heights as a homosapien it would have been impossible to accurately throw water balloons from them on Holi. Tabloids of the eighties were filled with the rumours regarding the intimacy shared by Bobby and Pablo Escobar, even after the latter clarified that they were just friends. Richard Nixon, who had his fair share of history with Bobby, publicly admitted to have invited Bobby to 4 State Dinners, only for the 9 year old hero to decline in protest of the Cold War.
In 1995, Bobby Deol finally found his passion in life. After years of tireless persuasion by Rajkumar Santoshi, Bobby Deol signed for Barsaat, a movie calling out the ruthless showering of chemical weapons on civilians in Vietnam by American Forces. Deol plays the character of Badal, a naive but intelligent young man who moves from a small village in Haryana to San Jose and gets caught up with pointless nagging of Ellen Degenerates and the bloodbath orchestrated by both the Rebels and the Americans in Vietnam. Twinkle Khanna played the abla nari reporter who was spectacularly inconsequential to the story. Bobby Deol won his first Filmfare award for Best Debut for Barsaat.
Critics like Muammar Gaddafi and Donald Trump Sr, who famously called Barsaat a ‘commercial film’, were silenced by Deol’s next flick, ‘Gupt’. Set in the mysterious circumstances of 1954, Deol plays a flamboyant transgender who was once the captain of the Brazilian Football Team and is now a rebel feminist who fights institutional corruption in rural Odisha through non violent means. The film also featured Pele who won the Best Supporting Actor award. Experts believe that had Rekha not been so clingy on that award night, Pele would have played the role of the protagonist’s uncle in Soldier.
Experts believe that the oscar winning Yamla Pagla Dewaana (2011) is Bobby’s finest work as an actor. Bobby, in another versatility proving role, played a happy-go-lucky traffic policeman who falls in love with a communist karma wali bai only to find out that she was infact a crony capitalist with a weird fetish for Mallu porn. Audio-visual history was created when Dharmendra, his brother Sunny and Bobby danced to the Punjabi version of Mozart’s 4th symphony.
All through his illustrious career, Bobby continued to stamp his authority both on celluloid and on the pages of history. From Barsaat to Dostana to Yamla Pagla Dewaana 2, he has revolutionised the very essence of human life for centuries to come. After all of his endeavours, Deol has still not given up his quest of obtaining the Knighthood from the Queen and has ventured into the world of electronically developed music as DJ Bobby. The Desi Quibbler salutes the living legend that is Bobby Deol and officially inducts him into the League of Legends as a master of his art!