Umm...what?

So ok, I don't want this to be a blog about wierd cases I have read. But, what to do, my life is really so sad, that wierd cases form the highlight of my work day. Here is another gem- interestingly also to do with movies. This one is relating to the movie "Kabbhi Khushi Kabhi Gum". The petitioners took objection to national anthem bit in the movie- they didn't like the portrayal of the song and the fact that people in the theatres didn't get up to respect the anthem. Case comes before the MP High Court, and the court in its lengthy and erudite judgment declaims on the importance of respect to the National Anthem. In their own words [with running commentary by me]:

"22. National Anthem is to be sung with magna cum laude and nobody can ostracize the concept of summa cum laude [huh???]. In the case at hand, as we have noted earlier the son of the protagonists sings the National Anthem as a surprise item. The presentation, according to us, is in medias res [excuse me??]. The child actor forgets the line and utters the term "sorry". To some it may appear lapsus linguae[this one i understood!!] slip of the tongue or a natural forgetting but if the whole thing is perceived, understood and appreciated in complete scenario, it is the script writer's fertile imagination and the Director's id est [pardon my french, but what the %^&$ does that mean??]. It is deliberate. A deliberate slip of the pen. It is because there is in a way, deliberation to project a dramatic effort to show that the scene depicted in the film is on an absolute terra firma[ oo, another familiar term!!]. The writer and director have totally forgotten that they were portraying the National Anthem of a great country.
In 'Shashtras' this great country has been described as under :
"ASMAD DESHA PRASUTASYA SAKASADAGRA JANMAMAH SWAM SWAM CHARITRAM SCHIKSERAN PRITHIVYAM SARVA MANAVAN."
Not for nothing, in one of the ancient epics of India it has been so said :
"API SWARNAMAYI LANKA NA ME ROCHATE LAKSHMAN JANANI JANMA-BHUMISCHA SWARGADAPI GARIYASI." [ok, maybe i missed this class in law school, but since when have the shastras had the force of law in independent India?? Again, I did sleep through the consti courses so I'm not very sure about this, but I do remember reading something about this concept of secularism in there somewhere....umm, maybe in the opening line of the preamble???]
They have not kept in mind 'vox populi, vox dei'. [ here we go again!! I really did think English is the only European language officially allowed in MP Courts]. The producer and the director have allowed the National Anthem of Bharat, the alpha and omega of the country to the backseat [ok this was sounding greek and latin to me before...now its sounding physics and maths].
On a first flush it may look like a magnum opus of patriotism but on a deeper probe and greater scrutiny it is a simulacrum having the semblance but sans real substance. There cannot be like Caesar's thrasonical brags of "veni, vidi, vici."[ this I do know, but relevance please?] The boy cannot be allowed to make his innocence a parents rodomontrade, at the cost of national honour. In our view it is contrary to national ethos and an anthema to the sanguinity of the national feeling. It is an exposition of ad libitum.[ i know another ad word- ad nonsensicum].

I am suing national law school. Reading this judgment makes me think they never tought me anything. Even if they did, it was never this much fun!