The sky and the cloud, and a star

In Gabbar Singh (2012), one of Telugu actor-politician Pawan Kalyan’s super-hit films, the baddie asks him a rhetorical question: “Do you know how popular I am around here?”

“Popularity emundhile passing cloud lantidhi, vathavaranam vedikkithe vanai karigipothundhi, nenu akasam lanti vadini vurumochina, merupochina, pidugochina nenu epudu okela unta” (Popularity is like a passing cloud. When the weather gets hot, it dissolves and vanishes. I am like the sky: Come what may — thunder, lightning, rain — I remain the same), says Pawan Kalyan, nonchalantly, proceeding, a few frames later, to pulverise his opponent amid hoots, whistles, clapping, and shrieks in

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