Not bad, bad guy!

I was doing my usual Youtube surfing to catch the latest hindi movie trailers when I found something truly A-M-A-Z-I-N-G. It's a video of Salman Khan in a stage show singing songs from his movies. Yes, I said singing, not lip-synching. And doing a pretty good job at it! He even managed a decent rendition of the high-pitched 'Tadap tadap' (which, I'd like to stress, would NOT make KK want to murder him.)



Video courtesy Romony: Youtube link

"Not bad! Not bad at all!" I found myself saying.

"Dekho dekho, Sallu can sing too!!" I told my flatmate who was busy watching TV.

The flatmate showed no interest whatsoever. I understand. We all know how insecure Sallu's muscles make all men. So the flatmate actually preferred to go back to watching 12 monkeys. Which was kinda strange, considering that the movie stars two hunks -- Brad Pitt and Bruce Willis! Guess it's because they don't go topless as much as Sallu does.

Actually, I'm not a great fan of Sallu. Though at one point in time during my teenage years, I do remember being hopelessly in love with him, I think it was after watching Hum Aapke Hain Koun. But over the years, we kinda grew apart. Mainly because of my belief that guys with hot bods are even hotter if they keep their shirt on. (Did anyone catch that movie where an incoming train is seconds away from a girl who has been tied to the railway tracks by the bad guys, and our hero here decides that he must spend precious seconds taking off his shirt before he goes to rescue the dying damsel? Sheesh!) Having said that, you gotta admit that the dude works hard on his body. Besides, there must be something to his star value and fan following, otherwise why would his movies still be hits even though his reputation has been completely ruined first by the Ash-bash, and then the black bucks and the footpath killing? His reputation as 'The bad guy of Bollywood' didn't seem to affect anything.

I watched the video twice. And I was still amazed. The last time I was bowled over like this was when I'd seen Saif Ali Khan play the guitar. I guess when you're known to be really good at one thing, we don't really expect you to be good at other things, so when we discover the other talents, we're taken by surprise. But if you're a jack of all trades and master of none, no one is really surprised even if you do a decent job at a million things.

All of us are good at many things. But there's got to be that one thing we're really good at. One that not just sets us apart, but also makes all our other smaller talents rise and shine.

So what is that one thing that you are really good at?