One of the most awaited movies this year is Race 3. The craze would not have been much had it not starred Salman Khan. The trailers have been in headlines and so have been some dialogues. One of such dialogues by Daisy Shah is “Our Business is Our Business, None of Your Business.”

A scene from Race 3 where Daisy Shah says ” Our Business is Our Business, None of Your Business.”

The dialogues have been targeted for being funny or not up to the mark but I could relate to this one dialogue mentioned above as “Our business is our business, none of your business.” This should be there in the morning assembly of every school in India and then the kids until they become adults, should greet everyone having this one sentence in it. Why? Because in India, my business is your business and your business is the whole society’s business.

I was reading this news a few days back when a couple travelling in Kolkota’s metro train was badly thrashed by some middle-aged commuters for hugging each other in public. If I hug somebody in public or kiss somebody in public, what gives everyone the right to beat me? It is my business and it shouldn’t be anyone’s business. Why, in the first place, hugging a wrong practice and what makes showing love in public immoral? Beating somebody in public is immoral, eve teasing is immoral or anything that infringes someone else’s rights is immoral. But as an adult, kissing or hugging somebody, with his or her consent and willingness, isn’t immoral or illegal.

The couple being beaten in Kolkota Metro for hugging each other.

Another case of my friend, who kissed his girlfriend in his car on the highway (as it was his last day in the city), was molested by a group of Highway patroling officials, who claimed to have clicked his photograph and threatened that they would forward the photograph to the SP if he didn’t give them some bribe. They, later on, realised that they had messed with the wrong man, as he recorded the conversation, forwarded it to the District Magistrate and got them arrested.

A couple moves out of the New Year Party and is attacked by a group which holds the man and the girl is sexually assaulted. if a woman moves out of a place wearing a party dress or short clothes, who on the planet allows people around to stare at her or attack her like she is a commodity.

A married man sitting and having a gala time with one of his female friends and the people around in the office do their best to advice both of them that this is wrong and shouldn’t be done. The duo asks if there is something wrong they had done to the team as they would just sit together and talk like the best of friends. How was that a botheration to anyone in the team? Everyone had his or her limited views of how a married man and a single woman should be like and they shouldn’t sit together as it was something unethical to do. Their thoughts couldn’t grow out of what they had seen in their families making them have too narrow a thinking.

The idea of judging on the basis of what one wears, the car one has, the people one is surrounded by and the way one talks or looks is something Indians hold a PhD in. Indians judge and then treat the person the way they have judged him.

So, it’s time to cram this dialogue by heart and chant it as and when possible: “Your Business is your business, none of our business and Our business is our business, none of your business.”