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My brother in law was shooting a documentary for Essar Group. For this purpose they had to visit one of its industrial plants in the state of Gujarat. Essar group had been using a cute little Pug in commercials for promoting their entity in telecom sector “Hutch”, now taken over by Vodafone. The script for the corporate documentary required the presence of that Pug for a few shots. Everyone in the crew, right from the spot boy to the line producer was keen to have a look at it.

The all woke up early morning to get the set and equipments ready for the shot. Once everything was in place, all that was missing was the Pug. The crew waiting under the scorching sun was soon informed that there would be a delay in the arrival of the celebrity. The urge or curiosity was much stronger than the pain caused by the uncomfortable weather conditions. Finally someone hailed at everyone resting under the shade “Aa gaya”. The next moment everyone rushed from their seats as though it wasn’t a pug, but it was Monica Belluci coming straight from Italy.

A sleek luxury car entered the gates and drove towards the set. It halted right next the crowd of crew members. The gates opened and the owner of the pug stepped out with tons of attitude puffed under every inch of his skin. Probably he lived under the illusion that he was the celebrity and not the dog. But the fact remained, he held his neck high in the air to even notice that people around had their eyes fixed on the pug in his arms and not him.

My bro in law was lucky, that he got to hold the dog in his arms and carry it to the set. The owner walked and swayed like Karan Johar next to my bro in law. With a little stern yet fragile accent he told him “Please try to finish the shot soon, he is not used to such strong heat and temperature.” My bro in law cared less about that gay mumbling next to him. The crew moved fast and got the camera rolling in no time.

After a few minutes when the shot was almost done, the hanky panky saw the pug rolling out its tongue and palpitating. He jumped out of his seat in a mixed emotion of grief and anger and rushed towards the director and said “Oh my god!!! He is tired, the heat is catching up with him, I need to carry him back to the a/c van” he ended the statement with his trademark cross handed posture. The director was caught unexpected and he gave a strange look back to the owner and said “It’s almost done.” But the faggot just dint move. “If you don’t mind, we need to get this done soon. Would you please mind stepping back for a while?” said the director.

The shot was soon over and the “Shattered Ego” came down, picked up his pup and yet again with loads of attitude, did a catwalk on the red carpet back into his pseudo-limousine. The crew members on the either side of the imaginary rag kept their glance fixed on the pug for one final time. Soon the car was speeding out of the gates and everyone got back to packing up the set. The spot boy made an ironical statement to his crew members around “Its better to have a life of a Dog like that, than to be born as a human like this.”