Luck By Chance

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It's not often that a reporter covering showbiz gets to ponder on the loftier ideals of life because some things, like red carpet chatter, are best left unexamined. But when faced with the unthinkable - like Paris Hilton getting the lifetime achievement award for saying, "That's hot," or Akshay Kumar getting presented with the Padma Shri, it gives us all a chance to toss the popcorn for a second, and think about the state of the nation and other such terribly important issues. Truth can be stranger than a Bollywood film without a script. First Kumar gets presented with an honorary Phd, then gets nominated for the best actor award. In industry-speak that would be called 'luck by chance.' Or in the real world, it would be an indication of how much we're enamoured with the circus that is Bollywood. Where a strange phrase on the back of....