Sex Change

Arun Patil (c) conducts today's exercises

Arun Patil wants to become Aruna, a female. And he's not joking. He has for long been toying with the idea for a sex change and yesterday, he made a clean breast of it when spotted with a ladies’ handbag on a shoulder.
Naturally, we dismissed his declaration as the work of an idle mind. But today, he brought it up again. “I want to experience what it is to live in a woman’s body,” he stated.
This time Banoo Apa took him seriously. She advised him to be happy with how he was born

Arun Patil with THE bag

as he had no clue “of the problems women have to endure in silence because of their gender”. Yusuf Rassiwala also advised him to drop the idea as “the grass is always greener on the other side” and who knows, he could even be tempting Shekhawat to get after him. “That is my only problem,” Arun confessed in all sincerity. “I do not want to end up being Shekhawat’s fifth saali!”
Yesterday, when Arun brought up the subject, he was seen carrying Rukhsana Khan’s handbag

Mallika Kagzi's (left) chai pe charcha

(along with her walking stick) – something he had been doing regularly so that she gets to take a few rounds of the Garden on her own. Instead of saying so, he explained that he was only “practicing what it is to be a female” before he undergoes a sex change operation.
Only Dilip Babani took him for his word. But clearly, he had mistaken a transgender for a cross-dresser – perhaps, even a eunuch. Alarmed at the prospect of confronting a profusely powdered clean-shaven Arun dressed in a slinky saree and see-through blouse with lipstick, eyeliner, earrings and red nail polish, he promptly cautioned him on the rigors of turning into a drag queen.
“It's hard work," Dilip said. "You'll have to go door to door clapping and asking for money. Don’t you see them landing uninvited wherever a baby is born? It can be terribly embarrassing. You'll be making a nuisance of yourself!”
They say an idle mind is a devil’s workshop. Out here, with so many senior citizens around, we seem to be setting up a major industrial hub.
Dilip Babani:
Arun-ji works in films. He has seen live acting of all actors. So he is an expert in acting. Whatever acting you want, Arun will do. I am sure he can do nice acting of ladies -- how they talk, how they walk, how they laugh, how they fight...
Anonymous:
There are takers for organs like heart, kidney, etc. But it will be difficult finding a taker for the organ Arun will donate.
Karun Sharma:
Let us imagine "Aruna" joins Big Laaf. She will give back immediately to any public comment of Arun. After all, we have both feminine and masculine qualities built within ourselves. The ratio varies from person to person. Arun actually is soft inside but has put on a hard exterior to protect his inner self.