Tall Tales

Fahmida Khan (standing) cooking up a new story

Bijoy Gupta is not the only laugh-a-minute comic around. He faces good competition from the likes of Zarina Khan, Rukhsana Khan, Razia Khan… And now we have Fahmida Khan topping them all.
Today she came up with a bizarre story to explain her absence yesterday. She said she had to make an urgent trip to Dubai. And she rushed up there and back within a day on a bicycle – yes, pedaling to and fro on bike!
That’s not all. She had been on a major shopping spree and returned with a lot of valuables, including gold biscuits. “But the customs have impounded everything, including the bike,” she complained.

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“What am I to do now?”
It takes kilos of fertile imagination to conjure such outlandish stories – and that too, at the drop of a hat. This is Fahmida’s forte. She can get away screaming blue murder by the way she’d spin a yarn with a straight face, eventually making you doubt your own sanity.
But it is all in fun -- her favourite punching bag being close friend Zarina. Whether it is her panicking at the sight of a black cobra in the garden or a rebellious mule tossing her off its back on some picnic, trust Fahmida to add mirch masala that will leave you in splits.
The other day, she buttonholed Banoo Apa’s husband at the Garden gate. The man was on his way home, but for some inexplicable reason Fahmida needed to dissuade him from walking it all the way.
“There are a bunch of beautiful girls lying in wait as you turn the corner of the road,” she warned out of the blue. “They are notorious for ambushing men. You can never say what they might do. Forget the police, no power on earth can stop them… Seriously, I am very concerned for you.”
The gentleman of course, knew better than to believe her.

Lt Col Angad Singh (rtd):
The Sea God was waiting to devour Fahmida Khan. Luckily for her, he went to sleep when she crossed the Arabian Sea with gold biscuits!