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A Jackie Chan lookalike plumps for MGR
M. Dinesh Varma
CHENNAI: “Between Jackie Chan and MGR, I will go for MGR,” declared UNICEF official Kunihiko Chris Hirbayashi to members of the audience who are momentarily undecided whether to applaud or laugh. It is moot that by the time he finished his cameo speech at the launch of a two-day workshop on maternal and infant mortality on Thursday, they had indulged in both, in ample measure.
For Mr. Hirbayashi, both Jackie Chan and M. G. Ramachandran were terrific actors who had pulled off some of the most amazing stunts on screen. But, unlike Chan, MGR plunged into politics to eventually become a Chief Minister, who made a huge difference to the lives of the masses, he said.
Mr. Hirbayashi, who is UNICEF deputy director-programmes, India country office, Delhi, said he was always mistaken for Jackie Chan.
“Sometimes, children run after me for autographs….and I oblige them too.”
An accomplished paediatric heart surgeon, Mr. Hirbayashi recollected the incident that made him give up a lucrative career for a position that would help him improve the lot of the underprivileged worldwide. In 1994, while in transit, Mr. Hirbayashi randomly picked up a copy of The New York Times. He recalled how the Pulitzer-winning photograph of a scraggy girl child with a vulture sensing feed in the frame hit him in the face. His life was never the same after that.
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