These days, all TV channels seems to be talking about them. What she wears, what he wears, what the invite looks like…Shaadi ke laddoo…mehndi…
How much does the TRP for channels go up now? God Alone Knows…But on an aam junta note, I want to dig in more…like every other curious Indian…
For God’s sake, she cannot act…and yes, beauty…she is for the male homo sapien version. He, learnt his lessons the hard way, got stylish and more mature…somewhere a glimpse of the act of acting shines. They belong to families, his, the famous crowd pulling Bachchan clan and hers, a middle class normal types…!
Now why is it that Indians, including me, sit blink eyed when it comes to celebrity marriages, endorsements, helping the poor shows…thankfully yours truly is still not struck by the reality tv bug…are we so so fanatically celeb-crazy?
How I think of it, if merely as entertainment. The in-built curiousity of an Indian to know what goes in the other’s house…the irresistible urge to know, let know, and more. Were we like this all through?
Hmmm…didn’t we know decades back about Amitabh and Rekha relationship? Yes Sir, we did…
Didn’t we know that Pandit Nehru, somewhere in his heart had a softer corner for Mrs. Edwina Mountbatten? Yes Sir, we did…
Didn’t we know that Lord Krishna was…hello…we have reached centuries behind…
So coming back to the point…maybe the TV channels today know and they definitely know to capitalise on this “knowledge bank” that the Indians love to collect…now what do we do about it?
“You know…there was this girl who wrote this article…about Abhi and Ash, I am sure she is depressed in her life…She is not married…”
See…I just told you the same!!!
Cheers!
Big B or Not!
So there was this sudden uproar in my team! Big B to be nominated as the next President of India! ok…take a deep breath and read again!
I browsed through the comments galore in a website, typed something…then thought, what the hell would people who doesn’t know Chavez do when they read my comment!!! So I nicely deleted the comment.Coming back to Big B…was there a need for the nomination? It made me think again about the celebrity-starved Indian stomachs…we need to know more, about Ash, and Abhi…and SRK and his watch, about Sarika…about oh yeah, the ‘firangi’ anna nicole baby…ouch!!! of course, even i do discuss “stories” of this genre when in company, i do love to watch “Zoom” and “Night-out”, thats just a different take on my kind of socialising…there are times when you just cannot escape!!!
and lord, yours truly is hurt!
how can India debate about trivialities strung on a thread loosely hanging on a link in a website…you waste hours finding the ex-presidents…typing comments all over the place, only to find the poor mr. Big B denying it off as a rumour! gleee…i would love to see that!!!
Note: My journalism diploma wavers somewhere amidst the clouds, when I think again, about the unkept promises to the society, about revolutionising the way the world works…!
The sound byte still lingers around, “oh journalism…yes! (i)dea is about changing people’s mindsets…way of thinking…!” Then I realised, the world does not need any more heroes, they don’t need revolutionaries, life moves on till 60-70 and then you lose the breath…nothing remains, not even the comments in the websites!