Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Tele suffering

Yesterday was some festival and they had declared a holiday for it. For me it meant a day long of boredom and of course no free lunch. I could still have gone to office and spent time reading books and surfing. But some how I was too reluctant to get out of bed , and thought I would watch TV for a change. I wonder how often I have made this decision and when was the last time that I didn't regret doing so. So the day was again full of unheard miseries for me. It was rakshabandhan, and all news channels were busy inventing creative titles and defining lower bound of reporting ethics. So one channel surfed how film stars celebrate this festival. Some other took viewers to preeti jhangiani's(remember any one?) place, where she in a garish make up, with more consciousness to look good rather than worry about the rakhi and all, tied it to her brother with lot of drama and shhweetness. Some one took their viewers to rakhi sawant's home and mentioned that her brother once gave her a dress(?) made of one rupee coins and had her dance in the film 'hotmail'! quite a brotherly act, I must say.Some how i feel that associating rakhi(festival) with her is like imagining peking fried duck on the mention of donald duck. But the burnt crust( as opposite of icing) of the cake was 'kalai per kafan' story by some channel, they were referring to a murder which took place in jaipur, whose anniversary coincided with rakhi this year. The pressmen kept prodding the hapless father and sister of the diseased, 'Aapko kaisa lag raha hai', what a absurd thing to ask to a bereaved family! Some other channel before break told their viewers that they will tell you Bipasha basu's secret of how to celebrate rakhi, if you have no brother. After the break, she enlightened the mortals, 'girls, tie one to each other' , while busy cutting ribbons and collecting freebees. And aajtak dug out one bai from the village which bill clinton visited, and bai sahab(among many others) tied a rakhi to him. 'Haan to behanjee, aapko rakhi per kaisa mehsoos ho raha hai!' . And the lady described that she had been sending rakhi every year to clinton, and he never replied, all the while bill's image was on screen with 'bhaiya mere rakhi ke bandhan ko nibhana' in background! Heavens, no wonder that in the west indians are looked down upon. I would rather be known as someone from snake charmer's land than press reporter's one. Noble profession being it, at least some creatures they charm.I decided that enough of news, lets watch movies . So I started watching 'dil diya dard liya' starring dilip kumar. And just replace dil by 'wakt' to know my fate, boy if ever I have come across a movie with such an asinine story! The film had dilip kumar and all his mannerisms, excellent mimicry/parody material. Some very good music(phir teri kahani yaad aayi, koi sagar dil ko behlata nahi plus the title song). But the story ? You have to see this film to find out. Luckily saw 'the castle' after it which kind of made me feel better. But soon after that there was some tushar kapoor film(name dosn't matter), with him ridng a harley! I had to close TV and sleep, i thanked god i was not prop. of harley, otherwise would have to spend time writing a disclaimer.

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