MTV Desi is back in Amrikan land. Only it’s not called MTV Desi anymore – it’s plain old MTV and me thinks being beamed straight from India. Which is fantastic because the songs are chronologically right and not from 1700 B.J. (Before Jeetendra) times. And there are plenty of them – Chitrahar forever ! The […]
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Koffee with Karan : All Gere’d up
After the Shipa-Gere hullaballoo, Richard Gere seemed a natural choice to come on Koffee with Karan. He appeared much the same as he did in “Pretty Woman”, maybe frailer and with glasses. Charm flowed in a direct stream from Gere to me, the viewer, the TV screen and the thousands of miles being not a […]
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Koffee with Karan this time had Karan, Bipasha Basu and John Abraham. Karan was his usual gossipy self (“tell me more darling”). Bipasha and John come across as a sweet couple, very easy-going and as down-to-earth as a gorgeous couple like them can be. They apparently don’t agree on anything, says Bipasha. And while she […]
Read the rest of this entry »Bachchan TV : Are you bored yet ?
On the TV I see big, solid GATES. A few moments pass by, but the picture is unwavering. Still the same GATES. GATES which open and close, leaving me with glimpses of a few, well-dressed people, gathered inside. The camera slowly pans over the large GATES, searching for some orifice, through which to peer. A […]
Read the rest of this entry »Cricket : The mildly interested viewer’s POV
Living with a cricket enthusiast, one, however unwilling, does watch certain amounts of cricket and does glean a very basic (and probably erroneous – I only half-listen) knowledge of the game. Over the years I have learnt that lbw is an abbreviation and not some quaint, unpronounceable cricketing term (oh, the English !), and when […]
Read the rest of this entry »How boring can you get ?
As boring as Hrithik Roshan in “Koffee with Karan”. Really, the guy can have the fittest body in all of Bollywood, but is he witty ? NO. He tries, yes, he does. But does he succeed ? NO. In KWK he was so amazingly inane that he threatened to take the crown from the master […]
Read the rest of this entry »Fair and Lovely and worth it ?
Courtesy Robert Burns (and the Web) , I get to hear this : . . .Fair and lovely as thou art,Thou hast stown my very heart;. . . Courtesy Salon.com I get to hear about the furor on the “Fair and Lovely” marketing campaign. Note that this is the very cream that was the reason […]
Read the rest of this entry »Amitabh and the glorification of UP
With all the brouhaha in UP, there are also new ads on UP on NDTV. I say ads because there are a few, all very skillfully shot, featuring Amitabh Bachhan paying tribute to Uttar Pradesh. Along with making little of UP’s detractors, and pooh-poohing away the possibility of an increase in crime in UP, it […]
Read the rest of this entry »The Sawal (and Jawab) of the week
Recently on KBC : SRK : Which of the following is not a type of coffee : A) CappucinoB) EspressoC) MochaD) Darjeeling Contestant : D) Darjeeling SRK : And D is correct because Darjeeling is . . . (waits for contestant to fill in) Contestant : A hill-station
Read the rest of this entry »Making Koffee without spilling the beans
Watching NDTV the other day, I come across this ad. for Koffee with Karan. Oooh, why is a rival channel (NDTV) advertising KWK which comes on Star ? Only it’s not exactly “Koffee with Karan” – it’s actually a preview for “Koffee with Karan”. A full-fledged program, by itself. On NDTV. How is Johar managing […]
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