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Due to an unexpectedly late ‘monthly meet’ at office, I was back in Delhi for a consecutive weekend - a first ever since I shifted to Agra. It kept parents happy, though my car and me were extremely grim when we heard of the trip. You don’t have ‘monthly review’ meets when the next month is just ten days away from its own closure! But admittedly, the bigger concern was to get my lazy bones moving towards the tyre shop to get the burst one replaced. I postponed and procrastrinated till the very end, and eventually trudged to a nearby shop on Friday late evening. Since I had no experience of buying a tyre - and neither did any of my colleagues - so listened half heartedly to the talk given by the shop-owner about ‘double rubber’, ‘ZVT’ as just another sales pitch. The third hurdle was that to reach Delhi on time, I would have had to wake up at 4 in the morning. Which I did.

Monthly review meets are essentially same in all organizations; I will skip the details.

Movies

Some childhood memories - often pretty silly ones too - get so sharply etched in the mind that they form the basis of one’s persona. I have a list of few movie scenes that disturbed me no end, and continue to do so even now. One such scene was in a Reena Roy starrer where her cruel mom-in-law (at the instigation of the villain) tries to remove her by serving her kheer cooked with a lizard. However, Roy is saved since another lizard jumps from the chandelier just as she is about to eat the poisoned dish. The villain remarks ‘Chhipkali bhi chhipkali ka saath de gayi’ - an implication more for Roy than for the animal. Whether it is due to my innate fear of the reptile, or perhaps the fear arises from watching this scene, the film has been there in my sub-conscious throughout. Till date, when I am boiling milk, I refuse to be away from the heated pan even for a millisecond lest some enterprising lizard jumps into it (not that I can stop it if it wants to do this daring act)!

When I saw the film listed in a channel’s schedule in a daily some days back I was curious to watch it again. But the timing didnt suit me. Knowing that Sahara Filmy (or for that matter any channel) has a fetish for re-playing movies at short intervals, I didn’t fret too much. The film got shown twice or thrice, but each time I couldn’t catch it. But on Sunday morning, I was free - and finally watched Sau Din Saas Ke - an eighties family drama, with content not much different from various daily soaps. Will watching it again have a cathartic effect on me? I can’t say!

Also saw a bit of Khosla Ka Ghosla while having a haircut at the barber’s shop. Hilarious as always, love this film!

Too Much

Clearly, the media is unaware when to call it quits. Too much of a good thing isn’t really good. And they have stretched the Shilpa Shetty episode longer than her legs! I kept away from news channels, but then the print media was awash with her tears and its repercussions. Till Sunday it was fine, but opening the op-ed page today to find more write-ups on it was puke-inducing!

Ordinarily, I am not the one to comment on someone’s money - I find it really in bad taste. In that sense, I would have naturally gone with what her mother says - just because she is paid well, doesn’t mean she can be treated like shit. However, Vir Sanghvi’s argument struck a chord - her contract would have mentioned that she would have to endure tough times, including verbal abuse; plus, she would have seen footages of previous episodes as well. Hence, the need for a reality check on this issue. Another hilarious piece was in another daily (no I am not still naming it , despite praising the article) on its centre page - though Shobha De’s article on the same page was very thanda and bland! As the former writer wrote (I am forgetting his name) that the moral outrage in Bihar sounds funny. In all probabilities they would burn effigies of Blair and co. against racialism, and the same evening go on to burn a couple who would have dared to marry outside their respective castes.

I hope this is the last that we hear from Shilpa Shetty and clan, and hope she wins Big Brother - as another article mentioned, we are bound to get overjoyed if she does so, but her win is not akin to winning the Olympics. Let’s keep the distinction sharply visible.

Technorati : Big Brother, Reena Roy, Shilpa Shetty, Vir Sanghvi

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