Television (Tele) Round-up for the week

It was Friday evening and unlike any other Fridays’, I had no plans for the evenings to go out. I reached home, had a quite dinner, watched a bit of tele and went off to sleep. I realized that I didn’t have much too do on Saturday as well or rather I was not in a mood to do much. Here comes the idea, why not just stay in bed and watch tele for the whole weekend. It was going to be nothing but a disaster. The following is a list of some of the stuff that I watched on the tele over the weekend.

News on the Cartoons: There has been a global protest over a string of cartoons of Prophet which have published in a Danish Newspaper. People have been out on the streets and protesting in smallest of the cities of India such as Ajmer, Jodhpur, Ghaziabad etc.  A simple question, how is a protest (violent in nature) by some irresponsible people who have no idea what the cartoons look like is going to solve the purpose. On top of it, in an instance in Jodhpur, at a place where Salman Khan’s court case hearing was going on and the protestors were passing from outside, the protestors forgot the agenda and mobbed the court shouting “Salman Zindabad” slogans.


Channel V Big Concert: I was thrilled coz few of the good bands I like performed at the concert and I was eager to catch a bit of the gig.  What do I see, Aryans, a band was performing and OH MY GOD, there I see a band member, with not a single hair on his head but pretty much everywhere else visible through his sleeveless t-shirt. Not to mention that he had a big belly and the band performance was pathetic. The concert started early in the day and the organizers being smart kept the minnows performance in the start when there were not too many people around. Anyways, few bad hours I spent watching it.

Cricket: Though India won the One-day cricket match series and the match as convincingly as you would have seen before, the pre-shows and the post shows killed me. I love to hear good comments but Please only from people who have played good cricket and have contributed to the game. Here is the scenario; Atul Wassan (played International cricket for one season and was a terrible performer) is cribbing about some Indian Strategy on one channel and so are some of his counter parts such as Saba Karim, Ian Bishop and many more about other cricketing issues. Dude, you have no right to pin-point at Sachin, if missed out in one innings or if Irfan Pathan gave away too many runs. Please go home and check your career statistics and see what you have done in your career.

Stardust Awards: A mega set, huge gathering of film stars and all of them swearing that this is the most prestigious award (which they do at every award show). Was just wondering, how many stardust would be selling in India that they come up with this kind of a mega show. Malaika (Malai-Kha) Arora was looking stunning but hey she was just boring with her long worded sentences and boring dialogues (even my dog would have slept hearing that). Ritesh Deshmukh (son of Vilas Rao Deshmukh, Maharashtra CM) collected the award for Best Supporting Actor for the movie Kya Kool Hain Hum and spoke “that the award came as a surprise”  Yeah Right!!, pays off to be son of a CM ain’t it otherwise how can you justify non – recognition of Naseerudin Shah’s and Amitabh Bacchan’s performance.


It all was turning out to be a bit of mess so I decided to go out for a movie on Sunday, Wedding Crashers, and was a good reprieve from the Television disaster I was facing. I swear to God, I will derive some other means for spending time constructively than watching television.