News Channels in India never fail to amuse me these days. Ever since they turned 24X7 they have become more creative and make sure they provide the curious viewer enough gossip, trivia and entertainment and did we want news??? When bored of monotonous K soaps,I turn to news channels to catch up on Bollywood, Bihar or to take a crash course on dramatizing any calamity. Did I say I planned on making Karan Johar type movies some day??
When I tuned in today a woman who had incidentally just landed from the Amsterdam plane, was possibly cursing her luck for being intercepted by a journalist who asked questions almost like a psychoanalysis round:
Journalist: So when the plane turned back did any of the passengers have any clue what was happening
Lady (totally excited) : No No, we were all asked to look in the front ( now does that mean anything?)
Journalist: So what exactly happened on the plane
Lady (Recollecting): There were bunch of people, they had a lot of cell phones which they exchanged across the journey.
Journalist (Running out of questions): So did any of the passengers have any clue what was happening??
Lady: No we were just all very quiet. ( wow different question different answer)
And the saga went on and this question almost popped up as a filler.
Journalist: Blah blah
Lady: I wanna leave and get home for Christs sakes! I was already delayed by a day!
Irked by the plane saga,I changed channels and found the TV displaying a video preview of the scene at the Indian Parliament. Portion of this video (what seemed almost like a snippet from a possibly porn movie) was pixilated. It turned out that some dude called Sadhu Yadav was kicking Prabhunath Singh and another MP jumped over the table to actually separate these two morons clad in a Dhoti looking like they were fighting in a "mushtandon ka akhaada" News reporters then were shown interviewing Mr Laloo was his expert opinion on the issue cos probably he is the most well behaved of the lot we have. They reach out to kids asking them if what happened was ethical..Poor kids posed with a choice between political entertainment and a politically right answer looked torn answering the same.
Anyways I am sure if I cared long enough I would have figured why SRK loves hugging Priety or If Ayesha Takia really got a return gift for tying a Rakhi to Nagesh Kukunoor. In the world where breaking news at 8.00 p.m can have a kid in a village in Bihar being pleaded by reporters to get out from under a khaatiya (which could be lifted mind you). All this to cover a tyrant mother story !! Where news can have titles like "Thand Main Thiturti Uma Bharti" who narrates the story of a plane headed to Delhi which midway changes it course to land in Pakistan. Then compares it to the way BJP functions, subtly at that..( man she should have a show of her own),I am sure the viewer shall be entertained and more emotions shall be cast, more disasters dramatized, trivialised by over exposure. Whoever said NEWS meant information and highlights of earth shattering events...After my 10 mins of viewership, I AM a more informed and aware individual ..so why complain!
