My efforts in reducing this newly-acquired pot-belly of mine has met with mixed results. For the last few days rain has been playing spoilsport to my plans in the evening and an early riser I am not. So still a long way to go in search of that elusive flat profile.
Anyways, this long stretch of holidays has given me ample of time to watch anything and everything on the idiot box. With the ever-pervasive saas-bahu serials on at every imaginable hour and the cable network offering limited access to viewable channels I had to switch on to MTV. Now I am not a very big fan of MTV ( [V] is rather my favorite..but then beggars can't be choosers). Cyrus's jokes seem to be taking the poorer route every day and Nikhil's MTV Select seems to have come with strict instructions to receive calls only asking for Hindi songs. Either MTV has been hit by some desi syndrome or more likely, its database of songs is not what it has been.
So a few days back when I switched on the television I saw a new female anchor on one of the shows VJ Sophie. The show she's hosting deals with the current Hindi chart-toppers and yet she's churning out English in a manner comprehensible only to those on a flight back from the US of A. She's making a tour of Mumbai on an open top bus while doing all these gimmicks. And it is then that she drops the bomb!!! She has never made a journey by any of the public means of transport : no buses, trains, autos or the like. To me, an Indian not having experienced these is simply unimaginable. It just shows how out of sync she must be with the general Indian "junta". The fact that a VJ who is supposed to be the means of communication between the television and the public of India does not have an inkling of the average middle class Indian's daily life is really reassuring. However she cannot be faulted for not having had such an experience. Maybe she was indeed born with a silver spoon in her mouth. But kudos to MTV who has such people on its bench making it truly representative of today's Indian "youth".
For some reason Cyrus Broacha as an MTV VJ seems a much encouraging prospect!!!
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i loved the blog....simple and straight...and now knowing all these facts about sophie who by chance also happens to be a pathetic singer; all i can say is that sophie sucks .... We all hate you sophie...go away frm our lives.........:)
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