DesiDabba - Boss, Thoda Sa Roomani Ho Jaye
To put it simply, DesiDabba is our effort to be your one-stop guide into one of the world's most lucrative television market, The Indian Television Industry. So enjoy and bring on the traffic. More about Desi Dabba
Khuda Ke Liye, Watch it.
A daft television actor along with his equally (or even more) daft girl friend bumping into another daft couple (friends) in the cinema hall’s lift.
Daft Couple: “So how did you find the movie?”
Daft Television Actor: “Hmmmmm……..”
(Intrusion)
Daft Girlfriend: “It was so slow yaaar. I nearly slept thru most of it. How boring!”
(Yours truly standing next to the daft couples. Utilizing all the energy required to keep her trap shut and hands from smacking the shits out of the daft girlfriend – just because of mama dearest’s presence)
American Idol: And Then There Were 24
American Idol just handed me the best Valentine’s Day gift that I have got in a while - they nixed 18 year old Josiah Leming from the Top 24. I was so sure this kid was going to make it when he turned on the tap at the end of the Hollywood Round and got three (three!) “yes”s. Thank you, show. Now don’t ruin it by re-introducing the wild card option and bringing him back.
Instead, the top 24 seem pretty normal. I’m shocked. Where are the drama queens and the sympathy inclusions? The annoying people Randy and Paula usually vote in just to piss Simon off? Eh, those bits probably got left on the cutting room floor. Coz, you know, this is their most talented season yet. Never heard that before, have you?
Review : Say Shaava Shaava To Worst Reality Show Of All
Sameer Nair’s highly ambitious and the most talked about Indian television channel, NDTV Imagine was launched yesterday with much (exaggerated) fanfare. Though I have to admit in spite of hiring almost all well-known faces of the (not-so-small-anymore) desi-television Industry, NDTV Imagine never really grabbed my attention. My logic is quite simple – all Hindi channels cater to similar target audience, therefore a new entrant in actuality cannot afford to be different. All they do is present us with old goods, only in new packaging. And quite frankly, I am very much content with investing my spare time in BBC Entertainment – which is in fact a refreshing break from all the American crap we have been subjected to off-late.
However one of the so-called sensational shows on Imagine that caught my eye (during the publicity phase) and happened to be home on time to catch it on the idiot box was, yet again, a reality show named Say Shaava Shaava.
From the looks of it, Say Shaava Shaava had everything going for it.
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Om Shanti Om’s Old Time-y Music
Movies, as Akira Kurosawa observed with such penetrating simplicity in his book Something Like An Autobiography, are not just a visual medium – they’re an audio-visual one. To ignore one is to harm the other.
Is Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Fixed?
Is that beloved circus of mine Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Challenge fixed? Now, my immediate answer would be “Does it matter?” But I know a lot of people seem to care. Why is the long finger of aspersion being cast on SRGMP, you might ask. There are several theories that stoke suspicion.
