aaj rapat jaye...

And so the big debate for the week is the Big B of course. It seems each of his actions constantly need to be examined by a media microscope. But of course, Bachchchchan’s shenanigans with Parveen Babi or Rekha don’t matter of course. He was being a mard (or was is merde) after all.

But this time it was Modi, we have to be specific nowadays, the Gujarat ka sher Modi, Narendrabhai of course. There was some tomfoolery about Bachchchchchchan becoming Gujarat’s brand ambassador and the congress smelling some brownies with the grand begum, condemned it. Then begum asked Chavan to get Bachchchchchan’s autograph with a line below it saying ‘aaj rapat jaye toh hamein na utahayo’. So the controversy blew over.

For most of us.

The media smelled something else. They smelt blood, the way predators of yore and the 1421 types left in India do. There were debates galore on all television channels.
“Is Big B endorsing Modi’s politics?” debate: kjhbjbswjbcjbskcjbekjbkjbk (ad infinitum)
“Is Bachchchchchan only an actor or is it deeper than that?” debate: jfevjhejw (ditto)
“How can bachchchchchchan appear with congress and BJP leaders?” (ditto)
When will there be food security?” aaaaaaaahahahahahahhahahahahahhahaha….
How…ahahahahahahhahahahahahhahahahahahha
And so on.

NDTV’s left, right and center (catchy name, but it could have been called directionless instead. Reminds me of the colosseum days when a man was tied to four horses in different directions and ripped apart. But all that’s ripped apart on the show is of course the interested viewer).

Coming to you live tonight a new NDTV LR&C starring-
Abishiek Manu Singhvi (in this 4037th performance)
Swapan Das Gupta (ditto)
Vir Sanghvi (ditto minus 302)
Mahesh Bhatt (He was free and Chandan mitra or Teesta were not available)

So the usual rubbish began, Singhvi first, Gupta retorts, Sanghvi gives his centrist point of view and Mahesh mouths all their comments in some other form or the other.

But the most interesting segment was when Nidhi Rajdhan looked Gupta square in the eye and said.
“Swapan tell me, honestly, honestly, some random question.”
OK.
First of all the guests on this show are primarily spokespersons for various political parties, not their agents of consciousness or their ideological devisors.
So repeating the word honestly over and over again, probably only caused her guests some minor nausea. Honest for most of these guys is only the name of a restaurant found in Baroda. Or perhaps shorthand for hornet’s nest. Or even a den of promiscuity if we were to consider American urban slang.