Reality Strikes Back
Back here in India, strikes do work - almost always. Except during exceptional times when I declare in my house - I won’t do the dishes today. It works partially - as I have to work on double the number of dishes the next day .
But it seems the strike in the Indian TV industry has come at the right time. Ekta Kapoor might call it a divine intervention that her show has been kicked out, but it gives a lot of people a lot of different things to do. For instance, TV stars, including your beloved Raja Hasan are now playing cricket and bowling different kinds of maidens. A number of Indians, reportedly, are going out for dinner, reading books and some spouses are occasionally talking to each other as well.
On the other hand, the strike would one day come to end - hopefully with better wages for people who are demanding it - and then the TV sets will be back with all the fresh garbage that we are so desperate to watch. All good things, sadly, don’t last forever.
Back on the reality singers’ front, there’s a lot more things brewing. Encouraged by the fact that strikes do work, reality show singers , reportedly have now ganged up, created a union and now have a list of demands from producers. Unless these are met - they would not be part of any drama on the show, they say. “We’ll just walk on stage, sing and go back”. How boring.
RajaHasan.com with its remarkable sources has managed to get a draft copy of the reality singers’ demands. Though the strike hasn’t been officially called yet, this is what they will be demanding in all probability.
1. Monty Sharma will not be allowed to say the word “attack” more than twenty five times in any episode of Star Voice of India.
2. As air-conditioners are hardly effective at the Saregamapa studios, huge fans should be installed at the studios. Right now, fans and blowers are not installed as it is believed that they could blow away Himesh’s toupee.
3. Ear-plugs to be distributed freely to everyone in the studios, in the event that Himesh decides to sing.
4. At least 50% of the people selected in the Indian Idol auditions should be able to sing.
5. Pritam Chakraborty to get a hair-cut.
6. Anu Malik to be allowed to sing “inspired” music during the shoots instead of his original and on-the-spot compositions.
7. Costumes for singers in Saregamapa not to be designed anymore by the Darzi at New Look Tailors in Ghatkoper.
8. Kyunki Saas Bhi to be reinstated - and Tulsi to be played by a younger looking Smriti Irani - Asma.
9. When judges do a walk-out - escort them out of the studios and gift them a CD with the evergreen hit “Hit the road Jack and don’t comeback“.
10. Shankar and Himesh to be coupled as one team - like Vishal-Shekhar - instead of needlessly having two judges chatofying each other.
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oh my god manish! kya likhte ho tum!
very funny. great sence of humour.
ek baat manani hogi ki tumhara observation bahut kamaal ka hai.
jab maine asma ko first time dekha tha to main bhi yeh keh uthi thee ki array ye to bilkul tulsi ki tareh dikhti hai.
tum jo new vocabulary bana rahe ho wo bhi kamaal ki hai jaise chatofying..
in fact tum kamaal hi kamaal ho.
the less said abt ’star voice of india’ the better…monty sharma and sukhwinder always try to be funny and they are pathetic.always utter nonsense like ‘attack & relax”…
hahahahahaha
so bibi and you are talking now is it?????
and having nice candle light romantic ten course dinners????
Doesn’t a ten-course dinner mean ten times more dishes?
hehe that’s right but biwi is free so she cooks you enjoy the food enjoy romantic candle light dinner and sweet nothingnesses whispered and so the dishes are not such a big problem for a satiated soul right?
think of me. then you will feel on top of the world pucca guaranteed
HAHAHA!!!! This one is really good!!!!
Manish thanks,this was hilarious.
@Padma
Manish thinking of you means thinking of your nose -;) Now, he has got younger looking Smriti Irani to think of
oh YES praveen and she is nothing but nose. wow what a thought!!! great now manish will be off my back. hehe
aray ………its better to think abt BAA..TULSI’S SAAS.
b’coz aftr eight long years she remains ever green.lol
i wil cast BAA opposite dev anand and i m sure the film will be super duper flop.
HAHAHA
Hillarious…too good
MFSO&H
can anyone plss let me kno, in dostana which part of song is sung by Raja???b’coz i m confused abt vishal’s voice and Raja’s…
if not wrong he sang
“Hosh gul sapno ki mein bandhu gull
Aankh kab khuli
Khabar nahi khabar nahi”
yeah..thank u ros..actually its a beautiful song,but some confusion was thr as far as Raja’s voice is concerned..amanat part is vry clear though.
yea im kindda addicted to it
listen to it for about 40 times today hahaha
Hatts of to you Ros,
Kya Ahmed ji, aap Raja ko pehechaan nahi paaye?
jo background me aalaap hai aur shuru me amanat ki words khatam hone ko aaye tabhi se Raja ka shuru hotha hai aur poora gaane me Raja ko sun sakte hai aur jaise Ros ne kaha particularly “Aankh khab khuli” line me “Aankh” word se tho Raja ne jaan leliya hai.
Yes Ros, even Im addicted to this song.
I couldn’t spot any mention of Raja Hasan in the end credits of the movie. Not in the list of playback singers - not in list of chorus vocals either.
aray lavanya….aisa math kaho ki mai Raja ko pehcHAN nahi paaya..agar aisa hota to mai humari is family kaa hissa nahi hotaa…
actually as far as the song ‘khabar nahi’ is concernd,its nt the usual Raja type of song tht we are used to…Raja has sung it vry softly.so tht’ why thr was little confusion .
Dostana is probably the best release of the year - though it is at times outrageous, over-the-top and sluggish. It doesn’t really rank as Dharma Productions’ best - probably becuase two people are missing from the script - Karan Johar and dialogue writer Niranjan Iyengar.
Still, it is better than what Bollywood has been dishing out recently.
The Khabar Nahin song runs almost the whole of the second half - almost like a theme song. The english version of Khabar Nahin has also come out well.
ditto as manish. no raja name in any list but not the best release of the year though that credit goes to jaane tu according to me but feel good time pass fun film. last half an hour or so sluggish and could have done with better editing. at least two songs sounded a little lifted, one fron SEL kal ho na ho song (desi girl especially for the dholak beats and shankar’s voice and the whole composition - some jhalak of pretty woman i think if i am getting the song right) and slight lift of I just called to say i love you - lionel ritchie, at least that’s what i felt
HAHA! thats ALL really funny! heeehee! btw i dont think that ear lugs wud workk and do the etire job wen himesh sings. lets be a little more generous and give everybody somethin else to block out thee singing(or is it not even singing
) hehee kdding.