Cast in wax

Star World’s Karan Johar Koffeed with liquor baron Vijay Mallya and one-time Sultan of Sleaze turned social commentator Shobha De last Sunday. Ms De at her attractive best was pat with her responses to the Rapid Fire Round… but why Salman for the stimulus Viagra, Shobha dear? Sheer De power?

Flight of the Phoenix… on Star Movies… a real Saturday night treat it was. It’s all about a plane crashing in a Mongolian desert and how the survivors manage to escape by building a smaller plane out of the wreckage of the huge, original aircraft in deplorable conditions too. The most thought-provoking dialogue that stood out: Spirituality is not religion; religion divides people.

Talking of dialogues, brings me to Sabira’s grooming on diction and presentation skills for the Femina Main Miss Indias on Zoom. Sabira’s good words could have been grooming tips for anybody preparing for a presentation, projection should always flow from within you.

Brings one to lust… for power at its greatest… blow twice the air into a 4-litre engine of a Blower Bentley and you get an 8-litre engine…and man, what a powerful engine it proved in Massive Engines With Chris Barrie on Discovery Channel.

The more Breaking News was IBN7’s, on 150 election cards being created using pictures of the same man to create election cards in U.P. of men of different ages and even to create election cards of women; mind you, all using the same picture; and all this under the nose of the authorities concerned in Etawah in UP Does the name ring a bell? Kaisa connections rakhtein hain filmi log! (The film folk are well connected.) Even if they’re friends, doesn’t the country come first? So folks, do we have any hopes of a fair election in Uttar Pradesh? Did we ever, anyway?

Also relevant was IBN7’s Special Story, For the Love of Puppy — Hyderabad police reported a couple who together committed suicide on the death of their 13-year-old puppy. Ever seen puppy love in a sense more literal than that?

Headlines Today waxed eloquent on the unveiling of King Khan’s wax idol. Thank God, it was vast improvement on the plastic Aishwarya and the very waxen Amitabh. If only the audio that accompanied SRK’s unveiling had not ranted on about starry tax troubles and stamp duty penalties of celebrated Bollywood personalities of Kareena, Subhash Ghai, KJo, and Bipasha simultaneously.