Stop Hunting !!!! Save Humans !!!

Recently there was a huge hue and cry in Great Britain over the ban on fox hunting. The age old custom was considered by many as non- conforming to these modern times; it was a relic from the past. This ban angered the fox hunters, and there were unprecedented scenes of protest outside parliament and in the streets of London. One wise guy even managed to enter the House of Commons. This in a nutshell was the fracas over fox hunting

In India, there is a different kind of hunting going on. Well, actually not just one kind of hunting, but many. Consider this

The hunt for the Indian idol
The hunt for next best commentator
The hunt for the next super singer
The hunt for the best rock band
The hunt for the item bomb

If you are wondering what it is all about, well these are some of the TV shows currently playing in various channels. The hunting craze has taken over the TV stations. Each channel is trying to come with a new hunt, to keep all those channel surfers to pause and have a look.

Usually this jumping into the bandwagon thing happens only after a program of the same genre becomes a hit. Example, when the Indian version of who wants to be a millionaire became a hit, there was a wave of prime time quiz shows across the channels. But now surprisingly all these “hunt” events have started almost simultaneously. Everybody saw the success of American idol and wanted to ape it. And ended up clogging our TV screens with an overdose of such reality shows.

And it is not all that real; most of these reality shows have a script to follow. The lady who barged into the TV studio of Indian Idol and raised a ruckus over her daughter being not selected was actually a part time actor, and guess what; her so called daughter was also an actor. You can almost predict what is going to happen, there would be an absolutely hopeless singer, he would get screwed by the judges, and he would come out beaming to the cameras and say he participated for the fun of it. And there would be this girl, who would say that participating and winning the event was her lifetime ambition and now that she lost, she would cry and make a good sound bite. Wonder if these people are paid based on how good they act or is it a uniform wage across the board.

But the event that takes the cake for its sheer audacity and also stupidity is the hunt for the item bomb. “Item bomb” is not some thing of the RDX and Gelatin variety; it’s got to do more with skin, legs and cleavage. An item bomb is a skimpily clad woman who gyrates to a loud, unbearable song, called what else but an item song, in a movie to add to its saleable value. This item song used to be the forte of wannabe actor /models and also of actors past their prime and wanting to stay in the limelight of movies. But nowadays this has become a niche in itself with actors being branded item song specialists and commanding a huge fee for the same. So there was no wonder when a movie producer decided to give his movie some much needed publicity, by launching a hunt for the next item bomb. So you had all these young girls, from India and abroad, dancing to the most vulgar of steps and making everybody squirm. What was pitiable was having two top actors judging them based on oomph value, figure and what not. Despicable.

I wonder what weird hunts our intelligent TV channels would come up with next. Maybe the hunt for the next serial killer (pun intended), or the hunt for the next godman, how about the hunt for the next forest brigand, now that veerappan is dead.

Much like the ban on fox hunting, why can t somebody enforce a ban on such idiotic hunts and save us. Guess we have to be animals to have some benefactors.

And I heard that some channel abroad is launching a search for the couple that has sex in the best way. Are our channels listening?