Man......disgusting, can you kindly kindly kindly tell me WHAT is the use of sitting in front of the idiot box, for a whole 3600 seconds (i hour to be precise) and keeping your eyes glued to the television and watching someone else win it and have a good time? All right, some wou;d say we get to increase our knowlege n stuff, but then.....arent there any BOOKS that could help you do the same?
I mean, the line, ’’Namaste so-and-so ji main amitabh bachhan bol raha hun Kaun Banega Crorepati se (as if the guy who is being called up hasnt been watching the show) mere saamne baithe hain aapke mitr so-and-so ji, inka prashn hai...blah blah blah’’ sounds so hackeneyed, so damn trite that anyone would have afit of laughter only on hearing the great Bachhan speak it out loud. The show, first of all is a perfect copy of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire.
Have you ever seen ’’Mastermind’’ on BBC channel hosted by Sidhhartha Basu? its one of the better and cooler show on air (I guess it used to be co I stopped watching it long time back). That show and KBC are at the two poles of the earth, where MM is serious, KBC is funny, MM is formal and athourotative, KBC is informal and dumbly humble.
The way the questions are addressed makes all the difference in the world, I mean the way AB relates them is like he is talking to his friend, well yeah indians want all that melodrama in a quiz show too, where the stakes are high (1 cr is high enough!)
But when Basu addresses the questions on MM, the victim (participant, duhhhh) is made to sit under a spotlight with total darkness around him and there is absolutely zero help factor (no help line and stuff and Basu cannot be seen delivering corny lines to the participants relatives or friends over the phone and neither can those people (the one being called) swoon or go mad(especially female)..like ohhhhh Mr Bachhan main aapki bahut badi fan hun (yuck the guy is happily married and has a son and a daughter, gawd)
If I was marooned on a desert island with a wish for an only show that plays all day long, I would certainly not choose KBC.