While our Chennai Super Kings were blasting on Delhi DareDevils, my brother the special "annoyer" in ma life changed the channel....
I shouted, “Stop!”
And he goes, “Why do you want to watch this in the name of cricket? It is either Shahrukh and Priety or the half-naked chicks on screen half the time. And the rest of the time it is ads, you might as well read the reviews online.”
I dint have a comeback. Actually, in all the years I have been watching cricket, I have never seen so less cricket and I have never been entertained so much. Ok, so let’s move away from cricket and talk about IPL.
There are many controversies based on IPL..But still it has made a craze over people in and around the world(think so!!). So how do we mention this here...a "success" or just an "entertaining soap".
Cricket (oops, IPL) just earned more viewers. The cricket crazy nation we were anyway, roping in film stars officially only added to the hysteria. Girls who hated boyfriends watching cricket are suddenly their couch partners because they love King Khan and think Mallya’s son is cute. Not forgetting to mention the new ding-chak music videos and Youngistan ads with Shahrukh outperforming himself and Dhoni managing to look more than just a pole on TV. Katrina became the most sought at cricket analyst out of the blue, I almost dropped my tea when I heard her say, “We (Royal Challengers) will win the match 99%” with the confidence of a seasoned cricketer. Now, Katrina ‘Kat’ Kaif is more famous in cricket than Mohammed Kaif. Hype was the only thing he had, he lost even that now.
Sadly, Tashan had to come to cricket for publicity. Girls could not stop calling the Kaif-Akshay couple cute on IPL. After a few stupid moves and stunts to salute the daredevils, Akshay Kumar went to the commentator’s box and mentioned the film’s name in every sentence he spoke. I wondered when BCCI became so shameless, oh were they like that always?
And why would politicians stay behind when the entire business and film world was cashing in on the nation’s foolishness. The Thackrays managed to get a few votes by singing the ‘bharatiya parampara’ song against the cheerleaders. The West Bengal and Maharashtra houses were uproar with just one burning issue, what the cheerleaders should wear during the matches. Clearly, issues like social development and health care looked less “attractive” to them, they don’t deal with boobs, butts and bikinis you see. Allow me to be a bit raunchy here, given more time, the ‘netas’ would have as well measured the bust size of the cheerleaders and stitched their costume for them.
I thought buying the players for the teams was insulting, now I hope they were bought like slaves. I lost all hope in cricket when Sreesanth cried in front of a million people on TV. He tried hard to hug pretty Priety, apparently, his crying was not enough. Priety only hugs when you cry like Shahrukh does in Kal Ho Na ho. And Sourav Dada’s fights with Shane Warne were not uninteresting either. Seems like Shane does not get enough girls to play around with in India, he decided to toy with Sourav on the field. And when has Dada not jumped at an opportunity to look like a hero?
While Sreesanth, Sourav and Bhajji were busy gaining TRPs for the show by slapping, crying, weeping and staging dramas, Dhoni adopted an easier option. He decided to lend his voice for a rap song promoting Chennai Superkings. Er...what did he think, just because he managed to look normal on TV, he can go ahead and build a career in entertainment? Too bad, he must know that we still prefer Himesh howling to our cricketers singing songs and getting out for a duck.
Oh yeah, coming back to cricket from IPL, Chennai won over Delhi by 18 runs and the latter won over Rajasthan yesterday.That is the only cricket I can remember.
