Where fake is real & real fake
With the elections getting over in India and the IPL season 2 about to wind up in South Africa, vacuum stares us poor Indians, even fully divided as we were between trying to be a conscientious voter and being an avid T20 fan.
Imagine life without, say, an always-on-the-pyre election candidate on one side and the fake ipl player on the other.
Both signified the varying spectrums of Indian ingenuity and Indian humour — one telling you why and how he believes India as a nation is dying and the other signifying how it can still manage to laugh at itself, making others laugh too!
Both caught the imagination of the nation even though no awards of votes or post-match recognitions would go to either. With both set to embed into the system till the next time, all fun will go out of life as we knew it for the last fortnight.
Fake player, for one, has since threatened to reveal his true identity and that’s what life is all about for cricket netizens as of now. They say the revelation would be this year’s biggest blockbuster and one agrees sans ado.
After all, which event can you last recall which generated this kind of bated breath wait among us mortals? Armstrong jumped on to the moon almost a century ago and the big bang experiment happened and got forgotten last year. Other than that, there was nothing else till, of course, the fake player sauntered into blogspot zone with his amusing yet scathing truth and dares.
In fact, his/her dares not just brought out the best in cricketing humour but also gave those oh-so engaging names to greats and not-so-greats of all hues — be they coaches, captains or just mere players and TV presenters.
The jury is still out on who this fake player could be. I would lay my bets on some publicity expert hired by Shah Rukh Khan to keep the buzz alive around his team even when it was dying under the burden of recurring defeats, captaincy issues, coaching blunders and the rest of it all controversies.
King Khan is known to be as sweet as rooh-afza and as ruthless as Hitler when the situation so demands. So, it will be rather unlikely that bhooka naan alias Buchanan and his coterie would be at the helm for Season Three. And in that area at least, Khan’s utterances on the contrary can be ignored and fake player’s assertion of the big tumbles relied upon.
After all, Khan who has always been candid enough to say Team Kolkata is a through and through business investment and would be treated like any profit or loss venture, must already be in the process of dousing the losses any which way he can. That could include marketing himself as a dancer boy at weddings charging an obscene amount of money, to being the suave poster boy of the products world. His glib talk and engaging freshness may even lure others to buy him out and end the agony of defeat of this star with “I am the best” boy syndrome.
Talking of the best boys of IPL and the General Election (GE), here is our take on them:
Big badmouth
(GE): BSP’s Akhilesh Das for his sexist comments on Nafisa Ali
(IPL): Fake Player
Showstopper
(GE): Varun Gandhi’s audio tapes
(IPL): Tie between Shane Warne for gulping down beer in the middle of the match and the dog who stopped play of the inaugural match
Man of the series
(GE): The voter
(IPL): Fake Player
Tubular vein
(GE): Candidate who climbed a tree to protest Congress ticket denial from Hathras. He gave a Press conference from the treetop with the TV media half way up!
(IPL): Shilpa Shetty applauding her team after it lost and stopping only after being explained RR had lost that game.
Best man
(GE): Rahul Gandhi
(IPL): Adam Gilchrist
eyeball holders
(GE): Pappu
(IPL): Zoozoos
Imagine life without, say, an always-on-the-pyre election candidate on one side and the fake ipl player on the other.
Both signified the varying spectrums of Indian ingenuity and Indian humour — one telling you why and how he believes India as a nation is dying and the other signifying how it can still manage to laugh at itself, making others laugh too!
Both caught the imagination of the nation even though no awards of votes or post-match recognitions would go to either. With both set to embed into the system till the next time, all fun will go out of life as we knew it for the last fortnight.
Fake player, for one, has since threatened to reveal his true identity and that’s what life is all about for cricket netizens as of now. They say the revelation would be this year’s biggest blockbuster and one agrees sans ado.
After all, which event can you last recall which generated this kind of bated breath wait among us mortals? Armstrong jumped on to the moon almost a century ago and the big bang experiment happened and got forgotten last year. Other than that, there was nothing else till, of course, the fake player sauntered into blogspot zone with his amusing yet scathing truth and dares.
In fact, his/her dares not just brought out the best in cricketing humour but also gave those oh-so engaging names to greats and not-so-greats of all hues — be they coaches, captains or just mere players and TV presenters.
The jury is still out on who this fake player could be. I would lay my bets on some publicity expert hired by Shah Rukh Khan to keep the buzz alive around his team even when it was dying under the burden of recurring defeats, captaincy issues, coaching blunders and the rest of it all controversies.
King Khan is known to be as sweet as rooh-afza and as ruthless as Hitler when the situation so demands. So, it will be rather unlikely that bhooka naan alias Buchanan and his coterie would be at the helm for Season Three. And in that area at least, Khan’s utterances on the contrary can be ignored and fake player’s assertion of the big tumbles relied upon.
After all, Khan who has always been candid enough to say Team Kolkata is a through and through business investment and would be treated like any profit or loss venture, must already be in the process of dousing the losses any which way he can. That could include marketing himself as a dancer boy at weddings charging an obscene amount of money, to being the suave poster boy of the products world. His glib talk and engaging freshness may even lure others to buy him out and end the agony of defeat of this star with “I am the best” boy syndrome.
Talking of the best boys of IPL and the General Election (GE), here is our take on them:
Big badmouth
(GE): BSP’s Akhilesh Das for his sexist comments on Nafisa Ali
(IPL): Fake Player
Showstopper
(GE): Varun Gandhi’s audio tapes
(IPL): Tie between Shane Warne for gulping down beer in the middle of the match and the dog who stopped play of the inaugural match
Man of the series
(GE): The voter
(IPL): Fake Player
Tubular vein
(GE): Candidate who climbed a tree to protest Congress ticket denial from Hathras. He gave a Press conference from the treetop with the TV media half way up!
(IPL): Shilpa Shetty applauding her team after it lost and stopping only after being explained RR had lost that game.
Best man
(GE): Rahul Gandhi
(IPL): Adam Gilchrist
eyeball holders
(GE): Pappu
(IPL): Zoozoos
Published May 10, 2009, Sunday Pioneer, http://www.dailypioneer.com/174998/Where-fake-is-real--real-fake.html
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