Redefining Depravity

So, Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan take part in the function organized by Mukesh Ambani to felicitate Sachin Tendulkar on him reaching yet another milestone. This is no news. Because, nothing is interesting about it.

A spate of other celebrities attend the function. Again no news.

And then Salman Khan attends the function. Ah! Now we have something spicy to dish out to the audiences to dumb them down even further, and boost our television ratings. After all, Salman was Aishwarya Rai's ex, and they had an rather well publicized and acrimonious split.

So, you ask your camera men to focus on Aishwariya Rai and Salman Khan for over an hour, trying to check if they are looking at each other. Try to capture some reaction from either of them when the other speaks on stage. Then you edit them, clip them together, fog the area around them, so that the focus is only on these two. Add some spicy masala background music, and voila! You have "BREAKING NEWS" type of material to slide down the throat of every voyeuristic Indian.

And that is Headlines Today and Times Now for you. To be sure, this is not the first time this has happened. You can't escape such "news" on these two channels. They have been doing this for the past 5 or 6 years, ever since I got a Tata Sky Connection in my own.

If couple of years back, Outlook published an article wondering if our "Print Media" is dumbing down, right now they can confidently assert that "Television Media" has surely dumbed down.

Solid proof is their obsession with anything to do with a celebrity. Especially Aishwarya Rai and her family and her past link ups. Heck! She has been married to Junior Bachchan for almost 5 Years now and has also become a mother pretty recently. If still these channel focuses on something that is beyond any degree of decency, It is downright immoral, smacks of callousness, insensitivity, and sensationalizing for greed of money and television ratings.


Their typical way of functioning has been to run down some senior head or celebrity, blare some loud music as a build up to the programme, invite speakers to indulge in a dog fight of the lowest order, talk loud and talk thrash, ask stupid questions without caring to listen to the other person, fake their emotions and portray themselves as the messiah of the masses. Bollocks! 


And their moral depravity is fast becoming their norm. If one looks at them as the barometer of a nation's cultural and social state, the conclusions drawn wouldn't be something we can be proud of.


Grow up! You insensitive buggers. Don't you ever call yourself as representative of people. Don't you ever ask questions as if we the general public are asking this question. That would be the ultimate insult even to our already dumbed down sensibilities. We know that most of you aren't exactly in the black in your financials, and that you are bleeding red. It doesn't justify your actions. Every drunkard has a reason. Every whore has a story. And it doesn't really matter if you have one.