Curious week this. After all the frankly ludicrous events of last week, the world seemed to have taken a sanity break. But fear not! A little bit of determined digging ensured that there would be enough dollops of insanity to satisfy 2 hungry Adnan Samis (or Shahid Afridis, I got a hilarious interview later!)
First up, is a new movie. And after 20 years in the film industry and earning himself numerous plaudits in the process, Shah Rukh Khan felt compelled to release a new movie reminding us, 'My Name is Khan'. Why of course SRK, we never said your name was Thackeray now, did we? Nor did we ever mix up the initials SRK and KKR. Now if all the stars started their impression of 'The name is Bond', next we will probably have Chunky Pandey releasing 'My Name is Pandey'. The guy is apparently a huge star in Bangladesh, so don't be stunned, its good PR after all!
Speaking of PRs, in the country of our old rulers, Gordon Brown could take a lesson or two from that savvy man across the Atlantic, as he lurches from one disaster to another. The latest in the line being a series of revelations that he regularly trashes furniture, assaults and abuses aides when things don't go his way. A little more Mr. Brown and I am sure you and the ultimate diva Madonna could take a Valentine's Day cruise together.
In cricket, the BCCI gave a perfect example of the gymnastic feat of putting your foot in your mouth. A series against South Africa was shoe-horned in at the last moment apparently to 'preserve' the No.1 ranking for a longer time. Instead, after being roundly thrashed in the first game, India faces the prospect of holding the No.1 ranking for a time, which is probably shorter than the time for which Salman Khan keeps his shirt on in the movies.
After touching upon the Afridi controversy in my previous post, here I present an excerpt from Afridi's first interview after the incident took place. He was talking to Peter Walsh of ABC radio and not one word of this interview is concocted. I am not kidding.
Peter Walsh: Shahid, it was a close game. [You were] captaining the team and pressure can bring people to do weird and wonderful things. But it did appear, from where we were sitting, that you might have actually put the cricket ball in your mouth on couple of occasions?
Shahid Afridi: No, I was actually just trying to smell it to see how it was feeling.
PW:You smelt it?
SA: [Laughs] Yes.
PW: But you don't smell it with your teeth?
SA: Sometimes you can do. Don't bring negative questions. (There you go doctors. You were wrong all these years. Hence proved!)
PW: I won't go into the negatives, but you have to understand that it will be looked at because it did look as if something was going on.
SA: No, there was something so I tried to move it.
Hmm, I have nothing more to say!
In football, Arsene Wenger's panglossian views about winning the league were put to the sword by the media. And for once, I agree. If Le Professor was any more optimistic he would want us to believe that Arsenal are in line for the treble next year. So to make sure that Arsenal win at least 1 trophy, I suggest to the FA to start an injured players' league. Arsenal would win it hands down. The numbers in their line-up would see them through. Winning is that simple Arsene. Forget your 4-4-2s and 4-3-3s. Give this a go.
And finally on Sunday, we celebrate the death of a man. A man whose major contribution to the world was that he used to get young couples married. And all of Nehru's letters to Indira wouldn't have had as much of an effect as this man's one letter had. All because it was signed 'From your Valentine'. More than 1700 years later, we can still see the effects!
So till next week then.
From your Valentine (Poof and suddenly Bal Thackeray materialises in front of me. Gulp!)
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