Saturday, October 15, 2011

The Great Indian Sob Story


The Indian version of ‘Who Wants To Be A Millionaire’ – Kaun Banega Crorepati (KBC) – has turned into a sob-story, against-all-odds, zero-to-hero cluster fuck.

Amitabh Bachchan, India’s answer to ‘God in Hollywood (Morgan Freeman)’ creates the perfect setting for farmers, rural teachers and lower middle-class workers to get their 30 minutes of fame – and Rs50 lakhs.

India is perfecting the art of doing a format to death.

I would love to see just one participant this season come from a rich family, well educated, with only one desire – to win to get richer, or just to blow the money up.

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