Fixed, eh?

 

Tell me the difference. You are an avid follower of some lame TV soap (avid, in the sense you know every character's history and even biodata) and you are an avid follower of the grand Indian Premier League. In both cases, you don't know what's going to happen ahead (except the lame predictions). The only difference being that the TV soap already has a written script and the IPL apparently doesn't. The point I actually want to highlight is that how would it matter if the IPL had a fixed script (unknown to the audience of couse) too. All you know the IPL might actually gain the lame soap opera fans too.

People always say that this match fixing thing destroys the 'spirit' of the game. But according to me, 60% of these people watch IPL mainly for the cheerleaders. People love the games which go to the last ball but once they read that 'IPL is fixed' the next morning in the papers they always end up saying 'Saala maine to kal hi bola tha'. What's the point of all this? I mean, even if the match is fixed, it should have no effect on the audience (as long as the result is not leaked *spoiler alert*).

The people who should be affected, are the freaking cricket authorities. What I'm implying that if the cricket has to be fixed then it MUST be under the BCCI or whichever association is concerned. I'm not in support of cricket (or other popular sports) being rigged to its core but I also see no reason why I should be against it. Until and unless we can make sure that no illegal authorities are involved with the process, I don't see a reason why anyone should have a problem with it. The audience is in for the entertainment and their sole job is to provide the audience with it. On the other hand the sole job of the audience is to enjoy what they are being shown, right na?.

A magic show can be taken as a strangely apt example. Everybody (mostly) loves the show in spite of knowing that the person in front of you is going to take home his fees by making you believe in something which is not real (diplomatic way of saying making a humongous arse of you).

In the end, I stand my ground by saying that if the sport can provide you with entertainment, one shouldn't care about its making. I'll be back with views on some other random issue. Till then, ciao.

Ok. In all our primary schools, in all parts of the world, we learn the basic meanings of words. one of the many being 'Crazy'.

        

cra·zy

   /ˈkreɪzi/ cra·zi·er, cra·zi·est, noun, plural cra·zies.

adjective

1. mentally deranged; demented; insane.

2. senseless; impractical; totally unsound: a crazy scheme.

I, personally have started feeling that this word was underplayed a bit, when taught to us. I mean, crying over a freaking cartoon strip in parliament when the rupee is at its lowest is definitely more than mentally deranged, demented or insane (btw, the word insane is only used to describe ones Saturday night party nowadays). I mean seriously, am I the only one seeing this? All you know is that a group of frustrated perverts, sitting in office, sparked off this rage on purpose, just so that they can watch porn (not even HD) peacefully while in session. See, now that's crazy.

My whole point of starting to blog about stuff is not just because I want to make fun of things happening (although that constitutes about 90% of the reason), I also want to pretend (like the millions out there) that 'We Can Make A Difference'.  Looking back at the first half of 2012, some seriously absurd stuff happened. Let me start off by talking about this new cool thing 'Satyameva Jayate'. Aamir Khan has officially become one of India's biggest role models after this show. Answer me this, what is the exact purpose of the show. Creating awareness or taking action? A very valid counter argument in this case is that creating awareness is the first step of taking action (and blah). Guys, we have been creating awareness about issues like female foeticide, sexual abuse, poverty, etc for 65 long years now. Everybody knows that these things are bad. Nobody is in favour of that crap. This show would have deserved the hype and praise it has got if it actually did something more substantial than donating the money gathered from sms. Biggest irony being that the host take home 3 crores per episode. Try getting 3 crore smses in the whole season people. The craziest part being that Satyameva Jayate took the whole nation by storm the day it was all aired (got this from twitter btw). This lasted for 3 hours exactly after which it was IPL's turn to take India by a storm. Amazing, ain't it? Personally, I think Bournvita Quiz Contest (which used to be aired at approximately the same time slot) did more social service than this one. At least it taught us stuff we had no clue about.

Anyhow, this was just me and my views. I maybe wrong, but I mind don't being wrong here. I do a great job of pretending that I care. Actually that's not true, I fell asleep during the show (twice).

I will be back with my takes on what happens in India and outside it. Do comment. Ciao.