Opinion Pamela,we expected more than a bedsheet

But when you have the babe-watch babe of TV on a show,you expect more than a bedsheet. We've been shortchanged,for sure.

November 23, 2010 04:35 PM IST First published on: Nov 23, 2010 at 04:35 PM IST

Since we met last week,a great deal has happened in the Bigg Boss house (Colors) that shouldn’t have. Some of it should have never happened at all. Dolly Bindra,for instance, should have never happened. She is the kind of guest who abuses the hospitality and ruins the festivities by her ugly behaviour. She gets intoxicated easily and quickly: not by alcohol but by her own uncivility. Every time the camera caught Bindra,she was about to either assault someone verbally (preferably Samir Soni or Sweta Tiwari who goad her mercilessly) or give her vocal chords a work out with loud screams. She’d be better off exercising a treadmill.

No,honestly,her tirades,her foul language,often expletives deleted,were not worth listening to at any time of day,let prime time 9 pm. I believe she has singlehandedly brought Bigg Boss to the notice of the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting which asked for the show to be telecast after 11 pm because it was unfit for consumption at dinner time. A court injunction has allowed the show to continue giving us indigestion at its regular timing and it may well survive in that time slot for one reason and one reason alone: Bindra has been evicted from the party.

Of course she had already achieved the channel’s twin objectives of increasing viewership and the buzz around the show which was trying gamely but vainly to play catch up with Kaun Banega Crorepati (did you see Monday’s Rs 1 crore winner,the oh-so composed Rahat Taslim? She could teach Bindra some TV table manners).

The other thing that should not have happened was Pamela Anderson. And if she had to happen,then she should have stayed until the public sent her an eviction notice. It’s not about being envious of the fact that she has been reportedly paid Rs 2.5 crore to appear for three days before the nation with only a sheet tied at her famous bosom. I couldn’t do that if you paid me double for half the time. It’s that she was there only long enough to set young Ashmit and Hrishant’s hormones racing at Formula One speed,teach the gals hip and bust coordination while rolling chappatis (dancing too!) and to ruin Manoj Tiwari’s Hindi as he tried to teach her ‘Shukriya’.

But when you have the babe-watch babe of TV on a show,you expect more than a bedsheet. We’ve been shortchanged,for sure.

Idea time: Now that Dolly Bindra has time on her hands,why doesn’t she take her sob story (yes,she cried about how she had been treated on Bigg Boss during the post mortem with Salman Khan) to Rakhi Sawant and get some of her Insaaf?