Shilpa Shetty and SUN News Tholaikaatchi
He he….This is SERIOUSLY funny.
So, you think you’ve already seen/heard whatever there is to see/hear about the Shilpa Shetty Big Brother controversy, including she being called a dog, Paki, “the Indian” (”now why would calling one an Indian amount to an insult?”, you might ask), woman trying to be white and so on and the responses by way of fan emails, NRI protests, Tony Blair’s speech in the House of Commons and the comments of an Indian Minister.
I say no. You missed something very important. If you didn’t watch SUN News tholaikatchi, that is. In a news item that I, for a moment, thought was a major scoop by the news channel (since I had watched this particular news in almost all the English/Hindi news channels), SUN News showed some clippings from the Big Brother episodes in question and then showed a press conference of Shilpa Shetty where the actress purportedly expressed displeasure over the occurrences in The House (this is where I was surprised since Shilpa is still a participant and will not be allowed to come out or communicate with anyone outside; moreover, no other news channel carried this press conference). In the press conference they showed, the actress spoke in Hindi and the translation in Tamil was available as running text on the screen. She said, “There are some nuances in the character that can be communicated only by a woman to another woman. In that sense I think, I received a lot of help from director Revathy”. Only when the final word was spoken, did I realize that it was actually a press conference for the film Phir Milenge.
Now, I need to know who in SUN News got this brainwave!
P.S: Links I follow for tracking Big Brother - Neha’s blog | Shoefiend’s blog | Youtube links
- TV/Radio/Films/Theatre | Time: 8:11:41 AM (UTC+8)
This is not the first time such things is happening in SUN TV….I remeber taht once they said some cricketer has vanished and police are searching for him…I don’t remeber the name of the cricketer…But, again I did not see this news anywhere else…They are reallt funny
Comment by Lakshmi — January 23, 2007 @ 4:42:50 AM