Penblunt & Hogwash

Cup of Excesses Runneth over

Penblunt

Monica Bedi… sexy woman…. Don’s moll... sexy doll….

The broadcasters have done themselves in this time… the field is open for Gabbar The Great, our venerable I&B minister PRDM to shoot them down.

Monica Bedi… had I had her! Just one first but long time…. God! God! Where art… not Thou, but She!

I had been swinging like a pendulum in favour of and against the TV news Content Code, which the government has been pushing for and the broadcasters resisting.

Running with the hare, I felt often that broadcasters were right: this is an infringement of rights to freedom of expression. And yet, hunting with the hound, I also saw the government’s point of view that regulation was needed.

Monica Bedi… fantastic fantasy….

The Great Gabbar, I have been saying over the said past two weeks, would swoop down on the channels if they did not behave, but then, the channels felt that with crucial polls around, the government would not dare to annoy them.

1975… Emergency has been forgotten, obviously.

And so did it happen. The government first said: “Well children, if you do not want our Content Code, tell us about your Content Code.”

The media said: Seek and Thou Shalt Find! But wait… we are thinking of our Code.

Just imagine Monica Bedi in a swim suit, just a teat-illating thready thing…

The media sensed blood, that the government was scared!

Then PRDM alias Gabbar Singh in Shastri, who has been threatening to meet the broadcasters one last time over the broadcast Bill and Code, dropped the idea, and the channel guys felt, well… there goes the coward bully.

Monica Bedi in the nude?

Could you imagine?

The channels told the government that they were preparing their own Code, which would be based on self-regulation… decency, morality, culture, privacy would be maintained… the crass the crude and the ugly would be out.

Are you still trying to imagine Monica Bedi in the nude, hey?

You don’t need to… she was there, and if you have missed the show, ask for the archives of Zee News and she will be there, bathing but not like Mandakini in Ram Teri Ganga Mailee Ho Gayee song and dance of Satyam Shivam Sundaram film… with at least a white wet saree wrapped around her hot wet breasts.

Here was Monica Bedi, a Don’s moll and object of desire for lakhs, giving excitement to millions over the Zee News channel show, bathing, inside a jail, fully naked, no scope for imagination, Boss.

Don’t believe this? Her nude movie was shot in a Maharashtra jail and the jailer suspended, but Zee News bought the tape and ran it all day on August 23, and the next day, the Supreme Court of the country had to clamp down, restricting all channels especially Zee News, as the Court said, from going on air with the piece of ‘sting-king’ journalism.

What a shame!

I really did not believe it, but when I asked a friend who works for a media-related portal, he said, “F**k man, my office has been calling me every minute for a reaction from Zee… it is true boss!”

Honestly, I never felt I missed the show. Imagination and fantasy is still personal, but the nude pictures of a woman trapped inside a jail, a voyeur’s victim… it was nauseating.

And Zee felt it was news.

“So what did Zee tell you? Did they defend their show?” I asked the scribe.

“Nope, they ran… they said that there are certain things on which comments may not be given, and this was one such case.”

I wonder what the TV news channels will now say.

This is self-regulation? This is being aware of Indian cultural context?

The channels had said that they do not want a copy of Ofcom, the famously strict regulations of the British broadcasting media, because, of course, one cultural context was different from another, and the matrix was variant, and the paradigms were not the same and hence, Ofcom would not be of use in India.

So what would they have instead?

“We are working, we told you, can’t you wait? Is it a child’s play to bring about a Code in a market that has 130 news TV channels?” they may turn around and say.

But no, they did not say anything. Neither the editors, nor the body called News Broadcasters Association once condemned the channel that had crossed over to breaking all laws, not just norms of decency, and calling this a Breaking News.

I am not longer with the hare, sorry.

I have finally made up my mind. I am with the hound and chasing the hare. I want to bark and catch the hare at the first false step it takes and throw him to the hound.

This is Indian news TV world, where people want licence in the name of freedom, considers illegal activity as being anti-establishment, demands rights for themselves as an instrument for destroying the rights of others and says it is mature enough to regulate itself!

I spit on the graves of such channels!