Crow Heads

A hot female “item number” star gets into a controversy, and we are having lunch in the lunch room heartily. What’s all the co-relation about? Well picture this -a big lunch room with a 29" TV and speakers all around, the room is 90% occupied by males and 5% by empty seats. The Channel on is "Aaj Tak" and the news is that of "indecent exposure". What’s more, the channel has a very canny way of presenting the ordeal -the lower left corner has a little window that has the reporter speaking about the event (that no one watching the channel would want to watch or hear- except for his over enthusiastic relatives and friends, you know the type "there he is yippee!"). The majority of the screen area from the top left to the bottom right till the left edge of the little window held the repetitive scene of the "supposedly" "indecent exposure".

This is how the report goes -graphically. The major area window shows this female clad in skim-pies, gyrating (and wobbling and shaking and what not –did I mention some dancing) in an attempt to get her steps right at rehearsals, successfully showing off very little of all that’s to be "exposed" to all of the inquisitive audience. The main window keeps expanding every now and then to occupy all of the TV area with the little -unnoticed- window zooming out behind the main window all the time. So –you have a gyrating female on the big screen in a room full of gentlemen :-), and the time to relax and have lunch. What do you expect…?

I would bet just 0.2% of the 90% and 0% of the empty chairs and of the 5% in minority :-) did not crane their necks around to even get a glimpse of the TV screen. Everyone in the room was engrossed in their conversation and munching on food (I bet they loved the food today, even thought it’s not really meant to be:-P) with 90% of the time their eyes glued to the TV screen -which btw. is mounted on the left corner of the room at about 7 feet from the ground. Every now and then, the head would take a quick wag- to the normal posture- to either complete a conversation or just pick the right stuff from the plate. What’s more -the scene kept repeating, and by now everyone had their set of favorite moves defined that they’d not want to miss!

All of this crow headed motion continued along as the reporter kept blabbering something no one cared to listen (except for the few who were “interested” in the NEWS or the few who got curious as to why such a big fuss over their –by now- favorite star’s dancing who seemed all innocent :-P). The 5% minority too enjoyed the piece of TV journalism as they gave this “Oh my god- like what’s going on…” grinning looks as they got their plates to the table not compromising any of the 10 frames (from the persistence of vision fame) for another but the gyration to the second!

At the table we all exchanged glances, amidst the crow head motion displaying our 32 teeth in content or a tight lip wide smile in an attempt to keep the stuffed chappatis and bhajji in the trap, while the other shy ones bowed down to shy off a shameless smile.

Was the controversy really needed or not, also was a reporter needed or not :-). These are all unanswered queries not to be ever answered. Even if the star gets into a heated controversy or ends up with some legal punishment, we –the true- ~90% in the lunch room totally enjoyed the event to our hearts content!

Btw. If you are wondering.... This happened today (Fri- 26th May '06) at lunch in office, not to mention this one of the many times :))!