Inspired by Saas-Bahu style fights with-in team Anna, Balaji announces a daily soap around the same

So many fights among various members of team Anna has inspired leading TV producer Balaji telefilms to launch a daily soap around the same. A senior executive in Balaji confirmed to Faking News, "These fights are so much similar to saas-bahu fights, which is the premise for all our daily soaps and we want to jump to the opportunity and exploit the situation. This will also save us whatever we spend on screenwriter ans will be a unique combination of daily soap and reality TV thus capturing both the audience groups."

"Anna is like baa, who is respected being the eldest in the family but everyone thinks he is too old and senile to take a correct decision hence nobody follows his instructions. Baba Ramdev is like the illegitimate child trying his best to be adopted by the family name but this decision is not liked by the legitimate children of the family. That is why the eldest son Arvind stages a walk-out from the ceremony of including Ramdev as a family member." He draws a comparison from the latest event.

"This is not only about the plot and story line. It is also a wise business decision. We have found out that the TRP of Arnab's news hour debate on Times Now goes higher than our prime time shows on the days of these fights in team Anna. It is a clear indication that common Indian enjoys the drama in Anna's family more than the drama in Kapoor family." He justifies the decision further. "We have even modeled a character inspired by Arnab, who is like the Narad muni from those mythological serials" he adds further.

*Originally written for Faking News.

I want to be the President

So much discussion around coming presidential election has got my attention again after five years about the existence of the post. Since now I am again made aware of it, I somehow am feeling the urge to go for it. Not because I want to serve the nation by becoming the President. That is clearly not what last president did, as per the information available to us, which is almost non-existent. So I am assuming that if nobody was aware of your existence, you clearly did not do anything that made any difference.

Why I want to be the President is because of the benefits associated with it. Such as, you get to live in one of the biggest houses in the world for five years. You get to holiday in all corners of the world along with your family and friends without worrying about the cost, since Indian public is paying so much tax to sponsor those holidays anyway. Even when you are out of office all your expenses are sponsored by the government. Above all you do not have any accountability of any of your actions or inaction. This clearly sounds like the best job in the world.

What more, I think I am also qualified for the job. I do not have any political affiliations. Nobody knows me. I can even enjoy my holidays better than the current President. I will not make for an awkward sight on a beach. Besides our country will feel so good on finally having a president who can walk on his own without any assistance. It can also help fool other world leaders for India finally becoming a progressive country by having a young head of state.

The only thing that probably disqualifies me for the job is that I am not completely useless.

Agent Vinod: An Incompetent Secret Agent Surviving on Coincidences

Who are not able to gather how the film would be from the title of this post, just imagine Pink Panther without the comedy part. Like Inspector Clouseau, Agent Vinod is incompetent. What else you can say about a secret agent who is never aware of his surroundings. He get so engaged secretly listening to a conversation that he doesn't even realise that someone can come from behind and hit him on the head. Almost every time he manages to escape alive is because of shear coincidences. For the first time I have seen a serious secret agent believing on everyone he meets despite being betrayed on many occasions. I think it would be unfair to Vinod to corner him like this when the head of his agency is stupid enough to make a call to ISI head and asks him point blank, if he is involved in the ongoing crisis and even lets Pakistani High Commissioner inside the control room of RAW. Wish international espionage was so simple. Rather than trying to figure out what is going on, just call the people you suspect and ask them direct questions. 

Movie starts with Agent Vinod being caught because of his incompetence in the middle of an operation inside some factory in Pakistan. He shows his smoothness by exposing his fellow agent to his captors and then saves himself and his partner by sheer coincidence because his captors are equally or even more incompetent. Then the same thing repeats in different cities on different parts of the world. This somewhere involves some shady stereotype characters and a nuclear bomb. In this process he meets his Pakistani counterpart Iram and they fall in love, because that's what secret agents of two warring nations do. 

Saif Ali Khan is smooth and is able to pull off the desi bond tag, at this moment I cannot think of anyone else who could suit this tag better than him. Unfortunately he does not have the script to back him up. Since the movie was not about exploring acting talent of the cast, lets avoid discussing that. The movie takes you on a world tour making you wander if RAW agent Vinod doubled as a travel agent. There is not all bad about the movie though. There is one action scene shot is a restaurant in continuous shot with single camera, which is truly remarkable.