Kill Hum TV

Mountains & Molehills

By the everprayerful Bug

Kill Hum TV

It was either this or phone in a bomb threat to Hum TV. These plays are killing me. Mrs. Bug has taken over the Boobtube and I can’t watch the latest Federer match and watch the Great Man falter again. Or in the least to race through the earlier rounds and then to fold again. Still, having been deprived of the remote, and with the irritating pointlessly paced plays in the background, I sit here and rant.

To be honest, I do not get the point of these plays. Khamoshiyaan from what I can gather is about guys cheating on chicks and being anguished about it. I don’t get the point. Why anguish? If it is so painful, then don’t do it. And I really do not get the point of doing plays about it too. Cut-and-paste as the plays may be, there is no indication why the guy is cheating as is. If you don’t like it, don’t do it. And then the chick turns out to be psycho and tears up all the guy’s shirts bought for him by his wife and whatnot. Sania Saeed and wassisname just playing around being friends. Man, get a pair. Say your heart and jump the cow. Or not, rather than acting all pained about it.

Either way, it makes me mad to watch Hum TV or have people around me to watch em. Other channels are similarly pointless too. What pray is the point of Royal TV. Does anyone even watch it. Other than people who appear on it. It seems to be B-grade news channel and does a poor job of it by half.

I must say however that my cable is egalitarian though. There are mujras appearing back to back with Q-tv. One can sin and seek forgiveness with a flick of a switch. Or clean one’s plate and then enjoy the worst of lollywood. What also I wonder would be the effect of Picture in Picture. You can have both going at the same time on the Television: would they cancel each other out and one can then watch sinlessly ?

And then again there is my favorite celebrity of all, Dr. Amir Liaqut. If he were any slimier, I would be obliged to send him an honorary Bug degree. Come on admit it: Dudn’t he remind you of the Guru from Goodness Gracious Me. To think that papers actually reported the length of his supposedly supplicant prayers. To think people apparently break down and cry for this internet-degreed doctor (Phd within three months of a Masters degree was it?). One good thing comes of end of Ramadan at least then, no more doses of Dr. Amir’s beaming ever-munificent gob and echo-reverb laced duas at Sehr-o-Iftar.

Nuff venting. Meri mardangi jaag gayi hai. I am off to wrest the remote from Mrs, Bug. I suggest you do the same at your end. Or check out my archive of articles at http://themightybug.wordpress.com. Or drop me a line with an answer to the following query (totally unrelated to him I assure Dr. Amir) that has just occurred to me: If one prays one’s eyes out in good faith led by a faker as a prayer leader, do one’s prayers get accepted, even if one’s choice of prayer leader leaves something to be desired ? Would it not be better to trust oneself and pray directly ?

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