Privacy invasion hit me hard… But luckily for them it hit me on the funny bone.. (Frankly, I’m not sure if that is supposed to make me feel that things are funnier or less funnier but let us go ahead with my initial assumption.). I have only heard of the risks of putting up your pictures for all of FaceBook to see. And also of the horrible things that is carried out in “Yossarian Speaks”. But a deadly combination of both over a period of time, along with a nonsensical game show by a renowned (they wish!) TV channel ended up in quite a hilarious infringement of any privacy laws that may be in this country.
I shall introduce the situation from a first person perspective. Imagine yourself to be casually having a good weekend with your family. As all families who complain about the television ruining the family unity, you are all gathered around it in an unnaturally abnormal and apparently non-evident sense of unity to watch some particular show. And as the whole room looks on, there pops up your picture.. right there! Right when everyone is watching, you are on TV! And you have no damn clue how! Worse yet, you are on TV coz the channel wants the viewers to wonder, if you are the son of some random guy!! No no… NOT the son of YOUR father but supposedly more honourable that you have a 0.25 probability of being the son of that famous guy on screen. Now in case some of you do not have the extreme imaginative capabilities required for this exercise. Here is a sample video of how it might look if you were me :
Subtitles :
Only cute lady on the whole set (from now on CL) : Who is the son of Murali Mohan? Option A
CL : No? you don’t know the color of his jeans?
Lady in brown saree hiding her goatee(??) (LG) : *shakes head* B
CL : Option B
LG : hmm…this looks less random.. let
me see C
CL : Option C
CL: Do you have matching jeans for that shirt? Or atleast some lungi mayb?
..
Option D
LG: yes yes…matchin lungi for this I have.
CL : Ok..Option B and Option D have nothing to do with Kerala
LG : I miss option A.Can I see all 4 pictures?
Program editor : I’m so smart!
Viewers : Wow..all famous people..so lucky fellows, no…
Me: WHAAAAATTTT!!!!
And while this whole ordeal is happening the rest of the family watching with you can be picturised as below:
Well so that's that i'm apparently a TV star now, thanks to FB,google and a side dish usually had with dosa or vada (http://yossarianspeaks.wordpress.com/2010/01/15/gossip-girl-3/).
*Video courtesy Youtube; Picture courtesy : Family guy on my hard disk (And that's how it's done!!)
2 comments:
HAHAH!!!!
privacy is a shocker, aint it??? world's going smaller that ur neighbour jus have to poke their nose outside their window to see what ur upto in ur own bathroom!!! crazy gigs and gads ppl come up with which have no definitive purpose always ends up in some trouble or the other...
"i reserve my rights" is no longer of any value coz ppl just want to USE you for their benefit and when their done, jus drop u like a brick... no sorry, no heartfelt thank you, jus a murmur and then they fly away like the winter is coming too soon... sometimes the bitter truth always is the best compared to a sweet poison... one cures u, the other one kills...
ROFL!!!... there are some ppl who are just damn unlucky like this... am just glad its not me... :D
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