- Mumbai:
S ome contestants of popular television show Entertainment Embarrassment Ke Liye Kuch Bhi Karega (roughly translated as “I can do anything for my embarrassment and nothing for entertainment”) have earned themselves free-of-cost mental treatment from Institute of Mental Health and Hospital (IMHH), Agra. They have been recognised for the extreme lack of talent, common sense and sanity, that they exhibited on the show. Search is still on for the teachers who taught them the meaning of the word “talent”.Some Success Stories
Cheap entertainment, poor talent –
embarrassment all round1. “The treatment my son is getting, absolutely free, is certainly much more of value than the prize money he could not get on the show,” says Mustafa Alam, whose son Shahzad stripped down for the sake of entertainment on the show. He was, however, saved from total embarrassment, as the audience voted him out just as he was about to pull off his last piece of clothing. The boy, according to reports, was mentally ill, and came to the show to get the show’s famous “life-changing” prize money of Rs 11,112.
2. A man in his early twenties, Ekhath Kholkar tried to clap using only one hand at a time. He claimed he had been doing so since the age of three. He was successful in this mindless activity (he produced sound by the movement of his half-open fist) but was promptly sent off by the audience votes. Apart from the mental hospital treatment offer, he has also been hired as an “energy-saving consultant” by the National Transgender Society. Kholkar was honoured by IIM Ahmedabad, which invited him for a guest lecture to show how desperate people, not getting placements, can enhance their abilities, by changing the definition of talent.
3. Baitaal Kumar Pandey, 19, a FIIT-JEE dropout from Ranchi, is still shocked about why he could not please the audience by doing what he did on stage. Pandey was shown the door inside 30 seconds of his act as he started throwing freshly-boiled eggs at the judges Anu Malik and Farah Khan. The audience booed him and one spectator told us why – “They deserved rotten eggs, not fresh boiled ones. So we voted him out.” Pandey has been sent to the mental hospital. He won’t be sharing his room with Shahzad, because if both start doing their own acts together in the hospital, Shahzad would end up getting severe burns.4. A woman was declared “brought laughing” when she was taken to the mental hospital straight from the show studio. She had tried to entertain the audience by laughing excessively herself, but the audience wanted something else. Noted laughter enthusiasts Archana Puran Singh and Navjot Singh Sidhu have announced their sympathy for the lady, and will soon be visiting her in the hospital. Her treatment, also, will be absolutely free-of-cost.
By Tanay Sukumar
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– August 19, 2010Posted in: Editor's Picks: Classics, Showbiz, The News Pages
