Nation’s obsession or plain Media hype

· Aishwarya’s mehndi ceremony held with élan.
· Abhi’s wedding dress designed by so and so.
· SRK and Rani Mukherjee not invited.

If I have missed any other details, my heartfelt apologies but turn into any newspaper or switch on any news channel and you will get all the dope. After all it is the wedding of the century and we all need to know the nitty-gritty’s of the Ash-Abhishek wedding. So what half of the country is more worried about the soaring temperature and an even soaring inflation rate or the over crowded trains and jam-packed roads. The media has taken up the responsibility to tell us everything about this major issue gripping the country.

Agreed this is India- the land where films and cricket are the two main religions and considering our Men in blue gave a very dismal performance in the World Cup, the next best news making area is the films. And when you are talking about Hindi films, how can you forget the Bachchans, whatever they do have to become news. This is no small feat; it is the wedding of Hindi film industry’s most eligible bachelor to one of the most beautiful women of the world. Surely it has to be told, repeated and made into a huge tamasha!!

Harmless voyeurism aside, is the nation actually obsessing over the wedding?? The answer is a big, bold “NO”. If the media people will go out and interact with the junta, they will get a much needed reality check. Nobody really cares how Vivek Oberoi is feeling or what is going on in the other big filmi khandaan-the Kapoor family. We have enough problems of our own to give two hoots to their issues. So again I ask the unanswered question, why create such a hue and cry over a normal and simple thing like a wedding. After all everybody one day has it. As if things were not enough we also had a lovelorn, ditched young starlet giving her sob story to every news channel about how she was dumped by the small B. Media, being media gave it the same importance as it gave the Virginia University shootout story. Every time I switched on a news channel I could see a fresh twist to Jhanvi’s story.

Newsprint and other technologies do not come cheap and costs heavenly, if the present media cannot utilize these costs judiciously, give the reins to us younger generation we’ll do something better. Lastly I feel what the other newly weds Arun-Liz who got married last month (or was it before that) are feeling; perhaps reminiscing fondly about their fifteen minutes of fame.