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Wild, whimsical... and a winner
IS NONSENSE the only thing that you find sense in? Do you find using your hands to eat, a bit too restraining? Does something inside you revolt against your being normal? Well, if the answer is yes then you couldn't have missed the `Channel V Panga' contest. The contest was all about having fun in ways that might defy logic but were never short on qualifying as `pangas'.
Held at the ever-lively Appu Ghar, the show was hosted by the Channel V jockey Yudi. The idea behind the show being to dare the audiences to take a `panga'. Whosoever completed the `panga' had a chance to take part in the ultimate `panga' that promised a day with David Beckham, the English soccer captain, apart from four days in London on offer to the winner of the contest. The show is different from Bakra or Who Dares Wins and all those shows deluging the idiot box these days. "Panga can involve adventure, fun, candid camera, annoying people and a lot more. Besides people are allowed to decide the kind of `pangas' they would like to see," says Yudi.
To start with, the show offered the fastest way to lose your figure. The contestants were asked to eat a bowl of ice cream without using their hands. The faster, the more uncivilised one was, the better it was. Even though the `panga' was open to all but clearly it was the young who were targeted as Channel V took no responsibility of getting one's teeth replaced if the ice cream made them rattle and sing without reason or desire. It turned out to be a really tough dare as one could hear the contestants' teeth chatter. But what made it a real fun was the participation of the audience. Whistles, clapping and suggestions, they were short on nothing. "Make a juda," suggested Namrata to the girls giving it a try. While another person suggested that one should change his name to Zorawar Singh. With no disrespect to people with that name, he thought only they can complete such adventures.
The antics and the suggestions continued in the next `panga' where the contestants had to collect as many balls as possible. The only difficulty was that there was water gushing from all the sides. It was difficult to maintain one's balance, leave the question of managing the balls. The fun of being at Appu Ghar, participating in these fun items, taking the `panga' was enough to get many college students to bunk their classes. "All is fine but one should never miss college," said Yudi claiming never to have bunked college. It's a different matter that he went to a correspondence college!
S.M. YASIR
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