Rakhi Sawant – All about that scandalous fame!

She simply barged into our lives with her ‘Forced Kiss’ outrage, a wondrously shot gamey sequence that worked wonders for both the parties – if the lady went on to become household name whom we acknowledge today as Rakhi Sawant, the lad, Mika Singh is doing pretty well in the arena of singing these days. You see a passionate smooch can indeed work wonders!

What it is that makes overnight-turned-celebrity, Ms. Sawant an endearing persona for a large section of Indian households? Perhaps just like our Western counterparts we’ve also started relishing the shoveling act, the turf being laden with enough scoops all for your sake!

Then came Big Boss Season 1 in 2006, Rakhi turned out to be an eye catcher, her histrionics going way too well with the audience that was witnessing on small screen the Indian version of the UK’s ‘Big Brother’. Guess the creator, John de Mol knew the universal fact that nothing titillates better than mounds of gossip, blather and those utterly canny arguments and fracas!

So what if Rahul Roy won the title! Rakhi was able to make a mark, her confrontation with housemates, developing soft corner for inmate Amit Sadh, being at tenterhooks with Kashmira Shah, not to forget her sincere swearing in the name of Jesus, all made sure that she didn’t lose public gaze even for a nanosecond!

Since then our beloved wannabe became the cynosure of reality shows, after all (s)candal was (s)ynonymous with reality drama and this S2-factor was directly proportional to TRPs!

Apart from having that lissome physique, well her cleavage kept the likes of Aamir Khan staring at that for a good sixty seconds (Ah! That’s what the morning show of a radio station was all about almost a fortnight back!), it’s her innate ability to induct that melodramatic element into everything she’s part of that hits the right tone!

Nach Baliye 3 once again asserted the fact that when it’s about dancing there is certainly no one better than Rakhi Sawant. After all the first step of that ladder to celebrity-hood had begun with the stint of being an item girl! The audience was introduced with the then-current-now-former beau of the star, Abhishek Avasthi who accompanied her in all those moves and grooves. This again culminated in another controversy whereby the duet simply walked out alleging that the voting system was bungled on part of Star Plus!

Phew! She has real guts and caliber to carry forth the paraphernalia associated with the glitzy world! After her much proclaimed break-up with live-in partner Abhishek, the ‘Janta ki Beti’ strode along in search of soul-mate and hence came the first season of Swayamvara on NDTV Imagine. Right from getting acquainted with the suitors to Sangeet & Mehandi ceremony, followed by the gala event of wedding, everything was too grand to reject it straightaway at one go! Nuptials with Canada based Elesh Parujanwala were shredded in full public glare on another reality show, the occasion being that of finale of ‘Pati, Patni aur Woh’! Trailing the Hollywood publicist, ‘irreconcilable differences’ were cited as the cause of separation though, Rakhi had a sympathetic card for this one too!

Sob! Sob! How much my heart swells with emotions for the poor gal who is deceived at every juncture, ye zaalim mardon ki duniya hai, you see darling! Yet at the end of each installment she manages to land with yet another reality show, so there is some consolation on some front at least!

Therefore when someone hailing from the lot of feminist suggests that the pretty woman should be packed and sent off to Playboy Mansion, there aren’t many eyebrows raised at least amidst the brainy souls!

You never know, Hugh Heffner would be impressed with an individual belonging to the fairer sex who doesn’t mind smooching her female co-star for film promotion (err, the participant was Kainaaz Pervez at the premiere of ‘Khamosh Khauff ki Raat’ in 2006) and demands C-strings for her latest soap!

It was a full-on ROFL moment for me when I happened to watch few batches belonging to the aegis of ‘Rakhi ka Insaaf’! In the very first episode we have this mohatarma who alleges her real sisters of creating a rift between her son and self, all for the sake of money that she has been bequeathed with owing to husband’s ill-fated death. In a bizarre sequence of sorts that comprised of fast-paced beats and music in the backdrop, still shots of the actors on stage, compulsive shouting and intervening act of the judge, Ms. Sawant and the cheering act of the studio crowd, ‘Rakhi! Rakhi! Rakhi!’, we are apprised that the lady’s son had in fact taken shelter in mausi’s house since the woman had illicit relation with some other man! Wow! So now justice would be delivered in such an outrageous manner! How can the standards of the public stoop so low all because a family has decided to wash their dirty linen on television? What in the whole world was Rakhi trying to assert with that loud red dress, stockings pulled up and coupled with high heels, the tattoo on her shoulder showing off way too well, now we would depend on her to resolve personal crisis????

Babes you certainly don’t become an Oprah Winfrey that way!

With movies and shows stuffed in her kitty, the latest offering for her fans being the ‘Ghazab Desh Ki Ajab Kahaniyaan’ the future of this 32-year-old star seems to be brighter than ever before! Last time she did create a furor by challenging Baba Ramdev to get rid of his virginity to this luscious lass!With the likes of branding expert, Flynn Remedios handling her theatrical antics, I guess she would continue ruling the roost for times to come! 

Bollywood Catches Up With The 'Baby Bump Syndrome'!!!

We’ve always been in awe of Hollywood, be it getting that ‘inspiration’ from their scripts, to songs to catching up with the very essence of ramblings out there. It still continues to enamor us though it is stifling at times.

Don’t give me that deadpan expression! You definitely know what I’m talking about.

In fact when the news came pouring in about a black carpet being laid out for the premiere of ‘Pirates of the Caribbean 4’, the thought struck me if the thrillers and horror flicks of the likes as from the aegis of Abbas-Mustan are going to follow suit soon.

Moving on, the latest fad in Hollywood, quite recently has been to trail the baby bumps of actresses who’ve hit on the family way. Be it Jessica Alba, Mariah Carey or for that matter TV actress Alyssa Milano scribes are really busy these days drooling over the changing size of the bellies of these actresses!

I always thought, thank god! Bollywood is still miles away from all this baby banter. Just when I heaved a sigh of relief, my stupor was broken and it was rather abruptly. Well, this is also one of the foibles of our Filmdom that it senses the direction of wind and changes its direction accordingly. C’mon I’m not stating in plain cold terms that we are ‘copycats’. You know I can’t be really that rude and pass on terse comments.

Anyways, it all started with our very own Koko aka Konkona Sen, when she marked her foray on to the front page of the OK magazine in almost the ninth month of her pregnancy. And man! She did convey those emotions of a woman who’s expecting the arrival of a new guest.

Konkona’s stint was the harbinger of a trend that was soon to blow with a swirl making it an inherent practice and perhaps another topic to mull over for the scribes or rather paparazzi (though the crown should go to Tara Sharma for being the first one to kick start this nouveau tradition).

The next to come up on the marquee was none other than the lady who made ‘noodle straps’ a household name. Yeah, you got it right. It was Mandira Bedi who decided to have a gala time in front of shutterbugs. It was a moment though, since ‘Shanti’ is conceiving after 12 years of marriage with Raj Kaushal.

Earlier, journos tried to capture Kajol but all their efforts went in vain since the actress chose to keep it all under ‘wraps’. Well, she knows what it is for she’s to send ripples across. She was definitely not in a publicizing mode.

It seems this obsequiousness would not leave Bollywood that easily.

While you may be dozing off thinking it to be blather from absolutely nowhere, don’t be surprised if you stumble upon another baby bump on the stands!