Oh No Lara(Dutta) !

This is about the last week's 'celebrity' episode when Lara Dutta and Sania Mirza graced Kaun Banega Crorepati.

Now we all know how farcical and fixed these 'celebrity' episodes are. The pathetic questions, even more pathetic options, and the drama trip these celebrities go about before answering these questions, despite of the fact that every bloke who is, though, patient enough to tolerate all this, but not idiot enough to not understand that these dumbos-for-life know all the questions and answers before hand makes the whole episode as obnoxious as a Balaji Teleserial.

Obnoxious all right, but can this be really hilarious? Yes. Hilarious in the sense, that when these people make such a fool of themselves while trying to act intelligent, and 'come to' the answers they already know. This happened on last Sunday.

After the utterly pathetic episode of Kajol-Ajay Devgan, I had pledged to myself that I would never watch such episodes again. But while surfing the channels when I saw this 'intriguing' question on KBC, don't-know-why I just stopped. Well the question was - If on August 1, there is a Friday, how many Sundays are there in that month? This so difficult question was of the value 6.40 lakhs! What a choice for this amount! I mentally complimented Siddhart Basu.

I was about to change the channel when the beauty queen Lara Dutta decided to make a fool herself and the organizers of Ms Universe Beauty Pageant. She went about this way. Since 1st August was Friday, 3rd had to be the first Sunday. Then she added EIGHT( guffaws), and concluded 11th is also Sunday. Then she added SEVEN( more guffaws), and surmised that 18th, 25th, and 32nd have to be Sundays, but 32nd can not be a day in any month. 3rd, 11th, 18th, 25th. So that made four.

By that time, Sania Mirza, luckily, had counted that August has 31 days.

But the real problem was the fact that they had been told there were 5 Sundays. Poor Lara realized that she has lost the plot terribly. She just didn't know how to arrive at five. Partner was equally dumb. So to save herself from this embarrassing situation, she blurted that the answer is five. Nobody was told why five, when the 'calculation' was four.

Partial mistake is of Star TV. When they tell the answers to celebrities, they should also rehearse the histrionics these participants should go about. Perhaps they relied on the brains of the beauty queen and Tennis queen. But beauty queens are proven no-brainers. Ever heard of Aishwariya Rai!

I hope somebody at the back stage did tell Lara Dutta the secret of calendars - that there are seven days in a week. Had she been a successful actress, if I dare call her one, she would have had real date problems. Imagine those Sundays falling on the 32nd of the months! Terrible.