Monday, December 26, 2011

History repeats itself

Yes that’s right. Famous quiz master Abhilash B R said that he’ll be completing the question that he had left halfway through in a quiz competition 5 years ago in South America .When Abhilash was about to ask the tie breaker question , the transformer burst , the lights went off and 2 teams were declared as joint winners.

After hearing that Abhilash is going to complete his question in an upcoming quiz show , news channels across India have become very excited . All day long they have been airing the last 20 seconds of the South American quiz show where Abhilash takes a deep breath and his ribs and belly move about in simple harmonic motion , there’s a Latin American girl in the audience who keeps pushing her hair that has fallen on the cheek behind her ears , a boy wearing a shirt with the line “when I’m not asking questions , I’m answering them” printed on it leans forward to hear the tie breaker question. Abhilash then asks ‘Who is…’ and then there’s the blast , power failure and technical snag that follow.

Talking about the unfortunate incident that happened 5 years ago a person said ‘Jab kismat ho gaandu toh kya karega pandu’. The quizzing fraternity is ecstatic about the latest news and said that there are a plethora of things that may follow ‘Who is..’ like ‘Who is Dawood Ibrahim’s right hand man?” , ‘Who is Bappi Lahri’s jeweler?’or some common question like ‘Who is X , X owns Y a billion dollar company, X started his company in a small garage in some part of the world’ and this X usually happens to be either Steve Jobs or Bill Gates or the owner of Rolls Royce or some other random famous person. Spot fixers have been quick to cash in on the situation and are betting on topics like if the person in the question is a man or a woman and if the person happens to be an Indian or a foreigner.

However philosopher , thinker , day dreamer and Abhilash’s good friend Ananth said ‘Having known him for the past so many years I think he was trying to cool things off in the heated environment with some funny question like ‘Who’s your daddy??’ to some girl in the audience before proceeding to the final question. He is a very witty person you see’ Ananth added that ‘I suppose the origin of the phrase – who’s your daddy goes back in time to one of those parent teacher meetings in school where the teacher would have probably asked a student who his/her dad was in the sea of daddies ‘

When the reporters approached Abhilash and asked him as to why he would want to complete a question that wasn’t completed 5 years ago , Abhilash digging in to his 5th vada pav with garlic sauce said ‘For the same reason that Vinod Kambli can rake in a match fixing issue that’s 15 years old . I have nothing else to say’ . When asked more questions the humorous quiz master said ‘I’m in a hurry ,I’ll have to rush now. Don’t you dare to nick name me Rasheed , buhahahahaha’