Simi Garewal is back on the small screen again with her new show \u201cSimi Selects India\u2019s Most Desirable\u201d. In it she interviews the \u201chot and single = desirable\u201d people of Bollywood. Apparently she will diversify beyond Bollywood but that hasn\u2019t happened yet. Garewal has tried the talk show thing a few times now, with her most recent attempt before \u201cSimi Selects\u201d being on \u201cRendezvous with Simi Garewal\u201d, but her shows have never really taken off. If you watch any of them you\u2019ll see why; the lady has neither wit nor chutzpah, or even the very basic gift of the gab. Well, \u201cSimi Selects\u201d is no different. Touted by the lady to be different (she is the writer\/producer), the show is the same old annoying stuff in the same old bottle. Plus, Simi\u2019s gotten way more cheesier (if that\u2019s possible).<\/p>\n
On the first installment she had on Ranbir Kapoor \u2013 and you can\u2019t get more established than that. Ranbir of the famous Kapoor clan is the current happening star; every alternate film stars him. Plus he was linked with the very lissome Ms. Padukone. The love story did not have a happy ending, Deepika hinting in public interviews that it was because of Ranbir\u2019s infidelity.<\/p>\n
Anyway, Ranbir came on, was feted and praised by Ms. Garewal for being so handsome, and desirable and such a good boy. Yeah, then she showed snippets of his Mom Neetu and Dad Rishi and they said pretty much the same: such a great son, a sensitive little boy . . . blah, blah, blah. Simi fawned on, and oohed and aahed at the right moments. Ranbir, to his credit took it all in stride, and behaved really nicely with Simi Aunty. I\u2019m lucky that the show ended when it did; had it gone on any longer and heaped any more praises on Ranbir, I might have had to build him his very own temple.<\/p>\n
After I watched that, I haven\u2019t really cared to tune into any other editions of her show, but I did see the show yesterday after I saw an ad. which showed her featuring one of my favorite actors \u2013 Abhay Deol. Abhay picks interesting films to work in, notably Manorama Six Feet Under<\/a>, DevD<\/a> and Socha na tha<\/a>. He was also in Aisha<\/a> and the very recent \u201cZindagi na milegi dobara\u201d<\/a>. So his choices are very different from what one would expect out of a Deol boy.<\/p>\n Sunny, the eldest brother was quite the star, but mostly acted in commercial projects. Bobby, his younger brother hasn\u2019t veered off that course much. Abhay, the youngest, has picked a very different path, doing mostly hatke films \u2013 so figured he\u2019d be very un-Deol-like. Which he was. He was also very rad, and a tad eccentric, which I hadn\u2019t expected at all.<\/p>\n This show was very much like the previous. Simi was in full form, with the fawning and the overarching plaudits, although I daresay that they were better deserved here rather than in Ranbir\u2019s case. Then, in case you missed this, she also did her \u201cMinefield\u201d section, where she judges the contestant\u2019s shit-taking abilities by role-playing with them. She assumes the role of Kiki, the most annoying girlfriend in the entire world (in my view) and then proceeds to have Kiki talk like a mentally challenged child, lisping her words together, and batting her eyelashes like she thinks an annoying girlfriend would do. She did this to Ranbir too, and after watching her Kiki-playing abilities, I\u2019ve got to say that Ranbir and Abhay tolerated her a lot better than I did.<\/p>\n Garewal is 64, and she looks very good for 64. It is another story that she hasn\u2019t gotten any better with her television show-hosting capabilities with age.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Simi Garewal is back on the small screen again with her new show \u201cSimi Selects India\u2019s Most Desirable\u201d. In it she interviews the \u201chot and single = desirable\u201d people of Bollywood. Apparently she will diversify beyond Bollywood but that hasn\u2019t … Continue reading