Tutor
A Class X student who takes private tuitions with the hope of doing well in his SSLC exam is perturbed by the teacher’s weird demands.
The teacher tasks her students with so much study material that they are unable to cope up with her demands. The tutor’s logic is simple. If the students cannot learn what they are expected to she will prove that they indeed need not only private tuition but something more to improve their brain-power.
The teacher is actually an agent of Amway which sells all kinds of nutrition-boosting drinks and aphrodisiacs. She claims that students who take these invigorating drinks/pills etc will be recharged. The teacher cited examples of past students who she said performed well in their exams thanks to the products. The student was so convinced by his teacher’s sales talk that he asked his father to get the products.
The father was aware that the teacher was an agent of Amway but could not afford to offend her so he got the brain boosting medicine which cost a whopping Rs3000. What a good opportunity to create a downline! “And we call teachers the nation builders”, muttered the father under his breath!
The Dirty Picture
The above named movie was running at Gold Cinema for two weeks. It depicted Vidya Balan’s excellent acting skills. Probably many came to watch the movie hoping to see something like soft porn and were disappointed with the actual product.
So much depends on the maturity of the movie goers and what their take-away from a movie is. Several young men in the hall obviously went in for the titillation only.
The Dirty Picture is based on the tragic story of South Indian siren Silk Smitha and how men actually savoured her body more than her acting skills and how they would walk out of the cinema hall once her dance sequence was over. A similar scene was repeated here.
The second half of the movie was serious stuff. It showed a Vidya Balan who was overtaken by younger more agile actress and how she had taken to the bottle and gained weight thereby losing out on new offers. Silk Smitha finally committed suicide. Many in the hall walked out after the first half. Perhaps what continues to attract movie goers today is still the “masala” of dance and bedroom scenes.
Humour of the year
The Shillong Times office was flooded with calls on the story of Stanly Wiss Rymbai sending a look-alike to a school function.
Readers have said that the story should be voted the most humorous story of the year. Calls have come from online readers who cannot believe that such a thing can also happen. Said one reader, “Your front page story today takes the cake …. in fact all the Christmas cakes in town. Is today the World Humour Day? You should send this story to Ripley’s Believe it or Not.”
Normally newspapers are always about a dog biting a man; in other words bad, sad and ugly news. Good news is no news. But this certainly is funny news. It is said that art mimics life.
In Meghalaya life mimics politics, every part of it the good, bad and the ugly.
VIP?… What the ……!
In these days of daily traffic jams and bad tempers a VIP who uses his clout to push through traffic jams is not taken too kindly by fellow travelers. On Sunday a certain VIP’s foul-mouthed escorts shouted at all other drivers as if they had no right to the road except the VIP.
Angry drivers and passengers said if this continues they would not mind taking on the VIP even if it means spending a night in the lock-up. They said if all of the passengers stranded on the highway got together to thrash the VIP and his uncouth escorts there would not be enough space in the Shillong jails or all the jails in Meghalaya.
The patience of travelers on the GS Road is now wearing thin. VIPs had better not push their luck too far!