After a long bout of micro-blogging and being caught up with absolutely nothing, here I am.
My clock shows 3:06 in the morning. Sleep evades me even after 4 pegs of Old Monk and a really long conversation with a girl I really like.
Well, that’s not the reason I am here. The reason I am here is because I read a blogpost that reminded me that I blog too. Thank you for reminding me that, dear blogger.
It’s been a while since I blogged. So this post is going to be all over the place. Bear with me. My rusty fingers need a little time to get back to their nimble self.
I watched the Indian version of the original Pakistani Coke Studio the other day. If you need to know what Coke Studio is, I won’t judge you. It only says that you should, if you like music and you are open to listening to new stuff, youtube Coke Studio and give it a listen. I’m sure you’ll like it.
Just to familiarise you with the concept of Coke Studio, here’s a prose.
Coke Studio was first devised in Pakistan, our sister nation. I say sister nation because evidently our nations do not have brotherly sentiments flowing. No matter what the popular media says. And it was devised because Pepsi had whooped Coke’s ass left, right and center. ‘Dildo violated’ as my dear friend would put it. At times, he’d vary that with ‘Strap-on violation’ but that’s another thing for another time. Anyway, you get the picture, right?
I don’t know if Coke’s market share increased after the Coke Studio thingy, but one thing was for sure: the effort was a raging success. It was so successful that people posted the episodes on youtube and shared it on facebook to such an extent that it became a ‘hit’ among Indian youtubers.
That’s when MTV India decided to cash in on its popularity and decided to make a quick buck with an Indian version.
That’s when the soul stirring Coke Studio took the shape of the vomit inducing Cock Studio.
Believe me, the Indian version of it is abysmally bad. It’s so bad that it’s bad on Biblical proportions. Give it a listen. And if you go deaf, don’t hold me responsible.
The whole exercise is very forced. I call it an exercise because it is a physical revolt. It has a sense of irresponsibility to it. Also, the fact that someone decided to ignore the original brief that gave birth to Coke Studio. The soul of it is lost. There is a sense of irreverence to it. The kind that makes you want to take back the faith and respect you put in when you first heard that there was going to be an Indian Version of it.
When the Pakistanis did it, I could sense honesty in it. I could sense the joy and the energy that one derives out of sheer happiness of doing something they like. It fueled the singers’ voices. They stopped living up to the name they had created for themselves and rose above it.
But in the Indian Version, the artists, the musicians and more importantly, the producers and the programmers have collectively reduced something substantial into utter bum wash. Coke Studio, the Indian Version, according to me is at the most a frivolous joke. The kind that even a hormonally charged teenager would shy away from.
It is so bad that I was reminded of the inane, boring and utterly mundane Doordarshan programming of yesteryears. This one is better because it gives me the option of at least switching over to 300 other channels that I didn’t have when I was subjected to the rubbish on DD. In fact, I think if I had paused a couple of seconds on the DD channel while surfing when MTV Cock Studio India was being broadcast, I would have found something more interesting.
But as DD’s reputation precedes its programming, I didn’t.
May be the next few episodes of MTV Cock Studio India would be better than its first installment. But I would never know about it until someone shares a youtube link of the same on facebook or twitter.
Why this rant? Because we live in a country where no one ever takes the pain to harbour an opinion of their own. Unless someone tells them something is wrong, they wouldn’t realise it. If you remember a story called ‘The King’s Clothes’ or something like it, you’ll know what I mean. Our collective society works that way. Our society should be the only one without a voice of its own.
Anyway, like my grand dad used to say, ‘Never advise anyone on 5 things. Books, music, movies, food and women.’ Everyone has a taste. And does have the right to have one.
On that note, I’ll let you decide what you think of MTV Cock Studio.
Peace out.
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