Outlook – July 06, 2019

Marching Orders Given

It’s natural that a drill sergeant with a taste for terrifying young cad ets will

be a fearsome sergeant intimidating batsmen before they schlep off to the

pavilion after yet another meek snick off his bowling. Then, Sheldon

Cottrell, West Indies’ fast bowler and proud member of the Jamaican army,

launches into his wildly popular routine: three stiff, militarily perfect steps

forward, a salute and hands and head thrown backwards in unbounded joy.

The BBC’s Tonight with Vladmir Putin has a CGI generated version of the Russian supremo hosting

a talk show where his guests are in on the gag as well. The show hasn’t quite captured the public

imagination in Britain, with The Telegraph newspaper calling it an “unfunny, offensive mess”.

THIS TOO

HAPPENED

Second Take?

When A-list moviestars

appear on TV, sure that their

performance will capture that

effortless cuteness on the big

screen they took many takes to

master, they run into trouble.

Kareena appeared on stage as

judge of a popular dance show,

looked fetching in yellow, jived

with choreo grapher Bosco

Martis and rapper Raftaar.

Then, she desc en ded into the

ord inary—mouthing tired dia-

logue, faking excitement ( bad

acting), spraying superlatives

like cheap deo. Ah, practice

makes perfect.

House Full

Though the Trinamool cut a

sorry figure, then took its rev-

erses badly, our favourite MPs

from Bengal—close pals and

actresses Mimi Chakraborty

and Nusrat Jahan, were unt-

ouched by the sour petulance.

Fresh from Nusrat’s wedding

in Turkey, and so absent when

other MPs took their oaths in

Parliament, the duo did the

needful later, not forgetting to

use ‘Jai Bangla’. Didi is happy;

can’t say we aren’t, too!

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