Wednesday, August 8, 2007

Hey WWE , WTF ?

WWE is a redneck soap opera.Well let me extend that comparison to all those pseudo-sport cum entertainment shows with names like WCW , ECW  etc.
Professional wrestling in its current form evolved from the circus and carnival performers at the turn of the nineteenth century, who would speak in code and stage wrestling matches between ringers and "marks" .At heart , today's highly paid muscle men, who think of themselves as TV stars and matinee idols , are little more than updated circus performers , speaking in gibbersih to keep the fans uneducated.

        I don't follow wrestling anymore.I'm even ashamed to say I used to watch it as a kid.There is nothing manly about watching muscle bound men in teeny -tiny thongs grapple and grope each other.
Anyway I noticed that the quality was declining and storylines were getting desperate when Kane was accused of raping Lita or when HHH married Stephanie McMahon after getting her drugged.Please , the kids watching WWE might get bad ideas .


Now here we have a video of the Great Khali , who is the behemoth from India .I guess he has won the championship or something .
Look at the travesty orchestrated here.
Ok , so he is from India, big deal, but the real reason for him being in the WWE is his size and not his nationality.
I think the big brains  behind the show , who actually hire writers to script the show  (Yup , people , the show is actually scripted , the catchphrases and slogans and all !! )don't intend to keep him a champion for long , because after all he is just a foreigner who is out to steal American Glory and humilitae the greatest country in this world

.So out he comes , starts blabbering in hindi ,  comparing  himself to the great 
Bhagat Singh , Mother Theresa and others .What the redneck crowd does not realize ist that the whole point of this rant is to incite them against another country , because Khali's "English translator " does exactly that 
and then 
restore their sense of jingoism and pride  for their country , the great USA by interrupting the victory celebrations .Which is what I predicted even before this farceful show of Indianness began with the Bhangra and the saris and the flower garlands and the bollywood styled dancing began.Sure enough , Batista came there , 
interrupted the celebrations 
and challenged Khali and attacked him and made him eat crow and restored the pride of the country,  USA.

India and USA are trying to build peaceful diplomatic relations .The 123 nuclear  bill has been recently agreed upon.We Indians are not enemies , but the WWE seems to have a different agenda in its mind.

Hey , why bring India into this.Rednecks are too dumb.They'll start identifying Khali with India , and all  Indians with the hatred for Khali  .And by Indians I mean any brown skinned non-caucasian -vaguely asian-curry smelling man or woman or child who happens to live in USA or happens to visit it .Now let me tell you again...Once a person has citizenship of any country , he is a citizen of that country , in spite of his country of origin.So a person of Indian origin who has acquired citizenship of USA is no longer an indian.He is the citizen of USA.
So , WWE , WTF ? Why are you promoting hate ?
Its time you cleaned up your act, because you too have a social responsibility which exceeds your primary duty of entertaining people.



2 comments:

  1. U need to lighten up dude. U r holding Khali's title win responsible for the future breakdown of Indo-US ties?? I still watch wrestling (of course, now it is illegally downloaded from the net, but its the thought that counts) and enjoy it for most part. Sure it gets desperate sometimes, but in the end i prefer the storylines here to almost any soap opera.

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  2. It's just that these days watching WWE seems to insult my intelligence.. I mean c'mon , why are we still fixating on there people after knowing that everything in it is fake !
    And then this...
    I got royally pissed because "The Great Khali " was simply being used to stir up anti-Indian sentiments .He was crudley being used to stir up a patriotic sense in Americans.Does the lumbering leviathan even know he is being used ?

    Its not Khali's title win I hold responsible, but the way he is being portrayed .

    Khali won because the crowd wanted him to win , but how long will he retain it ?

    one last question ...Does it even matter , now that we know its all fake and worthless ?

    The WWE is just a carny show , but at least carnies had some dignity .

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