KBC3 - SRK Over Do's

KBC starts their new season with quite a fanfare. This is the third season of India's most popular quiz show. This has been a come back vehicle for superstar Shah Rukh Khan to small screen. SRK, who started his acting career on television in late 80's, went on to become India biggest bollywood star of his era. King khan has given a number of hits in his career spaning more than 15 years.

KBC last two seasons were hosted by biggest superstar of all time, Amitabh Bachchan. AB not only hosted the show successfully but made a turnaround for himself in dropping showbiz career but also put Star Plus to number one spot in TRP ratings. People whole heartedly accept Big B in his new avatar as a quiz master. The show went stronger and stronger with masses. The show is not only about making people crorepatis ( millionaire ) but thier chance to meet and interact with AB. The charm of evergreen AB has just been irresistible on KBC.

SRK has stepped into the shoes ( bigger shoes ) of AB by accepting to host the KBC. SRK's popularity is nothing less than AB. There were no better options for producers when AB refused to continue with the show. SRK has his own histrionics and charm to bind people. The show started his third innings on 22 January 2007. There has been tremendous speculations about the future of show with SRK. Star Plus have been publicizing the show for more than a month before the start of show. Even Big B came home early to watch the show on TV. He was
anxious to see how his successor hosts the show.

KBC3 started with an item song of SRK. Quite a filmy touch to the song. The song was not catchy enough keep you glued to the TV for 5 minutes. The set was quite the same what
we are used to see. But compters have been changed from lenovo to "Compaq da". Yes, thats what SRK was addressing computer ji. Brands endorsed by Shah Rukh will fancy thier chances. SRK tried to make few changes in presentation of show in a witty style. King ordered that "lock kiya jaye" has been replaced with "freeze it". Dear contestants now on you cannot "quit" the show. You have to say "gale laga lo".
SRK declare "one never quits !!" so "gale laga lo". At times SRK tries to sound witty but sounded sarcastic to AB which I am sure viewers wouldn't like. I personally did not expected this from Shah Rukh. Many times he looked conscious and slight loss of appropriate words. I am sure as he moves further with the show, we will see him a bit more relaxed. Shah Rukh we don't want to see you act in the show. Be yourself. He lacked natural expressions on the face which we are used ( and like ) to see on AB's face. It helps you to connect with the audience. I would say SRK over do's in his debut episode or the shoes of AB are too big for SRK.

Tags : KBC , SRK , AB , KBC3 , Quiz

C# - Protected Access for Instance Members

Today I learned something new which I was not aware of.

I was reading the Peter's blog post regarding limited access of protected constructor. According to the new c# specification , protected constructor cannot be accessed through base class rather it is accessible through instance of derived class. This is a marked change in VS2005 ( not followed in VS2003 ). Protected instance constructors follow the same rule as the protected instance members. They are accessible only through instance of derived class.

Protected static members can be accessed from base class as well as derived class. There is no need to create the instance. So protected static member are accessible in same way as public static members are. So to avoid confusion, static members can be declared as private, public and internal rather then protected. Declaring them as protected would hardly make any difference when compared to public static declaration.

Tags : C# , CSharp , DotNet , VS2005 , Programming, Protected Constructors, Constructors

Girl groped in Mumbai by Mob

It was the night of 31st dec 2006. The crowd had gathered to witness fireworks at Gateway Of India, Mumbai. As the clock was reaching 12:00 am. The crowd was going berserk and anxiously waiting for new year. There were around more than 1000 people gathered to witness the celebrations. A girl with her male friend was also present in the crowd to witness the same. But to her nightmare, few shameless men started to molest the girl. Her male friend stepped in to stop them. But rather then supporting her friend , more people joined and groped her. In a minute around 70 people surrounded her and torned her clothes. Her friend was helplessly beaten who was trying to protect her. The whole drama continued for around 10 minutes. During this incident the girl fell down and the disgusting men pounded on her.

Similiar incident were reported with few other women in the same gathering after this incident. Strangely there was not much done by policemen who present in the police post. It is quite pathetic and sad that these incidents happen in the country which bring shame to the city and country. The traumatized girl could not be identified and the couple have not complained in the police to prevent further embarrassment.

Its quite more strange when I raised this issue in one of the indian forums. My thread was deleted as most of the members were from mumbai and they did not like my view point. Its shameless mumbai .

The story was reported by Shadab Khan in Mid-Day, a local newspaper.