Ek Khiladi Ek Haseena – what took TV guys so long to come up with this?
Colors, the Hindi general entertainment channel (GEC) from the Viacom18 stable, is launching a new cricket format show – Ek Khiladi Ek Haseena. This will feature “Indian cricketers with ladies from Indian television, to fight it out on the dance-floor”. It hits the TV screens on 26 September and will air every Friday and Saturday at 9 pm.
I have one question for the people who run television in India
What took you so long to come up with this?
This is such an obvious idea that even I could think of it.
The six teams are S Sreesanth with Surveen Chawla, Harbhajan Singh with Mona Singh, Irfan Pathan with Ashima Bhalla, Dinesh Karthik with Nigar Khan, Nikhil Chopra with Barkha Bisht and Vinod Kambli with Shama Sikander.
While this is a decent line-up, I have a dream cast for any competing channel that wants to steal their thunder.
And trust me; if this one materializes I will take a break from this blog to watch the show. The line-up is that good.
I disagree on the EK KHILADI EK HASEENA. Well, atleast from the fan’s point of view.
In a country that idolizes or iconizes its cricketers, its difficult to take this
particpation by them as anything but a lack of focus on and
commitment to cricket. Believe me, if they fail in the next few
series, this will come to haunt them. from the TV channel point of
view, you cricket fan (whether male or female) doesn’t want to see
them dancing and making a fool of themselves. Lets see what the
TRPs say.
Think about it like this – would MS Dhoni ever take part in this
hero-worshipping but image-shattering show? I haven’t asked him,
but i don’t think so.
Hey Santanu welcome to the Common Fan…We hope to see you here often….
You are right…I haven’t known of any active players participating in any of the celebrity dancing show…most of the participants have done so after they were done with the game…and its shocking that they have taken time out to participate in a show like this when they could have given their tired limbs a rest….but other wise sportsmen make great participants and more often then not end up winning…so the concept is great … just needs other participants – ones who are retired and also ones who make for great characters…check out the list I made