Comments on: Kyun Bedi-yon se jakada hai Cricket???

By: Aariff

Aariff — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 05:33:45 +0000

Link corrected
http://www.imagepundit.com/gallery.php?entry=images/kov2n4oejmwgyzqmw0vt.jpg

By: Aariff

Aariff — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 05:29:11 +0000

Being so much disappointed with the Set Max’s Cricket World Cup 2007 Live covering by the “Item Girl of Cricket”-Mandira Bedi, I searched for the line in Google- “Mandira Bedi: does she know anything about cricket?” And I got your blog and also this one-
http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/fr/2003/03/07/stories/2003030700150100.htm

Set Max wanna sell their cricket show much better than now? My advice is-bring “new hosts”(!) please, “every new day, a new Item Girl”. Yeah, call Mallika Sherawat or Rakhi Shawant, what makes a difference then?

Now-a-days, are we playing cricket with two extrAA balls (or should I call them Melons!)?. Just check this out-http://www.imagepundit.com/images/kov2n4oejmwgyzqmw0vt.jpg

Let’s forget her clothes and her cricket knowledge too, we all know that she has something to show off. But she alone is making this serious world cup show of set max a joke with her expert(!) cricketic(!) comments although doing a lot of homework.

By: Aseem N

Aseem N — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 13:06:24 +0000

So Mr.Devil... I wasnt supposed to reply to ya. I thot all that I could say for your Extraa long comment was already in the last line of my article - Thanks for reading it! But I found this interesting pic... of ur so beloved Mandira Bedi on the sets of SET MAX live... Do have a look... http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/3074/mandira3uz5.jpg http://www.realbollywood.com/image/out.php/i242_qvi0b76h.jpg http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/5055/image10171309tv15qa9.jpg Google a little and u will find many more of such pics. If this is the kinda entertainment you are looking out for while watching cricket... vallore tuka!

By: the devil talks (doke)

the devil talks (doke) — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 04:36:11 +0000

dude…..nice article….as usual……but this time we ve some diferences here….(very unusual..)
Mandira Bedi…..i wanna get it cleared ….I M NOT HER FAN….no ways…. forget the criket part…even the glamour factor…thier are n no of gals in industry who are hotter than her…..

But the reason why i still see nothing wrong in this (the extra innings) is that …its a change….something diff from what was followed for donkety years(customs of the criket religion..)….and people having issues with changes in traditions is very natural…..(i ve nt come on the criket part yet)…..
i genuinly see no problem with glamour being added to criket……yaar…..you get both (criket n entertaintment simultaniously….sale aur kya chahiye)….
i mean…see when entertaintment was added to news channels…..people liked it…now people don mind seeing news channel for hours n hours because …they get news n majja both…..(although personally i can bear M BEDI commentating rather than listening to gossips on aajtak…other news channels rock..)…
now lets start with the cricket…..

cricket ….even cricket has gone so many changes…..if you are a fan of genuine cricket…you would hate these one dayers..test matches are what cricket is about…talent stratergy..stamina….guts…..
one dayers are only for entertainment…but no one has issues with that…..know why??? people liked the change….entertainment mixed with cricket….
now that 20-20 is picking up…..can you imagine they provide the bats man a mike.. n ask him hows he feeling..n his strtergy while facing the baller taking his run up in front of him……ridicUlous..
BUT…. people are liking the change….they wanned entertaintment….
what is sports all about…???
its a entertainment industry …where you are emotiuonally attached to a player or a team coz of patriotic emotions…….
so if you gonna get glamour with it……then i m pretty sure FTV loosing TRP preety soon….

EVEN MAX (the channel)means business….you think they are bothered of genuine cricket…itys a money minting show for them…so extracting maximum…..
if sensor board of bolliwood hasnt stopped a mallika sherawat movie….cricket ne kya paap kiya hai..mere bhai…
see had it been that…..gals wearing bold cloths was not existing in indian cinima..or tevevision..then mandira issue was debatable…..
but all this is available on the very next channel…on rather on very that channel…(movies n all..)so whats the big deal about it???
and ranjans points were quit true n practically correct…..
mano ya na mano…this is what THE DEVIL had to say…..
if you ve actuallly read the whole comment…vallore tuka….

By: Amruta

Amruta — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 07:38:32 +0000

Well well, i never said that u had a chauvinist take on the issue….in fact i said i completely agree with you…
I however disagree on the “looking upto the best” part, coz we havent really got any ‘best’ yet, have we!!
We can look at Mandira’s stint as just a beginning, no doubt a faltering one!! but we learn from mistakes right?? may b we’ll soon have a woman commentator who will break the “bedi-yan” of glamour and concentrate on hard-core cricket only!!
Why think of failures as obstacles when u can use them as stepping stones!! :-)

By: Aseem N

Aseem N — Sat, 28 Oct 2006 14:22:42 +0000

Hey thanks Amruta… I enjoy more when I see women not disagree with me on this issue. Well i havnt had any chauvinist take on it contrary to the responses my blog has got.

But guess… its not their fault too. Mandira Bedi is all over the women\\\’s posters(even if women care a damn for her) and is supposed to be a (media)mandate for them. Now even if it has worked a “oh… I can do a much better job than this female!!” among girls, I dont see this as the right way. If you got to be successful in life you got to look up, look up to the best…

Why think of jumping over a pit when you can climb mountains!

By: Amruta

Amruta — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 10:51:24 +0000

Hi Aseem!!
First of all, kudos to you for bringing up this topic, and presenting it in a very balanced fashion. Your views on the topic are very sensible and relevant; Its absolutely true, that the game of cricket does not require the so-called glamour of the likes of Mandira Bedi for its popularity to soar…its already almost reached the stature of the national game of India. However, we should also not forget, that love her or loathe her, one cannot ignore Mandira Bedi…and even though she poses as a bimbette, she has definitely made people sit up and take notice of her. It requires some courage man, to enter an arena which is entirely dominated by men, until all this time!! Agreed that the methods she used were wrong, but don’t you think she paved way for women commentators who were genuinely interested in cricket and cricket only?? I mean if just the uproar among girls that “oh…I can do a much better job than this female!!” can trigger a wave of indian female commentators storming(ok…thats exaggeration….lets use the word seeping) the indian commentary scene..whats wrong with it?? Give it a thought!!

Ofcourse this diagonal thought of mine is nowhere meant to oppose what u have said Aseem…u are absolutely right in whatever u hav said…this is just an attempt to revert to the chauvinist responses that ur blog has received…hehe!!

By: Maltesh Ashrit

Maltesh Ashrit — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 15:45:43 +0000

Yea buddy I did mean de same thing,
When dey can do smthing better..
why interfere in the sport..??

I am not against women hosting criket matches..
what i cant see is dat some CRICKET ILLITERATE women doing de job..I wud have certainly not minded sme ex captain of Indian women’s cricket team doin it..by de way how many know dat v have good performing Women’s team..n does smone know hus de captian..
Thats de treatment given to them..? Why they aint playin the same game dat Sachin or Dhoni does..?

By: RENGITOO

RENGITOO — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 10:31:30 +0000

first of all ASEEM ::
WOMEN CANNOT BE CRICKET ANALYSTS AT LEAST 4 THE NEXT 56 YRS !!!!
U GOT TO PLAY CRICKET ON THE FIELD WITH FULL PASSION (WELL NOT LIKE THE PRESENT DAY WOMEN’S CRICKET ..WHO SAID ITS PASSIONATELY PLAED?!!)

*I WUD CERTAINLY PREFER A BALAJI OR DEBASHIS MOHANTHY IN THE PLACE OF MNDIRA BEDI *

NOW READ ON::
we lost all apettite to watch extraa innings after this lady was appointed as the host….this idiotic lady doesnt know a thing abt cricket .. & wat is she trying to do putting on such reavealing clothes …

wat we expect frm extraa inngs is some genuine cricket discussions…now someone plzz go & tell her tht itss soo uncool ,putting her head in orange paint dabbas & hosting a live cricket show ?? now who said thts cool??IN A NUTSHELL MANDIRA IS FEMALE IDIOTISM AT ITS HEIGHT …….

BTW… she loooks sooo sexy wen she wears saree’s properly .. :o

By: amit

amit — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 15:51:39 +0000

uh about the post simply “WONDERFUL” the best uve wriiten after IIT trip………..but i dont think employing MANDIRA isd a folly on the part of SEX MAX guys (oops sorry>>>>>>SET MAX)….see ur language is becoming infectious……the TRP ratings are only increasing and by the demand rule ………the producers hv to show wat the JUNTA wants to see…….so dats it its finally JUNTA ka faisla……..the pendulum will swing in the direction we want it to move……..u stop watching and oomphing over MANDIRA and d extra innings will fade