Badnaam Baadshah?

Ah,a quiz show on Bollywood! That should be interesting! That's what I thought when the promos of Bollywood Ka Boss started on TV many months back. Being an ardent fan of Bollywood, I obviously sent an sms to the required number immediately, as were the instructions for participating in the show. I was very excited.
The procedure for participating in the show was simple. After sending the sms, we would be called for a written round and the winners of that would qualify for the TV round.

Months passed by. It was late December and the trailers of BKB were back on; this time saying that the TV rounds would start on Jan 9th or something. I was shocked. How could they possibly finish the written round and subsequent activities in less than a week? I visited their website and was in for a shock. The written rounds were over a long time back and a fixed number of candidates were selected for the TV round.

Now on what basis was I not called for the first round, I wondered. I checked up the rules and it only said that any Indian above the age of 18 is eligible. I'm Indian and I'm 21. So surely there was no reason for not calling me. And not only me, it happened with a friend of mine too.
This means that there is no sort of fair means of choosing contestants. I'm sure this show is all fake, with contestants chosen by the TV crew itself. Come on, otherwise why would they not call any regular guy then?

Despite my hatred for the show even before it started, I watched it. It has a good format and a good host. But it lacks the most essential thing in a quiz show - GOOD QUESTIONS!!! Oh man, the questions are so simple! Extremely silly questions, 99% of them cover the 90s and 2000s only (the two decades with the least number of path-breaking films after the 80s). Any good Hindi film-buff can answer them when asked in deep sleep as well. It's so sad to see a show completely on Bollywood, on television for millions of viewers, neglect the golden decades of the 50s,60s and the 70s. Well, they do ask questions from the 70s and 80s sometimes, but even they are so simple, most of them coming from films like Deewar, Qurbani which everyone must have seen over a dozen times.

And those foolish contestants end up getting more than 3 or 4 questions worng every episode (most of them from the remaining 1% comprising questions from old movies)!

You know, it's times like these that make me want to sue Sahara Filmy for not allowing me to lay hands of lakhs and lakhs of rupees even before the auditions for the show began!

Damn cheats!!!