Channel (and health) screening

Sitting in a hospital lounge that flaunted a big LCD screen, observed couple of funny things. One of the TVs at the reception played WWF (or WWE or WWI or whatever). I found it amusing to play wrestling in an hospital. May be they want patients to try the acts and come injured to spruce up revenues for the ortho department. I guess it may simply be coz they didn’t realize that cricket highlights was over and they should change channel. The second thing to observe was the warning message of the WWF (when I used to ignorantly like the sport, it was called WWF and I know it has changed a couple of times its name since then). It read…”Do not practice this at home, school or anywhere”. The funny part is, I have read the same tag line couple of years back and vividly remember it saying “Do not practice this at home”. Now they have added school or anywhere. :P…The parallel I could draw is for ITC to start with a warning messages “Cig smoking is injurious to lungs” and then adding “heart, throat, everything” to the message subsequently. :P…It’s quite true since doctors say smoking could be one of the causes for even things like hair fall. I would have never imagined a connection of that sort. It’s almost become a trump card tool at the hands of doctors to drub smoking. Anyway, it’s good if that results in people quitting the habit

Another department in the same hospital, another lounge, another big LCD screen (an idea flashed in mind to go to one of these hospital receptions whenever there is a cricket match..:P), another tv channel. This time M Tv. I don’t frequent M Tv or for that matter any similar hinglish channel coz they never would play the songs fully (except old tracks). Recalled days of watching shows like FDFS on V channel and some similar programmes on M Tv and any new movie/trailer/song, they show only for half a minute. This is very different to regional channels which play full songs even from new movies. The difference is almost that of 2 lines vs 2 stanzas in songs. However, watching M Tv now after ages changed that perception. They played some 6 songs back-to-back from all new movies including the most popular Sheila ki jawani…One of my close friends hyped up this song so much (she even went to the movie just for this song despite Farah makes absurd unintended comedy movies) and I ended up watching it on youtube. Couldn’t like it one bit. But that’s totally something to do with taste I guess. May be people who follow regional cinema more like kuthu paatu over these item numbers in hindi. Btw, though the songs of hindi movies take time to hit the small screen, the movies hit much faster than regional ones. Even in DVDs. That’s a study in contrast

I wonder who changes channels in hospital lounges and always try searching for the remote control in vain!