The disappointing LIVE episode !!!

Woke up at 11.am and started my usual routine of checking my mails and orkut scraps when i get call from Anu.

"Vicky, where r u ?? can you come down to the main gate ?? We've got channel X and Y at the main gate for some media coverage and come down ASAP."

That ASAP (As soon as possible) sounded very genuine, so pulled out a shirt and a pant from the pile of clothes (that i had set aside for the laundry almost one week back) and reached the main gate.

Was asked to stand along with the others who had come for the same. The anchor was a young chap (maybe a couple of years younger to me) announced that in a couple of minutes he'd be getting a call from the studio and would ask a couple of questions to which we had to respond and this would be aired LIVE on the channel.

Wooow. Sounded very exciting as this was the first time I would be on TV and that too LIVE !! . We had to respond to the reservation issue that's in the process of formulation. The feed is got over in a couple of minutes and was relieved as I had just finished my first appearance on TV :D. Though fumbled a bit in the end (c'mon...what do you expect out of a debut appearance :P) , it was kinda okay.

After this, the guy approached and asked us to hang around as he'd have to give live feeds for the bulletin that would be aired every half an hr till 2:30pm, that meant almost 5 live feeds giving the same responses. When I asked him as to why he cant air the same feeds again and again, he said the channels no more believe in telecasting anything but LIVE. So it doesnt really matter if the responses are the same as long as its LIVE !!!. That was some hell of a news to me .

Then we had another channel that was making a proper 30-min programme on the same issue with a group of ten students. The anchor distributed a paper that had points which we could speak (just in case if we didnt have any ...and all these days I'd been wondering howcome every tom-dick-n-harry had some viewpoint to talk on TV). All of us had spoke our points without any fumble but the anchor wasnt happy. She was disappointed with our histrionic skills and wanted us to put in more fury and anguish into our talk ( well ..how else do you intend to make an issue hot-n-spicy).

All this seemed to overshadow the orginality of our views and thoughts. Added to this, the scorching heat was making me feel dizzy. So slowly slipped off from that place with pravin as we'd better things to do than posing in front of cameras.

Well as for me...it wasnt as fun and exciting as I expected it to be and decided not even to bother about another TV programme that was scheduled in the evening.