REMOTE POWER

When we sit before our TV sets and go through excruciatingly tedious scenes and nauseatingly vulgar dances, boredom and disgust sit heavily on us.

And then we realize that we hold their fate in our hands, for we have the remote control in them. So when the aged hero makes like a young man and throws his geriatric limbs about in what he fondly hopes to be a dance, all we have to do is press a button – click – and he vanishes from the scene.

The same can be done with the heroine when she oversteps the bounds of decency. And when the noisy comedians yell their lines at us – click! And when forty year old actors coyly play college students, the remote can come to our rescue.

It is wonderful to have such power in one’s hands. Wish we could have a remote control for real life too.

J.Vasanthan
(The New Indian Express – March 2, 2005)