Of Gifting Tag Heuer and Gurgaon

Since yesterday, large amount of air time and blog space must have been used to focus on the Kaun Banega Crorepati – SRK. From the rumors of a tiff between SRK and Big B, to analyzing how well the king has filled into Shehnshah’s shoes – there have been innumerable discussions. I saw it only for some time yesterday. Then it became a bit boring for me. SRK, I thought was falling prey to the overacting which incidentally has made him famous in films. May be it was a first day jitters for him too. He was trying to create humor, which sometimes was not there.
Today, I again watched the show and felt much better. But the incident which left me dumbfounded was when SRK gifted off his Tag Heuer 2000 Aquagraph watch worth Rs 1 lakh 28 Thousand to a contestant.
I just can’t resist comparing the two giants of film industry in the TV show. I guess had KBC been launched with Amitabh for the third time too, it would have been a disaster. Shahrukh has certainly brought in a difference with him. Giving massages to the contestants, warm hugs all around, decent sense of humor and most of all his knowledge regarding the accent and basic languages of so many different parts of the country is amazing. Yes, you can say that this is what he is being paid crores and crores of rupees but no matter how rich you are, it takes guts to gift your 1 lakh watch just like that. This spontaneity was absent during the Amitabh era – who was much more conservative – a fatherly figure quite opposite to the young exuberance of Shahrukh.
One thing – seeing the show, you are guaranteed to increase your knowledge. Not in the world I could have imagined that Gurgaon is Guru ka Gaon. I always thought the first half of the name came from Gurh (jaggery). But my brain databases were updated yesterday when I came to know that the city(or village in earlier times) was gifted by Yudhishtra to Dronacahrya as a Guru Dakshina.