Five Reasons I Love Ram Kapoor

For everyone that knows me well, you know that I absolutely adore Ram Kapoor. Yes, he’s that overweight guy that all my Twitter dosts always pokes fun at. You know who you tweeps are. I've been crushing over Ram Kapoor since his Ghar Ek Mandir days. It deepened during Kasam Se and furthered when he played big bhai to Rakhi Sawant during her Swayamwar. But it has reached its all time high right now as he plays Mr. Ram Kapoor in Bade Ache Lagte Hai. You can call it an obsession or an infatuation; I call it sheer love for the sweetest, cutest man on Hindi television who happens to bear an uncanny resemblance in every which way, to my favorite Uncle. But because everyone cannot fathom, understand or comprehend my ishq, pyar, mohabbat for Mr. Kapoor, here are five reasons why.

5) Ram Ki Baatein
There are so few men on the telly who speak Hindi as well as they do English. In both languages, Ram Kapoor is never wrong in grammar, pronunciation and his accent is pretty gosh darn hot!

4) Ram Ki Adayein…Uff!
Ekta Kapoor, whom I adore by the way, happens to put Ram in a number of rather odd situations vis-à-vis Bade Ache Lagte Hai. But the manner in which Ram emotes, expresses and reacts literally makes me go haiiiiiiii.

3) Ram Ki Talent (too much confusion over the Hindi word for 'talent')
Unknown to most people, Ram Kapoor is pretty darn talented. Yeah, so he can do the serial thing really well, but I loved him as the obnoxious fool in Monsoon Wedding and then as the awesome uncle in Udaan. Oh, and he can dance too!

2) Ram Ki Muskarahat
Ram Kapoor, all you have to do is smile and basically, my day is made. Not only is tres sexy, but mucho cute. There’s a slight cheekiness to his smile which makes it even more  endearing.

1) Ram Ke Motapaan
He’s fat and what? Or rather so what! Ram Kapoor makes fat look sexy. And he is the sexiest man on Hindi television.

So he played a rather tharki character in Ek Main Aur Ek Tu and it looks like he will be doing a repeat in Agent Vinod, but even then, I’ll take him.

Political Fashionista: Hina Rabbani Khar

I absolutely love the way the Indian mentality works. It's hypocritical and wrong, controversial and sometimes correct. We go on about how we're such a cool culture; how we've matured. But the reality of it is we still live in a time capsule when it comes to certain issues. So check it out. The very pretty and modern, by Pakistani standards, Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar steps foot on Indian soil in hopes to mend Indo-Pak relations and of course, we (junta, media and critics of all kinds), immediately tagged her an emerging fashion icon not a core-shaking change-bringing minister. She, needless to say, was not too thrilled with the title. A quick note to the Paki Foreign Minister: the minute we see you sporting Cavalli shades, 17 Lakh Hermes Birkin and Jimmy Choo heels, we officially crown you a stylista among other monikers.

But what I loved most was the abundant amounts of lechery that was displayed by the men of India who were interested in her visit. They paid ‘special’ attention to her. I, however, am more interested in how our own politicians looked at the pretty good looking minister. Everyone knows how lecherous our ministers can be. Hey, some of them are convicted criminals for goodness sake!

I really don't think anyone took her seriously, sadly. Maybe it has something to do with her being a prominent Pakistani female. As women we look to them as oppressed women - becharis and all that jazz. So when we see a modern Pakistani in a position of power, we're almost intrigued. But then, we also put her down to nothing by belittling her nothing but a Fashionista. The men are no different. They don't take her seriously because she's a Pakistani female minister who happens to be pretty god-damn hot. So in totality, India doesn't look to her as a woman who will make a difference to IndoPak relations.

She has been given a byline too: "A breath of fresh air." But I don't really understand what that means. The bigger question is, would we have perhaps paid a bit more attention to the issue at hand if the Pakistani Foreign Minister were a male? Perhaps then we would have actually been more concerned with what he came to achieve versus Khar's Cavalli shades.

I don't know what will happen with Indo-Pak relations. I'm not sure we really will be able to solve the underlying issues; there are far too many under rooted historical, political, social and even religious problems which have been long drawn out. But there are people on both sides of the border who are willing to try and bring some changes to the relationship of India and Pakistan. But if all we can do is demean them, then really what changes in our herd mentality are we so proud of?