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Television Ugly
Betty, which inspired the Indian hit Jassi Jaisi Koi Nahin,
is on from Friday to Sunday at 10 P.M. on Star World. The show is
in its third season in India with an ever-growing viewership. The
popularity of Betty has taken even its makers by surprise and
viewers are constantly wondering when she would ultimately go in
for a makeover. But there are others who say that giving her a
makeover would make her look like any other soap star and she’d
lose her appeal. So the show goes on even as Betty makes herself
indispensible to Mode, the fashion house she works for, and
more so to her boss Daniel Meade. Meade relies on Betty’s good
judgment and quick thinking and also trusts her with all his
financial dealings. Which not just elates Betty but makes her one
of the most valuable Plain Janes in the world. Killing fields We are living in an
age of terror. In fact, India has had to pay a heavy price for
fanaticism. There have been a series of bombings, hijackings and
assassinations of the country’s leading political figures. Infamous
Assassinations: Indira Gandhi & Rajiv Gandhi on Thursday
at 9 P.M. on the History & Entertainment Channel recounts the
unnatural deaths of two of India’s most prominent
post-Independence leaders. Indira Gandhi was assassinated on
October 31, 1984, by her Sikh bodyguards as she walked in the
garden of her New Delhi home. It appeared that her murder was an
act of revenge for her orders to storm the holiest shrine of the
Sikhs in Amritsar in 1983. Six years later, on May 21, 1991, in
Sriperumbudur (near Chennai), her eldest sun Rajiv Gandhi was also
assassinated by separatists in a bomb explosion. With the help of
rare footage, Infamous Assassinations showcases the fact
that we are living in dark times and the worst may not be behind
us. — NF
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