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Reality Check
Mumbai Newsline, India
Mumbai, October 22
Call me bandmaster Broacha," says the
MTV VJ and now Jhalak Dikhla Jaa contestant as the bright red and white
sequined outfit for his next performance arrives. It's the day of the
elimination and Mini Mathur has been voted out. I meet him at RK studio
in Chembur expecting him to be relieved that he wasn't the one getting
the boot. But inside his vanity van, grumbling about the food, the
inefficiency of the staff and the duration of the shoot, Cyrus Broacha is
actually hoping to be voted out.
"Being bored is one thing I can't handle," he says all riled up. "The
shooting for every episode is stretched unnecessarily. And don't even get
me started on the funeral music in the background of the elimination
episode," Broacha adds. He says he hates to dance and feels bad for his
dance instructor who works with so much passion. "She gets better with
practice while I get worse after every practice session.
The disparity gets really high," he says laughing.
Considering he got one of the highest scores for his last performance and
is being touted as the dark horse, one thinks he's being too modest.
"Shiamak Davar is just biased because of our bawa connection. And my
best friend's a Maharashtrian so even Urmila gives me high scores. I just
haven't been able to find a contact related to Jeetuji. I'll have to pay a visit
to Balaji soon," he says.
There is a huge tiffin that's left untouched, while his assistant has gone
out in search of some butter chicken and naan. And as was expected with
the motor mouth, the banter continues non-stop, digressing from the
interview, we talk about Bollywood, his great-grandfather and even his
mother-in-law. "I come from a family of lawyers and even my wife's
family has some of the most highly educated people. The way I embarrass
myself on TV, my family can't even leave home in daylight," he says as
the food arrives and his eyes light up.
While I struggle to get straight answers from him, (Odissi is his favourite
dance form he says in answer to my query), he tries to get a little serious
to tell me about the film he has conceptualised with friend Kunal Vijaykar.
"It's called Fruit and Nut and I'm the fruit," says Broacha, deadpan about
the film that'll be his acting debut. "What else can I do? I can't go to law
school now. I'll graduate along with my son and I don't think that'll be
too nice," he adds and I roll my eyes.
A unit hand comes to ask him to pick up chits for the next round. But all
he cares about is the Twenty20 match with Australia that he could have
watched at CCI, were it not for the shooting. So while his partner picks up
the chit and jumps in excitement, I leave the frustrated funny man,
bargaining with producer Sidharth Basu to let him go early so he can at
least catch some of the match with his friends.
Source: http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/Reality-check/
231291/
Mumbai Newsline, India
Mumbai, October 22
Call me bandmaster Broacha," says the
MTV VJ and now Jhalak Dikhla Jaa contestant as the bright red and white
sequined outfit for his next performance arrives. It's the day of the
elimination and Mini Mathur has been voted out. I meet him at RK studio
in Chembur expecting him to be relieved that he wasn't the one getting
the boot. But inside his vanity van, grumbling about the food, the
inefficiency of the staff and the duration of the shoot, Cyrus Broacha is
actually hoping to be voted out.
"Being bored is one thing I can't handle," he says all riled up. "The
shooting for every episode is stretched unnecessarily. And don't even get
me started on the funeral music in the background of the elimination
episode," Broacha adds. He says he hates to dance and feels bad for his
dance instructor who works with so much passion. "She gets better with
practice while I get worse after every practice session.
The disparity gets really high," he says laughing.
Considering he got one of the highest scores for his last performance and
is being touted as the dark horse, one thinks he's being too modest.
"Shiamak Davar is just biased because of our bawa connection. And my
best friend's a Maharashtrian so even Urmila gives me high scores. I just
haven't been able to find a contact related to Jeetuji. I'll have to pay a visit
to Balaji soon," he says.
There is a huge tiffin that's left untouched, while his assistant has gone
out in search of some butter chicken and naan. And as was expected with
the motor mouth, the banter continues non-stop, digressing from the
interview, we talk about Bollywood, his great-grandfather and even his
mother-in-law. "I come from a family of lawyers and even my wife's
family has some of the most highly educated people. The way I embarrass
myself on TV, my family can't even leave home in daylight," he says as
the food arrives and his eyes light up.
While I struggle to get straight answers from him, (Odissi is his favourite
dance form he says in answer to my query), he tries to get a little serious
to tell me about the film he has conceptualised with friend Kunal Vijaykar.
"It's called Fruit and Nut and I'm the fruit," says Broacha, deadpan about
the film that'll be his acting debut. "What else can I do? I can't go to law
school now. I'll graduate along with my son and I don't think that'll be
too nice," he adds and I roll my eyes.
A unit hand comes to ask him to pick up chits for the next round. But all
he cares about is the Twenty20 match with Australia that he could have
watched at CCI, were it not for the shooting. So while his partner picks up
the chit and jumps in excitement, I leave the frustrated funny man,
bargaining with producer Sidharth Basu to let him go early so he can at
least catch some of the match with his friends.
Source: http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/Reality-check/
231291/
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