Today, I was having lunch with friends and suddenly one of them started watching Sarabhai vs Sarabhai on YouTube and I thought why do people enjoy watching sitcoms alike Sarabhai vs Sarabhai [IMDb rating: 8.9/10] or Friends [IMDb rating: 8.9/10] or Big Bang Theory [IMDb rating: 8.1/10], Bhabiji Ghar Par Hain [IMDb rating: 8.5/10], even though they can't relate to the character, even if they find the whole thing ludicrous but somehow still find them engaging and hilarious.
Almost all the times, their scripts make you laugh at the amount of sheer stupidity, you wonder, how one can write such utterly, completely, disastrously, marvellously bad bullshit, but then you slowly realize that to write such kind of pure bullshit, you still need to have a pure genius. You keep making fun of each and every dialogue and scene of such serials, and then suddenly one day out of blue, they touch something deep inside you, and you feel related. It doesn't matter if you start watching their episode or a season somewhere in the middle, you will still understand every scene and dialogue. You realize, they are so-bad-that-they-are-good. What a wonderful contradiction!
While retiring in my bed, I related this inanity when I recalled my fidelity for the Hindi movie Gunda (1998) starring The Lord Mithun Da where he proved himself to be The Most Divine Among Divines with his well-chiselled look and little hanging tummy yet still pulverising through the light and darkness alike. It is still a mystery whether this movie was meant to be that funny or it was just a coincidence, humanity will never know. If you don't believe, check the IMDb rating of the movie Gunda (1998) which is 7.3/10 (on the day of this post), it keeps changing, for a very brief period it reached the unassailable magic figure of 10 (even higher than The Shawshank Redemption [IMDb rating: 9.3/10]), but nonetheless, it never falls below 7. You should definitely read its reviews. It is such-a-terribly-bad-movie that it has become one of the cults of cult movies. For example, you will see two people fighting and suddenly the background scene would change from airport to a dock, where hundred of rockets are being launched from auto-rickshaws and still hitting nothing, and yet it will keep you riveted to the screen. Just like the necromancy of Donnie Darko, albeit of different complexion [watch Donnie if haven't yet].
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