extreme bull...

I happened to watch an episode of AXN extreme dhamaka today. The way these guys hype up childish stunts, the television oscars should have a special prize instated and awarded to the AXN team behind extreme dhamaka. Oh! and a consolation prize should be given to the masterpices that they select to perform these stunts.

This particular episode featured a stunt wherein a person has to drive a bike through a burning bus. Sounds treacherous? well, i have to hand it to AXN to make a mockery of it. The setup consists of a bus' skeleton placed on an elevated platform. There is a ramp leading up to it and out of it, along the length of the bus. Basically, it is big enough to comfortably allow a maruti 800 to pass through it. The purported 'challenge' is to drive a hero honda karizma through it. utter bollocks considering that the rider is padded from head to toe in fireproof clothing, his hair is coated with fireproof gel and whatever little of his face is exposed is also coated with fireproof cream. the whole stunt in reality translates to drving a bike over a small bridge with ample side space to have two other bikes beside you.

Tania Zaetta is all nervous and our masterpiece has almost peed in his pants after seeing the burning skeleton of the bus. Pardon me for this slight deviation, but there is also a muscular puppet man who is supposed to be the co host with tania. All through the episode, he does not say one word..wonder if he's her bodyguard? Anyway our stuntman here manages to accomplish the stunt without even having to move a muscle, though in all probability he was already a vegetable while riding through it and unable to move a muscle even if he wanted to. I'm sure about this because as soon as he's back in front of the camera, he exults, "i did it" as if he just jumped of the Mt Everest without a parachute and lived to tell.

It would be interesting to follow what other challenges they have up their sleeves. For all you know, the next episode might require another masterpice to hmm...lemme think.....aah, forget it. They'll beat me hands down anyway, when it comes to conjuring hair raising 'challenges'