For a change, there was no male on the set. It was an all-women’s episode on Amazon’s Two Much with Knox and Twinkle. Farah was accompanied by….no, not Dilip…but Ananya Pandey. I could see no common ground between the two, unless you look at their mutual adoration of Chunky Pandey.
The conversation struggled to keep afloat, what with the shared experiences of the two guests being almost nil. Unless we count a shirt as common link between the two women.
A trivia about Farah borrowing Ananya’s father shirt made me want to tell the raconteur to just “shirt” up. It went like this. Farah was in Chunky’ home, talking on the phone when she slipped and fell. She had to change into Chunky’s shirt.
“He gave me one pachas rupee ka Goa ka shirt, pachas rupee ka (A shirt worth rupees 50 from Goa). This was three years ago. He still wants that shirt back,” Farah quibbled goodnaturedly.
Another mildly diverting incident Farah narrated was about Akshay Kumar’s scooter stunt on a reality show gone wrong. Farah in a skilled raconteur. The way she told her stories made them seem more interesting than they really were.
Ananya reflected on her parents’ love story and her mom’s journey from VJ to reality show star. “My mom was an air hostess right before she met my father. And then she was a VJ when I was born. She was actively working. My dad and my mom actually met at a nightclub. Sometimes, you know, when you see an actor, you think you know them because you’re so used to watching them on screen. So she was like, oh, hi, to my dad, because she thought she knew him. But she had seen him on screen. And he was like, who’s this girl? She’s so cool and confident.” During the episode, Ananya also candidly admitted, “I’m a lover girl. I’m a little bit of a romantic person.”
The only time the quarter got serious was when Farah spoke of women directors being identified by their gender rather than talent. “I think the stupid thing is when people box a director into genders. I find it taking feminism back because I’m a director, and my gender has nothing to do with it. I did Main Hoon Na. If you remove my name, who’s to know that. So the stupid thing is to expect that a woman will make a certain type of movie.”
That said, there was too much salad and very little bread on this episode.
