Funny men
Shekhar Suman and Sajid Khan are best when they are standing up. And cracking jokes. Shekhar on Movers & Shakers (Sony) is doing what no one else does: making fun of our politicians at a time when everyone else is taking them oh so, very seriously! His imitation of Laloo Yadav is so convincing that they should effect a switch. He's a Bihari babu himself. He is less convincing as Sitaram Kesri or Narasimha Rao but then imitating The Pouts is difficult unless you have the lips!

Sajid No.1 (Star Plus) is quite a laugh. Every week, Sajid takes on a different subject and attacks it with all his false wigs on (that's because as he says, he's bald and beautiful). And what wigs they are. They shelter his face like a banyan tree. Anyways, Sajid was seen playing a gay designer and dropping puns: ``mera gown, mera desh''. Then he was seen playing a doctor too, one who cannot distinguish between a nas and a nurse. That's were love sickness gets you.

Picture perfect
The good news first. Doordarshan News (the channel) is so good-looking you want to eat it. Seriously. This is the first time a DD channel has been picture perfect. That's because it is a digital channel. You've never had such clarity on DD (we're talking about the quality of the picture!). The bad news is that hardly anyone is receiving it. Cable operators should beware: Prasar Bharati CEO R.R.Shah has warned those who don't relay DD channels with dire consequences.

Poor show
Star Movies should watch out too. Last week in the 3 pm afternoon movie slot it telecast a 15+ film about three brothers and their trysts with love. Which was all very interesting and passionate but it was quite risque and should it have been shown during the afternoon when children watch television -- often unattended? With lines such as, ``Do you mean to tell me that you are going to stick your ..... into another woman?'', we at Tele Express say a firm `No.'

It's a myth
There are three mythologicals being made on goddess Durga - one by Cinevista, second by Ramanand Sagar and a third by Sanjay Khan. At one point of time there were five epics being made on Lord Ganesha. And two of them even went ahead and shot the pilot episode. One was Shyam Ramanna of Crest Communications and the other Ramnik Patel. Ramanna's serial was called Shri Ganesh and Patel's Jai Ganesh. The latter, we hear had shot around six episodes which has cost him obviously a fortune.

It's now more than two years and there is no sign of Lord Ganesha coming, and surprisingly if sources are to be believed both were approved for Doordarshan. That's why probably its called Door-Darshan!