The Vanishing Lie-o-metre or what I learned from KWK S8
Updated On: 14 January, 2024 06:54 AM IST | Mumbai | Paromita Vohra
That male domination displayed itself fully in an episode featuring Sanjay Dutt and Anil Kapoor in Season 3, replete with bro-jokes and an inherently conservative attitude to women
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The finale of Koffee with Karan, in a season that set the bar low, featured Zeenat Aman and Neetu Kapoor. Watching the strangely staccato proceedings, I wondered if one Fabricare couch is perhaps not enough for two big lives. I kept returning to the more satisfying fun in one of the show’s all-time best episodes—the finale of Season 1, also featuring Zeenat Aman and Hema Malini. Even then, they had seemed cooler than all the previous guests. Their uncommon and adventurous lives lent a rich ease. As they had no skin in the game, their irreverence ran deeper in the innuendo about discriminations and sexual exploitation they had survived in an unabashedly male-dominated industry.
That male domination displayed itself fully in an episode featuring Sanjay Dutt and Anil Kapoor in Season 3, replete with bro-jokes and an inherently conservative attitude to women. An awkwardly perched third guest, Kangana Ranaut, who participated in the rapid fire but was not eligible to compete for a prize, revealed the power dynamics of the industry as this column noted then—and boy, has that cast a long shadow.
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