I was watching the dance scene of ‘The mask of Zorro’ and happened to remember one show aired on a TV channel a few years ago. I remember it because of the utter stupidity of the show.
It was during release of the movie ‘Spider Man 2’. This TV channel (I wouldn’t like to name it but just keep it in mind that it is one of those channels which we found “cool” during our teenage but later found out it is full of crap including its reality shows) made a show with 4 kids trying to portray their favourite superhero as the best. Now, when I say ‘Superheroes’, there are 3 names that will come to your mind, almost involuntarily, Batman, Spiderman and Superman. Some Indians may replace any of these names with ‘Krrish’ (I for one moron don’t how to spell his name).
Heaven knows why that TV channel selected four kids for that show and let me remind you it was before the Krrish era (I for one moron still don’t know how to spell his name J). They had to somehow bring one more superhero into that show. If I ask you now, I am sure you would scratch your head wondering who the fourth one will be despite the hint I gave in the beginning. It was ‘Zorro’.
I don’t refute if Zorro is a superhero. The thing that didn’t go well with me was the way ‘Zorro’ was enforced on the audience. As I said 90% of the audience to which the TV channel was catering was not aware of who on earth was Zorro. The funniest part is that the kid who was “supposed” to support Zorro also didn’t know who the hell Zorro was. It made for very funny scene when the other three kids were talking about the greatness of the respective superheroes they were supporting and this guy supporting Zorro didn’t utter a single word and just looked like an idiot on a national TV.
I am not talking here for that kid. The thing is, I still feel western culture(When I said ‘western culture’, I meant European and North American culture, don’t mistake it with South American or African, which is still west considering India’s geographical location, culture J) is enforced on most of the people in this country? I think some of these TV channels are doing so.
On an honest note, I didn’t know anything about Zorro apart from few things that there were few flops movies with Zorro as the protagonistJ. He had some Spanish or Portuguese connection and his name in Spanish meant ‘Fox’. To this day I fairly know anything more about him.
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