The Seventh Circle - Cochin
You may not give 2SHITS about this review now since the contest is back but here goes...
NOTE: Whoever came up with the thought of calling it 2SHITS and not SHITS 2, bloody creative brilliance! Take a bow, sir. Enlighten us on who that was Ankit.
Right off the bat, this week's episode was THE best in a loong loooong time. You could tell! Bumpy was pumping his fists and going, 'content content content!' The show really needed lots of it to get back up and running after the damp squib it has been over the past few weeks. The episode had everything from catfights and conflicts to tasks and
At the beginning of the episode, I thought they were going in for a similar kind of narrative that they did last year when Palak was shown voted out in the beginning, only to be brought back at the end of the episode in a twist where Sufi got chucked (What an episode, that was! Content Content Content!) But, soon I realised Vikas had been given an unceremonious bye-bye from the show for good. Made sense. Wasn't any point in wasting another 20-odd minutes to show everyone vote against him. Good call, that. And the first segment built up the Ravneet-Bharti angle sufficiently well, foreseeing their face-off in the second task of the episode. Good storytelling, that. I felt more involved and I actually cared about one of the two and wanted her to win the crossword task unlike previous episodes where the urge to root for someone never really came.
I also felt for Charlie during the entire episode through the Mohit-Charlie-Ravneet Q&A confrontation through to the end where Bharti got chucked. It mattered to her to have Bharti on the show as an ally since the Mohit/Zaid/Amrit link had weakened after the Q&A. So the tears were real, just not because her "friend" got voted out but because her own time on the show is now in serious jeopardy.
There. There's your analysis. You give me good content-content-content and I'll give you more than lame jokes that nobody gets. Now, for the lame jokes that nobody gets (now with extra tangential references that'll go -whoosh-)
Pity to see Vikas chucked out like he was, so close to the Africa trip. He would have fit in well there with the animals and maybe the crew could've done India a favour and leave him there with a bunch of chimps and a month's supply of kelas. Nevertheless, the Roadies moved from Calicut to Cochin (Fuck yeah!)
The Coconut Bridge task continued what has so far been a series of the most gruelling tasks on any season of Roadies. Seeing their faces twisted in agony as they lift, jump, crawl, climb and slide their way through the tasks is most fulfilling and strengthens the 'adventure-journey' credibility of the show. A LOT of people still identify the show as the one with gaali-galoch, where a bald moron selects a bunch of other morons who make asses of themselves for some cheap entertainment. It was that till this year, the Roadies now, are smart, tough and tactful. Mohit, Zaid, Anwar, Amrit and Priyanka (in that order) live up to the physical requirements of the show and Ameya is probably the cleverest Roadie we've had in a long time. His performance however in the task was real funny. Now, I don't mean to make fun of overweight people but Ameya should never wear tight blue and red spandex inspite of his spider-like abilities. Props to Anwar, seemed like he was the only one really contributing to the team's efforts but poor strategy
The other tribe (I still can't tell for my mother's life which one is which, Mambas/Indians!?) got the advantage of going second and sent their heavier ones early, successfully completing the task. And yet, after winning "advantage", the winning tribe had a team member booted out, so I am not sure yet when and how the advantage will come to play, probably would have something to do with Irfan Khan's next week appearance.
Kathakali Crossword (which wasn't really a Crossword so much as it was a Word Map though Kathakali Crossword has a better alliterative ring to it if you replace the C in crossword with a K. Heh!) <--- Irrelevant tangent: You can skip this part and still get the complete review experience.
Kathakali Crossword was an ingenious way of using the art form for a task. It is an inherently symbolic form of dance-drama and requires serious face twitching and eyebrow juggling to pull off. And it is a real bitch to understand what the performer wants to convey unless you have a VJ reading a story off cue cards. The task capitalised on that and in the end, a woman fucked Bharti. (The word 'w-o-m-a-n', you freaks)
The post elimination drama wrapped up and set up what I hope would be a more enjoyable set of episodes to come. And it's about damn time!
Random shoutout to Cochin! Fuck yeah!
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