Face off on screen
If there was any curiousity about the new TV show Love 2 Hate You, it was to find out what compelled hunky Arjun Rampal to step into the TV arena so late. But once you get past the checking-out phase, the experience of watching ‘haters’ coming face-to-face with their ‘pet hate’ is quite amusing. It’s a good thing that Arjun begins the series by facing his own hater — writer Farhan Syed. While Arjun shows flashes of impatience when dealing with his hater, his other star guests like filmmaker Madhur Bhandarkar and actor,singer, filmmaker Farhan Akhtar sit through the at-times cringing dismissal of their work, with a zen-like calm. The show begins with the introduction of the hater and their hate-o-meter reading (which often begins at five). The following segments has the hater rating their feelings after coming face-to-face with their pet hate and engaging in an activity associated with their pet hate — acting, singing or directing a shot. If you overlook the fact that Arjun at times does seem to get defensive of his star guests, the interaction between the haters and the stars does highlight one fact — that all haters sound like stuck records; they just keep parroting that one line to justify their stance. You can count the number of times Farhan may have likened Arjun to a wood and Vasu telling Akhtar that he ‘sucks as a singer’. The one thing that sets the show apart from other celebrity shows is the fact that it does not look like we are privy to stars flaunting their filmi associations, promotions or private jokes.
If there was any curiousity about the new TV show Love 2 Hate You, it was to find out what compelled hunky Arjun Rampal to step into the TV arena so late. But once you get past the checking-out phase, the experience of watching ‘haters’ coming face-to-face with their ‘pet hate’ is quite amusing. It’s a good thing that Arjun begins the series by facing his own hater — writer Farhan Syed. While Arjun shows flashes of impatience when dealing with his hater, his other star guests like filmmaker Madhur Bhandarkar and actor,singer, filmmaker Farhan Akhtar sit through the at-times cringing dismissal of their work, with a zen-like calm. The show begins with the introduction of the hater and their hate-o-meter reading (which often begins at five). The following segments has the hater rating their feelings after coming face-to-face with their pet hate and engaging in an activity associated with their pet hate — acting, singing or directing a shot. If you overlook the fact that Arjun at times does seem to get defensive of his star guests, the interaction between the haters and the stars does highlight one fact — that all haters sound like stuck records; they just keep parroting that one line to justify their stance. You can count the number of times Farhan may have likened Arjun to a wood and Vasu telling Akhtar that he ‘sucks as a singer’. The one thing that sets the show apart from other celebrity shows is the fact that it does not look like we are privy to stars flaunting their filmi associations, promotions or private jokes.
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