So who?s sexier Amitabh or Abhishek Bachchan? On Star World?s Koffee With Karan there seemed to be little dispute on the matter, as an array of extremely attractive ladies ranging from Kareena Kapoor to Tabu to Bipasha Basu to Mallika Sherawat to (journalist) Malavika Sangghvi paraded across the video monitor to say the senior Bachchan was sexier. Hmmmm?. Wine and Bachchan have one thing in common. They get better with the years. They were having so much fun, the father and son. It was a double bonanza, Bachchan and Bachchan?.or, as host Karan described them, the ?Men In Black?, Black being the colour of the season.

There?s no point in inviting guests to the studio with a pre-conceived agenda. That?s where the free-flowing conversation on Koffee With Karan scores high marks. Whether it?s the Bachchans or the Khans, Karan knows how to push the right buttons. With the Bachchans, Karan wanted to know about their relationship with one another and with the people they interact. There was an air of informality throughout, whether in the way Abhishek sat himself down close to his dad on the sofa or the way he raised his foot to show he was wearing his father?s shoes.

Almost every interview on TV is about how to get the better of the interviewee. On India TV it was shocking to see the way the correspondents spoke to Ashutosh Gowariker about Swades. First of all, they insisted on branding Swades a flop repeatedly. Whether it is true or not, isn?t it indecorous to instigate your invitee by repeatedly reminding him of his failure, specially since none of the correspondents had actually bothered to see the fine film before talking to its director? The film?s leading lady, Gayatri Joshi, was offered condolences. ?You must have been so excited about being in such a big project. Kya se kya ho gaya!?The habitually composed Gowariker finally lost his cool and blurted out, ?You?re determined to label my film a flop.?

Before concluding, what were Zayed Khan?s qualifications to be a judge on Sony?s Indian Idol? For reasons unknown, he joined the usual judges Sonu Nigam, Anu Malik and Farah Khan and even made appreciative noises about the contestants? singing abilities. Let?s put it this way. Zayed knows as much about singing as he does about acting.