When India TV announced another sting the film industry broke into a sweat. So many of them have skeletons in their cupboard. But then the channel has no intentions of wasting its expose-opportunities on filmstars. This time it was a scandal involving a cornea theft in a hospital. Certainly beats pulling Shakti Kapoor’s pants down, hands down.

Prabhu Chawla doing what he’s perennially good at. Pulling his interviewee’s pants-down on Aaj Tak’s Seedhi Baat. But this time he got more than he had bargained for. If Chawla is aggressive with his guests, for once a guest decided to be super-aggressive. Vivek Oberoi was feisty and unstoppable. Pre-empting his wily opponent’s next move, Vivek went for the kill repeatedly. He manoeuvred his way out of the craggy corners and cutting edges, even pre-empting questions on Aishwarya by stating the obvious.

This is what I’d call a conversation with claws. Karan Johar on MTV’s Kutting With Karan looked discernibly uncomfortable. Cyrus Broacha and his boorish motor-mouthed colleagues should’ve just put a brake on their aggressive and vulgar line of questioning. The pits was a hideously unfunny anchor dressed up in white doing a takeoff on the lovely and elegant Simi Garewal and her talk show. To find ‘his’ antics funny one has to be truly demented. And why take potshots at Simi Garewal? She is and shall remain the acme of articulate star talk. When it comes to bringing the best out of celebrities there’s absolutely no parallel to her professionalism and insight.

There was another, more interesting story on Star News this week on how our movies encourage rapists to do their dirty deed thinking they’d finally win. We were shown clippings from two films, Benaam Badshah and Hamara Dil Aapke Paas Hai where the rapist offers to marry the victim. According to experts on the show, this is certainly not the way to tackle rape in our films.

I happened to catch Sunny Deol on Punjabi Etc where he told the starry-eyed anchor that his dad’s film Sholay was “over-hyped”. Really? Well, shouldn’t Sunny Deol choose a more visible channel to make his historic declarations?