Sex sex sex....Got your attention, didn?t I? So did Karan Johar. This week?s instalment of the rapidly receding Koffee With Karan (it wraps up next month) was the most sex?.I mean x-rated episode. Two sisters, the hot Amrita Arora and the hottest Malaika Arora, seemed to have left their inhibitions (and some vital part of their clothes) at home. Off they went, discussing matters of the hard, sorry, heart with a directness that must have made the prudes clutch their stomachs. A lot of viewers were busy clutching other things?like their seats, as the sisters spoke freely about every pssst-pssst topic under the sun from casting couches to unwanted male attention. Mid-way the two were joined by the affable Dino Morea. He very generously informed us that he didn?t mind going naked before the camera. Fortunately, Dino kept it zipped up?his mouth, I mean. The only time he opened it really wide was when he sang a sexy (but of course!) song with Malaika and Amrita.

Finding Nemesis? That’s what it felt like on Gladrags Megamodel and Manhunt Contest on Zee. Fortunately the judges were far more watchable than the contestants who careened between gawkiness and cockiness (depending on how nervous he or she was). To make it worse anchor Sajid Khan kept throwing the most absurd taunts at the poor contestants after the judges had finished with them. And I wish Maureen Wadia hadn’t scolded one of the female contestants for mispronouncing her name. Come on, the girl was already petrified! She lost all her self-confidence thereafter. And Bipasha Basu’s question to the male contestant was weird. “Which vegetable would you like to be?”

Very, very high marks to Pratibha Advani for her series, Yaadein, profiling great directors and film personalities on Doordarshan’s primary channel. On Thursday, Pratibha profiled the almost-forgotten Shakti Samanta. What wonderful work he did during the 60s and 70s! Yaadein brought visuals and anecdotes from Samanta’s semi-classics alive. He spoke about his enormously productive association with Sharmila Tagore, Rajesh Khanna and others. Vintage shots from Aradhana, Amar Prem and Kati Patang illustrated the narration. This is the kind of film-related show that we’d like to see more often on television.