India Shining

Last night’s closing ceremony may have signaled the end of the Beijing Olympics, but the past two weeks are still fresh in our minds. Starting with the grand opening ceremony in which our Indian contingent stood out in Sherwanis with the exception of tennis stars Sania Mirza and Sunitha Rao, who were too cool wear saris, so instead trotted around in their trakkies.

We must however admit that India drew a lot more attention this Olympics than it has in the past few ones, with Abhinav Bindra being the first one in our history to get us that elusive individual Gold medal and Vijender Kumar promising us a Gold and eventually coming back with a bronze after a really well fought out match. Not bad at all considering we won a grand total of 3 medals entirely, and who can forget the insanely hilarious Doordarshan bloopers!!

B-town has shown its support to our sportsmen with Bipasha agreeing to go out on a date with Vijender, lucky b*stard!! Almost makes me want to try out for the next Olympics, maybe the discus throw.

The proudest achievement would have to be the Israeli Gymnasts gyrating to Vishal-Shekhar’s Dhoom Tana from Om Shanti Om making a really pretty picture.

Looks like this one will remain etched in the memory for the next four years atleast. Bollywood might even plan some more sloppy movies with a shooter or a boxer as the protagonist trying really hard for a medal, winning it and a sexy looking girl along with it, or on the brighter side it might inspire a few real talents to do something extra ordinary in London four years from now.