SOS

This has been Season Of Scams(SOS). Not that there weren't scams earlier. But I don't know if it's coincidence but last few weeks have exposed scams of varying scales. Starting with the Common Wealth Games mess in Delhi ( which incidentally have actually helped Indians wake up to the games). Then there is the fixing fiasco in cricket. There is a movie coming up called 'The Social Network' which apparently shows the facebook founder Zuckerberg as having stolen the idea for his venture (fakebook?). There is this new ad of a bike featuring MS Dhoni and a cricket team which is a copy of an older Adidas Ad (to the last scene). Closer home, a leading jewellery brand unveiled his new identity with much fanfare. As it turns out, the logo was a straight lift from a ready-made logo website. And the jewellery brand in question positions itself on the premise of 'trust is everything'. The icing on the cake has been the new ambitious 3 minute film of Kerala tourism which has striking similarity to a 3 minute film of Mexico tourism (Cheetah become Elephant, Mexico becomes Kerala). Phew! And today I see the trailer of a new film of Hrithik Roshan. The scenes remind me of a lovely Thai insurance ad. Am I imagining? But then the movie 'Kites' had straight lifts of scenes from 'Road to Perdition'. It's a Season Of Shams. A Season Of Shame.