Dancing on Zaara Nach Ke Dikha (Star) came to halt after some really fab performances by the female and male teams. The girls won. We’ll miss them but Malaika Khan’s beseeching looks were becoming a strain on the eyes which might explain fellow judge Chunky Pandey wearing heavy sunglasses. Indian Idol (Sony) started season four like season one, two and three with Anu Malik’s mock tantrums. Anuradha Paudwal lent her voice to the proceedings and Sonali Bendre her looks and husband Goldie, who rushed over from Bigg Boss to plant a kiss on wifely cheek.

MTV has begun a news season of Fully Faltoo films. After watching Bechare Zameen Par, almost wish it hadn’t. Cyrus Sahukar played an overgrown schoolboy with a talent for getting nothing right until Nikamma teacher spots his talent for art. You know the rest. Sahukar is something of a jerk when he dances, wrenching his limbs out of their joints. He sings somewhat better, especially his rendition of Meri ma. The Amir Khan look alike is great with his mannerisms and so is the rest of the cast. Just one problem: it’s not funny.

Lastly, on to BBC’s Living on the Edge series and the episode, No Country for Young Girls? on female foeticide in India. Beginning at the monument of a man’s love for a woman, the Taj Mahal, it takes Vaijanti Devi, a woman from a lower middle class background in Agra who abandoned her marriage in order to keep her two daughters, on a journey through India to discover how women cope with discrimination. She begins in Rajasthan with Jasbir Kaur who refused to abort three girls, then arrives in Delhi where she is suddenly dressed up and taken to a discotheque where she is forced to discuss women’s issues with hip chicks and then made to dance.

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