Comedy & Comedians

It was the beginning of 2005 and I used to work in Media House which required me to market television programs to corporate houses, and advertising agencies also.

Jire Khurshani, was one of the program which was with our agency then and my boss was about to dump it down as corporate houses were not ready to buy it, due to low TRP ( Televisions / top rated programs ). So to market it also, I must have to see it regularly [weekly] so I can be convinced first to convince others to buy it. Its already been more than three months on air and in our system, here, to, television program ratings is not so reliable, so we have to wait and watch.

The makers of the programs where producer and director were playing the lead role, were trying to make it hard but they did not know what to do entertain mass public. So they were also on trial and error basis and one of those episodes, which I remember is this particular time is a scene from the Jire Khurshani. It was definitely not their’s but a joke that was already here for so long, and they only performed it on their way.

The scene went like this : A white cloth covered man up to his neck was lying on the floor and a man was crying hard asking for some cash so that he could take the person on the pashupati. Needless to tell you there was a huge crowd gathered to sympathised, but hardly any body threw proper cash, which would have been enough to hire a cab to the Pashupati for that dying man. this went for some time and after that the crowd started thinning and in no time there was almost no one in front of that dying man. so the man wakes up from the floor and walks on the street.. some people who were still on the same lane of streets sees him and question him, “how come you are walking now ? you were about to die ?” “there was not enough money to hire a cab so I have no option but to walk to the Pashupati.” he replied.

This scene or many of such scene in the following months started giving them good TRP and then the programme rose to the unexpected height and followed the Tito Satya, which was enjoying the number one program not only on Nepal Television but all the other channels also. Corporate houses started buying time inbetween the programs for ad placement and we do not have to drop the programme.

Jire Khurshani, has always been my personal favourite and I like it even more, than Tito Satya, which is staying on number one position untill today, even after these many years on the air.