History Channel’s got a brand new Hindi show which has been advertised across the city with massive billboards from which Krushna Abhishek—Govinda’s nephew—stares down at us. The show, OMG! Yeh Mera India, is the channel’s first fully Hindi series—as far as I know. Their earlier shows which have been made in India, have been multilingual, with a generous mix of Hindi and English.
The first episode which was about 23 minutes in duration packed in four different stories. The first was the world’s largest family which lives in Baktwang, Mizoram. Zinoa Chana’s family has 181 members, including 39 wives, 94 kids, 33 grandchildren and one great grandchild, all of whom live in one house with 100 rooms without killing each other.
The second segment featured India’s electric man, Deepak Jhangda, who lives in Sonipat, Haryana. Jhangda is an oddity because he’s basically India’s human electricity conductor as he can’t get electrocuted and can bear up to 11, 000 volts. The third, which was my favourite, was the world’s most expensive bull, Yuvraj, who lives in Haryana. See, Haryana has more to offer than female foeticide and acid attacks. Yuvraj has been valued at Rs.9 crore. He’s 9 feet long and 8 years old and is as large as a hatchback car. He also has super semen and has had 150, 000 babies through artificial insemination. And gets massaged with mustard oil every day. It was all quite amusing. The last segment featured the 2, 500 Haridwar priests who are the keepers of the family records of every Hindu and can trace your family tree back for many generations.