Brilliant! What makes the show funny is the way they use opposites. A compliment or a run-of-the-mill question will be followed by a wicked dig which will leave the recipient in a very tight scene. It also brings to surface the duality in the outlook to life in the Indian community.
Sanjeev, the host, is more western than his parents. The difference in their opinions are apparent. He considers nepotism unprofessional whereas his father readily employees a relative in the studio. He will almost worship the guests but his parents treat them like normal human beings or like their own relatives. Sanjeev would ask more comfortable and flattering questions but the family would get real and would want to know personal details.
Sanjeev treats his family like extra baggage in front of the guests but his father, mother and grandmother very well respond by cutting him down to size whenever he makes tall claims.
He emulates the mainly caucasian guests and tries hilariously to match up to them (he makes the wannabe attitude very visible) and his parents will promptly shoot down the image he’s trying to project - mainly by treating him like a child.
Far from being politically correct, this show readily ridicules everything. The unnecessary niceties are sparsely used. The element of surprise is all over in conversations and a smart guest’s replies will show how well he or she has adapted to the bizarre situations and questions they face. In a particularly funny moment with Jimmy Mistry, Sanjeev jealously makes it a point to remind all (female viewers) that Jimmy Mistry is a married man and he himself isn’t, to which Jimmy replies, ’’I wonder why’’.
Next to this, ’A Rendezvous with Simi Garewal’ appears to be such a facade!