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Wit with wisdom... Surendra Sharma (right) with Nischint Chawla in New Delhi.
WHAT DO you love about Delhi? "Myself." What do you hate about Delhi? "Everything except myself." Is India shining? "India will shine when my face starts shining." Welcome to Surendra Sharma's world of wit coming soon through the radio waves of 93.5 Red FM as "Sharmaji Se Poocho". "It is an entertaining interactive show where I will answer viewers' crazy queries in a light-hearted manner. The purpose is to bring relief to their tense lives without resorting to vulgarity," says Sharma.
As Nischint Chawla, COO, says that the show, which will be on the air in Delhi, Kolkata and Mumbai is live in some sense, Sharma intervenes, "I prefer to be dead on air, who knows during live show, somebody may ask an imprudent question."
Elaborating on the shining slogan Sharma relates, "A car which has a broken engine can't be called fit by denting and painting, India can't shine unless the common man starts feeling good."
Sharma is expecting questions related to examination stress. "I am not a psychiatrist, so I won't be counselling them, I will just try to bring some relief to them through humour like when I failed for the first time in seventh standard, neighbours started teasing my father. My father replied examination is not a Kumbh Mela that will come only after 12 years. My son can sit again next year'," recalls Sharma in his characteristic straight-face style adding these days, parents put too much pressure on their wards.
On his success as a satirist, Sharma again narrates an incident. "Once a friend asked the same question. I said you attended class, you reached nowhere, I attended canteen religiously, I became a poet."
Sharma feels that we should learn to laugh at ourselves. Quoting Osho he says, "If you laugh, you worship God and if you make others laugh God will love you." Sharma advises not to watch the Indo-Pakistan series with obsession. "Sporting spirit should win. We should not put our players under pressure."
Ask about his love for boxing and Sharma reveals he did go for coaching and after two punches asked for a correspondence course but was refused.
Game for pleasantry punches with the poet?
ANUJ KUMAR
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