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While there are several theories floating around speculating reasons for Sreesanth's crying, not many are wondering what provoked Harbhajan Singh to slap him.
Our reliable sources from Indian cricket team's dressing room indicate that Bhajji's bizarre behavior could having arisen from watching too many soaps coming out from Ekta Kapoor's soap factory. One of our sources maintains that Harbhajan Singh is a closet fan of Ekta Kapoor's serials and watches nearly 3-4 soaps everyday religiously. This could mean exposure to 20-30 slaps per day. Did over-exposure to slapping scenes trigger some neural pathway in his brain leading to the scandalous slap?
According to our sources, Harbhajan is truly baffled at the hue and cry raised over the slapping incident and unable to understand why there is so much clamor for his head over something as trifling as a slap and feels that the incident has been completely blown out of proportion by his enemies. "It was just a light slap. People slap each other all the time. Why so much fuss?" he had reportedly said to one of his teammates.
If our conjecture is true, Harbhajan Singh would be amongst the very few in the country who have been impacted enough by television soaps to actually act out on the impulses sparked from watching too many slapping scenes.
Surprisingly, despite the high TRP ratings that Ekta Kapoor's soaps receive, slapping as a form of expressing wrath has not really caught on with majority of Indians. Most people feel very reluctant to use slap as a weapon for demonstrating their fury. According to a new survey carried out by a team of psychologists, most Indians, including those with violent temper, rarely slap and prefer shouting and screaming at high-pitched levels when they feel provoked. The survey also points out that majority of people have never ever slapped in all of their lives, which is a surprise considering the extent of slapping they are exposed to while watching television soaps.
According to a prominent psychologist and leader of the team doing the survey, Dr. Ravi Manekar, slapping on television can be compared to song-and-dance sequences of bollywood movies. People enjoy watching song-n-dance routines, but never actually sing and dance on streets or run around trees singing songs. On a more serious note, Dr. Manekar points out that slapping someone needs extraordinary amount of arrogance which comes from a heady mix of success and wealth, which is why most people fail to successfully slap people they desire to slap.
One of the participants of the survey, Sheela Mehra says "There have been many occasions when I've felt a strong desire to slap the person standing in front of me. But despite watching thousands of slapping scenes on television, I've not been able to carry it out even once. My arms freeze and I feel unable to lift them despite all my attempts. Slapping a living person standing in front of you is lot more difficult than it looks on the screen"
But despite the inability of Indians to slap freely, viewers of television soaps enjoy watching slapping scenes on their television screens. According to one of the director of a popular saas-bahu soap from Balaji Telefilms stable "Viewers desire for watching slapping scenes exceeds the ability of our scriptwriters to manufacture situations in our serials that require slapping. To overcome this problem, we introduced the triple-slap technique in our soaps, where a single slap shot is repeated thrice to increase the dramatic effect of the slap"
Dr. Manekar feels that at a subconscious level, people's desire to hit out at their foes by slapping is very strong, which gets suppressed due to the strong prevalent societal taboo against slapping. The repression of this desire results in its release by way of enjoyment of slapping scenes on screen.
Meanwhile, according to some unconfirmed reports, Ekta Kapoor was initially overjoyed when 'slapgate' involving Harbhahan Singh & Sreesanth broke out as she felt that the event could be the trigger for the people of India to release their pent-up repressed desires and finally ascend from enjoying slapping scenes on tube to actually indulging in slapping. But the strong reaction by cricket authorities and fans alike to the incident and the harsh punishment meted out to the off-spinner has dampened her spirits.
Our sources say that Harbhajan Singh was so furious with Ekta Kapoor that he was even considering suing her for messing up his mind, but he dropped the idea fearing the ridicule and embarrasment that he would have to face for publicly acknowledging that he watches silly saas-bahu soaps.
Our reliable sources from Indian cricket team's dressing room indicate that Bhajji's bizarre behavior could having arisen from watching too many soaps coming out from Ekta Kapoor's soap factory. One of our sources maintains that Harbhajan Singh is a closet fan of Ekta Kapoor's serials and watches nearly 3-4 soaps everyday religiously. This could mean exposure to 20-30 slaps per day. Did over-exposure to slapping scenes trigger some neural pathway in his brain leading to the scandalous slap?
According to our sources, Harbhajan is truly baffled at the hue and cry raised over the slapping incident and unable to understand why there is so much clamor for his head over something as trifling as a slap and feels that the incident has been completely blown out of proportion by his enemies. "It was just a light slap. People slap each other all the time. Why so much fuss?" he had reportedly said to one of his teammates.
If our conjecture is true, Harbhajan Singh would be amongst the very few in the country who have been impacted enough by television soaps to actually act out on the impulses sparked from watching too many slapping scenes.
Surprisingly, despite the high TRP ratings that Ekta Kapoor's soaps receive, slapping as a form of expressing wrath has not really caught on with majority of Indians. Most people feel very reluctant to use slap as a weapon for demonstrating their fury. According to a new survey carried out by a team of psychologists, most Indians, including those with violent temper, rarely slap and prefer shouting and screaming at high-pitched levels when they feel provoked. The survey also points out that majority of people have never ever slapped in all of their lives, which is a surprise considering the extent of slapping they are exposed to while watching television soaps.
According to a prominent psychologist and leader of the team doing the survey, Dr. Ravi Manekar, slapping on television can be compared to song-and-dance sequences of bollywood movies. People enjoy watching song-n-dance routines, but never actually sing and dance on streets or run around trees singing songs. On a more serious note, Dr. Manekar points out that slapping someone needs extraordinary amount of arrogance which comes from a heady mix of success and wealth, which is why most people fail to successfully slap people they desire to slap.
One of the participants of the survey, Sheela Mehra says "There have been many occasions when I've felt a strong desire to slap the person standing in front of me. But despite watching thousands of slapping scenes on television, I've not been able to carry it out even once. My arms freeze and I feel unable to lift them despite all my attempts. Slapping a living person standing in front of you is lot more difficult than it looks on the screen"
But despite the inability of Indians to slap freely, viewers of television soaps enjoy watching slapping scenes on their television screens. According to one of the director of a popular saas-bahu soap from Balaji Telefilms stable "Viewers desire for watching slapping scenes exceeds the ability of our scriptwriters to manufacture situations in our serials that require slapping. To overcome this problem, we introduced the triple-slap technique in our soaps, where a single slap shot is repeated thrice to increase the dramatic effect of the slap"
Dr. Manekar feels that at a subconscious level, people's desire to hit out at their foes by slapping is very strong, which gets suppressed due to the strong prevalent societal taboo against slapping. The repression of this desire results in its release by way of enjoyment of slapping scenes on screen.
Meanwhile, according to some unconfirmed reports, Ekta Kapoor was initially overjoyed when 'slapgate' involving Harbhahan Singh & Sreesanth broke out as she felt that the event could be the trigger for the people of India to release their pent-up repressed desires and finally ascend from enjoying slapping scenes on tube to actually indulging in slapping. But the strong reaction by cricket authorities and fans alike to the incident and the harsh punishment meted out to the off-spinner has dampened her spirits.
Our sources say that Harbhajan Singh was so furious with Ekta Kapoor that he was even considering suing her for messing up his mind, but he dropped the idea fearing the ridicule and embarrasment that he would have to face for publicly acknowledging that he watches silly saas-bahu soaps.
