Now I have always believed that Simi aunty has a single-digit IQ. Even so, I was shocked when she burst out on Barkha Datt’s hysterical We The People programme and said something about how, if you climb to the top of a certain tall building in Mumbai, you can look down and see Pakistani flags in some houses. I was shocked at her sheer outrage! So were others, so much so that someone told her she was the enemy, not the Pakistanis. She couldn’t believe it, let alone understand it. She goes: Oh? What is he saying? Why is this man saying this? Why is he saying that? Why? I’ll show you the flags!
Poor Simi aunty had no clue what she’d just said. Dresssed in her tradmark white suit, she kept incredulously asking why why why again and again.
Today, she’s apparently come out with a big fat apology. I burst out laughing when I heard about that! Give her a break — she doesn’t know what she said.
I remember watching one of her celebrity face-to-face programmes long ago. I found those completely hilarious. She once asked some smart alecky actor something about his parents and he said something like “Simi, I’ve always wanted to kill my father and run off with my mother”. Simi looks at him like a mildly puzzled pomeranian and says “Hmm. And What is your favorite color?”
Simi, for my friends who are not familiar with her, is an ex actress who did these television interviews with celebs. She is… not the sharpest knife in the drawer…
Lucky for Simi that these two are so keen on talking because they’re basically doing their own thing while Simi aunty just sits around making facing and shows she’s done her homework.