For a change, there was no male on the set. It was an all-women’s episode on Amazon’s Two Much. Farah Khan was accompanied by….no, not Dilip…but Ananya Panday. I could see no common ground between the two, unless you look at their mutual adoration of Chunky Pandey.
The conversation struggled to keep afloat, what with the shared experiences of the two guests being almost nil. Unless we count a shirt as a common link between the two women.
A trivia about Farah borrowing Ananya’s father’s shirt made me want to tell the raconteur to just “shirt” up. It went like this. Farah was in Chunky’s home, talking on the phone, when she slipped and fell. She had to change into Chunky’s shirt.
“He gave me one pachas rupee ka Goa ka shirt, pachas rupee ka (A shirt worth rupees 50 from Goa). This was three years ago. He still wants that shirt back,” Farah quibbled good-naturedly.
Another mildly diverting incident Farah narrated was about Akshay Kumar’s scooter stunt on a reality show gone wrong. Farah is a skilled raconteur. The way she told her stories made them seem more interesting than they really were.
Ananya reflected on her parents’ love story and her mom’s journey from VJ to reality show star. “My mom was an air hostess right before she met my father. And then she was a VJ when I was born. She was actively working. My dad and my mom actually met at a nightclub. Sometimes, you know, when you see an actor, you think you know them because you’re so used to watching them on screen. So she was like, oh, hi, to my dad, because she thought she knew him. But she had seen him on screen. And he was like, who’s this girl? She’s so cool and confident.”
During the episode, Ananya also candidly admitted, “I’m a lover girl. I’m a little bit of a romantic person.”
