Does IPL deserve the hype ?

Its been half way through the IPL and it had had its percentage of Masala content already and people are happy to see a different kind of movie altogether. Cheerleaders doing the Dancing part, Harbhajan taking care of the Action department. Sreesanth with his emotional touch, Vijay Mallya taking care of some good screenplay like sacking the officials, its all happening in IPL.

Like most of the reality shows(which are 'blatantly fake'), IPL also had its share of commercial element. Viewers are caught in a dilemma of whether they are watching a sport or some commercial reality show.

But is the hype and hoopla given to IPL, well deserved ?

I've a instinctive feeling that all these matches are already fixed and what people watch from the stadium or on the worst sport telecasting channel (Set Max) are just a well-rehearsed replay. ICL which had been the first to come up with the tournament of this sort, Mr Modi(Commissioner of IPL) had made a utter remake of the original version. ICL is like Don with Amitabh and IPL is the same 'Don' with SRK with extra glitz and glam quotient. And SRK has done that already cheering for his team !!! IPL clearly have shown that cricket is not just mere sport, where u lose a series and still u can stay happily without much concern,it has become business and some of the teams have started to feel the heat of their owners. Vijay Mallya sacking the CEO and SRK sacking some of its players, so the players are now more answerable and overt.

With the franchisees spending Crores of money for their team, its a jubilation time for BCCI and IPL. The hype and grandness with which IPL kicked off had certainly come down, as they have started to become very much monotonous, and people have started to switch back to their eye-watering mega-serials and reality shows. With IPL jeopardizing the mega serials, one thing is sure.The latter are sure to come back with more emotional content to keep up their TRP :(

And it is not for the quality of cricket that people turn out in huge numbers. It is to witness their stars on the field and film stars off the field. On quality of cricket I would better choose ICL than IPL. And "Cricketainment" is the perfect synonym for IPL.

But still with so much not-so-good about the IPL, it still has brought something that might have never happened. Sachin-Jayasuriya opening the batting, foreign players working with the local lads, some of the local players and not-so-familiar foreign players(Shaun Marsh) coming into the spotlight.

IPL has started to cloy with the audience. But will the IPL juggernaut continue? only time can answer that !! Lets wait