Babagiri

Taking a cue from Ramdev's popular swine flu nuskhas, a city-based baba invited the media, promising to provide a magic mantra to avoid the influenza. However, as the journos waited, the baba spoke about everything but the flu. His 'ek minute ka mantra' turned out to be a three-hour conference.

The only people who listened to him were a bunch of forgotten actors who had once played mythological characters on TV.

Arun Govil (Ram), Sunil Lahri (Laxman) from Ramayana and Feroz Khan (Arjun) from the TV soap Mahabharata sat in attendance.