Lehman Sisters! |  2009-04-20

Are Riya and Raima the latest Recessionistas?

The goings have been tough for the two Bong sisters. There‘s an ever thinning stream of work but on the upside they can blame their unemployment on ‘Bad Economy‘ instead of their ‘Worse Acting.

Raima Sen was recently Ghetto Upgraded* by Neetu Chandra in a Ram Gopal Varma film called ‘Rann‘. She was told that she couldn‘t get her freak on like Ramu likes and Neetu Chandra‘s skankier by a mile.

Fortunately for Raima, having a low IQ prevents her from getting too hurt by insults. What you don‘t know can‘t hurt you, eh?

There were also rumours about a certain foreign fellow who got smitten by Raima at a wedding and asked her to marry him. She even went out for a couple of dates with the bloke. As they say, a good plan now is better than a great plan later!

Now, the main stream media being an Echo Chamber** for these celebrities would have us believe that the dude in questions was the stuff Mills & Boons heart throbs are made of. Chiseled body, eyes of the deepest blue and a smile that would be on every Dentists visiting card!

BUT, I beg to differ. I think Raima‘s suitor is likely to be on the wrong side of 5‘5, fat and probably has dimples in all the wrong places. He‘s also likely to have the grace of a bull in a China shop, on Ecstasy! Of course Raima claims she didn‘t consider him because he was 24 and far too young for her!

Sure.



Moving on to the skankier sibling; Riya Sen‘s most popular featured role till date was in a very graphic MMS with Ashmit Patel. In fact, the MMS rocked her career more than any of her films. Speaking of which, if I try to recall films she starred in... I draw a blank for a long time, and then I think, Fuck It!

But that event has got to make her Retro Cringe*** with every flashback.

Like her sister, she too is going through the aches and pains of the ‘Bad Economy‘! Even all the married men whose attention she hankered for have gone back to their wives. She has one sidey film in the pipeline called Paying Guest which stars Chunky Pandey, Sayali Bhagat, Neha Dhupia, Celina Jaitley and Shreyas Talpade; basically everyone else who‘s down and out in Bollywood!

Heck, maybe they‘re all putting in the money to make the film too! Any work is good work I guess.

With all that free time, Riya has been vocal in applauding the decision to create a Cyber Crime division in the Mumbai police. Maybe she‘s pissed off she didn‘t make any money from her starring role in her debut MMS. With the circulation the clip saw, she‘d have made a killing on Pay Per View!

Tough times for the two sisters; The Devil sure took away somebody‘s Prada!


*Ghetto Upgrade: When you find a replacement that‘s only marginally better.

**Echo Chamber: When you repeat stories verbatim with no filter or pause to question logic

***Retro Cringe: When you look back at an incident with great shame and embarrassment... you‘re possibly sober by this time.