It’s like asking cricketer Shahid Afridi to judge a declamation contest. Sometimes our showbiz wallahs do things that are as difficult to digest as a three-day old roti.

There’s a dance competition show titled Nachley on a network. While the quality of contestants on the show is not worth raising eyebrows about, it’s the choice of celebs who judge the dance acts that leaves you dumbfounded. There’s film actor Momy Rana (well, he can dance a bit but is not light on his feet), there’s Resham (we know she has the moves but is confined to a couple of dance forms) and TV actor Faisal Qureshi. Faisal Q is a shocking inclusion because the guy has two left feet.

To boot, the kind of comments that these judges dish out to the young performers don’t go beyond sentences like ‘iss dafa acha nahin tha, agli baar mehnat kerein’, which means their technical knowhow of things (let’s say compared to Indian choreographers Remu or Saroj Khan) is way too limited. The issue is we don’t try and emulate Indian reality shows; we ape them, which will never produce quality.

What next? A poetry-writing competition judged by Meera?