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THIS is arguably the most ambitious cheating project of all time in the casinos of Las Vegas — the Mecca of gambling. Beat The Wheel on August 29 at 10 p.m. on the History Channel is a bizarre coming-of-age story, in which two childhood friends and physics geeks embark in 1975 on an elaborate plan to cheat the hell out of Las Vegas casinos. The two start by deconstructing the physics behind the motion of a roulette ball and build a miniature computer system that could use that scientific data to surreptitiously predict the outcome of a roulette game. The project soon becomes an out-of-control obsession, consuming a whole commune of brilliant hippie-physicists... and ultimately ends in a landmark contribution to modern- day Chaos Theory and showcasing the fact that crime sometimes pays. Beyond science FAITH can move mountains, or so goes the cliché. But Man Mein Hai Vishwas on Sony Entertainment Television every Friday at 8 p.m. goes a step further. It sets out to prove that faith can even change the way God intended the world to be. The show blends mythology, miracles and drama and interviews people whose lives have changed after miracles happened. These are stories where belief and devotion over-ride common sense and reasoning. Nitish Krishna Bhardwaj who is the sutradhar claims that the stories have been taken from real-life incidents. Personalities like Pandit Jasraj are invited to narrate personal experiences where miracles occurred and changed their lives. If you are looking for scientific explanation to these anecdotes, perish the thought. But if you are a true believer then you will relish these logic-defying tales that have no basis in science but are absorbing all the same as the stuff of fantasy. — NF
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