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Shilpa Shetty may be hogging the limelight in India and England but cross the Atlantic and it is another reality show and another Indian who is fast becoming the darling of American television viewers. He may be voted out by the time this gets published but Sanjaya Malakar is the first Indian ever to have made it to the Top 12 from millions of hopefuls in the American Idol aired every Thursday at 8 pm on Star World. He and his sister Shyamali auditioned on September 19, 2006 — just nine days after Sanjaya’s 17th birthday. When the show aired on January 17, the two became famous overnight as the siblings on American Idol. Though the sister got eliminated in the last 30, Sanjaya, born and brought up in Seattle, is going strong. His favourite singer is Stevie Wonder and he sung the vision-impaired crooner’s Signed, Sealed, Delivered at his Seattle audition. Though the judges do not much care for him, Sanjaya has built a big fan following and is very popular with the voters. Terror in the skies It’s
an attack that preceded 9/11 but was just as dramatic. In Suicide
Attack (March 26, 8 pm), Nat Geo vividly recreates both the horror
and heroism of the incredible events that took place inside FedEx 705s
cockpit.
On April 7, 1994, the flight was just finishing its
climb out of Memphis in America when an off-duty FedEx flight engineer
suddenly stormed the cockpit. Bashing the crew members skulls with a
hammer and armed with a spear gun, the crazed attacker seemed intent on
killing the crew and taking over the plane. The stunned co-pilot, with
his skull fractured and right arm paralysed, was left to fight the
attacker using his only remaining weapon — the plane itself. To throw
the hijacker off balance, the pilot hurled the heavy cargo plane into
risky but cunning acrobatic manoeuvres, travelling at speeds so high
they didneven register on the plane’s metre. Yet so much blood was
dripping in the pilot’s eyes that he didn’t realise the plane was
heading southwest — the exact opposite direction of the airport he so
desperately needed to reach. Watch the show that is more gripping than
any fiction thriller you’ve ever seen. — NF
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