In which Shah Rukh stamps his class

Before I forget, I suppose I owe it to SRK to put this on record. The KBC episode today was truly fantastic, in the way he handled what must rank as one of the all time difficult contestants.
I mean, here you had a school marm from Jind, Haryana, who had come with her mum. The lady was a teacher, and 3 minutes into her presense, I was practically shuddering with horror at the thought of the poor sods in Jind who would miss doing HER homework.

A razor sharp tongue, hands that had corporal punishment written all over, and an attitude that wouldn't know pity if it came crawling on its knees.

SRK got into the job heroically, with each and every attempt at humour and freindliness being rebuffed with mind blowingly rude repartees from the lady, which on this occassion came across as simply funny as the audience went along. As the lady progressed, and eventually looked to be getting something wrong, she even went so far as to inform SRK that she had no intention to hug him while exiting as he likes his contestants to do. SRK took it in his stride, and got back eventually, handing over the cheque to her mum instead, who was more than happy to hug the guy. Even as her daughter looked on disapprovongly. Fantastic entertainment.

I suppose the lady had her reasons for being the way she was, and it WAs pretty clear that she is destined to be a spinster all her life, considering all the choices she gave when it came to spending her winnings. Ranging from keeping a pet tiger to taking care of the dogs in her neighbourhood.

Something tells me that the people of Jind need to be ashamed about it somewhere, as the woman clearly was extremely conscious of maintaining an image that was forbidding and touch me not, even if it meant rebuffing the man a majority of women wouldn't mind hugging anytime of the day!

I haven't been following KBC so far, but if today's performance is any indicator, then ratings or no ratings, SRK has truly made the big chair his own for now.