Maria Sharapova doesn’t know who Sachin Tendulkar is, you indignantly exclaim? She would still come off as the most knowledgeable person in the world when compared with Tendulkar’s fellow citizens.
In a damning video shot by Being Indian, the people of Mumbai were exposed for their utter lack of knowledge of their own celebrated sports stars. Pankaj Advani ‘obviously plays chess’, goes one clueless guy. Another one confidently proclaims that Mahesh Bhupathi plays a mysterious new sport called ‘Olympic’. Narain Karthikeyan is apparently a cricketer, although the lady who says that doesn’t know ‘which IPL team he plays for’.
The worst, however, seems reserved for the country’s football stars. Most of the people interviewed give intensely blank stares when asked about Sunil Chhetri, while one enthusiastic guy brands Bhaichung Bhutia as either a tennis or snooker player (note the wildly broad spectrum that he covers).
We know – we too had a hard time believing that anybody could be this ignorant. But a video doesn’t lie, and the responses that the clip below has recorded left us shaking our heads and trying desperately not to cringe.
Watch it for yourself:
