My Ultimate Fantasy-Shereen Bhan

As a school going boy, I was unlike my other contemporaries. No across-the-window crushes, no penchant for all fair looking girls. I didn’t experience any high seeing Bollywood or Hollywood actresses & I guess this has continued till date.

But that was that. Intelligence combined with aesthetics, looks combined with innocence & tantrums along with sweet-timbre were some of the things that had the adrenaline pumping. Then, just like that, it happened. I mean that special liking for someone. They taught me that it happens suddenly. Plus all the self-help books say the same thing.

However, I wasn’t concerned. She was close to 5 feet 5,her hair were like nothing I had seen before, her smile as if the blossoming flowers of the spring, occasionally she talked with her eyes & her dressing sense was impeccable.Her name- Shereen Bhan.The moment I see her on-screen, bells start to ring in my head & just one thing comes to mind:

“Banane waale ne bhi kya cheez banayi hai”.

Shereen Bhan- a Delhi bureau Chief & Executive Editor of CNBC TV 18- is a St.Stephens College,Delhi graduate in Philosophy (I studied at St.Stephens-Chandigarh).She has her masters in Mass Communication from Pune with Film & Television as her specialized subject (she topped the class as well as the university). Before joining CNBC, she was the associate producer for U-TV. Daughter of a fighter pilot of the Indian Air Force, she produces all of her own shows & has rubbed her shoulders with the likes of Siddhartha Basu (she did her internship for a couple of months under him)& Vir Sanghvi (for a current affairs show on Star TV).

Those are quite a lot of achievements for the girl that I just so adore.She currently hosts show like India Business Hour, Young Turks, Power Turk, Overdrive-The Auto car show & many others.Her day starts at 9 & ends at 11pm with mornings spent in reporting,afternoons in scripting & editing, while evenings in studio managing people & supervising shows. Every time, I surf through the innumerable channels of my Tele, more often than not, I find her on screen. But I try to control my excitement, since my Dad is in the same room but he won’t read this article; he ain’t that tech savvy.

The flamboyance with she presents her shows & the elegance in her voice is absolutely mystifying. The twitch that I feel seeing her high cheek-boned face along with that coquettish smile makes me believe that she is some kind of prodigy. No wonder the leading Women magazine, FEMINA included her among 20 most beautiful faces of the year in 2005, September issue & VOGUE voted her amongst top 50 most beautiful women in year 2008, October issue.

Shereen Ma’am, if you ever happen to read this, just remember that a young-accidental-Engineer is completely in love with your crescent smile. You are simply amazing with what ever you do. So all I’m asking for is a date with you on a fine evening. I might not be able to take you to a sumptuous outlet but I assure you that you will have the time of your life.

So Ma’am, cheers to your stunning persona & I hope that your loveliness goes on & on…