Whose lips are those?

Recently, I was sitting with some friends, amused as they jumped about in front of the television which had a pair of lips on it and the grand prize winner would be the one to guess the person whose lips they are. This was amusing as they guessed who it was and then they convinced one person to lend his phone to call. Upon connecting he found himself in a waiting lounge. All the callers who got through would guess the wrong answer and the list of callers waiting kept going down. Patiently, then excitedly waiting, he clung to the phone and when there was only one caller left he was jumping about, because by now, everyone was sure those were Aishwarya Rai’s lips and the callers seemed to guess the most obscure names except hers. The clock was ticking louder. An alarm was sounded and a red light started flashing. It sounded like there was a fire somewhere and there was a need to hurry. As I watched this, the last caller was put on and it wasn’t my friend. He was disappointed, but didn’t give up and as he clung to the phone and waited a while, the list with only one caller left, after a while magically became the last 20 callers. They tempted people by saying that the next caller would get 5,000 just for getting through. After a point, the person whose phone it was realized he would have to take it away before there was no balance left. At Rs. 20/ minute, he proved the skeptics correct that the program was a fake, nobody actually gets through and all the callers are fake. After spending an hour of analysis, I managed to convince the 2% of myself that believed the program was not staged, that it was in fact staged. At this point I also realized that, though I didn’t believe in the program I had just been fooled into watching it in the process of trying to figure if it was real. I can’t say for sure, but I know it’s a solid scheme to make money if tons of people around the country, who believe will watch and spend Rs. 20/min. calling all at the same time and there are tons more people watching to see if it’s real or not.