May 24, 2007 06:05 PM
6152 Views
If you are an avid soap opera, popularly known as saas bahu watcher or love what’s coming on TV nowadays, you are not going to like the next few lines or for that matter any of the lines coming up. I’m not going to admonish the saas bahu serials because there are plenty others before me who have done that more effectively but to little effect. As a popular film maker on his show said 90 percent of the people watch these shows!! (WHAT???) And 90 percent of the audience can’t be wrong.
So hail, parvati n tulsi!!! & many other sari clad women always dressed for diwali even while cutting vegetables for their husbands with ridiculous hair styles and crassly dressed children!!! And bring in more of the loud music, melodramatic dialogues and those close ups of those faces bathed in make up.
You must be thinking this guy must be watching these serials as he knows about the hair style and dressing sense of the actors. Well to be honest can you help it and notice these serials? If star movies and HBO fail to impress you with their movie choices which they seem to do pretty frequently nowadays and with the spectacular show of the Indian cricket team in the world cup, you really want to see more cricket, right? So all you are left with are some inane and ridiculous reality series, none of it by the way are original, or these serials.
Hey, you can see the news, you might think!!! Ya, sansani and red alert during the prime time are my favorites. I really want to see which girl got raped by her uncle in a village in Madhya Pradesh. Or hey, on this channel they are showing how this young couple was shot by the girl’s cousin in the head. Or wait this channel is showing how a teacher in Bhopal took advantage of his student and had a rollicking affair with her. Or may be this one which is showing where Abhishek Bachchan & Aishwarya Rai might go on their honeymoon!!!! Man, the choices I have!!!
So all you do is put on some music channel where every 2 minutes himesh reshamiya forces you to reduce the volume of your TV and in the rest Emraan Hashmi shows up with his Greek god looks romancing or rather doing a bit more than that with women wearing tatters (actually I would have enjoyed that, if my nom wasn’t sitting next to me!!!)
So unless you have money invested in the stock market where cnbc and ndtv profit will come to your rescue, you are pretty much doomed. Ps: looking at it from a positive point of view this sad state of Indian television might force us to pick a book and read for a change!!! And inculcate the reading habit amongst us. So 3 cheers to our ludicrous television programs!!!
