Aug 28, 2006 06:01 AM
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Dear Mouthshut community!
TV Serials! May it be any language, Tamil/Hindi/ or any other language,
What it focuses on:
Family centiments
Superstitious beliefs
Family grudges-Ego between people
Typical negative family situations
Heroism / Villain trying cheap tactics (Shakthimaan/Power Ranger!!!)
-One recent news in one Tamil Weekly magazine title and cover: ' Junior Vikadan'-tamil magazine
- One young boy tried similar shots of the scences from Power Ranger, trapped himself to death without knowing the risk...the entire family is in sorrows...
- Few years back, some where I read, three children, set themselves fire (crying, ' Shakthimaan' pl. come to us for rescue, thinking ' shakthimaan will rescue people in danger - as they see in serial)
is it not crazy?
Don't they have any better good thoughts?
Its high time such TV serial commercial producers and directors wake up to this hue and cry!
India is a country with :
13% below poverty line (ie. not having one full meal a day, a roof to shade, a cloth to wear!)
70% plus are in the middle income group (the typical middle class ' who neither want to become overnight crorepathis nor want to be as a risk taking person to land worser than what they are!')- Also, they are not happy with their current needs and wants, need more but without working for it...
It is this class, the entire FMCG/entire global market runs the luring their marketing techniques
The same Middle Class has the best of all, education, knowledge, skill ( the typical ' employee' community
only in T.N, has 30 lakh people are un employed-imagine rest of India in 28 states...
Few suggestions:
- Practical Education & awareness programs about employment search
HR Training/ how to attend interviews/live role plays on the same
Consumer awarneness programs
How to enhance home based working - for house wives-various self employment opportunities
How to sit at home and also make little money out of your skills and still not compromise your ' house wife' duty?
Tips for ' Teen Agers'- Bad Vices, Movies, Eve Teasing, Chatting on road side is not all life? - little more to it...which would help their career enhance! - They may not listen to parents, buy they will, if shown with some video clips as how another one was spoilt...may be live testimony interviews...
like this...there are innumerable..which one can think of ...good ones....
It is high time:
All producers, directors, film personalities (top of the line ' conceptual' top orders like Shankar, Kamalahaasan, Rajini, Abhishek, Ram Gopal Varma, Yash Chopra, Karan Johar...) can think on these lines and see what they can do to the society and still earn a brand mileage and as well give something good to the society...
- serials like Mr. Beans, Tom & Jerry, Charlie Chaplin, Thakeshi's Castle is ok....
The ones with un assumable animations, valour of human faces...lure children and dream and implement....
Its my piece of thought to share with mouthshut members....
I am an Advisor to an University where 70 colleges work with me alongwith a State Govt. body to implement newer thoughts for skill fueling students to empower future india...
I help un/underemployed to become skillful employeers/employable....
You all can reach me at joy@sibylcharities.org
Shah Rukh Khan,
