Saas bahu sagas...Soap operas...A lady casting an evil eye on another lady..Jealousy..A clandestine affair...A cover up..A murder for property or gain..An irate household disowning the person involved...A bahu becoming a baa..Generation leaps..Glycerine... Bitching....(Each of these things wil start with K)... Kyun ki baa bhi kabhi beti thi...Kyun ki hum sab pagal hain...Gosh.............
This sadly is the symbol of new age India.The modern India..The India of the 2000s..Dr Kalam says by 2020,India should be a superpower.I am sure he is unaware of the going ons in the TV and entertainment world..Cos these are making India move,rather run in the opposite direction...
You have these very well educated, sophisticated housewives(and others) of the modern day,who stay in these posh houses in metropolitan and new age India, shedding tears on some bullcrap serial and a godforsaken character rather than contributing in someway or the other objectively..The mind is rotting..Creativity is a word that exists only in the dictionary these days...We will all agree that India is shining..Definitely more lustrous than the India of the 1980s and the early 1990s.But is the shine going to stay..Or is this surfacial and artificial??
A look back to the olden days reveals a striking difference..India wasnt shining as much,if at all..It was still in the infant stage of improvement and development..But what was being telecast on TV,generally the pulse of the nation at any time, was of an entirely different class..
The story of the pandavas and the kauravas,the epitome of courage and sacrifice,The legendary Mahabharatha...
The story of the great Sri rama and the peerless Matha Seetha warding off the threat of the monster Ravana... It was the ultimate story of victory of truth over lies, good over evil and the perfect lesson in morals and virtues..
The story of a cherubic town that can be located anywhere in Southern India and the simplicity yet magnanimous nature of its innocent and distinct characters...The Malgudi days...
The simple story of a household in the india of the 1980s..Hum Log..
These are some of the many classics that the public followed..
Each day people ran home from work and postponed all possible useless activities so that they could follow their story..Will karna be humbled by the brilliance of Sri Krishna? Wil ashwathama be brought down to his knees by yet another stroke of genius...
Will swami be beaten up by his dad and mom for his notorious yet lovable activities with his friends..Wil jagan accept his firangi daughter in law in Malgudi.. This was clean entertainment..May not be socially relevant in some cases,but it wasn't something that pulverised the mind, day in and day out..It definitely did not impede learning...There was a small moral that you could take home daily...There was a small trait that could be imbibed each day to make yourself a better person...There wasnt this bitching that we see nowadays where a lady is almost everytime the vamp in a designer saree and out to wreck the family...
I personally feel that our minds wil be cleansed either if we stop watching this crap or still better if these serials are never made..I am sure none of these two will happen..The latter because it is the bread winner for the production houses,winning them TRPs and raking in the moolah and the former because of the TINA(there is no alternative) factor for the viewing public...
People,grow up.
I only hope that after all the India 2020 vision, Saas bahu serials are not being tuned into at Rashtrapathi Bhavan...That's the least we can expect...
Incidentally, K also stands for kalam sahab :)
