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 :)
8 comments:
nice one sac ..completely agree with you ..whole load of crap these serials .. especially when it comes in the way of any sport telecast ..it always does damn it ..
anyway .. sac .. why dont u become a script writer for a serial ..u have to do something to change this sac
U were watching those serials when you were in India, now u r not able to watch them, so u r criticising those people who watch them here [:D]
[full urkondu helta iddeeya.. ]
I never watched such serials, I am also against watching those crap serials. You are saying the right thing in the blog...
agree with u sachin!!
There is hardly anything watchable on tv these days.. Its long past since the demise of the meaningful serials.. It high time someone does something meaningful on tv!
dude u might say "how rude!!!" as Steffani says it.. I dint find it as an interesting topic.. So dint read it fully!!! excuse me for that!!
P.S : A true feed back!!!
Sachin.. I could not agree with you more... Those K serials are a pet peeve of mine and it is just ridiculous that educated people watch and enjoy them and I have seen women dress like the actors on the shows. We had good TV while growing up.. Malgudy Days.. Byomkesh Bakshi... Surabhi.. Oh.. wonderful times... pity the kids now..
good one sac sir.... brought back memories of good old malgudi days, it was so refreshing to see the serials that time... it had the innocent touch in them... but today as you put it there is nothing to take back home with these serials...
keep up the good work... and waiting for a rightup on the life style in US shortly from you.. [;)]... jai India... jai bangalore.. [:)]
Sac...First of all, i'd like to clarify that I'm not a male chauvinist.. So, whatever i write below does not reflect a chauvnistic nature...So, that's that about the disclaimer..
Ok, moving to the blog.. Agree with u on all counts relating to the decline in the kind of soap entertainment on tv today... Those were the days of the wonderful serials on tv... Though there were not many channels..the ones offered by DD were good enough for family entertainment...
However, I feel that the comparison on Kalam's 2020 has nothing to do with these soaps.. First of all, when you mention the modern day housewife.. I dont see her doing any better than the previous ones... The educated ones do not stay at home just to watch those serials... They watch the serials because they stay at home... Not vice versa...
I agree with you when u say
"People grow up"
but tend to differ from you when you say "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..."
The people in Kalam's vision of 2020 dont feature any of these housewives by any means..
I rest my case..
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