…Lekin thoda sa hi!
Withdrawal symptoms! No IPL, no fun! Am suffering from a serious kind of pain, and don’t know what will cure it. The Fake IPL Player said in his blog, that cricket has been reduced to a 3 hour tamasha with all elements of entertainment thrown in. I find myself agreeing with him. There isn’t a damn thing on the telly today which matches! (pun intended).
Somehow the Sony TV promos on them changing their programming content caught Megs and my fancy. We dutifully logged on to the channel and have sampled all the new programs that are on air. The Queenie stuff (Chittod Ki Rani Padmini ka Johur) is beyond us. Palampur Express is during Myra’s dinner time so can’t watch that. But the lack of any worthy movies in prime time has forced us to watch Bhaskar Bharti for the last 3 days. Man, this one’s BAD. Really junked. I don’t know how long this will continue – forced humour, non-actors, and loud sets!!! (But given the lousy shows and their year on year running, you never know!). Somehow all these remind me of the angrezi phoren soaps I used to watch when I was in college in the 90’s. The sets and the clothes were loud unreal and garish. But the similarity ends there. The EQ is really low with Indian soaps today.
Then there is Ladies Special. This one has promise. Neena Gupta and Harsh Chhaya are doing a good job, and the rest of them are passable. The tempo is nice, the situations real life, and the sets are human. I hope this continues beyond this week. Speaking of which, I used to follow a interesting soap on Zee Marathi – Shriyut Gangadhar Tipre. Starring Dilip Prabhavalkar, this was straight out of or homes. But come season two, it was like one of the saas bahu types.
The worst of the lot is the “Entertainment Ke Liye Kuch Bhi Karega”. Pathetic, lousy, and disgusting. And these are compliments for the quality of the show!!!
Getting 1 out of 5 is not good. Unless the TRPs show something else. But, honestly if TRPs thats what channels want to focus on, then sleaze is the best way of getting that. Entertainment ke liye kuch bhi karega, kyun?
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