I just am frustrated because I had yet another argument with my parents over what to watch. As everyone knows, except for Office-Office, there
isn't ONE SINGLE GOOD HINDI PROGRAM on TV. And as usual they'd rather watch the Hindi news channels showing Blood, gore , sex & violence rather than watch National Geographic OR Discovery Channel OR History Channel.
Man I swear to lord that the Hindi news channels barring NDTV India are the Manohar Kahaniyan for the illiterates. They sensationalize even the most mundane of things.. Spice it up so much that you just can not imagine where reality ends & where their imagination begins. They act as if they are the victim, the police, the witnesses, the prosecution & the judge.. All rolled in one.
Something as simle as a stray dog being killed on the road becomes
"Breaking News" A member of the canine species has just been killed here on this road. Your news channel is the first one to cover this news. As you can see that the canine who probably was unaware that death was stalking him, went about his normal business. He got up at 7:30 like always & then went to THIS electric pole to urinate. As you can see that this pole is still wet, which means that someone else has probably urinated here as well. We are not sure if it was indeed a dog or a man, but we are pretty sure that it is a case of dog eat dog.. Its not even been 10 minutes since Rustum as the people living in this locality used to call him, died, and already some other dog, who had been eying this turf for long has come& marked it. We'll try and contact Rustms family & se how they are feling at this moment. We'll also try & see what is a dogs life BLAH BLAHBLAH BLAH.. A good 3 hours down the line they'd still be repeating this in ONE go.. & you'd get to see this breaking news 5 times a day.
And watching the hindi soaps is an insult to intelligence. I wonder why is it that the "ladies" of the house sleep in full make-up & designer jewelery & sarees. I mean I agree that everyone is a multi TRILLIONAIRES ( Yep they are not just run of the mill millionaires or your roadside billionaires), but even then, I'd always thought that they'd sleep more comfortably & eat food, not $ bills.
I hope some producer reads it and realizes that there is a VERY BIG MARKET if you produce something woryhwile. Yes we have been schooled in English medium schools, & yes some of us find hindi hard to read & harder still to write. BUT we would love to watch something decent, something some one has put some mind into, some dedication in getting something right. Not slapstick or tragedy. People we did have Buniyaad, Kabeer, Mirza Ghalib, Chankaya, Bharat ek Khoj and a lot of other GOOD TV Serials & we did enjoy them & not just because that is what you could get.
