‘It’s strange why no one realized this until now about our movies and serials’ The Indian Censor Board has been in the headlines often in recent times, pertaining to unnecessary censorship in movies and even television, which has been deemed as a blatant misuse of power by many. Some have commented on this erratic behaviour of the censor board calling it a blow to the … [Read more...]
Dear Indian TV Channels, Let Me Remind You Your Past. You Weren’t Always This Bad!
Sitting in the common room of my PG, as I started having dinner after a long day at work, I had to immediately look up from my plate, to see a lady laughing like a witch, clad in a saree, and was giving weird expressions: No, not in reality, but in a TV serial…… What’s more weird was, a bunch of other people in the room, watching that so intently. Maybe, they are fond of … [Read more...]
You Go Girl: Priyanka Chopra, You Weren’t My Favorite, But You Certainly Made Me Your Admirer
I honestly feel that these days Bollywood doesn’t have many faces to receive applause and accolade. But Priyanka Chopra is definitely one of the few good looking actors, who have managed to not only create a space for themselves in this industry, but have proved their mettle abroad as well. Yesterday, I saw the first episode of Quantico, an American television thriller … [Read more...]
How funny is ‘funny’ supposed to be, is there a rule book for it or something?
In our country, “No, I didn’t feel offended.” actually validates that you got offended. A reply is nothing but a defence for an offence. Almost a month ago, AIB, better known as All India Bakchod webcasted their insult humour special on YouTube. I don’t need to enlist the celebrities as we all know who came and what happened. The video was eventually taken down after … [Read more...]
From TV Series in Hollywood to Daily Soaps in India: For crying out loud, when are we going to change?
“Kthis kshould kbe kthe kname kof kmy kserial”, as thought upon by one of the so-called prominent directors of a genre of Indian TV serials which we fondly call as ‘Daily Soaps’. I think that many of you might have deciphered the K-code above, but for the rest, let me apprise you that it’s nothing but actually it’s synonymous to an extremely lame cliché which made some people … [Read more...]