‘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...]
This is how justice kills people in India
Indian television stops being colorful and loud, from its orgy of soap operas, reality TV programs, on-screen emotional dares and explosions and even the quickies between news broadcasts on the more ‘serious’ networks, when you click the remote on real reality TV. I haven’t switched on the television since pirated movies started streaming the internet for free, and I haven’t … [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...]
COMEDY NIGHTS WITH KAPIL – What are we as a nation laughing at!
Sometimes the one thing that takes for you to realize what a pathetic person you are is someone just like you. The weekend show on Colors TV did that for me. It made me realize what a retarded sense of humor I had. It takes one no more than 5 episodes to decode it. What aghast rather than tickle me is that the joke is always on her. The show has Kapil take cheap shots … [Read more...]