An overview of Indian TV would not be complete without some more mentions. There are approximately a gazillion channels showing something movie-related: talk shows with movie stars; movie stars in every ad; yesteryear movie stars on TV serials; movie stars, movie start, I'm seeing stars. Long live smelling salts.
Then there is the mainstay of Indian TV: serials. Randomly flipping, I came across a snippet of a "mega-serial" with a panoply of creative characters: mother-in-law, daughter-in-law and several weapons of mass destruction. I kid you, it was several sister-in-laws, not WMDs. Most of the men were missing, fighting a war, or perhaps cirhhosis of the liver - who knew, who cared?Anyway, in a classic case of what I think could either be a) my exceptional memory or b) my exceptional clairvoyance, I could both figure out what happened before and what will happen in 6 months. I knew because I last saw a snippet 6 months ago. And the snippet 6 months ago was not even from the same serial!
Long live Indian TV. What's that you say? This does not qualify me for a Nobel prize? Goodbye, cruel world.
3 comments:
huh?
huh?
HAHAHA... who is the idiot who commented 'huh'? That person needs to be put in a room and forced to suffer through 12 hours of Vijay TV, or Zee TV, or Sony TV or all three. ;)
Long Live indian tv. Its the only place where you can change the channel, and believe you're watching the same show.
I mean, I've pulled that prank on my mum a lot. She'll be watching sth on one channel, I will quietly change the channel and she won't even realize there was a change until 20 minutes later when she'll realise that too sub-plots have changed in 20 minutes.
Hee hee.
I watched a tamil movie recently, about a haunted 'mega serial' which eerily predicts horrible things that happen in a family.
~div
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