Telly Shows

There has been a heavy dose of television viewing happening the past few weeks, and I am thoroughly enjoying it. Most of it is Indian telly, and all those who want to snigger, can now stop reading further. There are two shows that I want to talk about, though for completely varied reasons. The first I am really liking, but then every new show is likable, and then just starts treading on the well beaten path and gets boring isn't it?

12/24 Karol Bagh is a new show on Zee TV, and I am following it quite ardently for now. Its about a middle-class, Punjabi business family from West Delhi, and the authenticity of the show is what I am really enjoying for now. The sets, and the characters are very real. I had friends from similar backgrounds back in the days I was in Delhi, and I can actually replace the characters and sets with them, their family, their homes. It is just amazing to see how well, they have recreated the scenario. Most of the actors are doing a great job in maintaining the authenticity, and doing justice to their roles. I feel like I am in Delhi, at a friend's place while watching the show. The story is about a family with four grown up kids, three daughter, and their parents. The hunt is on for a groom for the eldest daughter, who is a bit plump,the trials she is going through to find a match while getting older by the day, the son, who loves a girl from a rich family, the second daughter, who is the perfect pretty bimbo, and the youngest one, who is smart and perceives what others don't.The cake though must go to the current villain of the show, who is the fiance of the eldest daughter of the family. And he is enacting his part too perfectly to be expressed in words. The over smart guy, the habitual liar, the one who lacks manners, etiquette's and sensitivity of any kind, who has different personalities in the presence of his mother and otherwise. He is the kind of creep one would love to hate, and the guy playing the role is enacting it just perfectly. I will definitelycringe if I see him on the street, that is how well he is doing it. Oh! And did I mention the absolutely perfect dilliwaali Hindi (aaiyyo, jaaiyyo, khaaiyyo) ages since I heard or said it. Please catch an episode of this show if you can, it is one of the better ones on Indian television for now. And if the makers of the show ever read this, please stop showing all the yummy snacks from Bengali Market, it is making me drool. And my favourite on the show is the youngest daughter, Mili. She is the kind of girl I love, smart, brave and full of spunk! A question I have though is, what would a parent do, if sacrificing the happiness of one child, meant happiness for the other children?

The second, and absolutely nauseating show, that will soon hit the telly is a reality show called Pati Patni Aur Woh. Telly couples have been selected to babysit kids. What is the purpose of the show, I have no idea, but the very advertisements are disgusting me. It is full of the couples with howling babies, who they try to pacify, while the baby continues to howl. First up, a couple of my choicest abuses to the parents who have given their children to this show. This is like the way animals are captured and made to perform in the circus. Parents are doing this to their own kids? Why? The participating celebrity couples need to be socked, for their stupidity, one of the couples actually screams back at the howling child. have people become insensitive enough to watch this happening in the name of a reality show? Cherry on the icing? One of the participating celebrities is Gaurav Chopra, the man who almost ran over a blogger's son last year, and he is trying to take care of a teeny weeny baby, is it a surprise then, that the baby is howling in that case? How mindless, and disturbing can television get?

Thank God for Comic Relief

The coy looks, the magnificent set-up, the eye popping clothes, she could well be a princess having a real swayamvar. But on television it is truly a comedy par excellence. I cannot stop laughing, and its the best thing to watch to end my day, feeling happy and relaxed. Rakhi Sawant and NDTV have really shown the world, what true comedy can be, Rakhi Ka Swayamvar.

It is a reality show they say, and yet I can almost read the script they have all studied. I have no opinion about Rakhi Sawant. She is a girl, who dances and acts in bit parts, and bit clothes. She is smart enough to brand herself? Maybe, maybe not, and how is it any of my business at all? I am enjoying seeing her, I really am, and that is all that matters. There is enough spice for an Ekta Kapoor serial here, and I am sure a few of the guys from the show, will soon start appearing right there. The married man with three kids, the one who asked her about her physical relationships, the man who supposedly has a few girlfriends back home, the one who had a hot Russian girlfriend, they are all such spicy characters.

The hilarity of it all peaks during the dialogues monologues of Rakhi, about how she demands respect as a woman, for all women, and how she is sati savitri part duex. She speaks of every suitor, as her true love, and its when she eliminates one of them that her love for him is at its highest, and her heart breaks, because the true love of her life has betrayed/disrespected/used her. If nothing this girl knows what is expected of her, and is delivering what the channel needs to boost its TRPs, she is giving them, pure, unadulterated masaala. The masses, like me are obviously lapping it up, because it is just so purely funny. I have started liking the girl's guts to be honest. The confidence she has in herself, the intrepidity with which she lies or acts. It is definitely appreciable.I cannot help but admire the woman for her candidness, and ability to lie through her teeth, without so much as blinking. True showbiz material! But what I wonder now, is will she really marry one among the guys present? Is he a pre-decided one? Does she have a contract with the channel saying she has to get married to one of the suitors? Would they do a show on her break up then, when that happens? All questions to ponder about. In the meanwhile enjoy the fun, and women, drool over the clothes and accessories. And I wonder what will I have, to lap up on evening telly, when this show gets over.
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