Moving on from my love towards coffee, my home climate was very conducive with the in coming of new television. Prime slot programs needed by everyone was satisfied by two tv's.
Yet, even now i wonder why would we need two televisions? and secondly why so many channels cluttering the co-axial cables(/setup box and also adding lot of satellite debris!!)??
I think this is actually becoming a norm in many places these days!.
A casual look at the newspapers these days for the day's television schedule brings in lot of worrying thoughts to me .
A simple representation of this can be :" Are these very much needed? "
I still cherish those days of TV programs from the good old "DOORDARSHAN".
I get a feeling that the balance between the entertainment, and learning was very good then.
Being in Pondicherry, we got feeder DD1-Madras from "Madras -Doordarshan" from 5 pm onwards to night 9pm. Then it was over to Delhi-Doordarshan till 10pm .
I vaguely remember some programs (being nostalgic) and take you all through the winding path to our past!
1.Kurinchi Malar.(Ex Deputy CM Stalin was the hero in this serial). Between 7.30-8pm ,Mondays!!-- in 1991?!?
2.Tuesday One hour drama . 7.30-8.30 pm. Usually not that great.
3. Mariyadai Raman
4. Idhu oru Manithanin kadhai- (Raghuvaran was acting a dunkard in this! Great acting! )
5. En Iniya Eiyendira.. (Sujatha's Sci-fi!.. "Naan Sibi .. Nee Nilla".. remember this dialog?)
5. Thupariyum Sambhu.(YG Mahendran)
6.Oliyum-Olliyum, Chitrahaar.
7. ulla -varum Olikathir.
8. Rail-Snegam( i think this special for many people, lovely title song in Sahana ragam).
9. Turning point.
10. Bhomkesh Bakshi.
11.Vikram and Bethal.
12. Ramayanam
13.Mahabharath.
14.Kanmani Poonga.
15. Duck Tales, Jungle book,Tales spin, He Man and the master of universe, Spider man( on Saturday evenings),Laurel and Hardy.
16.Ek se Badkar Ek.( I think this came in DD-2!!)
17. Sword of Tippu Sultan.
18. Malgudi days.
19. Madhu Cheenu, Vanna Kolangal, Naam KudumbaM
20. Iravil Oru Pagal (Revathi and Suresh Menon, Revathi is a blind girl!!).
21. Washington ill Thirumanam
22. Maapilai Muruku (DD-2)
23. Surabhi -- (Amul Surabhi)!!
24. Discovery of India- (Sunday evening 3-4pm?!!)
( Please note observations given here within brackets are purely from the sight of a 9 or 10 year old kid !!) and then Saturday evening's Hindi movies and Sunday evening's Tamil movies.
I may be used to seeing lot of Sivaji ,MGR during this time in TV, that made me a fan for these guys and movies from these periods. Add on top of this DD-2Metro came in later and i would say it was all fine even then. The above list mostly made up for the entire week. Tlist is not that tightly compiled, even then the entire package was not taxing. I would like to add that though the list may be entertainment oriented, i still stick to that it also helped us in our learning ( because a half-an-hour program ) after school is an "OK daily - dosage" to the kid. Add that many of these were not derived from Films, or film subjects!!
In today's scenario , a single channel's program list for the day has more than 200% than the list
that we were used to for the entire week. Multiply it by 8 or 10 channels in foray, my God, it is 2000%. And most of these contents are made from films!
I don't bring in Discovery,Animal-Planet ,Nat-Geo,Cartoon network,Pogo - channels here.
Person be it anyone - from baby to school going kids , people from College,employed ones, and the retired ones , we get into this pressure zone and it becomes very hard to crack this nut.
One thing that needs a special mention here, is most of these day's programs have quality and people's professionalism has increased leaps and bounds. But that does not mean that we must see them. Yet because of our day-to-day attachment with these programs , we start feeling that this as our own part!
A show for the best singer -filters from over 20000 participants and then at the end there is one winner! Though there can be one winner logically by self imposed rules, it creates ample stress and heart burns for the talented lot of participants and audiences. Is this needed?
Similarly the same case with soap operas,reality shows and even the News that mostly giving raise to stress and also pain. (though the audience may claim otherwise! it is not the case)
Another serious problem is the content these programs carry. I found that many times, these programs cross the content border and becomes irrelevant,unsuitable for the audience. With the case of Doordarshan it was always Safe, i would say. But with private channels we put our self into lot of this exposure risk from the form of contents,and even in advertisements!
.. To continue!
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