Couple of years back when our beloved Ekta Kapoor stormed the Indian television with her shoddy and sappy soaps, I used to think, nah, this cannot really work. Its just a time being phase which will fade out pretty soon. I don’t need to mention, how very wrong I was. Quite soon every channel had at least 20 creepy shows of their own. All they needed was some wanna be actors, an out of work sound engineer to record thud-dish-dhum-thud sounds and someone with Parkinson’s to operate the camera in full zoom 10 times in a row on the face or eyes or legs of those so called actors. Rest assured that whole bunch of dumbass people will be watching them religiously to shed tears and rock the TRPs.
Then came the reality shows time. I don’t remember watching even a single show but it was very in. At that time, I didn’t bet on their success or how long it will go but thought it couldn’t go worse than this. Sigh… time proved me wrong once again and there came so called laughter shows. The only idea of humor for those perverts was cross dressing and cracking cheap jokes with some pre-paid guests to laugh on each and every word uttered by those gender-benders.
Now when they already had the rock bottom touched, what next? Come, welcome to the era of “The Perfect Bride” and “Rakhi Ka Swaymvar”. By then I had already stopped watching TV and worrying about their standards but I used to feel so irritated and frustrated that I was like screaming if I saw someone watching that shit. Come on people, you can’t bloody blame the producers coz its us who make these shows hit and invite them to line up with all the more shitty stuff. However, this is a weird world and all the more weird is the breed of TV producers so now we have “Raaj Pichale Janam Ka”. I am not sure how can someone in right state of his/her mind tolerate this hogwash but as it shows lots of people do stomach and even believe this trash. In past few days I have seen several people expressing their urge to be part of this show so guess the producers are right once again.
As they say, it’s the consumer who drives the market, not the other way around so its no use my grumbling here. Let us be prepared to watch porn shows, beer bar fights, go-go dance competitions and sorts in near future. As far as TRPs are rocking and money is rolling from SMS polls, keep em coming…
Cheers!!
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well well...wateva u hav written echo some of my own sentiments...but ya I have watched most of them and got tired of them too be it roadies, lux perfect bride or rakhi ka swayamvar....the funny part is now weneva i watch nethng of the sort i do it only to laugh at it...which also counts as entertainment..ekta kapoor is ekta kapoor...i can list down thousands of merits of her serials and another ten demerits...and about reality shows most of which i find unbearable i hav noticed that whosoever i like never wins...such is comedy of the idiot box...come and go they will...
Chill Man :P
Basically I don't find any difference between TV shows( Ekta/Reality/Rakhi/Laughter) and Bollywood movies.Both TV shows and Bollywood industry are fooling us.
We are paying money to watch movies..oops..we are paying money to get fooled.Right?
I've seen many men and women who says a Big NO to serials.Not only that they look the serial fans with a disdain too! But when it comes to Bollywood craps, they flock to the theatres.
hmm..we live to get fooled ;-)
BTW, you said something that you are gonna but 42 inches LCD and all..to watch the shows eh? :P
Wow!
You sure have time for frustration - have you heard about a remote control? Watch HBO, Natgeo, Star World, etc, and I could go on ... :)
Don't blame the media czars, they're just here to do business, and you do have a choice.
P.S: Just so you know, porn will never be shown foc anywhere in the world! Whole lot of statistics and dough there! :p
D Writer - Well, everybody I know says that they watch it for some laugh and nothing serious but hell that makes them hit and they line up all the more stuff like that.
Merits of Ekta Kapoor shows.. wow.. tell me, I am all ears :)
Scrawler - Umm there are still some good movies now and then so not sure if we can really compare them. I agree most of them are crap but sometimes we do get to see some thing different over there.
42" TV - yep, bought that finally but that is for my love to the movies.. Its a great experience I must say :)
Sparkling - Tum na hoti to kya hota mera. Kaun batata mere ko remote aur ye sab channel ke bare main.. :P
As I said in post, I am not blaming the producers and neither do I watch these shows but its a general observation and you cant stop others to watch that and thus suffering indirectly.
Porn will never be shown? Are you sure... I am not :)
i wish the producers read this post, take ur idea and start broadcasting porn videos :P lol
the only thing i watch in tv is news and malayalam movie songs :) so i am safe. i get all the needed entertainment, drama, action and tragedy by watching news :D
Porn will never be shown 'free of charge'!
Get that? Good ;p
hii
thats right, soaps are idiotic except a few..but i really admire Ekta kapoor for she has carved a niche for herself..she is a true businesswoman
Sawan - Oh yeah.. why not :)
Sparkling - Umm..
A S - Yeah.. businesswomen.. she sure is.. :)
Thats why i never watch soaps...i also wonder where they get thier TRPs as everybody says that these shows are trashy.
Hmmm...so much frustration baba...but yes even I dont like these reality shows.
I hope your wifey does not disagree with u on TV and their stupid shows.
Gayathri - irony of life..she likes them like chocolate... cant help it..
lol i second all of that totally :P
no wonder a married man posted such a post :P your wife is a huge fan im guessing :P
p.s- finally blogrolled u che :D