India has come a long way in the world of the small screen. Be it the fare or the soaps being dished out, the maze of advertisements coupled with incessant news coverage, TV viewing has become interesting notwithstanding the fact that many of them are local adaptations of themes lifted from foreign networks!
We've traversed a long way from the 'Humlog - Buniyad' days, to the 'Khandaan - Yeh Jo Hai Zindagi - Sidhartha Basu's Quiz time' - where the hostess, Kavita Agarwal melted into the camera with her smiles, through the 'Ramayan - Mahabharath' sagas bringing life in India on Sunday mornings to a grinding halt, to weepy 'saas bahu' serials where everyone from the family even went to bed with full make up on, to the 'Kaun Banega Crorepati - We, the People - Sach ka Saamna' alongwith a host of movie based serials and now to the Aamir Khan hosted 'Satyameva Jayate'. The experience has been heady for the sheer variety of the programmes catering to each section of the society.
The current programme has generated a lot of viewer interest not only because it's hosted by the popular cine actor but also because of the fact that it shows our country where everything goes. Socially relevant subjects like 'female foeticide' and 'child sexual abuse' have been touched upon during its first couple of episodes and the presentation is aesthetic. Such a programme would not have been considered for telecast say, about ten years back!
The question that comes to my mind is that will the society assimilate these inputs in the right spirit and discard wrong practices? Or would it be yet another serial viewed with a cynical scepticism?
If the latter be the case, then it's gonna be unfortunate! I sincerely hope that it would not be so!!
We've traversed a long way from the 'Humlog - Buniyad' days, to the 'Khandaan - Yeh Jo Hai Zindagi - Sidhartha Basu's Quiz time' - where the hostess, Kavita Agarwal melted into the camera with her smiles, through the 'Ramayan - Mahabharath' sagas bringing life in India on Sunday mornings to a grinding halt, to weepy 'saas bahu' serials where everyone from the family even went to bed with full make up on, to the 'Kaun Banega Crorepati - We, the People - Sach ka Saamna' alongwith a host of movie based serials and now to the Aamir Khan hosted 'Satyameva Jayate'. The experience has been heady for the sheer variety of the programmes catering to each section of the society.
The current programme has generated a lot of viewer interest not only because it's hosted by the popular cine actor but also because of the fact that it shows our country where everything goes. Socially relevant subjects like 'female foeticide' and 'child sexual abuse' have been touched upon during its first couple of episodes and the presentation is aesthetic. Such a programme would not have been considered for telecast say, about ten years back!
The question that comes to my mind is that will the society assimilate these inputs in the right spirit and discard wrong practices? Or would it be yet another serial viewed with a cynical scepticism?
If the latter be the case, then it's gonna be unfortunate! I sincerely hope that it would not be so!!
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