An excerpt about Fauji from a blog I found on the net.
Remember the summers of 1988 ? Remember that cocky Cadet Abhimanyu Rai, Cadet Chauhan, whose Taqiya Kalam was - "I Say Chaps", and was a chain smoker ?
Aha, I see you remember it right. Yes, it was Colonel Kapoor's serial Fauji. Shahrukh Khan's first serial in the troika( Circus and Doosra Kewal being others). The fact that Shahrukh Khan is himself a real life chain smoker is another matter.
Courtesy Ramanand, I came to know about its yet another telecast, this time at Sahara one, which I missed yet another time.
I have fond memories of Fauji - the crew cut, the uniform, the discipline, and the breaking of that discipline. Abhimanyu's crush for saanwli saloni Dr Madhu, on whom he had crash landed while paratrooping(or it was the vice versa?), Parmveer Singh Chauhan's ankhe chaar with a lady during a party, and Cadet Peter's secretly smuggling of his girlfriend Cynthia into the campus.
Then there was this stern-at-exterior-but-soft-at-heart elder brother of Shahrukh - Vikram, who keeps on hurtling stiff training and punishments at Abhimanyu, and falls for General's daughter. Shahrukh Khan has his own revenge when he indirectly calls the poking Vikram a kebab mein haddi while eating kebab with Madhu at a party. Pun was intended.
Immensely popular cadet 'I Say Chaps' Chauhan was shown as lost and dead in the battle, causing many a sad hearts, only to return during the end of the serial with his trademark "I Say Chaps".
I particularly liked that dark, big mustached commando trainer, who at the end of every training drill would bark - "Koi Sawal ?", and when someone actually ask, he would again bark - "Mujhey Woh Log Pasand Hain Jo Sawal Nahin Poonchtey!", of course, without answering.
It was a very well written serial, or though same can't be said about direction.
Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi 2
Bade Achhe Lagte Hain
