| Kyunkii,I need a break please! |
Vivek Seal |
If there is God, he is probably blind, because if he was viewing all Star Plus, Sony and Zee serials at prime time, he would have gone crazy by now. Thanks to Ekta Kapoor and her ilk, the evenings of an average Indian youth preferring to spend the evening with parents has become a den of disappointments.
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As a journalist in a reputed newspaper, and after a day's hard work, the least I expected from my mother was to talk to me when I return home. But to my utter sorrow, she is always busy figuring out who should marry whom, who is running away with whom, who is the father of who's child and many such silly things which have no relevance in real life.
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We know Ekta Kapoor has hypnotised the entire female fraternity in urban and rural India and some macho men too, with her K series craziness. That perfect family, with the entire ancestry celebrating endless festivals with elation just takes my goat.
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Audacious make-up, a nautanki wardrobe and all characters going to sleep in full colours and with umpteen family problems that will never be solved has a script of disaster written all over it. Yet, everyone is a sucker for such unreal stories.
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Ekta's irritating flock doesn't even have a hint of real problems being faced by the billion plus population of our country. Anyhow, talking is just one aftermath of this soap dish which has washed all over me. Thanks to the saas-bahu's, I can't even expect a decent warm meal before 11.30 pm! The result of my mom's tubular pre-occupation? Well, at least thrice a week we order food from outside. No amount of pleading or attempting to take my mom on a guilt trip ever works. at least not till the time Balaji's happening.
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The worst comes when she wants me to discuss the serials with her, and Iall my entreaties that I don't want to be party to this talk fall on deaf ears. The prime time slot, too, has stretched - it is now 8 pm to 11.30 pm, if not longer. And the slot is like Tihar jail for me with no food, no companion, and third degree interrogation about serials I fail to connect with.
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And it is not just the evenings! The next afternoon, she watches the repeat telecast of all these serials which she did not even miss. I feel the day is not far away when even afternoons will be as bad as nights, unless some one does something about it.
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To top it all, newpapers, tv and even radio is talking about these serials 24X7! And as if this was not enough, some of my male friends have become soap fans! My best friend Rajat has never missed a single episode of Jassi.
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Many a time, I have no topic to discuss with my friends, because they are on this serial trip and it is impossible to communicate with them in the 8 to 11 time slot.
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Curse Ekta! Because of her, I am loosing my mother, my friends, my food, my entertainment and so many other of my favourite things! I feel much like Kofi Annan when the US went against the UN to attack Iraq and there was nothing he can do about it.
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These serials make my belief stronger that we need a censor board to keep a tab on serial quality on national television. If only there were more meaningful options on television, my life would have been so much simpler and happier and filled up.
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