Is it time for Indian Television to change?

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Posted: 12 years ago

#21

Oh brother..

It's time for the world to change. Television programming will automatically change once the revolution happens, don't worry. :)

I heard it's not going to be televised though.

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purvibahri

@purvibahri

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Posted: 12 years ago

#22

There's a really point u have raised, i think about this too. TV in India is not considered of being of a very good quality, I am really into Korean and Taiwanese dramas, and their quality is really remarkable! the shows are aired once or twice a week, giving chance to new shows with new formats to come up! plus they dont have dragging plots where just the preperations of a wedding make up the episodes of the whole week, for instance in Balika Vadhu the recent marriage of Shiv and Anandi made up like one week's epi, sometimes people really loose interest and end up thinkin "where the hell is this show going??"

This thing ha[[ened to me with IPKKND, I rally lost interest during the useless Sheetal track and also the last track of IPKKND with Khushi participating in that beauty pageant and all...i was like "just end the show on a good note for God's Sake!" .

If one looks at the Most Awaited show of 2013, Saraswatichandra, its made a mark and has lived upto its expectations, its good in quality with a strong storyline, is well directed and produced, the show's story knows where its going and has something new to offer in every episode! All this is REMARKABLE, but saying that the success of the show is bcoz Sanjay Leela Bhansali is producing is partially a fact and partially an excuse. It seems so to me coz with the kind of shows airing right barring a few, its as if some shows are being made only for money and they do not aim at serving better entertainment at all!!

I am with the concept of :-

1. A sensible plot

2. Once or twice in a week telecast

3. Better quality (note: Saraswatichandra)

4. Limited episodes

5. NO 300 or 500 or 1000 or 3000 epi race! its EXHAUSTING!

6. A storyline with a DIRECTION...

7. NO dragging plots

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@bluedollie

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Posted: 12 years ago

#23

Originally posted by: epiphany.

Downton Abbey is a very classy and refined depiction of the early twentieth century. It's fascinating, witty and logical - everything Hindi TV shows scarcely are. I don't even mind that there's no more than eight or nine episodes in each season because each episode is long and appealing and makes a considerable move forward in the story unlike Hindi shows in which three episodes out of four or five per week are fillers. Hindi shows are dragged and unoriginal. Downton Abbey is like a breath of fresh air in my life. Ah. The characters are almost all layered and awesomely enacted. Like isn't Maggie Smith completely epic? (:

Yeah... I love downtown abbey too... classic presentation by ITV... I really wonder if such shows could work in India...

I really miss the early TV days with shows like aarohan, rishety, mano ya na mano... they were so natural...

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Fatima

@Rhimjhimsawan

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Posted: 12 years ago

#24

I think Indian television needs to change in so many ways however I feel most of the audience is not ready for a change. I am not sure how much this has changed but before the target audience for all all drama serials were the housewives. They liked to watch the same serials regularly. It kept them connected to the characters. There were some shows that have tried to keep shorter seasons. They wouldn't come on every weekday and all these shows pretty much failed to make an impact because the audience doesn't take these shows too seriously.

I think the quality of shows on Indian television is really poor. Most of the storylines lack quality, the characters rarely shows depth. That is my biggest problem with these shows.

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cupoftea11

@cupoftea11

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Posted: 12 years ago

#25

Its changing

Watch Jodha Akbar - such a beautiful and different show

Veera is another one.

Indian TV is changing. Almost all the new shows that have started are good and different. Qubool hai has bad looking actors but the concept is awesome AND different. Veera shows the struggle of a single woman and her kids , what a lovely show ❤️. Comedy nights is also good.

The shows that had started years back (and still on) are the only bad ones left at the moment.

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DonnaHarvey

@DonnaHarvey

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Posted: 12 years ago

#26

Remember back to a 2009 production house introducing budding directors, writers, and their decent plot lines filmed with excellent equipment and the vision of a good cinematographer. Does that ring a bell? No?

That's because no one watched those shows and they were cancelled. I am talking about Rishta.com and Mahi Way. Such is the need of the mean, mean corporate machine that all brilliant and under-appreciated cult fiction is chopped. If the cream is out, we are left with whatever is at the bottom to indulge in.

Worry not! Some new bollywood bigshots are trying to get their feet wet in the new (really old but old shit in a new package) kind of genre of espionage and romance. Let's see how that turns out.

It is both the audience's resistance to decent tv and (more so) the executives' hesitation in steering away from an established equation for money making that has us trapped many centuries before today's time.

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