LOL you really do have issues with
Mr. Chopra's TV productions, don't you
Oh heavens NO!! You should catch some of my stuff on another forum - the place that got me started on this portal! I'm regarded as quite a kick-in-the-pants there! And boy, do some of us ever have a riotous time!! If you're interested, I'll gladly send you the link via a PM! 😉
And trust me - looking for decent Indian TV in the ubiquitous schlock is orders of magnitude more painful than the proverbial needle in a haystack!
Now, that said, one reason why I'm beginning to resent what appears to be a growing 'Chopra hegemony' is that while these 2 may not have, the 'Lift Karade' (with very noble objectives I will grant you), has supplanted one of my favorites on Sony - 'Boogie-Woogie' ... I grew to be absolutely gaga over 'Ravi and Naveddda' as the quintessential goofballs (who could actually lighten up on the scatalogical - incredibly peurile), & thought Javed to have a social conscience (other than his 'upward' - wherever that is - glances to an 'ooper vala'). It gave folks (from the salt-of-the-earth to those above on the social scale) the chance to develop and showcase talent & make lifelong friends. Furthermore, I really resonate with things that are meritorious not meretricious ... and unlike some of the other muscial muqabala types, I did not see the participants on Boggie-Woogie as being exploited for the good of either the channel ... or the 'triumvirate' (I'm also awfully envious of the lasting friendship and love between the goofballs) ...
So, if anyone has any influence at Sony, deploy it and get them to replace one of the Chopra offerings with BW ... monopolies are almost always a bad thing ...
I'd love to know....what exactly qualifies currently under your definitions of great intellectual stimulation on Indian TV? I'm genuinely curious
Well ... let me not keep you in suspense! If you accept my proposition that 'intellectual stimulation' needs redefinition (actually 'definition', since only now is there even a scintilla of understanding of the many aspects of neuroscience) and having the ability to smile, chuckle, guffaw, roll-on-the-floor is an integral part ... then ... the other program that was the reason for my IF 'greh-pravesh' is a veritable feast ... and of late, has actually given many of us an opportunity to peel ourselves off of the floor half-dead with laughter ... it actually began as something with remarkable potential and has been gradually butchered in the hands of your every-day-run-of-the-mill manque hack writers 😔 But, I believe, if they follow some of my suggestions, it remains eminently salvageable ... Ahem 😆😆 (that's a joke at my expense - OK?) ...
I find so many identifiable elements in so many of the characters
Oh?! How interesting ... unlike Nandini, are you leaving this as an exercise for the reader ... me? I mean, do I get to intuit the identifiable for you? That's not terribly fair is it? 😃
to dismiss the crowd watching this show as 'simpletons' wasn't really needed either.
Well ... I did not dismiss the entire crowd ... but surely, there must be a subset, however small, that is simple-minded? So, my statement was not factually incorrect ... strictly speaking ...
A contrary opinion may raise hackles ... but so what? I'm holding my own fairly well - wouldn't you say - given the scale of the 'opposition'? But at my age, I expect that ... plenty has globbed itself on ... baggage or otherwise 😉
Edited by SValeCalGal - 15 years ago
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