Soaps and top 10s
TV watching can be an experience, now that cable dealers have got more than 50 channels to offer. You want live India/Pak cricket matches, Koundamani/senthil comedy or a detailed report on Reliance Brothers fiasco by Rajdeep Sardesai, all you have to do is flip through the channels. Any given time, you are guaranteed to watch “Devooda Devooda Ezhimala Devooda”, of Superstar Rajnikant in one channel or other. All channels have its prime time TV serial shows, which are boring to death. I don’t understand how my mother managed to tolerate them. The stories are so complicated that even Stephen Spielberg would love to copy them. I remember to have watched one such episode 6 months back. When I watched the same serial yesterday, I couldn’t find much development in the story line.
Most of the time there will always be a top 10 countdown going on in some channel or other, except that each channel has its own top ten list. I think, the top ten saga became very popular with “BPL Ek Se Badkar Ek”, which appeared in DD many years back. Now that almost all channels have more than one top ten lists for songs and one for movies. Music channels are the main contenders in the top ten races. The phone-in program is another thing, which deserve a special mention here. SUN network’s Sun Music is intolerable these days because of back-to-back phone-in programs. Gone are those good old days of phone-in programs of “Pepsi Uma” and her ilk.
Nowadays they have a movie quiz also for the (unfortunate, I would say) callers. First thing the presenter would be telling the caller is to reduce the TV volume to the lowest level. Bloody hell, the whole purpose of calling to this program is to listen to my voice through TV and now that they are asking me mute down the TV. Here comes the question for you, which is the latest movie of superstar Rajnikant???…You must be thinking, “How dumb is she to ask such an easy question?” Wait wait, don’t conclude like that. The caller is even worse. She doesn’t know the answer. Here comes the clue…The Movie name has two parts, one is “Chandra” and another is “Mukhi”. With a few seconds of thinking, “Got the answer, it’s “Chandramukhi””, said the caller!!…. “Wow, very good answer”, said the presenter. Here comes the participant’s assertion (in Tanglish), I don’t watch Tamil movies these days, that’s why I struggled in the beginning. This conversation takes hardly 2 minutes then followed by the song. Nothing special about the song, that would be the 100 time you are watching it. What more can happen to a phone-in program?
Most of the time there will always be a top 10 countdown going on in some channel or other, except that each channel has its own top ten list. I think, the top ten saga became very popular with “BPL Ek Se Badkar Ek”, which appeared in DD many years back. Now that almost all channels have more than one top ten lists for songs and one for movies. Music channels are the main contenders in the top ten races. The phone-in program is another thing, which deserve a special mention here. SUN network’s Sun Music is intolerable these days because of back-to-back phone-in programs. Gone are those good old days of phone-in programs of “Pepsi Uma” and her ilk.
Nowadays they have a movie quiz also for the (unfortunate, I would say) callers. First thing the presenter would be telling the caller is to reduce the TV volume to the lowest level. Bloody hell, the whole purpose of calling to this program is to listen to my voice through TV and now that they are asking me mute down the TV. Here comes the question for you, which is the latest movie of superstar Rajnikant???…You must be thinking, “How dumb is she to ask such an easy question?” Wait wait, don’t conclude like that. The caller is even worse. She doesn’t know the answer. Here comes the clue…The Movie name has two parts, one is “Chandra” and another is “Mukhi”. With a few seconds of thinking, “Got the answer, it’s “Chandramukhi””, said the caller!!…. “Wow, very good answer”, said the presenter. Here comes the participant’s assertion (in Tanglish), I don’t watch Tamil movies these days, that’s why I struggled in the beginning. This conversation takes hardly 2 minutes then followed by the song. Nothing special about the song, that would be the 100 time you are watching it. What more can happen to a phone-in program?
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