My thoughts on the current TV serials (Soapies):
Gone are the days when the good old soapies like Hum Log,
Buniyad et al. were watched loyally by families including children, with great
interest. Even our great epics like Ramayana and Mahabharatha were produced and
directed with lot of revere and were very successful.
Even today, families watch soapies with innocent children
and what are the producers/directors of these soapies offering as good
principles? Zilch.
These days, all the soapies offer fiction at its height.
None of these cater to middleclass or poor class viewership in a realistic way
but create unnecessary aspiration for this class to dream and get to a higher
class without much effort. Joint families are depicted as the bane of peaceful coexistence
while female villainous characters put the legendary villains like Gabbar Singh
or Mogambo, to shame, hands-down.
Point in case is my reference to all the serials in Colours
Kannada that is being watched by millions in my native state and others
elsewhere.
The essence of community living is very absent and the
principles of joint family living has been thrown out of the door. Instead, such
serials are succeeding in sowing seeds of destruction in the very concept of
time tested joint family systems. I thought it was just the case with a few
media channels but was flabbergasted to note that even other language serials
are equally similar. Blackmailing, kidnapping, murderous acts, spreading hatred
amongst the family members, etc. are the backbone themes of these serials.
So much so, even the serials like ‘Shani’ is not lacking in
the utter mediocrity and whimsical fantasies of not just the producer and
director but also of the channels that telecast these serials. Hindu Gods are
shown in very poor light and their characters are made light of. It is sad to
see that no Hindu organisation has even lodged a protest or taken any action
against these type of serials and I fear a conspiracy to belittle Hindus here.
There is not much difference in the central plots of all
these serials. It is disgustingly amazing to see how these producers/directors
and the channels are fooling the public in showing the dumb characters of the
social soapies as realities whereas in reality; the police and crime fighters are
using available technology to its hilt, in fighting crimes.
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