The weather, certain unfortunate circumstances and my inherent laziness have left me housebound since the past week. Now not that I am complaining mind you, I took this opportunity to drink an inordinate amount of tea and watch a lot of television. Here is a listing of shows not arranged in any particular order that either I liked, hated, was forced to watch or just plain tweaked my interest!
Koffe with Karan: Trust my luck to discover the show right before its last episode of the season! The lone episode I watched was a recap of memorable clips from previous shows and probably doubly entertaining for that. Abhishek Bacchan, has a brilliant sense of humor and I have completely fallen for the man. Everybody and I do mean everybody hates Kareena Kapoor! And Mallika Sherawat has a fetish for older men running in slow motion especially if that older man is Mr. Amitabh Bachan!!!
Jassi: Its a show my father watches religiously, a drastic turnaround from his WWF (World Wrestling Federation) days! More proof than it is not only the womenfolk who have been seduced by the nonsensical soaps. I have a suspicion that Ekta Kapoor inserts subliminal messages into her programs thus hypnotizing poor unwary viewers into watching her silly soaps.
News Channels: Finally news programs I can relate to, thank you NDTV, Aaj Tak, Star News, Zee News and the gazillion other local channels. Watching news programs appears to be a national obsession
Bengali music show: I saw an antakshari program with some amazing singers belonging to different local Bengali bands competing with each other. Two thumbs up to the immensely talented people of my Sonar (golden) Bangla.
Get Gorgeous-2: Indianized version of America’s Next Top Model. We have Milind Soman, our very own super model screaming, hey guys! lets remove the girl with the big hips (all the participants were reed thin!). Need I say more?
Alley McBeal : After watching an episode on Star World, I rediscovered my love for Alley.
Cricket: The recent selection of Greg Chapel as the coach for the Indian cricket team, rivaled any political appointment, actually the media hype would make us believe it was an even bigger event! I suppose this is understandable since cricket is not just a game but also a religion in India hence the coach would actually be filling in the role of the high priest. Albeit a high priest with a huge salary.
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Koffe with Karan: Trust my luck to discover the show right before its last episode of the season! The lone episode I watched was a recap of memorable clips from previous shows and probably doubly entertaining for that. Abhishek Bacchan, has a brilliant sense of humor and I have completely fallen for the man. Everybody and I do mean everybody hates Kareena Kapoor! And Mallika Sherawat has a fetish for older men running in slow motion especially if that older man is Mr. Amitabh Bachan!!!
Jassi: Its a show my father watches religiously, a drastic turnaround from his WWF (World Wrestling Federation) days! More proof than it is not only the womenfolk who have been seduced by the nonsensical soaps. I have a suspicion that Ekta Kapoor inserts subliminal messages into her programs thus hypnotizing poor unwary viewers into watching her silly soaps.
News Channels: Finally news programs I can relate to, thank you NDTV, Aaj Tak, Star News, Zee News and the gazillion other local channels. Watching news programs appears to be a national obsession
Bengali music show: I saw an antakshari program with some amazing singers belonging to different local Bengali bands competing with each other. Two thumbs up to the immensely talented people of my Sonar (golden) Bangla.
Get Gorgeous-2: Indianized version of America’s Next Top Model. We have Milind Soman, our very own super model screaming, hey guys! lets remove the girl with the big hips (all the participants were reed thin!). Need I say more?
Alley McBeal : After watching an episode on Star World, I rediscovered my love for Alley.
Cricket: The recent selection of Greg Chapel as the coach for the Indian cricket team, rivaled any political appointment, actually the media hype would make us believe it was an even bigger event! I suppose this is understandable since cricket is not just a game but also a religion in India hence the coach would actually be filling in the role of the high priest. Albeit a high priest with a huge salary.
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No more used cars, furniture sales, junk food and dancing geckos!
Gosh, what sweet relief to not have these loud and gaudy ads grate on your nerves!
Ten Best Commercials - I love a lot of commercials in India, and barring Hutch, by just looking at the brands, I can tell the ads must be good. My top favorites of all time include the good ol' Dairy Milk (with the dancing girl on the cricket ground), Amul (all of them), Mirinda, and Dhara. I'm sure I'm forgetting a host of others too.
A few secrets for a successful commmercial
- they need to be witty;
- and/or a good jingle;
- don't play it too often;
- don't play it between overs in a cricket telecast,
- don't even dream of playing it when an Indian wicket falls.
CribbyCrab, watching too much TV? Where art thou?
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