Wow.. What an electrifying news I thought…
Who is this tulsi…
Someone who fought for the rights of tribal population somewhere, went against the law and had been sentenced to death and her supporters are protesting that such a thing shouldn’t be meted out to a noble soul like her?
Or was it someone who has stood up for some noble cause in controlling some epidemic and prevented a catastrophe somewhere in the world, and in the process got infected with some grave disease and is finally cured…
Hmmm…Well… realized that there is no use thinking about such accomplishments in anything related to what our news websites have to say… She is tulsi….
Now u get the picture? Tulsi is a character in KSBKBT … and for those who havent heard this world famous acronym.. It stands for "Kyunkii Saas Bhi Kabhi…. " ok.. Now u know..
The news item, from mumbai, was about this character being diagonised with lung cancer (in one of the episodes), and there was apparently a rumour that she was going to die, and wouldn’t appear hereafter..
The website said- "home viewers were shocked out of their couched stupor" and "viewers went into collective dismay.The major soap minus its protagonist was Inconceivable and unimaginable"
Give me a break! I thought.. Arent there better things to protest about? Why not protest for the poor municipal infrastructure which which came to light due to the heavy rains there? Why not protest against the hard earned tax payers money( 33% of the nations' which comes from mumbai) not being used for the public property and facilities?
Ok.. Even if u don’t want to protest about all this, going into a "collective dismay and anger" n all, for some rumor about a person dying in a soap, is really really tooo much!!!!!!!
More interesting information given in the article, about this character.. Guess, previously, tulsi had been pregnant gone through a lot of crises and lost all her memory and then, she totally revived from all that…
So the actor says that - "when people have seen things like that, accepting this should be a Cakewalk… "
( read: when people have taken extreme amounts of unimaginable crap before, this seems to be lesser crap to me..)
In one more popular soap called "jassi jassi koi nahin" (sumthing like that..) a news item about the special "wedding episode" of Jassi is being aired on someday… the channel has a special designer for the occasion and she says - " the wedding outfit is a pink lehenga choli with an aqua-orange dupatta. It weighs around 5 kgs, comprising exquisite embroidery and
zardozi work, crystals and semi-precious stones." (total extravagance! for nothing at all..)
And moreover there are celebrities like abhijeet sawant, mandira bedi etc 'blessing' the show with their presence…
** not talking**
As I write this, I can visualize my grandma in front of the tv, watching the 5th or 6th soap for the day, but one thing I know for sure that atleast, she is not the one who goes to the extent of protesting, if some girl tripped and fell down the stairs and is in the hospital…
Hmmm...
Wheres all this leading???? **wondering… **
10 comments:
The age of megaserials, started in the 90's and it is still continuing. Once my mother used to hate watching such soaps, but now she is watching herself. I may hate it now. But who knows, in future, I would become a couch potato sitting in front of TV to watch all this. It is the boredom, that is making us to do something. And this leisure activity has turned to be a duty in our everyday chores.
There is no end to gimmicks that Rediff would do, for some cheap publicity... I saw this crap headline on rediff and was about to blog the same! What stupidity!
With ppl literally dying in the floods, would anyone in Mumbai really care even if this female dies in reality?
soaps have provided enough crap for a long time that any more crap is only negligible...
now you've created more publicity for "Kyunki.. wutever..." through your blog... ;) anyways, good that you've brought to notice such stupidity; else i'd have missed a hearty laugh...
probably india is going through the stage what USA did some 20 years back, when even minor TVevents were blown to real life equations. infact they stil are doing the same things . what with the increased number of reality shows and nonsense.
personally i feel that the US economy is a media driven one rather than an Oil driven one
cheers
venkat
Nice blog on the Soaps.... they sure drive me crazy too...
Imagine my state... when I go back home and am greeted by Kausauti Zindagi ki .. or Jassi crap :(
Have a major fight everytime with my mom for the remote... and I loose everytime :(
Now I know more abt these serials than possibly anyone else will ever know...
this is assumption of intellect!!
Your reaction is similar to mine when i heard about the bombay floods / the tsunami - why do i even care? why are these people bothered?
The fact is that news is news it has to reach people, be it tulsi or tsunami
This is news to me. I think this would have been the channel trying to improve its TRP ratings by giving such publicity (if you can call it that).
Those who did protest would be the ones who were bored with no power/phone at home and decided on something to kill time...;-)
@anon @gautam,
quite true.. but my mom works, so deprived of the TV fights with her ;)
@nithya,
nice to c ur comments here! :)
@anand ms,
thanks da!
@venkat,
too many case studies of late? ;) but something to really think about..
@ishwar,
news is news.. true.. but guess priority is surely something one should think about...
@arjuun,
welcome! nice to see your comments here yaar! :)
hi sudha,
hows life? came to this blog thru ur orkut page. long time no c. will try and read the blog archives to get updated. seems like a pretty neat read.
chal, keep in touch
ciao,
sudheer.
@sudheer
hi... nice to see you here!! :)
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