Finally, a goodbye to boredom! Have been waiting for this day for quite a long time..
How many days can you go freak out with friends, after a tired day, squandering your money? How many days can you spend without listening to the news on NDTV? How many days can you spend without seeing Agassi or Schumi on TV? How long can you keep missing all our India matches and Formula1.... And how can you stay without making a mockery of the atrociously hosted shows with their themes on TV... The wait is over! Got an LG Flatron Golden eye at home yesterday... ! :)
The process of checking out various models and deciding, that by itself will provide content for one full post But coming back to my TV...
I simply love it! Amazing clarity..Go it delivered yesterday, hoping to see the agassi match.. But it turned out to be a total fiasco as I ended up watching our very own Doordashan! No prizes for guessing.. the cable connection which was there was not activated and the cablewalla is supposed to come today....
Well.. till yesterday, never ever had the patience to even stop by Doordarshan for more than a span of 30 seconds... But new TV... :( Nothing else to watch.. :( So ensured and convinced myself that the programmes WILL be interesting... Comeon..things gotta be interesting..Doordarshan could have improved itself..
Settled in front of the TV.. with my cushions, packets of haldirams and maaza.. to get a 'Gold Class' PVR cinema hall effect... :D
The first one was a tele film.. Expected atleast SOMETHING which will keep me entertained... Sat through the one full hour tele film with a lot of patience.. It was nothing short of ABSOLUTE TORTURE! Not even a SINGLE SOUL in it, could act! Especially the lady who played the main role.. Even if someone went and told her in real life that her husband was in real danger, they cant bring out ONE BIT of emotion from her !!! Then imagine how she would have fared in all the scenes in reel life!
She was suppposed to be a dancer in this, but she would weigh something more than a hundred kilograms easily.. Why the hell do they not pick people for the roles which suit them,i thought... And during all her 'supposed to be' dance programs, they cleverly focussed on just the feet of the dancer.. Obviously, they cannot make her dance..! ATROCIOUS acting.. And am sure that they would have flicked some classical dance clip from some National Integration programme of theirs... :D <>
And her father in law in the film, who was supposed to be a musician, acted as if he was playing he chords in the harmonium.. That was even more atrocious, as during a real slow tune being played in the backround, he hits the chords with whole lot of pace and vigour!
And they even kept focussing this unpardonable thing for almost 5 whole minutes, He was supposed to be really disturbed and was focussing on his music to get back to normal state... But God knows how many people got a stroke on seeing this nonsense...
Finally sailed through successfully and there came the names of the people in the crew.. And 'that' lady, turned out to be the director of the telefilm! NO WONDER! ;)
The channel has not changed a bit, leave alone a byte... Before i even settled down to watch the next programme which was titled 'Cinema Dil Se' which had a three people on a talk show, the anchor, a social activist and a psychatrist discussing about how alcohol is portrayed in Indian Cinema and its evil effects... It defied the borders of boredom i should say...
And finally i told myself.."Well.. you better not mind the trouble of getting your cushions back to your room...Guess thats a better option than watching ultimate crap just because you have bought a new TV... The wait is only till tomorrow evening.." :) Saying thus, I hit the bed...
Well.. now.. jus a few more hours to go... :D
Monday, September 12, 2005
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13 comments:
HIllarious. cant change good ol doordarshan na...
venkat
They are planning to come up with a new technology. Mega Serial paatha TV vedichidara madhiri oru setting :-D
Congrats madam on ur new TV set....
Now hopefully u wont get too bored everyday and neither will u get pissed off at me too often ;)
Hey...Namma DD leyum nalla programs ellam varuthu...u just have to watch out for it..
But, anyway wait till u get cable..it will just be mere browsing and no watching..
hi dis is my first comment o ur blog , mam never com to an conclusion on doordarshan, i think u havnt seen the localchannels mega soaps , then u will be switched over to dd
tortured urself by watching a dumb movie ? it cud have been better if u had switched off the tv and then watched it . atleast it cud save u from headache :-)
Sudha,
Doordarshan is certainly not as 'entertaining' and as 'charming' as the other channels. It has, nonetheless, at least the slightest amount of social responsiblity and a much much wider focus than the other fancy channels. Can you name at least one other channel that (for example) issues warnings to fishermen? How many of the other channels even make an attempt towards rural literacy, distance education et al.? How many channels show you exemplars of Indian architecture in a dispassionate and objective manner,and focus on the essential (and not on the anchor's dressing sense, mannerisms and the food that she eats)? Don't get me wrong, I am not endorsing the Doordarshan and saying it is the best thing available. Certainly not. However, we should appreciate the fact that unlike most other channels, Doordarshan has to cater to a much diverse crosssection of people. Plus it has to operate under greater constraints and compulsions.
On a different note, congrats on the new TV. Yea.. can't live without News and sports.
BTW, and since you mentioned 'Agassi' twice in your post, have written something about Agassi at my place. Go through it.
And finally, as is customary to say, sorry about the unreasonably long comment ;P
@venkat
tank u! :)
@ferrari
wow! neenga fund panrenngala? ;)
@gg
will never be without getting pissed off wid u gg! ;)
@maduraiarian
yeah! jus that ennoda tv time anniku seriya ille :D
@awakeningcoma
i luv ferrari's idea...mega serial ku tsunamiye parava ille nu aachu..
@jagan
suuuuper idea! shall the follow :D
@sanket
this was strictly meant to be humorous and to be taken in a lighter vein.. no serious views aired.. every other channel is mostly crap for that matter.. no denying... :)
ROTFL ... never came across DD at my home ... btw I also bought TV after a loong time (Computer with TV tuner :D ...)
You wouldn't have had to watch DD if you had followed ppls advice... ;)
Anyways, have fun with your new TV!
@saravana kumar
Welcome to the club! :D
@anand ms
hmmm.. keatturukkanum ;)
Doordarshan === door se hii darshan karo :-D
finally , got cable TV or not :-p
---monsh
So intha chithi, chitappa kku apram latest mega serial enna ippo?
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