"THIS IS NO EULOGY"
It was one of those days recently and I was in the mood for reminiscing those first few days at college..(Pre-University). Trust me when I say it was quite a transformation, going from school to college, the basic thing being, six people sitting on a single bench at college, as opposed to a maximum of three back at school!
Precisely at the mention of my early days at college, however hard I might try, I'm reminded of this woeful tale..Still wondering what it could be? Then, imagine being jammed with 5 other people on a single bench, 4 of whom find nothing apart from those daily soaps to discuss! Yeah, there was this other girl, apart from me, who despised the soaps too, and I'm sure she has an equally woeful tale to narrate! (We had actually struck a deal to "kill" the makers of those soaps..I'd better not divulge in the details here, or else I could be mistaken to be a scheming terrorist, or a supari killer!)
I don't see any point...Why would a bunch of 15-16 year olds (sometimes even younger) ever want to view them, without even daring to miss a single episode? Somehow, the storyline of all of them seem cliched..The general trend is....
The Scenario:
Usually a big mansion and a group of "those" cars parked in front of it..(er...weren't they drowned in debts??) . There are some 4-5 generations of people and the thing that boggles me most is that the oldest people in the family (the first generation of people) are still alive! (guess they are given the "Never grow old boon" after a cetain age!)
If you are expecting more here, perhaps a story-line, I'm sorry..I've never quite understood them! The one general thing I've noticed, though is that these soaps actually run for a REAL long time! New characters come and go, like a genie in and out of a bottle. If one of the cast is on a disagreement with the director (they prefer to call it a "break"), they are sent into coma after a ghastly accident, and most often forgotten there, only to be revived ..probably a year later(there are chances that the person had to undergo a plastic surgery, which explains the "beyond recognition" look!). Again, the charges of the "best hospital in town" are being borne by the family in debt! ...and the yarn continues to be wound further
All this makes it sound like the makers are big-time sufferers of depression, only that they don't seem to have realized it. If they did, psychiatrists in India would be minting money without having to go abroad!
PS: In case you are wondering about the source of all this "gyaan", read the introductory part of this post again... Yeah, a couple months of what I term "torture to my ears" taught me a lifetime lasting lesson, and to this day, the voice in my head screams out loud...STAY AWAY FROM THOSE SOAPS!
Precisely at the mention of my early days at college, however hard I might try, I'm reminded of this woeful tale..Still wondering what it could be? Then, imagine being jammed with 5 other people on a single bench, 4 of whom find nothing apart from those daily soaps to discuss! Yeah, there was this other girl, apart from me, who despised the soaps too, and I'm sure she has an equally woeful tale to narrate! (We had actually struck a deal to "kill" the makers of those soaps..I'd better not divulge in the details here, or else I could be mistaken to be a scheming terrorist, or a supari killer!)
I don't see any point...Why would a bunch of 15-16 year olds (sometimes even younger) ever want to view them, without even daring to miss a single episode? Somehow, the storyline of all of them seem cliched..The general trend is....
- There is a ripped family (At the mention of this, you can imagine all possible troubles "bestowed" upon upon them, poverty being the most important one) and somehow, it turns out that all the members in that family are some forms of
ANGELS! - Amidst all the poverty, they still find loads of money to splurge on those heavy silk sarees and articles of make-up (by the way, they conveniently keep it on all day long..Oh, and even during the night!- yes, they sleep in the same "outfit").
- Oh! and there definitely has to be a Vamp in the same family..how do you recognise her?? You see the most outrageously dressed woman, having prominently big teeth and big eyes(kohl-lined dramatically, ofcourse!)...that's her!
The Scenario:
Usually a big mansion and a group of "those" cars parked in front of it..(er...weren't they drowned in debts??) . There are some 4-5 generations of people and the thing that boggles me most is that the oldest people in the family (the first generation of people) are still alive! (guess they are given the "Never grow old boon" after a cetain age!)
If you are expecting more here, perhaps a story-line, I'm sorry..I've never quite understood them! The one general thing I've noticed, though is that these soaps actually run for a REAL long time! New characters come and go, like a genie in and out of a bottle. If one of the cast is on a disagreement with the director (they prefer to call it a "break"), they are sent into coma after a ghastly accident, and most often forgotten there, only to be revived ..probably a year later(there are chances that the person had to undergo a plastic surgery, which explains the "beyond recognition" look!). Again, the charges of the "best hospital in town" are being borne by the family in debt! ...and the yarn continues to be wound further
All this makes it sound like the makers are big-time sufferers of depression, only that they don't seem to have realized it. If they did, psychiatrists in India would be minting money without having to go abroad!
PS: In case you are wondering about the source of all this "gyaan", read the introductory part of this post again... Yeah, a couple months of what I term "torture to my ears" taught me a lifetime lasting lesson, and to this day, the voice in my head screams out loud...STAY AWAY FROM THOSE SOAPS!
