I enjoy watching 'comedy nights bachao' on the TV, especially since Mr. Krishna entertains us so. Celebrities are roped in and they bear the jokes that are cracked at their expense, so so very sportingly. Usha Uthup, singer Altaf Raja, cricketeer Shrishant were the participants today. All of them very sportingly bore the jokes at their expense. It is so redeeming at watch famous people be comfortable with comedy. My connection with Usha Uthup is since my childhood, when she was the classmate to my cousins at St. Agnes High School, Clare Road, Byculla, Mumbai. And that was one more incentive for me to enroll my daughter at this school. I have very carefully preserved a notebook page with the song, Bom Bom Bom Bom Bombay meri hai, which was written by Ms Usha Uthup herself, when she was studying at St. Agnes.
So, TV programmes sometimes become nostalgic for personal reasons. Other times, advertisements that are shown, make me very angry and I feel so ineffective, because although I want to do something about it, and I have tried in the past, efforts to oppose them have proved futile. It is very important that what is portrayed in TV ads, should be correct and harmless, if imitated by the viewers, especially children.
Vivo oil for diabetics, show the wife frying purees in the hot oil and the 'diabetic' husband is singing praises for the new oil, and he is seated on the cooking platform, just next to the cooking range with the hot oil. A very dangerous situation has been shown. The other ad that is not in good taste, is the Colgate toothbrush ad, showing a teacher speaking to parents on open day at school, and the junior student tells the teacher that she had spinach for dinner, the previous night, because it is still stuck between her teeth. Naturo Sugarfree saccharine drops are advertised, where the husband wants nimboo paani after his jogging, and the wife and a very minor daughter remind him that the sugar will nullify his exercise with sugar calories, and that sugarfree is better. The minor also agrees wisely. Millions of kids who watch this ad, will empathise with the advise and resort to sugarfree. The ad does not advise that it is advisable only for adults with diabeties or obesity problems, and is not good for growing children.
Indian roads are so badly maintained and yet there are so many car and bike ads. Easy loans and gifts are promised to buyers. Families and lovers and even children recommend expensive vehicles. Very misleading, because it is not as if buying a vehicle will solve your problems and make your family sublime with happiness. Very often, bank loans are taken for vehicles and it is a cause of tension for so many families, that could have been happier without the burden.
Then the option for entertainment are the hindi soaps for most families. Ekta Kapoor tends to hone into serials that build a rapport with the audience and let her laugh all the way to the bank. As a teacher, I have realized that even very small children, example standard one students, are watching TV programmes, upto ten pm and very aware of the various characters depicted in the serials and can imitate and even repeat dialogues of many of the shows. It was very tough, penalising students for the phrase 'babaji ka thulloo' and the accompanying hand action, that was so popular because of 'the Kapil Sharma Show'.
The typical 'saas bahu' TV dramas, immortalise mean attitude, poisoning food, materialistic habits and emotional blackmail, as the done thing. These shows also propogate heavy make-up, expensive jewellery and outfits and elaborate hairdos. Very very phony.
I prefer watching news programmes.
So, TV programmes sometimes become nostalgic for personal reasons. Other times, advertisements that are shown, make me very angry and I feel so ineffective, because although I want to do something about it, and I have tried in the past, efforts to oppose them have proved futile. It is very important that what is portrayed in TV ads, should be correct and harmless, if imitated by the viewers, especially children.
Vivo oil for diabetics, show the wife frying purees in the hot oil and the 'diabetic' husband is singing praises for the new oil, and he is seated on the cooking platform, just next to the cooking range with the hot oil. A very dangerous situation has been shown. The other ad that is not in good taste, is the Colgate toothbrush ad, showing a teacher speaking to parents on open day at school, and the junior student tells the teacher that she had spinach for dinner, the previous night, because it is still stuck between her teeth. Naturo Sugarfree saccharine drops are advertised, where the husband wants nimboo paani after his jogging, and the wife and a very minor daughter remind him that the sugar will nullify his exercise with sugar calories, and that sugarfree is better. The minor also agrees wisely. Millions of kids who watch this ad, will empathise with the advise and resort to sugarfree. The ad does not advise that it is advisable only for adults with diabeties or obesity problems, and is not good for growing children.
Indian roads are so badly maintained and yet there are so many car and bike ads. Easy loans and gifts are promised to buyers. Families and lovers and even children recommend expensive vehicles. Very misleading, because it is not as if buying a vehicle will solve your problems and make your family sublime with happiness. Very often, bank loans are taken for vehicles and it is a cause of tension for so many families, that could have been happier without the burden.
Then the option for entertainment are the hindi soaps for most families. Ekta Kapoor tends to hone into serials that build a rapport with the audience and let her laugh all the way to the bank. As a teacher, I have realized that even very small children, example standard one students, are watching TV programmes, upto ten pm and very aware of the various characters depicted in the serials and can imitate and even repeat dialogues of many of the shows. It was very tough, penalising students for the phrase 'babaji ka thulloo' and the accompanying hand action, that was so popular because of 'the Kapil Sharma Show'.
The typical 'saas bahu' TV dramas, immortalise mean attitude, poisoning food, materialistic habits and emotional blackmail, as the done thing. These shows also propogate heavy make-up, expensive jewellery and outfits and elaborate hairdos. Very very phony.
I prefer watching news programmes.
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