Saturday, October 3, 2009

...INCOMPLETE

As I began writing, I came up with numerous titles for this article...and they kept coming to me...below are a handful of them

I am up for sale...Buy Me
Dekh Tamasha TV ka..
Such ya Sales Ka Saamna...
TRP=Television Rupiye Paisa
20-20 Betting ya Batting

For now the one which seems most catchy and apt...atleast an attention grabber is "TRP=Television Rupaiye Paisa."

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What makes me write is the growing change in Indian Television. Here every second counts and is there to sell..from the child's dyper to a milk bottle to the Basmati Rice Bag...everything showcased sells.

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You would imagine if I am at a grocery store or watching a television show.

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It would not be far when the Idiot Box shall turn a mini shopping-mall making you order and buy every piece of necessity. No other means of media grew faster than is the television industry of today.

Gone are the days when the television was only a medium to telecast news, chitrahaar, our desi krishi darshan and the television soaps.

If it were today that a Mahabharata, Ramayan or a Hum Loge were telecasted that the Draupdi would appear in Reena Dhaka labeled saree or a lady saver wearing a VIP frenchie.


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The television world of today is up there for a grab and every moment of that eye-ball made to see everything from a saas-bahu soap, to a Reality Show and the products showcased there.

Be it a Basmati rice or a pack of cheese or a kid's dyper...now the actors get less camera attention than the showcased product. If it's the Pati, Patni or "Vo" Rakhee Sawant fame or defame (show as one would choose to say, also here Rakhee seems apt for the title "Vo" than anyone else) the program has a visit to a calcutta mall with the Sawant babe trying hard to get a BOGO (Buy One Get One FREE) offer or negotiating as though in the local Sarojini Market...gathering max. attention to those branded Noodles. Every action now seems so targetted that it seems that the new age world of TV has come a long way.

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