I always thought I was one of the 'unaffected' specimens of the human kind ,who very rarely was affected by the shallow emotional 'atyachars' of the television box...very rarely could the idiot box manage to stir any kind of flutter in my mind-heart-brain..sad as i may feel but only serials like 'friends', some episodes of Oprah(only where the American ladies do not wail over stupid problems) and a few reality shows like 'top chef' and 'so you think you can dance',have created a small flutter in my emotional world...until more recently a very very Indian show touched me and shook me from within...balika vadhu...
I started watching the show as a passing activity in the beginning...something that is being viewed by some member of the very joint family types I live in...and even in those brief glimpses the actors of the show somehow managed to grip my attention.I was a show which was on prime time, a commercial, family drama and yet the actors were actually very natural and at ease in their delivery...no 'komolikas' and 'tulsis' in this one...the characters spoke the language, verbal and non verbal of the real India and an almost real life situation was made too come alive...
Anandi,jagdishiya,dadisa,suguna,sumitra,bhairo,bhagmati even the cute phuli are the characters which have come alive because of the lovely performances of all these actors...
Apart from this aspect I think the 'development communication' objective is most certainly fulfilled due to the spoon feeding of thoughts towards the end of the serial which even though might look clique's but are necessary for a large section of the society.This aspect is the one television programme makers are fast forgetting.
I hope the makers keep up the good work and do not let the commercials ruin the quality they have managed to maintain so far...
nature at its best...
