Thursday, April 19, 2012

When Idiot Box was not Idiot !!!!

It all use to start like this at 1730 hours every evening !!!!


I am talking about an golden era of our age old Doordarshan. When the idiot box use to wake up in the evening at 05:30 PM and go to sleep at 11:00 PM in the night and whatever use to happen in the meanwhile is something which no one from my generation can ever forget. There was only one channel on Doordarshan and till 08:30 PM we use to have regional programs on it and after 08:30 PM we use to get National Network programs. Some of the regional programs which I still remember are Gajara, Marathi comedy program, Santakukdi, Awo Mari Sathe in Gujarathi, a program on health care 'Arogya Sampada', 'Dyandeep', I remember that time Dyandeep Mandal (Group) were formed in many cities conducting various social programs. Certain TV Serials left a permeant mark on me for the lifetime like Nukkad every Monday at 09:00 PM







There were some very good Marathi programs like 'Sharadache Chandane', Pratibha and Ani Pratima, 'Yuvavani', 'Mulkhavegli Manase'. Some Hindi Serials I remember were 'Karamchand', 'Chunauti', 'Subah', 'Ye Jo Hai Zindgi', 'Buniyad', 'Tamas', 'Ek Kahani', 'Katha Sagar', 'Honi Unhonee', 'Hum Log'.


All the serials were very simple, entertaining and educative and use to depict the clear and transparent picture of a Common Man. There was no hatred, extra marital affairs, rude behavior of characters shown unless there was a specific demand of the script. We use to watch TV only for few hours may be a couple of hours and there use to be very good content available to make this experience satisfying. We use to crave for these programs as if if we don't watch these serials we will miss something out of our life. Its good that there was no DVR or Tata Sky Plus to record the programs and therefore we use to value the programs and could deeply engrave them in our memories.



And then all use to end at 11:00 PM with the same closing montage.

Life was so easy and simple that time ........







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