Why
do Indians feel that other Indians are
stupid?
Just
now I got a message on my cellphone from
the service provider which reads:
“Recharge
with Rs. 44 and get 500 local/std SMS free for 60 days.”
We get such messages
regularly.
How
is it free? You are offering it to us at a reduced rate because we are paying
Rs. 44 for it. You did not just wake up one morning feeling extra magnanimous and
decide to give us all 500 SMSes without charging us anything. Now let us
consider the fact that after taking this offer we send only 20 SMSes. We end up
paying more than two rupees for each. If we manage to send around even 100, chances
are we are doing it unnecessarily, boring people to death with unwanted reading
material.
On
the other hand, makers of Hindi serials really think we are the biggest fools ever. Why else would they fill each episode
with flashbacks and time-wasting techniques such as taking the camera from one
heavily made up face to another accompanied by a loud ‘chunn’ ‘chunn’ sound
after every other dialogue? Not only serials but our reality shows are no
better. I used to watch them quite regularly but not any longer. They just seem
to be scripted, with both judges and participants play-acting away to glory.
Programmes such as Masterchef have to be produced
according to a fixed format set by the original
producers of the show that have the copyright. But what a difference between the
Australian one and its desi counterpart! Ours is replete with family drama. The
local producers feel that more than the cookery content we are interested in
sob stories or romantic link ups. Sorry, we are not. So you have lost some TRPs
because we shun your pathetic drama and have moved on to other better stuff.
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