These days there have been major power cuts in our area. Today was also just another day in the same order.....I was tied down with so much work that by the time I left office it was 7.45pm. Then came to mom's to discover there was yet another power cut and I had so much work pending for today. I was going home and just took a de-route to go to my aunts house that is just a few minutes from my place. again, there was no power. So my cousins were there at home and we got talking. My aunt was lamenting that she could not watch her serials as when they had power the cablewala wouldnt and vis-a- versa :-). So, the 3 of us started discussing serials on TV and how there was just one channel a few years ago and lovely programs that were telecast. As we were in school and the quality and the length of the serials were just enough....they were telecast once a week and get over at about 13 weeks. That was the golden era of the TV serials..
When we are talking about serials, we started counting some of the nice one we were fortunate enough to see...
1. Bharat Ek Khoj - this was such an epic serial of its times and so much knowledge. and i remember this from school - we had a classmate of the same name and we would call him by this name
2. Buniyaad - was one serial which was about the Indo-pak partition and it was a bit over my head at that age. but all the characters were so poignant that they stood out as though they were real. Kanwaljeet Singh was so smart in his hay days and he is as smart now in Mere Brother ki Dulhan..
3. Chanakya - I know there is a new serial with the same name but the original version is always better.
And next come the detective serials-----
1. Byomkesh Bakshi - a Rajit kapoor starrer was as gud as the detective serials that came in those days
2. Tehkikaat - vijay Anand (Dev anand's brother) as Sam D Silva and Saurabh Shukla as Gopichand - i still remeber the song that gopi would sing, "yeh mera prem patr padhkar ke tum naaraz na hona"
3. Karamchand - eventhough came at the end of these serials much later left its own fan following in its wake and Pankaj kapoor as Karamchand Sushmita Mukherjee as kitty wow! classic. Though at that time who knew Pankaj kapoor had such a handsome son in the making...;-)
Later ones were the comedies - there were innumerable ones
1. Flop show
2. ulta pulta
3. Dekh Bhai Dekh
And the horror shows of all times -
Khiley ka Rahasya -as soon as i say it the tune comes to mind -do u get it??
Zee horror show
Aahat - started after all these
I know there are many more : if you guys have any favourites do let me know...............
chao!!!
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