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Jab Luv Hua on Zee TV: Seems Positively Inane
I was trolling around the TV serials after 10:30, and I came across this strange looking serial on Zee TV. It was based around a village, and seemed to have a village bumkin and a smartly dressed girl. Seems interesting .. so much different from the saas bahu kind of serials; and it was interesting, to some extent. Started on April 24, 2006, it appers on Zee TV.
The serial is about a rich girl, Aanya (Priya Badlani) whose family is rich, and she is like any other rich spoiled girl, somewhat of a brat, brash, imperious, sorrounded by luxury. She seems like having it all. However, a turn of fate takes away all this, and she has to go and live in a village. You can imagine the reaction - a city girl in a village. She can’t stand the strange ways, and boy, do they consider her strange. Her dressing is so different from the village style, she behaves in ways that are normal to her but are considered so different by the villagers, and maybe they even consider her somewhat more forward than how village belles are supposed to behave.
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MTV Goes Bonkers With Youth Icon 2007
It looks like either the folks at MTV are on dope or have totally lost their mind, I mean what else can explain their bizarre nomination list for this year’s Youth Icon Award.
Barring Abhishek Bachchan who is the only living-breathing personality on the list, the rest of the nominees basically include literally anything that has affected the Indian Youth in recent times, like - Orkut, Film Rang De Basanti, Multimedia Cell Phone and to top it all, You.
Kyunki Main Ekta Hoon
Ekta Kapoor on Koffee With Karan, I really expected some fireworks after all this is Ekta we are talking about; the only woman who practically dominates our Prime Time Television segment.
But watching her and her way too many distorted facial expressions (now it’s clear where the likes of Kamolika, Mandira and other Vamps get their inspiration from) along with three of her co-puppets, namely Ram Kapoor, Ronit Roy and Hiten Tejwani – reminded me of those old Hindi films where apna Hero wouldn’t even move a muscle without his chamchas and their chamchagiri.
Top 10 in Horror Episodes
Indian Television and Movie Industry has a long and glorious tradition of “horror flicksâ€. If Ramsay brothers frightened the populace with the horrible ghosts like “Jaani Dushmanâ€, “Jaadu Tonaâ€, the television audience thrived on shows like “Kile ka Rahasya“, “Zee Horror Showâ€, “Aahat†and “Sshhh… Koi Hai†to name a few.
There are quite a few things which are common amongst all these media. But after watching myriad movies and TV serials, I have come to a conclusion that there are 10 things which every single horror serial episode has to have (as opposed to movies which might have all or none of them):
India TV: A Different Kind Of News
In office, the discussion around the lunch table typically is about what’s the next news on India TV (or what the last interesting news was). India currently has a large number of news channels, and when some major event takes place, all the channels concentrate on that. So, for example, when the blasts happened in UP, this was covered on all the channels, and was only replaced when Maninder Singh was caught with cocaine, and there was the sight of each channel trying to find their own set of people to interview, including people on the sight, former cricketers, and so on. The one glorious exception to this entire new coverage was the news on India TV.
India TV seems to have a found a niche of its own. It tries to cover sensational news, leaving behind the likes of Star News and Aaj Tak. So, for example, India TV was the first channel to investigate and find the news about an illicit sex racket running on the premier Rajdhani trains, it periodically covers tales of haunted places, about other sex rackets running with plenty of description (in fact, on a lighter note, a friend of mine got a blasting from his wife for watching such a sleazy channel when she occassioned to see some of the coverage, but he managed to wriggle out of this situation by explaining it as a national TV channel).
