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Our bumbling NRI and his 12 heroines enthralled us.
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This was a fresh serial and Om Puri as the sutradhar excelled. Mr Yogi: The original What’s your Raashee?īy 1989 standards, this was quite an exotic concept and Mohan Gokhale seemed like an exotic actor too. The suspense and drama beat KBC, Dus Ka Dum and Bournvita Quiz Contest all put together. I had never heard of Byomkesh Bakshi or Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay in my whole life but when I saw this Bengali detective serial, my first thoughts were, “It’s right up there with Sherlock Holmes.” Sterling performances by Rajit Kapur and KK Raina.įor me Siddhartha Basu’s university quiz is still the gold standard for quizzing in India and he’s still the ultimate quizmaster. Just like Hardy’s “Here’s another fine mess you’ve got me into”, the eccentric Karamchand’s “Shut up Kitty” became a national rage.
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We heard at that time that Pankaj Kapoor became the highest paid TV actor with this serial and he deserved every Rupee. This serial, which lasted roughly a year, took you through India from the Vedic period to Independence without sounding like a history lesson. (I always found India’s first soap Hum Log a tad slow)Įven if you didn’t like Nehru, you couldn’t dislike Bharat Ek Khoj, based on the book The Discovery of India. The first serial for me that probably became a habit. This epic, from the maker of Sholay, spanned decades and we didn’t feel like missing a single episode. There was a time when Master Haveliram and Lajoji were the most watched admired couple in India. But if that was cream, then the 24/7 news channels of India today are definitely highly diluted and adulterated milk. If you missed this, then you felt as if you had missed the entire news of the week. Prannoy Roy became a superstar overnight. Nobody thought news could be so slick and sexy. When this was first aired, we were all blown away. The World This Week: The ultimate news capsule It was a glorious peek into the culture of every state and national integration at it best.
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I never missed the weekly regional movie too. Blockbuster or flop, millions would sit glued to it week after week right till the very end. No matter what they showed, you still looked forward to it. The high point of every week was the Sunday Hindi movie. Here’s looking at 10 of my favourite programmes in no particular order… DD probably peaked in the eighties and after that satellite TV took over. For us, Doordarshan (or DD) was Santa Claus who had at least one gift for every person in the family. Strange but true: This government owned unprofessionally run non-24-hour TV channel was all we ever wanted. There was a time when Indian TV had only Doordarshan.
