"jungle jungle bat chali .."
" ek titli..anek titliyaan...."
"chandrakanta ki kahani..."
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kuchh yada aata hai???
does somethning ring to your ears?
those were the days of mid 80s and early 90s in a typical indian middle class family....which had a major role in uniting india as one...unlike today's when raj thackrey openly announced to sweep out the north indians from a western indian state in the Republic of India....[isn't it funny??????????]
the entire india had a single channel...DD national......of course few years later an entertaintment channel..DD metro [ more famous as 2nd channel..] was born.
still who can forget a typical sunday morning.......
the day used to start with RANGOLI .....a colourful bouquet of vintage bollywod songs which could shake your legs or make you fly to the world of fantasies..or take you to the garden..and take our parental generation to their days and nostalgia....so a good beginning of a sunday..........
then the active part used to start...from chandrakanta to jungle book....and of course the great epics..ramayana and mahabharata.......
i still have the vague memories of "SOONSAAN" lanes and roads on a sunday morning {9 to 11] .............owing to the "PUNYAARJAN" from listening to mahabharat ki katha........in fact some ignorant portion of population was thankfull to DD for the enlightment that 'mahabharata' was written by none other than ramananda sagar...................[:P]
then there used to be an afternoon regional feature movie.i doubt if any family had ever missed it [the language hardly mattered.....what an idea of uniting india.........]
then the very informative surabhi......
the story of brave lady..rajani......
i cannot recollect much on sundays....but i can just manage some vague memories of other evenings....monday ....there used be a serial on a lady police officer [in fact i had the impression that...the actress was the real kiran bedi....][:D]
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of course not to forget chitrahar and super hit muqabla, alif laila.............
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as son as DD metro was born....the indian population got the taste of comedy.....
tu tu main main
jane bhi do paro
dekh bhai dekh
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the best thing was the original AAJ TAK................
which actually used to relay the news of the entire day within an hour....people get to know what has already happened, already taken place throughout the day..........unlike todays when news are made in the newsroom................
the best portion were the short and simple [like the mindset of indian population back then] advertisements........
humara bajaj
kya swad hai zindagi mein
surobhito antiseptic cream borolin
yeh hai right choice baby aah haa [pepsi]
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real beutiful people used to advertise the products.....commercialization of beauty had not taken place back then.....people knew models by name....sangeeta bijlani, aishwarya [lakme girl].............unlike today's .....when u pick up just any [prefferably anorexic] female and make her endorse the product
[marketing executives/budding ad gurus please dont take it to heart ] [:P]
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then those patriotic songs....
mile sur mera tumhara
hum bharat ke santan
aaj ghar ghar mein deepak jalayein
chanda ek suraj ek tare anek..ek titli anek titliyaan.........
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doordarshan had played a real role in uniting the INDIA
every individual from every corner, every socioeconomic strata [ at least the majority] had the acess to a singular factor of entertainment which is actually an influencing factor of indian life throughout the ages. [court jesters...=..entertainer..=..royal advisers]
i m not against the satellite entertainment and the diversity it provides.
my objective is that why cannot television play a major role like dat of DD some years ago?
when raj thackerey is eager to sweep out the north indians from the western part of maharashtra...dont we need DD once again which will fol this political craziness?
we need 'DD' to spread the message of unity once again.......................
to spread the sense of indianness.............................................
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.i pray to television devta
hey TV devta
kuchh to karo ki zindagi mein woh mithhas waale din fir se laut aaye...........once more we need
kya swaad hai zindagi mein..........
mile sur mera tumhara.............
