RajYou may or may not know this but I’m a big TV buff.
I watch at least 4hrs of TV everyday and I basically watch anything and everything. Here’s what I’ve been watching for the past few days.
Pogo is airing Malgudi Days, which is one of my favorite shows ever. I’ve never read the book cos, well, I don’t read but I loved the show when I saw it the first time, loved it when I saw its reruns and love it even now. Incidentally, after I came to Bangalore last year, I got to know that the name “Malgudi” was formed by adding up the names of two of Bangalore’s old neighborhoods, Malleshwaram and Basavangudi. In case you are interested in watching it, it’s on weeknights at 8.30pm.
Toon Disney airs Ducktales, which is another favorite of mine. You have to love Uncle Scrooge, Huey, Dewey and Louie. It’s on weekdays at 8.30am. Watch it.
There’s this new primetime soap called “Ek Ladki Anjaani Si”(which translates into “an unknown (stranger) girl”) on Sony. Now, I don’t watch any of the crappy soaps being aired on various channels but since the channel was promoting the first episode with “Something that has never happened to anyone ever before will happen today to this girl”, I decided I should see what the fuss is all about. Do you want to know what it was about? Well, I’ll tell you anyways.
Here it goes. Brace yourself for it. So the male protagonist a.k.a. our hero, is a successful businessman who once suffered from cancer but was cured through chemotherapy and in the process became sterile but not before the clever doctor had put aside few of his “samples”. Now that he is cured, he wants to have a child but his wife is somehow incompatible with his swimmers so he finds a woman who is compatible with him to get her artificially inseminated with his sample. Now, cut to the female protagonist a.k.a. our heroine, who has just got an admission into New York University, that too with full scholarship. She must go though a routine medical checkup and she ends up going to the only hospital in the town where the afore- mentioned artificially insemination is supposed to happen. Now, there’s a stupid rookie nurse in the hospital who mixes up the two files and yes, you guessed it right, our heroine gets inseminated with our hero’s sample. Fascinating!
Honestly, that’s one of the dumbest soap plots ever.
I do not watch a single soap from Sony because they are weird and outright stupid
I also dnt watch soaps but i loved duck tales!!!!!
i wish i could watch tv.. damn the hostel…
i would say reject everything else.
Watch A1 channel. Though watching malgudi days is good too.
i used to LOVE ducktales (woo-ooh)!
I also used to watch soap operas. until i realized that they were a total waste of time. It takes like two months before anything actually happens.
anyway… i also am a TV junky. Well, not as much as before. When my baby was first born,i watched TOO MUCH. but now i dont watch anything during the daytime. But at night, i totally veg out on the couch
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@lucio: I don’t watch them either. But I wanted to watch this one cos i smelled something stupid and see how right i was.
@akanksha: You know you can always move into a new place.
@yogi: A1 is okay. I prefer Nat Geo or Discovery Travel & Living.
@becky: My mom is a huge soap fan and i keep telling her that even if she watched it after a gap of six months, nothing new would have happened.
@nick: Well, it is difficult to not like funny home videos. I’m glad you like my blog.
Pogo is always a good channel to watch! And “Malgudi Days” has been a favourite of mine ever since I saw it! I can still recall its haunting tune after so many years.
Malgudi days is good
@afj: Yeah, pogo is one of those channels which you can tune into if theres notihng good on elsewhere. Even i like the title theme of Malgudi Days.
@harry: Yup, it is
I totally agree with you on ‘ek ladki anjaani si’.. but TRY watching ‘India Calling’ on star one(mon to wed 930) its worse!! :/
Ducktales… It’s been years since I’ve seen them!
*sigh*
Those were the good ol’ days! That’s great that you still get to reap the benefits of cheap animation!
@aaki: I’ve seen its ads. It does look bad. I guess there is plenty of rubbish on indian tv these days.
@abigail: Yeah, i would rather watch ducktales than 3D-esque jimmy neutron anyday.
I love malgudi days show. Actually that is what I’gettin my sis for c’mas this year the book malguid days.
I used to see it as a kid, so its not just the show, it is the memories that I’m attached too.
-thanu
@thanu: Hi, welcome to my blog. I also have a lot of memories attached to MD. I’m sure your sister will like reading it.
Hi there..
i saw Malgudi days on POGO last Friday,..
i just loved to see it again after a long time,..i just cant explain how much i like Malgudi Days,.i was happy to c the show again,..
i will watch Malgudi days today aswell,..
well,..’Swaami and his frends’ episode is goin on now,..
i even love Duck tales,.am not able to see it these days ..:(..
BTW ,.i found your blog accedently while i was checking the schedule 4 Malgudi days..