My days at office seem really long these days. I have no other reason but must say work!
On one such day, I feel like sitting before the television, watch something nice to relax my body and mind.
Today I switched on to some local channel looking for some entertainment. The scene in the channel was a mother beating her 2 year child back and blue just to prove her point to her husband. Irritated by this, switched to the next channel, a lady wanted to get back another lady (actually a cop) who brought about justice.
This kept me thinking. Almost every Indian channel today has shows based on this concept – revenge, hatred, domestic violence, survival of the fittest. In today’s life we have enough and more things to worry about than to think what is gonna happen in the show next – whose gonna kill whom, whose gone die etc. The thing which was built on mere entertainment has become one of the worries in day to day life. The thing that should educate a child is also enlightening them about wrong things. Homemakers sit before it and forget the world around them.
It amusing to see how these kinds of shows have touched homemakers around the country. Women sit before the TV and cry for a character died in the show. They discuss what would happen next to the character in tea parties. They adore the ideal daughter-in-law character and call her the Bhahu. They hate somebody coz she killed their favorite character on the show. Of-course this is TV and people in it are characters, they are written to be that way.
All these stupid shows apart, TV still airs shows that make you laugh heartily to shows that make you speculate. A Little of right sense, little of right thought and little of viewer discretion is all that is need to make the idiot box as an entertainment box.
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