Ye Meri Life Hai

( This is my life, which has all ingredients of a blockbuster hindi movie but

this is not a movie, this is my life’’)

From 3rd May a new show is being aired on Sony Entertainment Television(SET) -

’’Yeh Meri Life Hai’’. It is aired from Mon-Thur 10 p.m. after ’’Jassi Jaisi Koi Nahin’’

and Repeat Telecast is from 7:30 p.m to 8:00 p.m

This serial is not about joint families, saas-bahu saga. It belongs to the category of

’’Jassi Jaisi koi nahin’’. The average woman is in the limelight. It is a story of a 17 year

old girl, called Pooja, belonging to Gujrati household staying in suburban’s Mumbai’s

Ghatkopar. Yes Yes it does talk about Dhokla, khandvi, thepla as in Virani parivar

of ’’Saas bhi kabhi bahu thi’’. But the similarity ends there.

’’Yeh meri life hai’’ is about Pooja.She has just finished her 12th and has joined a new college

to learn dramatics. It is about her dream of becoming a director, a successful one, just like Karan-Johar

(of Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham fame). It takes you the ’’St Martin’s

college’’ (where it seems Karan johar studied. He made appreance on the show in the

beginning). It is about how she adjusts in the ’’so-called’’ hep college, where mostly

kids from rich families join. How few of them , namely Annie and Kaushal , make fun

of her. At every step they bring up the differences. Well seeing the serial makes me

nostalgic, ’’woh din bhi kya din they’’ . Yes I didn’t meet as snobbish as Annie but then

you do get to meet different kind of characters in college and you do have to make adjustments.

Someone making fun of you because say you can’t speak proper English or for your

dress sense.

Well coming back to YMLH. It is not only about the college. It is also about her middle-class

family, her friends. She has one elder sister married, another for whom groom-hunting is

going on, a younger brother who is in school but enjoys cooking. Her father, a businessman,

is orthodox whose aim is to get his daughter’s married off (like Mrs. Bennett in

Pride and Prejudice’’). He is the head of family who lays down all rules, ’’no phone calls from boys’’,

’’getting back from college by 6:00 p.m). Her mother is a typical housewife, obedient asks her

children to respect the father wishes. But she supports her children’s dream. There is a bindu

like Buaa(father’s sister). Whenever she enters song ’’hai hai mirchi’’ is played in background.

She tries to create problems in family.

’’Jahan Jahan Pooji paaji wahan wahan Mandi paji’’(Wherever is Pooji there is Mandy).

Mandy, or Mandeep, is a Punjabi neighbor who is always with Pooja. She even joins St. Martins to

be with Pooja. Their friendship is portrayed very beautifully.

The serial till now is good. It is a deliberate attempt by Sony to move away from kitchen politics.

They are targeting the middle-class families. The woman of today, who wants to pursue her dreams.

The characters are simple, one you can identify with. There is little bit of everything.

Sometime back there was boogie-woogie competition in college. They don’t drag a story for