As I just said, I don’t love peeping into ’Kahani Ghar Ghar Ki’ (Story of every house). I am not an avid ’soap’ watcher. More of a movie buff. The best thing I like about the movies are they END, unlike these never ending cereals (oops... serials).
But since I was forced to watch this one ( and many other loose horses from stables of Balaji Telefilm) by my wife who has made this to be a test of my love (how difficult loving someone could be...?)
Please pardon me if I get something wrong. With all those so ’familiar’ faces flashing in & out of all Balaji serials, I am totally confused as to ’who is who’ in which soap? Given all the stuttering confusion about KKKiran..., KKKusum... etc. I do’nt even know if I got the name right.
This serial like countless others is about a joint-family of brothers, sisters, uncles, aunties, fathers, grandfathers so on & so forth under the same roof ( and we had thought joint families had joined Dinosaurs in the extinction list).
The kind of plans & counter plans some of these members plot even put the Hindi film villains to shame. Add to it dollops of emotions about dying family values, tradition, pujas, havans, garbha dances etc. to attract the older generation. And countless extra-marital affairs to keep the younger generation hooked.
Keeping my sanity from being washed away by the glycerine tears shed by the mostly feminine cast at the drop of a hat was a tough job in itself indeed.
Now that I am in the USA on a ’’long’’ short-term assignment, I have been saved from this ’epitome of foolishness’ on the Idiot Box. Boy, do I miss it? Yes I do, like I miss having measles or chicken-pox :-). ( But couldn’t save myselves from ’Maa... Maa... Meri Maaa... Chotti Maaa.. Kiski Ma...?’ which has followed me right into the US)
How I wish Suyog would write a letter to ’Ektaa’ kappor (hope I got it right with all this stupidity of changing names to suit numerology) asking her to stop producing/directing serials & act in movies instead (like the one he wrote to venerable Mr. Gupta director ’’Kaante - the bed of thorns’’)
Come on Ektaa, if Nagma can do it down the South, so can you? It would be more fun watching you do the hip-breaking gyrations with Chiranjeevi in Switzerland or Singapore than watching your ’Soups’. Or else you could atleast become Heros or Heroines sister in countless Hindi films including your brother Tusssshhhhar’s & give Farida Jalal a run for money?
Vivek
(Read the ’Camera effects’ below. That was deliberate :-))