History Channel’s got a brand new Hindi show which has been advertised across the city with massive billboards from which Krushna Abhishek—Govinda’s nephew—stares down at us.
The show, OMG! Yeh Mera India, is the channel’s first fully Hindi series—as far as I know.
Their earlier shows which have been made in India, have been multilingual, with a generous mix of Hindi and English. Everyone wants a piece of the hinterland after all. But will History Channel be able to pique the interest of the saas-bahu and Naagin audiences? I think they just may be able to, purely because of what the show is about.
All in all, it’s definitely one of the better programmes to be made in India, especially if you’ve had it up to your ears with Malaika and Arbaaz on Power Couples and Arjun Kapoor on Fear Factor, where the only thing fearsome is that Tanishaa Mukherji is trying to show her leadership and deductive reasoning skills.