Dear Reader,
Before you engage your attention further, my message below was in response to 1st message on the subject by Ria. This should have gone as a comment on Ria’s review but I think I mis-clicked a few buttons and this went on as a new review on the subject.
Therefore, I would suggest that you read Ria’s comment first and if you feel the necessity, do come back. Regret the inconvenience as I am still learning the ropes.
Ria,
I agree it is a very perceptive review of, incidentally (like many coming out of the closet), one of my adored programmes also.
Having said that, I would disagree with the points you have raised in the ’’negatives’’ of the program.
Some of the questions put by Anupam Kher is to realise the boundaries, imagination and perception of these kids. Ofcourse this doesn’t mean that a child less perceptive should be made aware of that or worse, made to feel bad about his inadequacies.
It is perhaps a step in the direction of pushing that child to imagine, understand and think certain issues, which he/she may have observed but for reasons of fear or otherwise may not have chosen to think about it.
I disagree with your comment that some of these questions should be limited in order not to spoil the innocence of the program. I would extend this further. The questions should only be censored if they spoil the innocence of the child and not the program. Encouragement to imagine and understand things based on one’s innocent perception is perhaps the best gift any adult can give to another child so that when he/she grows up he/she doesn’t feel challenged by his own limitations. I am of the opinion that titillation of one’s imagination is far superior to imposing boundaries based on objective assessment of what is innocent.
I do, however, agree with one of your comment’s negatives - it is not helpful or intelligent to prod a child to pass comment on stability of his parent’s marriage, i.e., do they hit each other? A statement made in false perception might lead to criminal conviction, at worse.