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Mindless Hindi Serials in Television

The serials in channels like Zee TV over the last few years show serials like Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi, Saloni, Kahani Ghar Ghar Ki etc.  These serials tell the story of family life.  They try to drag on episodes after episodes even when the main story has ended long time ago.  The story of these serials do not follow any definite line. 

 

The men in these serials wear office suits and ties with boots always in the house. The elders wear Indian dresses.  The dress codes for young girls are mostly western outfits like jeans and t-shirts.  In some serials, when the story depicts a traditional family then only they wear salwar kameez. 

 

It is astonishing to see that a family which has become penniless in the above mentioned serials show actors wearing high price clothes.  Men wearing expensive suits.  It seems the director has forgotten that they should wear ordinary or torn garments. 

 

The serials show that somebody coming for an interview and getting job right way!  But in real life, we have interviews and out of 20 negative responses, one may hit and you get the job!  Practical life is so different from the way the serials portray!  These serials should not be viewed by the elders and also the young generation. 

 

The way human life is portrayed as rosy with everything going fine.  The hospitals are portrayed as something which has all the medical facilities and the patient care is their first priority.  In real life, the patient's care is the most neglected in the hospitals in general. 

 

It is generally shown that when a young girl is raped, somebody jumps upon her and fights the eve teasers.  In practical life, when somebody is getting raped, there is hardly any protestor and if the protestor gets injured nobody there to help.  Even the person for whom the boy is giving his life at stake flies away carelessly. 

 

People are so selfish these days say when you are injured and lying in the road, there is hardly anyone who will take care of you and take you to the hospital.  So social security is something the old as well as the young generation lack.  In these serials, there is always somebody helping the aged and the poor!   Everyone has a big heart helping people in need! 

 

Television serials which hardly reflect reality should not be watched by the young generation.  It will have a false impression in their minds.  The young generation should be told the right things by the parents and they should develop a positive attitude towards life.  In fact the need for parental guidance is more important these days as there are a lot of distractions. 

 

 

muscle building takes over acting skills

I often watch Hollywood and Bollywood movies.  I hardly find any difference.  The action of Stallone and Bruce Lee gets imitated in Bollywood in India.  We often see our Indian actors like Salman Khan, Hritick Roshan, Amir Khan, Arjun Rampal etc. showing their muscular bodies in the current movies. 

 

Now the emphasis is more on showing body both for actors as well as actresses rather than good acting.  Acting skills were there in the days of  Raj Kapoor, Amitabh Bachchan, Dharmendra, etc.  You would have thought a bit after watching a good actor.  The Bengalis still remember Uttam Kumar.  They still regard him as "Mahanayak."  We love to see good acting but in return spending our money what we see is muscular men fighting like Hollywood movies with Hollywood stunts and the Indian style of dances in between the action scenes as muttons in between two pieces of breads as in burgers!! 

 

Sometimes the old generation who crave to see good acting but cannot see them feels frustrated!! They always criticize while the young generation go to gym both boys and girls to develop bodies like Salman and Akshay for boys and Katrina etc. for girls. 

 

Many girls and boys dive into modeling career as a stepping stone for acting in serials and then films.  They love to think big.  They love to think of earning crores.  Only few of them have the network for reaching the top!  Life is hard in glamour industry.  You need good managers who will back you up so that you become a good actor.  There must be good publicity manager so that you can get good offers in films as well as advertisement.  Nowadays getting advertisements is an incentive to both the actors and cricketers.  The endorsements give nice pay packets that the players take the cricket casually and fans get angry!  As a result their contract with the ad agencies vanish and they have to sit idle when they are dropped from the National team. 

 

Glam quotient is important these days.  Everyone going to gym means large number of handsome men and beautiful women queueing either to modeling or acting.  As a result, casting couch is a common phenomenon.  The directors and people who take  the young ones to their film exploit these people. 

 

Good story is lacking and good directors also.  We stress more on physical beauty rather than good acting and story line.  For a good story line, a viewer will watch the film a number of times.  But a good action and good physique can draw viewers but not very long!