After a looong time i finally decided to have a hair cut yesterday…and being a person who is very frugal when it comes to spending for a hair cut, found one saloon not far away from home and decided to go there. It was a pretty decent one, better than the place that i’ve been frequenting since i was 3 years old, there were already 2 ppl waiting and so took a seat next to them and turned to the tv that was tuned to a tamil channel. As my luck wud have it, it was the daily chain-of-mega-serials time, with nothing better to do, started watching the serial. I was so irritated by the end of it that I had a good mind to leave without the haircut! I find it very difficult to comprehend how people sit and watch this crap day in and day out! I must admit though that it was quite hillarious to watch that particular episode, the basic story was this- girl is hanging out with guy dad does not approve off, comes home to find a very angry dad, gets beaten up along with mom and sis. The complete lack of imagination was apperent throughout the episode, also they have this stupid camera work where every time a character delivers a dialogue it has to move very fast from all 4 directions with “woosh” sounds..I mean what the hell is that? Is this how you elongate a 10 minute footage into a 30 minute one? I really pity the people who watch this and increase the TRPs of these dumb channels!!
Why do people watch these silly serials and provide so much revenue to the cable channels in the form of advertising? Well my theory is this…all these mamiyars and marumagals (daughter/mother in laws) who previously lived in joined families spent al their enerfy in fighting with each other and gossiping about family problems…this however is not possible today with the mamiyar and marumagal living away from each other. Even if they are under the same roof the marumagal is probably off to work the whole day, and hence no opportunity for confrontations. Where does all this pent up fighting energy go? they get channeled into watching mega serials in sympathizing/berating the characters of the serial (how people keep track of the same actors acting in 20 different serials in 30 diffent roles is beyond me!). So ultimately the only good that the serials have society is to keep these mamiyars and marumagals engaged and prevent conflicts that would otherwise arise in the family. So after a haircut amidst several sobs/evil laughter and stupid BGMs i finally got to leave the place, only to find it rainng cats and dogs outside. Choosing the lesser of the two evils I finally reached home getting drenched to the bone.
