Obviously in the Indian context!
Is there any limit to the shit
being run on GEC TV channels?
Has story-writing become dead as
an art for storywriters/screenwriters/dialogue-writers for television writers?
Either the screenwriters of these
'wisdom-operas' are so brave that they can write the same stuff again and again
- without getting bored and bottlenecked - for same television serial or for
some other.
Or they are so naive they cannot
think beyond the routine sob-and-conspiracy stuff that makes families look like
coming from Mars.
Or they are such chauvinists (considering
they are males) that they do not want to think beyond sobbing or robbing women
- a kind of gender discrimination and thus exploitation - portraying women in a
closet.
The counterpoint - what about
female screenwriters, producers, directors and actors?
Or - do they have the wisdom of
common sense?
Or - why they so adamantly stuff
the viewers with such boredom operas so much so that they like to think that
they are contributing to the lucid flow of wisdom operas on the entertainment
television channels in India.
Or - they are simply dumb to come
with innovations and experiments in their writings?
Why it is such an obsession (or
fad) with the production houses or the television channels to paint the ordinary
Indian family in such a derogatory skew - multiple affairs - extramarital
affairs - sibling rivalry to extent that a brother kills a brothers, a sister
conspires against a sister, relatives try to kill each other?
Whatever that is left is dumped
with fillers like grand parties, film songs and lavish events.
An increasing trend these days is
the increasing population of superstition-based, supernatural or fantasy
television shows that look horribly shabby in the absence of proper story and
character development and totally unacceptable regard for aesthetics.
They work so questionably that they convert even the good storylines into worn-out, bizarre spectacles!
They simply tell why television
is still called the 'Idiot Box' - in spite of being the most powerful
communication tool in the mainstream media.
©/IPR: Santosh Chaubey - http://severallyalone.blogspot.com/
