Rerun of Classics – Daily Soaps

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  • Bereft of fresh episodes owing to lockdown wrought by the pandemic raging across the
    world, hugely popular television industry is looking at innovative ideas to hook on the
    viewers to respective channels. Mind you, in an extremely competitive world of television
    industry whose fortunes undergo dramatic changes as TRPs (Television Rating Points) play
    defining roles, industry honchos are making welcome efforts of rerunning extremely popular

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  • Speaking of millenniums, exposure to present day industry where content, presentation,
    canvas, platforms, grandeur, glitz and reach has witnessed tremendous metamorphosis vis-
    à-vis earlier generation or two in comparison, would most probably find it hard to relate.
    However, older generation would gleefully endorse the decision of Doordarshan to rerun
    iconic and all time classics like Ramayana and Mahabharata, just to name a few. Many are in
    the pipeline too.

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  • Nostalgically professing, such a move would be appreciatively greeted by many of us as
    reminiscing pleasant occurrences of yesteryears that also included watching path-breaking
    television serials in the company of family paves way for reliving the same yet again. At the
    cost of sounding antiquated to the current generation, there is no denying the fact that
    tightly edited content reigned supreme earlier where great emphasis was laid on delivering
    quality rather than over the top caricaturist performances that are the order of the day
    nowadays.
  • Most of the present day serials are endowed with characters that are either scheming,
    perverse, diabolical, debauched, embarrassing at times, unrealistic and un-relatable that
    keeps stretching on and on for no reason or rhyme. Where characters of yore still continues
    to evoke fond memories and relevance, same cannot be attributable nor vouched for with
    respect to the present day television serials save for few exceptions here and there.
  • Though technological advancements viz. streaming quality, Audio/Visual excellence, Special
    Effects and the ilk makes for a compelling grandeur worthy of a watch in the present day
    scenario but the palpable absence of soulful and pertinent content significantly nullifies the
    otherwise extravagant broadcast considerably. Hopefully, reruns of erstwhile classics would
    help present day creators to realize to what extent they may have been adversely swept
    away by the modern day blitzkrieg.

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  • Dispassionate urging to all those producers and media houses to kindly revert back to those
    tried and tested fundamentals of producing serials where content rules supreme albeit
    aided by all such modern technologies available at their disposal now. In the interim, let us
    sit and enjoy watching the reruns till it lasts alongside our younger lots’ sharing / exchanging
    fond recollections as it unfolds.

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Krishna MV
Krishna is a Post Graduate with specialization in English Literature and Human Resource Management, respectively. Having served the Indian Air Force with distinction for 16 years, Armed Forces background definitely played a very major role in shaping as to who & what he is right now. Presently, he is employed as The Administrator of a well known educational institute in Bangalore. He is passionate about sharing thoughts by writing articles on the current affairs / topics with insightful dissection and offering counter / alternate views thrown in for good measure. Also, passionate about Cricket, Music – especially vintage Kannada & Hindi film songs, reading – non-fictional & Self-Help Books, and of course, fitness without compromising on the culinary pleasures.

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