On 2 April 2010 02:03, Srini RamaKrishnan <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 10:12 PM, Deepa Mohan <[email protected]> wrote: > > they got the whole nation together and glued to the TV at the times they > > were telecast > > That had more to do with the era than the serials. No TV show today > can have the pan-India grasp that any half decent show on DD had those > days. >
Probably true. Regional channels have ensured that viewers have more choice, in their own mother tongue. However KBC, Meri Awaz Suno, did mange to get a fairly large pan-India following. > > Independent India has seen a dramatic increase in the intermingling of > cultures in the last twenty years. Pre liberalization (80s and > earlier) the only people who got to travel around India were those > with jobs in the government with their frequent transfers. Anyone else > was rather content to remain in their neck of the woods with good > reason. Internal mobility which still remains a rather daunting affair > used to be practically impossible then unless you worked for the > Government. > But India is hardly a good comparison. I'm sure a lot of the migration happens today due to economic compulsions than anything else? But I was surprised at such a condition (as in the article) in a developed country where such differences should (intuitively at least) not matter? > > It's no surprise then that mythology was the only topic on which a > successful pan-Indian serial could be based. Not only was it relevant > to most viewers, it also avoided the language barrier since the story > was well known to all. > > It does not excuse the atrocious acting, and the idiotic background scores. > Well, it was as good as most mainstream commercial movies were those days (or today as well).
