ahh the good old days of Doordarshan :) started at 1959 with a splice of black and white , tinge of entertainment its covered 50 BIG years now ... those days after partition Doordarshan was probably the only mass media communication after newspapers and radio that hit the people and enlighted their spirits. It was a new experience of actually seeing moveable objects on TV though TV sets were very rare those days but still one small step is something that led to a massive revolution a concept that took par boom effect on future, even though i have not really been a part of whole doordarshan era because in the 1990's onwards many commercial channels had begun still i guess it was a time where Doordarshan held the monopoly for being the oldest channel of NATION.
I feel nostalgic but there were so many wonderfull programmes for which we had to wait whole week just wanting to know what would happen next infact i still remember when first we heard that some serials were to be aired almost 5 days a week we were thrilled thinking how easy it would be to know what would happen next , but who knew that these new serials with each aired episode would lower its dignity concept responsibility just for TRP's ....
I know Doordarshan has been boring for some and yes today even i dont watch Doordarshan but the era in he 70's and 80's probably saw the best of the writers and directors of serials those were reality check serials unlike todays relity shows...
shows like Humlog, Buniyad,Byomkesh Bakshi, Fatichar,Turning Point, Ye Jo Hai Zindagi, Nukkad and Dekh Bhai Dekh, ‘Rangoli’ and ‘Chitrahaar’ and ofcourse Ramayan and Mahabharata and My favourite Mougli, Surabhi, Malgudi days :D days were fabulous...
there shall never be days like those back again, its awfull to see that a National channel has to struggle so much but atleast for some good sense like earlier doordarshan air'ed serials which were MORE INFORMATIVE THAN HIGHER TRP'S ..atleast it was better than the maddening business for which most private channels fight .......
I miss that simple life style ... life will never turn its wheel back to the ideology of " Simple Living High Thinking "
adios
