Monday, March 24, 2008

The Weeping Couch Potatoes

They are the propagators of various anti-cultural and stupid and unbelievable and illegal acts like polygamy ( still no one gets caught), pre-nuptial sex (everyone in the family does that, its hereditary, genetic and a tradition), and the most hip girl of the family running off with her driver.
They slap one another, kill one another(yes, they do that, without anyone finding out !!) Their lives have more twists than a packet of pretzels with that ear splitting music in the background!!

The male members of their family can make an ulti-multi-multi million crore rupees deal with a wave of their hand (Whoever said that Ambani was the richest man on earth?) and other day they are in slum..trying to eke out a living.

And on the other side, the female members are portrayed as so “full” of “moral” and “ethical” values, that they can make a nun look like a whore(apologies, only humor content)…and then the next day, one of the unmarried girl is pregnant…

Crying is their passion, sometimes you can’t distinguish whether they are tears of happiness or glum!!…their glycerin purchase and usage charges are more than the production cost of the entire set, even after its burnt and destroyed

200 years-yes my fellas, 200 is the life expectancy of every member in the family ( well, science IS progressing and how!!!) unless and until they are assassinated by their own brothers and sisters or maybe they fall off a cliff… and then….

Every month a member of a family dies, then “resurrects” in their own avatar, but with plastic surgery done. (Yes, ladies and gentleman, present generation plastic surgery is very cheap and affordable, so much that you can have them done every month!! And peepuls, this is not it, you can feasibly alter your height and weight too!!! Really!!)

They celebrate something everyday…. So to save their time to adorn themselves again and again, they sleep and wake up in the festive saris and make-up too…Did any one say that sleeping with make-up is harmful…?? Not for them…in their families, even a sixty year old woman wont get a freckle on her face.

A villain who has a long hair, a typical identity habit, like sniffing or an ‘aha’ in background for women…main female protagonist wear earrings akin to clothes hanging on a hanger…and even if this is not enough for gaining TRP’s, they introduce a gay character…


They have Hindi dialogs which make no sense(to me), even Premchand can be put to shame…

Arrrgghhhh….
Enough…
bangs head

(well you know who I am talking about, cant reveal the name man…for security purposes…;) and the people who see these sitcoms are referred to as the weeping couch potatoes..)

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26 Comments:

At March 24, 2008 at 9:01 PM , Blogger Ankita said...

kyonki saas bhi kabhi bahu thi....
thanks for the comment...i appreciate it...

 
At March 25, 2008 at 2:51 AM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

Lolzzzzzzzzzzzz

U really have out it well .... I really can't stop laughing....

Haha.... full of ethics then unmarried gals getting pregnant the next gay... surgery altering ur weight n height.. every month...
HAHAHAHHAA

gr8!!!!!!!!!!!!

 
At March 26, 2008 at 3:33 AM , Blogger Solitaire said...

Haha. This was funny.
I often joke around that the main essence of a Hindi soap is sindoor, mangalsutra, saree, and tears.

 
At March 26, 2008 at 6:55 PM , Blogger Matangi Mawley said...

tht was soo funny!!! 222222 guud!!! :)

 
At March 27, 2008 at 6:19 PM , Blogger pandian chelliah said...

hmmm......kyunki har blog kuch kehta hai.......
being not so familiar with sops, the first three para, i had changed idea abt what u were writng abt ( feminism, science fiction, politician)
it was fun reading ur blog....and yeah thanks for ur comments...

 
At March 29, 2008 at 12:25 AM , Blogger Amandeep Singh said...

wah wah!

hattss off to ya man..what a cool to witr off!

;)
ha ha
I am so happy!

 
At March 31, 2008 at 7:16 PM , Blogger Quaintzy Patchez said...

they arent sit coms... they are sit trajs... situational tragedies :))

im sick of them already! let us all say the k word and make the big (Ms.) K insecure!

heres to her insecurity!! cheers!

 
At April 1, 2008 at 6:26 PM , Blogger Unknown said...

Ahhh! feels so good to read a fellow E**a Kapoor Hater!

The situation's the same everywhere: people are losing all appreciation for art, aesthetics. Music, Movies, TV Serials... everywhere you look!

There are some aspects I'd like to mention: the way there is always a "funny" character. The often shrewd one (though sometimes portrayed as innocuous), who is supposed to make us laugh with that typical takiyakalam.

Then Musical and Camera effects, especially the "tidish tidish" scene, where the camera goes wild and goes into this sequence of angles and swishes, as if it were in fits.

I think you covered all other aspects pretty well, this was fun to read. Very well written.

Let's be united in disgust! :)

 
At April 4, 2008 at 6:20 PM , Blogger morinn said...

surgery alters the complexion and voice as well! xD Oh my God! you have so well reviewed this and I really love the term "weeping couch potatoes". Pure genius!

 
At April 5, 2008 at 11:40 AM , Blogger Abhinav Viswambharan said...

hilarious post... :D

 
At April 7, 2008 at 1:10 PM , Blogger AG said...

heyaa

rightly said
thats wt we get to see on tv :D:D
i hope ppl havin some brains sd make sm good serials

cheers
n do hop in for vishnu's tea n coffee :D

 
At April 7, 2008 at 1:21 PM , Blogger kyamaloom said...

Kickass Post! :D

 
At April 8, 2008 at 6:02 PM , Blogger Cinderella said...

LOl..fantastic post !!!!!
Loved every single line....

Specially,

**So to save their time to adorn themselves again and again, they sleep and wake up in the festive saris and make-up too…Did any one say that sleeping with make-up is harmful…?? Not for them**

Lmao !

...and the enitre narration was jsut awesome !!!

Kudos.

 
At April 10, 2008 at 12:48 AM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

hey!! i just uploede pics fof my school..i guess u guys enjyed reading the masti we did so u might like seeing it too..:-)

check them out when u have time
cheerz

 
At April 10, 2008 at 11:56 AM , Blogger Soham Chakraborty said...

wow gr8 post .. I was laughing all my way through the post .... heheh

 
At April 10, 2008 at 4:09 PM , Blogger Shruti said...

hey hey.. Im commenting before reading your post.. saw you're from mumbai. Are u coming for the Mumbai blogger meet? I'm just looking for people here.. I hardly know anyone here.. do let me know! Ok now going to read the post :)

 
At April 10, 2008 at 4:40 PM , Blogger Sidd said...

LoL ... i dnt watch em ... but i really enjoy looking at people who wud run home to get glued to them ... i keep wondering wats wrong with them ... the life they show in those serials is so picture perfect ... nothin close to reality ... stress ... infidelity ... quarrels ... thats wat is becomin common in every household ... bt thats not wat they show there ... but u have a knack for humorous writin ... keep it up :)

 
At April 10, 2008 at 7:31 PM , Blogger Soham Chakraborty said...

wow gr8 post ... I was laughing all the way while reading the post .. awesome !!

 
At April 10, 2008 at 7:32 PM , Blogger Soham Chakraborty said...

Ohh i didnt knew it needs ur approval .. sorry i commented twice ...

 
At April 11, 2008 at 1:33 AM , Blogger busy-writer said...

ROFLMAO! Awesome post! One of the best-est! :D hehe! you knw wot? this is suuuuuch a co-incidence, i read bout T.V serials and their supernatural-ism just TODAY! whoa.. and here, i find your post on em too! hehe!

:D darn good again.. cheers! :)

 
At April 11, 2008 at 9:49 AM , Blogger Sam said...

Watching such sitcoms can be injurious to the brains, be careful!! ;)

 
At April 11, 2008 at 1:32 PM , Blogger Shruti said...

hyuk hyuk! plastic surgery isn't cheap, gal... they just get all the cash with the wave of a wand in the hand.. remember? ;-)
good critic u are heh heh :-)

 
At April 11, 2008 at 5:15 PM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

Ur blog gives me more reasons to drop by often...cheers!

 
At April 16, 2008 at 9:24 AM , Blogger Sig said...

hehe ekta kapoor has entralled a whole nation and we wonder what our world is coming to....

she has a lot of explaining to do......

 
At April 26, 2008 at 12:21 PM , Blogger Quaintzy Patchez said...

But Manisha.. Premchand writes simply :) so please don't put him to shame.. and to be fair, hes far far far better than these fakers, he wrote reality....

 
At March 28, 2009 at 12:55 AM , Blogger Unknown said...

very nice analysis... considering you presumably cannot bear to analyse it any further :P

 

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