Indian TV audience must remember the serial called Sansar by Dheeraj Kumar used to air on TV regularly. I remembered one of my aunts quoted, sansar started the day your sansar also started. In fact I got married the same day. The sansar on the TV & my real life sansar slowly progressed as time passed on. Due to pressure from the elders we progressed with little more speed & had our child by the end of 30th months of our marriage. Due to pressure, again, from the Indian audience TV sansar had to move slow & they couldn’t yet decide on whom to marry by whom, how to progress on their business, take on their enemies, arrange for their finances, convince their parents etc. etc. That was supposed to take more time wasn’t it? Yes, mean while I left my job & started my own business too. Yet, sansar was rolling on & on & on effortlessly on TV, like any moving body would do in the space. Thanks to make up all those actors look still young & fresh.
There was audiences’ patience testing serials like Buniyaad & many more others too. Recently serials starting with ‘K’ have created history in India. It helped the society in drastic way in making already small families nuclear with just husband, wife, son & daughter no Saas, no Bahu, dada, dadi, etc. It taught the poor Indian that not only kitchen cabinet does the politics at Delhi but it can be possible in each & every kitchen across the nation too. Thus more scope for women entering into politics in a way the quota for women which govt. is thinking of may need to make it for men instead in due course of time. These K serials show how the idiot box can convert the entire house itself into idiot box. This has helped men to go for evening walk after dinner right when the serials start. Also it has made them to eat at particular time daily if they delay then either they have to wait for another hour or skip meals.
Also there are comedy serials which made us laugh & there are comedy serials expect us to laugh, this only helps us in extending our patience line to the new length. The audience has become so clever now a days that they know who is the culprit or what is going to happen at the end of the detective serials are really not called for. One must have patience to watch the serials till end instead of switching to another channel or switching off the TV itself. There are other junk serials or TV programme like animal kingdom, discovery etc. they unnecessarily provide us too much entertainment, knowledge & information that the viewer gets glued to the TV & is deprived of viewing the real entertaining serials like K serials & so on.
We then took the inspiration from these not so long than life serials to have our own serial. Earlier we thought of buying the movie camera & start shooting since we never felt the need of any script etc. as mentioned earlier the idea was inspired from these serials only. We than thought of closed circuit camera, the idea liked everybody. We than bought a couple of them & got them fitted everywhere but in the toilets & bathrooms our life carried on as usual. Well we tried our best to remain made up by way of applying talcum powder on our faces, taking precaution not appearing before camera in loongi & in baniyan etc. By bedtime we’d switch off the power to the camera. The camera kept on for some time, the images were kept on loading into the computer.
My son grew he started walking, his cries, his loo, his laughter. Our lives quarrels, eating, talking everything just everything got recorded. Over a period of time we started behaving as if we were not facing the camera at all. By some time we realized the computer memory is filled up & even our drive was drying up. We then tried to edit the recording at our will leisurely without any hurry. We were stunned to note that it was a great piece of work we’d done. All the neighbors borrowed the CDs of the recording & applauded our efforts. It has all that which makes the serial a great one, it has no subject, no script, extempore dialogues, readymade sets/location, no change in cast thus no confusion among the audience, and most important long truly long lasting. We thought of visiting Mandi House once to sell of our work yet my friend cautioned me of them protracting the same by addition of advertisements, repeating the same shots again & again etc. So, the fear gripped me of our painstaking work getting disturbed & the message getting diluted. So we held on & the masterpiece still remains with us, anybody interested in airing the same without doing any change is welcome to buy the worldwide rights.
By
Vijay Yelmelwar
There was audiences’ patience testing serials like Buniyaad & many more others too. Recently serials starting with ‘K’ have created history in India. It helped the society in drastic way in making already small families nuclear with just husband, wife, son & daughter no Saas, no Bahu, dada, dadi, etc. It taught the poor Indian that not only kitchen cabinet does the politics at Delhi but it can be possible in each & every kitchen across the nation too. Thus more scope for women entering into politics in a way the quota for women which govt. is thinking of may need to make it for men instead in due course of time. These K serials show how the idiot box can convert the entire house itself into idiot box. This has helped men to go for evening walk after dinner right when the serials start. Also it has made them to eat at particular time daily if they delay then either they have to wait for another hour or skip meals.
Also there are comedy serials which made us laugh & there are comedy serials expect us to laugh, this only helps us in extending our patience line to the new length. The audience has become so clever now a days that they know who is the culprit or what is going to happen at the end of the detective serials are really not called for. One must have patience to watch the serials till end instead of switching to another channel or switching off the TV itself. There are other junk serials or TV programme like animal kingdom, discovery etc. they unnecessarily provide us too much entertainment, knowledge & information that the viewer gets glued to the TV & is deprived of viewing the real entertaining serials like K serials & so on.
We then took the inspiration from these not so long than life serials to have our own serial. Earlier we thought of buying the movie camera & start shooting since we never felt the need of any script etc. as mentioned earlier the idea was inspired from these serials only. We than thought of closed circuit camera, the idea liked everybody. We than bought a couple of them & got them fitted everywhere but in the toilets & bathrooms our life carried on as usual. Well we tried our best to remain made up by way of applying talcum powder on our faces, taking precaution not appearing before camera in loongi & in baniyan etc. By bedtime we’d switch off the power to the camera. The camera kept on for some time, the images were kept on loading into the computer.
My son grew he started walking, his cries, his loo, his laughter. Our lives quarrels, eating, talking everything just everything got recorded. Over a period of time we started behaving as if we were not facing the camera at all. By some time we realized the computer memory is filled up & even our drive was drying up. We then tried to edit the recording at our will leisurely without any hurry. We were stunned to note that it was a great piece of work we’d done. All the neighbors borrowed the CDs of the recording & applauded our efforts. It has all that which makes the serial a great one, it has no subject, no script, extempore dialogues, readymade sets/location, no change in cast thus no confusion among the audience, and most important long truly long lasting. We thought of visiting Mandi House once to sell of our work yet my friend cautioned me of them protracting the same by addition of advertisements, repeating the same shots again & again etc. So, the fear gripped me of our painstaking work getting disturbed & the message getting diluted. So we held on & the masterpiece still remains with us, anybody interested in airing the same without doing any change is welcome to buy the worldwide rights.
By
Vijay Yelmelwar
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