Every Friday at 8.30 viewers waited with bated breath to see who was the film personality that Tabassum would get to the studio.
Friday evenings, it was Phool Khile Hain Gulshan Gulshan time and a date with Tabassum. “ Phool Khile Hain Gulshan Gulshan” (1972-1993) Here is a brief look at some of them…and yes, keep your tissues/hankie’s ready. Some of the best T.V shows were aired on ‘DD1′ and ‘DD metro’ in the 80s till the early 90s. Our national channel aka “Doordarshan”, was surprisingly not so ‘door’ from its viewer’s needs and sentiments in those days. All the above somehow forces me to miss the “idiot” box that existed before the arrival of the “cable” network. In short, it’s a monumental cultural wasteland on TV - a travesty of game shows, violence, sadism, murder, bad men, good men, private detectives, cartoons etc., and endless commercials - of screaming presenters, tacky shows, cajoling and offensive. Every damn T.V channel has some talent hunt show going on, be it singing, acting, dancing, fashion….practically everything one can do under the sun. On the other hand, it seems that Indian Television is getting over obsessed with the “Reality” show concept. The norm is middle to upper middle, or high, class families that often live in plush homes in virtually interchangeable suburbs.
They often display a high level of tension, frustration, and conflict within the family. Most TV programmes are nothing more than “bad-parodies” today, not dramas. The only thing you had to do back then was to open the wooden shutter of your Crown or Bush TV & run up your terrace and adjust the Yagi Antenna and Ta-da… simply carefree & magical days. I can arguably say that all that I watched on DD in those times was much much better in terms of entertainment, content, and educational value than most of the today’s TRP hungry Breaking News stuff. The people living around in the next lanes would befriend those who had TV sets. Nevertheless, there was no choice of channels like it is today and to say most of us had to stick to DD. As far as I recall I’d never really pretermitted much of DD in my preteen unless of course, it was really a lofty subject for me to grasp at those times. Watching Television a.k.a the Idiot Box was my birthright and since that said I have been watching it day by day until it took a setback some 12 years back.
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