Nonsense television

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Maine pucha chand se ki dekha hai kahin,
Mere yaar sa hasin,
Chand ne kaha,
Abe! Itni upar se kuch dikhta hi nahi.

Yeh tha is week ka mera cheap and ghatiya joke.Why? You mean, kyun?

Arre, because, jahan dekho vahan bakwas, nonsense. As if India ki TV watching audience intelligent insaan nahin, but morons ka sabse biggest sammelan hai. So, maine socha, that the best option is, chand pe latak jao. Vahan se kuch dikhega hi nahin.
Ek toh Kaun Banega Crorepati ke saath-saath mera Amar Prem bhi chala gaya hai, aur mere One & Only ki replacement Sony ne bahut hi behenji type ke shows se ki hai — first is Dekha Ek Khwaab where one cute si Muniya will dutifully follow in the footsteps of Anne Hathaway of Princess Diaries and go from rags to riches, from real problems to fake ones, from life without bijli-pani to a life charged with intrigue. She will eventually, after many dull episodes, find true love and all the bad people will rot in hell. Yucky!
This drivel is followed by Parvarish. No-no, this isn’t about sibling rivalry between a biological and adopted son. This is a contest between two mummyjis — Pinky and Sweety. They are different but, at the core, like every true Bharatiya Mataji who has graced the Indian TV screen, they have a warm desi heart that goes gooey when it feels love and izzat, and hardens when it sees parampara and parivaar under threat. Oh! And there are mummyjis’ very many and very annoying children.
Then there is Colors with Bigg Boss which should now be called “Bigg Bore”.
Bore se yaad aaya, that hairy, bhalu-like fellow Vansh has returned from the dead in Uttaran. Haan! Sachi. He has returned to Ichcha’s life and has been hugging his mother and narrating a very vague story about where he went after he shot himself in the head, was duly burnt and his ashes strewn in the Ganges.
He should have said, “Dad, you know, God was kinda kind to me and said, ‘Vansh beta, ja. Teri Ichcha ke liye ichcha main puri karta hoon’.” But no. His story went like this: “Err... umm... yaad nahin, one baba saved me, dawa-daru ki...” Hello?
First toh, Ichcha’s mangal-sutra made this Vansh very happy, but when he heard that she is married to his little brother Veer, bus, ho gai dil ke paar tragedy… tragedy...
Now that same old natak will start again – Ichcha and Veer will be separated, chudail Tapasya will do the jive, drop Rathore and run after Veer. Veer will be listless as usual. Ichcha will be drawn to Rathore. New Vansh will keep everyone tense... That’s why I said, chalo, chand pe latak jaate hain.