Sumeet Soni

SWEET MEMORIES: It’s the time when there use to be only one TV at our homes with only one or maximum two channels to watch and thus, every serial and every song had a great value to itself, though I was not a BIG TIME TV surfer .

Doordarshan - The one and only daily entertainment dose of every Indian.

I still remember the days when we all use to wait for every Friday to watch the latest songs (Chitrahar) on our favorite channel Doordarshan. Today, just try to visualize - you are allowed to watch songs just for half an hour a week and that too at a pre-scheduled time (Friday, 8:00PM) .

Listed below are some of the serials and commercials, that will definitely gonna remind you with your kindergarten days and of course, I can already see a smile on your face :

• Chitrahaar - Songs at their best; half an hour, once a week (Friday, 8:00PM).
• Ramayan and Mahabharat - you can’t argue with your grand-parents on this, everything can stop when it comes to these serials and anything was possible with these serials. Remember those bow & arrows spreading fires and killing 1000 of people with a single shot .
• Malgudi Days
• Chandrakanta - Karuuuur Singh (Yakoo)
  • lyrics: “Chandrakanta kee kahani hai sadeyon purani, …“
• Jungle Book - Mowglee, Bagira, Sherkhan
  • lyrics: “Jungle jungle baat chali hai pataa chala hai, chaddi pehen ke phool khila hai..“
  • video:
• Cartoons - Ducktales, Telespin after Chanakya at 10:30AM, Sunday morning. Uncle screwz , always screwed.
• Chanakya
• Vyomkesh Bakshi - Detective serials of your times
• Fauji & Circus - Initial start of Shahrukh Khan’s career which made him quite popular on TV.
• Humlog, Buniyaad
• Nukkad - khopdi (drunken, always - still alive)
• Tipu Sultan
• Mungerilal Ke Haseen Sapne - wow
• Fatichar
• Surbhi
• Vikram Vetaal
• and there were many more to this list..

There is a little more to it…

• “Mile sur mera tumhara, too sur baane humara” - it was such a long song and boring too
• Days when the TV set too use to sleep; it was between late night and early morning… you must be knowing it if you have ever got a chance to switch your TV ON between that time… there use to be rainbow colored 7-10 vertical strips on your TV Screen with some irritating background sounds.
• Also, how can one forget “Rookavat ke liye khed hai“

A few good & bad commercials

• Hamara Bajaj
• Nirma Detergent
• Ek Anek Aur Ekta
  

There is so much more but I have to go now.. but i’ll be back with some more interesting, loving and enjoyable stuff till then…,

Keep Smiling n Keep Rolling n Keep Rocking…

ENJOY!!!