GOLDEN ERA OF DOORDARSHAN

doordarshan after 11pm

Few days ago i found one of my friend watching shaktiman on youtube,in the scene shaktiman had lost his power because he realived geeta vishwas against the rules of nature.My mind immidiately went to flashback and starts remembering the same episode,watching on black and white tv on doordarshan,the golden era of my life.yesterday i was discusing those days with  one of my friend and i found that she has exactly the same feeling of those days.Infact every person of 90's must have a place for doordarshan in their heart.
                          Now a days u may have 200 channels but belive me u can never have a complete package like our doordarshan.From a 5 yr old kid to 75 yr old olidies,from normal to disable person everyone had something from doordarshan.You may now have comfort to watch any movie at any time on digital big screen 24*7 but you cant have curiosity of waiting for sunday evening movie,you cant imagine the thrilling moment of adjusting antenna on roof for better signal and shouting "saaf hua or ab thik aa raha hai?".Once the picture is clear nobody cares about you and get adhered to tv.What was this?this was the magic of doordarshan.
                         How many of you wake up early in the morning on sunday?I think i have to go on microscopic level to find such young people.In DD era sunday used to be the most special day.We have to get ready by 7.30 am for rangoli with the gorgeous hema malini to ensure our weekly music dose(the only source of  visual music).After rangoli its time for greatest mythologies like ramayana,mahabharat.Till 10 am we all kids got ready and already started praying for electricity to be there inbetween 12 to 1pm noon,because it was time for shaktiman,my favourite,everyone's favourite,the baap of all the superhero of today.We used to cry when villian beat shaktimaan,we used to joy like crazy on his every victory.Infact i also got the crude meaning of love from the story of shaktiman and geeta vishwas,the immortal love story.On the evening we used to cancel our cricket matches just to watch the 4pm movie(during which the tv room were efficiently transformed into a mini multiplex) that was cunningly shortened to 2.30 hrs because of 7pm news bulletin.Hindi news,urdu news,job news(dont know why we even watch this also) and for hearing disable people(used to immitate anchor in school).Currently we have so many news channel covering the news of "which khan slapped whom" to "cold of sonia ghandhi" but back then we were having NEWS,the real and meaningful news.Being a dweller of border area near to nepal it was a bonus to have nepali channel,they used to show comparatively newer bollywood movies,for that again we had to twist the antenna towards north.:)
                                                     Ads of those days were also having their special importance in our life,the competetion between colgate and pepsodant or inbetween "RIN supreme and fena hi lena" "vicco termeric",rasna ad(the girl was so beautiful), all were realistics ad, not like todays so called "AXE EFFECT" making fool of us.Infact axe effect is proving that we are not going to be more civilized but rather than we are going in stone age where people(or animal) used to sense by smelling.:)

too much memory in just one picture

                                                   Remembering the shows of those days,(i dont remember many but thanx to my friend for reminding me many of them),i would like to name few of them.There was surbhi the most excellent show hosted by a very beautiful women(don't exactly remember her name) showing the diversity of india and in the end of the show there was ample of letters to read for them(unfortunetly back those days we didn't had acess to google".There was few kids related show like tarang,juniorji(awkward),bikram betaal :duck tails(my fav)"alif laila(i used to dream of having the same zinn of alif laila in my real life)" and manymore.Chandrakanta was another excellent drama(notably krooor singh was so famous),yug(the patriotic one).There were some excellent horror show like aapbeeti(i guess made by some patni peerit people bcause of only female ghosts in each episode)There were" fauji," "circus""humlog" but i don't remember(i guess i was too little to remember these).
                                       Sometimes i wish i could have a time machine so i could go back to those days and enjoy them one more time.Really we didn't thought that those would be the most memorable days of our life and many others......Well....with this i would stop my fingers(its really paining now).Thankyou,take care!