My Memoirs: entertainment

Doordarshan has had a special appeal to me, especially because of the fact that I grew up watching this national channel, which was the only one available during those days (late 1980s and early 1990s). In particular, my bonding towards these DD channels was more stronger that others, I grew up at a place where cable TV was clearly out of reach and I had no choice but to savour the DD1 and DD2 (metro). But, looking back at it, in a way that was fun. I seldom have the same excitement on watching television channels now, infact its not even a fraction of what I used to hold as a kid. The world has metamorphosized and we now only flip-channels. Its a race that all channels have gotten in, to show stuff that would catch you eye as you hurriedly button away to the end of the list. If a channel gave you even five minutes of boredom, they ran the risk of being completely ignored for rest of the day or worse-even being blacklisted so that nobody in the entire family watched it again :) Back then, the case was different, all you had were the twin DD channels with their regional equivalents of course, these entertained the people (whether they liked it or not). But, the entertainment and knowledge-sharing it provided was complete - we had news, movies, documentaries, mythological soaps, advertisements, thrillers, detective serials, educational programmes, sports telecast, so on..

This post is to reminiscence of all those moments, all those good old commercials/serials/theme music tracks that drag me back to those days. My personal favorites were Amul Surabhi (I love the intro music track), Rangoli (the programme was on Sunday and I woke up listening to its songs), Chandrakanta (the thrilling fantasy series), Sri Krishna (I never missed a single episode, this was the best of Ramanand Sagar's creations!) and so on..

These are some randomly picked up stuff I found on youtube that took me back to that age and I felt like archiving them. Hope you do enjoy them as well!

Doordarshan Signature