Since yesterday, I have declared my TV as the most irritating one on earth. It lacks tata sky (Isko laga dala to life jhingalala) or a set top box, thanks to my parents who think since 10th is a board class, i need to study hard and that TV will distract me. I turned on the TV yesterday, with my mind made up to bear it for atleast an hour and found nothing to watch except sodden channels like DD national, zoom (isko dekho), a couple of music channels, news channels of all sorts and the south indian channels in languages i don't understand. I tried to entertain myself by watching TV-5 for a while but too much french gets to my head, so i changed the channel even though i was watching a cartoon, Papyrus. Lok sabha was no better, political talk does not entertain me at all. In desperation i flipped channels, hoping to find something watchable, even though our french book advises us not to (Ne pas Zapper). The music channels were airing skimpily clad girls who were updating you with the filmy news, how shahid and kareena broke up, etc. etc. DD channel was showing a black and white movie, and F-tv was not to my choice, so i tried to find some news on the pakistan issue, but unfortunately, all the news channels were showing the shittiest news ever known. The breaking news was that shahrukh came to Nach Baliye, some channels were comparing Saawariya and OSO and others were occupied with selling sauna belts, and showing sweaty stomachs along side. I tried watching the interview of some (apparent) celebrity, but they kept taking "short" breaks. Since i had nothing else to watch, i kept watching the ads, and surprisingly,were more entertaining than anything i had encountered on TV for a while. My personal favourites are the humorous ads, like the happy dent white ads involving the guy with sucky english and the cows and the people with such shiny teeth that they give off light like a bulb. I like the bingo chips ads, chloro mint ads and the one ad about the stupid boss called Hari sadu. Its nice to see how even small things like ads are getting creative and catchy. They know what people want to see, and will bear watching. Known celebrities just saying the name of your brand is out. A tang of good humour and a catchy tag line is enough to ensure people will watch it once and remember. Except sometimes, these people get too...Umm... Bold. I remember, on the way to school, the bus stopped on a red light, and suddenly all the kiddos in front got excited and started peeking out. I wondered what is up, and looked out myself. What i saw was a large hoarding of a woman in a bra, endorsing , you guessed it,...bras. Below, was written:
"size does matter".
Monday, November 12, 2007
Lovely TV
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I hardly turn the thing on except to catch an occasional movie or to watch CNN or the BBC along with a little dose of the discovery and national geographic channels.
If anyone of you has cable TV then check out Anderson cooper 360 (It has nothing to do with my blog name, I swear), it comes on CNN at 7 AM every Tuesday to Saturday ( I get up early on holidays and weekends to watch it & I have also subscribed to the excellent video podcast). Seriously it's pretty good.
Hey, you HAVE to advertise it (I'm talking about the subject of the hoarding that people were peering to catch a glimpse of) like that. What I mean is, if they can stick up posters of Rupa baniyans and whatever else, why not other underwear? And how exactly do you advertise anything without showing it?
You are talking like those people who think it blasphemous to advertise/talk/spread awareness/put up posters of condoms even if they are actually saving lives from AIDS.
Hmm... how do you advertise anything without showing it? You think every single thing advertised is shown? Sometimes they show the effect. You know: before and after. Think about it. Theres some stuff which I'd rather not 'see'.
Tsk tsk India.....
Be a little more liberal people!
Okay, Aditya, I get your point. But how do you advertise underclothes without showing them?
I mean, after effects? You can't show after effects of underclothes. So, even if everything isn't shown when advertised (what did you have in mind anyway?), I don't know if you can advertise underclothes any other way.
yeah, seriously, how can you show before and after effects of underwear? And i never said, don't advertise abt condoms or don't advertise abt anything etc etc.
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