Jasu ben Jayanti lal Joshi ki Joint family!!

If you aren’t an active member of the TV viewing fraternity odds are that you could have misread the title as another of those examples of alliteration… On the other hand, a couch potato would vouch for the fact that its one of the trendy soaps on a popular channel…A host of such shows with wacky names and even wackier themes have cropped up…Though the number of serials have risen exponentially, the quality has dug deep…There used to be a period, very much in the recent past, when soaps provided wholesome entertainment sans the melodrama and the routine song-dance sequences of typical bollywood potboilers…their USP being a shade closer to reality…but that was very much of the past…in the present scenario they are simply mediocre…going overboard with literally everything…be it the depiction of emotions or the background score…the success of a particular format paves the way for scores of others to follow in…the most striking one being Kyunki saas bhi kabhi bahu thi which made the saas- bahu sagas a rage…then came the reality shows…giving everybody a chance to fame even if for a brief time, never mind the person deserves it or not…they are supposed to be spontaneous but everything appears far too scripted…the news channels aren’t left much behind where over dramatization is concerned…watching TV has become an ordeal task…keep on surfing till you might accidentally stumble upon something pleasant…To surmise(of course with utmost dejection!) the idiot box has ceased to provide company, the way it once used to.