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Sunday, August 07, 2005

Sitcoms and Poetry

very very contrasting names, sitcoms and poetry are not chalk and cheese. I have been watching a lot of TV, way too much in the vacations and have been able to get hold of a few sitcoms, missed out on a few as well. the ones that have made the rounds on popularity and public opinion have been Desparate Housewives and Sex and the city , while the junta's opinions have out numbered mithun movies, i wont waste time for that. wht i wud like to say is that these shows are not urchin and infant shows, neither do they come on pogo, and meant only for a 'select' few.

Yes they are packaged with a lot of sleaze and some spicy chit chats and banter, but what they try and show is the emptiness and voids which are present in people's day to day lives. i was reading some blog somewhere (dunno where) which criticizes them and says they are un indian. I dont really knw whats Indian, to quote Morpheus from the matrix, "what is Indian? how do u define Indian?' Indian means ladies wearing desinger sarees and designer Glycerene on their tears, or Indian means David Dhawan and Manmohan Desai movies. Im not taking a dig at them, for they have great legendary status, but what im sayiing is in a world of cable TV and worldspace, the definition of the Indian has changed. NO, its not sunny deol wearing Baniyans, its the global assimilation and the global influences while indians influence the globe. I was talking to one of my B school buddies once about F.R.I.E.N.D.S., the highlighted spelling is out of admiration cos its a fun show, coming back to the topic at hand, the chat went on to Sex and the City.
He said that its made up, and its phoney. The girls are made to talk like that and present a sleazy image, another frd of mine went on even to say that American life looks good only in sitcoms, which is a bit exaggarated. My meanderings into my thoughts have gone too far. But if u say that Sex and the city is made up, tell me something about Jassi, Yeh meri life hai & Kyuni Saas paida hui, where else in the world wud u find women wearing SHINY clothes, so shiny that i have to spell it in caps, and Crying til the Bombay rains come. i mean, i have never seen a lady i knw cry like that, if anyone has, pls tel it to my lost soul. wht thing on TV is not made up. tell me one show thats real, even the reality TV is phoney. U cant live ur life half an hour a day as most sitcoms show u do. people say WWE is fixed, newspapers used to carry page long columns about how REAL it was. Now i say that steel chairs hitting a skull is more savvy to me than a lady wearing tanihsq jewellry and crying. Im sorry that my family watches them, my sis doesnt. I just feel sorry for those who do? Kyunki i wont see them even if its the last show that i ever see.

POETRY
No i havent become a poet, i will never b, not that i can think of a time now. But a lot of blogs are dedicated to poetry and been fortunate enough to go theu most of em, some of em are great, some random, and some,to put it most candidly, beyond the realms of my brain. Im not saying they are good or bad, for im no one to say that, what i wana say is what Chris Cornell says; "BE yourself is all that u can do"

Wht is poetry? to some people its abstract words written on paper, to some its jingles and songs. To yours truly, however, poetry is what poetry in motion can be said to be. Which is to say that, i define poetry as an expression of art. poetry is Lance armstrong on a Bike, sachin scoring a hundred, Warney going Round the wicket and turning the ball 3 hands to bowl someone, its watching Pulp fiction, its a Guitarist playing a solo where the rest gape in amazement, its watching Steve Waugh being humble and staying for practises and watching young kids and still signing autographs.

To summarise this best, poetry is Indian Ocean playing a live concert. Its like u knw them personally and u sit at a personal invit closed doors concert while they play their tunes, joking and laughing in between as if they are ur pals

Im no poet, never read much poetry, except for my english courses. What i do knw is poetry is what u can see and experience, rather than what u hear or read!!!!

Comments and criticism welcome

16 Comments:

Blogger ~Nitoo Das~ said...

"...poetry is Indian Ocean playing a live concert."

Well-said. They'll probably be playing in my college later this month. :)

Sun Aug 07, 01:35:00 PM  
Blogger kunal said...

i will b there, with my buddies

Sun Aug 07, 01:45:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

poetry in motion, eh?
ur blog will soon be on the list too.
keep up.

Sun Aug 07, 01:47:00 PM  
Blogger Enemy of the Republic said...

Poetry is the dream state, the innerworkings of our unconscious mysteries that don't make sense, but are forced to make sense. A lot of people don't like poetry because they want things to move from A to B; some poems let that happen, but most don't. Not all songwriters are poets, but the ones that are really stay with you.

I'm glad to have found your blog! I'll keep reading!

Mon Aug 08, 09:41:00 AM  
Blogger kunal said...

thats a honor, visit as many times as u wana, mayb more, keep coming and going

nice to knw people appreciate my words:)

Mon Aug 08, 10:29:00 AM  
Blogger Anang said...

I think its more like the people in sex and the city were caricatures or based off of people in NYC. If you've been to NYC its definitely sex and the city now cause every woman from 20-40 can be seen in those clothes/mannerisms whatever.
Besides, which idiot actually believes that television emulates real life?
I hardly think I could get a perfect idea of the Indian family if I watched Hum Log or Tu Tu main main or whatever goes for television in India nowadays...sooo...
Btw, Desperate Housewives is shit. Pure filthy hammered pressed and reprocessed shit.
As for the being indian/unindian, I too think its all in people's heads.
And..Why the hell do Indian people love Friends so much. All my FOB friends have friends dvds and posters in their apartments. WTF?
I never knew a bunch of white people were that interesting.

Mon Aug 08, 03:47:00 PM  
Blogger kunal said...

see friends is not abt indian or un indian, its an analysis of day 2 day lives of 6 NYC peeps.

now its blown up, over exaggarated in parts. and im sure no one's frds are like that

where i like it is the Jobs these people have, i mean how many of us lik their jobs, their turmoil with relationships and money etc.... basically what the theme song says :)


its not abt white or nigger or brown, its just abt the age of life, the times, becos they are indeed in some small way a reflection of true lives

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