Sep 14, 2010

Chennai it is...compared to it was - Final

India has Newspapers in 87 languages. Radio station in 71 languages and Films in 15 languages..but when it comes to TV channels, there is nothing new that all the national music channels are dominated with "Hindi" as you can see from the new design of our currency to the MTV/Channel V which has only Hindi songs/movie trailers/pop songs.

To watch English music videos in national TV??!! even in MTV/Channel V you have to be awake at midnight to watch English music videos...or else you need to subscribe for VH1 which was free before 3 years, now recently Yo music channel (which is free & English I believe) so I could hard see any English music videos, rationed by SS Music in between other south Indian songs...

As I was desperate to update on the Hindi pop albums..I watched B4U music and 9XM TV channel, nothing so catchy as it has only Hindi movie trailers, usual Punjabi pop album and a bit of latest Hindi songs disturbed by the ugly looking tiger/fox cartoon in the 9XM channel which was awkward with its comments/dance movements, it was thought to be very funny and creativity, sad it couldn't...

Hindi pop songs was my most favorite with Bally sagoo, Sukhbir, Daler mehndi, Euphoria, Falguni patek, till Abhijeet sawant - Lafzon mein which had Tamana for the first time(who is very famous tamil actress now)..but when I checked for the new pop songs..it was a total disappointment not to see any good pop songs during my 3 weeks stay!

There is a new channel for foreign movies, more channels from NDTV- and interestingly NDTV Hindu, I think its the only Hindu channel in the whole world!

Among the tamil TV channels Vijay TV has the best viewership from all the relatives we visited, next comes Zee Tamil and rest all for masala entertainers..even their rating of new movies has lost its credibility as they need to be loyal to their management, who are promoting/producing the movies so obviously their own movies comes first in their TV rating though its real rating will be some where below 7...

Well, I love Indian advertisements, it has the best creativity in the world, on that updations I was quite happy to see some good advertisements like the Nimbu ad, Asin Miranda ad, etc...as it was the time for World Tamil conference in coimbatore, the theme song was so popular or made to be popular as it was continuesly telecasted for every 10 minutes, now everybody likes that song..even my kids like that AR.Rehman song.

Finally, compared to my last visit to Chennai, this time I would say Chennai with its better road, better buses, more beautification in the main areas, more shopping malls and with more multiplex! with future plans of metro rail service, more malls, more industrialization... I would definitely say that Chennai is developing as India is developing.

2 comments:

erer said...

hey thanks for dropping by... happy blogging! :)

Srinivas said...

Thanks