I know I've ranted about Indian TV serials before, but in the last week, staying with my grandparents, I've seen more of Star Plus, Zee TV etc etc than I ever would've imagined I had the patience to. Anyway, there was some insipid serial going on as usual and I was struck by the stupidities that jumped out of the screen at my face.

For example, when showing a married couple, it's always the guy who wants to kiss his wife and if he so much as holds her hand and gazes intently at her, she gets all coy and says "OMG what are you doing?" He's checking your hands for calluses. WHAT DO YOU THINK HE'S DOING??????????? And then she'll be the one who pushes him away and say something quite ridiculous like, "Don't be such a devil" or something equally inane and I'm like, ohmigosh, has a woman no sexual identity or freedom in these serials?! Apparently not. And then the man is left maybe smelling her pillow or holding her dupatta in his hand, as she runs away, behaving like a virgin after 10434859 episodes leaving the man quite frustrated coz he hasn't got any. Dude, I'm not asking for full-on make-out scenes or even any kind of love scene. I mean, if any emotional relationships between husband and wife or even boyfriend and girlfriend scares tv series producers so much, don't even allude to such stupid scenes, na? I'd rather NOT see such asinine enactments than have the whole virginal bride nonsense. Some tv serials show natural stuff where they just maybe hug or laugh with each other, hold hands, all of which looks fine, but these scenes, yuck.

And WHY, oh WHY does the heroine have to look like a behenji compared to a fashion-plate vamp? Do the bitches have the right to look glam while the suffering heroine looks so plain? I have nothing against looking normal; people who know me know that I'm not into the whole looking-like-I-am-wearing-3487-brands-on-me. But it becomes so ridiculous: 'oh this girl is wearing a cool dress, she's the evil one' or something along those lines. Can't the long-suffering heroine look cool yet suffering???

Ah well ... Adam Lambert didn't win AI... me so sad. Although Kris-JohnMayer-Allen is quite good too. I was rooting for Adam Lambert though!

More later...
P.S. - There was actually another post in place of this one, but I thought it might be too rude and/or too revealing for this blog. Hmmm, will ponder its ramifications, and maybe post it sometime. Or not.