Desi sitcom status report
Indiantelevision dot com's Perspectives: Indian television - a comedy of errors
Children, a little heads up about sitcoms in India. 'Yeh jo hain zindagi' is still the benchmark, apparently. I think those hasya kavi sammelans on DD were the funniest thing I've seen on desi TV.
posted by yangry star @ 2:58 AM
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Right on about those kavi sammelans - Surendra Sharma is one guy I remember very clearly. I was of course a big fan of Yeh Jo Hai ... but the article doesn't mention some of my favourites - "Flop Show", "Mungeri Lal ke Haseen Sapne" (I always hated Kakkaji ... Om Puri is a great actor but he can't do the Bihari accent) and of course "Wagle ki Duniya".
I might sound like a broken record here but I urge everyone to try Phaneeshwarnath Renu - there's astonishing range and variety in desi humour.
Okay, just a warning to those of you who are game to try on Renu - the guy tends to be sentimental at times. But his acerbic wit more than makes up for it.
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