I may or may not be bonding with my grandmother. And it may or may not be over soap operas.
Every day, without fail, my grandmother treks upstairs to watch her soaps. I’m sorry, her TV serials. Her channel of choice is Colors TV, a station whose sole purpose, I’ve determined, is to air cringe-worthy serials filled with beautiful people, beautiful clothes, beautiful jewelry, and decidedly not-beautiful drama.
(OH MY GOD, I JUST SPELLED JEWELRY ‘JEWELLERY’ AND COULD NOT FIGURE OUT WHY IT WAS WRONG. I HAVE BEEN HERE TOO LONG. ALREADY.)
My seemingly inexplicable fascination with Gossip Girl is now completely explicable.
Because these shows are like Gossip Girl.
On crack.
By far, her favorite show – and the one she spent the most time explaining – is Uttaran. Currently, there is a lady who is pretending to be blind, a brother who is trying to blackmail someone, the protagonist, Ichha, who just mistakenly drank a glass of poisoned water, her husband, Veer, who was supposed to be killed, and a gaggle of cousins and servants who stand around a gossip and look pretty. And apparently, there have been over 600 episodes before this one. WTF? My grandmother’s explanations were clearly lacking somewhere.
So I decided to put my wonderful mind to work and do some research. Luckily, Wikipedia already knows about the phenomena called Uttaran. Wikipedia, however, claimed that there were over 650 episodes, and the plot summary hadn’t even reached the ‘pretending-to-be-blind’ or ‘let’s-all-try-to-kill-Veer’ scandals. Which means there are probably over 700 episodes of that show. And my grandmother has watched practically every single one.
All I can say is my Gossip Girl addiction is starting to look pretty tame.
-May 25th
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