Cheap entertainment!
I stayed in a university dormitory recently to gain experience. For a personal reason I need to watch the TV news regularly and collect the up to date local and international information. However it's very difficult to watch the TV news because most of the girls are indifferent to it and the TV is controlled by Balaji telefilms from 12:00am to 12:00pm. They hardly watch any Bengali programme, I'm hurt! And if you request for anything else, there will be war! I wonder what makes people watch the monotonous and trite Hindi TV serials. I tried to watch some TV serials to know what is so special about these programmes that the common women folks of our country are so fond of . I'm telling you, if anybody is an insomniac, these serials can be an effective medicine for him. Most of these serials are based on internal chaos, extra marital affairs, jealousy and war between mother-in-law and daughter- in-law. Same old story! But many of our viewers can't help watching those. I can bet that those TV serials and tele-films of ntv and channel I have far better stories.
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