This one ran on Wednesdays at 9pm (I think). It starred Saeed Jaffrey as the owner of an Indian restaurant in London - The Jewel in the Crown. The series showed the happenings at this restaurant which with capers every week involving the owner and the waiters.
IMDB link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088623/
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Aisa Bhi Hota Hai
This show aired on Sundays at midday. A mish-mash of different things - scientific in nature.
One episode remains in mind - the hostess crumples up a Rs.100 note and then proceeds to make it disappear - with the tagline 'Aisa bhi hota hai!'. I remember my father going - That is a Rs. 100 note she is making disappear! He used to have a Thursday holiday so watching TV on Sundays was a different experience...
One episode remains in mind - the hostess crumples up a Rs.100 note and then proceeds to make it disappear - with the tagline 'Aisa bhi hota hai!'. I remember my father going - That is a Rs. 100 note she is making disappear! He used to have a Thursday holiday so watching TV on Sundays was a different experience...
Space City Zigma
An Indian Sci-Fi serial which played on Sundays at 9am.
A complete knock-off of Star Trek, it even had an Android called Shakti with a cheesy sticker on his cheek! The villain's name was Zakaku and the captain (Dara?) was played by a guy called Kishen Kant Singh. I remember his name because I once read an article in Target where he joked that his name was actually 'Kishen Can't Sing!'.
Also Zakaku had this old style 'flat' tape recorder on his chest. It was created and directed by a guy called Ramesh Talwar if memory serves...
One of the episodes had this organ-like thing which sticks to your cheek and needless to say a pain to get off...
The episodes did have some space dog-fights... It was funny to hear - Zakaku ke ladaku yaan... which translates to - 'Zakaku's warplanes...' in Hindi!
A complete knock-off of Star Trek, it even had an Android called Shakti with a cheesy sticker on his cheek! The villain's name was Zakaku and the captain (Dara?) was played by a guy called Kishen Kant Singh. I remember his name because I once read an article in Target where he joked that his name was actually 'Kishen Can't Sing!'.
Also Zakaku had this old style 'flat' tape recorder on his chest. It was created and directed by a guy called Ramesh Talwar if memory serves...
One of the episodes had this organ-like thing which sticks to your cheek and needless to say a pain to get off...
The episodes did have some space dog-fights... It was funny to hear - Zakaku ke ladaku yaan... which translates to - 'Zakaku's warplanes...' in Hindi!
Mungherilal ke Haseen Sapne
To start off - an old gem of a series... It captures the hopes and aspirations so poignantly and perfectly, that it was a must-watch at 9pm Tuesdays (I think).
It starred Raghuvir Yadav who has a different dream in which he lives in a reality where he is someone else. He always has outlandish dreams - he is a middle class Indian who dreams big always. The dreams always start with a nervous tic of his head where he shakes it slightly back and forth and then we are led into the dream land.
I remember the title song which goes something like this - Mungherilal ke haseen sapne, sapnon mein apne, apnon ke sapne...
which translates to - 'the wonderful dreams of Mungherilal, which star his friends and family and are dreams of his friends and family...'
My favorite episode was the one in which he becomes a scientist and saves the world?
It starred Raghuvir Yadav who has a different dream in which he lives in a reality where he is someone else. He always has outlandish dreams - he is a middle class Indian who dreams big always. The dreams always start with a nervous tic of his head where he shakes it slightly back and forth and then we are led into the dream land.
I remember the title song which goes something like this - Mungherilal ke haseen sapne, sapnon mein apne, apnon ke sapne...
which translates to - 'the wonderful dreams of Mungherilal, which star his friends and family and are dreams of his friends and family...'
My favorite episode was the one in which he becomes a scientist and saves the world?
Old DoorDarshan Serials
Only yesterday, in the middle of a game of scrabble, we started remembering the old DD serials and how quaintly wonderful they were. With a nod to posterity, I present to you OLD DoorDarshan Serials.
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