T.v show- Malgudi Days(1987)

                                Based on the works of R.K Narayan, Malgudi Days was adopted as a television series by Doordarshan 1987. Swami, the protagonist, is a 9-year-old boy living in Malgudi with his parents and grandmother.
                                Epidsode one commences with he lead character, Swami asleep. Further on a teacher in a primary school is fighting over Hindu and Christian religion. Carnatic Musician L. Vidyanathan composed the score for this series and this is one of those musical pieces which stay with you.
                                Cinematography from the point of view of those days is very good, with bright and contrasting frames.The low side no doubt is the editing. In three-four occasions, it is clearly visible that there was a cut in between, whose bits and pieces were not added together perfectly. 
                                 Shifting from the technical specifications,the serial was directed Shankar Nag, and was shot entirely near Agumbe district of Karnataka.It was one of the gems produced by Doordarshan when there was no other channel.The atmosphere and the mood that the episodes create are something very positive, wholesome, and nostalgic.  
                                 The stories are simple yet moving.What really makes these short stories leave an indelible mark on your memory is: Coherent and very identifiable characters who are struggling for better living or for more happiness.
                                  You will be fascinated at the ease with which these men managed to craft the rhythm of the life in the stories of Malgudi.The message that 'Malgudi Days' conveys represents every human emotion there ever was and every personality there ever will be. A new dimension. A new light. Draped in the practicality we are so used to, it hid within the simple nothings of life that are everything.The credit indeed goes to great stories written by R K Narayan. Without these stories it would have been impossible to create such profound impact by these episodes.

UPKAR (1967)

                      In the mid-sixties, India faced double trouble. On one hand, Pakistan attacked our frontiers, on the other, there occurred a scarcity of foodgrains in the country.Upkar, which won the best film Filmfare award for 1967, was a movie directed by Manoj Kumar, revolving around the same theme mentioned above. The lead cast included Manoj Kumar, Prem Chopra, Asha Parekh and Pran.
                      Upkar (obligation) is the story of a peasant-cum-soldier , Bhaarat (Manoj Kumar) who despite being well-educated, prefers to go for peasantry in his parental village, whereas his younger brother, Pooran (Prem Chopra) moves out for higher studies and gets spoilt. Bhaarat's maternal uncle (Madan Puri) is a wicked man who had earlier killed their father and now he along with the money-lender of the village fills poison in the mind of Pooran against his elder brother. Pooran gets separated from the family with his share of the land. Meanwhile Puran, with the help of his greedy uncle and some partners, tries to gain profit by selling drugs and black-marketing in the market. Asha Parekh is a doctor promoting family planning,
                          In the end, Bharat returns as a war hero defeating the demon designs of the enemy and his brother repents as he is caught by the police (by the brother-in-law of Bharat). Hence, he vows to be a good & hardworking brother just like his Indo-Pak war veteran brother Bharat.

                                 Manoj Kumar could see the crops through the anklets of a village beauty. The way he shot “Mere Desh Ki Dharti” could make any city-bred guy fall in love with the lilt of bucolic life.
                           Several symbols of nationhood, benevolent military, self-sacrificing mothers present a complete, unadulterated picture of the struggles of the righteous in a rising nation-state. See Chinese propaganda films of the Great Leap Forward, the farm-worker parallels are astonishing.Family bonds have been dealt with in this movie in a very sentimental and impressive manner. Kalyanji Anandji's music is one of the greatest assets of this movie. It contains the evergreen patriotic song - Mere Desh Ki Dharti Sona Ugle.
                              One bold highlight of the film is Pran, who has performed the role of the handicapped, carefree and outspoken Malang Chacha so well that you can never forget him. Getting out of the earlier grey shade characters in his career, he played a supporting actor with brilliance.
                               The city versus village argument continues till date but the point the director made in the film still holds ground. If every young man will move out of village, who will take care of the country's hunger.The film de-links education with your vocation and place of work, something our system and society are still grappling with.

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1938 - THE PANIC BY RADIO

                                       October 30 1938, the United States experienced a kind of mass hysteria that was never  seen before. Thousands of people believed they were under attack by Martians. They flooded newspaper offices and radio with weapons  and police stations with calls, asking how to flee their city or how they should protect themselves from Martian invasion and gas raids.

                                       Orson Welles had rewritten the story of War of the Worlds (by H.G WELLS). The introduction to War of the Worlds broadcast on CBS Radio emphasized that it was based on the H.G. Wells novel and was just a drama play, not reality.

                                       The script transformed the novel into a radio play.Besides shortening the story, they also updated it by changing the location and time from Victorian England to present day New England. The chaos among people was caused as a great amount of audience tuned in to the radio late, after the warning of the broadcast being a drama adaptation was mentioned.

                                        
                                      We live in a time in which the ability to create deceptive simulations, for television, newspaper and radio, has become essential to the exercise of power. And the inability to see through these deceptions has become a form of powerlessness. Those who let themselves be taken in by the deceptions of politics, news, advertising and public relations, are doomed, like the more gullible members of the radio audience in 1938.