I like the old DD

I am all in for globalization, I do get to see stuff like PB,Lost,Bones,Chuck but I seriously wish DD was back to its old form.I liked it!
I remember a fine saturday afternoon where I was trying desperately to get out of an extra class,again.This one was however memorable because the reason I gave was-Dad,I want to watch that Bengali Subtitle film.And parents actually considered it.Unfortunately I can't recollect the name but it was a Suchitra Sen flick.
Thanks to DD's National Awards winning films slot ,i ended watching awesome-I mean awesome-Movies from Bengali,Malayam,Marathi and even Assamese (Raag Biraag)
But then again,DD wasn't just into reginal flicks.There was this one night I was detained in my room because my parents were watching a PG movie-The Silence of the Lambs*.Yes ,it was on DD.
Talking of international,my first brush with Bryan Adams was also courtesy of DD's hour long special.

Its highly unfortunate that DD has to be scrapped to pave way for these unbelievably dumb tv series that airs nowadays.Here are few stuff that DD churned out

• Bharat Ek Khoj-It was shot so beautifully too!
• Tamas- Heart Wrenching!!!!! (Tamas and Gram Hawa are the best of the lot about partition)
• Mirza Ghalib - Such a fine potrayal
• Surabhi - Common,we all knew how good they were
• I forgot the name of the weekly science show
• Adaptations of various acclaimed novels like-Veyi padagalu (Hazaar Pan),Chekov's short stories
• Byomkesh Bakshi -The charming Rajat
• Dekh Bhai Dekh was rofl stuff
• I am pretty sure I am forgotting good stuff starring likes of Pankaj Kapoor,Raghuvir Yadav,Zohra Sehgal,Mita Vashisth

Now I look at all the 50 odd channels available to me and don't see a single show measuring up to these! Its highly unfortunate .

Few things I associate the 90's with
Mile Sur mera Tumhara
Hamara Bajaj
Rashtriya Sakhsharata Mission
Ek Chidiya


*I took me another 6 years to finally watch the movie.I went and hugged my dad for not letting me watch as a kid,i would have named my boogeyman as Lecter.