In the summer of 1964, as a child, he marvelled at the sounds emanating from a radio set owned by his uncle. Mahadevan looks at the phenomenal growth and the eventual qualitative fall of the television industry through his own life’s journey. Swaroop Sampat, Shafi Inamdar and Rakesh Bedi in Yeh Jo Hai Zindagi And scores of other shows such as Hum Log, Buniyaad, Khandaan, which are firmly etched in the collective memory of Generation X. It will also bring back memories of good old Doordarshan, of Krishi Darshan, of the constant disruptions (“ Rukaawat ke liye khed hai”) or the blank screen reverberating with static waves. It will bring back memories of the rib-tickling Shafi Inamdar-Satish Shah-Swaroop Sampat-starrer Yeh Jo Hai Zindagi, the success of which, despite several attempts over the next four decades, has never been replicated. Brimming with details of the golden age of Indian television, this is as much a treasure trove for those who grew up in the 1980s and 1990s, when watching TV was the only means of recreation for families, as for those whose interest in those years is purely academic. Once Upon a Prime Time by actor, writer and director Ananth Mahadevan is a bomb of nostalgia.
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