The Golden Era of Doordarshan

The era of doordarshan  was a fun filled moments of our lives in the 70's and 80's. The only channel and entertainment that infuse happiness and smile. The news readers were so decent and cultured that we get influenced by their speaking style, mannerisms and dress sense alongwith hair style. Their english and hindi pronounciations influenced our student mind very much.

 

The signature tune of doordarshan were so soothing, lively and authentic that it spells a magic into our little hearts. The tune also signals the youth about time for resuming studies and prompts our mothers and grandma's to offer their evening prayers with incense sticks and conch blowing. It was so quiet and transparent moments which at those times seems to be boring and naive but comparing in todays noisy and various news channels feeding us with news containing only violence and disturbing visuals seems yesteryear simplicity with only entertainer as Doordarshan was the best form of watching the nation. 

 

Our entertainments only contains the serials like Malgudi days,  

Tamas,  Bharat ek khoj,  Ramayan & Mahabharat,   Startrek  followed by cartoons like He man and the master of the universe,  our favourite donald duck  

or tom & jerry  which obsessed our student minds thoroughly.  How can one forget the sunday Bournvita quiz contest programmes and the anchors like 

Siddharth Basu,  Dr Narattam Puri,  

Salma sultan,  Rini Simon  and many more whose personality sparks style and the most professional cultured mannerisms and their conducting styles always will stay in our heart fondly. Prannoy roy's  introduction of The World this Week was the first news channel which showed us news in an international platform for the first time.  News on sundays for deaf and dumb was worth watching which in todays era is obsolete. 

Remembering the times when any ministers assasination or natural death was marked with respect stopping all form of entertaimments and  was only switched to classical music for the whole week. Those momennts were boring indeed but we got adjusted with the norms and practices without complains.The young and the old in households were happy watching stunning films like 

Anand,  Bawarchi  or Sholay  in Hindi and few bengali movies starring Uttam kumar  suchitra sen  every sunday in the afternoon and evening was shown which were watched with all family members. The houses who cannot afford Television sets congregate to various households and watch jointly. The moments were really nostalgic and ties unity with good connectivity. Only one telephone connection in a houseused used to serve a large portion of a particular locality those times. On the advent of new technology, the human connectivity in person has become a long distance affair only restricted in mobiles. Every wednesday watching Chitrahar for half an hour was memorable and the tunes of 

kishore kumar,  Md Rafi,  lata - asha 

numbers left us with humming tunes while returning back to our usual household chores.

Todays world where all entertainments and sports is in reach but the peace and quietness of yesteryear entertainment has blown away with the wind. Doordarshan times and their fantastic anchors and the programme selection and conducting will always remain in our hearts belovedly.