Television / Movie Characters from the past

Today, we cannot imagine a life without television. We watch a lot of it day in and day out. How many of the thousands of characters we meet on TV do we remember? There are some characters we come across who stay with us for life. From my teenage years I can remember ‘Swami’ of Malgudi days and ‘Karamchand’ to name two. When I come across re-runs of some of the programs today, I fail to see what attracted me to them in the first place! If you take Swami, reading the book by R K Narayan is a much richer experience. However back then it was a great influence.

 The same goes for movies too - I remember the hype ‘Shahenshah – an Amitabh movie – created. I had seen the movie then; and my memory of it has been that it was a great movie. I got a chance to see it on one of the telly channels a couple of years back – I wondered what was it about the movie that had me spell bound 20 years back!

 Today my daughter loves ‘Kimbadan Mama’ of Krishnan fame. Another generation, another set of characters ...