4 things I detest about Indian Television

You can make a billion calls. Call a trillion homes. I will eat myself if you could find a more religious couch potato than me. I watch T.V as often as Ganguly blinks his eyes. Ever since I was a kid, television is my life.

My mind has been programmed to adapt to any show, without getting bored irrespective of how boring, mind numbing and ear shattering it could be.

However, over the years there are a few things I hate which creep every now and then which irritate the crap out of a person like me, who religiously watches TV with the concentration of a surgeon operating on a delicate hamster.

Indian TV shows are a buttload of melodramatic garbage which refuse to flush beyond a page of sensible page of story line.

Here are five things television could do without-

• Advertisements- There is nothing that beats the irritation caused by an untimely ads which pop up at the peak tense moment in the movie. Getting my attention is really hard and once set, I forget the world around me and devote precious seconds of my life wondering, how the story would turn next, when BOOM, I am forced to face the advantages of incontinence sanitary napkins for the old. Why in the world, would anyone glued to a story suddenly think "hey since the movie I love has a millionth ad I hate, why not buy these so, the old age population can pee better!"
•  The slow drag-   Name any program on TV, watch it for a day or two, come back after a world tour, reincarnate and back, the storyline will continue to be in the same sets, where you last remember watching. The 1 billion eyeballs glued to TV are ready to sacrifice all comforts of life, just to watch people walk around in slow-mo. Nothing beats the suspense of these shows, as they cover every random aspects of walking corridors, doing odd jobs with a mellow classical background music.
• Patronizing Cricket- India loves cricket. Every ad today irrespective of how unnecessary deals with cricket.WOULD you ever spend 15 lakhs to go for an IPL edition car? Definitely not! Endorsements are supposed give us a reason to invest in a particular product. Our ad makers are either too bonkers to depict cricket so often on TV. People abroad who fly to India feel that Indians fantasize cricket. Our sodas, diapers, mosquito coils and even cements all depict jobless people playing cricket, or scoring a century due to the usage of a fairness cream!
• The lead actor/actress NEEDS to have a STUPID BFF..-  NAME A movie and you have it. The protagonist always needs one gay/funny/insanely rich friend who basically serves no purpose of existence but to circle around the main leads life. These people are voyeurs who enjoy watching the lead actors make out, romance and provide valuable advice during tough phases.They are the people who no one cares about, just the way we chuck bones of the chicken.

Indian television has a very long way to go. Its time we see some new stuff. 

What else is on tv?