MTV versus Doordarshan

I and my bro were watching TV and he immune to his old habit switched to the doordashan channel. He often does this histrionics to irritate us as he smirks behind our back. The sudden shift from MTV’s Splitsvilla to Doordarshan’s Mahabharat launched a real havoc in my mind (sounds like launching a real rocket to the moon!)

Can doordarshan cater to MTV(iers)? By that I mean can doordarshan suffice the needs of our today’s YUVA and can MTV attract doordarshan eyeballs. Let’s compare and see the difference for ourselves. In terms of content and presentation, yup MTV is a music channel and Doordarshan has chitrahaar. MTV has started showing movies and doordarshan has been since inception airing old classic Hindi movies. MTV has Cyrus Brocha’s Bakra while doordarshan has Jaspal Bhatti’s Flop show. Cool! Don’t they seem to be compatible?? Seems like I almost married rakhi sawant with salman :P.

Now, imagine an old nanny of 90 years sitting with her children (about the size of a cricket team) in a village and watching MTV splitsvilla (the most explicit in content on MTV according to me). The task of splitsvillans is to seduce their partners through raunchy dance steps and stripping. Imagine this; our old nanny would close to get a stroke at the very moment. Not that she had many years left in her life but still she could have easily crossed the century mark like this 101 years old working lady (read this: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/This-101-yr-old-woman-is-an-NREGS-worker/articleshow/5826956.cms). God! Even crossing a half century mark seems to be such a herculean task to me…Uff!!!

Coming to the debate, I don’t think it is possible that MTV can replace the doordarshan at least in the rural India. It would be like MNS ruling INDIA. Impossible!!

Now, let’s explore the other end, can MTV viewers be pulled to Doordarshan? I consider this a possibility, think of it, our country belongs to an old school of thought and we (the GENEXT) have chosen leaders most of whom are in their early seventies or eighties to run the country. Down the line we have agreed to their ideology and hence they are ruling the country. So why not? Doordashan can attract MTV viewers.

Simply stating, I believe our country is still in the doordarshan era while the larger audience has shifted to hog on MTV. Wat say??

*This blog is not meant to offend the avid viewers of both the channels or the die-hard fans of rakhi, salman or MNS.