I had always wanted to blog about the Astro Tamil channel pouring in all those useless Mega serials\movies\shows 24/7 on the the TV channel.
Watching the below video posted by my colleague on Facebook further fuelled my anger and hence you are now reading this article.
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Why this Kolaveri with all this mega-serials? There is too many mega-serial airing on Astro currently. Not saying that it's bad but I just want Astro to remove serials that propagates hatred towards your own family, provide dummies guide to kill a people, ruin another person business, ruin another guys\gals life, serials with a life-span of 5 years, crying to the max and the list goes on. I guess, if they remove serials with only the examples that I provided above, 98% of the serials will not be aired anymore.
Isn't there any serials in India that does not use the camera zooming technology to the max?? Why do you need to zoom in the face of on bloody face with eyes popping out from every possible angle? Not only that, why none of the serials shows good moral values at all? I'm not saying that there should not be any negative scenes shown in a serial, but if 30 minutes of the serial is only about what I mentioned above, do we still need such serials? How the hell did the local sensor board approve these serials in the first place? Remove all this mega-serials and you could provide more space to the local talents to show off their product.
As I watched the video, Logan mentioned that the Astro Vaanavil's contract is to provide 70% local shows. But almost 90% show on Vaanavil is product from India!! Now now...I know there is Vizhutugal and a few more local shows and the yearly Aattam 100 Vagai and Astro Superstar.But, I think you can count it with your fingers.
It is not that we do not want to watch local shows on TV, its just that there a almost none shown on the TV. And I dont even want to drag RTM on to this article as I stoped watching those channels long time ago.
Well, I do agree to a certain extent that some of the locally produced movies\DVDs has bad quality but hey, there a a few bunch of good ones too. There is always two side of a coin. But, if you give them a change to produce more dramas\movies and air it on television more often, they have a change to improve themselves even faster. This is because as all of us already know, Malaysian movies\DVD mostly released during Thaipusam times only and some during Deepavali. With limited funds and coverage, how often do you think they can produce movies??
And during Deepavali, Astro channel shows lots of interview of stars, movies, movie review, some old shows of the Tamil stars performing in Dubai, UK. What happened to the locally produced shows?? THe airtime of local shows are soo low. I guess I don't have to explain further as you would have watched it yourself.
Again, quoting from Logan, many Malaysians are watching the trash that you are providing on Astro Tamil channels. Don't you think, they will watch Astro if you show local shows too??
We have Astro Vellithirai, Thanggatirai, Sun Music, Aadithya, Astro First showing 100% India's content. Can't we have Astro Vaanavil to show 100% local content? Is it too much to ask for?? Why should the local talents beg for it in our own country?? This is Malaysia and we are all Malaysian. Dr. Rajamani, why are you keeping silent on all the noise made by the local artists? Is it true that you have a agency in India that is serving as an intermediate between India and Malaysia to import all that trash. Are you getting commision from it? There are rumours floating around about this. And again, isn't there any local talents that can fill up his position? Why do we need someone from India to manage our channel? Remove Dr Rajamani and replace with with a Malaysian who knows what Malaysian wants!!
Every single local talent needs a platform to show off their talent. Don't we want to have more talents to get international recognition like Yogi B, Dr Burn, Emcee Jesz? The artists are not demanding something that is impossible to provide. Just give them what is stipulated in the contract that Astro have signed in the first place.
Why do we need to pay so much money for such trash?? And to my fellow readers, don't even think bout saying, "If you don't like it, just unsubscribe from Astro laa". That seems to be an idiotic comment as I am talking only about the Tamil channel and not other channels. What good would it make if I cancel my subscription? Instead, we should provide awareness to the public on what is happening and get them to demand Astro to show more local shows! It's already in the contract, get it???
What is your opinion in this matter? Pour it out at the comments section!