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Sunday, June 15, 2008

Dharma yuddham; Nizhal nijamagiradu

Simran has made a come back through TV serials.Simranin's chinna thirai is the programme being aired on jaya tv every week day. I was quite curious to see her though I have never been much of a fan. Her best performance was in kannathil muthamittal and it was an all time great performance.
Thankfully this teleserial has a new format. It is not a megaserial. It is a monthly serial, so it starts and gets over in 20 episodes flat. I understand they are based on popular novels of famous authors in Tamil. The first one was based on Sujatha's novel , pattampoochi. I watched it out of curiosity and stood glued to the Tv for subsequent stories also.
The latest is about the drug mafia. It is also topical.The human tragedy during the recent immunisation process in Chennai is the backdrop of the serial for the month of June. It is gripping, though so far Simran does not have much scope.Nobody else in fact; the real hero is the story and the tragedy of the situation.
The deaths of some children during an immunisation drive is not due to contaminated needles; not unhygenic surroundings; nor is it due to vaccines which have not been kept in the required cold chain.It is due to the unsatiable greed of drug companies who want to profit by selling drugs to sick children.They do not want immunisation to stop illnesses among children.
Hence when a new vaccine is discovered, they want to abort the entire immunisation process by sneaking a carton of a spurious drug which effectively kill the children who are administered from that carton.
Every episode is gripping but leaves you drained at the end of it. But then you have to see the next.With all the tragedies you want the just and right to triumph in the end.
Of course it is so good that there are no viewers of the right kind and hence no advertisements. How long does one have to tolerate the idhayam oil pulling advertisement umpteen times during the serial?

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