The awards ceremony conducted by STAR group to honour their favourite actors and actresses on STAR Plus was shown on Sunday, 20th May 2007. Since I had nothing to do, I decided to watch the show and see how the different soaps and programs on STAR Plus compare against each other.
This particular award show is a medium to gauge the popularity of various shows and the characters in those soaps. I was particularly pleased with many of the winners this year. The reason I will tell you a little later. Before that I will quickly tell you how the show went.
The hosts these year were the comperes of the show Nach Baliye on STAR One. i.e Sangita Ghosh and Shabbir Ahluwalia. Joining them in the party was Varun Badola. These three together made a mockery of many of the shows in the channel through ballads and mimickry. It was quite funny and entertaining. However. I wasnt happy with the mandatory dance performances provided by some of the stars of the channels. Prerna aka Shweta Tiwari of Kasauti was pathetic. She seems to have put on weight as was visible from her dress. She dances better than many of the stars on TVs these days but yesterday was a bad day for her. Hussain as always is the Hrithik Roshan of TV. He is one of the best dancers on TV right now and Juhi aka Kumkum could not match her at all. The rest of the dances were also nothing to note about.
Now for the awards. Till the past few years, these awards are actually a medium for thanking Ekta Kapoor for making people famous and rich. But this year was different. The traditional favourites: KSBKBT, Kahani, Kasauti and the other K serials could not win many. This is an important warning signal to Ekta to quickly improve the content of her many soaps. Many of the awards that the K-camp won was primarily because of their old stars and not because of their new additions. It says a lot about user preferences: Good solid content is what matters these days, not the same old sauten, saas and bahu stories.
The surprising (and positively) pack of the ceremony was the two serials which come on weekends: Prithviraj Chauhan and Ba, Bahu and Baby. Both of them together won 8 awards in total. BBB grabbed the pole position with 5 awards and Pritvi with 3 awards. I am very pleased with this because these are the only two shows that I watch on STAR Plus because of their fresh approach and good content. Both these serials have excellent performances from their actors and crisp story line. BBB has brilliant performances from almost everyone (notably the children, Gattu, Baby, Pravin, Arvind...well I think the entire cast needs to be mentioned). Prithviraj Chauhan has really good performances from the lead star cast (the child Prithvi is simply amazing) and very good action sequences. Special mention here for the Sagar brothers. While Ramanand Sagar may be respected and considered good, his serials like Krishna had become very boring. Their cast used to overact and had lots of make up. Now the younger Sagar brothers have brought a new freshness to historical dramas.
I feel even more pleased since I feel vindicated by the awards given to these two serials. I can justify that I am actually watching good content on TV and not whiling away my time. Further they have beaten the traditional heavyweights, the K-Serials and that has pleased me the most.
Monday, May 21, 2007
Sunday, May 20, 2007
Some updates regarding my MBA
Hello everyone,
It has been a while now that I had posted something. SO today I will just let everyone know what I was upto in the [ast 1 month.
I had GDs and PIs lined up in February and March. So I was busy waiting for their results to come. Of all the interviews that I gave (well there werent many when you look at some of my friends' schedules ), I felt I had completely messed up the NITIE interview. Even the first round of SPJain was not so great. I didnt get much of a chance to showcase my abilities in that interview. I wasnt so positive about these two. But when the results of those interviews came, I was surprised. I had expected that I would not get a call for the second round of SPJain interview. But I got a call for the same. Similarly for NITIE I had expected that I would be somewhere in the waitlist. But I was in the final admission list of NITIE.
Now the second round of SPJain interview was far better than my first round. We had a GD in that round as well and I contributed well in that GD. I was able to answer quite a few questions.
So when the final list of admissions from SPJain came, I was shocked to see my name not even present in the waitlist. Such are the strange things that happen. Good surprises come from the least expected places. I had not expected NITIE to be very positive but that was the only positive thing that happened.
I also had two IIM calls : B and K. But I had got these calls since I had applied under OBC category. I had very good percentiles in two sections but missed out on VA section. When I appeared for the GDs and PIs at TIME as a part of practice sessions, I realised that I am quite capable of getting into the IIMs. I went ahead and appeared for the GDs and PIs for both the IIMs. They went quite well and I was postive that I would get into one of them under the OBC category. One disclaimer here: The OBC category students have almost the same cutoffs as the general category students and so claiming that they dilute the quality of IIMs will be like an insult to those students.
Unfortunately, the SC brought out a stay on that OBC quota and with it, my dreams of being in an IIM were washed away. Anyway, I am looking forward to joining NITIE unless something positive happens which is quite unlikely.
There is one more twist to this tale. I also face the prospect of landing up in JBIMS. Now that is a also a very good institution. It has put me in a dilemma : JB or NITIE.
As of now, my inclination is towards NITIE but as the days pass by, the urge to go to JB is also increasing. Lets see what I decide. Till that time, its bbye from me.
Comments as always are welcome. Also if you like please suggest your preference for the MBA institute: NITIE or JB.
It has been a while now that I had posted something. SO today I will just let everyone know what I was upto in the [ast 1 month.
I had GDs and PIs lined up in February and March. So I was busy waiting for their results to come. Of all the interviews that I gave (well there werent many when you look at some of my friends' schedules ), I felt I had completely messed up the NITIE interview. Even the first round of SPJain was not so great. I didnt get much of a chance to showcase my abilities in that interview. I wasnt so positive about these two. But when the results of those interviews came, I was surprised. I had expected that I would not get a call for the second round of SPJain interview. But I got a call for the same. Similarly for NITIE I had expected that I would be somewhere in the waitlist. But I was in the final admission list of NITIE.
Now the second round of SPJain interview was far better than my first round. We had a GD in that round as well and I contributed well in that GD. I was able to answer quite a few questions.
So when the final list of admissions from SPJain came, I was shocked to see my name not even present in the waitlist. Such are the strange things that happen. Good surprises come from the least expected places. I had not expected NITIE to be very positive but that was the only positive thing that happened.
I also had two IIM calls : B and K. But I had got these calls since I had applied under OBC category. I had very good percentiles in two sections but missed out on VA section. When I appeared for the GDs and PIs at TIME as a part of practice sessions, I realised that I am quite capable of getting into the IIMs. I went ahead and appeared for the GDs and PIs for both the IIMs. They went quite well and I was postive that I would get into one of them under the OBC category. One disclaimer here: The OBC category students have almost the same cutoffs as the general category students and so claiming that they dilute the quality of IIMs will be like an insult to those students.
Unfortunately, the SC brought out a stay on that OBC quota and with it, my dreams of being in an IIM were washed away. Anyway, I am looking forward to joining NITIE unless something positive happens which is quite unlikely.
There is one more twist to this tale. I also face the prospect of landing up in JBIMS. Now that is a also a very good institution. It has put me in a dilemma : JB or NITIE.
As of now, my inclination is towards NITIE but as the days pass by, the urge to go to JB is also increasing. Lets see what I decide. Till that time, its bbye from me.
Comments as always are welcome. Also if you like please suggest your preference for the MBA institute: NITIE or JB.
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