I don’t mean it in the way crime fiction is today - someone kidnaps someone in the middle of a mega-serial only for the kidnapped woman herself to beat up her kidnappers with the broom lying around conveniently for her use. And then Anni, which was in the mega-serial league with a seemingly unending run of over 300 episodes.īut to me, what defines early Tamil television, and what still makes me long for those times, is the crime fiction. Thankfully now, Kavithalayaa, the producers of several of early Tamil television, are bringing their work to YouTube.Įarly Tamil TV, under the influence of K Balachandar’s TV production house Minbimbangal, had a significant number of shows about women and their domestic travails - Kaialavu Manasu and Premi come to mind (Rajhesh Vaidhya, now famous for #DoYouHaveAMinute, had an interesting role). While 90s kids with the chops are working hard to recreate their childhoods for the screen, the 90s kid in me watching these recreations longs for the real 90s more and more. Three of the biggest releases on Zee5 last quarter belong squarely in this region: Auto Shankar, about a criminal who terrorized the 80s Thiravam, about a conman from the 90s and more recently, Postman, about a fictional postman who goes into a coma in the 90s. We see similar trends in Tamil television as well. Apparently, Netflix even has a Nostalgia strategy. There are also several revivals and reboots.
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Streaming platforms are buying old shows such as The West Wing, Friends and Full House, much to the delight of customers, it seems. In contemporary television, nostalgia is a rage. Reena, the protagonist - a writer, if you hadn’t guessed already - was who I wanted to be when I grew up. This riddle that leads to the unravelling of the series’ mystery was etched in my brain from the time I first watched it, when I was 11 or 12 years old. Patthiram Baddhiram Bairavanidam Patthiram. In a way.Īs I played the first episode of Vidathu Karuppu - a television series first aired in the 90s, now streaming one episode at a time on Kavithalayaa’s YouTube channel - I found myself humming, So, where from?Īnd then, it all came back to me. Literature was hardly the preoccupation in my family, neither did I belong to an environment that saw writers come and go.
Something about the clever use of words always captivated me. Read more from the series here.Īs I write this column today, I realise that I’ve always wanted to be a writer.
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Serial Chiller is Ranjani Krishnakumar’s monthly column about all things Tamil television.
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