My mother is an avid viewer of many television shows that are aired these days. She has her own favourites but she generally watches most of them as she can not move around much. So I too end up watching to give her company. And I was quite disgusted with some of the story lines that are currently on track in some of the shows.Let us take a look at them.

There is this particular show which was ruling the charts once upon a time and now it is just clinging pathetically to a story line that can give you real pain in the head.Whatever happened to good stories ? In fact now imagination is running riot in a writer's head otherwise why would they come up with tracks where the male protagonist gains and loses memory at the drop of a hat. Today he romances one girl and the next day he forgets all about her and romances another girl. On top of it, the important female characters are pregnant and the fathers of the unborn babies are unaware about it . The mothers in law do not believe that it is their sons babies. Hilarious ! Don't you think?

Then we have a story where a murder takes place and every day  a new suspect crops up.I guess even the writer of the show does not know who murdered. Speculation about the suspect runs actively on all websites. Looks like the makers are at a loss as to how to take the story forward.

A 60 plus wife suddenly comes across the other woman in her husband's life.Did she really not know till now about her husband's infidelity? This rich business man keeps insulting his illiterate wife all the time and he has another tucked up somewhere to insult more. Where do these things happen? And we talk about empowerment of women.Really laughable!

Then there is this show where a daughter gets kidnapped,father gets poisoned,and there is a new character entering the household every week. The main leads can not make a single expression decently but are lauded for being the hottest pair.What wonders can publicity really do!!!!!

Oh! I really forgot about this one.There is this headmistress of a mother in law ,a dimwit father in law,a scheming sister whose acting gives you shudders,a conniving co-sister ,what more do you want in a family? The mother drops her baby down a valley so the husband disowns her.How horrifying! And this show is supposed to be ruling the charts currently.

I guess the first monsoon showers made me nostalgic and suddenly I was missing the good old Doordarshan serials like Humlog, Buniyaad, Wagle ki duniya , Chunauti. Though technically they were lagging behind, their stories had such power and depth. Not to forget Ramayan and Mahabharat. How wonderful they were!!!

I guess the decline in quality is because of this Trp thing. There is big hue and cry about this Trp rating,whatever that means..How do you really count the number of viewers for a show? I have not seen any credible statistics or anyone coming home to take our opinion,so I guess only a small segment is taken into account to calculate this ratings. Some channels are broadcasted in almost every nook and corner of the country while some channels are aired exclusively in some parts of the country.So how will they really count the number of viewers.Totally baffles me and for this Trps, channels are compromising on quality. Really sad state of things.

Is there any way that we can change this system so that we viewers will get more shows that excel in quality,technique and story and producers are not bogged down by this insane system of TAM or TRP ratings?