Okay, so the other day I was doing dishes in the evening and was listening to the song "tum jo aaye zindagi mein..." from Once upon a time in Mumbai when my battery died. So I decided to pay attention to what was on TV. Though I was in the kitchen I could hear the TV loud and clear( thanks to granny-in-law). My husband granny is kind of addicted to the daily soaps on Zee TV, especially "Jahnsi ki Rani", "Yahan mein ghar ghar kheli" and "Pavitra Rishta" phew.Then I wondered the kind of effect these serials have on people irrespective of the age group, I mean come on she is 85 and its hard to believe that someone of that age take interest in daily soaps.So talking about the soaps, there are two things, firstly they are pathetic and secondly they are more pathetic, so let them be.
What I want to talk about is the advertisements aired in between they are truly disgusting as most of them are either cosmetics or sanitary products.There are few commercials which get on to my nerves and there are these shop on TV commercials which talk about drugs that pepole can take care of their asthma and it was being promoted by once bollywood actress Raveena Tondon. Towards the end of the commercial, the voice over starts listing off the reasons whay you wouldn't want to take the drug and people sharing their experiences after using the drug. What bothers me is the effect it has on people who watch it... I mean most of the commercials which involve health care encourage people to self-diagnose. Its not the drugs alone almost all the commercials on TV convey more or less the same thing. I mean now that's why they are called advertisements, but bleh....
The problem is the psychological effect it has is tremendous. These commercials describe conditions that you might or might not have, describing the symptoms, and then suggesting a treatment plan (which always involves their product, naturally). If I were a doctor, I would be sick of conversations that involve my patient diagnosing him or herself and then asking me if they were right. I mean come on I'm the doctor here. Now I ask you, who should be deciding a patient's treatment plan?? a doctor and that's what I'm saying. I don't say that the doctor is always gives his patient a spot on diagnosis, but after all He's the one who spent years training to make such decisions.
If I had the power I would ban all these commercials from being aired..ok i'll leave it at that.
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