Total Pageviews

Tuesday, July 22, 2014

Hum Log: Revisiting that 80's show

Poonam Saxena, Hindustan Times  New Delhi, July 21, 2014


The early Eighties. It was the time of safari suits and Gold Spot, typewriters and turntables, when traffic jams were unheard of and children still played hopscotch in the colony park. But it was also a time of change.

The Maruti 800 car had been introduced in 1983, colour TV sets were selling like hot cakes, and discos had begun dotting the big cities. In 1982, Doordarshan, India's only television channel, had introduced the National Programme — a two-hour news-entertainment package for the entire nation, which covered 50 per cent of the population by 1984.

The stage was set for the country's first home-grown, long-running TV serial to make its appearance. Hum Log, which began on July 7, 1984 and ended after 156 episodes on December 17, 1985, was the pioneering ancestor of today's soaps.

Read  More at: http://www.hindustantimes.com/entertainment/television/hum-log-revisiting-that-80-s-show/article1-1242936.aspx

1 comment: