TVholism

Follow us:WhatsappFacebookTwitterTelegram.cls-1{fill:#4d4d4d;}.cls-2{fill:#fff;}Google NewsI've been a TVholic for as long as I can remember. I mean during exams I would watch so much TV that I wanted to throw up on the television set, but getting away or switching the damn thing off were never options. And on holidays I'd practically live in front of the TV. My friends would call me up and curse me, but I just couldn't budge. You remember those lines from Bronte's 'Jane Eyre' where Rochester tells Jane- "I sometimes have a queer feeling with regard to you- especially if you're near me as now: it is as if I had a string tightly and inextricably knotted to a similar string situated in the corresponding quarter of your little frame..." well I had similar feelings for my television set.

So great was my love for the (pardon my use of the cliché) idiot box, that when I got into a film and television school, it seemed like my life was finally on the right track. I mean there's nothing like making films and television programmes for your final exams. Obviously we had to write some papers as well, 7 in the first year and 3 in the final year, but you know, there we were discussing things like 'language of the moving picture'.And what better way to learn that but by watching TV.

So now you'd think I'm a total misfit in a news channel, but that's not true. If you're a features reporter, film school helps.
first published:February 21, 2006, 22:09 ISTlast updated:February 21, 2006, 22:09 IST
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