![]() Made on the lines of a Mexican television series, Ven Conmigo using the education-entertainment methodology, Hum Log tackled social issues like family planning, empowerment of women, alcoholism and drug abuse. It also belongs to the era when TV content was about spreading developmental messages. If you want to know what India was like in the 80s, look no further than Hum Log for that bit of social history. ![]() Yes, viewers didn’t have any other channels to watch then, but the serials were made by the best and brightest in the business and many have stood the difficult test of time. Its shows no longer create any buzz, like they did once upon a time. With the arrival of OTT platforms, DD pretty much fell off the nation’s consciousness. As the satellite revolution penetrated small towns, this audience declined further. With the coming of satellite television in the early 1990s, DD saw its viewership dip. We are past the era when TV was a community experience. A generation remembers watching Doordarshan (DD) serial, Mahabharat, with the entire family on Sunday mornings, almost like a ritual.
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