Comments on: We are pretty much like this only

By: Junaid

Junaid — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 08:03:03 +0000

GOOD NEWS GUYS!! I TOO REMEBER CH33 AS WE ALL USED TO WATCH THURSDA NIGHT MOVIES OMG I WAS IN TEARS READING THIS!!!!!!CH33 WAS FANTASTIC FOR HINDI MOVIE ONLY AND THEY SHOWED NEW MOVIES…..IT IS REBRANDED AS DUBAI ONE..AND THEY ARE SOON STARTING TO SHOW HINDI MOVIES AGAIN!!!!!! YIPEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 16:55:39 +0000

Amazing; too good hain Was in Kuwait but used to tune in to Channel 33 for the English fare dished out …. Brought a lot of memories flooding back …. Cha gaye paaji ….

By: Molsi

Molsi — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 01:14:00 +0000

Hi Sidin! Me jus newly introduced to your blog (yeah, i know, which planet was i living on these few years??)… And gotta say that I love it! And can totally identify with Channel 33… Me n siblings used to glue ourselves to the TV screen every Thursday night as well. Keep writing!!

By: FKHTR

FKHTR — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 13:43:49 +0000

OSO is an absolutely pathetic piece of ____ . Felt like strangling FK to death, but then thought my hands would get dirty.

By: Anu

Anu — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 18:05:47 +0000

And…remember when all the expat women were hooked on to “Bold & Beautiful” at 7:00pm?

By: Chandra Sekhar

Chandra Sekhar — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 12:46:21 +0000

Am a regular reader of ur blog and a fellow Gelf Meleyalee too (intentionally misspelled)…It sure is sad that they shut down Channel 33 (who says reading ur blog is not informative?) but now tat ppl there have cable, no one cares. I remember watching Sesame Street (I was bored!!) and those endless Christmas cartoon reruns every year…Ah, nostalgia..And yes, I fiddled with the darned antenna everytime the wind blew..And sat up to watch the Hindi movie which almost never began on time…Good times that…Thanks a ton…And keep indulging ur nostalgic tendencies…:-)

By: Deepa

Deepa — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 05:59:24 +0000

The first part of your post brought back awesome memories. About cartoons that began at 4:15 pm. And the general feeling of outrage when it was replaced by news during the Gulf War. And Bold and the Beautiful which everyone in the family would wait to watch, and would tape and watch, in case of an evening out. And that delectable Richard Coram with his even more delectable baritone, reading the evening news.

By: Gourav

Gourav — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 11:53:21 +0000

Sidin…Bill Crosby or Cosby?? looks like i’ll have to watch OSO now! But the best growing up shot was from the movie Nastik, when chota big B jumps from a bridge and by the time he gets to the roof of the mumbai local he is the bada Big B

By: Surga

Surga — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 08:54:29 +0000

See you back as in - back in Great form! Loved the rediff articles - have been recommending to all and sundry :))

Am in Mumbai in dec- we could do the iima thingy in someone’s house as new years of 2005 :)) Will call when i get there…

Good luck with everything.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 08:05:35 +0000

Nice post! Brought back sweet memories of Channel 33 and how I used to wait for 4:15pm as the cartoons used to start at 4:15 on Channel 33. I think it was later preponed to 3pm.