Sun Tv and Tamil
  • I fully accept venish vijay's views on SUn Tv.Sun Tv is killing
    tamil.I will tell you why i think so.

    1)Its name is in English.And its founder family(MK)wants Tamil
    movies not to have english names.Talk about hypocracy and here it
    is,standing before us.

    2)Sun TV can clearly say "we are business house. we dont have any
    literary motives".Then nobody will object.BUt Sun Tv says that it is
    doing yeomen service in promoting Tamil culture.THey point
    out 'dinam oru thirukural and veerapandiyan's saturday morning
    program as examples.Thats why we point out all this.

    3)Even if they criticize they should have objectivity.As venish
    pointed out they rank anbe sivam lower than dhool.If its in business
    sense i can understand.But its not in business sense which they
    judge movies.Its politics.Has anybody seen sun Tv opening its mouth
    about vikram's kaasi?It did not.Since that movie was sold to some
    other channel.THey now attack silambarasn and T Rajendar since they
    speak against MK.They insulted "kilakku chemmayile" since kalaipuli
    dhanu was MDMK man.THey gave pathetic rankings to tenali since it
    was sold to raj tv.

    4)JJ TV doesnt have any tamil promotion in their mind.Its openly
    aiadmk and they dont pretend as if they have holy objectives.Its
    propoganda piece and write off case.But we expect more from "tamil
    ina talapathi's" channel.

    Sun Tv doesnt provide what we want.Its trying to make us see what it
    wants us to see.It does not want us to see kaasi and tenali.It wants
    us to see dhool and dil.It doesnt want silambarasan to become
    popular.It does not want comedian vivek to be popular.It demeans
    them.It has humiliated comedian vivek in every movie review.It is
    trying to change our tastes and preferences using its monopoly
    positions.

    At times this gets highly comical.YOu only have to see
    veerapandiyan's nerukku ner.When BJP was allying with DMK,my god the
    leftist,dravidian disciple veerapandiyan was tearing apart
    congressmen in his programs even though he is supposed to be a
    neutral host.People like valapadi ramamoorthy and communists were
    torn apart by him.They actually have an intelligent way of doing
    it.They will invite both BJP and communist leaders and ask them to
    attack each other.BUt if they ally with BJP,they will edit
    communists scathing remarks or valid points and will run the program
    to show as if bjp won the debate.If alliances change they will
    reverse the positions.Thats all.

    Jaya TV is very honest in this.Their debates will have only aiadmk
    men and alliance partners.Its very straight forward commercial.do we
    expect objectivity from propoganda piece?we dont.But sun tv pretends
    to be objective when they arent,and thats why we criticize on it.


    All these complaints are valid to other tv's also.I
    am highlighting sun Tv only since,it comes from a movement which had
    restoration of tamil's past glory as its objective.Now sun tv is
    destroying it.MK attacked rajinikanth for showing the movie BABA in
    which rajini portrayed some yogi as living for 2000 years.He said
    that rajinikanth is promoting superstitions among his fans.Now why
    doesnt he attack suntv showing indira sounderrajan's reincarnation
    stories and marmadesams?Isnt that also promoting superstitions?


    One thing i agree with dr sridhar.He calls for us
    to boycott all these junk artists.If i go to india i will see lots
    of movies and listen songs only since im nostalgic about the kg
    theatre in coimbatore and the urulaikilangu bonda they sell there.I
    see sun tv in india only since thats where all my aunts and uncles
    sit whenever they have free time.i will talk to them,but they wont
    talk back.They will talk only during commercial breaks.

    You should see the difference in them.I will be
    treated like a nuiscance when serials or movies run.But in
    commercial break they will treat me like princess and answer all my
    naggings.Pretty saddening this is for me.I will stay with them for
    just a day or two,but they will talk to me only in commercial breaks
    or suntv news time.I feel as if sun tv is controlling their entire
    life and free time.if i call somebody during chithi time,i can feel
    the irritation in their voices.They have become slaves of
    serials.But they were good earlier on.thats what makes me so sad and
    hate sun tv.
  • Priya:

    >
    > I fully accept venish vijay's views on SUn Tv.Sun Tv is killing
    > tamil.I will tell you why i think so.
    >

    I won't accept that they purpose'ly want to kill Tamil.. Infact I'm
    happy that the service, Sun TV as a satellite channel is providing to
    tamils around the world by spreading tamil entertainment throughout
    the world.. I moved 15 miles to a new apartment just so that i can
    install a dish and watch Sun Tv..

    You only need to watch the "comedy time" to see the reach of Sun Tv.
    The problem is not with the channel per se, but with the quality of
    the comperers. Not everyone is bad.. I really admire a few
    newsreaders, they have excellent tamil speaking skills.

    The fact is the comperers in TV channels are mostly from the creamy
    layer, (urban upper middle class folks) where speaking in English is
    the fashionable thing.. I seriously doubt if many of them would know
    to either read/write tamil.. That's the sad state of affairs in
    Chennai now..
  • >I won't accept that they purpose'ly want to kill Tamil.. Infact I'm
    >happy that the service,
    >The problem is not with the channel per se, but with the quality of
    >the comperers

    Then are you trying to say that sun tv is killing Tamil without there
    knowledge?
    Iam sorry! you are completly wrong.90% of the comperers are killing Tamil,
    Is there no one in Tamil Nadu to speak the Tamil clearly?.Why can't sun tv
    put them?Because they dosen't worry about Tamil they are worrying about the
    money the glamour.

    >I really admire a few
    >newsreaders, they have excellent tamil speaking skills.

    Why can't they make the few into all?

    As you pointed out most of the comperers dosen't know to read/write
    Tamil.Iam so much confident because some of my classmates are now in Sun Tv
    as comperers, In the college days I had never seen them talking in tamil and
    they don't to how to write Tamil.Sun Tv dosen't need the Tamil they need
    Glamour.

    Serials have made the families much more worser.Like priya during while Iam
    in my native - Nagercoil, all my family speak to me a lot but when the
    serial starts esp - 'Metti Oli', 'Annamalai' and some serials I dont
    remember the names they won't consider me at all.
    I don't know whats in these serials, When I tried to watch it one day, One
    Women in crying for almost 10mins and after that i got off unable to see it
    after that.

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