12 September,2016 08:26 AM IST | | Dipanjan Sinha
Every generation gets old arguing with its past and scoffing at the future. But perhaps no generation has seen a bigger shift of technology and economy as rapid as in the late '90s and the early 2000s, particularly in India. Chalta Hai Comedy takes on the 1990s nostalgia that regaled the Indian mindset
Illustration/Ravi Jadhav
Every generation gets old arguing with its past and scoffing at the future. But perhaps no generation has seen a bigger shift of technology and economy as rapid as in the late '90s and the early 2000s, particularly in India.
It is perhaps for that reason that a generation that is still relatively young has gone on a nostalgia overdrive about the '90s with a abundant reminisces on social media about what the '90s kid had and this generation will never understand.
Rohini Ramanathan
Apart from the tape recorder and black-and-white television, which still was around, there were other phenomenon, the cause for whose existence cannot be explained by economists or sociologists.
One such glorious example is Hindi cinema of the '90s. Though many of our stars now have emerged from the '90s, even they cannot explain why exactly they were making those movies back then. The ones before them could not explain what was happening after them either.
Punit Pania
It is in this profoundly confusing era that we had a memorable film, Gupt, where Kajol and Manisha Koirala pine for Bobby Deol. In recent times Deol tried his hands at being a DJ and the audience wanted their money back. But the '90s kid is uncritical. So much so that they flaunt their love Chacha Chaudhri despite being critical of Chetan Bhagat. And Govinda films rule.
The idiosyncrasies of this nostalgic youth will be the target of Chalta Hai Comedy's joke missiles as they take on their much-loved symbols in the show, Back To The '90s. According to Punit Pania of Chalta Hai Comedy, the show will cover everything from pop culture to what being happy meant in the '90s.
Anand Reghu
"Rohini Ramanthan who hosts a retro show on Radio Nasha will talk about the most memorable films of the '90s. Andy Reghu will cover the music and dance scene from Altaf Raja to Baba Sehgal to Govinda and also a bit of Macarena. I will end it with all the realities of growing up in the 90s that now seem like eccentricities, from redialling numbers on landlines to collecting WWF Trump Cards." He signs off with a punchline, "Back then, being middle class was not as cool because we didn't know we were actually the urban poor."
On September 18
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Cost Rs 350
