Hum Log (1984)

Directed by

P. Kumar Vasudev

Genre

drama

Country

India

Rating

8.5 of 10 from 2 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This is a Hindi TV drama about a middle-class Indian family in the 1980s. It shows their daily problems and hopes. Each episode ends with a host talking to the audience in rhyming verse.

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What happens

Hum Log (English: We People) is an Indian television soap opera and also the first serial drama series in Hindi. It began telecast on 7 July 1984 on Doordarshan, the only television channel in India at the time. It is the story of an Indian middle-class family of the 1980s and their daily struggles and aspirations. Hum Log is also the first Indian show to be sponsored. It was created on the lines of a Mexican television series, Ven Conmigo (1975), using the education-entertainment methodology. The idea of the TV series came to then Information and Broadcasting Minister, Vasant Sathe, after a Mexican trip in 1982. Soon the idea for Hum Log was developed in collaboration with writer Manohar Shyam Joshi, who scripted the series, and filmmaker, P. Kumar Vasudev, who went on direct the series. The title score was composed by music director Anil Biswas. At the end of every episode, Ashok Kumar discussed the ongoing story and situations with the audience using Hindi couplets and limericks. In later episodes, introduced the actors who played various characters in the serial and end his monologue with the various Indian language versions of the words "Hum Log". The series was broadcast in the UK on the cable channel Indra Dhnush in 1992. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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