I must say I have re-lived those days of doordarshan, waiting for these shows to start and watch it with the family ! I don't even know if I knew hindi that time, nor understood the episodes !
Watching it again gives you a real perspective of what it's all about and what exactly the author of the book RK Narayan is trying to convey through these stories. RKN is excellent in illustrating the mundane lives and so-normal-no-glitz-everyday life in an incredible way. I am eagerly waiting to read some more RKN books. RKN has been an excellent observer and each story has an inner meaning which in my opinion so so pervasive albeit realized.
TV series has been directed superbly by Shankar Nag, a maverick in the Kannada filmdom and Kannada-English-Marathi plays. He has been really successful behind the camera and I think this could be the best way to respect a book like Malgudi days which it deserves. The series has been shot in a very colonial background much to the likes of the stories from the book. The setting and the stories reminded me of my childhood in Mysore, the houses, the streets, the people ! It was nostalgic and I just wanted to be in Malgudi (or Mysore, where RKN wrote the book) !
The cast has been amazing, truly suitable to the characters they are playing. Karnad as a watchman, Ananth Nag as a story-teller, Arundati Nag as a typical house-wife and so many others who are so familiar from the Kannada industry. The music by Lalgudi Vaidyanathan is just so fitting to the whole sequence ! It feels so perfect ! All in all, an amazing cast, an amazing series and a truly amazing book ! I bow before these legends ! A perfect 10, must watch ! And am back in Malgudi !
