Internationally, Friends (which began in 1994) had a huge viewership for its reunion, and locally, the show is always in the most popular lists on Netflix India. When the big general entertainment channels, unable to shoot in the thick of the pandemic and at their wits end to keep ratings high, started showing Ramanand Sagar’s Ramayan (1987) on prime time, people tuned in to watch it in droves. Remixes of hit songs from the 1980s and early 1990s are back with a bang-along with lots of science and sports bio-pics set in that period.Īnd then there seems to be a fair amount of love for old-school shows, too.
It is of course the most ambitious and expensive, but we have already seen heart-warming little shows like Yeh Meri Family on The Viral Fever, Yeh Unn Dino ki Baat Hai on Sony, Scam 92, the Harshad Mehta Story on Amazon Prime Video, Hotstar’s Dil Bekaraar and many more.
’83 is not the only Bollywood offering that seems to be indulging in big-time 1980s nostalgia, by the way. When we had actively absorbed and fully bought the message of those iconic works of creative terrorism-Julie, Bobby, Zanjeer and Amar Akbar Anthony.
When we kept the big boy nations on their toes with the non-aligned movement and had an actual, coherent foreign policy. When we were proud of winning our independence, and did not seem to think it was given to us as ‘alms.’ When there was propaganda on TV, to be sure, but only of the benign ‘mile sur mera tumhara, toh sur bane hamara’ (when your song meets my song, then together, we create our song) national integration variety. As I watch the young Kapil Dev speak his halting English and pace as lithely as a large cat across the screen, I muse that the 1980s seem like such a better, purer decade now.
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