Babu Saffy on Whistling

You can't whistle the graphics!!


Hello, and please to be welcoming me back for another chat on my journey's in your wonderful TV land!

I am to be having the most wonderful time at hooolabarlu (I still can't get that right).

On my journey to become the best Bollywood producer known to mankind, I have started to notice certain elements in a production. One of these you can't help but notice in Bollywood, and that is to be the music.

Oh, the feelings it evokes and the way it can make a beautiful girl poke her head from behind a potted palm.  It is a wonder to behold. But I am to be noticing something else about music. That thing is that I can whistle the music after I have finished watching the show!

I find this stimulating because it makes me remember fondly the show, and sometimes I am so moved as to be watching it again.

Here are two interesting observations I have, um, observed...

Number 1. When I was whistling a certain tune from an advertising message, I found myself whistling the same tune after I heard it in a TV program. My dilemma was this... how do think about this tune? Am I to be rushing out and buying the product from the advertising? Or am I to be tuning in next week to watch the TV programme again?

Secondly, sometimes I can't whistle the tune! Oh yes, the pictures are to be looking wonderful, but all the music is just a groovy thing, you know, that hip-hop nonsense the kids listen to!

I cannot be singing it or whistling it! So, my mind is to be wandering elsewhere. I have no thoughts on the program or the advertising message. Sometimes I am to be remembering the visuals, but they are not to be interacting with me. I can't do anything with them except remember. I cannot be giving my friends hours of enjoyment by singing theme tunes and jingles to them. And they don't understand when I explain the images to them.

What is to be done? I ask you to think back to wonderful modern shows (in Mumbai anyway) the classics like
'I dream of Jeanie'; 'Bewitched', 'Green Acres', 'The Mortein Commercials' even.

Each of these had their own signature. You knew the show was coming because you could be recognising the tune while still outside tending the tandoori. So to be rushing inside to watch.

You could whistle the lighthearted tune anytime you like, thus subconsciously encouraging myself to watch the
next episode. And when bombarded by competing products on the local store shelf, 'Louis the Fly' always jumps into my head. So there is no guessing which product I am to be using for your Aussie summers!

So, when I start t make my Bollywood epics, I will be placing as much importance on the music and theme as I am on the visuals - because try as I might I cannot be whistling the graphics.