OK, this post is just a time killing exercise. Actually I have a post on recession in the pipeline(It started as a single page and now looks like a novel. Further it is much serious than my usual stuff. I can't let it clog the pipeline though.)
Coming back to topic at hand, I must say that CID was(underline) my favorite serial on TV up to the point when I stopped making sence of things and started laughing at it as if it was some comedy show.
As it is evident from the question mark in the title, I am unto no good as usual.
Let's start with the characters.
Daya: This guy is the giant CID man. He skillfully uses his talent to...umm...to break the doors!
Whenever the victim doesn't open the door, or it is locked from inside, ACP Pradyumna just shakes his head as if signalling a bull to enter the ring...And then bang... The bull...umm...Daya does the magic. In just one thud, the door slams open(Even cardboard door wont open like that). Sometimes they have shown the doors falling straight to ground and the rough and tough CID people walking on it. God bless them(The doors I mean). Moral of the story- if your doorbell rings and you hear "Darvaza kholo- CID". Don't bother to open. This guy will do the job for you.
[P.S. This guy looks more like a bouncer outside a nightclub]
Fredricks: Guess what- he is the director of the serial. He plays a dumb ass policeman junior in rank. I should refrain from mocking him. Other CID characters are already doing that job. Maybe he is their official scapegoat or something! On one show he acknowledges that his wife beats him hard. I cried that day for Fredricks. Poor chap! In the bureau he is mocked by CID people and when he goes home after days work...his wife takes charge.
But there is a silver lining to the cloud. Whenever CID enters a crime scene and ACP says something like'Chappa chappa chhan maro' this guy is always the one who finds something and screams 'siiirrr!' in the same tone Archimedes must have said 'Eureka!'(Archimedes had run naked to the king's palace after saying that. Thank god Fredricks is no Archimedes)
Abhijeet: this is one good CID man who for a change behaves like a policemen. He is a colourful guy though. Has affair in one show or something. Loses his memory in another. This list grows very long. However, in every show, in the middle of nowhere he gets a call on his cell to which he says an awestruck'kya?'. Then stylishly cuts the call. 'Sir, falane falane jagah pe ek lash mili hai' he says stereotypically to ACP.
The ACP: Shivaji Satam: He is the boss. Now to be frank, he makes such facial expressions like- weird narrowing and widening of eyes throughout the show that i feel he will make a good scarecrow. Otherwise he scores well on acting front.
Dr. Salunkhe: He is another high ranking psycho to feature in this serial. He works as the head of forensics department (Recently I saw the serial after several months-only to see Dr. Salunkhe the bald man having a hot woman assistant. I felt jealous). He is, as ACP rightly puts it-'Mudadon se baatein karnewala aadmi'
Actually, his lab can provide me a heap of things to mock.The lab has several interconnected glass tubes containing some god damned colorful solutions.(Maybe Dr.Salunkhe uses them as showpieces. Contemporary interior designing. ) So he can dig almost anything from a dead body, from blood traces on nails to cyanide traces in intestine and what not. I am most amused by his 23rd century lab(Yes!). You take a petridish put something in it, scan(thats what they say) it and tadaaa... something starts glowing. 'Yes!' both Salunkhe and ACP(with narrowed eyes) scream.
The lady officer: This is recently introduced character that has only 2 jobs:
1. To look steaming hot(I will become a havaldar if this kind of women ever make it to police force).
2. To slap a woman culprit.
The time travel: Yes thats what i call it. If you observe carefully, when the show is nearing the end and the CID people and audiences know who is the culprit, the only part remains is culprit conceding he has done the dirty job. The trick is- when he/she refuses to do so, one of the CID guy(The hot lady officer if culprit is a woman) slaps the culprit and tadaaa...magic again... the culprit gets up from floor in the CID bureau rubbing his cheek. The catch is he is shown to be slapped at an xyz place but when the slap lands square on his cheek he is suddenly in the bureau. This happens every episode. Check it to have a decent laugh.
The Supercomputer:Believe it or not, they have a supercomputer. Just enter the person's name and all data about him is right in front of you. The GUI of this PC is a bit absurd though. Looks more like a green C compiler.
Thats all folks. I got to write a wave theory exam tomorrow. So gotta sleep. Good night. Sleep tight(!)
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- Jayant Apte
- This is Jayant Apte. I am a Ph.D. student at Drexel University. I am interested in variety of problems on the intersection of information theory and computer science. Lately I have been working on multi-source network coding problem. Polyhedra and matroids are some of the things I have been recently working on. I write a lot of code. It is mostly C, OpenMPI or CUDA C. I am an avid Chelsea supporter. I don't get much time to watch all their games but I do catch the highlights when I can.
hey cool yaar!!!!!
ReplyDeletema thoughts r similar to urs... bt neva cud i be able to put it out like dis!!!
all i can say is GUD JOB!!!
Hey Sanjay... I dont watch a lot of CID but next time i watch it ill keep this stuff in my mind... :)
ReplyDeletePS: New post on my blog too!! Read it..
hi jayant i hv not seen cid since a year or so , but your comment made it all fresher
ReplyDeletehehe! Din know Fredricks was the director!! o_O!! well had a hearty laff![:P]
ReplyDeletesome serials are just to be watched without a thought at it..out of many CID's d one..
ReplyDeleteyou are fascinated by the amazing fingerprint recognition softwares and interactive forensic lab...lol..U made me remind it..!!
progress..!!