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The Radio Review Series : Part 2

Kittu Maama , Suzy Maami

"Is that a title for a Radio Show ?", You ask...Well, Yes it is and this program is as ridiculous as the title...

This program is aired everyday between 8 AM and 9 AM on Suryan FM (93.5 is the frequency) except on Sundays. The baseline being Kittu Maama is a Tam bram married to Suzy Maami who is of course a Christian....and (Yeah , these are two imaginary characters) the talks, fights, quarrels they keep having for one hour.

There are two guys who give the voice for Kittu Maama....who speaks typical Tam Bram language....one of these guys is really good, and that is one good thing about this programme. Suzy maami is also orated by two ladies....Suzy is supposed to speak Tamil like an Anglo who has just come to Tamil Nadu or something....again , only one of them do a good job of this. Apart from this the good thing about the programme is the information they give during their dialogues about the events happening in the city on that day....this varies from bandhs to job fairs to discount sales,but then, these updates are not regular and happen so suddenly during the show that they go unnoticed.

But that unfortunately ,are the only good words I have for this show. This show is really bad when it comes to the content. It has these two people yapping away at each other for one whole hour. For instance , Kittu mama is a homemaker and Suzy is the one who is working....the taunting of Kittu by Suzy especially about earning money becomes a little too much when carried over the whole day. The makers of the show tried innovation - They came up "One pazhamozhi a day"....wherein they got Kittu to talk about one everyday.....Everyday the episode features Suzy making fun of this and it came to a stage where the essence of this is completely lost. Also , this radio channel seems to be politically oriented. They use these two characters shamelessly to talk about the greatness of the politician in reference. And to listen to that in the morning is a big bore !! And this show does not do the Peak hour traffic updates for that hour which is done by almost all other programmes hosted at the same time on other FMs.

Songs aren’t too great to talk about. Once in a while , the songs are good. Most of the times , the songs played are film songs which are popular in urban areas - certainly not pleasing music for the ears.

Given a choice , this would not be the program I would tune into in the mornings !

posted by Vidya Rajaram @ 10/12/2006 11:23:00 AM