SHOULD YOU WATCH MOTU-PATLU?

Many children today watch a show – it has two middle-aged men who are best friends, one small and round, the other tall and thin, and jokes that go like this “drink samosas and eat chai” and “cats running in my stomach” in response to the usual “rats running in my stomach”, a phrase common in Hindi. It’s painfully bright and eye-catching and the characters talk in an exaggerated comical way. The show is Motu Patlu, and seven years since its premier, it’s more popular now than ever.