A fine sunday morning in 2009 going to completely chop your entire hair while sitting on this wooden plank and dad staring at you in the mirror to make me stob crying was so nostalgic. Just had my haircut and noticed this thing for kids. It reminded me of my childhood days..

A house near the lake:)

(gave me nostalgic vibes, so posting it here)

I’ve been trying to find these for years.. but i guess it’s time to accept that they’re gone forever.

1. Khaamosh Aawazein

"Sabkuch hai par kuch bhi nahi, aisi bhi kuch baatein hai, sannatey mein goonjti, khaamosh aawazein hai"

A miniseries that aired on Doordarshan. It was about a childless couple who adopt a boy. He becomes the light of their lives but the joy is shortlived as he passes away in an accident leaving the couple alone all over again. It was shot in Goa. i found a fb post discussing the show which led me to Smita Jaykar’s(the mother) wiki. It says the show aired in 1998, so i must have watched the reruns

1. Sea Hawks

It had quite a few big names and future stars: Om Puri, Madhavan, Anup Soni, Milind Soman etc. It was directed by Anubhav Sinha. Quite rare for a tv show to have such high production value back then According to Wikipedia, it originally aired in 1997. I used to LOVE the opening theme but I cant even remember it anymore.

1. Bhoomi

An environmental show that aired on Doordarshan. Clips are available on yt but not the ones I want. The show had a segment in which members of a joint family were invited to this huge set and interviewed at length in front of a studio audience. Man if only i could watch ONE of those sessions again. Sigh. Aired: 2008.

1. “No problem yaar, bann jayegi picture!”

This song. That's it! I only remember these few words. I finally found a clue last week: it was from a movie called Bollywood Calling. So i ended up watching the whole movie. AND IT WASN’T THERE. Further digging led me to an old India Today article. Apparently the song was used only in tv promos on music channels like MTV and V and wasn’t part of the OST. ig i’ll just have to remember those words and the tune to keep the song alive. No problem yaar, bann jaayegi picture!

1. Another Doordarshan show

Two Indian soldiers(BSF) get stuck on the Pakistani side of the border. I remember the weird background score and the faces of the actors, but I’m neither a musician nor an artist. So, yeah, gone!

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Honorable Mentions:

These have only recently been scrubbed from the internet and i haven’t quite started aching with nostalgia for them YET but yea, I know that a few years down the road, I might start another desperate search for...:

1. Roadies- the old seasons

Thankfully, I watched the previous seasons on voot and even hotstar. Those seasons were so different from the influencers-only show it has turned into now. Everything is so polished. Everyone seems trained. The contestants are predictable, the drama is manufactured, the controversies are rehearsed and at times, they’re laughable

1. Bigg Boss - the old seasons

Again, Jio removed every trace of them from the internet. Can’t really expect hundreds of episodes of an Indian show to be available elsewhere either. Maybe some private trackers can help.

Kind of glad, though, that i managed to watch at least some old seasons on voot. One silver lining is that Bigg Boss hasn’t changed nearly as much as Roadies has. It’s still NASTY and I love it.

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That’s it, then. Mention any lost media youve been looking for! And on the off chance that some of you have any of these shows help a brother out. i don’t mind paying either

McVities used to sell these biscuits with Doraemon toys for ₹10. I never liked the taste but used to have one daily just for the toys. They gave jigsaw puzzles, stickers, magnets, etc.

I was so much into this magazine during school. The 'editor speaks' section was also really interesting. And the cover image was always a random kid

Checking if anyone has access to or knows about any flash games from the mid 2000s. I'm looking specifically for Indian games like the Fireworks Diwali game or the Virtual Lakshmi Poojan games which were circulating a lot in the mid 2000s. Here are example of those games from the Youtube videos posted by people.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bD9IRi0inRs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4BjVvQcbDY

If you have seen the show "Engineer This" which used to air on ZeeQ, can someone let me know where I can find the background music that was used in the show since I can't really find it anywhere so I would like some help in finding that theme song.

I would either need the original music video/file or a way to properly record it myself from within the episodes, because if I just start screen recording from the episodes with other noises and the host speaking, it would be bad in quality.

Can we somehow access the official audio files used in these shows? If yes, I'd like to know how. and if not then is there any way I can get hands on that theme?

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The episodes are free on YouTube BTW if anyone wants to see what Im talking about.

Any help is appreciated. I really like that peaceful song that always plays in the background of the episodes.

These chocolates were really awesome. I used to buy these chocolates between 2004 and 2007, and they disappeared like they never existed.

This collection is also a part of life in the childhood eraa..

So nostalgic

Remember CBZ…..?? which bike do you have in early 2000s?