Brilliant idea

Coming soon

By DCJ

Creative ideas usually come to Maldives’ poets reportedly while on a quiet, isolated moonlit beach – or so they said on Heyyanbo.

Watching a pervert series like South Park, however, is more inspiring for un-retarded people like you and me.

I’ve been thinking (what with Xef also reviving his long dead blog) what to do with this blog since there hasn’t been much to write about as everything seems to be going smoothly and nicely since Maldives made the transition in 2008 into Seykustan…

Then, hey presto, it hit us!

Why don’t we do a no-holes-barred TV series and run it on my YouTube Channel since I’ve been one of the few lucky recipients to be awarded rights to upload videos longer than 10 minutes?

Yes, it would be nice. We could get a group of youngsters and "document" their "fun lives" each week and enact a sort of "reality show" more along the lines of sitcom Friends. Or we could get a group of 30 somethings in their professional careers and produce something like 30Rock.

It was a brilliant idea. We could even premiere artsy Dhivehi movies on the Internet like Thom Yorke and Dhivehi film lovers could pay us, through paypal, if they liked what they see, because we would be releasing all our future productions online for free like Nine Inch Nails.

Such a move would attract more advertising to this blog than MNBC One’s Maakana Show which will be our only competition because it is the only currently aired TV series (and animated no less sonovabitch) that shows the reality of Seykustan which its producers have aptly named Dhooni Raajje or Cuckoo Land.

But then we were struck by the same problem that arrests the development of most Maldivian companies: finance.

Video production is costly. Even for fun. Iya knows best.


We pointed out that there was only one little flaw with that brilliant plan: it will be difficult to enact a desert backdrop. Production Design was going to be as astronomical as the pyramids.

Finally, this brilliant idea occurred... to me no less.

“I have an idea which is really cheap,” I raised my hand.

The others didn’t show much enthusiasm because I had said the idea was cheap.

But to me it was perfect: We would just need to sit down for two hours every week and discuss the current local political, social and economic situation and satirize it – into a Dhivehi Vaahaka Series.

We already have a ready-made audience for local stories, whether short stories or serial stories by Binmaa or Nahula. They are either about heartbreak or spirits of the forest kind.

What we thought was we will run a serial, in Dhivehi language, that will incorporate everything under the sun. It will be profane, dark, violent, sexually devious, and we hope to mock, satirize and be sarcastic to our full at what we see as two separate societies living side by side in a closed land yet unaware that they are living in two realities.

Of course since our Dhivehi Serial will incorporate everything, it will include science fiction and fantasy as well. Wouldn’t it be fun to make fun of paradoxes like time travel?

Though we shall aspire it to be as great as any Charles Dickens novel, our Dhivehi Serial, like Maakana Show, will give you a taste of what life is really like in this hellhole: ironic and pervert.

A season shall be deemed as one fiscal year. We hope to keep it running as long as even one amongst us is alive - if he/she isn't struck by Alzheimer's by then.

Stay tuned.

(no fadabovvenings this time around)