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Family is also not to be trifled with. There are evil twins, fake deaths, comas, resurrections, time leaps, heartbreak, suicide, longing and lots of conflict on soaps — husband scolding wife, wife scolding maid, sister accusing sister, mistress threatening lover — but it is rare to see a younger person speak rudely to an elder. Heroines can be feisty, like the young woman raising her younger siblings by herself on the astonishingly titled "Hitler Didi." (Hitler here is a metaphor for bossy.) They can sometimes be defiant, like Sia, who rebelled when her future mother-in-law, Ammaji, the village leader, incited the killing of baby girls on "Don't Come to This Land, My Lovely Daughter," a Colors network show that highlighted the problem of infanticide in rural areas and ended (happily ever after) this year.
Family is also not to be trifled with. There are evil twins, fake deaths, comas, resurrections, time leaps, heartbreak, suicide, longing and lots of conflict on soaps — husband scolding wife, wife scolding maid, sister accusing sister, mistress threatening lover — but it is rare to see a younger person speak rudely to an elder. Heroines can be feisty, like the young woman raising her younger siblings by herself on the astonishingly titled "Hitler Didi." (Hitler here is a metaphor for bossy.) They can sometimes be defiant, like Sia, who rebelled when her future mother-in-law, Ammaji, the village leader, incited the killing of baby girls on "Don't Come to This Land, My Lovely Daughter," a Colors network show that highlighted the problem of infanticide in rural areas and ended (happily ever after) this year.
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