Doctors find dramatisation of amnesia in

New Delhi: Psychiatrists may toil hard to restore memory loss of patients suffering from amnesia, but such complex diseases are a child's play for producers of popular TV soaps. So much so that losing memory and regaining it only needs a bump against a wall or a coconut falling on the head.

Consider this. Mihir is killed in Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi but brought back to life after memory loss. Shilpa Sakhlani replaced Mansi Joshi Roy as Kkusum after undergoing a surgery, but can't remember her husband Abhay due to amnesia.

Doctors, however, find this dramatisation of amnesia idiotic. "It's impossible for a person to lose his/her memory due to minor injury. It is sheer stupidity on the part of TV serial directors to use such a serious disease to their advantage," says Dr Pushpendra N. Ranjan, senior consultant and neurologist, Apollo Hospitals.

While most doctors second Ranjan's statement, others like Dr Anita Mahajan, psychiatrist, Sir Gangaram Hospital, prefer to look at the lighter side of the issue. She says, "They do exaggerate the whole issue, but audiences are smart enough to overlook these imaginative plots."